Author: Ginny612
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Every chapter is titled after a song and there are a lot of Bryan Adam Songs involved in this story I don’t own anything. All characters and related Harry Potter all belong to J.K. Rowling. Only the plot is mine!
Author Note: Yes, I know that Ginny’s real name is Ginevra Molly Weasley, but for the first four Chapters it’s not she is referred to as either Ginny or Virginia. Also, when I first started to write this story, I didn’t know Ginny’s middle name, so I made it up, and considering it’s in only one chapter, I’m not changing it. I started this story in 2001 so this doesn’t follow the books, well it follows all the books except for the 6th book.

Other pairings include: Harry/Hermione and Ron/Lavender Brown.

Rating: PG-13, or at least will be.

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Chapter 1 – The Twilight Zone

Last day of testing at Hogwarts: School of Witchcraft and Wizardry…

"Quills down everyone," Professor McGonagall called out, "Please bring your papers up here and place them on my desk."

Everyone did as they were told and as they came up to her desk, she wished everyone a good summer.

Draco Malfoy was one of the very last students to approach her desk. As he placed the test on her desk, he opened his mouth to wish her a good summer when she asked him to stay. As he turned around to go back to his seat, he almost collided with Virginia Weasley. The youngest and only daughter of the family he hated the most. He walked by her and sat down. To make matters worse she had to be specialized in Transfiguration and be in his 6th year class. From his seat he watched as the young girl held a quiet conversation with the professor and then she, too, returned to her seat.

A few minutes have passed and it was just too quiet, so Draco turned to Ginny and said, "What are you still doing here, Weasley?"

Ginny, who was one of the very few girls who wasn't scared of Draco, said, "I asked Professor McGonagall to correct my test before I leave. Though I don't see why that's any of your business. What's your excuse?"

Before Draco could reply McGonagall looked up and said, "Miss Weasley. Mr. Malfoy. Please come up here," the two walked up to her desk. She smiled and looked at Ginny, "Congratulations Miss Weasley, you got a perfect score," Ginny was beaming, "And I got you into next years advanced Transfiguration class too."

"Really?" Ginny squeaked loudly.

Draco had to rub his ear to make sure that he could still hear out of it.

"Yes, really."

"Thank you Professor! Have a good summer!"

Ginny smiled brightly and ignored Draco as she turned to leave, but she stopped when she heard Professor McGonagall call out to her, "Oh Miss Weasley, not so fast. I need you to stay just a few moments longer." Ginny turned around and waited to see what her teacher had to say.

McGonagall turned to Draco and said, "Now Mr. Malfoy, we had a discussion a while ago."

Draco nodded and said quietly, "I remember."

"Well, you didn't fulfill it."

Draco's eyes widened, "You mean I failed?!"

"I'm sorry, but yes."

Draco sighed, "Does this mean I'm not going to move on to my 7th year in September?"

Ginny smirked and laughed to herself thinking that perfect Prefect Draco Malfoy wasn't so perfect. Then suddenly her smile left her face when she realized something, 'Oh my gosh! If he doesn't move on, he'll be in my class!'

"Well, no. I've talked it over with Headmaster Dumbledore. We have discussed it and because you have tried harder we are going to pass you." Ginny was shocked, could they really do that? Ginny just shrugged.

"Thank you Professor," Draco paused for a moment and then with a confused look asked, "Why did she," pointed to Ginny, "have to be here to hear that?"

"I am not done. We have decided that we will pass you, but I am assigning you a tutor."

"A tutor? Who are you going to get to tutor me?" He asked.

Professor McGonagall waved a hand towards Ginny.

"Oh no, no way!” Draco said.

Ginny just stood there with her mouth opened, “But… but… my summer vacation.” Ginny closed her mouth and then said, “No. I won’t do it.”

McGonagall let out a very disappointed breath of air and said, "Now Miss Weasley, Mr. Malfoy, you really have to stop this huge feud." The two looked at each other and looked away, crossing their arms over their chests.

"I'm sorry Professor, but I don't really think that you can make us do this," Draco said boldly and then added, "Can you?"

"Actually no," McGonagall said and the two let out a sigh of relief, "but if you two don't, I shall write a letter to your family and tell them that they need to set you up with a tutor who you seem fit," she said to Draco.

Draco's face dropped, there is no way that he can let his father know that he has failed Transfiguration, "Fine," Draco said in a small whisper.

Ginny's eyes widened. He couldn't be serious!

Draco turned, mumbled a 'Good-bye' to Professor McGonagall, glared at Ginny, and walked towards the door thinking, 'I'll just study really hard and won't have to worry about the Weasel'.

"Oh and one more thing," Draco stopped, "I will be writing to Mrs. Weasley about this whole arrangement and will ask her to keep me posted."

Draco turned and asked innocently, "Why Professor, don't you trust me?"

"No, Mr. Malfoy, I don't," and she went back to grading her papers.

Ginny said 'Good-bye' to the Professor and walked over towards Draco.

"Weasley, I swear if you tell anyone…"

"Who am I going to tell?" she said angrily and she started to walk out of the classroom.

Draco walked up to her and said, "Your brothers, Potter, that Mud…"

Ginny stopped, turned around, and gave him the most evil look that she could muster up, "Shut it Malfoy. If you dare speak that way about Hermione again, I swear I will tell everyone, including your family." Draco opened his mouth to say something when Ginny added, “That’s not a threat, Malfoy, that’s a promise.”

Draco looked a little stunned, "Well, well, looks as though the littlest Weasley has finally grown a back bone."

Ginny kept on walking, "Everyone but my mother and father will be home this summer," before Draco could say another thing, "All the boys, including Harry, Hermione, and Lavender are going to Romania to visit Charlie and Sarah."

Draco couldn't help but hear a little bit of upset in her tone, "Awww, and they didn't want their baby sister to tag along, huh? What is Granger still afraid that you'd steal Harry away? Like you could anyways," he added under his breath.

Ginny stopped once more, almost colliding with Malfoy, poked him in his chest hard, looked up at his gray eyes, and said, "I mean it Ferret Boy, don't try me! I'm not in the mood for it," before Malfoy could say another word Ginny continued, "I will owl you as soon as everyone leaves," with that Ginny turned around and ran down the corridor.

To Be Continued…

Chapter 2 – Life Goes On

It was a week since Professor McGonagall ruined her summer. She was sitting on her windowsill waiting to hear from Draco. While waiting, she was remembering how much happened within the week.

~*~Flashback~*~

The day after Professor McGonagall told Ginny she had to tutor Draco all summer long, they had their big end of the year feast. Gryffindor won the House Cup at the end of the year, beating Slytherin house by only 5 points.

The following day they all boarded the Hogwarts Express to go back home. Hermione and Lavender insisted that Ginny sit with them in their compartment. Ginny smiled; she knew they were trying to make her feel part of the group, but they weren't doing that good of a job. While in the compartment, Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Lavender wouldn't stop talking about their big trip to Romania. They talked about how much fun they were going to have, and the girls couldn't stop talking about Sarah and Charlie's first little baby. Once again, Ginny suddenly turned invisible to them.

Ginny could tell that tears were about to roll down her cheeks so she got up and left. No one asked where she was going, so she suspected that no one noticed that she left. She went looking for some of the girls that she hung out with, but unfortunately she found someone else. When she opened a compartment door, she saw Draco Malfoy sitting all by himself.

"Hey! Ever hear of knocking Weasley?!" he growled.

"Sorry. Do you mind if I sit with you?" Ginny said quickly and quietly.

"What?!" Draco looked up at her, it wasn't that he didn't understand her, it was that he didn't understand why she was asking him.

"You're all alone here and I'm looking for an empty compartment."

She could see Draco's expression soften up very slightly and before he could answer her she said, "Thanks," she closed the door behind her, and sat down next to the window across from him.

They were both quiet for a long time, but Ginny soon fixed that. Without even looking at Draco, she asked, "So have you decided what you are going to tell your father?"

"What are you talking about?"

Ginny sighed, turned her head around and said, "About why you're coming to my house."

Draco looked down at his shoes, "Well, I'm hoping that he's not going to be home much this summer, but if he is then I decided that I would tell him that I am tutoring you."

He expected a little fight from Ginny, but all she said was, "Fine. Whatever. Doesn't bother me."

Draco knew that something was up with Ginny, but didn't feel like asking because he really didn't care.

A while later Draco knew they were coming close to the station. He, not wanting Potter and Weasley catching Ginny in here with him and asking questions, decided to get her to leave. Draco looked over to her and noticed that she fell asleep. "Hey Weasley!" Draco called out, but Ginny didn't wake up. He got up and shook her hard.

"Hey!" Ginny woke up.

"We're almost at Platform 9 ¾."

"Oh. Thanks." She mumbled softly.

"Now get going before your brother or your Potter finds you."

Ginny, a little insulted, got up and left giving him a soft, "Bye".

By the time she got back to her compartment, they had already arrived at the train station. She crept in and all of them were making out; one pair on each couch.

Ginny cleared her throat, but nothing happened. "Come on guys we're home," she exclaimed, but still nothing. "Come on, don't make me conjure up a hose!" Ginny decided to mumble a soft spell and before she knew it, all four of them were hurled to the floor with a loud thump.

"Hey!" Harry and Ron exclaimed.

Ginny grabbed her carry-on bag, flung it over her shoulder, and said, "Let's go! We're at Platform 9 ¾." She ran out to grab her other things.


That week seemed to go by very quickly. Ginny asked her parents not to tell the boys whom she was tutoring and they agreed not to.

On the day the boys left, Ron looked at Ginny and asked, "You sure you don't want to come with us?"

'What a prat!' she said to herself. 'First he begs me not to go with them, and now he's asking me to go. He just wants to sound like a good brother.' "Nah, I told you. I'm tutoring that Ravenclaw from a year below me."

"Oh, that's right. Good luck with that," he said and gave her a hug.

Fred, George, and Percy all gave her hugs and promised to write. Everyone was really glad to go, except Percy. "I go and take a summer off from work to go see my brother," he whined, "but will he come here? Nooo!"

"That's enough Percy," Mr. Weasley reprimanded him.

"Yes, Father." Percy didn't stop arguing, but he did complain quieter.

Harry, Hermione, and Lavender all smiled, said bye to Ginny, and all left by Floo powder to Charlie's house.

Ginny went to go write to Draco that he was to come over the next day.

~*~Back to the Present~*~

Ginny was half asleep when she heard a soft knocking on the window. She looked and saw a rather beautiful owl standing there. She opened the window and the owl came in. She grabbed the letter that was attached to its leg and offered it a owl treat. The owl took it and flew out of the window. Ginny looked at the parchment, which read:

"Sounds fine. I'll be there in the morning."

No name, no nothing. "Bastard," she said. She climbed into bed and was thinking of how her summer had now turned from awful to dreadful. A whole two and a half months of Malfoy. Ginny sighed, thought, and then fell asleep.

To be continued…

Chapter 3 – Why Can't We Be Friends?

The next day…

Draco reached the Weasleys' front door around 9 o'clock in the morning. He looked at the house and started laughing; it was a funny looking house. It wasn't anything that he'd be caught living in. He was about to knock when he remembered what happened this morning.

~*~Flashback~*~

Draco was putting his cloak on and was about to leave the house when his mother called out, "Draco!"

sighed and turned around, "Yes, Mum, what is it?" he said in a little bit of an annoyed voice.

Narcissa came over to him and looked up at her son, who was slightly taller then she was, "Draco promise me you'll be on your best behavior today."

Draco sighed, "Yes, Mother."

"Look I don't care how much you and this girl hate each other, but I want you being respectful to Mrs. Weasley."

"Mum!"

"I'm serious. I don't want everyone to think that my only son is pure evil. I know you're not and I want other people to know it too. So promise me," she said while she straightened his shirt out.

Draco sighed. If it was one person he did love it was his mother. She knew that he was only mean to keep his father happy and Lucius very seldom ever was, "Yes mother, I'll be nice to Mrs. Weasley."

"Thank you!" She gave him a quick hug and shooed him out the door.

~*~Back to the present~*~

'Have to be nice. Have to be nice,' he kept on saying to himself. He knocked on the door and heard someone call, "It's opened."

