Chapter 3
We've been living in our new home for a week now, and Draco still hasn't found a minister, or someone else, to marry us. I've offered to look for someone myself, but he insists that he does it. Whatever suits his fancy, I guess. The only problem for me is that I want to be married to him. I want to spend the rest of my life with him, and I'd really like to make everything official. If it takes a while, I'll be ok, but you can't blame a girl for being a little impatient!
After moving into this new house, I had already established a routine. I'd wake up and eat breakfast with Draco before going to check on Ash and Moonlight. We had already decided that I would make sure the horses had enough food while Draco would check on Hurricane's food and water supply. Having all of these animals around my home seemed like such a small difference, yet it was a huge one.
Back home, even though we had animals, it wasn't like this. It was more like a farm there, and it was more like a pleasure farm here. I'm not sure if that makes any sense, but that's what I feel. Everything is so much more laid back here. It's more peaceful and I love it! It gives me a lot more time that I can spend with Draco, for one, and we tend to go on long horseback rides together which tend to be romantic and enchanting.
Sometimes when we're alone, it occurs to me how lucky I am. I'm living with this amazing person, I have a horse, as does my fiancé, and we have a puppy. We have a decent house, and we don't have to work too much since Draco is so wealthy. We generally have a great life together. It's wonderful!
As I was wondering around outside with Hurricane following at my heels, I heard something off in the distance. It seemed like the noise was coming from a dirt road that we had never used before. As the noise got louder, I could see a storm of dust coming closer and closer on that road. Before I knew it, the dust cloud was pulling up in front of our house and seemed to hover above the ground before floating downwards.
As I walked closer to the dust, I noticed that there was something big and shiny underneath all of that dust. To my amazement, Draco got out the car with a flourish.
"Draco! What's this?" I asked as I made my way over to his side of the shiny-box.
"It's a car. Our very own car!" For such a weird object, he seemed to be very exited about it. But that was when realization hit me. He had brought home a car! Like the one Ron and Harry had wrecked during my first year of Hogwarts. I couldn't believe that this was what was sitting in front of our house.
"Why is it here, though?" I asked as I hoped beyond hope that he would answer in a certain way.
"It's ours to keep," He said, wrapping his arms around me from behind. "If you don't know how to drive, I'll teach you, but this is our very own car!" He gave a "man" squeak before moving so he could run his hands over the car. Apparently this was like a dream come true for him or something because he seemed to love the shiny car.
The car turned out to be something called a Blue Convertible Punch buggy or a "Bug." If you looked at it in the right frame of mind, it kind of looked like a ladybug. If only it was red and had spots!
Even though my dad had experimented with muggle cars in the past, I had never gotten very interested in them and I had never understood how they worked. Draco also tried to explain the basics to me, and I was, yet again, clueless. I didn't really care, but I tried to figure it out for their sakes. I figured that a car was the sort of thing you had for show that sat in front of your house and showed other people how rich you were. Boy, was I wrong!
Cars turned out to be something that you drove around on a regular basis. Draco assured me that by having a car, he would be able to drive into a town to find a minister for us. Just for that purpose by itself, the car became brighter and more useful in my eyes. Maybe having a car wouldn't be too bad after all!
Having a car turned out to be too much of a distraction for Draco. Instead of spending time with Ash, Hurricane, and me he spent most of his time tuning up "Blue-Bug," as he affectionately calls his new car. At first I was ok with it. But now I'm overwhelmed by the things he isn't doing. I'm feeding both horses, feeding Hurricane, going shopping for food, washing laundry, doing dishes and so forth. We had agreed early on that we would try to split these chores, but Draco's latest "chore" is to play with his car. If I had some extra time during the day, I would hang out with him while he worked, but I'm so busy, I can't even fit in a quick ride on Moonlight.
After a couple more days of total distraction, I decided that Draco was going to take a break, whether he wanted to or not. It was the only way that I could think of, that he would stop and relax. Ok, maybe he wouldn't relax, but he'd be taking a break from working on that silly car, which was the purpose of this endeavor.
The next morning I got up before Draco and grabbed some riding clothes for both of us. Mine I quickly put on, while I put his on the table. Then I made my way out of the room as quietly as I could before locking him into the room. Yes, I know, I was being a big drastic, but I needed to do something!
I'd been downstairs for about 20 minutes packing a picnic lunch before I heard the banging coming from my room. I smiled slightly to myself before I hurried upstairs.
"Yes, Draco?" I said, leaning against a space of wall across from our bedroom door.
"Well, Ginny, I was wondering why I was locked in our room." Draco said. His voice was slightly muffled and had a tint of anger in them.
