Chapter 7 – Little IttyPretty One
It started to rain after their first kiss, so they came running inside. They laughed and headed to his room to finish their s'mores. They sat on his bed talking and laughing for hours. Ginny was tired and before she told him, she fell asleep. Draco decided to leave her there for the night. He laid down on his side, watching her sleep for a moment and then said, "Good night, dear Ginerva."
When Draco awoke the next morning, he was in the same position that he was in the morning before. He was holding the beautiful red haired Weasley in his arms. He looked down and watched the girl sleep in his arms. She looked so angelic. He slowly untangled himself with her and headed off to the bathroom to take his shower.
Ginny woke as soon as she heard the door close. She was a little confused as to where she was again, but she soon realized that she was in Draco's room; again. "That devil," she smiled and got out of the bed. She crept to the door and watched him enter the bathroom with his towel and bathrobe. She figured she had a little while. She laid down again in his bed and dug her face deep into his pillow and breathed in his sent. She sighed and had a thought. She got out of the bed and smiled evilly. She ran to his drawers and started to look through them. Maybe there was something in there that she could take without him knowing that it was gone. She went through each and every one of his drawers and looked at all his clothes. She felt bad about going through his things, but at that moment, she really didn't care. She knew she was pressing for time, but as she neared one of the last drawers, she saw it. It was a worn out blue denim shirt. She picked and held it up to her. It was really long; it went down to her thighs. She figured that she could always use it as a nightshirt. She then held it to her face, she smiled and thought, "yup, smells like him," she figured no matter what happens to them, she will always have something to remind her of him, of course rather then that kiss. She saw the doorknob turning; she grabbed for her wand and shrunk the item so that she could fit it in her pocket.
As soon as she finished putting it in her pocket he entered the room wearing his green bathrobe. "So, you're up, finally, I see."
"Yes… I am…."
Draco raised one of his eyebrows and said, "You look like you're up to no good. What did you just do?"
"Nothing."
"Nothing?"
"Yes, nothing." She headed towards the door and said, "I'll meet you out here in a few minutes and we can get some breakfast." She walked into the doorframe.
"Whoa, watch it there, Gin," he said laughing.
"Yeah," she laughed and ran from the room.
Draco shook his head and laughed, "Weasley's; can't really expect them to change." He went into his drawer to get something to wear and noticed that his stuff was all messed up like someone went through them. He wondered what happened, but he only shrugged and continued to get dress.
"Ginny," someone was calling her name, but she didn't want to wake up. "Ginny," came the same voice. "Come on Gin, wake up."
"What?" Ginny asked groggily.
"We're at the station." It was Ron and that it was already September. She was going to Hogwarts for her 6th year and Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Lavender were there for their 7th and final year. She woke up and rubbed her eyes. She got out of the car, grabbed her things, said good-bye to her father and ran off to the train.
Ron laughed, "If I didn't know her, I'd swear she was running off to see a boyfriend she hasn't seen in months."
Hermione and Lavender shared a glance and then smiled. The two girls went after her.
When they got to the train, the boys insisted for the girls to leave their carts with them at the luggage department and for them to go find them some seats. So they agreed.
"So, Ginny, are you excited about seeing him again?" Hermione asked.
Ginny just smiled.
Flashback
There was a knock on the door. "Come in," Ginny said.
The door opened and Draco came walking in with a tray of food. "You brought me breakfast?"
"Yup, did it all by myself, too," Ginny eyed him, "Okay so I called Billy told him what to bring up and I carried it into the room all by myself."
Ginny laughed, "Wow." She sniffed again, "It smells so good." There were pancakes, bacon, eggs, sausage links, orange juice for him, and apple for her because she didn't like orange juice. She smiled, "You remembered."
"Of course I did."
They spent most of their breakfast talking, once again.
After breakfast they said their good-byes in the room, considering he didn't want to see one of the house-elves to see.
He gave her a hug, "Thanks for your help this summer Ginny."
"You're welcome." She said with a smile.
"I'll save a compartment for you on the train next month." Draco told her.
"Okay," she really didn't want to let go of him. She wasn't going to see him for a few weeks.