Draco opened the door and walked into the house. He did admit to himself, that even though the house was small and they didn't have a lot of money you could tell that they were a very loving family. Draco noticed and saw many pictures of smiles and happy faces from different occasions.

He heard someone walk into the room, "Oh hello there."

"Hello, Mrs. Weasley," he choked out.

"Ah! Yes, Draco Malfoy. How nice it is to see you again," she smiled. "Come. Come into the kitchen," she said using her arm to motion him into the room.

Draco stayed quiet and followed her into the kitchen like he was told. When he entered the small kitchen an aroma of apples and spices hit his nose and without even noticing he said, "Mmmmm… something smells good."

It wasn't until Molly said, "Why thank you," that Draco realized he said something out loud, "Here, take a seat," she said pointing to the table, "I'm making apple pie. I'll let you have a slice when it's finished baking. Do you like apple pie?" she said still smiling.

'Does she ever stop smiling?' Draco wondered to himself, "Um… honestly, I don't know. Can't say that I've ever had any before." Before Molly could say another word he asked, "So, uh where is Virginia?" he asked quietly.

"Oh Ginny? She's still upstairs. I woke her up once, but she probably fell back to sleep."

After a few seconds of uneasy quietness Draco decided to break the silence with a question, "Uh… so why didn't Ginny go with the others to Romania?" Molly turned around and was about to say something when Draco said, "I mean rather than the fact that she has to tutor me."

"Well, I guess she just didn't want to go."

'She guesses?' Draco said to himself, "Well, why not?"

"I don't know. I know that Ron asked her a few times, but he told me that she always said no. Every time that I talk about it with her she never wanted to talk about it." Draco was thinking that there was a lot more to it then just that, but he wasn't going to say anything.
"Why don't you go on up to Ginny's room and make sure she's up?"

Draco went wide-eyed. Did Molly really trust him, a boy, to go up to Ginny's, the only daughter, room by himself? "Uh… where is it?"

"On the third floor the last door on the left," Draco could not move, his feet were not allowing him to get up. "Shoo! Go on with you now!" Draco stood up and went up the stairs, taking them two at a time.

As he neared the third floor he could hear some music coming from one of the rooms. Well, at least he knew definitely which room was hers. He slowed up his walk and casually made his way to her room.

When he got there he heard a song and by listening to it, he knew it had to be something along the lines of, "Why can't we be friends." He also noticed another voice along with it. It was her singing. It wasn't really that good, but at least it wasn't nails on a chalkboard either.

As he reached her door it was opened a crack. He knocked lightly and when she didn't answer he peered in. She was dressed, her hair wet, and she was dancing and jumping on her bed and singing into her wand. This was some sight. He leaned against the doorframe and watched her.

"I pay my money to the welfare line I see ya standing in it every time

Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends
Why can't we be friends"

She sang and jumped off her bed. She landed in front of her mirror and started singing again. "The color of your skin don't matter to me…" and through the reflection in the mirror she saw Draco leaning against her doorframe. Her music still playing, "As long as we can live in harmony"

She turned around and screamed, "Get out Malfoy!" and threw her wand at him. It hit his head. She ran to her door, as he was rubbing his head, pushed him out, and slammed the door.

Draco had a smug smile on his face and made his way back down to the kitchen. As he entered he said, "She's up."

"Good, thanks, deary," she started to cut up the pie and just then Ginny came down the stairs. Molly looked up from what she was doing, "Oh good morning, dear."

Draco smirked and said, "Good morning, Virginia." His smirk turned into a full smile when he saw the surprise look on Ginny's face. Draco finally got a good look at her; she was wearing short shorts and a tank top. Her hair was in a ponytail at the top of her head, still wet, and she wasn't wearing anything on her feet so he noticed them painted a purplish color.

Ginny's eyes widened. She couldn't believe he called her by her first name. She was even more surprised that he even knew her first name. Ginny didn't know how to react so she simply said, "Good morning."

Molly turns to Draco, "Are you ready for the first slice of my pie?"

Draco looked at her and said, "Yes, ma'am, I am," he turned towards Ginny to see that her eyes have widened even further. Molly put the plate down in front of Draco and watched as he took the first bit of her pie. Draco looked up and said, "This is good."

Molly was tickled pink. Someone new liked her pie, "I'm glad you like it."

"Virginia, you going to have a piece?" Draco asked her.

"I don't like apple pie," Ginny simply said as she took a seat next to Draco at the kitchen table.

"Not like apple pie?! What's there not to like!?" he said and stuffed another fork full into his mouth.

Molly decided to answer for her, "My daughter likes the more fatting pies. Like Chocolate Mousse, chocolate pudding pies, and grasshopper pies."

Ginny gave out a low warning, "Mum."

Molly didn't hear her and continued, "And I've told her she's has to watch herself or she won't be getting a boyfriend."

Ginny let out a little louder, "Mum!" Ginny couldn't even look at Draco. She bet he was laughing his ass off. When she dared to look at him, she was surprised, once again, to find out that he wasn't.

Draco actually smiled and said, "I wouldn't worry about Virginia, Mrs. Weasley. She'll get a boyfriend soon. Any boy would be lucky to have her."

Ginny blushed and Molly said, "And you said he was absolutely prime evil."

Before Draco even had a chance to make a comment Ginny got up and said, "Okay! That's enough talk for one day! Draco," she couldn't believe how easy his name came out, "we have to start studying."

Draco stood up grabbed his books and his empty plate, "Nice talking to you, Mrs. Weasley," he put the plate in the sink and added, "it was delicious." Molly just smiled. Draco turned around and followed Ginny out to the back yard.

When they were far enough away from the house Ginny said, "What the HELL is wrong with you?" she asked as she smacked him in head with the palm of her hand.

"Ow," He said while rubbing his head, "I have no idea what you are talking about."

"Delicious pie!" Ginny started to count on her fingers, "Yes ma'am. The whole girlfriend thing. Calling me by my first name. Since when have we’ve been on a first name basis and on that note how the hell do you even know my first name?"

"Language Weasley. Language."

"AGH!" Ginny screamed.

"Calm yourself down before you pop a blood vessel or something." Ginny took a few breaths and listened to Draco as he said, "For starters my mother told me to be on my best behavior and to act as a gentleman." Ginny laughed. Draco, ignoring Ginny continued, "In front of your mother. Secondly the pie was good and so I gave you a compliment. Besides just because no one ever uses your first name does not mean that I don't know it and if you keep on abusing me, I am going to have invest in some protective head gear." Draco sat down at the picnic table letting out a little laugh, while Ginny stood there in shock.

Ginny finally sat down and said, "Okay let's get started."

Ginny was about to say something when Draco said, "You wanted to go didn't you?"

Ginny ignored him and said, "Let's start with Chapter 12."

Draco asked again, "You wanted to go didn't…"

"Does it matter?" Ginny asked quietly even before Draco could finish his question again.

"It should." Draco paused for a second and then laughed a little and said, "What did the 'Dream Team' not want you to go?" Draco meant it as an insult. He said it just so he could say something mean.

Ginny continued to get all her stuff out and said, "Yeah, something like that," she looked up at Draco and saw his expression. She knew he only said it to be mean, but he was right on the button, "It's "Brother" time."

"Granger and Brown went though."

Ginny sighed and said, "The only reason why Hermione is going is to keep Sarah and the baby some company and Lavender went because she's Hermione's best friend."

"But…"

Draco wanted to know more and wanted to know why her brother didn't want her around, but Ginny silenced him with saying, "Drop it. We have work to do." Draco did as he was told and listened closely to Ginny's teachings.

To be continued…

Chapter 4 – Talk To Me

Draco left after the first day declining Mrs. Weasley politely that he would not be staying for supper.

That night Ginny sat at her window seat and wished she were in Romania with her brothers.
It would have been ten times better in Romania with an upset brother than here with a prick of a boy like Draco. She sighed and got under her covers and quickly fell asleep dreading the next day and the days to follow.

Meanwhile at the Malfoy estate…

As soon as Draco got home he was greeted by his father, "So your mother tells me you've been at the Weasley's home."

"Yes father I have," he said hoping that he didn't know the real reason behind it.

"I can't believe Dumbledore is making you tutor that stupid little Weasley," Draco almost opened his mouth to defend her, but thought better of it, "It's not your fault that she failed Transfiguration. She should have to take it over like everyone else. Why does someone of her poor stature get special privileges?"

"I don't know father," his father eyed him curiously, "I feel tired I am going to retire to my room now."

"Fine, I'll have your mother get one of the servants to bring you some food."

Draco nodded and left. As soon as he was out of his fathers' sight he ran all the way to his room. As he got there he was huffing and puffing, "Well, it's good to know what my father really would think if I told him the truth," he said in a sarcastic tone to himself.

"Did you say something master Draco?"

Draco jumped a little; it was one of the new house elves Billy. "Don't you know never to sneak up on me like that?" He said rather loudly.

"Sorry Master Draco," Billy flinched getting ready to be hit, but it never came, "I brought you you're food sir."

"Just put it on the dresser over there."

Billy did as he was told and then went to the door, "If Master Draco needs anything else all you have to do is say the word, Billy will hear him, sir," and with that the elf was gone.

Draco went to his window seat and look at "his" star. It was the same star that he always used to wish upon when he was a little boy. It’s also the star that he always gaze upon when he started to think that wishing was stupid and for little kids. When he got old enough he found out what the stars name was, Andromeda Silver, and where it was located so he could see it at Hogwarts too.

"Why Weasley?" he asked to himself, "Why can't it be anyone but her? What's McGonagall trying to prove anyways? Does she really think that by spending one summer together we'll become friends?" He forced out a smug laugh. He smoothed his hair back, changed into some sleeping clothes, and went to sleep dreading for the next day and the rest of the summer days yet to come.


The next day was just like the following, except he didn't have to go and retrieve Ginny from her room, but he did get another piece of apple pie.

It was another long and boring day with Ginny and once again he declined when Mrs. Weasley asked him if he would like to stay for supper.


By the end of the week Draco was really fed up.

"Well, what do you want me to do about it Malfoy?" Ginny asked becoming a little irritable.

"Why don't we make this at least a little fun?"

She gave him a glare and asked, "What kind of fun are you thinking about?"

"The kind where if I answer a question wrong you get to ask me any question you like and if I answer a question right I get to ask you any question that I want."

"Wow Malfoy," not really interested, "That sounds like a lot of fun," Ginny said a bit sarcastic.

"Come on, you got anything else in mind? Besides maybe I might actually learn something and pay more attention this way."

Ginny sighed and said, "Fine, but within reason."

Draco sighed, "Fine!"

So Ginny taught him a new chapter and asked him a question, he got it wrong and she got to ask the first question. She got a devilish look on her face and said, "I get to ask the first question. Hmmm…" and suddenly one came to her mind, "What was the most embarrassing thing that happened to you?"

"My most embarrassing moment?" Draco re-asked the question and Ginny nodded, "Um…" Draco said reluctantly to answer the question. "Well, see I used to have a bad bladder." Ginny looked confused. "I… well… let's put it this way, if I laughed too much it made me need to… you know urinate," Ginny just nodded, "Well, I didn't make it some of the times."
Ginny looked at him as though it was nothing big at all, "That's not bad, little kids always do that."

"Not when they're 13."

"Okay, well go on with the story."

"I have to tell you more?" Ginny nodded. "Well, I had this girlfriend from a different wizarding school. Well, she came over one day during the summer holiday and well, she's the only one who knows where I am most ticklish, and so she attacked me. I started laughing and I couldn't stop it, and well, I couldn't hold it either," Ginny could barely hold back her laugh, "Let's just say she never looked at me the same way."

Ginny quickly asked, "How old where you?"

"13," he quickly said.

Ginny started laughing, "I'm sorry, that's really bad," but she couldn't stop laughing.

"So you still laugh."

"It's always funnier when it happens to somebody else."

Ginny poked him in the side, "That's not the spot." Ginny poked him in the chest and a small laugh came out. Ginny looked smug, "Nope, not the spot. It's just so funny, I could sit here all day and you'd never find it."

Ginny poked him in the stomach and Draco shook his head. Never knowing why Ginny got closer to him and spoke quietly into his ear, "What is it Draco, do I have to go lower?"

