..:AN: Hello!Sorry this took so long! Happy Summer everyone, hope your's is going better than mine O.o Anyways I hope you likes this chapter! I've got the rest of the story all planned out i'm thinking about three or four more chapters. Now i just have to write the rest of it. Well anyways like usually hope you like it and please review:..

Ginny rolled over onto her stomach in the long grass gazing up at the sky. It had been sunny and warm a while ago but there were clouds starting to roll in slowly across the blue sky that was quickly turning a hazy grey.

"Do you think the rain's going to pass us?" she asked Draco who was sitting beside her flicking a galleon off his thumb and catching it again. They were both surprised at how naturally they had gotten back into the flow of sneaking down the back of the castle and to the secret haven.

"Probably not, afraid of getting rained on are we?" he smirked. Ginny shook her head, ignoring his teasing and snatching the galleon out of his hand, smiling at the surprised look on his face.

"Course not, who doesn't love the rain?" she said as she rolled the galleon down the palm of her hand. Draco snatched it back, rolling it quickly over his fingers as Ginny watched with wide eyes.

"Can I ask you a question?" she asked, looking at the scratches on his knuckles that were now healing.

"You'd ask me anyway, even if I said no, so you might as well." he shrugged. Ginny paused for a while, looking at her hands for no particular reason.

"What's it like to be bad? I mean not the evil kind of bad but, well, the sneaky kind you are. You and I both know I'm not a perfect student but I'm just curious." she said sitting up a little. Draco smirked rather proudly.

"So out it comes. You think I'm quite the bad ass do you?" he said raising one eyebrow. Ginny nodded.

"Aren't you?"

"Well yes, but that's beside the point."

"Answer the damn question Draco." she laughed pinching his hand a little. Draco smacked her hand away rubbing the red spot with his thumb where her nails had dug in.

"Honestly? It's pretty awesome, I can get away with anything really." he shrugged.

"Like what?" Ginny pressed on.

Draco laughed at her interest, it seemed he had sparked her curiosity. He found this rather ironic because he had never met anyone who made him curious like she did, or that he could even find himself wanting to spend more then a second with.

"Sneaking off grounds, wandering the corridors in the middle of the night, teasing muggles with magic."

"You can really do all that? Without any trouble at all?" Ginny gaped, thinking how unfair it was for her that she could barely pass a note in class without receiving detention and he could basically break the law and no one even blinked.

"Why so interested Red?" he asked, not really sure where the nickname had come from but he had to admit he liked the way it sounded.

"Prove it." she smirked, sitting up to look him in the face. "Take me off grounds with you." Her eyes were glittering as she talked, the rain was starting to come down. Draco was quite taken aback, he never thought of Ginny having a wild side.

"Baby steps Gin. Start at being sneaky and grow up to trouble." he said laying down in the grass. Letting the raindrops splatter on his face and roll down his neck, pooling on the fabric of his collar.

"How do you suppose I do that?" she asked laying down beside him. Draco scratched his forehead a little before putting his arms back behind his head. He knew a lot of things about the school that she didn't, from being a prefect and being quite the rebel. One thing he knew is that professors didn't actually do bunk checks, they only noticed if someone told them of a missing student.

"Would your friends tell a professor if you weren't in your room by curfew?" he asked, Ginny pursed her lips a little in thought.

"No I don't think so." it was when she told him that Draco took out his wand, he pointed it the tall and strong looking tree and said a spell Ginny couldn't recognize. Ginny watched as stairs started to protrude from the trunk of the tree, winding its way up into the branches and leaves and out of sight behind a mass of green and yellow leaves.

Ginny got to her feet quickly, she wiped some of the gentle rain off her face and looked at Draco curiously. He gestured towards the tree and they ran over to it looking up into the branches. Ginny saw wooden planks, lots of them that seemed to make up a large wall above them. The stairs lead right to it and met a simple door with a rusty brass handle.

"What did you do?" Ginny asked excitedly as she started carefully making her way up the stairs. She had to hold onto the trunk carefully since there was no railing and if she fell, well it probably wouldn't have been too comfy of a landing.

"Small steps remember? Skip supper tonight and just sleep here. We'll go wandering outside of Hogwarts soon enough." he shrugged as she turned the handle on the door, but she stayed put.

"Is it safe?" she questioned allowed, the creaking of the stairs may have been natural but it made her a little paranoid.

"Oh come on trust me would you?" he said nudging her through the door. Ginny sighed tripping slightly on the floor board but steadying herself quickly. Ginny was standing in the strangest tree house she had ever been in. It was exactly like a small cottage with a kitchen complete with a small table and two chairs, a bedroom, lavatory and what looked like a pantry.

"Merlin. Honestly Draco, how did you do this?" she was beyond shocked. Could all students manage that? Could Hermione even manage to pull a complex spell like this off?

"You sound impressed." he smirked, going over the door Ginny thought to be a pantry and pulled out two towels. He tossed one two her before drying his face and neck off while flopping down on the worn but comfortable couch.

"Well I am, this is pretty huge." Catching the towel in her hand her voice became muffled as she bent over and tossed her hair down attempting to dry it with the towel. She gave up and sat down beside him drying off her face.

"I transfigured a bird house that I put up here. Sometimes I just cant stand staying in there at all. I stay here quite often, get away from everything." he shrugged his jaw stretching as he yawned. Ginny noted he had a couple crooked teeth she'd never noticed before. That struck Ginny as being odd, because he never smiled often enough for her to see his teeth.

Ginny sighed looking down at her hands not really wanting to meet his eyes. She felt sorry for him but strangely enough she couldn't really seem to define it as pity. Maybe it was because she believed there was hope for him somewhere, even if he couldn't see it.

