A/N: I don't own Harry Potter

Word Count: 752

"I don't know what you want me to say. You hurt me, Weaselette. You really hurt me," Draco whined rubbing his ear. Ginny rolled her eyes. It wasn't the first time she'd hit Draco with a stinging hex, well, this time she might have over done it slightly, but it was his own fault really.

"I don't know, Draco, maybe I want you to say you won't do it again? I mean, I know it's a lie, but at least it would make me feel a little better?" she suggested, as the pair stepped out of the Slytherin common room.

Ginny had been the first in her family to be placed in Slytherin. She kept hearing her brothers and parents hoping she would be the last. She didn't care. She felt like she belonged here. And apparently she fit the traits of a Slytherin perfectly. She was loyal to herself, could be completely manipulative, which she was doing right this instant, and she most certainly valued power, or at least the idea of having power.

"Me apologize?" Draco asked, sounding offended. Ginny laughed, a scoffing laugh that reminded Draco that the girl could dish out a verbal lashing just as easily as throwing a hex.

"Yes, is that such a foreign concept to you? I mean, you did just ruin every single chance of getting Theo to ask me out, I mean, claiming to be my boyfriend? What new level of jealousy is this?" Ginny yelled.

"Maybe I want to be your boyfriend?"

"Really? Because I clearly remember you calling me 'Weaselette' two minutes ago. You argued that I shouldn't be on the Quidditch team because my blood wasn't pure enough. You seem to resent the fact I'm even in your house. Oh, don't forget about your father slipping that stupid cursed diary into my cauldron. Do I really need to go on about all the ways you seem to hate me?"

"I'm not responsible for my father's actions. And I'm the one who saw you with it and told you to get rid of it. Remember? I knew where it had come from," Draco argued. Ginny paused as if to weigh that bit of information. She liked how Draco didn't bother defending his father. Maybe he was starting to grow up a little bit? She realized he hadn't said anything about his father hearing about her hexing him this time.

"True, you did do that. But you also just lied to Theo and I was seriously going to ask him to Hogsmeade!" she stated, watching Draco. He looked guilty for about half a minute.

"How about I make it up to? My family has a stable, beautiful Pegasus, ever dream of riding one? We could go over the holidays?" he suggested.

"Really? Pegasus? With white coats and gleaming rainbow manes and wings that can block out the sun?" Ginny asked, slightly breathless with awe. She had always loved horses of any kind. Her favorite lesson in Care of Magical Creatures had been when Professor Grubby-plank had shown them the unicorns.

"Is that a yes?" Draco asked, watching Ginny. He had to smile at the way she got about horses, any kind of horses. He'd seen the drawings she'd done of the unicorns, seen the way she talked about someday riding a horse. The fact his horses could fly was only an added bonus.

"Are you actually asking me out on a date, Draco? Or just trying to distract me from the fact I'm currently furious with you?" Ginny asked, tilting her head causing her curtain of red hair to fall across her shoulders.

"Can't it be both?" Draco asked.

"Fine, but no more calling me 'Weaselette' or I'm going to come up with the absolute worst pet name I can think of for you... maybe Dwako wako? Or, my widdle Dwakey poo?" she said in a baby voice. Draco face paled causing Ginny to burst out laughing again.

"You wouldn't!" he stated. Ginny smirked at him.

"I would!"

"Fine, Ginny, would like come spend the holiday with me at my family's stable?" he asked, knowing better than to call her bluff... he wasn't even sure she was bluffing this time.

"I would love to, Draco," Ginny answered, giving him a huge smile. It had only taken four years, five failed relationships, and a pretend crush on Theo Nott, but she had finally managed to get Draco's attention. She wondered if she would have tried harder if she'd known about the stable?