At this Draco was a little shocked but then smirked and said just as quiet, "Why Ginny Weasley, are you flirting with me?" Ginny realized that she was and she blushed slightly, but didn't move away. Draco continued and with each word he said he moved closer to her, "Strangely that doesn't bother…" just as he was ready to kiss Ginny they both heard Mrs. Weasley call them.

The two broke apart and pretended to be working again, "Working hard are we?" She looked at her watch, "Well, it's time for supper. Draco will you be joining us this evening?"

"Uh… no. But thanks though. I have to get going," he quickly threw all his books into his bag. He turned to Ginny and said, "Well, bye. Have a good weekend, I'll see you on Monday," and with that he was gone.

At the dinner table Ginny just picked at her food. She couldn't quiet understand why she said what she said and wondered what Draco meant with what he said.

"Ginny dear are you all right?" her father asked her.

"Yes Daddy, I'm fine. I think I just got a little bit too much sun today."

"Oh. So how is everything going with tutoring the Malfoy boy?"

"Fine."

"He's not trying anything funny is he? Because if he is I'll…"

"Daddy, everything is fine and he's being really nice."

"Well good I'm glad."

Ginny sighed and put down her fork, "I'm going in early. I'm not feeling all too good."

"Oh okay dear. Good night," her mother said.

"Good night," and she went to both her folks and gave them a kiss on the cheek.

As she sat on her window seat she looked out into the stars. There was only one really bright one. She liked that one a lot, she didn't know why, but she was attracted to it.

"Just like Malfoy. I can't believe I almost let him kiss me. What's going on here? Is it a phase? Is it just because we are spending so much time together?" She looked out at her star one more time and wonder whom else looks to that particular star when they are lost.


Meanwhile far away another person was looking at the same star.

"What the hell is wrong with me? She was flirting with me and I wasn't bothered by it? What is going on with me?" He sighed and looked out to his star. "What am I going to do?"


Ginny was pretty nervous all morning Monday, what if he tells her off for flirting with him? Will he tell anyone that she did? What will he say about the almost kiss?

Ginny was pacing around outside when she walked into someone.

"Ooofff!" and down they both went.

"And here I thought you were talented enough to do two things at once. I guess not," came a voice from next to her.

"Morning Malfoy," she put her head on the ground and looked up to the sky.

"Malfoy again huh? What happened to Draco?"

"Fine, morning Draco.”

"Morning Weasel."

Ginny laughed, "You're such a prat, ferret boy."

"Why thank you for noticing," he got up and offered her a hand. She took it. "Well, come on. Teach me something new today."

Ginny sighed, she didn't know if it was out of relief because he didn't say anything about what happened on Friday or if it was out of upset because he didn't say anything. She grabbed her books and started to teach.

Finally Draco got something right and it was his turn to ask a question. He rubbed his hands together and thought hard.

"Boy Malfoy, if you thought this hard during school, then maybe you wouldn’t have to be here."

"But then I wouldn't be able to see you're smiling face every morning," before he could even think of why he said what he just said, or give her any time to respond to that he said, "So, who was the first person you kissed?"

Ginny looked confused, "You want to know that?"

"Sure."

Ginny knew that she never kissed anyone before and only Hermione and Lavender knew the truth. She has fooled everyone with this story before, so she decided to do it again. "His name was George."

"Was?"

"He moved and is going to another wizarding school."

"Oh."

"Well, he was in Ravenclaw, and one night a bunch of us got together to have a night of games. Well, we had a whole bunch of Muggle games, one in particular called "Twister"."

"Ah, yes, I have actually heard of that one before. That's where you put your hands and feet onto the appropriate circles and the last one standing is the winner."

"Right. So anyways, it was really late and only three of us were left. George and I were playing and some other girl was spinning the dial. Well, in the middle of the game she swore she heard something and said, "Don't move" and she ran off. Well George fell over and knocked me down. I was so excited that I actually won that I didn't even notice that he was still on top of me. I looked up to him and said, 'I won,' He looks down at me and says, 'So did I,' and he kissed me," and she slightly sighed as though she was actually remembering it.

Draco burst out laughing, "What are you laughing at?" She demanded.

"You! That's the most piece of crap lie I have ever heard! Anyone who believes that is…" she was starring down at him with a very evil glare. "Are you serious? People actually believed that?" she nodded. "What's wrong with the real story Weasley, not good enough?"

Ginny looked down and quietly said, "I've never been kissed before."

Draco went slightly wide-eyed, "Never?" Ginny shook her head, "What's wrong with you Weasley? Got dried lips or something?"

"I don't know. Come on we got more work to do," she turned the page in her book and continued. Draco noticed how upset she was with the whole conversation that when it was his turn to ask another question he just declined and told her to continue.


Before the end of the day was up Ginny got the chance to ask him one more question, "So, what is one secret you hold close to you, about yourself, that you have never told another living soul?"

"I play the guitar."

"Wow!" she said sarcastically at first, but then realized something, "but that's a… a…"

"A muggle thing?" Draco finished for her. She nodded, "Yeah. I know. That's why I have to keep it quiet from my folks. If my father ever heard about this he… I don't want to know what he'd do."

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone."

Draco just smiled. As they were cleaning up Ginny asked another question, "So what made you pick the guitar?"

"Ever heard of Bryon Adams?"

"Heard of him? I have almost every one of his songs."

"My role model."

"Really?" Draco nodded his head, "Wow! So not only are you playing a muggle instrument you have a muggle role model."

Draco shook his head, "You mean he's not?" Draco shook it again. "I never would have guessed."

Draco had all his stuff packed up and he was ready to go. "Well, bye Ginny, see you tomorrow," and away he went.

After a while the tutoring job became more fun then a chore and Draco and Ginny put it beside them that they were supposed to hate each other. As the days and the weeks went by they became better friends and learned more and more about each other. Not only have they been sticking with the asking of the questions they also told each other about experiences and stories that they felt like sharing.

Ginny was laughing from a story that Draco just told her when she asked, "Okay, so what's you're middle name?"

"Do I really have to tell you?"

"Yes you do!"

Draco sighed and said, "It's Clifford."

"Clifford?" Draco nodded.

"Why what's yours?"

"Molly.”

“That’s your mum’s name.”

"Yeah, Hey Draco will you stay for supper?"

This was the first time that she actually asked him and so he surprised her with actually agreeing, "Sure. What's for dinner?"

Ginny smiled and sniffed the air, "Smells like Dad's barbequing. Come on!" She grabbed his hand and pulled him down towards the house.

"Are you staying for dinner dearie?" Mrs. Weasley asked him.

"Yes ma'am I am."

"Good I put on another chicken just in case," came a voice from behind, "Hi. We haven't been properly introduced. I am Arthur Weasley, Ginny's father."

"I know who you are sir and I'm glad to have finely met you face to face. Ginny speaks very highly of you."

Mr. Weasley smiled, "Good first impression, plus trying to earn some extra points, what's next? Are you going to ask for my daughter’s hand?”

"Daddy! It's nothing like that. I'm just tutoring him."

Draco felt a little hurt at that remark so he said, "On the contrary Mr. Weasley. We're just friends."

Mr. Weasley looked shocked, "Friends?" Draco nodded, "Friends between a Malfoy and a Weasley. I haven't seen that since…" he thought for a moment and then said, "Actually I've never seen it before. Well, not if you count that one time that…"

"Arthur, we don't need to bring that up."

"Oh yeah," he turned back to the two sitting at the table. "Sure, it has already started. First it's hate, then it's friendship, and then it's…"

"Daddy!" "Arthur!" Ginny and Mrs. Weasley said together.

"Oh right sorry."

They ate the rest of the meal in silence.

When they finished Draco and Ginny walked back to where they were studying, "I'm so sorry about that."

"About what?"

"About my father. I'm the only daughter so naturally he does that with everyone. Neville came down during summer one year and my dad pounded him like that too. And I don't even…" Ginny was going to say, 'like him' but thought better of it.

"Hey, it's no problem, he's just being cautious over his only daughter."

Ginny just smiled. She sat down under her favorite tree and looked out to her favorite star,

"Come here. I want to show you something." Draco took a seat next to her, "Look. See that star."

"Uh-huh."

"That's my star."

"Sorry it's already taken."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean it's mine."

"Are you serious?" Draco just nodded his head, "Oh."

"But I'm willing to share it."

Ginny smiled, "Sharing sounds nice." They sat there for a little while looking up at the star when Ginny said, "Oh yes, I forgot to mention something," Draco turned towards her. "We can't get together tomorrow."

"Oh?"

"Yeah, it’s my birthday."

"Well, happy birthday." Ginny just smiled. "So Ginny," he said and laid down on the ground, "What do you want for your birthday?" he saw the look that she gave him and said, "It's just a rhetorical question."

"Well, if I could have anything in the world, it would be to have my ‘Ginevra’ bracelet back again."

“Ginerva bracelet?” Draco asked confused, “I never heard of that. Is that the name of the company, because if it is, it must be really old.”

Ginny looked at him and swatted at him, “That’s not funny!”

“What?”

“You don’t know?”

“Know what?” Draco asked, once again confused.

“You really don’t know?” Draco just shook his head, “Ginevra is my name.”

“Shut up.”

“No, I’m serious, Ginevra is my name.”

Draco looked stunned, “But I’ve been calling you Virginia all summer long. You never once corrected me.”

Ginny just shrugged, “Sometimes I wished my name was Virginia, it’s so much better then Ginerva.” She lied back onto the grass and sighed, “It was my great-grandmother’s name. She was a nurse at St. Mungo’s; she died when I was pretty young. I don’t really remember her.”

“Well that’s a lot better story then where my name came from.” Draco stated.

“What’s your story?”

“You know the Hogwarts motto; Draco dorms or whatever the hell it is?”

Ginny laughed and said, “You mean Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus?” Ginny asked
trying to figure out where this story was going.

“Um… yeah, I didn’t think that anyone knew how to pronounce that. Yeah, well that’s what I’m named after.”

“Wow.”

“Yeah, besides, I like your name, it’s really unique and different.” Ginny just shrugged,
“I’m going to call you that from now on.” Ginny opened her mouth to say something when Draco added, “So, tell me about this bracelet.”

"See when I was little my great-grandmother bought it for my fourth birthday. It was a silver bracelet, which had my name on it and the "I” was dotted with a red stone."

"Ruby?"

"I doubt it. Anyways, at the playground there was this really mean snotty girl and tore it off my wrist. When she did that it broke into three pieces.” There was a small pause.

"Oh yes and I forgot to tell you something."

"What's that?"

"Mother wants you to come to the manor next weekend."

Ginny sat there frozen. She remembered what his father did to her in her first year at Hogwarts. She gulped and said, "Will… uh… well, will… your father be there?"

"You're afraid of my father?"

"Well, don't you remember what he did to me in my first year?"

"I thought you weren't supposed to know about that."

"I have 6 older brothers and there's Harry, and Hermione who never really care about keeping their voices quiet."

"Oh. Well, I don't think he'll be there, but if he is, he'll be good," he put his hand on her leg and rubbed it soothingly, "I'll keep you protected."

Ginny just smiled and blushed a little. Ginny opened her mouth to say something when they heard someone calling her. She stood up quickly and said, "Hermione!"

He stood up slowly and grabbed his books, at this point he really couldn't care less if she saw them or not.

The voice was getting louder.

"I'll see you next weekend. Have a Happy Birthday," he kissed her on her cheek and off he
went.

Ginny just stood there with her hand on her cheek and a smile on her face.


To Be Continued…

Chapter 5 - Happy Birthday

Ginny stood there with her hand on her cheek and a smile on her face when she heard, "Don't fall for him, Ginny."

Ginny turned around, "Fall for whom, Hermione?"

"Don't lie to me, Ginevra,” Ginny sighed with disgust. She hated it when Hermione used her real name. “I saw Draco Malfoy here and how he gave you a kiss on your cheek." Ginny just sighed and ignored her. As she walked past Hermione, she grabbed Ginny's arm, "What was he doing here?"

"It's none of your bloody business."

"Draco's been rubbing off on you I see." Ginny's eyes widened. "I thought we were friends, Ginny."

