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Chapter 15: Wedding Bells and Secrets

Ginny carefully approached the French doors that led out to the large green expanse of the West Garden

Luna and Hallie were both standing there waiting for their beautiful bride. All three women truly did look stunning in their various dresses.

"Well ladies let's get this show on the road." The little redhead joked. She received a nod from both of her bridesmaids before Luna turned and walked out the doors that were charmed to open as soon as the girls approached.

Just before she stepped out to walk down the aisle Hallie kissed her best friend and handed her an elegant bouquet of dark burgundy calla lilies and deep red roses set in a bed of green hydrangeas. She then turned and the doors opened to let her pass.

The little elf that Draco had earlier identified as Lilly approached Ginny with a big smile on her face. She looked absolutely thrilled to be helping the bride in these final moments of prep. She straightened the train gave the bride a thumbs up and then Ginny stepped out into the garden.

Ginny was stunned slightly by the beauty of the scene that surrounded her. The small crowd that was seated was split into two different sides to create the aisle of lush green grass despite the lateness of the season. This strip of green was sprinkled with rose petals that matched those in bouquet. Oak trees along the back of the area allowed the late afternoon sun to stream through the trees and dance patterns across the mesmerized spectators. The alter consisted of an arbor threaded through with flowers in the rich colors of the season.

As her examination of her surroundings drew to a close, Ginny met the eyes of the man whom her every step brought her closer to and they seemed to dance with a light that she had not seen in a very long time. Despite the fact that she had seen him less than half an hour earlier Draco seemed more care free and open then he had been. It was strangely as if the man she had been in love with was briefly looking looked out through the eyes of the man whom she was about to marry.

Finally she reached her destination and smiled as she took the hand that Draco had stretched out to her.

"Here goes nothing." He whispered to her with a wink as together they stepped up to the Minister of Magic, Kingsley Shacklebolt, whom the Malfoys had hired to perform the high profile ceremony.

The normally stoic minister looked out at the crowd absolutely beaming with joy. He was truly honored to have been asked to perform such a high profile wedding such as this.

"I welcome you, ladies and gentlemen, on this special day to witness the union of Ginevra Molly Weasley and Draco Lucius Malfoy. I must say that I have known Ginny for many years and know her to be one of the most caring people I have ever had the pleasure of knowing and although I do not know Draco very well personally knowing that Ginny loves him speaks volumes for his true character. I know you both will be very happy for many years to come.

"Now down to business. Draco Lucius Malfoy, do you in the presence of the gods and all these witnesses promise to stay by Ginny's side, in sickness and in health, in joy and in sorrow, as well as through the good times and the bad? Do you promise to love her without reservation, comfort her in times of distress, encourage her to achieve all of her goals, to laugh with her and cry with her, grow with her in mind and spirit, always be open and honest with her, and cherish her for as long as you both shall live?"

As Kingsley spoke Draco's eyes had never left Ginny's. He stared straight at her the entire time with a calm expression on his face but his mercury eyes swirling with an inner turmoil that had begun to make Ginny nervous. Was he going to back out right then? Forfeit all his inheritance and embarrass her in front of everyone gathered?

But Ginny had nothing to fear. As soon as the question was posed Draco said loudly and clearly, "I do."

Then Kingsley turned his attention to Ginny. "Ginevra Molly Weasley, do you in the presence of the gods and all these witnesses promise to stay by Draco's side, in sickness and in health, in joy and in sorrow, as well as through the good times and the bad? Do you promise to love him without reservation, comfort him in times of distress, encourage him to achieve all of his goals, to laugh with him and cry with him, grow with him in mind and spirit, always be open and honest with him, and cherish him for as long as you both shall live?"

Ginny let out a breath that she hadn't even been aware she was holding in as she said, "I do."

They then exchanged rings and smiled at each other knowing exactly what was to come next.

"With the powers vested in me by the Ministry of Magic I now pronounce you man and wife. Draco, you may now kiss your bride."

Draco didn't waste a second as he stepped forward and drew Ginny close giving her a tender yet passionate kiss just for Colin's camera lens. They then turned to face the crowd of mostly smiling faces and were presented to them by the minister.

They walked back down the aisle smiling and giggling in almost legitimate happiness as Mr. and Mrs. Malfoy.

The ballroom served as the perfect room for the reception. All the guests had filed in and taken their seats before the wedding party made their way into the room in the traditional presentation of the new couple.

