Charms class was utterly awkward for her.

Thankfully, her last class of the day was ancient runes, which gladly, none of the golden trio took. It was with the Ravenclaws and Ginny was glad she got to see Luna in class. She smiled and sat next to the empty seat next to her.

"So Ginny, I heard many rumors today. I heard you're secretly dating Blaise Zabini"

Ginny blushed as Luna smirked.

"W-what?!" Ginny squeaked and Luna smiled.

"I also heard you guys are secretly married and are in a love hate relationship."

"Honestly! The student population can work for the Daily Prophet's gossip section! Seriously!" Ginny scoffed and the turned to Luna once more.

"I'll tell you later Luna. Right now is really not the time, with ears all around. Maybe at dinner, cause I'll be meeting him, tonight." Ginny mumbled as Luna cackled and Ginny had to repress a shudder due to how wicked it sounded.

Ancient runes passed without any drama, except Cho sitting at the very end of the class so as to avoid Ginny. She also kept on scratching at her hair rather savagely which elicited occasional giggles from Luna and Ginny.

They submitted their assignments and did a little bit of a joint classwork and soon classes were over for the day, and Ginny felt herself getting giddy as she couldn't wait to meet Zabin—BLAISE! She hugged Luna goodbye till dinner which will be spent in the kitchens and went to the dorms.

When she got there, she brought out her remaining two letters. One from her mum and the other from Bill.

She opened the one from her mum first. It pretty much said she was proud of her daughter for not making too much noise about her recent break up.

Her mother had also said she was sure Harry was still going through some war problems and needed to get through it.

Ginny sighed exasperatedly. Her mum thought way too good about Harry. Of course, he was a hero and all, but in the aspect of love life and all, he was still a teenager and he really wasn't that good at it.

Bill's letter mainly talked about dealing with Harry during the holiday and Charlie saying 'hi' as he went over to Romania for a curse breaker job a week before. He also gave her a book on ancient runes.

She decided opened the book to check out just what it was about.

Blaise was in the room he shared with his cousin. Slytherin house 7th years got to share a room with just another student and Blaise ended up with his cousin, not that he even minded that at all. He got out from the bathroom and into the room, moving to the full body mirror. A white towel tied at his abdomen. His well defined abs prominent and his v shape showing, moving down before the towel covered the rest. His hair was wet and water dripped down, making the scene seem like out of a movie. Not that his cousin thought so though…

"Come on man!" Draco groaned as he closed his potions notes.

"No bloody girls are in here! Stop sodding showing off!"

Blaise smirked through the mirror as he dried his hair with another towel.

"Just say it cousin, you're a jealous little bitch." he chuckled at Draco's red face, throwing the towel at him on the face.

"I'm not jealous Zabini!" he spat, removing the wet towel from his face and throwing it on Blaise's bed.

"Why would I be anyways, I mean, I pretty much have what you do."

"Not as good though" he teased knowing that while Draco stood at a 6'3, he still hated that Blais was about an inch or so taller than him amongst others.

"Whatever… besides, you've been evading my question all bloody evening!! What's your deal with the weasel and you?"

Blaise sighed.

"My deal with the 'weasel' is my deal alone Draco."

"No its not dude, people have seen you two together, and even before charms class I've been told. And don't bloody deny it. I've even seen you checking her out before!"

Blaise smirked.

"I won't deny she's a specimen… besides, like I said, none of your business."

Draco scowled, mumbling something that had 'Lovegood' in it.

"I'm sorry Draco, I didn't hear you."

"Nothing!"

He huffed, making Blaise chuckle.

7:50pm came pretty quickly, and Ginny patted her clothes, feeling slightly nervous. She wore a plain black pencil jean, a black tank top and a blue sweater that fell from one shoulder and she put on her black and white sneakers, leaving her hair in her messy bun, a bit tighter though.

She then put on a light pink strawberry lip gloss lipstick and sprayed a similar smelling perfume.