"Yeah, some really great friend you are!" Ginny said shaking Hermione's arm off of her, "You knew I wanted to go to Romania because I haven't seen my brothers in so long, and that I wanted to see Sara and Charlie's baby, but you didn't care. Did you even try to get Harry to talk Ron into letting me come with you guys?" Hermione looked down at her feet. "I didn't think so. So don't lecture to me that I'm not your friend, because I have always been there for you!"

Before either girl could say another word they heard someone call out, "Ginny, we have a surprise for you!" It was Mrs. Weasley.

"Good I could use one, right about now," She said looking at Hermione and then she turned to walk away. As she came closer to the house she could see her brothers. "Charlie? Bill!"

She ran up to them and hugged them both. "What are you doing here?"

"Well, it's your birthday isn't it?" Bill said.

"Yeah?"

"Well, it's not everyday that our little sister turns 16," Charlie said.

"Is Sara here?" Charlie nodded. "With baby Penny?" Ginny squealed.

"She's already two, Ginny, almost three."

Ginny looked sad, "Are you serious?"

Charlie nodded, "Yeah."

Ginny couldn't believe it had already been that long. She rarely saw her brothers anymore and had only seen Sara and the baby about four times in the past two years. Ginny smiled and said, "Bring me to them; I want to see my little niece." Charlie smiled and led the way.

Ginny walked into the living room and saw Sara, a lovely girl around the age of 24 with long brown hair and soft brown eyes, holding a darling little girl around two and a half. Charlie and Sara were very blessed to have a girl considering that Ginny was one of the very few Weasley girls. Ginny took a seat by Sara and hugged her first.

"So good to see you again, Ginny," Sara said in a small accent.

"Yes, it’s good to see you too."

Penny laid in Sara's arms looking very shy and asked, "Who?"

Ginny looked to Sara, "You remember Aunt Ginny, don't you?" Penny shook her head. "This is Daddy's youngest sister."

"Hi, Penny," Ginny said. Penny gave her a little wave.

"You think you can give Aunt Ginny a hug?"

Penny smiled big, "Hug Gin-Gin," and Penny put her arms out.

Ginny picked the small girl up, put her on her lap, and hugged her. She could feel Penny's little arms go not even half way around her. As Ginny was holding her she could see Hermione in the kitchen talking to Mrs. Weasley, and saw her mother shaking her head. Penny released Ginny, but sat her in her lap for the rest of the evening.

Around nine o'clock Penny fell asleep in Ginny's arms. Sara took her from Ginny's arms and everyone went upstairs to go to bed.

Hermione and Lavender were sharing Ginny's room and soon were in their nightclothes. Hermione was sitting in front of Ginny's mirror brushing out her hair when she said, "So, Lavender, did you know that Draco Malfoy was here today?"

"I thought I saw someone leaving tonight." Ginny gave Hermione an evil stare, which she did not see. Lavender sat on Ginny's bed and said, "So, girl, give us the details."

"I can't get anything out of her. Not even Mrs. Weasley would tell me anything and she made me swear that I wouldn’t tell the boys."

"What annoys you more," Ginny said angrily, "that I won't tell you why he was here or because I was hanging out with your boyfriends' worst enemy!" There was a knock on the door. "What!" Ginny screamed out before thinking.

Sara opened the door, "What is going on here?"

When Ginny saw that it was Sara she calmed right down, "Oh sorry, Sara."

"Ginny, what's with the screaming?" Sara asked.

Lavender stood up and said, "They are acting as though they hate one another."

Both Hermione and Ginny crossed their arms over their chests and said at the same time, "No, we aren't!"

"Lavender, what is the problem?" Sara asked her knowing that she wasn't going to get much out of the other girls.

Hermione answered before Lavender could, “Draco Malfoy, one of our enemies was here tonight," she paused for a second and said, "and he kissed her on the cheek."

Okay, so maybe Sara was wrong, but then it hit her, "Ah yes, Draco Malfoy. Wasn't he the boy you were tutoring all summer long?" Ginny looked to the floor, Sara obviously got her answer. "So he's the reason why you couldn't come this summer."

When Ginny looked up she saw both Hermione and Lavender staring at her. Ginny answered, "Yes, he is the boy," then she added quite quietly, "but no, he isn't the reason why I couldn't come."

"Then what was the reason?" Sara asked.

"It doesn't matter now," Ginny perked up a little. "Besides, I told Mom not to tell anyone, and if she told you, you weren't supposed to say a word."

"Oh, I'm sorry. They didn't know?" Ginny shook her head. "Why not?"

"Because they would tell Harry and Ron. Those two would love to get their hands on information like this. The whole school would know."

Hermione went over to Ginny and said, "Ginny, if you asked us not to tell Harry and Ron, we wouldn't say a word."

"Really?" Ginny asked.

"Yeah. That's what friends are for. Forgive me?" Hermione said.

Ginny smiled, "Yeah." The two friends hugged.

"Hey, what about me?" Lavender called out. The three friends had a group hug.

Ginny looked up and said, "Okay, so who's up for some details?"

"Yes!" the other two girls squealed and jumped up on her bed.

"Come on, Sara, you too," Ginny invited her.

Sara smiled and she too sat on the bed feeling more like part of the family and more like a friend.

Lavender started asking questions, "So, what happened? How did you stand him for the whole summer? Why did he kiss you? Are you two friends? Are you two more then friends?" Ginny laughed and knew this was going to be one long night.

Ginny woke up the next morning with a smile on her face. "It's my birthday!" she screamed out. She could hear moans and groans from all around. Her legs kicked at the sheets and she jumped up on her bed. Her birthday was her favorite day of the year. "Guys, come on! It's my birthday!"

The only response she got was a pillow being thrown at her face and a chorus of 'shut-ups'. Ginny only threw the pillow back at Lavender and jumped off the bed and ran down the hall screaming, "It's my birthday." She ran into her parents' room and screamed, "It's my birthday!" and then started to jump up and down on their bed.

Arthur groaned, "Isn't she getting a little bit too old to be doing this, Molly?"

"Oh, Arthur, let her be." Ginny jumped off the bed. "So what do you want for breakfast this morning?"

"Belgian Waffles?" Ginny asked.

"You got it! Now go wake up your brothers." Ginny went running out of the room. "And make sure you tell Percy that Penelope is coming in an hour to have breakfast with us," her mother called after her.

After breakfast Ginny was allowed to open her presents.

She opened her present from her parents first. She gasped as she slowly slid it out of the box, "Mom, Dad, you shouldn't have." It was a beautiful flowing green dress. She had been eyeing that dress since she was almost 15 years old, but it was expensive. Yet every time that her mother and she would go shopping, she would go into the store and try it on. She fell in love with it. "Mom, Dad, thank you so much." She gave each of them a hug.

Percy handed her her next present. It was a beautiful purple jewelry box. She opened it to examine it further and it played one of her favorite classical music songs, "On the Blue Danube." She gasped again. "This is wonderful." But that wasn't all that she saw in there. She also saw another small package. She opened it up and revealed a choker necklace that had a rather nice size pendant of a fairy on it. Ginny loved fairies. "This is so great! Thank you." She went up to them and gave Percy and Penelope a hug.

"Okay, me next," Bill said. He handed her a big, heavy present. She knew it had to be some kind of book. She opened it up and it was a book of hexes.

"Oooooooo! Let me see!" Hermione ran to sit next to her and leafed through the book, which was still on Ginny's lap.

The whole family laughed, "I think Hermione is going to enjoy this book more than I am." She looked over at Bill, "Thanks. I am sure that this will come in handy, besides, I think this looks quite interesting." She got up and let Hermione have the book as she went to go hug her brother.

Charlie and Sara were next. She opened the small package and took out a pair of dangly earrings. "Oh wow! These are really unique, but I don't have any pierced ears." It was true; other parents let their daughters get their ears pierced when they were younger, but Ginny still had to wait.

"That's where our present comes in," Lavender said with a joyful tone.

"There is no way I am letting you come anywhere near me with a piercing gun!" Ginny said covering her ears with her hands. Everyone laughed.

"No, silly. Tomorrow, Sara, Hermione, and I are taking you to a Muggle Mall."

Ginny's eyes widened, "Are you serious?"

"Yes! And not just any mall, but one of London's biggest malls." Lavender squealed with delight.

"You mean… The Mall of London?"

"Yup!" both Hermione and Lavender both said happily.

"This is wonderful! Thank you!" She turned to her mother, "And you are letting me get my ears pierced?" Her mother nodded. "Woo-hoo!"

Fred and George went next. They gave her a beautiful mirror with roses and fairies all over it. "Wow, guys, this is really beautiful!" Both boys beamed that they actually got her something that she liked. "I'm surprised that it doesn't do something, though."

"Oh, but it does," George told her.
"Yeah," Fred added and took the mirror and said, "If anyone else looks into it," Fred looked into it, and pretended to fix his hair, “it laughs at them, and the longer they look in it, the more the mirror laughs."

"This is truly the best present you guys ever gave me." She stood up and hugged her twin brothers.

Harry and Ron were last. Ron handed her a present and said, "We figured that it's time you had one of these."

Ginny knew what it had to be. She slowly opened it and revealed a beautiful hand made leather diary. "This is great guys."

"Don't worry, we made sure there was nothing wrong with this one. We bought it in Harry's town actually, and then we even did some tests on it to make sure it was okay."

Ginny smiled brightly, "Thank you!" and she gave them both a hug.

Mrs. Weasley stood up and said, "Okay, who's ready for--" she couldn’t say anything else because they heard a rather loud screech from an owl above them. They all looked up; it was a rather big black owl. It never landed; it just dropped a package on Ginny's lap, and continued flying.

"What's this?" she asked as the owl flew out of sight.

Everyone looked stunned. No one knew where it came from.

"Open it up, Ginny," Hermione nudged her.

Ginny did so. She removed the rose from on top of it and smelled it. She loved roses. She looked for a note or something, but found nothing, so she just opened it. When she lifted off the top of the box the item inside of it made her tear up.

"What is it?" she heard Ron ask.

She took it out and showed it to everyone. It was her bracelet, her "Ginevra" bracelet. It was written out in silver and one red stone dotted the "i".

“Ginevra?” Fred asked.

“Who’s Ginevra?” George added.

Charlie hit them both up side the head.

"Who gave that to you?" Mrs. Weasley asked.

"I don't know," Ginny said with a shrug, but she did have a good idea of who it was from. She then found a letter at the bottom of the box. She took it out and read it to herself.

"Dear Ginevra,

I hope this resembles the same bracelet that you lost so long ago. I know it’s not going to be the same one that your great-grandmother got for you, but I did the best I could at giving you the next best thing. I also had something engraved on the back so you can always remember your day. I hope you're having a wonderful birthday and I wish I could give this to you in person, but alas, I cannot. Happy birthday.”

Ginny smiled. Even though there was no name on it, she knew it could only be from the one and only Draco Malfoy.

"So who's it from?" Ron asked.

Ginny was trying not to cry happy tears, "There's no name."

"Ooooo! Ginny's got a secret admirer!" George taunted her.

Ginny blushed slightly, but before anyone could make another comment, her mother stood up and said, "Come on. It's time for some cake and ice-cream," everyone but Hermione and Lavender stood up and ran back into the house.

Ginny wiped the tears away and turned the bracelet over. She read it, "To Ginerva M. Weasley on her 16th birthday. Love, Draco." Ginny didn't read too much into the "love" part for she knew he just meant it in a friendly way. Then she noticed something else written on it, "Miracles can happen in more than one way." She wondered what he meant by that, but decided to ask him that weekend.

"So is it from him?" Hermione asked.

Ginny nodded, not trusting her voice. Tears were still running down her cheeks and she couldn’t remember ever being happier.

Hermione took the bracelet from Ginny's hands and put it on her wrist. It was a little too big, but it magically fit until it felt comfortable.

"I think he likes you, Gin," Lavender said. Ginny laughed.

"She's right. Boys don't usually buy jewelry for girls 'just because'." Hermione added.

“It’s not ‘just because’ it’s my birthday,” Ginny said, stating the obvious, “Besides it's just a study thing. You can rest assured that Draco Malfoy does not like me." Ginny stood up and walked towards the house.

"Yeah, well, what about you?" Hermione called out. Ginny turned around and looked confused, "The real question is, Ginny, do you like him?"

