But I Never Loved You

But… I Never Loved You

A/N Ah, here is the chapter. The chapter of twists, and turns… The chapter that the whole story was named after. The WHOLE plot will start making sense from here on out. This chapter itself may confuse you, but after it you will begin to get it.

If ANYONE has any GLBT issues, this is no longer the story for you. From this point on, it will be very much an issue. Well, enjoy the story!

Ginny was looking in the mirror of Draco's old bedroom at Draco's parents' house. She had bought a dress and now that she looked at it, she didn't think it looked right to her…She sighed and sat at the edge of the bed, putting her face in her hands. She shook her head.

Draco had worked so hard to make this whole thing come out right, and here she was…Looking horrible!

A gentle tap at the door made her stand. "Yes?" she said, standing up and looking in that direction.

Draco walked in with a large box. "You look amazing…But I have a little surprise for you that I think will make you want to change outfits."

Ginny raised an eyebrow. "You… You're a mind reader, I swear." She giggled and took the box from him. "You better stop spending your money on me all the time," she said sweetly and began tearing the paper off.

Draco shook his head. "It's our money now, remember?"

Ginny opened the box and felt her jaw drop.

"What is your favorite color dear?" the oldest looking of the women asked Ginny.

She merely smiled and excitedly replied "Yellow. I love yellow. It's so pretty. Especially the lightest of yellows. I think pale yellow anything is beautiful. When I was small, I had this yellow dress with little yellow gems on it… I wish I still had it actually! It was lovely…"

"My dress! This is the dress I had when I was little! How did you know!" Ginny thrust herself against him, kissing him fiercely.

Draco pulled away slightly, his face flushed. "Please… Get dressed and come downstairs before I ravage you."

Ginny giggled and kissed him once more, before pushing him from the room so she could get dressed.

She couldn't get the smile off of her face as she put the dress on. When she was small she was often in clothes that once belonged to a brother. She never really got anything of her own, but this one yellow dress had meant the world to her. She was very upset when she was too big for it… She was always big for her age…

Ginny looked at herself in the mirror, and noticed something very different about this yellow dress than the other one. It was covered with…Yellow diamonds! Instead of the fake beads that were there before!

She couldn't close her mouth all the way… This dress must have cost a fortune for him…And yet for some reason he just didn't care that he was spending it.

Taking a deep breath, Ginny opened the bedroom door and walked out toward the spiral staircase. The sound of over a hundred voices made Ginny suddenly petrified. She looked out over the lip of the marble staircase and stopped. The whole wizarding community was in this house! They all wanted to see the future bride of Draco Malfoy!

Draco came up behind her and wrapped both arms around her waist. "Ready?"

Ginny looked up at him. "What happened to making this a family affair?"

He smiled. "This is your new family. They will be at every function, every birthday… Everything. The paparazzi is your crazy drunk uncle that you can't get rid of."

She hid her face against his neck and shook her head, very well aware of the cameras that were suddenly at the bottom of the steps. "You could have warned me about all of this!"

Draco caressed the back of her head and smiled lightly. "I just want to show you off to everybody, okay?"

She pulled away and nodded. "Okay fine… Let's go."

Draco held an arm out to her. She took it and he walked her delicately down the many stairs. She recognized a few faces. Blaise Zambini… Vincent Crabbe… Pansy Parkinson… None of the other houses were represented there…

"It looks like everyone with money is here…" Ron whispered to Hermione from the middle of the crowd.

Hermione sighed and held his hand tightly in her own. "Luv, just enjoy yourself. This is a great intellectual experience for all of us. Ooh, and free food. Look! There's Ginny!"

Ron's jaw dropped. His baby sister… The one that used to wrestle with him in the mud… The one that he used to read to every night… She was a woman. A beautiful woman…

He rushed to the front of the crowd, but was knocked back by a large group of people with cameras.

"I want to see my sister…"

"Mother, you've met Ms. Weasley."

Ginny smiled sweetly and shook the hand of Mrs. Malfoy, Draco's grandmother.

"No I haven't… Why aren't you lovely!"

Ginny giggled. No part of this family had shown such sweet enthusiasm for anything as of yet, and it was refreshing to meet someone so nice.

"Thank you Mrs. Malfoy. Draco bought this dress for me…"

She held a hand out and touched Ginny's face. "I mean your face. You're positively gorgeous. And those freckles! I'm greatly looking forward to a red haired Malfoy… It'll be refreshing."

Ginny felt her eyes widen. "Mrs. Malfoy, I'm 16. There won't be a baby for a while…" In her mind, she also uttered the words 'If ever…'

"Oh my dear, when I was sixteen, I already had two children! I was married at 14..."

Ginny's eyes widened. "Wow… That's terribly young. You must have really been in love to get married so young!"

Narcissia and Mrs. Malfoy both began laughing lightly to themselves. Ginny turned to look at Draco, a confused look on her face.

"What?" she asked.

Draco chuckled and slid an arm around her shoulders. "In this kind of family…Very few women marry out of choice. Usually their husband is chosen at the time of their birth… Kind of the way yours was. The only difference is that you have the right to leave if you'd like to."

Ginny lowered her eyebrows. She knew things like that happened. She wasn't naïve. She had just never met a person that had been involved with a relationship like that. She was the only one…

"Here, we need to go over and say hello to Dumbledore before his head explodes!"

Ginny jumped in Dumbledore's direction, wrapping her arms around his round stomach. "Hi Professor!"

Dumbledore smiled and stroked her hair. "You look wonderful my dear… Is this…Is this marriage true?"

Ginny sighed and blinked slowly. "Yes sir. I'm not making a mistake."

He tilted his head and smiled lightly. "I didn't accuse you of it."

Ginny felt a tingle go through his body. She suddenly felt thick hatred toward Draco. She turned to see Blaise Zambini and Pansy Parkinson hugging, and felt think jealousy go through her.

Draco wrapped his arms around her, but she was disgusted.

"Don't touch me!" she screamed, causing the whole room to go silent.

Draco's whole face was full of confusion. "Ginny, what's going on? What's wrong? Did I say something wrong?"

But her face was full of fury. Before she knew what she was doing, she had slapped Draco across the face so hard, that it was red within seconds. "Don't touch me! I'm not marrying you! I'm in love already!"

Pansy and Blaise burst through the crowd. "Malfoy?"

Ginny turned to the voice and smiled a twisted smile.

She took a step toward Pansy, put a hand to the back of her head, and pulled her into a rough kiss.

Draco's hand went to a dropped jaw. He couldn't believe what he was hearing, or seeing. If his eyes knew how, there would be tears streaming from them. It wasn't even the brief amount of love he had for her, it was the embarrassment of being dropped in front of over a thousand people.

He was in his room before he had the chance to see Pansy and Ginny leaving the manor hand in hand.

A/N Okay now, everyone is going to answer a question for me. How the HELL is it possible that more people read chapter 8 than ANY other chapter? How? Is someone giving out cookies at the front of chapter 8?! What the hell…

Sorry it took me so long to get this chapter out. I just bought Microsoft word, so I had to put all the chapters onto it. Thanks for reading and please review!!!