Glancing at the mirror and ignoring her other 3 roommates who seemed to also be going somewhere but glancing occasionally at her, she went out of her dorm.

She wasn't close to them. All she did was say 'good morning', 'hey' and 'good night' to them. It was too late to get to know them, especially after her first year, all that happened to her.

She got out and into the common room, her wand in the holster Bill got for her on her 16th birthday. Students were around.

Ron and Hermione were cuddling near the fire and Harry was no where to be seen. Possibly with that tramp.

As she waved Hermione and Ron, they stood up and rushed over to her inquiringly. She sighed. She should have known they'd be curious about where she was headed, especially after her scene with Zabini.

"Where are you going?" Ron asked suspiciously.

Ginny loved her brother a lot, yes, but he was just too difficult, all the bloody time! It was way too annoying trying to explain simple things to him. She was just glad he was with Hermione. It would have been horrible if he was single and being all up in her business.

"Out. Ronald" she said and he bristled with anger.

"Ginny, I have to know, I'm your brother and it's my job."

"Your bloody job isn't to boss my life Ron! I'm 17 years old already, stay the bloody hell away from my relationships!"

Ron's eyes narrowed here while Hermione looked at her curiously. Ginny so hated it when she looked at her like that.

"Relationship? What relationship are you talking about?"

Hermione cut him off before he could literarily explode.

"Ron, calm down. Ginny, are you sure its right for you to just, jump into a relationship after… y'know? And with a Slytherin no less."

"First of all, I can be in whatever relationship I want, its none of your business, second, why don't you ask your best friend and his whatever, third, he might be a Slytherin, but that doesn't mean he was a death eater or any member of his family. No Ron! Don't speak about Malfoy! His dad is in Azkaban and he never joined them. The war is over guys, and its time to move on, just like I'm doing… Dumbledore doesn't want us to continue this nonsense prejudice with them in fact."

"Oh, and so that's why you're spreading your legs for that Slytherin is it??" Ron snarled.

Thankfully, Hermione had seen it fit to put silencing charms around during their conversations because she gasped after the spell and even Ginny felt her face tear up.

It seemed Ron the idiot finally realized what he had said but Ginny didn't even wait for an explanation as she pushed past them and out the door, ignoring his call for her.

She continued fast walking, gritting her teeth in anger and blinking her eyes furiously so as not to let any tears escape. She turned through a couple of different corridors and headed towards the astronomy tower when she saw him there, his left side resting against the wall, staring out into the sky, the breeze blowing through his hair and the moonlight shining on his skin.

He looked so heavenly, like some other worldly prince and Ginny felt goose bumps on her skin.

He was dressed in what looked like dark black fitted jeans, a long sleeve cream fitted elastic round neck shirt that made Ginny almost groan at the way his muscles hugged the clothes, not the other way round. He also wore black leather boots. The boots looked to be made of some kind of dragon skin which she knew to be utterly expensive. Possibly a Norwegian ridgeback.

She stepped fully into the tower and he seemed to notice her as he turned and she suddenly felt self conscious in front of him. She wrapped her hands around herself as she patted down her goose bumps.

He walked over to her.

"So you came." his voice felt so soothing and calm to her. It was deep, but at the same time, youthful and sweet.

"Of course I did… even if I didn't know we were meeting here." she glared at him accusingly and he smirked at her which made her feel all fluttery inside.

"Yes, but I had a feeling you'd be coming here, after all, this was where you came the other day, was it not?"

She grudgingly nodded and he chuckled at her which made her lips twitch a bit upward.

No! She wouldn't give in that easily. She wasn't some kind of cheap thing that could fall over for some guy, even if he was over 6 feets, a seeming gentleman, with beautiful hair, that hot smirk, those smoldering cerulean eyes, and--NO! GINNY SNAP OUT OF IT! BAD GINNY! BAD!

She sighed and he looked at her curiously.

"Nothing…let's get started okay?" she said and he looked at her closely before gesturing her to join him by the large open window as he sat down. She sat down a bit close to him bit a bit space was still between them.