"Ginny, you're going to have to let go."
"Oh. Sorry," she said and let go. He handed her the rose that has been on the tray that morning.
She took it and smelled it, "I love roses."
He smiled and led her out of the room to the foyer on the ground floor. He handed her some floo-powder. But before she threw it into the fire, he whispered in her ear, "I'm going to miss you too," and gave her a soft and quick peck on the cheek.
She smiled, threw her powder into the fireplace, and said, "The Burrow!" and she was gone in just a few seconds.
Draco felt a little pang of sadness in his heart. He wasn't going to see her until the next month, could that be it. "But it's not, is it?" he asked himself. He should've been happy that he didn't have to study anymore. But what was he going to do with the rest of his summer?
End Flashback
Ginny hadn't told Hermione and Lavender a whole lot of what happened over the weekend, like sharing the bed, kissing, the song, and a few other details. She did tell them, however, that they agreed on being secret friends, and would still meet for study dates. The only reason why she even told them that much was for the sole purpose to get them to keep Harry and Ron occupied while she left and returned back to the tower.
"Yeah, I am, actually."
"Come on, let's get going," Lavender said, and they walked quickly into the train.
When they got into the train and started to walk down the hallway, they bumped into someone.
"Hey! Watch where you're going!" The girls heard someone remark. "Oh, so if it isn't the little Weasel."
"Watch it, Ferret Boy. You're not that special. People don't just part like the Red Sea when they see you coming." She gave him a quick smile.
Hermione and Lavender looked confused. This wasn't the Draco Malfoy Ginny told them about.
"So you finally joined the "Dream Team"?"
Ginny laughed and said, "Uh… Draco, they know."
Draco went a little wide-eyed, smiled, and said, "Oh! Okay." He added a little quieter, "Hermione. Lavender. Good to see you again. Ginny, come find me when we get moving," and with that he left.
Ginny turned around and saw Hermione and Lavender with their mouths wide open. She was going to say something when they heard yells from behind them to move on.
When they found an empty compartment, they sat down and Hermione said, "What did you do to him?"
"Do? What are you talking about?" Ginny asked.
"He has never called us by our first names before," Hermione said.
"I didn't even know he knew mine!" Lavender added in.
Ginny laughed.
"Who didn't know your name?" Harry asked.
"Just one of my new friends," Ginny told them. "They met her for the first time today."
"Oh, well, bring her around," Ron said.
"Maybe some other time."
"Why not now?" Harry asked.
"Well, she's a little shy, especially around you, Harry."
"Me?"
"Well, you are "The-Boy-Who-Lived" she's still not over the whole, 'Oh my God, I'm going to the same school as Harry Potter' phase yet."
Ginny and Lavender couldn't help but laugh at Ginny's lame excuse.
"Oh. Okay," Harry said with a little blush.
"I'll bring her around when he's ready." With that said the train started to move. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go find her," and with that said, Ginny left.
"Who is this new… he? Did Ginny just say 'he'?" Ron asked getting paranoid.
Hermione and Lavender barely even noticed Ginny's slip of the tongue, but Lavender quickly patted Ron's leg and said, "Oh, you probably just heard wrong. She said 'she'."
"You sure?" Ron asked. He turned to Harry and he only shrugged in response.
"Yes," both Hermione and Lavender said.
With that the whole subject was changed.
Ginny went from one compartment to the next looking for Draco. Of course none of them had him in there. She met up with a lot of her friends from her class and spent some time talking to them about their summers.
About a half an hour later she finally found Draco's compartment, "Knew I should have started with the last one." She noticed that Draco didn't say anything, "What's wrong Draco? Someone put a silencing Charm on you?" Still he didn't say anything, "Good, cause it's about bloody time that someone did it!" She said laughing. When she noticed that he still wasn't talking she asked, "Is there something wrong, seriously?"
He stood up and walked over to her and pointed at her, "You!"
"Me? What did I do?" She asked, "And don't you point at me! I'm not some little child you're punishing!" she slapped his hand out of the way.
He pointed at her again, "You, little Weasel! I thought we had an agreement!"
She slapped his hand out of the way again, "What are you talking about?"
