Ice Cold Roses
By: Stephix
Chapter two:
Unexpected Meetings with Destiny
Draco slowly stepped out of the shadows. "Am pleased to see you too Weasel." He said wile looking directly at her with a smirk on his face.
Ginny started getting nervous.
Draco started getting closer to her.
Ginny had lost the ability to speak.
Draco spoke again. "What are you doing up here anyway?"
He was so close to Ginny now that she could feel his breath on her neck.
"I- i…" Ginny stuttered
"Do I make you nervous?" he asked, as the smirk on his face grew wider.
Ginny had to snap out of it, she knew it.
"What, you? Make me nervous? Please Malfoy, give me a bit more credibility. Who do you think you are talking to? Neville? I don't think so. And besides why the bloody hell are you so damn close to me anyway? She finally blurted out.
He looked at her. It was as if he was waiting for her to say this all along.
"To answer your first question Yes, I do think I make you nervous. To your second statement No, I do not (nor I will ever) will give the Weasley name any credibility. I do not think that you are anything like that idiot Longbottom AND, I happened to be so bloody close to you because you are blocking the exit."
He grabbed her by the shoulders, lifted her up and moved her to a side.
Ginny froze.
Draco walked out of the classroom and down the stairs, leaving a confused little redheaded girl staring after him. After he left, Ginny spent all her lunch hour up in the astronomy tower. Lying down in the rouge thinking about her life.
The rest of the day flew by as she attended her afternoon classes, which were surprisingly not as hard as she thought they would be. She had Herbology, Artimancy, and DADA and they were all easy classes for her. After her last class, Ginny decided to go straight to the common room to change before supper.
Once in the common room she found Ron and Hermione playing a game of scrabble, Neville and Collin poking the fire place with sticks and other random students studying around the wooden tables. Just as she was going to go up to her dorm to get changed, she heard someone call out her name.
"Oi Ginny!"
Ginny turned around just to find Harry at the bottom of the stairs with a wide smile on his face.
"Just the girl I wanted to see" He said happily
"What's the matter Harry?" Ginny asked wondering what was he so happy about.
"Nothing's the matter Gin, what would make you think that something was the matter, No, everything is great. In fact, everything is so good that I was wondering if you wanted to go out to the grounds for a walk with me."
Ginny was beginning to get worried. Something was going on, Harry wasn't being himself at all. He looked normal from a distance but as Ginny walked down the stairs and approached him she saw it. His eyes were red and a bit swollen. He had been crying.
"So? We're going or what?" He said smiling his head off grabbing her by the arm and slightly dragging her out of the Fat Lady's portrait. Just then, when Harry had spoken to Ginny closely did she find out that he was very very drunk.
Not wanting to make a scene just outside of the common room, she grabbed his arm and started walking with him down the stairs and towards the main doors of school. It was best if they were outside, there the teachers wouldn't be able to catch Harry for being drunk in school.
"What is the matter with you Harry!" Ginny said realizing that she was sounding an awful lot like Hermione "Look at you, you are drunk as hell!" she wispered trying to keep her voice quiet so that it didn't attract the attention of students walking near by.
At first Harry didn't say anything, he was starring at Ginny's arm that happened to be wrapped around his so that he wouldn't wobble as he walked and looked weird, or once again, attract the sight of near by students or teachers. Harry's head turn and his green eyes meet Ginny's big hazel eyes.
Ginny was waiting for an answer, an explanation, anything that told her what had happened to Harry. But now he was looking at her oddly again.
They kept walking but when they reached the bottom of the stairs on the first floor, when they were about to exit the castle, Harry stopped dry and yanked Ginny towards him.
These made a couple of people look their way for a second.
Ginny looked around and smiled nervously. "Ha- Harry, what are you doing? Why don't we just go outside for now and-"
Harry cut her off "Ginny, you are so wonderful, you have always been there for me when I've needed you," Harry was being very very loud "I can't believe that I never saw how beautiful you were until now. Ginny, you would never hurt me, and you have always liked me no matter what, no matter what people say about me, you would never use me as a rebound from another guy, you love only me, Ginny will you please be my girlfriend?" Harry blurted out.