The silence was quite nice and reassuring as she looked out the tower and into the town ahead, hogsmeade. It looked quite quiet and peaceful from afar. She couldn't it to check it out during the coming hogsmeade weekend. She hadn't been able to go last year because Snape had cancelled hogsmeade visits. It didn't help that the shop owners were scared and the population who lived down at the village had also been scared of Voldemort.

She was cut out of her musings when Blaise spoke.

"Who would have thought you were this quiet?" he chuckled when he saw Ginny bristle with anger.

"There's the Weasley I know."

She rolled her eyes and puffed out angry air.

"So, what should we talk about?" she asked him after calming down.

"How about you start with the basics. Your name, age, birthday, favorite color, quidditch team. Just about yourself, and I'll reply with mine as well."

She nodded. Okay, she could do that.

"Well then, I'm Ginevra Molly Weasley. I'm 17years old, born 11th of August, 1981, favorite color? Um, that would be dark blue, as of recent i guess..."

Blaise secretly hid his smirk, dark blue hm?

"Anyways, favorite quidditch team, holyhead harpies. As you know, I'm the 7th child and only girl which is always annoying non stop. My favorite brother, that would be Bill. Hmm, best friend is Luna Lovegood of course. We've known each other ever since we were little. Well, I guess that's all i've hot at the top of my head for now."

Blaise nodded, seemingly lost in thought. No doubt storing information she had just said out, if to find blackmail or just for future purpose. She didn't know, but she definitely intended to find out about him as well.

"So, tell me about yourself. I want to know the basics too."

"Well, you know my name. Blaise Alessandro Zabini. I'm 18 years old. Born 10th of July, 1980. Favorite color would be silver or blood red"

He winked at her when he mentioned red and she blushed, patting her hair a bit.

"Only child of my parents, and yes, my mum is Lucius Malfoy's sister, yes she was really known as the black widow, but that was because she worked as a hit wizard in the ministry for about a year and was pretty good with her job before she moved to Italy to be with my father."

She smiled at the black widow stuff. It was well known that his mother was called a black widow but not everyone knew exactly why she was called that, they just thought she was some sort of evil Slytherin because of just how ominous it sounded. It definitely didn't help that she was also a Malfoy by birth too.

Ginny smiled because now she knew at least something about his family that most people didn't, except probably that albino ponce cousin of his. And possibly Greengrass as it seemed she was close to the two boys, she felt a pang of jealousy before shaking it off.

"Hey, can I ask you a question?"

She asked hesitantly and he shrugged.

"Depends."

"Acceptable. Why haven't you dated anyone here at Hogwarts? It just seems too, wrong, for someone like you.."

He smiled and hummed in amusement.

"First of all, I'm about to start dating you aren't I?" he asked her all cockily and seductively and she felt herself get hot all of a sudden and forced herself to glare at him which in turn made him chuckle.

"Also, the girls I'm surrounded with most times are too childish and not mature for my standards. You may say I'm too proud and cocky, but yes I wouldn't deny it because I was born that way, and my levels are way too high and way out of the leagues of some here.. But, that doesn't mean I don't dabble in… other… intimacies sometimes." he gave her a sultry look and she definitely felt herself melt. Well, almost, before she pulled herself together and glared at him.

"Are you trying to seduce me?!"she accused him and he smirked.

"I won't deny it. You are a beautiful woman Miss Weasley, and Potter was quite mad to let go of you for someone less exquisite as Cho Chang. If I were him, I'd lock you up in a tower somewhere to keep the eyes of others from you and make love to you till we're both too tired to do anything else, claiming you as mine." He said while looking at her and she felt her cheeks grow hot and knew she was definitely blushing from all he'd just said.

He noticed this and he smirked, standing up with ease and giving his hand to Ginny to grab.

She hesitantly put it in his and he then proceeds to drag her up. She missed a step and pushed into him, her hands on his chest and she felt his hard muscles which made her swallow hard.