"It doesn't matter," Ginny said and turned again. "It rarely ever does." Ginny said to herself and entered the house with a big grin on her face.


The next morning Ginny was the first one to get up. She showered, changed, and started to get some breakfast ready.

Ginny was in front of the kitchen window sipping at her hot tea, enjoying the sun rising over the tree tops when she heard an owl approaching her. It was the same one from yesterday. She opened the window and the large bird landed on the sill. Ginny took the note off its leg, offered it a rather large piece of her muffin, and then patted its head. The owl screeched lightly and flew off.

She opened the letter and read it quickly.

It was a simple letter from Draco telling her what she would need for next weekend at his place. She sighed and sat down at the table. She could hear everyone running around upstairs and everyone yelling at everyone else to hurry up in the shower to keep the hot water going.

About an hour and a half later all the girls were set and ready to go on their little adventure to the Muggle mall.

Since Ginny's first year at Hogwarts Arthur bought another Muggle automobile, but this time he didn't enchant it...much. Arthur gave the keys to Sara. He showed her how to set the destinations into the car. All she had to do was hit the cruise control button and she didn't have to worry about driving the car.

Hermione lead them first to a place where they could turn their wizard money into Muggle money. When Ginny placed her big bag of money on the desk everyone else's eyes bugged out of their head. Ginny saw this and commented on it.

"What? I've been saving and because I had every weekend free I got a job on the weekends. The pay was pretty good."

"What did you do?" Hermione asked.

"I did errands for the elderly ladies who have money, but no families. They all loved me and over paid me a bit."

"I'd say so," Lavender said with a smile.

Ginny got her money back and her eyes bugged out. She had about 5,000 pounds in her hands.

They grabbed their money, got back into the car, and set out to the mall.

They reached the mall about an hour later.

As they got out of the car Ginny gasped. She never saw anything this big before in her life. It was three stories high. She bet it was at least three times bigger then the Malfoy Manor, "It'll take weeks just to shop in here!"

The girls only replied with a laugh.

"So what do you want to do first, Ginny? Shop or get your ears pierced?" Sara asked her.

Ginny didn't have to think at all, "Get my ears pierced!"

"Okay, let's go!" Hermione grabbed Ginny's arm and pulled her through the mall. Hermione, who grew up in the Muggle side of the world, had been to "The Mall of London" several times before.

By the time they reached the place where Ginny was to get her ears pierced, her legs were already tired. Hermione showed her the earrings that she could pick out to be put into her ears. Ginny didn't know which ones to choose. There were things called 14k gold plated ones with things called "Birthstone" colors on them. And there were ones that were 24k gold plated ones, but then she saw it. They were little green and silver colored flowers.

Ginny pointed them out and Hermione looked at them. She smiled and told Sara which ones Ginny wanted and she told the lady at the counter which ones they wanted. As soon as Ginny sat in the chair, she finally became nervous.

"Is this going to hurt?" she asked, a little scared.

"No," Hermione, Lavender, and Sara said all at the same time.

Ginny laughed, "Wow. Now I'm feeling a lot more scared." She sat still as the lady marked her ears up and sterilized everything that she was going to use.

Lavender finally saw what earrings Ginny picked out, "Oh those look nice, but why silver and green? Why not purple or something?" Then it slowly hit her, "Oohhh!"

Ginny looked at her, "There is no 'ooohhh'. I just thought that they looked the best."

"Hold still," the lady said, and POP the earring went in.

"Hey, that didn't even hurt!"

"See? Told you so," Sara said.

"Sure there's an 'ooohhh'," Lavender said. "You want him to notice you."

"Want whom to notice me?"

"Draco!" Lavender answered her question with a sigh.

"Shhhhh!" POP! "Ow! Okay, that one hurt a little."

"You okay?" the lady asked.

"Yes." She looked at her friends. "Don't say his name!"

"Why? Do you honestly think that someone is going to know him here?" Hermione asked.

"True." Ginny went to the front counter and paid for the earrings and all the girls left. "And besides that, do you really think he'll notice something so small?"

"It depends," Hermione said.

"Depends on what?" Ginny asked.

"How much he likes you," Sara answered.

"Look, you guys can rule that one out right now."

"Oh and why's that?" Lavender asked.

"Because he would never like me," Ginny said looking down at her feet.

"He gave you that kiss on the cheek," Lavender said.

"And you guys almost kissed," Hermione added.

Ginny sighed, "That means nothing. Sara, please tell them!"

"But it does mean something. You'll see. Wait a little while and it'll sink in that you like him and everything will go perfect," Sara answered her.

"I wish I could see it like you guys do, though I really am looking forward to saying, 'I told you so,' when nothing happens."

The others just sighed. "Come on, lets go shopping," Hermione said.

They spent the whole afternoon shopping for clothes and other little things that they needed. They picked out clothes that they could wear at Hogwarts for the weekends and also a few outfits for Ginny to wear to Draco's house for the following weekend.

By the time that they all sat down at a table at the food court with their lunches, they were all exhausted.

"This was really fun. Thanks, you guys."

"No problem, Ginny. We had fun too," Lavender said.

"A little too much fun," Sara said looking at all her bags. "I bought more things for me today then I ever have. Charlie is surely going to be upset."

"Not when he sees what you bought for him," Ginny wiggled her eyebrows.

Sara put her head in her hands. She was slightly embarrassed for buying sexy lingerie in front of them, but she quickly brought her head up and smiled at them.

Ginny was looking around the mall from her seat when she saw a store that she had not seen yet and then asked, "Can we go one more place before we leave?"

"Sure," Hermione said.

They finished eating and followed Ginny to the store where she wanted to go.

"A music store?" Lavender asked.

"Ginny, they sell musical instruments here," Sara told her.

"I know. That's why I wanted to come in here."

She went into the store and a salesman quickly went up to her, "Can I help you find something, miss?"

"Actually, I was just looking for a guitar." The others looked at her with a confused stare. They didn't know anything about Draco's secret about knowing how to play the guitar. Ginny told him that she would not say a word of that to anyone and she intended on keeping her promise. "I just want to have a look at them," she said to answer their unasked question. "They are on the left side of the building, next to the drums. Do you need help picking one out?"

"No, thank you," and she was off. She really had no clue what she was looking for. She was sure that Draco already owned his own guitar and anything she picked out for him would be something less then what he already had, but she wanted to look just the same.

She turned to the others and said, "I'll be right along. Why don't you guys go out in the hallway and wait for me?"

"Okay, sure." Sara said and she took the others and left the building.

Ginny looked around at all the guitars and she couldn’t make head nor tails out of what was different from one guitar to the next. She then looked at all the price tags and saw that they were all 5,000 pounds or more each. She sighed. She was about to turn away when she found it--the one guitar that she knew Draco would love. She ran up to it and put her hands on the glass case that it was bound in. She looked at the tag and wanted to cry--2,000 pounds. Of course. Great. What was she going to do? She wanted that guitar, but wasn't going to pay that much for it.

She heard a voice next to her, "That's a pretty nice guitar, isn't it?"

Ginny looked up and saw a woman standing next to her with a name tag on her. So she assumed that she worked there, "Yeah, it's the best one. I know my friend would like it," she said to the older woman standing next to her.

"Well, he must be more than a friend for you to want to buy that for him."

"I don't know. Besides, I can't afford that."

"Well, I'll tell you a little secret. That guitar right there has been in this store for the past 6 years."

"Really? Why?"

"Because Bryon Adams isn't that much of a big person in London."

Ginny looked back at the white guitar with Bryon Adams autograph on it. "Do you think he really used it?" Ginny asked.

"Yes, he did, but I'll tell you another little secret. This store has wanted to get rid of this for a long time. They are into negotiating the price a little. Are you good at negotiating?"

"I can lessen my punishment with my really evil teacher at school." It was true. Snape had it out for her. He just did not like the girl even though she was really smart in his class. He'd always give her detention and she'd negotiate her punishment with him all the time.

"Then I guess you're all good, darling."

"Thank you, but why would you help me out? Couldn't you lose your job for that?"

"Well, that would be a little hard to do since I own the store."

Ginny gasped, smiled, and said, "I'll give you 500 pounds for it."

The older woman crossed her hands over her chest and gave her a look that looked like she was asking, 'Are you crazy?' "Fifteen hundred pounds."

Ginny put her hands on her hips and said, "600."

"One thousand."

"750."

"SOLD!"

Ginny's eyes bugged out of her head, "Really?"

"Yup, it's all yours," the older woman said. She took out her keys, opened the glass case, and handed her the guitar. "Come on up to the front desk and I'll get you a case to put it in."

"Thank you, but why would you do this for me?"

"I've been in your shoes before, darling," Ginny gave her a confused look, "With liking a boy and wanting to get him something that he would love and something that no one else would ever think of buying it for him."

"It's not like that." Ginny said with a blush.

"Sure it is." The woman went into the back room and got its guitar case.

As she was ringing it up Ginny asked, "So… um, so what happened?"

"We're celebrating our 40th anniversary next year." The older woman smiled and so did Ginny.

Ginny paid for it and thanked her once again before going back into the hall to meet up with the others.

"Ginny! What are you doing buying a guitar?" Sara asked when she saw the guitar case in her hands.

"It's for my friend."

"Your friend?" Hermione asked.

"Yes. She's a big fan of Bryon Adams and has taken up the guitar just because of him. So I had to get it." She paused for a second, "Just don't tell Mum and Dad please?" Of course they agreed not to tell them.

The ride home was really quiet. Hermione and Lavender were asleep in the back seat of the car.

"So, Ginny, tell me, who's that guitar really for?" Sara asked her.

Ginny looked behind her to make sure that the other two were still asleep. "You promise that you won't tell anyone, not even them?" She pointed to the two in the back.

"I promise."

"It's for Draco," she said really quietly. "He plays the guitar, but no one can know. His father hates anything Muggle like."

"I swear that I won't tell a soul."

"Pinky promise?" Ginny held out her pinky.

"Pinky promise," Sara said and they linked their pinkies together.


The next weekend came soon enough. She was in the car on her way to the Malfoy manor. She was nervous about meeting Mr. Malfoy, but she swore that she wouldn't show him how scared she was of him.

Ginny was so wound up into her thoughts that it took her parents a few tries to get her attention.

"What?" she asked when they finally got her attention.

"We're here, honey," Molly told her.

Ginny swallowed and looked at the rather large house.

"Do you need us to go in there with you?" her father asked.

"No! No need to come in with me, Daddy. I'll be fine." She opened the car door and grabbed her bag. "I'll see you both on Sunday night. I'll Floo powder home, so there will be no reason for you to come and pick me up," she said through the window.

"Just be careful, okay?" Her father told her.

Ginny went on his side of the car, gave him a kiss on the cheek, and told him not to worry. She said good-bye to her folks and waited till the car was out of sight before she went up to the door.

She straightened her robes out and took a deep breath. She went to go ring the doorbell, but she found that there was nothing there. She kept on looking around when she heard someone ask, "Can I help you?"


To Be Continued…

AUTHOR NOTE: Just to answer everyone's question about why Ron did not want Ginny to go to Romania, was just because he didn't want her to go with them. When I first started to write this story in 2003, I didn't think that Ron and Ginny had a good close brother/sister relationship, so that's how I worked that in.

Author Note #2: I have updated this to Mildly Naughty for chapter 9, 15, and whatever number chapter Valentine's Day is going to be in. Just really heavy making out sessions. Story is PG-13! Enjoy and thanks for the reviews!!

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Chapter 6 – When You Say Nothing At All

Ginny jumped when she heard the unexpected voice. She looked down and saw a house elf. She bent down a little and said, "Hi, I am Ginny Weasley."

The little house elf gasped, "A Weasley in the Malfoy home? This cannot be good!"

"Whoa! Hang on a moment," Ginny said trying to calm her down, "I was invited by Mrs. Malfoy. I am here to tutor... I mean be tutored by Draco."

"Oh," the house elf understood, "Master Draco, smart he is, smart."

"Yes," Ginny said quietly under her breath.

"I am Mandy one of the house elf's."

"Well, Mandy, do you think you can help me in? I don't seem to see a door bell or a knocker anywhere."