There was food and drink; there was a beautiful cake; there was the tossing of the bouquet and even a drunken speech by the best man. By all accounts it appeared to be the picture perfect wedding and, by the standards of those that knew the truth, a picture perfect ruse.

Eventually as the evening wore on more and more of the guests began to leave until only those who were most intimate with both sides of the family remained. The later it got to be the more that the young crowd drank to the point that Draco and Ginny were sure that many of them would end up staying the night.

Ginny for her part had never been much of a drinker. She enjoyed a bit of alcohol on girls night but other than that she preferred to avoid it in public situations. Both she and Draco had no more than a few glasses of champagne and they actually enjoyed themselves watching their assorted friends and family drinking and dancing on the makeshift dance floor that had been arranged by clearing the tables.

Narcissa would have had a heart attack at seeing the damage that her perfectly set tables endured. Eventually Draco and Ginny decided that they had both had enough and needed to go to bed.

Right around four A.M. the last of the true party goers bid the newly married couple goodnight as Draco carried Ginny up the stairs to their joint rooms and entered hers. They giggled and Ginny squealed all the way up just to play up the ruse of the happy couple retiring to their first night of marital bliss.

Once inside Draco did not release his prize but instead continued to carry her until he reached the bed where he gently set her down at the foot. He then proceeded to move over two feet to his left and collapse face first onto the bed.

Ginny took in these proceedings with an amused smirk. Draco was acting highly out of character for him. She assumed it had to be due to the combination of being forced to play happy couple the entire day mixed with sheer exhaustion that affected his playful mood.

She allowed herself to lie back on the covers and turned her head to face Draco who stared back at her through heavy eyes. "So," she said in a sly tone that had he been more awake would have sent up warning signs in his brain.

"Yes?"

"What should we do now?"

"I don't know." He yawned. "What did you have in mind? I was just considering sleep."

Ginny wiggled around a bit to make her more comfortable in the long white dress. "Well the way I see it we have two choices. Option A is to go to sleep now or," she paused for dramatic effect. "Option B is to have meaningless yet amazing sex all night for old time's sake."

She watched as his lips twisted into a genuine smile before pushing himself up onto his elbows. "As amazing as Option B sounds I'm going to have to pick A. I am just too tired to really do your memories justice… but I would love a signed and dated rain check for the offer."

She smiled and said, "Wow, you really must be tired if you turned down sex."

He laughed and said, "Yeah, understatement of the year because I'm not just turning down sex but sex with you." Then he dropped back down and kissed her softly on the forehead.

When he realized what he had done he quickly pulled away and said his goodbye in order to make a quick exit. He could tell from the look on her face that Ginny was thinking the same thing he was, what in the hell had he just done?

It had felt so right, like that was how he was supposed to tell her goodnight. He had only done it a million times in the past when he greeted her, when they parted, when they simply had a moment to themselves.

He himself had noticed the special significance in their relationship when he would press his lips to her head and then tuck her under his chin. It was his way of expressing with action what his words could not, that he would always be there for her to love and protect her. At least that is what it used to mean. Tonight was most definitely a fluke, it had to be. That action was not him, not the man he had become, that action belonged to a former version of himself, a boy who believed himself in love.

He loosened his tie and slipped it from over his head. Today had been a long, strange, confusing day. Now he really did just need to sleep; not think about what his friends were doing in other parts of the manor; not about the beautiful red head in the white dress next door; just sleep.

After only a minimal amount of sleep Ginny was once again dragged back into consciousness by an urgent knocking at her bathroom door. She groaned loudly on being awoken and swore at the would-be intruder. When whoever it was refused to have their resolve shaken by her profanity she reluctantly call out come in.

"This had better be good Draco Malfoy." She muttered without even opening her eyes. Within seconds though she was startled by a body hurdling itself onto her bed and shaking her wide awake. Ginny was flabbergasted at her invasion of personal space but when she opened her eyes she found that her new bedmate was not the lithe, muscular blond but her petite blond friend who was obviously overcome with joy.

"Looney? What the heck is going on? What are you doing here at this ungodly hour?...and why did you come from Draco's room?"

"Ginny! I'm sorry love but I just had to come tell you!" she was bouncing on the bed, overtly excited by the news she was carrying. "Blaise finally asked me to marry him!" she squealed.

Immediately Ginny gasped and begun to join in the squealing of her friend. "Oh Looney! Congratulations!"

