A/N: Well, here's th next chapter. Sorry it took so long to update. I didn't have my computer for a couple of weeks because it was being stupid, and then I didn't get around to typing until a few days ago. Oh, and I keep forgetting the disclaimer, so here it is:
Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to Harry Potter. J. K. Rowling does. If you did not figure that out, then you do not deserve to be reading Harry Potter fanfiction. And that's that.
After she left Draco, Ginny put her broom in her dorm and went to dinner. She hadn't been joking when she had told Draco that she wanted to eat. She was very hungry, especially after beating him at the Quidditch game. True to her word, she had not told the Slytherins about it, and had thought about telling everyone else, but decided against it. She only told Luna, confident that the blonde girl would not tell anyone.
That night, when she fell asleep, her thoughts weren't on Draco. But that was only because one of her roommates was talking to another roommate about a frilly, pink dress with sequins she wanted to buy when they went to Hogsmeade, which was in three weeks. Ginny eventually told them to shut up and soon fell asleep. But her dreams were invaded by a vision of herself in the dress that her roommate had so vividly described.
The next day, which was a Sunday, went by without much happening to Ginny. She had finished off any extra homework that she had forgotten about and mostly just hung out with Luna, talking about random things. Some of the things that had been discussed (very seriously, I might add) were the constant problem of nargles, the newest song by the Weird Sisters, and the outstanding quality of the mashed potatoes at Hogwarts. Ginny was relieved when her friend didn't bring up the topic of Draco Malfoy.
After she had eaten dinner at the Ravenclaw table with Luna, she dragged herself up to the Gryffindor common room. She went to her dorm and put on a pair of loose pajama pants with bananas all over them and an oversized T-shirt with a dragon on it that her older brother, Charlie, had given to her. She got in bed, disregarding the fact that it was only 8 o'clock, and tried to fall asleep. Her efforts proved fruitless, when, about two hours later, she lay staring up at her ceiling in the dimness her eyes had adjusted to.
Ginny groaned softly and knew that she wouldn't be able to fall asleep anytime soon. Though the reason why she couldn't sleep was unknown to her. After another ten minutes, she finally got up out of bed and went silently down to the common room. No one was there, so she sat on one of the chairs and looked into the fire.
Suddenly, an idea came into her head, and she quietly stood up. She walked out through the portrait hole and looked around to make sure that no one was there. Once she was satisfied that she was alone, she let her bare feet lead her silently to the painting of fruit that she knew was the entrance to the kitchens. She glanced around then tickled the pear and entered into the kitchens. The house elves stopped what they were doing and looked at her. She had been into the kitchens before quite often when she couldn't sleep, so most of the elves continued what they were doing. But one of them went up to Ginny and bowed slightly.
"Hello Miss Ginny Weasley," said the house elf. Her name was Milly, and she was one of the elves that especially liked Ginny. "What can Milly do for Miss Ginny?"
Ginny smiled at the little elf in front of her. "Can I just have some of whatever extra desserts you have, please?" she asked.
Milly nodded vigorously. "Milly will be right back, miss. Please sit." She hurried off and Ginny sat on the couch that was against the wall and out of the way. Milly returned carrying a plate with something very chocolaty on it. "Here you go, Miss Ginny."
"Thank you, Milly," Ginny said after taking the plate. She ate a piece of the thing on the plate and was immediately in Heaven. She didn't even think to ask what it was. When she had finished, Milly handed her a napkin and she wiped any extra chocolate off of her fingers and mouth. The little house elf took the used napkin and threw it away and came back to Ginny with a cup of hot chocolate. (A/N: Yes, I know that is a lot of chocolate. And I don't care!)
"Milly thought Miss Ginny might like some hot chocolate," she said, looking up into the Gryffindor's eyes hopefully.
"That was very thoughtful of you," Ginny replied, taking the cup with a smile. She tucked her legs in and to the side and rested her elbow on the arm of the couch with her cheek resting on her hand. She lifted the cup of hot chocolate to her lips with the other hand and took a sip. The hot liquid felt good in her throat and she smiled as she watched the house elves work.
Ginny had just taken another sip of her hot chocolate when the entrance to the kitchens opened again and revealed none other than Draco Malfoy, wearing a pair of plain, dark green pajama bottoms and a white T-shirt. The Gryffindor and Slytherin stared at each other, shock openly expressed in both of their faces. Milly rushed up to Draco and greeted him cheerfully before practically dragging him to the couch that Ginny was sitting at.
Draco quickly composed himself and the smirk he was notoriously known for was placed on his face. He sat down gracefully and his smirk grew wider because Ginny still looked at him in surprise. She finally looked away when Milly walked up to Draco with a cup of hot chocolate on it. He thanked her, and the small house elf grinned and went back to work, an eye still on the two students in case they needed anything else.
