Title: Long Wait
Characters/Pairing: Draco Malfoy/Ginny Weasley
Rating: PG, for some swearing
Summary: Draco Malfoy is waiting.
Disclaimer: I don't look like J.K.Rowling, or the Warner Brothers, or Bloomsbury, or any company that publishes Harry Potter thus I don't own anything to do with Harry Potter. Sadly, this is just a work of fiction by a fan. (:
You've been dreading this day. Or yearning for it. You can't decide on either. But the day came anyway. So here you are standing on a cobbled street, waiting for her. It just rained, so the road is stained a deep gray, and the setting sun casts light accents on the stone. The bell tower strikes six. You start worrying where the hell she is.
Up and down the street you begin to pace. Going all the way to the café and back to the grocery at the end. You run your hand through your blonde hair, but stop, because you don't want to look like you just woke up in front of her. The grocer smiles his little knowing smile as he pokes his head out after the sixth time you pass his stall. He disappears as quickly as he appeared. You think the grocer was acting funny. Finally you stop, and lean on an iron fence.
You start counseling yourself. What's wrong, you ask The Guy Up in Your Head. You're acting really jumpy today. I mean, you even snapped at Blaise! For no good reason at all! Well, maybe he was being an idiot by owling you moldy cheese this morning, but that's Blaise. You don't get mad at him at all. Come to think of it, you've never been this nervous before a date. You're usually composed and smooth and everything, not just before a date, but every single beating second of your life. You start thinking she put a curse on you. Or slipped something into your tea the last time you literally bumped into her. Yes, it seems like something she would do. After all she had two brothers who were responsible for that swamp thing in Fifth Year. You chuckle. Her brothers probably held a protest against her coming. Oh no. You try not to think she won't show up. Don't think about it. Don't think about it. Repeat. Repeat with face buried in hands. Repeat out loud. Repeat out loud, I say!
However you stop short of shouting to not think about her not coming because instead of that you let out a scream when someone taps you on the shoulder. You didn't think you were capable of producing such sounds before. It turns out to be her. She's clutching her stomach and laughing. At you. Her face is pink from lack of breath and her red hair is all over the place. But she's beautiful. A smile threatens to creep onto your face. You give her your most pointed look. She soon recovers from the laughter, but has yet to drop that cheeky smile. You realise the grin has overtaken your face. Ah, what the hell. You take her hand and start walking. You still love Ginny anyway.
End.
A/N: My first D/G fic! Thanks to Ange De L'eau for beta-ing this! I'm glad I finally got around to writing it. Sorry if it was too short! I hope I didn't portray Draco to OOC-edly. If you like it, please review! If you don't then, review too, and tell me what you didn't like about it, yeah? Thank you for reading! XD
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