The girls began to hug and Luna quickly relayed the story of the happy couple staying up all night looking at stars and being intimate in the Malfoy Rose Garden. "It was perfect Ginny, I knew something had to be up when he randomly asked me what I considered to be our first date last week. I told him that even though we weren't together I always considered the Valentine's Day in the Room of Requirement to be the first time we really got along. Well he supposedly told Draco and then he planned it all out for us and made sure that Blaise and I would have total privacy for multiple reasons."

"Wait, Draco helped?"

"Yeah, he basically did it all actually. He and Theo even helped Blaise pick out my ring. The buggers went to Gringotts that day we all had lunch and picked it out from the Zabini vault." Luna held out her hand for Ginny to see. It had a gold band with a huge emerald cut diamond in the center with two yellow diamonds on either side

Ginny was slightly impressed. She was not aware that the new Draco still cared about his friends as much as her Draco had, obviously she had been wrong.

Just then there was another knock on the door and the two girls looked up to see both the boys grinning at them from the door. "Come on in guys."

They both entered the room and Luna immediately bounced off the bed and over into her new fiancé's arms. Ginny crawled out of bed too and into her closet to make herself a bit more presentable for the crowd while the trio chattered on.

Just as Ginny emerged and joined into the conversation her morning was once again interrupted this time by three sharp raps on her actual bedroom door. "Who in the bloody hell could that possibly be now? And why don't you people like to sleep?" she muttered as she crossed the room. Draco couldn't help but chuckle; Ginny was not now, nor had she ever been a morning person.

Ginny opened the door to reveal a distressed and exceptionally disheveled Hallie who immediately let herself in. She promptly turned to the boys, pointed to the bathroom and said "Get out."

Draco raised one eyebrow at the tall blond woman then glanced over at his new wife to gage how to proceed and she simply shrugged. "Why don't you boys go find Theo and get some breakfast and we'll follow you in a bit." She said and accompanied the statement with a pleading look at Draco who nodded and conceded. There was something obviously wrong that these women needed to discuss in private although he was still less than impressed with being kicked out of any room in his own home.

When the women were finally alone Luna and Ginny both spun on Hallie waiting to hear what was so important.

Surprisingly, the normally super confident American could not meet either of her friends' eyes but finally responded to the unspoken question in the room after an embarrassed moment of silence. "I slept with Theo."

Her friends' jaws seemed to drop simultaneously and they just stared in shock at her proclamation. Finally Ginny managed to stammer, "You did what?"

At that point Hallie's eyes filled with tears of shame and she sunk to the floor where she stood and was immediately joined by her consoling friends.

"Hal! It's not that bad! You just surprised us that's all." Luna assured.

"Yeah, there's nothing wrong with it! It was actually bound to happen with all the built up sexual tension between the two of you."

"What are you talking about?" Hallie asked indignantly through the tears.

"Oh come on Hal, you hate him for no reason, you claim to not be attracted to him but he is the definition of your type. It's almost as if there was some history between you even though you all were only paired together a few weeks ago."

Hallie dropped her head into her hands as her body wracked with sobs.

"Well this is getting us nowhere." Luna sighed which received an amused smirk from Ginny.

"Hallie! Stop that right now!" Ginny tried again. "Tell us what happened? Why are you so upset? It wasn't…. unconsentual was it?"

The sobs suddenly turned to a small chuckle. Finally she looked up at her friends and still laughing said, "Oh god I wish. No unfortunately it was entirely consentual."

"Ok now I'm confused."

"And I'm not sure I care." Luna muttered.

Ginny shot her a look then turned her attention back to Hallie. "Alright bitch you have been forcing me to tell my story for weeks now the table have turned. What happened last night?"

Hallie took a deep breath to steady herself and slowly wiped the tears from her face. "Alright," she finally began. "The truth is I haven't been being entirely honest with you about my dealings Theo."

"Never would have guessed that." The redhead muttered.

"Oh shut up! You had your thing with Draco and… I had mine with Theo."

The room was silent. Ginny and Luna were both struck slightly dumb. "Come again?" Luna finally choked out.

"Surprise." Hallie tried to laugh. "We have all had sex with Slytherins."

"What the hell? What happened to poor, little American Hallie who has never had the chance to fall in love?"

"Well I was never in love; it was more like in lust so I don't think it should count."

"Yeah well I guess its story time for now isn't it."

"There isn't much to tell; it was only one night the first time just like this is only going to be one night."

"Says you." Luna commented. "You obviously don't know Theo if you think he had put this much effort into getting you the last few weeks just to give up at a one night stand."

