Amor Prohibido

Amor Prohibido
By: Fatema
Chapter Five: Arguments and Confessions
A/N: I apologize for taking so long, but here is the next installment. All feedback is much appreciated!

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Ginny walked down the stairs and into the Gryffindor common room. She felt a bit tired after having spent half the night up in the Astronomy Tower. Her cheeks grew hot and she knew she was blushing at just the thought. She had been able to sneak back into the tower without waking up anyone.

It wasn't that late and she had a few afternoon classes today but nothing in the morning, fortunately. She walked over to where the fireplace was and took a seat amongst the comfortable sofas. She picked up a wizarding magazine on the coffee table and sat back, flipping through the pages.

She knew that she could be doing something better, like her Transfiguration homework or going down to the Great Hall for some breakfast. However, she just felt the need to relax. The common room was mostly empty and it was getting emptier as students went down for breakfast and probably to their morning classes.

The door to the common room opened and Ginny turned around to see Harry and Hermione walking through. She silently groaned not needing to see them this early in the morning. She turned back to her magazine and hoped that they'd go about their usual routine not noticing her as usual.

But she wasn't that lucky. They headed straight towards her and she sat up at the sight of them. She looked from Harry to Hermione, seeing two completely different looks on both of their faces. Harry's held a look of complete anger and Hermione of disappointment and maybe even pity.

"What's going on?" she asked unsure. The way they were looking at her was making her feel all creepy. It was the look of people who didn't know her or didn't even bother to get to know her after what had happened during her first year.

"What were you doing last night?" Harry burst out suddenly before Hermione could restrain him. She gave him a hard look, which he ignored and continued to rage on. "Do you realize that you could've gotten in trouble? That Draco Malfoy is not one to be messed around with?"

Ginny looked between the two of them in shock and stood up. Hermione's face held a scowl now while Harry continued to stare at her angrily. "I don't know what you are talking about," she lied, knowing that it was useless and walked away from them.

"We saw you Ginny, so don't bother lying," Harry's words cut through her very easily. She turned around to face him, her eyes lighting up with fire.

"Don't bother lying? What the hell do you care if I see Draco or not?" she asked him angrily. Where she got the strength, she did not know. All she knew was that she had enough of their shit as it was.

"Draco?" Harry asked surprised. "You are on first name basis now Ginny? You call him Draco? How long has this been going on? Do you realize what he has done to us for these past few years? What he's done to you and your family? What his family has done to you?"

Hermione looked on wearily. The way Harry was reacting was not at all normal to her. Sure he was angry... but to her he seemed too angry. It was as if he was jealous or something.

"He hasn't done anything to me! Sure he has done things that were bad in the past but he hasn't really done anything to me! You can't come in here and run my life Harry," Ginny yelled back.

Her voice surprised him. He looked as if he was stunned. "You are defending him," he stated quietly.

Ginny calmed her nerves some and looked at him before nodding. "Yes," she nodded. "I am and I don't see how this is any of your business."

"Ginny we care about you and we don't want you to get hurt," Hermione stepped in quietly. She knew that if things between Harry and Ginny continued on the way they were, then they wouldn't go anywhere.

"I am not going to get hurt," Ginny told her confidently, but her eyes were still connected to Harry's.

"Yes you will. Malfoy is nothing but a womanizer. You know that. He tries and gets what he wants then he leaves them in his wake. You can't let him do that. And you know that he is our enemy.."

This statement made Ginny break eye contact with Harry and move to Hermione. "He is the enemy? Hermione for a Head Girl you sure pass judgment quickly. Did you ever get to know him? Did you ever talk to him in a decent way other than doing something that would get you a response as the one you do?"

Hermione was clearly taken aback by her answer. She had never heard Ginny speak that way before. "I do know him Gin. I know him because he has spent the last seven years making our lives hell. You know that. You saw what he did to Ron and Harry and I. Why would you go ahead and be with him?"

Harry just watched the interaction between the two women. He wanted to talk to Ginny on his own. She was acting as if she was under some sort of curse. He wouldn't put it past Malfoy to put her under a curse. "Do you remember what his father did to you your first year?" Harry broke in.

Ginny turned her fiery eyes to him. "Yes I do. But he didn't do anything. His father did," she told him angrily.

Harry shook his head. "What do you see in him? He is no good. Don't you understand that?"