"What are you doing down here, Weasley?" Draco asked Ginny. He was sincerely curious, but he would never let the Gryffindor know that.
"Why do you care?" Ginny retorted before taking a sip of her hot chocolate.
"Just wondering," Draco said and had some of his own drink.
Ginny sighed and said, "I couldn't sleep."
The Slytherin beside her looked at her and raised an eyebrow. "Really? Me neither."
Ginny just shrugged and lifted her cup to her lips to find that it was empty. She sighed, and Milly noticed and quickly went over with a new cup of the hot liquid. Ginny smiled warmly at the little house elf and took the cup. "Thank you, Milly." Milly just bowed slightly and disappeared again.
Draco watched this little exchange and after a moment turned his head and looked directly at Ginny. "It must be nice to have someone wait on you for once in your life. Such luxuries have to be unknown to you at the over-populated thing you call your house."
Ginny rolled her eyes. "You know, your insults have been getting repetitive lately. That thing you call your brain not working anymore?"
"Shut up."
"Then again, your brain never did seem to work right…"
"I thought I told you to shut up."
"Being observant, are we? Well, I don't do what other people tell me to do, so I won't shut up." Ginny smirked at Draco in a very Slytherin-like manner and drank a little more of her hot chocolate.
"Except Potter. You do whatever he tells you to do."
"Evil little ferret-boy say what?"
"You do whatever wonder-boy tells you to do," Draco repeated.
"No I do not," Ginny said, glaring at the boy next to her.
"Yes, you do."
"No, I don't"
"Uh huh."
"Nuh uh."
"Yes."
"This is just going to go on forever."
"Then just give in and admit it," Draco suggested.
"I don't think so." Ginny glanced at the clock and saw that it was nearing midnight. When she went down to the kitchens when she couldn't sleep, she had found that she would easily fall asleep around midnight. She finished off the rest of her hot chocolate and stood up; Milly rushed over to her. "Well, I am off to bed. Nice to see you, Milly." She gave to house elf the cup and smiled at her before making her way over to the door.
"Nice pajamas," he called after her. "They match extremely well."
Ginny turned around to face a smirking Draco and she quickly swished her wand. Draco didn't seem to notice and Ginny smirked herself. "Yours do, too." Draco looked down and saw that he was wearing a bright pink T-shirt that had glittery hearts all over it.
"Weasley!" he shouted angrily.
Ginny turned and ran out of the kitchens, but not before calling out an "I do not do what Harry Potter tells me to do!" before she left.
She made it up to the Gryffindor dorms without a teacher catching her and, not surprisingly, she quickly fell asleep, thankfully not having enough time to worry about what Draco Malfoy would do to her the next day.
The next morning Ginny woke up and grinned as the events of the previous night flooded her mind. The picture of Draco Malfoy wearing a glittery pink T-shirt was extremely funny to her. She got dressed and put her books and homework in her bag and went down to breakfast. Luna sat with her and she told the strange Ravenclaw what had happened the night before. Luna laughed and then told Ginny about something her father had recently written about in The Quibbler.
After they had finished eating they headed off toward their first class of the day, Herbology, which the Gryffindors and Ravenclaws had together. The day went by quickly for Ginny. She hadn't seen Draco and was relieved about that. She had finished dinner and was going to go up to the common room when she was pulled into an unused classroom. She gasped and was about to yell at the person when he or she put their hand over her mouth. Ginny was spun around and stood face to face with Draco Malfoy.
He kept his hand over her mouth and she was getting tired of it there so she bit down on it. Hard.
Draco yelped and lunged back from Ginny, holding his hand to his chest. "What the hell was that for?!" he yelled at her.
"You pull me in here, put your hand over my mouth, and you are asking me why I wanted your hand off my mouth?" Ginny looked at the boy in front of her with a look of disbelief on her face. "Whatever. What do you want, Malfoy?"
"I wanted to tell you that I did not appreciate the change in my clothes you did last night," he hissed at her. "The people left in the common room had quite a laugh."
"There are Slytherins awake at twelve o'clock at night?"
"Stop changing the subject! Apologize."
"What in Merlin's furry, little bunny slippers made you think that I would? Besides, what would an apology do?"
Draco shrugged. "I dunno."
"Then why do you want one?" Then Ginny smiled a sly grin. "Did you want a reason to talk to me?"
"No!" But Draco's cheeks turned the palest of pinks. "If either of us is trying to talk to the other it's you."
"Oh, don't flatter yourself." Ginny looked at her watch and then at Draco. "Well, I'm going to go now." And with that she moved past Draco and then out the door and up to her dorm where she finished her homework and quickly fell asleep.
A/N: Well, you've made it this far. Review!! Pretty please? It'll make me update faster...
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