He once again pointed at her, just to annoy her and said, "You said you wouldn't tell them anything, and you went ahead and did it anyways!"
Ginny sighed, grabbed a hold of his arm, and twisted it behind his back. As he squirmed with pain Ginny said in his ear, "Listen, you over sized Ferret, when I tell you not to do something, I mean it. I have six older brothers, I can take you!" and she released his arm.
Draco took his arm and rubbed it, trying to soothe the pain that she inflected on him, "Then why did you tell them?"
"Tell who what?" Ginny asked, getting annoying.
"You told Hermione and Lavender didn't you?" He accused her and pointed his finger back at her, but then sharply took it away remembering what had just happened. "You told them everything that happened, that I failed Transfiguration, and how I need a Weasley to help me pass my seventh year. Oh I just bet they loved it too. Bet they went off and told Harry and Ron about it to. I just bet that the whole school will know by…"
He was stopped when Ginny hit up side the head, "Look, you prat!" She screamed at him, "I didn't tell them anything!" He could swear that her eyes looked like they wanted to shed tears, but he knew that she would never let him see her weak. "They saw you leave the day before my birthday and then Sara told them!" Draco was about to ask who she was when Ginny said, "Sara is my sister-in-law and the only reason why Sara knows is because my mom had to tell her something when Sara asked why I was not going to Romania. Ask questions before you start pointing fingers."
She saw Draco soften up a bit. He wrapped his arms around her and held her tight, despite her attempts to push him away. She almost forgot how good it felt to be held by him and so she relaxed and wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Hey, I'm sorry," he whispered into her ear.
"Wow. There's another first," she laughed.
He chuckled and they pulled away. "Didn't know you were so strong."
"Yeah, well, being the youngest Weasley, I have to be able to do something evil to my brothers."
"So how much do Granger and Brown know?" he asked.
"They know that we're friends." She answered him.
"And…" he asked, wanting to know if there was more.
"And what?"
"Did you tell them anything else?"
"Everything else is none of their bloody business." She said matter of fact.
"Ah," Neither one of them has said anything about the kiss that they shared over the weekend. Ginny did not ask him why he kissed her, mainly for the fact that she did not want to know if it was an 'It seemed like a good thing to do at the time,' kind of kiss or not. Draco did not tell her why he kissed her because he wasn't ready to admit that he liked her more than a friend.
"So can I trust those two?" Draco asked.
"Yeah, you can. You can trust those two with your life." Draco gave her a 'yeah right' kind of look. She laughed and said, "Okay, so you can trust them with my life."
"So I thought."
Draco sat down on the seat and motioned for Ginny to come and join him, "Aren't we supposed to be studying?"
"Yeah, but I want to hear about the rest of your summer, first."
Ginny smiled and joined her friend on the seat.
About an hour and a half later they heard one of the other students run up and down the hallway screaming, "We're almost at Hogwarts!"
Ginny smiled and said, "First year."
"How do you know?" Draco asked.
"Well, I don't recall anyone older then 11 doing that."
"What you didn't see Potter doing that last year?" Ginny gave him a stern look. "You should have seen it, it was bloody funny!" Ginny was still glaring at him, "Well," he cleared his throat, "He's defiantly not Slytherin. We Slytherins do no do that."
"Of course not. They just make a hippogriff mad and then claim that it 'killed' them after being scratched."
"Hey! It wasn't a scratch! I still have a scar," he lifted his sleeve up and said, "Look!"
"Draco, I don't see anything."
Draco looked himself, "Well, it was there." He pulled down his sleeve.
Ginny laughed and said "How about a butter beer at "Honeydukes," at the first weekend in Hogsmeade?"
"What?"
"I bet you that that kid will be in Slytherin."
"Sure, but how do you know who it will be."
Just then suddenly a little kid stuck his head into the compartment and screamed, "Where almost at Hogwarts."
Ginny and Draco looked at each other in shock, and Draco said, "Um… yay!" he said trying to be excited.
The kid ran off and Ginny looked up at him, "You can be so adorable at times."
"What are you talking about? I'm always adorable."