She immediately untangles herself from him and looked up at him, he was still roughly over 5 inches taller than her after all.

"Come little Weasley, its getting quite late already, I should get you to your dorm before those pesky Gryffindors begin to think I've done something to you.." he spoke and Ginny nodded, still slightly flustered.

"O-of course! Y-yes! We should get going."

They walked out of the astronomy tower and started going towards the Gryffindor common room. She broke the silence, unable to hold in her curiousity.

"How is it you know the way to my common room??" she questioned, slightly irritated.

"Years of walking around this castle has led me to know all the common rooms and some extra hidden places as well."

"Wow" she said impressed.

"I think my twin brothers will get along with you just fine in that area."

"Oh. I've met with them over a dozen times during their escapades."

She looked up at him in shock.

"Really?! And you never told on them during their pranks??"

"No.. They amused me, and I kept their secret, in exchange they never pranked me."

She nodded in a respecting manner at him.

"Good idea." As they turned towards another hallway, Blaise suddenly joined his hands in hers as they walked and Ginny almost stumbled if not for her quick quidditch skills.

"Wha—"

But she was cut off when he whispered.

"I think wonder boy's caught us and is following us right now."

Ginny's eyes widened but shook it off. Now was their time to make the git jealous.

He pulled her a bit closer to him as they walked that she could feel their body heat as well as their shoulders constantly brushing together as they walked. Soon they got to the entrance and turned to each other.

"So, are we meeting tomorrow?" Ginny asked curiously. In a way, she couldn't wait to talk to him. He was...so different, and she honestly did want to get to know him more.

"Of course.. But let's see…" with that, he raised his hand and brushed a strand of her hair from her face once more before he spoke.

"You know, I wanted to ask you something before. I wanted to ask what it is exactly you wanted in a relationship, how you wanted to be treated, but it seems I have a little bit of my answer the more I figure you out."

"Oh yeah?" she asked, her throat constricting.

"Hm. You want a rush. You want excitement. You want a life of adventure and even a little danger. And you want a love filled with passion, a relationship that practically consumes you. That you would be treated not like a princess but like a queen. Not how he treated you. And I really hope you'll find that…"

And with that, he put his hands on her neck and placed a peck on her forehead making her close her eyes at the feeling of his slightly cold lips on her forehead. It was like electricity jolting across her skin, making her heart hammer in her chest.

"Goodnight Ginevra." and like a warm breeze surrounding her, he was gone.

It felt like eternity she stood there, but it was really a minute, before she got a hold of herself and entered the common room and into her dorms, fast, leaving a quite shocked Harry Potter behind.

Ginny was deep in thoughts that night as she combed her hair in front of her mirror.

Blaise was right. She wanted passion. Adventure. Thrill. She was the real definition of all those. After being treated as the youngest sibling, after being babied up too much, she didn't want to be treated like a princess, like Harry treated her. She wanted to be treated like a queen, like she was the only girl, no, woman important, like Blaise made her feel when he had spoken to her earlier before he had left, the way he had looked right at her, like he had been looking through her.

But she was getting ahead of herself.

She sighed. Was she ever even in love with harry potter, or was it just the silly little crush she always had for him.

His boyish charms, not his manly charms, like Blaise bloody Zabini!!

She gritted her teeth in frustration. It wasn't even up to a week since her break up, and... she was already feeling like she was never in love with Harry.

But now, thinking about it, maybe she was never in love with Harry, maybe she was just in love with the idea of her and Harry together.

So yes, a lot of things happened in this chapter.

We got a sneak of Blaise and Draco having a chat.

We also saw just how charismatic Blaise Zabini could be. He is Italian after all, and you know what they say about italian men...*wink wink*.

Don't worry, we'll be getting more Luna and golden trio.

Also, remember, this isn't a bashing fic for the golden trio, all will be explained later into the fic as Blaise and Ginny get to know how the other ticks.

We will also be hearing just how Luna hunts down Draco soon as well, though this isn't their love story.

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Loves and Kisses.