..:Gah writers block SUCKS! Anyone have any tips! I'm so desperate! Thanks so much to you all for sticking with me! I love you all! lol. I know this is short I'm sorry:..
Ginny sat at the Gryffindor house table at breakfast, glaring at the stack of chocolate chip pancakes in front of her. She was solemnly swearing she would never eat chocolate again after her terrible supper last night. She helped herself to the crisp looking fruit salad and a blackberry muffin.
Ginny had snuck back into her room at the crack of dawn, taking a shower and getting dressed. She felt well rested after a comfy sleep in front of the crackling fire with the sound of rain pelting the roof of the tree house. Wincing as she realized she didn't do some of her homework she had the previous night, she chewed the strawberry thinking about if there was a possibility she could make up the unfinished potions homework plus the homework she would have that night and manage to see Draco.
She laughed quietly to herself in doubt. "You're a dreamer Gin." she thought to herself. She'd have to tell Draco she couldn't see him after classes, she was debating whether to go over to him at the Slytherin table when a large owl dropped a package in front of her.
"What's that Ginny?" asked Colin as he sat down beside her.
"Morning Colin. I don't know, I don't usually get packages." Ginny shrugged moving her orange juice out of the way , she sat the package straight in front of her and began unwrapping the brown paper.
"Woah, who's that from?" Colin asked as she pulled out a stunning dragon hide journal. It was dark black but shimmered in the light with a golden dust. It was held together by a satin silver ribbon that was tied in an elegant bow. The front had her name embossed in a calligraphy like script that caught the light and twinkled back at her.
"Draco." she breathed quietly, she pulled on the ribbon and ran her hand over the smooth parchment. Looking down she saw the burnt cover of her old journal and a note.
"A Place To Keep All Those Brilliant Thoughts."
"Draco? As in Draco Malfoy?" Colin whispered back. "Why the hell would that bloke send you anything?" Colin said. Ginny sighed and put her arms around the journal, holding it to her carefully and turned to Colin.
"Colin I'm really sorry I didn't tell you before. But there was this bet me and Draco made, I just wanted the money for a new broom but then once I got to know him he became my friend. And well.."
"Friend? Ginny have you lost your mind?" Colin was looking at her in bewilderment, Ginny was trying to explain but she felt like she was failing.
"No I haven't Colin, I just know him better than you do so you can't tell me I'm wrong. But we're kind of..Um. Well we're seeing each other now" Directly after she finished she covered his mouth with her hand to muffle the outraged sound that she knew was to come.
Colin's regularly beady eyes got beadier as they bulged and stared at her, obviously dumbstruck.
"Don't argue with me Colin, I know you want to but it's just going to make a scene and I'm not going to listen. Now I'm going over there to thank him in a minute so I don't want any trouble from you. You're an awesome mate but you're not my guardian. Do I make myself clear?" Ginny glared at him, when he nodded she lowered her hand.
"Just be careful." he said, his voice laced with dread. Ginny nodded and got up from her chair and walked briskly over to the Slytherin table to wear Draco was seated.
"Morning Draco." she smiled. Crabbe and Goyle looked at her, a little flustered and confused, while Pansy was looking at her in a pure rage.
"Morning Ginny." he said before turning around and getting to his seat. He had small circles under his eyes but nothing abnormal, Ginny inhaled the smell of his clean shirt and not caring about who would see, she hugged him.
Draco laughed quietly lifting her up a little as he returned her hug and purely by instinct gave her a small kiss, seen by none, to her temple.
"Thank you, its beautiful." Ginny smiled, the journal still clutched in her arms.
"Draco what are you.." Pansy stated getting to her feet and flipping her blonde ringlets over her shoulder. Draco gave her a steal gaze and took Ginny's hand boldly in his, pulling her out of the great hall. When Ginny stopped to get her old journal and bag she saw her brother looking at her in a state of absolute shock to which she just smiled. Sometimes it was fun being bad.