Ginny's eyes were as wide as they could possibly be. She didn't dear look anywhere else but at Harry's face because she knew that now EVERYBODY was looking at them. In fact, there was a little circle of people surrounding them listening to what Harry had just said and they were now murmuring around each other.
Ginny didn't know what to say, she couldn't just tell everyone that he was drunk, (although she hoped that most people just assumed that.) she couldn't just drag Harry out of there because what if he refused to? Ginny was searching her mind like crazy to try and find an idea and just then, Harry did the unthinkable… he kissed her.
He pressed his lips to hers harshly and pushed them open grabbing her neck with his right hand and her waist with his left as so preventing her from moving away from him. His tongue made its way into her mouth and he pressed her even closer to him with his hands.
"What in Merlin's beard is happening here?" Professor Snape had broken through the circle of people and was now looking with disgust at the sight of Harry and Ginny kissing. "Potter! Weasley!" he said sounding horribly angry.
Harry let go of Ginny and she slapped him hard in the face. She felt dirty, used; she had Goosebumps all over her skin and felt very disgusted with herself for letting something like this happen.
"Can you explain me why where you two smooching in the middle of the entrance hall at dinner time in front of a huge audience?" Snape yelled "Have you no decency?"
Harry was looking rather green, Snape looked at him and frowned.
"Answer me Potter, what where you thinking?" Snape yelled once more.
Harry lifted is face and looked right at Snape as if he had an answer for him. Just then he opened his mouth, and vomited.
The next morning Ginny woke up earlier than anyone else in her room, she hadn't been able to sleep all night because of what had happened the night before. She could not believe it. Harry had French kissed her and told her that he loved her. No, Harry had French kissed her and told her that he loved her in front of half the school! This was bad, Ginny didn't want it to be this way, she wanted him to be kind to her, and she wanted the kiss to have been tender and passionate. But it hadn't been and she had to deal with it the best way possible.
What was going to happen now? How was she going to handle all the gossip and all the strange gazes from everyone? And even if she explained it all, that Harry had been drunk and that he hadn't meant anything that he had said, it would be just as embarrassing for her. She would look like the Harry's pity girl, the one he used when he was lonely or simply horney. No, Ginny was not going to let them know that she was Harry's whore. She was going to tell them that Harry was perfectly sane and that he had just demonstrated his "love" for her in front of the whole school because he just couldn't stand being without her a minute longer. That's what she was going to say and that's what they were going to believe. That's what they HAD to believe.
After thinking about absolutely pathetic solution to her problem she got up from bed, took a quick shower she decided to go down to the kitchen for something refreshing. At list this way she didn't have to worry for now, the house elfs wouldn't be into gossip would they?
It was still dark and rainy outside, when she reached the portrait that led to the kitchen she found it open, "was there someone other than her awake at 6:30 in the morning?" Ginny thought to herself.
She peeked through the hole but didn't see much, so she decided to go in. Maybe one of the house elfs had left it opened by mistake and was going to punish himself for it latter on.
When she walked in though, she realized that the lights were off and that explained why she couldn't see anything from outside the portrait, there were no elfs in the kitchen and the only thing she could make around her was a dim candlelight that came from quite far away in the kitchen.
"W-who is there?" she asked trying to sound big and brave though she was very frightened on the inside.
The candle swung in mid air and as she drew closer to her she could see a shadow holding it.
"We meet again Weasel…"
"No, not again" Ginny's inside cried "Malfoy" she said out loud.
Author's note: I am really sorry that it took me this long to write chapter two, I know its rather small but I just got a job so I haven't been writing as often. Also my 19th birthday is this Tuesday so I probably won't be writing that much next week either. After next week tho I do promise there will be more writing and longer chapters.
Please review if you like my story, that always encourages me to write more often.
Thank you to my two first reviewers, it really means a lot to me that at list someone is reading my fic.
Love you all Lots and Promise more writing soon.
Xoxo Ginny Behrendt.
