Ginny sighed deeply as she pulled open her trunk and started packing. The warm spring had come out of no where and she was packing to go to the beach house. She knew she should be excited, but she had to go with Draco Malfoy, her ex-boyfriend… spending an entire week unsupervised with Draco Thomas Malfoy; she had gone out of her way to avoid him since their breakup, but it seemed he was everywhere she went. If she hadn't known that the idea was ridiculous she might think he was stalking her.

'But that's insane,' she thought. 'He cheated on me, he's over me.' Sure he had tried to apologize that night, but now he was dating Daphne; in most breakups that pretty much meant that said person was over their ex. Linda seemed to think differently about the "stalking", though:

"He's everywhere you go, Gin. It's like he's is watching over you," Linda had said earlier that day as they were walking back to the Gryffindor-tower, but Ginny cut her off:

"That's crazy Linda, and you know it. He's dating Daphne Greengrass - he got over me the night I wouldn't let him apologize."

"But he's everywhere you go!" Linda kept pushing. "And before you broke up with him we never caught a glimpse of one of his white-blonde hairs on a regular basis… At least I didn't."

"That's just because you're paying attention now… before we broke up you just didn't care." Ginny frowned and Linda sighed. "Whatever you have to tell yourself to feel better, Gin," she said. "But I know he's following you around!"

Ginny knew they could never be together again. She had spent too many nights crying over that boy. She'd put her heart on her sleeve and he'd broke it like a 2-year-old playing with porcelain.

Ginny sighed again as she threw a pair of flannel pajama bottoms into her trunk. If she didn't get over him before she left to spend a week with him, she knew she might just fall for him once again… And she wouldn't let that happen - she was still mad at him. But when she thought back at all the moments they'd shared before they started dating… Back when it was fun. She couldn't help but feel a little sad.

Suddenly Linda rushed into the dorm knocking Ginny straight out of her daydream about the day that he took care of her when she was sick. Ginny stared at her friend quizzically.

"Guess who else got the list of all those invited to the beach house!?" She held out a paper and Ginny rushed forward to read it:

Hogwarts spring-break trip
Organized by Professor Stacey

Attendants:
Draco Malfoy and Ginerva Weasley
Neville Longbottom and Pansy Parkinson
Harry Potter and Hermione Granger
Ron Weasley and Luna Lovegood
Blaise Zabini and Daphne Greengrass
Josh Evans and Linda Scott

"Linda," Ginny exclaimed and stared at her friend again. "How the hell did you get on this list?" Linda smiled back at her. "I just asked Professor Stacey nicely, and she said yes."

"Are you serious?" Ginny's mouth dropped open at these sudden news. "Yup," Linda said simply.

Ginny launched forward and threw her arms around Linda. "Oh thank you so much Linda!" she said. "This is going to be a better week than I thought!"

--

After a while of packing up in their dorm-room, Linda asked softly: "Did you see who else is on the list?" Ginny looked up from her packing and stared at Linda.

"Are you talking about Greengrass?" she said with a frown.

"Yeah… How're you gonna win Draco back now?" Linda asked with a concerned look upon her face. Ginny stared at her best friend in disbelief.

"I don't want to get back together with Draco…" she said slowly. "er… I mean… Malfoy…"

"Oh please!" Linda cut her off. "Don't start with that again. You know you're still in love with him."

"I know… but that's not the point, Linda!" Ginny replied with slight anger in her voice. Linda's face hardened like it always did when she was starting to get angry.

"Oh yeah? Then what's the point?"

Ginny's face turned red as she shrugged; not wanting to talk about it any further. Linda's face hardened even more.

"No Ginny, go ahead. What's the point?" she pushed.

Ginny could feel the tears pressing behind her eyelids for the millionth time that day.

"I loved him and he cheated on me. He hurt me so much that night that I never wanted to wake up again. I know that sounds dramatic… but I really loved him…" Tears were flowing down her face. "I don't want to win him back because I don't want to be hurt again…" she finished, her voice merely a whisper.

"Oh Ginny," Linda hugged her. "I'm sorry. I didn't realize…"

"Other than that night we had a wonderful relationship," Ginny continued. "I'm just so scared that I'm going to fall in love with him again… I don't want to seem weak, but I love him so much – even though he cheated on me…" The last remark was only a whisper under her breath.

"Remember who you're talking to." Linda said. "Don't you remember all those 2 am talks and how I helped you get over 'the-boy-who-lived'? Who's to say this is any different?"

"You're right Linda," Ginny muffled and dried her eyes. "Thank you."

--

The next morning the students were hauling their trunks down the marble-steps to the entrance hall where Professor Stacey was waiting for them, smiling brightly as always.