"You're right! I don't know Theo and all I've ever had with him is one night stands. That is the basis and the main problem with our… thing, cause you can't call what we have any type of relationship."

"Hallie, go back to the beginning and tell us what happened." Ginny reasoned. She could tell that Hallie was becoming even more upset by the moment and wanted to ensure she got the story before her friend shut down entirely. She needed to know what had happened before she could offer her friend any sort of advice.

Hallie hurriedly ran a brush through her shoulder length blond hair before giving herself another once over in the mirror. She only had a few minutes before her last class of the day on Determination of Dark Objects but she didn't care if she would have to apparate because she wanted to look her best. DDO was the only class she had this semester with the beautiful English guy.

His name, she was pretty sure, was Theodore Nott and he had transferred to the Salem Division of the International School of Curse Breaking in the middle of last semester for reasons unknown by the tight knit group.

Not that she really cared. The fact that no one knew anything about him just made his mysterious air that much hotter and hot damn was he hot. He had chestnut brown hair was always spiked up into a perfectly sculpted mess that seemed to suit the devilish glint in his deep green eyes. His body had what she could only describe as a beater's build as he was rather muscular. He was also at least a good three inches taller than her as she discovered when she happened to accidentally bump into him after class one day last year, which was definitely a relief. Being a girl of 5'10'' there was always the constant worry that boys she would run into would not measure up to her stature and she just could not date a shorter guy on principle.

Hallie felt like such a little school girl with a crush every time she saw this boy even though she knew it was absolutely pathetic. He probably didn't even know who she was which just made it that much worse. She gave herself another once over in the mirror before grabbing her books and rushing outside to apperate across campus.

When she finally reached the room she should have been just on time but upon swinging open the door she discovered the classroom to be empty except for one individual. She stepped inside and allowed the door to swing shut behind her which made just enough noise to capture the attention of the figure. Hallie's breath caught in her chest as the piercing green eyes she had been fanaticizing about focused completely on her.

After a second of confusion they flashed to recognition. "Oh, hello Hallie." He said slowly in his sexy accent.

It took her a second to kick start her brain after the electric shock it received. He not only knew who she was but knew her name as well. "Umm, hi Theo." She choked out. "Did class get canceled?"

He chuckled and gestured around himself. "Yeah, I'd say so."

Hallie could feel herself flushing bright red. Nice, now she looked like a complete blond bimbo in front of him of all people. She tried her best to recover with a, "oh ok then," and quickly turned to exit the room before she melted into the floor in embarrassment.

Before she reached the door though he called out, "Wait." She paused in her steps, her hand outstretched to grasp the door handle. "Would you like to go get some coffee?"

Hallie took a deep breath. Had she heard him right? "What was that?" she asked as she once again spun to face him.

"I said would you like to go get a cup of coffee or tea or whatever really?" he was rambling just a bit, it made Hallie feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

"Yeah I would really like that."

Six hours later they had arrived on the doorstep of her dorm building. Getting coffee had been amazing and they had hit it off so well that coffee turned into a walk which turned into dinner and had eventually led them back to that very spot and all the while they talked about anything and everything they could think of. The conversation was flawless and constant with no awkward pauses or confusion. It was as if they had known each other forever and were more like old friends catching up than people who had just really met, or well, just really gotten to know each other as more than classmates. The most interesting part though was a weird electric spark that seemed to sizzle between them at all times, at least for Hallie. She felt as if she knew exactly what he was thinking and yet he was a complete enigma at the same time. He was hands down the most amazing boy she had ever met and she never wanted this day to end.

On the walk back from the café he had casually slipped her hand into his and she had gladly allowed him. Now that they were standing facing each other on the stoop though she was dreading having to drop it.

"Well," he said slowly. "I guess this is goodnight then." He gave her a crooked smile that made her weak in the knees.

"Yeah I suppose it is." She sighed as she forced herself to drop his hand. "I had a really good time this afternoon."

"So did I." Just then a strange expression came over his face that was more contemplatively serene than the playful demeanor he exuded all day. "Hallie, I …" he began but stopped himself and shook his head in resignation.

"What?" she asked nervously. She didn't even register that her voice was barely above a whisper.

He raised his head and looked her dead in the eyes, his green ones trying to silently convey a myriad of emotions in one look. Eventually he reached up and tucked a stray piece hair behind her ear and said, "You are so beautiful."

Hallie couldn't believe her ears. The normally confident blond blushed for the second time that day because of this boy. She dropped her eyes from his and tried to turn away in an effort to brush off the compliment. "What are you talking about?" she laughed but much to her surprise her caught her by the hand and spun her back to face him.