"I understand." Ginny said simply, she got to her feet slowly and took a look around the kitchen. Opening the cupboards she saw that there was food and the sink worked, on the counter there was the usual bread box looking object that was enchanted to stay cold. Inside Ginny found milk, eggs, fruit and other common foods. Ginny smiled and motioned for Draco to come over to the kitchen. "Ever cooked before Draco?" she asked leaning with one arm on the counter.

"Can't say I have. Oh no, no way." he grimaced backing away, Ginny laughed and grabbed his hands pulling him back.

"You're going to learn." she insisted pulling out the milk and eggs along with some vegetables and bread. Draco lunged to get away but Ginny managed to cut him off, holding an egg threateningly in her right hand and a tomato in her left.

"Don't you dare move."

"You don't have the stones." But as soon as those words left his mouth Draco felt the cold and slimy egg running down the collar of shirt and onto his face. Ginny just stood in front of him with a cheesy smile on her face and a broken egg shell in her hand that had bits of egg dripping out of it.

"I don't do I?" she asked with mock sweetness. Draco growled a little, slyly grabbing a small bag of flour behind his back and popping it open. Quickly he tossed it in her face, covering her entire front with white powder. Ginny wiped the powder out of her eyes as the sound of thunder rolled across the sky, she breathed out and a puff of white powder went up into the air. Ginny laughed and looked at Draco opening her arms.

"Come on give us a hug!" she laughed tackling him and smearing flour all over him.

There was a cascade of more flour and sugar, followed by the crashing of pots and pans and inconsistent laughter. Two sets of hands clamped onto the counter to help their owner's to their feet.

Ginny grimaced at the congealing mass of eggs, flour and tomatoes in her hair that was trickling onto her face. Her face suddenly split into a smile as she saw Draco covered in a similar cornucopia of assorted foods, except he smelled a lot worse then she did. Laughing they made their way outside into the rain and after discarding their house robes, socks and shoes then they dove into the small lake in the rest of their clothes.

"It's freezing!" Ginny said shrilly as she surfaced and tilted her head back. Her fingers couldn't seem to get out the bits of tomato skin and sighing she gave up. The water wasn't fairly deep, her toes were skimming the sandy bottom. It was a colder then the warm spring rain but the warm air made it tolerable.

"It's not that bad you little pansy." Draco said swimming over to her watching her float aimlessly, her head in its own sea of dark red hair. Before he knew it he was running his fingers through her hair, getting out the bits of food she couldn't reach and letting himself indulge in touching the satiny hair he had stared at so often.

"This should be kind of awkward shouldn't it?" Ginny said quietly, Draco nodded.

"Yeah, it probably should be."

Ginny watched the fire crackling in small iron fireplace, it warmed the entire room and the lingering cold she felt after they stopped swimming and magically dried off her clothes. She made a mental note to never swim in a skirt again.

Yawning she let her head drop onto the surface she was using as a temporary pillow, that was rising and falling steadily. She watched Draco yawn underneath her as she randomly played with one of the buttons on his shirt. A strong chill and lack of room on the couch drove them to laying like this, but they were beginning to find it felt rather natural.

"I cant believe we had a food fight, honestly how old are we?" he laughed, Ginny laughed too. She pulled a strand of her hair behind her ear and looked at the now clean kitchen.

"I think I've given up on trying to teaching you to cook. I think I'll just go make us a late supper." Ginny moved her arms to the sides of him trying to pry herself up but he grabbed her hands and stopped her.

"It's not late yet, it's not officially late until your eyes get droopy and that jolly drooling attribute some people get kicks in." he smirked. Ginny laughed relaxing again.

"Meaning?"

"I'm not letting you go." he said firmly. Ginny looked at him, wondering if he meant that to sound so sincere. Usually when Ginny tried to look someone straight in the eyes she felt awkward, it was as though when she looked at someones eye it was like trying to force herself to feel comfortable. Ginny couldn't stop watching the lighting of the fire dancing in his eyes, the dark pupils surrounded by a light grey, then a darker blue and an almost black outline to his iris.

"I like your eyes." no sooner had she said that did Draco lean up and kiss her, taking her by surprise. Ginny's head screamed at her telling her to make him stop, friends was one thing but this was something else.

But Ginny knew she had already wanted to do this so many times it wouldn't have mattered if they had never kissed, because she would have always known she wanted it to happen, and that her heart would break when he had to marry Pansy.

Ginny knew that she was crying, but she kept kissing him anyway. There was so much that would be in the way, that would try to separate them. Draco had a destiny that he didn't want, something he would die to get away from and she would just be in the way no matter what he chose.

Draco broke away when he felt her tears running down her cheeks, Ginny automatically looked down. The tears were running freely now, she had to admit she was happy that he was finally letting her know he felt for her. But her heart was breaking for him already, because being in love with Draco would make all the things he would have to go through would bring her pain as well.

She embraced him letting her head fall in the crook between his neck and shoulder, willing herself to stop crying. Draco wasn't stupid, he knew what this was about because he had been thinking the exact thing.

"Why us?" he finally said. "Why do we fit like this?"

Ginny put her hand inside his, interlacing her fingers through his lean and pale fingers. "Because we're not supposed to." she said swallowing the lump in her throat. Draco nodded resting his forehead against hers, nose to nose.

"Fates a bitch." he said. Ginny laughed lightly, closing her eyes. Draco noticed there were small droplets of water on her eyelashes, that were abnormally long. They weren't so dark as they were long, but they even had a reddish tint to them like her hair.

Ginny let the yawn out she had been hiding and her stomach growled. Ginny got to her feet pulling Draco with her and went over to the kitchen deciding to make them an attempt at a meal from whatever was left. Whatever she made she knew it would probably be a little difficult for mobility reasons with Draco's arms wrapped around her from behind.