"Harry what I understand is that he is the only one that seems to care about me anymore. He is the only one that treats me like a real person. All of you just may as well forget that I am even alive, that's if you haven't already done so," Ginny burst out, not meaning to let out all of her secrets. These things she kept to herself and she had never told anyone of this. Now here she was spouting it off to nearly everyone, especially to the people who made her feel this way.

"So this is a call for attention?" Harry asked, suddenly feeling as if he understood it all. He stepped closer, everyone and everything around them disappearing and all he could see was her for that one single moment. "We care Gin. I care," he whispered looking deeply into her eyes.

Hermione felt very uncomfortable at watching Harry act the way he was. She didn't know what it was but it made her feel very jealous. She cleared her throat loudly breaking the moment between Ginny and Harry, both of whom turned around to look at her. "What do you plan on doing Ginny?"

Ginny moved away from Harry and walked away from the both of them to where the fireplace was. She looked into the flames somehow feeling their heat and was reminded of how alive she felt and how hot it was when she was with Draco. "I don't know."

"You can't possibly be considering hanging out with Malfoy still?" Harry asked in a dismayed tone.

Ginny turned around to face Harry. "Yes I am."

"Then I'll be letting Ron know what's really going on!" Harry threatened.

"So is that it Harry?" Ginny yelled. "You tell Ron when you can't control how my life is? You can't control my life and neither can he! Get that through your thick skull!"

Harry stood there shocked. He stepped a few inches closer to her, but still stood very very far away. "You know what? Do what you want Gin, but don't expect me to come to your rescue when Malfoy ruins your life."

"I never did," she told him through gritted teeth. Harry threw her one harder stare before marching out of the common room. "Don't Herm," Ginny exclaimed even before Hermione could say anything. She too looked disappointed and then ran after Harry.

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Draco sat at his desk looking down at the homework in front of him with much dislike. Despite what everyone else thought, he did do his work. He had to. He had about an hour before he had to finish the final version of the homework, but before he could go any further he heard a tapping sound.

Turning around towards the window he saw the family owl. His face held a slight confusion as he walked over to the window and raised it up. The bird flew in quickly passing by him and going straight to where his desk was.

He strode over to where the bird was and took the parchment attached to its leg. The bird hooted when Draco was ignoring it as he opened the letter. He turned towards the owl and then looked around his desk for some treat. Finding some, he gave it to the owl.

"Ow," he called out when the bird bit his hand. The bird didn't comment, but just flew out back the way it had came in. "Damn bird," he said quietly.

Once he had opened the letter he saw his father's neat handwriting and before he even read it, he groaned. He knew that it wasn't going to be anything good. Lucius never wrote about anything good to him.

He silently started to read the letter:

Do you really think that I don't know what is going on with you and the Weasley girl? Do you really think that you can keep it a secret from me? You are a stupid boy. I demand that you stop seeing the girl otherwise you will be facing dire consequences.

Well at least he knew that his father didn't approve. Somehow the fact that Lucius didn't approve made the whole situation appeal to him some more. He had always enjoyed disobeying Lucius, that is unless he got caught. If he did get caught... then he did not like it at all.

The dire consequences he knew of. He knew just what type of consequences his father spoke of, yet the thought of sticking it to his father still appealed to him.

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She had continued to tell herself that she wouldn't be here, that she didn't come here to maybe see him. She wasn't even sure if this was something she truly believed. If she did then why was she repeating it over and over in her head?

After the mornings debacle with Harry and Hermione she hadn't been able to stop thinking. She feared that they would tell Ron. This had made her nervous and a lot of times during class she was thinking about that.

Finally she could take no more so she had decided on coming here; the place where Draco had brought her to last night.

She went through the motions, opening the secret door like the way she had seen Draco do, looking around to check if anyone was watching, and then carefully slipping in.

She looked around the place nervously. She wasn't sure what it was that she really came here to do. Was it to think? To get away from everything around her?

Or was it to see him? That on the off chance he may be here?

The thought didn't sit well with her and she turned around to leave when the door opened.

A surprised Draco stood at the opening of the door for a second or two before his face turned into his trade mark smirk. "Well this is a surprise," he said quietly, walking inside and closing the 'door'.

Ginny stood there not knowing what to do for just a small amount of time before she casually walked towards where the sofa was. With a second of hesitation, she laid down on her back as if she had no cares in the world. "I thought it would be," she replied using the same tone he was.