"Well, what do you say?" Ginny asked.
"You're on," Draco said and they shook hands.
Ginny got up, collected her stuff that they never used, and said, "I'll see you later, Draco."
He just smiled and watched her leave.
Later that night in the Great Hall…
Harry, Hermione, Ron and Lavender were in a deep conversation when they heard Ginny running towards them.
"What took you so long?" Hermione asked as Ginny sat down.
"Sorry, took a little longer then I thought."
"Ginny, you look all prettied-up." Lavender said. Ginny kicked her under the table. "Ow." She said as she rubbed her leg.
"You do look different, Gin. What's the occasion?" Ron asked, "Got a boyfriend?" He asked as he finally got what was going on. "Who is it? What's his name? Is he in Gryffindor? He better not be in Slytherin!"
Ron was interrupted when the doors opened up and Professor McGonagall brought all the first years into the Great Hall.
Meanwhile at the Slytherin table Draco had Blaise and Pansy on either side of him talking up a storm about their summers, while Crabbe and Goyle were sitting opposite of him complaining about how hungry they were.
Draco put his head in his hands and messaged his temples; he had a headache, he couldn't imagine why. He suddenly had the feeling that someone was watching him, he picked up his head up and looked around for the source, and finally he found her. He locked eyes with Ginny. Draco watched as Ron was talking to Ginny about something, and she wasn't even paying attention. He smiled at her and winked.
Suddenly Dumbledore stood up and tapped his wand on top of his wooden post. The sound echoed through the room, silencing everyone. "Good evening everyone! Welcome, first years, to Hogwarts and welcome to all of those who have returned to us from what I hope was a good summer." He looked from the Gryffindor table to the Slytherin. "First years, Professor McGonagall will call you by name. You will come to sit on the stool that you see in front of you and she will place the sorting hat on your head. The hat will sort you into your appropriate houses."
Professor McGonagall took the long parchment out and opened it up. "Brinks, Aaron!" the boy came up to the stool and sat on it. McGonagall placed the hat on top of the child's head.
"Ravenclaw!" The hat screamed out. The little boy was so happy and ran off to his table.
"Costa, Rebecca!" The girl came up and the same was done to her.
"Hufflepuff!" The hat screamed out. The little girl ran off to her table.
A few kids later…
"Falcon, Thomas," Draco and Ginny looked at each other each knowing that this was the boy
She looked up just in time to her the hat scream out, "Slytherin!" The boy, not looking too happy, went to go join his table.
Ginny looked at the boy and Draco followed her gaze. The little boy looked as he was on the verge of tears.
Draco stood up from his seat, much to the protests from Blaise and Pansy, went over to sit next to the little boy, and said, "Hey."
"Hi," the little kid looked up at him. "What do you want?" the boy asked not very kindly.
"Well, you definitely are Slytherin material, I'll give you that much," The little boy just stared at him. "Well, see, I'm finally prefect this year and I one of my jobs is to take care of the first years. So tell me, what's wrong?"
"Well, my brother and sisters are scattered between the other three houses and my friends are in Ravenclaw."
"I see, and there's no one here you know, right?" The little boy nodded his head. "Tom is it?" The boy nodded again. "Well, Tom, I'll be your friend. My name is Draco Malfoy."
The little kid went wide-eyed and pale. Tom was able to stutter out a, "D-D-Draco M-Malfoy?"
"Ah, so you've heard stories," the boy could only nod. "Don't listen to those. I've grown up. More mature now."
"S-so, you'll be my friend?" The little boy asked.
"Sure, but just because you're a Slytherin doesn't mean that you still can't be friends with your friends in the other houses. I mean, I have a friend in Gryffindor."
"Really?"
"Yeah. Look," he pointed to where Ginny was sitting, "See the girl with the fiery red hair?"
"Which one?"
Draco laughed, "The one farthest away is her brother." He could tell that he was already going to like this kid. "The pretty one." He saw her looking at them. "Actually the one looking at us."
"Yeah, she is pretty."
"But you can't tell anyone about it."
"No, I wouldn't dream about it," the kid smiled and waved to the girl. Draco put his head in his hand and started to laugh.