"Miss Weasley must pull down on the snakes' tail and tell it her business," Mandy replied then without another word she ran off.

"Thank you," Ginny called after her, but doubted that the elf actually heard her.

Ginny did as she was instructed. She went to the snake and was about to pull its tail when it came to life. Ginny let out a squeak and watched how the snake came towards her hissing its tongue. It just starred at her for a moment when she realized what she had to do. "I am Ginny Weasley. I am here to see Draco Malfoy," The snake hissed at her again and was gone. Ginny waited outside for a few moments when she suddenly heard someone running to the door.

When it opened she saw another house elf, "Hello Miss Weasley," the house elf greeted her, "I am Billy, Master Draco's personal House elf," he let her in and said, "Master Draco will be with you shortly."

"Okay," Ginny said looking around.

"Shall I take your things?" Billy asked snapping Ginny out of her trance.

"Oh, yeah, thanks."

Billy took her things and ran from the room just as Draco walked in, "Good morning Ginevra."

She smiled at him and said, "Good morning."

Draco noticed that she was wearing the bracelet and was relieved that she did get it. He was about to say something when he noticed something else and walked up to her. Ginny was about to thank Draco for her gift when Ginny heard him talking. "Well, it looks like someone got their ears pierced," Ginny didn't know what to say; she didn't think that he would really notice it. "Ah, silver and green; those colors look great on you."

Ginny was not use to be given any compliments so she murmured a quick, "Thank you." She looked down at her feet and the two were enveloped in an awkward silence. Ginny wanted to say something to break it but the silence was broken when they heard someone else say, "Well, bring her in Draco, bring her in." Draco led her into the sitting room and Ginny saw a beautiful middle-aged woman with blonde hair and blue eyes.

Ginny walked over to her and the older woman stood up, "Mrs. Malfoy," Ginny said with her hand out, "I am Ginny Weasley, it's nice to meet you."

Mrs. Malfoy, very lady like took the young girls’ hand and said with a smile, "Draco, she's so delightful! She called me Mrs. Malfoy, I can't remember any of your other girlfriend’s doing that."

Ginny blushed at Mrs. Malfoy's accusation, but apparently Draco took it a lot better. He turned around and smiled at Ginny and said, "Mum, we're not going out."

Mrs. Malfoy looked a little upset, "He's right. Draco is just helping me study," Ginny added.

"Oh. Well," Mrs. Malfoy sat down, "There's got to be a start somewhere for everyone," she picked up a small sandwich from the small coffee table in front of them and said, "You're father used to date a girl from Gryffindor." You could tell immediately she wished that she didn't say it. She looked as though she wanted to take it back.

Draco looked shocked, "Really?"

Narcissa looked like she was thinking of what to say, "Maybe it was Ravenclaw," she paused again, "No, no, it was defiantly Gryffindor. Oh but that was a long time ago, before things changed and the world was a little more peaceful."

"What happened to her?" Ginny asked picking up a sandwich and taking a small bite from it.

"I don't know. Got married I suppose," Ginny knew that she wasn't telling them the whole story, but didn't wish to press it. They were silent for a few moments when Narcissa said, "Oh and I know about you're little secret."

"What secret?" Both Ginny and Draco said at the same time.

"That Ginny is tutoring you and not the other way around."

"Did my mother tell you?" Ginny asked this at the same time that Draco asked. "Are you going to tell father?"

"No," she said looking at Ginny and then turned to Draco and said, "and do you think I'm that nuts!"

"Are you upset?" Draco asked.

"Upset? No! I wasn't nearly that good in school and your fathers worst subject was Defense Against the Dark Arts."

"What?" Draco asked.

"It's true." She told him.

They continued talking until they heard a door slam and feet pounding down the hall.

Ginny suddenly went nervous. She knew that it was Lucius Malfoy, though when she saw Draco smile quickly at her, most of her fears vanished.

As Lucius entered the room everyone stood and Draco saw that Ginny's nervousness disappeared.

Lucius walked over to Ginny and sneered, "What are you doing here?"

Ginny crossed her arms and said, "And Hello to you too Mr. Malfoy, how good to see you again."

"Yes, I'm sure." Lucius starred her down, hoping to see the Wesley girl get scared, but Ginny didn't, so he turned to Narcissa and said, "Narcissa, we have some things to do." He turned back to Ginny and said "I don't know how old man Dumbledore can let you slide by and fail a class, but I think I know what he thinks will come out of this," he went over to Draco and said quietly, but loud enough for Ginny to hear, "I swear boy, nothing, and I do mean nothing better come out of this. If you disgrace the family name, I swear I'll make it so you wish you'd never been born."

Draco only nodded; he turned to Ginny and said, "Come on Weasel, let's go." He quickly winked at her. He turned around and started walking, "Come on, I don't have all day!"

"Oh, yeah. I'm right behind you, ferret boy."

Draco ran off and Ginny followed him. "Don't run in this house!" Lucius yelled after them.

Soon they reached the study. Draco shut the door and turned to Ginny saying, "Bloody hell, Ginevra, I never saw anyone stand up to my father like that before. It was bloody amazing."

Ginny stood there smiling and said, "Yeah, uh... Draco?"

"Yeah?"

"I, uh – I just wanted to say... uh."


"Well, come on, spit it out," he said with a smile.

Ginny walked over to him and threw her arms around him and said, "Thank you," she said it quietly. "Thank you, thank you, thank you." She gave him a quick peck on the cheek and stepped back.

He looked down into her eyes and saw them sparkling with happiness, "You're welcome," he said and then added, "Uh... for what actually?"

Ginny laughed and swatted him on the arm, "For my bracelet. I never thought I would ever see it ever again and here it is," she lifted her arm and looked at it, "Thank you so much."

"No problem, I'm glad you like it." He guided them over to a table and said, "Let's get a little more comfortable." And he removed his robes. He was wearing a pair of worn out jeans and a black sweater. Ginny removed her robes too. When he saw what she was wearing he suddenly got a little uncomfortable. He never thought that he would find a Weasley attractive.

Ginny saw him starring at her. She smiled and said, "You like my dress?" Hermione and Lavender helped Ginny pick out her outfit for the day. Ginny protested when they told her to wear the dress, but they reminded her that she was going to a Malfoy house, and that more then likely Draco would be wearing an Armani Suit. Ginny didn’t know what Hermione was talking about and doubt that Draco did either.

"Very nice," he choked out. He cleared his throat and said, "Like I said before, you look very nice in green."


About a half an hour later...

There was a knock on the door.

"Enter!" Draco barked and Ginny jumped.

The door slowly opened up and a small house elf opened the door, "Master Draco, the Master of the house would like to see you in the Foyer."

"You may tell him that I am on my way, Mandy," he said in a nicer tone.

The house elf almost looked giddy, "Very good sir," she replied and left.

Draco put his robes on and said, "Wait here. Look around, just don't break anything," he smiled and left.

Draco took his time to meet his father. When he finally got there he saw that his father was leaving. His personal house elf, Cosmo, was standing there holding his bag while another house elf was helping him with his cloak, "Yes father?" Draco said coldly.

"Took you long enough," Lucius sneered.

"You've always told me never to run in the house."

Lucius gave his son a sinister smile and said, "I have been called away on some... business matter. I will be back in a few days. Your mother has already left to go see her sister."

Draco sighed, "Is that all father?"

"No, that is not all,” he practically hissed at his son, “I don't want you fooling around with that Weasley girl."

"Fool around?" Draco asked trying to sound disgusted.

"You can't fool me son. You may have my evilness and cruelty, but there's some of your mother in there too," he said sounding a bit disgusted.

"You have nothing to worry about, I assure you."

"Good," Lucius said and he left without even saying good-bye.

Draco smiled and ran all the way back to the study.


Meanwhile...

Ginny walked around the room looking at all the stuff the Malfoy’s had. They had a lot of valuable stuff. Her fingers itched to touch it, but restrained herself.

Ginny moved over to a small bookcase they had there and eyed each book. She came across many books written by many wizards and witches, but then she came across some albums; in particular one that said, "Draco Clifford Malfoy," on it. She took it out and was about to open it when she saw the door open and Draco run through it.

"What's wrong? Is everything okay?" Ginny asked in alarm.

"Everything is great! My father is leaving and won't be back this weekend." Ginny was relieved. At least that was one thing less she had to worry about. "So it's just you and me."

"And you're mother."

"Nope, she left to go see her sister."

Ginny went a little wide-eyed, "So it's just the two of us."

Draco nodded and smiled, "Whatever will we do with each other," he said wiggling his eyebrows.

"Oh shut-up ferret boy," Draco tried to look hurt. Ginny ignored him and said, "Look at what I found." She showed him the album.

"Hey! That's my baby book!" Draco was in between shocked that she found it and utter humiliation that he knew that there had to be some pictures in there that he didn’t want her to see.

"Thank you Captain Obvious.”

Draco opened his mouth to say something, but then closed it, and looked at her confused. “Who’s he?”

“I don’t know, but that’s what Hermione calls Ron when he states the obvious.”

“Anyways, I don't think I ever looked through this before," Draco said as he picked the book up.

"Well, there's a first time for everything," Ginny said and opened the book.

On the first page there were a few pictures. One was of a happy looking Narcissa holding a baby Draco. The next picture was of the family.

"I never seen my father smile like that before," Draco said sad like. The picture was of Lucius sitting next to Narcissa on the bed while he held his son, looking very happy and very proud.

As they turned to the next page there were more family pictures and his parents actually looked like they were in love and happy. He saw many of his parents kissing each other, or kissing him. There was even a picture where his father was asleep on a couch and Draco was curled up on his father chest sleeping with him. Draco was about to get teary eyed so he quickly turned the page.

On the next couple of pages there were pictures of people that he knew where family and friends, but he's never seen them before, so they quickly passed those pages.
The next page they came to was titled, "Bath Time."

Draco tried to turn the page and say, "We don't need to look at these either."

Ginny stopped him from turning the page and said, "Yes we do."

She eyed through the pictures and saw one that made her laugh. She pointed to it and said, "Draco look at that one,"

Draco looked at it and saw a moving picture of his father giving him a bath when he was three years old. Draco was splashing his father with water and Lucius was laughing. Draco said quietly, "Wow, my father actually did love me at one time."

Ginny turned to him and said, "I'm sure he still does."

Draco shook his head, "He's more evil then nice these days."

Ginny let the conversation slide and went to the next page.

There on that page was the picture that Draco was dreading to see; a naked baby Draco picture.

Ginny didn't say a thing; she just looked at the pictures and turned to the next page.

"Wow Weasley," Draco said in a teasing voice, "I'm surprised you didn't say anything." He wondered why the hell he would even bring that up.

"What would you of like me to do?" Ginny asked, "Point at the picture laugh and say, 'oh look! Naked baby Draco!' That's so immature."

There was a quick pause between them and he said, "You're dying to say it, aren't you?"

Ginny bit her lip and said, "Yes! But I won't!"

As they went on there were less and less pictures of Lucius, and when there were pictures of him, he wasn't smiling or showing any emotions. Then when she got closer to the end of the book there were no pictures to be found of him.

Ginny looked up at Draco with confusion in her eyes, "This is the time in which the Dark Lord took complete control over my father."

Ginny nodded and closed the book.

Draco took it from her hands and got up to put it away. He turned towards Ginny and said, "Of course now I have to see your baby book."

"Yeah, sure. The next time your at the burrow, you can see it." She said knowing fully well that he wasn't going back to her house.

Draco smiled and said, "I'm going to hold you to your promise."

Ginny ignored him and said, "Let's go do something fun!"

"What do you mean by fun?" Draco said as he watched Ginny stand up.

Ginny's stomach answered for her by growling. Ginny slightly blushed and said, "How about we get some lunch."

"Lunch sounds good."

"Okay, let me go get changed and then we can go eat," Ginny left the room. Draco stood there as though he was waiting for something to happen. Ginny came back into the room and said, "Uh... where is my stuff?"

Draco laughed and showed her the way.

He led her down a hallway with only a few doors. He stopped in front of one and said, "This will be you're room. The bathroom is right here," he pointed to the door across from hers, "and I am right next to you. So when you're ready just come on over."

"Okay, thanks," she said and she walked into her room.

Draco waited until she was in her room until he headed into his.