"I mean it. I don't know why but I feel like we have the most amazing connection." With that he dropped her hand and spun away from her down the steps while running his hands through his brown hair. "Bloody hell! That sounds like a cheesy pick up line I'm sure," he seemed just as embarrassed as she had been a few moments ago. "I'm sorry, I really don't mean to be, what is it, lame?"

Hallie giggled and followed him down the stairs stopping on the last one so she was just about at eyelevel with him. "Yeah, it's lame but you most definitely are not! You are adorable."

He tried to turn away from her again as it was his turn to blush but she caught him by the shoulders and finally decided that she was tired of beating around the bush. Hallie looked him right in the eyes and kissed him.

If she had thought there was electricity flowing beforehand it was nothing compared to the electric shock that coursed through her body when their lips touched. It was unlike anything she had experienced before.

After what seemed like far too short a time he broke the kiss and leaned his forehead against hers. His devilish demeanor was back in place and the playful glint dances through his big green eyes. "Wow." He said chuckling.

"Tell me about it." She breathed back. She began to chew on her bottom lip as thoughts started to swirl around in her head. She never wanted that kiss to end, she never wanted this day to end, so in an effort to prolong the inevitable she did something completely unprecedented for Hallie Weschester. "Would you like to come inside?"

"So what happened next?" Ginny asked bouncing up and down.

"Nothing."

"What do you mean nothing?"

Hallie sighed in resignation. "I never saw him again after that night."

"So he didn't come in?"

"Oh no," she laughed. "He came up we immediately had mind blowing sex several times. I was pretty sure I had fallen in love with him but when I woke up the next morning, he was gone. He just vanished into thin air. The only way I even knew he was there was the fact that I was completely naked and I had a heart drawn on my hand in red ink. Now I'm pretty sure that it must have had something to do with the war but at the time I was heartbroken. We had just seemed to fit together perfectly but he never showed up again, hence the bitterness."

"That's awful."

"That's also why I freaked out when I found out he was my new partner. What the hell was I supposed to do just be like 'oh hey, aren't you that guy I had sex with once that I never saw again?' It was so awkward."

Luna rolled her eyes. "I honestly don't understand either of you. How is it that you two gorgeous, intelligent women cannot manage to hold on to a couple of bloody Slytherins?"

Ginny and Hallie both laughed. "I don't know Looney," Ginny conceded. "You are definitely the only one that had any kind of success with that."

"Well I don't know about you but I am glad you both have them back. There are obviously some issues that you need to work out with them." With that she stood up and offered Ginny her hand, "Come on I'm hungry."

"Fine." Ginny groaned as she took her outstretched hand and hoisted her body off the ground.

"Do I have to go?" Hallie whined sounding like a small child. "I left him asleep in the room you gave me and I'm not ready to face him."

"Tough shit love." Luna assured her. "You have to face him sometime and might as well be sooner rather than later."

"… fine."

It was ten o'clock on Sunday night and finally the crazy day had ended and Ginny was able to relax and put on her pajamas. She had spent all day dealing with her friends and siblings and trying to help the houseelves restore the manor in whatever way she could. She nestled into bed early, intent on getting a good night's sleep but she had been there no more than ten minutes when her silence was interrupted by a small knock on the bathroom door.

"What?" she called out and as she expected the door swung open.

"I'm bored." Said the blond form at the door. "I came to bother you."

"No. Go away."

"Ok, I'll just stand here and keep talking to you then."

Ginny groaned at that devastating possibility and decided that relenting would probably be the simpler course of action. "Fine, come in."

He immediately did and crossed room over to the side of the bed she was not currently occupying to flop down beside her. He then proceeded to snatch up one of the pillows and tuck it under his head while making quite a bit of fuss.

"Are you quite finished?" Ginny asked in an exasperated tone. She was tired and in no mood for his games whether they be playful or malicious.

He simply stared up at her with a seemingly innocent expression.

The two then fell into another of the amicable silences that seemed to be descending upon them more and more frequently as of late.

"Hey," Draco said suddenly after several minutes of contemplative quiet. "Did you get the feeling the other day after talking to everyone that we were the only ones not getting any action on our own wedding night?"

Where had that question come from? She broke out in to laugher as she said, "Don't blame me for that! I offered, you sir are the one that turned it down."