Draco raised an eyebrow in surprise to her answer. It was definitely not something he had expected. He shrugged and casually walked over to where she lay and sat down very close to her. One of his arms went around her waist and lay at her other side while he looked down on her, half of his body lying on top of hers.

"What are you doing?" she asked feeling a bit nervous.

He looked as if he comprehended the question. "Making myself more comfortable," he finally answered.

Ginny sat up immediately and he laughed. Not one of his mocking laughs, but a rather genuine, amused laugh.

Suddenly the laughter stopped and he appeared rather serious. "What's wrong?"

"What?" she asked, surprised at the rather unexpected question.

"There is something different about you," he observed. "What happened today?"

Ginny had no idea how he could even tell that there was something bothering her. It was, after all, why she had come here in the first place. Having him here... well that just happened to be a coincidence (one that she was secretly hoping for...).

She finally broke eye contact with him, feeling as if he was reading her very thoughts. "Nothing happened. Why do you ask?"

"You're a liar," he replied. "And a bad one too."

She shot her eyes back at him, anger and fury showing through. "What makes you think I am lying?" she asked defiantly.

"Weasley I think I know lies way better than you do," he replied, his face now very close to hers. She moved away promptly, not liking how his eyes nearly devoured her... not to mention made her want to do things that she knew she wasn't supposed to do.

"Harry and Hermione saw us up on the Astronomy Tower," she replied nonchalantly, still not looking at him.

"So you're worried about that?" he asked. He could see reason for worry, though he may not admit it. Harry would surely tell her brother, which could get the whole lot of them in trouble.

"Why shouldn't I be? I mean... we all know that Ron, Harry and Herm hate you and you them. Ron would freak out if he found out about this. He would probably go and tell Mum and Dad and Bill and Charlie and..." she rambled on.

"Ginny wait," Draco interrupted her.

"For what?"

"I don't mean it that way. I mean just be quiet for a second," he said. She threw a scowl his way and he couldn't help but let out a tiny smile. Somehow she appeared very cute to him when she was scowling (who would've thought?). "Why do you think that this would even be a problem?"

"Weren't you listening to what I was saying?" she nearly yelled.

"Yes I was listening to what you were saying, but the way I see it is that... Well why would you be so nervous about any of it? If they find out then you just don't talk to me. Why would be so worried?" he asked.

She dropped eye contact with him once more. That was true. She could've severed all ties with him right then and there. She could've told Harry that she wouldn't speak to Draco anymore. That she wouldn't see him anymore.

That she wouldn't long for his touch anymore...

But she hadn't. Why hadn't she?

The question fazed her for quite some time. And Draco caught on to that. "You don't want to stop seeing me," he whispered, a bit smugly.

She turned her eyes towards him, slowly, patiently, waiting to see what he really thought. She looked down at her hands for a small second before looking back up at him. "You're right."

He was not expecting that answer. He wasn't expecting for her to admit it. He was expecting her to deny it so that he could fight her about it. Then when she wouldn't stop denying it, he would kiss her and make her realize it. But she hadn't denied it. She had admitted it and that took him by surprise.

This time the smug look came over her face as she read the slight hint of surprise in his face. "You weren't expecting that," she stated, the smugness creeping into her voice, as it often did with him.

He smiled, a genuine smile. "You're right Ginny. I wasn't," he said quietly.

She laughed a silly laugh. He wasn't even sure what it was for, but his smile became bigger because of it. He liked seeing her that way. "I am probably crazy," she said in between the bursts of giggle. "I know what type of consequence there may be, but for some reason I don't seem to care."

He laughed too now, somehow catching onto her. "True," he replied, getting closer and closer to her.

Suddenly she realized just how close he really was and this time he had to do nothing. She leaned forward and captured his lips in a sweet kiss. His hand that was at her side came up to hold her face in place as he kissed her.

You will be mine Ginny Weasley, Draco thought as he kissed her, holding onto her possessively.

Thank You's: Reviewer (Thanks! I am glad you liked it and I will keep the chapters coming!) CNJ (Thanks for both of the reviews! I am glad that you enjoyed both chapters. Yes it is a rather unusual situation, but am absolutely great that you think my writing is good enough for you to withstand a story about a couple that you don't even like, LOL! Thanks!!) Depth (Awe you are so sweet. And you definitely got your point across. Thank you!)

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