When Ginny got into her room, she was in awe; she never saw a bedroom look so extravagant. There was a huge bed against one of the walls. The royal red carpet felt plush under Ginny's feet. The walls were a creamy color making her feel like she was actually in a pure house. The dressers, she could tell, we're definitely hand carved, and very old. She took her time looking at all the vases and expensive-looking little odd and ends. There were gold and silver framed pictures around the room, of people she did not know. The lamps on the dressers were made from fine china and had a crystal like shade over them. There was also a fireplace built entirely out of bricks. Ginny knew that this room alone was probably worth more then her whole entire house.

After a little while Ginny finished looking around the room and took her clothes out that she was going to wear. She quickly changed and ran over to Draco's room, she knocked on his door, but didn't hear him reply. She heard music coming from his room so she knocked louder, he still didn't answer, so she opened the door.

Meanwhile...

Draco, thinking that Ginny would take a long time getting changed, took out his guitar from it's hiding spot and sat on his bed with his back to the door.

He started to play the new song that he was currently practicing, "Kids wanna rock", another one of Bryan Adams songs.

He didn't even realize that the door opened up and Ginny walked into his room watching him practice. He started to play again. Ginny, walked closer and mentally followed the song,

"Turned on the radio
Sounded like a disco
Musta turned the dial for a couple of miles
But I couldn't find no rock 'n roll This computerized crap ain't gettin' me off"

"Everywhere I go the kids wanna rock!" Ginny sang out, by pure habit. Draco suddenly stopped and looked at Ginny. "I'm sorry, I knocked three times, but you didn't hear me."

Draco took a look at her, she was wearing socks, but no shoes, short shorts that showed off how long her legs were, and a black short sleeve shirt complementing all her womanly curves.

"Draco, are you okay?" She said as she sat down on his bed next to him.

"Yeah, sorry." He smiled.

"So, are you ever going to play for me?" Ginny said pointing to his guitar.

Draco smiled, "Yeah, maybe later, but right now, let's go get some food, I'm starving!" He slid his guitar under his bed, stood up, and grabbed Ginny's hand. He held her hand all the way down to the kitchen, but let go of it when they saw a House elf come out of the kitchen.

"Hello Master Draco," the house elf looked at Ginny, "and master Draco's friend. What can Pippy get for you?"

"How about some lunch? I'll have a steak sandwich and a butter beer," he looked at Ginny.

"Can I have a salad with French dressing and a water?"

"Yes ma'am. Pippy bring your food right out to you!" And with that the house elf was gone.

Draco led her to the dinning room. In there, there was a very large, long table. He walked to the side of the table and held out the chair for her. He then took the chair next to her and sat down in it.

Ginny started to talk to Draco, but he couldn't really pay attention. His mind was wondering off, off to those pictures that he saw, for the first time, just a little while ago.

Ginny soon realized that Draco was in his own little world and starring off into space. She said his name a couple of times and finally he snapped out of it. "Sorry, what were you saying?"

"Draco, where were you?"

"I was right here."

"No, I mean you were starring out into space. Is something bothering you?"

"I just can't stop thinking about those pictures," Draco said. "What if I end up like him?"

"What are you talking about?"

He turned towards Ginny and said, "What if I end up like my father? By just looking at the pictures you know that the man can love, but as the years went on darkness took over his heart." He paused and then added more quietly, "What if I end up falling out of love with my wife and my child? What if I end up making their lives miserable?"

She looked at Draco and took his hand in hers and caressed it soothingly, "Draco, you're nothing like you're father."

"How do you know?"

"Well, you befriended a Weasley," Ginny said with a smile.

"Yeah, I did, didn't I?" Draco smiled back.

"Besides that, I think that your parents still love each other," Draco turned to Ginny, "I mean if your mother didn't love your father or if she knew that he no longer loved her, I think she would of left by now and taken you with her. She's a strong woman Draco, I can tell. And besides, if your wife ever complains that you turned to the dark side, I swear I'll come over here and beat you to a bloody pulp myself."

Draco laughed out loud, "Thanks Weasley, I think I needed that."

"No problem Ferret boy!"

By that time their food came out and they ate in peace.


"So, what would you like to do?" Draco asked once the house elves cleaned away their plates.

Ginny didn't say anything and looked at the floor, "How much of this house has marble flooring?"

"Ah... the whole ground floor has marble flooring."

"Great!"

"Why?" Draco asked looking a little scared.

Ginny said a spell that Draco never heard of and then she pointed her wand at their feet. The next thing that Draco knew was that he lost his balance and wound up on the floor, "What the hell?" he looked at his feet and saw sneakers with four little wheels on them. "Do you want to tell me what these things are?"

Ginny gave him her hand to help him up. As he took it and stood up, she answered him, "They are called roller skates."

"Do not tell me you brought a muggle invention into my house!"

"Oh come now! Just give them a try!" She started to skate on her skates as he just stood there holding onto the wall for support, "Oh come on! I thought that Malfoy's have very good balance."

"We do!" he retorted almost falling again.

"Then prove it Malfoy!" Ginny dared and she skated away.

Draco made sure that he had complete control over his balance before he started to move his feet and glide clumsily towards Ginny, "Hey this is easy!" he called out, but then he started going faster and faster and headed straight towards Ginny. "Uh-oh! Where are the breaks on these things?" He shouted.

"Point your toe down!" Ginny screamed, but it was too late for he already collided with her. The two of them fell to the floor, Draco lying on top of her.

Draco, at first, thought that he had hurt her, but soon found that she was laughing hysterically. He stayed on top of her, putting his hands on the floor beside her head so that he wasn't crushing her. He waited until her fits of laughter turned into giggles and asked, "What the hell are you laughing at?"

Ginny continued giggling and said, "Looks like I win Ferret boy."

"I didn't know this was a game."

"Well, it is!" she told him.

"Well," he said bringing his head down closer to hers, "It looks like I did too," when Ginny realized what Draco was going to do suddenly she stopped laughing and a mixture of nervousness and pleasure ran through her. Right before their two lips met a house elf came running into the room.

"Master Draco! Are you okay?"

Draco quickly rolled off of Ginny and stood up on his knees, "Yes, fine. Thank you."

"Very good sir," the house elf backed away and went back to his work.

With the moment broken, Ginny stood up and said, "Come on. This time don't let go," she said holding out her hand and smiling.

He grabbed a hold of her hand and stood up, not letting go.

They started skating, together.

A half an hour later Draco got a hang of the muggle contraption.


They skated for half of the afternoon and for the other half they studied up in his room.

When it came time to eat they had the food brought up to his room.


After studying for a while longer Ginny said, "It's 'later' can you play for me now?" She said in a pleading like tone.

Draco smiled and went over to his bed, pulled the guitar out from under it, and said, "Any requests?"

"Something by Bryan Adams."

Draco smiled and thought of one. He started playing and to Ginny's surprise he also started singing.

"I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played it till my fingers bled
It was the summer of '69
Me and some guys from school
Had a band and we tried real hard
Jimmy quit and Jody got married
I shoulda known we'd never get far"

Ginny started to bop her head about and she looked at him as though she was some love-sick fan, fawning over the real Bryan Adams.

Draco looked at her and smiled as he sang.

"Oh when I look back now
That summer seemed to last forever
And if I had the choice
Ya - I'd always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life"
Ain't no use in complainin'
When you got a job to do
Spent my evenin's down at the drive-in
And that's when I met you
Standin' on your mama's porch
You told me that you'd wait forever
Oh and when you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life
Back in the summer of '69
Man we were killin' time
We were young and restless
We needed to unwind
I guess nothin' can last forever - forever, no
And now the times are changin'
Look at everything that's come and gone
Sometimes when I play that old six-string
I think about ya wonder what went wrong
Standin' on your mama's porch
You told me it would last forever
Oh the way you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life
Back in the summer of '69"

When Draco finished his song Ginny was in awe.

"So what do you think?" Draco asked slightly out of breath.

"I... I'm speechless. It was great. Who knew that you could sing! Sing another one," she practically pleaded again.

Draco laughed and said, "I thought you said you were speechless," he laughed at his own little joke and then added, "I think that's enough for now. It's getting late and I'll be nice and let you have the bathroom first."

Ginny got up and kissed him on his cheek, "Thank you for sharing this with me," and she quickly left his room. She ran to her room, grabbed her shower stuff and pajamas and headed to the bathroom.

Draco sat on his bed with his hand still on his cheek and smile implanted on his face. He finally shook himself out of his trance and realized that he was falling for a Weasley. He couldn't be falling for a Weasley, not him, not the only Malfoy heir left. He decided that he was thinking too much, so he started to practice his guitar.

After a few minutes Draco put his guitar aside and went to see if the bathroom was free. As he walked towards it, he noticed that the water was still running, but there was something else too. He heard something, something like singing. He smiled, "So she sings in the shower." Sometimes he feels as though he knows too much about her, but then he finds out something new. He leaned his ear closer to the door and listened to her. "Nothing's gonna stop us now. And if this world runs out of lovers we'll still have each other..." Draco shook his head and went back into his room to play some more of his guitar.


A while after that Ginny finished her shower; she stepped out of the tub and grabbed the rather big terry cloth towel, still singing her song. "Let the world around us just fall apart, maybe we can make it if we're heart to he..." she stopped singing when she noticed her pj's where nowhere to be found. She looked everywhere, but didn't see her clothes from that day or her pj's for the night anywhere. "Damn house elves, they took them away with my dirty clothes! Ugh! This is why we don't own house elves!" she didn't even have her wand with her; she left it in her room. "Ugh!" she screamed in frustration again. She was also supposed to go tell Draco when she was out of the bathroom. She decided to just run to his room, knock on the door, and run away.

She tied the towel around her a little tighter, left the bathroom, and plowed right into Draco.
If his arms didn't catch her, she would of fallen down, and who knows what else.

She grabbed a better hold of her towel so it wouldn't fall off, and said, "Would you mind removing your hands? Cause if you don't my towel will fall." She had no clue why she added that.

"Is that so bad?" he said leaning down closer to her.

She looked up at him and said, "For me, yes. For you, maybe not." She couldn't help but laugh, "What are you doing out here anyways? You were supposed to stay in your room until I told you that I was done."

"Yeah, well, I got bored waiting, and came to hurry you up. You take forever."

"Well, sorry." She said.

"Uh-huh, I'm not," he said in her ear. A shiver ran down Ginny's spine. Draco leaned down a
little further and took in her scent. "You smell good," he said.

Ginny was getting a little nervous, but said, "Well, I left my stuff in there if you want to use it."

"No thanks, I like it better on you." He said against her neck and laid a soft kiss on it.

"Draco," she said in a shaky voice.

Draco snapped out of it and really looked at her. She looked a little nervous. "Oh, Gin, I'm sorry." He said and released his hold on her. "It's just, um... sleep deprive."

"Yeah," Ginny said with a grin, "It's just that my scantly clad body turns you on, Malfoy."

"Yeah, you just keep telling yourself that, Weasley. I have to go take a shower." He said as he entered the bathroom.

Ginny ran to her room and shut the door, "Did I really say that?"

"Did she really say that?" Draco said as soon as the bathroom door was shut.

"I wonder if I was right," Ginny asked herself.

"Boy, was she ever right," Draco said as he stepped under the cold spray of water.


Later that night...

Ginny got up to go to the bathroom. She was still so tired that she couldn't even open her eyes.

When she went back into her bed she found it warmer then when she left it. She paid no never mind to that and went right back to sleep.


In the morning Draco woke up to something tickling his nose. "If Ginny is pulling something to wake me up early on a Saturday morning, I swear..." he said to himself, but when he opened his eyes he did see Ginny; not awake, but sleeping in his arms. He looked a little confused, he didn't know why she was here, but he really didn't mind that she was.

He looked at her one last time and realized how much she looked like an angel sleeping. Then saying in a sweet tone, he said, "Hey, Ginevra, get up."

"Just five more minutes." She said snuggling up to him even more.

Draco smiled, enjoying the predicament that he was in, and said, "No, it's time to get up."

Ginny slowly opened her eyes and saw Draco there, "What are you doing in my bed?" She asked him.

"The real question is what are you doing in my bed?"