Ginny blushed for being caught watching them, but waved back.
Harry caught on and was about to ask Ginny whom she was waving to when Harry saw Draco and said, "Would you look at that?"
"What?" Ron and Lavender turned around and looked behind them.
"What do you suppose he's telling that little kid?" Harry asked.
"Nothing good. And what's with that hair?" Ron asked.
"Oh boys, leave him alone," Ginny said, but quickly shut up.
All four of them looked at her. Ginny pleaded, with her eyes, to Hermione and Lavender to say something.
"Yeah, he's older now, maybe he's matured," Lavender said.
"Yeah, and I seem to like his new look," Hermione said and got a glare from Harry. "But not as good as you though," she said and quickly kissed him.
They dropped the subject. Ginny went back to watching Draco and the little boy, Tom.
The next morning…
Ginny woke up and looked over at her clock. The hand was in between, "You are going to be late," and "You are late." Ginny scrambled out of bed to get dressed, all the while thinking of how she was going to hurt Hermione for not waking her up.
Meanwhile… in a Slytherin prefect dormitory, one boy was having the same problem.
Ginny ran out of the portrait while hobbling along on one foot, trying to get her shoes on. As soon as both her shoes were on, she sprinted to her class.
Meanwhile… the Slytherin boy was running up the stairs from the dungeon area.
Neither one of them was looking where they were going and crashed right into one another; both of them fell to the ground.
"Are you okay, Ginerva?" Draco asked not even bothering to check and see if anyone was around.
"Yes, I'm fine." Draco stood up, helped her off the ground, picked up her bag, and handed it to her. "Thank you," she said softly.
He smirked and grabbed her hand saying, "Come on, let's go! McGonagall will have our heads!" and together they ran towards the class.
When they were nearing the class, Ginny released Draco's hand and walked into the class. Draco was right behind her.
"Miss Weasley, Mr. Draco. So nice of you to join us."
"Sorry Professor," Ginny said. She didn't want to be on the older woman's bad side on the first day of class, "My alarm clock never went off."
"Well then, I suggest that you charm it better next time. 10 points from each house and detention! Now take a seat!"
Draco didn't say a word as all this happened. He just stood there with his arms over his chest and glaring.
Ginny looked for a desk to sit at and the only one open was next to Hermione and Lavender's desk. She went over to it and as she sat down, she slid her finger across her throat. All Hermione could do was gulp.
Draco took the seat right next to Ginny without saying a word.
McGonagall looked at the two and said, "Well, what I was going to say before the class was so rudely interrupted, everyone look to the person who is sharing your desk with you." Everyone turned and she continued, "That is going to be your partner for the rest of the year."
Draco and Ginny shared a little smile and turned to the front when McGonagall started teaching again.
Later that night at detention…
Draco entered the room where he would be serving his detention when he saw Snape sitting at the desk. Ginny was already there with Tom, a few boys from Ravenclaw, and some girls from all houses where there.
"Malfoy, what are you doing here?" Snape asked him.
"Well, Professor, McGonagall sent me here because I was a few minutes late to class."
"A few?" Ginny laughed, "Try 25 minutes!"
"That's enough from you, Weasley. Say another word and I will make your task more difficult," Snape snapped at her.
Draco went to sit down next to Tom.
"Good, now that you are all here, we shall begin."
"Professor Snape," came a voice from the doorway. It was Professor Dumbledore. "I need to talk to you."
"Of course. Draco, come here!" Draco got up and went over to him. "Considering that you are the oldest one here, you take over the detention. The list of things that everyone has to do is on my desk."
"Yes, sir!" Draco said and the two Professors left.
Draco sat in Snapes' chair and said, "Looks like I'm taking over detention."
"Great," Ginny mumbled. "Everyone run for your life."
"Did you say something, Weasel?"
"Nothing of importance to you, Ferret boy!"
"Don't push me!"
He looked down at the list of things for the students to do. Everyone but Ginny had to polish the trophy room. Ginny was scheduled to clean out all of the bathrooms. "Boy, he really doesn't like her," he said to himself amazed, because he didn't believe her when she told him so over summer vacation.
