Ginny had spent most of that lazy sunday morning in her room in front of the mirror, brushing her waist length red hair. Malfoy had said he wanted her to cut her hair short, but she didn't really think that was necessary... She loved her long hair! She had never cut it before in her life... She'd had trims here and there but never had she really cut it!
She stood from the vanity chair and walked over to the full length mirror, touching her forehead. She sighed and turned around so the mirror could memorize her, and then she looked at it again. "Can you show me what I would look like with short hair please?"
The mirror became misty and her face reappeared with a short haircut. It was way too short and frizzy. Ginny whimpered. "God! That looks horrible!" She huffed and puffed. She turned around and sat before the vanity once again. She rolled her eyes and looked into the small mirror.
Her mother had short hair her whole childhood and said that she would never force her children to have haircuts they didn't want... Her mother... She missed her mother. To be honest, she missed her whole family, even her brothers. None of them had owled her since she had left... Nobody had looked for her! She shook her head.
They had to be looking for her! But if they were looking, wouldn't they have found her by now? Malfoy's parents had to know where he was living and surely her parents would have asked them to ask him if he had seen her!
She was suddenly furious. Her parents had put her into this position and didn't even care that she was missing! She stood up and walked over to her desk where she had a small box of stationary that Malfoy had bought for her. At least someone seemed to care that she was unhappy. As horrible as Malfoy seemed on most days, she noticed suddenly that he was being oddly nice. As though he understood that she didn't want to be there either...
She had spent the whole time being horrible to him while she was there, almost not even realizing that he didn't even want to marry her either! He had probably been surprized with this just as she had, and now here she was, living with him and he was being almost kind!
Ginny shook her head once again. Just because he was being nicer than the devil didn't mean that he was actually being nice did it? No. It didn't. She sighed. She knew it wasn't his fault... She wanted to do something nice for him and now at least she had the perfect plan. She grabbed her Gossip Witchly magazine off the vanity and with a smirk, was gone from the room.
"Minnie!" came a loud man-shriek from Ginny's room. Four house elves ran in his direction.
"What is wrong Master Malfoy?" Minnie said, rushing quickly to his side and tugging at a pant leg. There was no consoling him however.
"Where is she? I went out and I come back and she's gone! She can't go out alone after she's been seen with me! Do you realize how many girls out there are going to want to kill her? Don't you remember what happened to Pansy?" He sat on her bed and put a hand to his forehead. "This stupid fucking girl! Why doesn't anyone ever listen to me!"
He grabbed a sheet of her stationary and began to write a letter in his lap. He snapped his fingers and a large white owl flew his way. "Bring this to Blaise. Now."
He slammed his hand against his forehead over and over. "This stupid girl...Oh how I'll be glad when she finds a flat to stay at!"
He turned and looked at the mirror. It was stuck on an image of Ginny just before she left, as it always did. He shook his head and walked toward it. Her long hair was in her hands and she looked upset. "She didn't want to get a haircut so she ran away?" He reached out to touch the mirror, but her picture disappeared, and all he could see was himself. He sighed.
She was a beautiful girl...How had he never noticed until now? It was because now he could see her without actually having to deal with her. He looked on her night stand to see last years school photo. She had started giggling as they took her photo, and her red curls were around her face. He sighed as he looked at the picture. When he was at Hogwarts he had never really noticed her, and now he wondered how that was possible. He licked his lips and put the picture down.
A light pop in the corner of the room made Draco jump, but it was only Blaise.
"What's going on mate? Why did you sound so urgent? Near made me piss my pants, that damned owl did. Came in on me in the tub he did.."
Draco shook his head and took a step toward him. "The girl is missing."
"What girl?" he asked, turning and lifting some of Ginny's potpurri into his mouth. He choked and spit it back into the bowl. "Nasty guest snacks you've got."
Draco rolled his eyes. "I told you about the Weasley girl staying with me, remember?" without waiting for an answer, he continued. "Well we had a bit of a shouting match and I left. When I came back she was gone, and she doesn't know where the hell she is, or how to get back!"
Blaise shook his head. "That could be unfortunate, especially considering what happened to the Parkinson girl, remember that?"
Malfoy huffed and slapped his forehead. "Why the hell else do you think I called you! Oh damn...let me take the protection spells off the flat. Poor girl will be cursed to pieces coming in the door..."
Blaise sat on Ginny's bed and watched him fiddle with some potions and listened to him chant.
"Master Malfoy, Mistress Weasley is at the door!" Minnie shouted excitedly, hopping up and down.
Malfoy stood and walked as angrily as he could make himself look until he was shocked into halting. Blaise, who hadn't noticed him halt with his jaw dropped continued to walk. When he bumped into him he shouted. "Hey mate, warn a bloke when you're going to- Holy shit..."
Ginny was standing there in a designer dress that Draco had bought her, and her new shorter haircut. The man at the salon had done some makeup for her which somewhat brought out her freckles and yet oddly looked good at the same time.
"I was thinking about what you said to me and about how kind you've been to me since I came here despite your horrible attitude...and I thought a little haircut wouldn't be the end of the world. Do you like it?"
But both men were still stunned into silence. She looked shockingly gorgeous. Draco gulped and hardly noticed when she pecked him on the forehead and went into her room.
Blaise was the first to come out of his shock. "Wow...and I thought being forced to marry a Weasley would be a chore but if this is your idea of horrid, I'll take over for you!"
Draco rolled his eyes. "She didn't look like this before." He couldn't take his eyes off of her. He took a few steps toward her and with an almost dirty smirk, toucher her cheek. "If I knew a haircut and outfit could make you look like this..."
Ginny took a step away from him and blushed. "Okay that's enough..." She bit her lower lip and looked up at him with her large brown eyes. (A/N I only did that because first they were green then they were blue...they're brown now lol. They're really blue just for the record.)
"I'll just go to my room now and change..."
As soon as she was out of earshot, Blaise pounded on Draco's back. "Hot damn mate! She's bloody gorgeous! If you don't want her, I'll gladly take-"
Draco pushed him away. "Alright listen, it's not about me wanting her. This is about family and social standing. I can't just not marry her now."
But I would love to get my hands on her...
A/N This is the after picture :) This is always how I pictured an older Ginny as anyway. http:// img22. photobucket . com / albums /v65 / MabelStride /Other20Mabel /CintiaDicker . jpg