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Written as part of an assignments for the January Event over on Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Challenges & Assignments)

Task: Write about a lover or partner hiding something.

Extra Prompt: (colour) Light Blue

Pairing: Draco/Ginny

Chocolate Frog: Bronze – Porlock – Challenge – Write about someone not trusting someone else

Gringotts: Pairing: Same Gen Het – Draco/Ginny; Nouns – Time, Back, Potion, Appearance, Morning, Device, Sole, Shoe, Apartment, Table, Phone, Place, Logic, Nursery, Corner, Jungle, Wood, Chest, Drawers, Chair, Wall, Toys; Adjectives – Old, Deep, Wide, Fast, Snug, Right, Perfect, Various, Awake; Verbs – Dip, Slam, Tolerate, Sleep, Forgive; Prepositions – Around, Inside; Charmed: Season 1 Episode 8 – (Word) Baby

Trust Issues

He had been acting strange for some weeks now. He was always leaving early in the morning before she awoken, and arriving back home well after she had gone to bed.

But now she had had enough, and it was about time she found out just what her boyfriend was getting up to behind her back.

It wasn't that she didn't trust him; it was more that she was concerned that he was slipping back into his old ways.

Okay, so it was that she didn't trust him but given the current circumstances she felt that she was more than justified.

That night Ginny took a potion that would give her the appearance of being in a deep sleep, when in actual fact she would be wide awake and alert to all the goings on around her.

She felt the bed dip next to her at just after one in the morning. When she was certain that he was fast asleep, she slipped a muggle tracking device into the sole of his shoe.

It was just before five o'clock when she felt the weight shift from the bed. Draco padded around the bedroom for a few moments before slipping the door which closed behind him with a quiet click.

As soon as she heard the front door of their snug apartment slam closed behind him, Ginny jumped out of the bed and snatched her laptop off the side table so that she could find out where Draco had disappeared to – again.

Ginny checked the GPS co-ordinates again on her phone. Surely she couldn't be in the right place.

Why would Draco be at a suburban house? Unless he was...no he couldn't be cheating on her – could he?

It was the only logical explanation for him being in such an ordinary, unsuspecting location. The only part that didn't tally with this logic was that this was the type of are you would expect to find the stereotypical perfect family – a happily married couple with 2.5 kids.

So was he cheating on her with a married house wife?

Ginny cast a disillusionment charm on herself and watched the house for hours, waiting for some movement, for some confirmation of whether she was right or wrong.

It was often that the young witch wanted to be wrong, but that is all she desired in this very moment.

After less than an hour of watching and waiting, Ginny couldn't tolerate the not knowing any longer. If she was going to get answers, she would have to go inside the house and get them herself.

She removed the disillusionment charm from her as she marched towards the house and burst through the front door, making no attempt to keep quiet.

The fumes from the freshly painted light blue walls assaulted her senses as she froze in the hallway upon hearing the sound of approaching footsteps.

"Gin, what are you doing here?" Draco asked as he reached the foot of the stairs.

He was wearing a pair of light grey overalls which were splattered with paint of a variety of colours.

"I - erm- I followed you," the young witch answered, hanging her head in shame.

"You what? Why?" Draco demanded angrily, unable to comprehend the complete and utter lack of trust his girlfriend of nearly three years had in him.

"I never see you anymore. You're gone in the morning when I wake up and get home long after I've gone to bed. You're hiding something from me, and don't even try to deny it." Ginny retorted in an accusative tone.

Draco sighed and took Ginny by the hand and led her upstairs.

"You want to see what I'm hiding – okay I'll show you."

He flung open the first door on the right when he reached the landing revealing a beautifully decorated nursery.

Ginny flung her hands to her mouth.

The room had been painted in a neutral green, with charmed images of various animals on the walls, making it feel like a jungle. There was a mahogany wood cot place in the centre of the room, and two matching chests of drawers against the east wall. In the far corner by the window there was a white rocking chair from which Ginny could see herself sitting in holding their child.

The soon to be mother felt her eyes fill with tears.

"It was supposed to be a surprise. I bought this house a few months ago for us," he told her, waving both his hands around in an indicative manner. "I thought, with the baby due soon, it would be the perfect opportunity to move. I've been working day and night to make sure it was ready in time. But now I don't know why I bothered."

"Oh, I'm so sorry. Can you forgive me?" Ginny pleaded as she picked up one of the stuffed toys on the windowsill.

"I don't know if I can Ginny. You've broken our bond of trust, and there's no coming back from that," Draco sighed sadly, before leaving a heartbroken Ginny alone in the spacious bedroom, wishing she could have had a little more faith in the changed man.

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