"Please get in a two-file line next to your partner," the professor said in a loud and clear voice. Ginny took a deep breath as she scanned the room to find Draco. When she spotted his blonde locks he was already standing in line with an empty spot next to him. Ginny slowly made her way over to him and stood next to him in silence. The tension between them was so thick you could feel it in the air.

When all the students had found their partner, Professor Stacey began to speak again. "You must be wondering how we are going to get there…" She started with a smart smile. "Well… you get in a carriage with your partner, and it will travel like the Knight Bus to America - we're going to California." She finished.

Excited murmuring buzzed through the students, but still Draco and Ginny said nothing.

"It will take roughly about 6 hours to get there," Professor Stacey continued, then peeked her head out the doors of the Entrance Hall. "Great! The carriages are here… right on time." She turned to the students and smiled. "Well, off we go!"

As the student got in one by one, Ginny and Draco had yet to say a word to one another. When the time came to get in their carriage Draco had offered her his hand to help her up. Ginny obliged, not wanting to seem rude. They sat across from eachother and the pressing silence went on until the carriage began to move.

Ginny couldn't take it any more. They needed to talk about something… anything. After all; she still wanted them to be friends.

"So how are you and Daphne doing?" she asked, regretting it only a second later, scolding herself on the inside.

'What the hell am I saying?' she thought, furious at her own stupidity. 'Brilliant Ginny, bring up the reason you two split in the first place… this is just bloody perfect.'

Draco looked oddly at her, and then answered slowly. "Fine, I guess, why do you ask?"

"Oh, I heard you two were dating," Ginny said quietly. Draco laughed cruelly, and smirked at her, but Ginny wasn't so into being laughed at.

"What's so funny Malfoy?" she said with a frown. He stopped his laughing right away.

"It's not true Gin," he said and looked at her with an interpretable look on his face.

"Wh-what?" Ginny stammered.

"Daphne started that rumor so that you would hear it and get all depressed - it's just her cruelty," Draco said with a shrug and a smile. Ginny started to smile but then stopped.

"You're lying," she whispered.

"Yeah I am actually. We are dating," he said, malice dripping from his voice.

"What the fuck is your problem Malfoy? Do you think it's funny to fuck with my emotions all the time?" Ginny said, now furious on the outside as well.

"Well not exactly your emotions…" Draco continued, smirk in place. Ginny wanted to scream at him, but controlled herself. "Oh go fuck yourself Malfoy." Draco kept smirking at her.

"Why? You already have," he drawled and leaned back in his seat.

"I hate you," Ginny whispered and looked away, now stone cold. "You just stay away from me this week… do you understand, you prick?"

"But who will I fu-" Draco started but Ginny cut him off.

"Daphne," she said sticking in her headphones to drown his voice out. She shut her eyes so she wouldn't even have to look at him.

Oh he's under my skin
just give me something to get rid of him
I've got a reason now to bury him alive
another little white lie.

Suddenly Ginny felt the cushion on her bench-seat move, and opened her eyes to find Draco now sitting next to her. She could smell the musky scent of his aftershave.

'I'll just keep ignoring him,' she thought and closed her eyes again. She suddenly felt his hand on her thigh. She opened her eyes, pulled the headphones from her ears and pushed his hand off of her.

"You don't get to touch me Malfoy," she snarled with a determined voice.

"I want to talk to you," he replied simply. Ginny's face hardened into a frown.

"Well I don't want to talk to you, because you're an arrogant asshole," she said and was about to put her headphones back on when he caught her hand.

"Ginny I-" He started but let his words hang in the air.

"What?" Ginny asked impatiently and stared at him.

"I thought you wanted us to be friends," he said tamely. Ginny was astonished.

"After you say such vicious things to me, you think I still want to be your friend? Are you high?" she asked with genuine disgust in her voice.

"No, I crashed hours ago," he said with a faint smile and she couldn't help but smile at him. How could her get her to smile so easily?

"Ginny, I really want to be friends with you. I want to be around you and make you smile again," he said sounding rather truthful.

"Why are you doing this to me?" Ginny whispered and pulled away slightly.

"What am I doing?"

"You're being your usual charming self," she said. "I can handle Malfoy-the-wanker, but this…" She gestured at him. "I have no defense against this."

"Well, let's be friends then," Draco tried again.

"Fine… okay Draco." Ginny gave in. "But you still don't have my trust, you jackass." Draco just smiled at her and Ginny didn't know what to make of it.

--

After a few amusing games of Exploding Snap, Draco had a bright idea. "Let's prank your brother this week," he said, mischief shining in his gray eyes.