"I know, I know. I'm not saying it's your fault; I'm just making the comment. But seriously think about it, Blaise and Luna, you mentioned Hallie and Theo although the bugger hasn't fessed up to that yet and I heard several of your brothers bragging about getting lucky."

"Well that I'm not surprised by at all." Ginny smirked. "I'm very good friends with my brothers' wives and girlfriends, I unfortunately know intimate details of their sex lives that would make them cringe." The look that came on to her face was positively Slytherin in its maniacal intent.

When he saw this Draco couldn't help but chuckle to himself and feel almost proud of the look. It was definitely proof that he had had an impact on little Ginny Weasley at one point in time. He pulled himself into the sitting position so that he was better able to see her and pulled his legs up to cross them underneath his legs allowing Ginny to see for the first time that nothing adorned his feet but socks.

This for some reason struck her as a particularly humanizing aspect, the completely put together Draco Malfoy was wearing his formal clothing and just a pair of socks. This for some strange reason made Ginny feel very self-conscious and as such she fell back into her normal habit of fiddling with her favorite necklace which almost always hung from around her neck.

Draco observed as Ginny's hand nervously shot up to her neck where she proceeded to play with a necklace that hung there. Initially he thought nothing of it but upon a second glance he realized that the necklace encircling her neck held more significance than he would have predicted. He smirked as he recognized the moonstone pendent. "You kept that piece of junk?" he asked as he reached out and took the necklace out of her fingers.

"It's not a piece of junk!" she insisted. She contemplated ripping the stone from his grasp but didn't.

"Yeah it is. It cost 10 galleons and a smile at the cute vendor who was checking me out." He couldn't help but crack a small, real smile at the look of indignation that came over Ginny's face that he was sure she didn't even realized was there.

"That she was." Ginny conceded as she reached up and carefully pried Draco's hand off her prized possession. "But that's not the point. I love this necklace. It's beautiful."

"Yeah but come on, I bought you other jewelry, most of which was nicer and all of which you sent back to me in a box except obviously this one piece. Why this one?"

"Because of the story attached to this one. It was our first date and you did it on a spur of the moment whim which isn't like you."

"So?"

"So," she paused and chewed on her bottom lip in a way that managed to make her look both like a small child and incredibly sexy to Draco. She wasn't sure she wanted to tell him this. "I like best the memories where I got to catch the completely calculated Draco Malfoy a little off his game and doing something completely out of the norm for him. It was like peeking behind the curtain."

Draco looked confused so Ginny tried to explain further. "Do you remember our valentine's date?"

"Ugh that was such a disaster." He tried to stand to avoid dredging the memory back up but she caught his arm before he could escape. "We had this conversation already and it didn't end well. Why are we having it again?"

"Because I love to think about that night."

Draco's face twisted into a grimace. "I get it you like my failures."

"No!" Ginny assured him. "I loved that night because it was perfect."

"Yeah you always say that but I do not think about it ever because of how stupid I looked."

"No you weren't stupid, just a little nervous."

"Malfoys aren't nervous."

"Yeah I know. Hence the reason you were so upset and clumsy."

"I wasn't clumsy! Malfoys aren't clumsy either." He insisted although he averted his eyes in what Ginny could only describe as embarrassment.

"I know," she smiled knowingly. "But you were. I think that's why I love that night so much. You were so out of character, it was endearing. It was why I always hated the hair gel, and loved being in your room alone with you. I was always hoping that something would happen that would remind me you weren't as cold and calculating as you wanted to appear. Things like wearing a full suit and only socks." She chuckled gesturing to his current state.

Draco looked at his appearance and then gave her an odd look. "You're strange."

She laughed again. "I know." She said as she snuggled further into her bed linens and closed her eyes.

Without realizing it she drifted off to sleep leaving Draco sitting there just watching her. Yes, she was strange but that was why he had loved her. He never knew what to expect when it came to the little firecracker. Having her around was beginning to get to him. He was beginning to feel things he had forgotten how to feel and had begun to question everything including which way was up just as he had the first time they were together. He crawled out of the bed without disturbing the sleeping redhead and flicked off the lights as he headed back into his own room. Yes, Ginny Weasley's existence skewed his world and took him on a wild rollercoaster ride that he wasn't sure he would be able to survive a second time.

Note: I changed the location of the wedding b/c I wanted it to be an evening wedding. The last chapter said east and I'm sorry bout that!

Please don't hate me forever b/c this one took soooo long. My life has been insanity since going back to school and this took a back seat for awhile. If you haven't given up then please let me know and definitely review!

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