"That was brilliant!"Ginny laughed as they stopped in an empty hallway she threw her arms around him. Draco's face split into a smile, wrapping his arms around her waist.
"Tomorrow I think we should shock them all with a full on snog. Think that will do the trick?" he asked, Ginny was too busy watching him smile to make a witty retort and just nodded.
"Uh huh." she muttered. Draco laughed brushing a strand of her hair out of her face, letting his fingers run down her jaw line.
"I have a meeting with Snape tonight so we can't go back to the tree house tonight. Besides, two nights in a row is a bit too risky." he explained. His smile had fallen a little but it was still clearly there. Ginny smiled and gave him a quick kiss.
"I have too much homework anyway, just come say hi to me in the library if you get out early and you can spare the time." she said. He nodded and gave her a kiss goodbye as the Great Hall emptied and they went they're separate ways.
As Draco went towards his transfiguration class he felt the smile creep back onto his face as he thought to himself;
"So this is what it's like to be happy."
Ginny ran her hands over the pages of her new journal during lunch, she was seated on the main stairs of the school and was copying down "Odd Eyes" onto the first page. When she finished she held the book open carefully, letting the ink have time to dry before she closed the book. The pages had a sort of sheen to them that Ginny was watching with a smile on her face.
When she heard someone behind her she looked up and waved Luna over.
"Hello Gin, is that the famous gift you've been bragging about all day?" Luna asked as she sat down beside Ginny. Luna's shining blonde hair was tied up with a rather violent looking chopstick with a sculpture of a gnomes head at the top. Luna had burst out laughing when she found Ginny after breakfast, applauding her and Draco's show.
Ginny beamed as she gently closed the book and handed it carefully to Luna. Luna smiled as she ran her hand over the cover.
"You more than fancy him don't you?" Luna smirked as she watched Ginny's cheeks turn a bit pink. Ginny just laughed as she rested her head on Luna's shoulder.
"I think, I'm in love with him." she sighed sadly. There was so many things standing in the way of her and Draco and the reality of that had been pushing down on her this morning. Luna nodded understandingly, she knew through Ginny about Draco's problems and that a relationship, or anything else between the two of them would be more than difficult.
As they continued to talk quietly neither of them noticed the girl hiding behind the stone railing, sneaking off to the side of the school and into the dungeons.
"That little rat. Who the hell does she think she is!" Pansy growled angrily as she stormed down the underground passage towards the Slytherin dungeons. Her blonde ringlets were bouncing off her shoulders while her eyes were alive with fury.
She knocked over several first years in her wake as she quickly walked through the common room and into her dorm room. The room was a ghastly splatter of pink curtains, carpet and bedding. The only thing that wasn't pink was the face of Lucius Malfoy hovering in the red flames of the fireplace.
"So what did you find out Pansy my dear?" he drawled in his cold manor. Pansy collapsed in front of the fire and dug her fingers into the carpeting furiously.
"The little Weasley wretch thinks she's in love with my Draco, that they're in some sort of relationship. I mean the bet was off a long time ago so what the hell is he doing!" she seethed. Lucius had demanded an explanation of the bet Pansy had let slip by accident the last time they had talked.
"Well we'll just have to hasten our plans then wont we?" Lucius smirked coldly. Pansy smiled gleefully in return. "How many weeks are left of school?"
"Two, then exams week sir." Pansy explained.
" Then next week it is." Lucius nodded.
"Well I did want a summer wedding, but I think spring should do just fine. Shall I go break the news to him then?" Pansy asked getting to her feet.
"NO!" Lucius bellowed, making Pansy jump. "I mean, why not leave it as a surprise? I think next weekend should suffice. He'll receive his Dark Mark then you two shall be wed. It should be a lovely orientation. I will talk to you tomorrow Pansy." Lucius drawled.
"Goodnight Mr Malfoy." Pansy smirked as her soon to be father in laws head disappeared. Sitting on her bed she smiled wickedly, soon Draco would be hers.