Ginny immediately took to the idea; after she and Draco had broken up, Ron tried to pretend he wanted to comfort her, but she could see the triumph and the ego on his face. She very well knew he was singing 'I was right, I was right.' on the inside.

"How?" she asked. "Well that will be our mission: Mess with Mr. Weasley." Draco replied. "They have to be original ideas too, none of the regular stuff."

"That'll be tough… after all - he lived with Fred and George all his life; they were the original pranksters of all time."

"Well then this will challenging yes, but more fun." Ginny smiled at him.

"Yes it will."

--

When they finally arrived at the beach house, Professor Stacey was already there, still smiling.

"Hello everyone," she greeted. "This is your new house for two weeks…"

"Wait what?" Blaise Zabini cut in raising his voice. "I thought this spring-thing was only for one week." An agreeable murmur went through the crowd of students.

"Well, then none of you read the contract close enough, probably," was the professor's reply. "When you signed it I said it said one week, but the contract read 14 days."

"But how are we supposed to do our schoolwork?" Hermione cut in. "We need that extra week to do our homework that's due in three weeks."

"Your schoolwork is going to be brought to you-" Professor Stacey started, but what cut off again, this time by Harry. "But why?" he asked, speaking really quickly. "Why do you want us to stay for two weeks instead of one?"

"Because, Mr. Potter; fourteen is more than seven," she replied smartly. Ginny and Draco looked at eachother and silently agreed. Professor Stacey was out of her mind.

"Well class…" the professor continued. "The girls' bedrooms are in the right wing and the boys' are in the left."

"Why-" Daphne started but was cut off by the professor:

"Because it would be inappropriate if the rooms are co-ed. There are spells stopping you also, so don't get any ideas." She smiled sweetly at the group.

"Yeah so don't get any ideas…" Ginny said loudly. "…Daphne," She finished.

Many people laughed, including Draco who immediately stopped when he got a deadly glare from a pissed off Daphne.

"That's funny coming from you, Weasley," Daphne retorted, poison dripping from her voice. "I certainly haven't been the only girl in Draco's bed this year, or how about that, Ginerva?"

"Ginny never slept with…" Ron started; ready to protect his sister from humiliation, but suddenly his face went the color of parchment. "Oh gods Ginny!" he almost shrieked. "That's disgusting!"

Draco smirked. "She didn't seem to think so-" he started.

"ANYWAYS," the Professor interrupted loudly. "No, there will be no supervision this weekend but also no magic-" yet again she was cut off by (a now rather pissed off) Blaise.

"What the bloody hell?!" he shouted. "No magic?! What are you thinking, you crazy…" Blaise tiraded loudly, but was cut off by Daphne stomping on his foot.

"You really should consider reading contracts closer before you sign them, Mr. Zabini," Professor Stacey said sugary, and then she held out a sack that she had left on the ground next to her. "All wands in that bag, please."

After much arguing, threatening, and some crying – all of the students had finally turned in their wands.

"She's a crazy whore, that one…" Blaise was heard muttering. "Unbelievable… un-believe-a-ble!"

A few moments later Ginny lugged her trunk into a room with dark blue walls. There were two beds, two armoires and a vanity for Ginny and Linda to share.

"There are 3 rooms." Linda pointed out. "Each room has two people." Ginny looked up at her best friend quizzical, once again.

"Yeah what's your point?" she asked.

"Well other than us how do you think the other boys and girls are going to split?" Linda threw herself onto one of the beds.

"Well duh," Ginny started. "Hermione and Luna will share a room, Parkinson and Greengrass… Then Malfoy and Zabini, Harry and Ron, then Josh and Neville." Ginny said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

After hanging up their clothes and putting on their make-up, they decided to venture out to see what everyone else was up to. When they reached the sort of common room in the middle, they found Draco and Daphne snogging on the couch.

"Gods this is a bad habit that keeps occurring," Ginny muttered to Linda. Linda winked at Ginny and then cleared her throat.

"Can you two maybe get a room?" Linda asked with mock sweetness in her voice. Daphne looked up at them.

"Umm, we can't," she said. "It's against the rules, remember?" and then she continued kissing Draco, but he stopped her.

"Daph… Let's continue this later," Draco said and Ginny started laughing. He glared at her.

"What's so funny?" he said with slight anger in his voice.

"Well it's just that your little nickname for her kind of sounds like 'daft', and I think it kind of suits her," she replied, her voice dripping with innocence.

Linda laughed and Draco cracked a smile.

"Now, let's see if there's any alcohol in this place."

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A/N: Thank you to Booishy for being my new beta! Review and make me smile!