Draco whistled as he made his way from the common room out to the Slytherin quad's favorite spot out by the Black Lake. Today was his third favorite holiday, Halloween, and so far the day had been nothing but perfect. He slept through breakfast, managed to convince Blaise to let him copy his charms essay, and it happened to be a Saturday, the best day of the week. He had no classes to worry about, and had had an enjoyable night cuddling with Ginny by the common room fire the night before.
After their conversation with the Dark Lord, the pair had decided to take things slow and not put a label on anything. They enjoyed each other's company, and they had become very good friends.
Draco passed by the Golden trio near the entrance, and noticed that Harry and Hermione seemed to be in some type of argument. He only watched long enough to see Hermione throw a book in Harry's general direction and stomp off into the castle before he continued down the path. He'd never really liked the mudblood, but he had to give her props for throwing the heaviest book she owned at the Boy Who Just Wouldn't Die.
He spotted Blaise and Astoria stretched out on an oversized blanket next to their favorite tree, with Ginny standing nearby looking out over the lake. Draco broke out into a run at full speed and tackled Ginny to the ground, tickling her and rolling around, much to the other's enjoyment. Soon, all four Slytherins were in a play fight, girls against boys. Draco looked at Blaise and nodded as the girls tried to run back towards the tree, and they picked their respective girls up and threw them over their shoulders and took off towards the water, then plunged in.
"Drake!" screamed Ginny. "I don't want to get attacked by a Giant Squid today, thank you very much!"
"Too bad," chuckled the blonde, looking over to catch his best friend shyly place a kiss on Astoria's forehead as he wrapped her in his arms. That's all it took for him to burst out in laughter, and soon the entire group was laughing.
A splash from behind them caused an abrupt stop to the group's moment of hilarity, and they stared as Cho and Pansy surfaced. Cho immediately started complaining about being wet, causing the group to giggle, which turned back into full blown laughter as Pansy kissed Cho, successfully shutting her up. After a few minutes, they realized that they were the center of attention in the middle of just about every Hogwarts student that happened to be out enjoying the day.
"Are you okay," Pansy muttered in the direction her girlfriend.
"I'm tired of hiding, it's been a year," said Cho, grabbing her girl and planting her lips soundly on the object of her affections. The group broke out into cheers, and their audience quickly tried to "resume their activities", which in reality looked a lot like they were heavily gossiping.
The teens made their way back to the blanket under their tree, where Ginny used a wandless spell to transform her wet clothes into a pair of shorts and a tank top, choosing to forgo shoes for now. Then she cockily snapped her fingers, instantly drying off her friends, who were currently staring at her in astonishment.
"Just a little skill I picked up over the summer," she grinned. "My cousin had me in lessons covering various subjects over the summer, and I'm a rather quick learner. I picked up Occulemency and a few other useful skills."
"I'm dying to learn some wandless spells. Could you tutor me?" asked Cho.
"Sure, but not today. I'm guessing you'll be around a lot more often now, so it won't be hard to get ahold of you," Ginny laughed.
They spent the day hanging out by the lake and gossiping about other students, chatting about their studies, and messing around with each other. When it came time for supper, Draco summoned a house elf to bring them a picnic basket filled to the brim with food from the feast in the Great Hall so that they could eat and watch the sun go down before heading back to the Slytherin common room to participate in the annual Hallows Eve party.
After eating, the teens headed back up to the castle. When they were almost to the entrance hall, Draco pulled Ginny aside.
"Can I tell you a secret?" he asked, grabbing her hands.
"Sure," she smirked, leaning in so he could speak into her ear.
Draco lightly touched her chin with his hand, directing her face to turn towards his, and he lightly kissed her. As he made to pull away, Ginny reached up and wound her arms around his neck, deepening the kiss. They stood there for a few moments, tasting each other's lips and enjoying one another as the sun went down, until…
"Oi! You're gonna miss the party," interrupted Blaise.
The pair grinned at each other, and made their way back down to the dungeons hand in hand.