"You're taking a break from that car! We're going riding, so get dressed and then I'll consider letting you out." I watched the door for a few minutes before trying again.
"Draco? Don't you want to go riding?" I said while walking to the door.
Before I knew what was happening our door flew off of it's hinges and took me with it on it's journey across the hallway. I didn't know what spell Draco had cast, but I did know that it was very powerful. Powerful enough that when I hit the wall, I could hear things crack, although I didn't lose consciousness.
"Ginny?" I heard him say. I was crouched on the ground hugging my middle, which hurt the most. I didn't know what was broken, but I could bet that something was.
I heard quick footsteps stepping towards me over the debris of the door. At that moment in time I didn't car who the footsteps belonged to, I just wanted to go see a doctor to make sure I was ok.
"Ginny?" I heard again, louder this time, before arms were thrown around me. "I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry!" He said again and again into my neck and shoulders before pulling away to talk to me more properly.
"What hurts?" He said holding my face in his hands, trying to get me to face him.
"My stomach…" Was all I was able to say before I felt hands pulling me into a standing position. My stomach seemed to instantly revolt and I ended up throwing up all over the floor.
"It's ok…it's ok." Draco said over and over again as he started to comfortably rub my stomach. I wasn't sure he was helping all that much, but it was comforting knowing that he was there with me.
"I need…doctor…" I was able to squeeze out before another wave of nausea erupted. Draco seemed to understand though, and picked me up slowly before illegally apparating us to the nearest hospital.
At least, I thought he apparated us into the hospital. But when we arrived outside of the hospital in the "Employees Only" area, I was a little miffed before I remembered that it was a muggle hospital. I just needed to see a doctor, and soon. Even if they could just give me some painkillers, that would be great.
As Draco hurriedly worked his way around the building, I kept my eyes closed to prevent any further nausea attacks. I hated throwing up. It was an annoyance and it was extremely gross.
Draco entered the "Emergency Room" door quickly and with a yell before stopping to notice all of the people in the room. There was still a few empty chairs here and there, but the room must have started with 50 empty ones. How could so many people be in need of doctors, who were all from the same city? I wondered what the people around me needed. I noticed a couple little kids were either whimpering or screaming and wondered why they were here. I hoped beyond hope that they weren't here for abuse.
After Draco's yell of initiation, he quietly made his way over to an empty seat that he sat down in with me still on his lap. It was actually quite comfortable, and I'd rather be on his lap than on the chair next to him any day. While we were in the waiting room, something occurred to me.
"Draco?" I asked as he turned his head towards me with a grunt of acknowledgement. "What are we going to tell them?"
"What are we going to tell them about what?" Draco said in return, with a questioning look on his face.
"What are we going to say happened to me?" I leaned closer so our neighbors couldn't hear me. "We can't tell them that I got magically blasted off my feet and ran into a wall. They'd think we were crazy!"
"Oh." After thinking for a few minutes, Draco came up with, "We can always say that you had a bad fall off of your horse. We can say that Moonlight spooked and you fell off."
"I can't think of anything better, so sure. I'm fine with that. But once I'm better, I'm going to say sorry to Moonlight for using her as an excuse. She'll get to go on a long trail ride with me!"
"Can I come?" Draco asked shyly.
"Of course. You can join us any time you like, Draco." I whispered into his ear.
"Ginny Weasley?" Someone said. We both jumped and looked around for the speaker.
I looked up to see Hermione Granger in a doctor's uniform looking down at me.
"Hermione!" I said, throwing my arms up in the air without moving much of my body.
"What are you doing here?" We said in unison before laughing together as well.
I answered first. "I fell off Moonlight and I think I broke something. As for why I'm in Oklahoma…well, I decided to live with Draco for the rest of my life. Hermione, you remember Draco Malfoy right?" I said, looking between the two of them. As I was talking I had reached over to grad Draco's hand. I really wanted him to know that I loved him and I wasn't going to leave him for anything or anybody.
"Wow. Draco Malfoy. Long time no see." Hermione said nicely before leaning down and whispering angrily, "If you do ANYthing to hurt her, you're going to be in BIG trouble, mister!" She then stood back up tall, and turned to me again. "Ginny, your family is worried sick about you! Can't you at least send them an owl?"
I looked away before I made my reply.
"I'll owl them soon." I made my voice show that I was done with this subject.
Hermione looked around awkwardly for a few seconds before saying, "There seems to be a lot of people here, so why don't you guys get some rest, and a doctor will wake you up when they're ready for you?"
I didn't really feel very tired, but it had been a pretty exciting morning. Maybe I would just try to sleep for a while. Before I knew what I was doing, my eyes were closing and I was asleep.