Ginny's eyes shot opened but she didn't move. She combed her fingers through her hair and looked confused, "What am I doing here?"

"I don't know, but I don't think I mind." He said caressing her check with his hand and leaning down to kiss her, but before he could there was a lot of banging on his door, "Master Draco," called a house elf.

Draco groaned and muttered, “Bloody House Elves!” Draco flipped them over so Ginny was on the other side, "Quick, get under the sheets!"

"Huh?"

"Just do it! Oh and Weasley, who knows how long this will take, so just amuse yourself while your down there."

"Amuse myself?" she asked getting under the covers, "With what?" She then noticed that Draco wasn't wearing anything. "Oh Merlin!" she said covering her eyes. Draco just laughed.

"Come in," Draco said to the house elf.

"Sir, we can not find Miss Weasley!" Billy said. He wasn't able to see Ginny because she was being shield by Draco's body.

Ginny accidentally brushed her hand against Draco’s thigh, making him gasp slightly and squeak, “Can’t,” he cleared his throat and tried again, “Can’t find her?”

"She's not in her room sir!"

"She probably just got lost. I will be there in just a few moments."

"Very good sir," Billy said and left the room.

Ginny heard the door close again and asked, "Can I come out now."

"No."

Ginny came out anyways, "Thanks for the heads up," she said getting out of bed wearing a pair of pajama pants and a tank top.

"I see that you got your pajama's back."

"Yeah, got a hold of Mandy and asked her to bring them back. Now if you don't mind, I am going to go brush my teeth," and she left his room.

Draco laughed, pulled on a pair of boxers and followed her into the bathroom.

When he got in there she was already brushing her teeth, so he took the other sink and started to brush his too. Ginny went to glare at him and noticed something for the first time that morning.

"Oh my goodness!" she mumbled with the toothbrush in her mouth.

Draco looked at her and said, "What?"

Ginny spit and said, "Look at your hair!"

"What about it?"

"It's not all greasy and pulled back." It was true his hair was all messed up with some parts just sticking up.

Draco said, "It's called wizard gel, Gin," Ginny bit her lip as though wanting to say something, "What?"

"Could you..."

"No."

"You don't even know what I was going to ask!" Ginny said stomping her foot.

"Okay, ask away."

"Could you just for one day..."

"No."

"Draco Malfoy, you're not being fair! Just let me finish my question," he stood there waiting for her question, "Just one day, don't use the gel."

"No."

"Oh come on! Just one day. If you don't like it you can go back to the other way."

"No!" he said being firm.

"Fine, be that way, see if I care!" Ginny said as she stomped out of the bathroom.

He laughed and took his brush out to fix up his hair.

Ginny went to go get changed. When she came back out of her room Draco was still in the bathroom. She knocked on the door, "Come on Malfoy!" she was pretty mad at him that he didn't do this one time thing for her, "How long does it take you in there?"

Suddenly the door opened up and Draco came out. "So what do you think?" he asked Ginny as he stood in the doorway of the bathroom.

Ginny turned around and was about to say something when her voice got caught in her throat. She finally got a good look at a half naked Draco Malfoy. Sure she was just in his bed and the bathroom with him, but she never really got a good look at him. Ginny got a little caught up; he was very cute with his well-toned muscular body, which he probably acquired from Quidditch. She gave him one last look and said, "Very nice."

Draco smirked, folded is arms over his chest, and said, "I'm talking about my hair."

Ginny grew pink in the face and said, "That's what I was talking about."

His smirk turned into a smile and said, "Sure it was." He ran his fingers threw his hair to get the bangs out of his eyes, but it just fell right back into place.

Ginny saw him do that and she, too, just had to touch his hair. She walked up to him so she was closer and ever so slowly brought her hand up to his head and ran her fingers threw his hair; it was so soft.

Draco closed his eyes and said her name, "Ginevra..." Ginny never heard anyone ever say her name like that. It was more of a moan then a complaint, “What are you doing?"

She stopped her movement and said, "Sorry, I don't really know why I..."

He grabbed her waist and pulled her even closer to him. Her one hand was on his chest while the other was still in his hair. Draco leaned down closer to her and said in a deep voice, "Don't stop."

Ginny ran her hand up his chest, around his neck, and played with the hair on the nape of his neck. A shiver ran down Draco's spine. He closed his eyes to just enjoy being this close to this particular girl. What made his eyes snap open again was a feeling of a small tug on his neck. When he opened his eyes he saw Ginny looking up at him with a smile on her face.

Draco asked himself if what he felt was an invite to kiss her. Did she want him to kiss her? He decided that the only way to find out was to do so. He slowly leaned his head down to hers and she didn't push him away. He rubbed his nose against hers and saw the smile on her face get wider. He placed a gentle soft kiss on the corner of her mouth and felt her head turn to kiss him, but he moved his head. "Don't tease me, Draco." She said quietly. He then smiled at her and leaned into her again. Just as their lips touched they heard one of the house elves running towards them. Draco pushed Ginny away just before the house elf reached them.

"Master Draco, you found Miss Wheezy!"

"Yes,” Draco squeaked. He cleared his throat and tried to talk again, “Yes, I did."

"Well, then, what can Billy get for you two for breakfast?" After they told him, Billy walked back towards the stairs.

Draco looked at Ginny and saw that she was looking at the ground, "I like the hair," she said looking up at him.

"Thanks, I think I do too."

There was a small awkward silence when Ginny's stomach growled. They both laughed and Ginny said, "Go, get dressed, I'm, starving.

"Yes, my lady," Draco took her hand, laid a chaste kiss against her knuckles, and went back to his room.


They studied for most of the day. They talked some more of past times and played some wizard chess, which Ginny kicked Draco's ass at.


Later that night Draco lit the fireplace up in the living room and Ginny went off to get supplies to make some S'mores.

While Draco was sitting there waiting for Ginny to come back he was trying to figure out what he was feeling. He had almost kissed Ginny four times. He stopped in mid thought and realized that he did kiss her, but not nearly as long as he wanted to. He lifted his hand to lips and remembered those soft lips against his, even though it was just for a brief second, he could still feel them. Before he could continue his thinking a head popped into the fire. It was Blaise Zabini.

At that moment Ginny was about to walk into the room, but saw the head, so she hung back a bit.

"Hey hun, what's up?" Draco asked. Blaise was one of his best friends.

"Nothing much," she sniffled, "Keith just broke up with me." She cried out. Draco shook his head; he knew that boy was up to no good. "Can I come over for a little?"

"I'd love you to, but my dad is in one of fits right now."

"Oh, well, can you come over then?" Blaise pleaded.

"Sorry hun, but I just can't tonight."

"Ugh, what did you do to your hair?" Blaise said in disgust.

Draco laughed, "What you don't like it?"

"No, I don't."

"Fine, I'll change it back, just for you." He said, not being serious.

Ginny's eyes were already tearing up. She placed the try of goodies on a table and walked away. Draco told her earlier that day that he had a secret passage up to an observation deck that was his alone, so she decided to go see what was up there.

"Really?" Blaise smiled.

"No. I kind of like it like this." Draco said running his fingers through his hair.

"Oh." She said disappointed.

Draco knew that Ginny would be coming back anytime soon, so he said, "I have to go Blaise, so I'll see you later."

"Okay, bye,” and with that said Blaises’ head vanished.

Draco sat back down and waited for Ginny to come back, but she didn't, so he got up and went into the other room. When he saw the tray of goodies on the table, Draco realized she must have heard him talking to Blaise.

"Billy!" he called out.

Billy showed up, "Billy is here sir"

"Where is the Weasley girl?"

"Sir," he said nervously, "I think sir, that she went up to your observation deck," he flinched and covered his head as if he expected to be hit. He knew that Draco told him never to let anyone up there. To Billy’s surprise nothing came. He looked up and saw that Draco was gone.


Meanwhile...

Ginny went up the stairs and out onto his observation deck. She saw a hammock on one side of the deck, she went to it, and laid in it. She then proceeded to look around and on the small table next to her she saw a radio. "For someone who doesn't like Muggles, he sure does have a lot of Muggle things," she said to herself and turned the radio on. There was a song on and she knew what it was right away. It made her think about her and Draco, he almost kissed her four times, well, three times, for she could still feel his lips against hers that last time.

Ginny then realized that out of all the times he almost kissed her, she never pushed him away. She knew that she wanted him to kiss her, but then what? What would happen after that? Draco would never go out with her, and what about Blaise? She was sure that Draco liked Blaise better then herself. She decided to stop thinking and she started to sing with the song while starring up at the stars.

When Draco reached his observation deck he saw Ginny lying in his hammock looking up at the stars listening to a song off his radio. Draco walked closer and heard Ginny softly singing to the song.

"The smile on your face lets me know that you need me. There's a truth in your eyes saying you'll never leave me. The touch of your hand says you'll catch me when I fall. You say it best when you say nothing at all."

At that moment Draco felt as though this song was talking about them. He smiled and laid next to her on the hammock. Ginny didn't scream out of surprise to see him; she just knew that it was him.

"Hey," Draco addressed her.

"Hey," Ginny responded sadly.

"What are you thinking about?"

"About how this was the best summer of my life," Ginny answered his question.

"Now that's a little hard to believe," Draco said not believing her.

"Now why do you say that?" Ginny asked confused.

"Because you had to spend it with me," Draco answered her truthfully.

"That's the reason why it was so good," he looked down at her, "Draco, you made me see that people should always deserve a second chance."

"Thank you for giving that to me," he said quietly and sincere. She smiled at him and he asked, "Why so sad then?"

"Because tomorrow will be our last day being like this," he was about to ask something when she said, "Why can't we jus be friends?"

"Ginny, we are friends. This summer proved it. You even said we were friends."

"Sure now we are, but what about when school starts up, huh? Do you really think that I'm that naive to think that once were back at school that we're still going to be like this?"

"What are you talking about?" Draco asked getting upset.

"Draco, lets face it, when we go back, you'll start taunting Harry, Ron, and Hermione again and I swear if you call her Mud…” Ginny bit her lip in surprise that she almost said it, “the “M” word, I’ll…”

Before she could finish her threat Draco covered her mouth with his hand and asked, “Why are you so violent?”

“I am not violent,” Ginny protested and then added, “Besides you won’t have any need for me to tutor you anymore."

"Sure I will."

"If you need anyone help you, I'm sure Blaise would. You said so yourself, she's one of the top students in our class," she bit her lip. She didn't want to sound like she was jealous, even though she was.

"Oh, so that's what this is all about," Draco gasped.

"What are you..." Ginny said but was cut off.

"You're jealous!"

"Of what!"

"You think I like Blaise," Draco accused.

"Why would I care?" Ginny said trying to sound disgusted.

Draco just starred at her; he just wanted to kiss her once before the weekend was over. But then his head asked him, 'But will once be enough?' He put that thought away and said, "I don't know. Why would you care? Could it be because you like me?" Draco really couldn't take much more. Those lips were taunting him. He needed to feel those lips against his once more.

"That's ab..." before Ginny could finish he leaned down and kissed her hard. Ginny's eyes went wide. Draco soon relaxed himself and softened the kiss. Ginny didn't even think about pushing him away, she actually wanted this. She wrapped her arms around his neck and ran her fingers through his hair. Draco liked the feel of that and a moan escaped from him. Ginny felt Draco's tongue lick at her bottom lip, asking to be let in, and she opened up to him. Now it was her turn to moan a little.

After a few moments Draco pulled away and Ginny was breathing heavily, "Wow." Ginny thought to herself.

"You can say that again," Draco looked down at her. Apparently, Ginny said that out loud. She looked away from him and blushed. He grabbed her chin to make her look at him and said, "How about being secret friends?"

"Secret friends sounds great,” Ginny said with a smile.

"And I'll lighten up on the ‘Dream team.’” Draco said a little disgusted.

Ginny just let out a laugh, “In fact maybe I should ask them to lighten up on you for me. I don‘t need Hermione to hit you again.”

Draco groaned and said, “And we went so long without having to bring that up.”

Ginny wrapped her arms around his head, again, and leaned up letting Draco know she wanted another kiss. Draco smirked and as he leaned forward for the second kiss they heard thunder. Then suddenly the clouds covered the sky and the rain started to fall.


To Be Continued...