Chapter 5- Misery Loves Company

"You're not having much luck with the ladies are you?" He heard a husky feminine voice say. He looked up to see one of the sexiest women he'd ever seen. She was wearing a long red muggle dress that was rather clingy, yet it was simple enough not to draw away from her. Her breasts were large but as she was very curvaceous it fit. Her lips were… set in a smirk as she watched him trail his eyes over her body. "Like what you see?"

He met her eyes and saw the mischievous glint in their amber depths, "very much, but I'm not in the mood to put up with weasels."

"That's too bad," she said slipping into the chair across from him. Draco couldn't help but be impressed by her behaviour; Ron would've gone red and made a scene if he'd said that to him. "I saw your date leave," she said, "and as I suddenly found myself bereft of one, I figured misery loves company."

"Yeah, well, no offence or anything, but women are crazy and I think I'd be better off eating my dinner by myself." He said and seeing that she was more amused by his comment than offended he decided to get her opinion, "what do women want in a man? I'm good looking, intelligent, rich, refined, yet last month I got dumped for being a muggle-hater and today I got dumped for saying that Muggles were better than wizards, neither of which are things I said."

She laughed at him, "I'm sorry, I was just remembering the scene at Potter's Place. I wish I could tell you what women want, but I can't even tell you what I want."

"This is why women are so complicated, I can tell you what I want right now, I want a woman who won't be easily offended and who'll sit through an entire meal without walking out on me." He said passionately.

"Well then, it's you're lucky night." She said with a rather smug look on her face.

Just then the waiter showed up with Draco's order and was about to place a plate in front of her when he did a double take. He looked questioningly at them, but neither Draco nor Ginny hinted that anything was wrong and he placed the plate down and backed away slowly as if worried he would be attacked at any moment. When the waiter was out of earshot Ginny burst out laughing and Draco couldn't suppress a small smile.

They ate in silence for a while until Ginny spoke up, "so…why did you go out with these women that walked out on you."

"Pansy," was all he said.

"What about her?" Ginny asked curious.

"She's so completely happily married that she insists that I should be too and she keeps setting me up with these women that," he gestured wildly and then growled in frustration.

Ginny laughed, "Sorry, you know it was her brother that just walked out on me."

"You were on a date with Theus?"

"Yes, one minute we're having a great conversation and the next he declares he's in love with some woman named Dan and leaves me!"

"Well, it's about time!" Draco said and upon noticing her frown quickly added, "You don't understand, they were driving me crazy I didn't think we'd ever go to market with The Electrifier."

"Wait a second; you're the manufacturer?" Ginny asked incredulous that a Malfoy would have anything to do with Muggle technology.

"Hell yes, it was my idea. I wasn't about to loose all the profit that could be made from such an innovation." He said as a waiter walked up to them and brought them their dessert.

Remembering her previous conversation with Theus, as the waiter walked away Ginny asked, "You mean you are Pansy's friend that lived as a muggle?"

"Yeah," he said shifting uneasily in his chair.

"You, Draco Malfoy, muggle hater, lived as a muggle?"

"Yes." He answered nervously; this vein of conversation was what had gotten him walked out on twice already.

"How was it?" She asked curiously and noticed his evident relief. She took a bite of her cheesecake to cover her smile.

He was completely surprised by her reaction, he'd expected the weasel to go crazy and try to hex him for lying or something, and answered quickly, "completely horrible, everything is about a thousand times more work! The only thing that helped me to survive was the telly." He said, "Snape did well by us and we were still relatively well off. I had this satellite; I got channels from all over the world and I must tell you that American Muggles are outrageous, there was this one show, The Real World, there are no words to describe it."

"Try."

He looked at her surprised anyone would be brave enough to boss him around, and then said, "It was lewd and vulgar. They fought all the time, they ran around half naked, and the women were loose!"

Ginny started laughing. "You're starting to sound like my Mum, next you are going to call them all Scarlet Women!"

"Yes, well, I didn't say I didn't enjoy the show." He said. "The only problem is that after all of the work with The Electrifier I still can't watch the telly."

"Why?"

"Well, it fixes the problem of magic interfering with the electricity, but magic still interferes with the signal, I'm making Theus work on it, but he's got this obsession with cellphones. I keep telling him it's the same problem, but he's so stubborn." He stopped and started to laugh, "Well, now that you've gone and gotten them together neither of them is likely to get any work done, so I ought to just get used to not watching the telly."

"You really didn't mind living as a Muggle?" She asked pushing her empty plate away.

"No, it definitely had its advantages." He said wistfully and took a bite out of his own cheesecake.

"I've always wanted to, live as a Muggle I mean, not forever, but you know for a month or so to see what it was like." Ginny said.

"You definitely ought to do it once; it's not something you'll forget quickly."

Ginny noticed he'd finished his dessert and smirked, "so, now that we've finished our dinner and I've granted your wish I ought to go, it's getting late."

"What wish?"

"You said you wanted to finish a meal with a woman, well, I've done it." She stood up, "goodbye," and walked towards the exit, come after me, come after me, come after me, she chanted to herself.

A few minutes later she felt a hand at her elbow, "not so fast," he said and she slowed and turned to look at him, "the night's still young, let's do something."

"All right," she said trying not to jump with glee, I'm really rather good at this seduction thing.

Outside of the restaurant he turned to her and said, "you know Muggles have this concept of dinner and a movie, do you want to watch one?" Then added quickly, "a movie is a sort of play on a giant telly."

"I know what a movie is, Malfoy!" Ginny said laughing.

"You can call me Draco you know," he said then frowned.

"What's wrong?" She asked.

"I just realized I don't know your name." He said scared and was startled when she laughed.

"It's Ginny." She said smiling at the look on his face.

"Well," he said surprised she hadn't yelled and stomped out on him, "what movie do you want to see, Ginny?"

A/N: April 2, 2004. I found it so hard to write this chapter, every time I started trying to describe Ginny from a man's point of view I kept falling in a fit of giggles or feeling slightly disgusted with myself as the feminist in me (deep, deep within me) felt that it shouldn't matter what she looked like or how large her breasts are, but isn't that the first thing a man looks at?