He looked around the room. The four Ravenclaw boys who were there had always been a thorn in his side since they won against Slytherin the year before. So he smiled and decided to change it around.
"Peters, Miller, Alwine, and Anderson," Draco said calling out the four Ravenclaw boys by their last name. "You four go get to clean the bathrooms," the four boys sighed and groaned. "For the rest of you, go polish the trophy case. I want to see my face shinning in it!" He could hear some of the people there mumbling mean things. "Now get out of here!" Everyone got up to leave. "Not you, Weasley! You have your own special little task." He also motioned for Tom to come to him.
As soon as everyone left he asked to Tom and said, "Tom, what are you doing here in detention? On your first day none the less!"
Tom was a little scared; he didn't want to see a mean, mad side of Draco Malfoy. "I… well… I broke Creevy's stupid camera."
"Which Creevy? The younger one?"
"No," Tom looked up smiling. "The one in 6th year. The big idiot went and got a professor."
Draco smiled and slapped the kid on the back, "That a boy!"
"Draco," Ginny said in a warning tone.
"What? Oh! Let me introduce you two. Tom, this is Ginny, Ginny this is Tom. This is my friend from Gryffindor."
"Well, it's nice to meet you."
"Nice to meet you too," he said smiling. Ginny was about to turn to Draco and tell him that wasn't really what she meant, but Tom continued, "Boy, Draco wasn't kidding when he said that you were pretty."
Ginny smiled and looked over to Draco, who was looking a little uncomfortable, his only response was, "I have no clue where he's getting that from."
"Has he asked you out yet?" Ginny smiled and shook her head.
"Tom, I think it's time you get going."
"He says he likes you." Ginny saw that Draco was REALLY uncomfortable, but she could barely hold back her laugh.
"Tom, let's go," he walked in front of the little boy.
Tom peeked from around Draco and said, "He says that he wants you as his girlfriend."
"Yup, time to go!" he picked the little kid up.
"He says that he wants to…" he was silenced by Draco's hand over his mouth.
Draco turned around and said, "I'll be right back."
Ginny smiled, and as soon as the door was closed she laughed. That kid was just too cute.
Draco placed the kid on the floor and said, "What the hell were you doing in there?"
"You so like her!"
"Yeah, so, I mean... that's not the point!"
"I was just trying to help!"
"Kid, I'm almost 18 years old, I don't need any help. Especially with girls," Draco said with a laugh.
"Yeah, except with girls that actually like you."
Draco did a double take and said, "What?"
"Yeah, she totally digs you."
"Oh my God, I'm taking advice to a ten year old."
"I'm 11!"
"Get out of here! Go clean the Trophy case!" Tom walked away, "Hey kid," Tom turned around and Draco said, "Thanks."
Tom smiled and walked to the trophy room.
Draco entered the room again to see Ginny sitting on Snapes' desk.
"Hey," he said.
"Hey. So what kind of special job do you want me to do for you?" She asked in a saucy tone, wiggling her eyebrows at him, and giggling.
He smiled and leaned very close to her so she could feel his breath in her ear, "Don't ask that question unless you are ready to serve the orders."
She looked a little shocked. He just smiled.
"So when's your birthday?" Ginny asked.
"Wow, that came out of nowhere."
"Well, it's something that I need to know."
"Why? Going to buy me a present?"
"Maybe. When's your birthday?"
"September 22."
"Hey, that's not that far away."
"No, it's not. So are you going to buy me a present?"
"Do you really think that I'm pretty?" Draco sighed and fell on his back on the desk, "Well do you?"
"Do I really have to tell you?" he said smiling.
"A girl likes to hear it at least once in her life."
Then it hit him; no one ever really complemented her, just like no one gave her her first kiss. He had to smile at that memory. He cupped her cheek with his hand and said, "Yes, Ginerva, I think you're very pretty." He leaned down and was about to kiss her when they heard someone screaming from down the hall in the trophy room. He gave her a quick peck on the lips and said, "Looks like Super Draco is needed again. You can go back to your room. I'll cover for you," and with that he smiled, winked, and left the room.
To Be Continued…