Serendipity

Serendipity Chapter One: The Gloves

Time does not have an end, it goes on forever inside our minds, and shows in reality on clocks, and our eyes don't always see that we can't grasp it and keep it forever. Minute by minute this time that we own is leaving, escaping and vanishing into particles of dust and remembrance. We may only take the little odd balls of life and stick them into the memories of childhood. But sometimes an unfortunate accident can turn into a romance story like none other. So what if you just take a change on someone and hope that fate will lead the way? Well no matter how hard you try, you may end up with something called Serendipity.

It was five days until Christmas and for those "I can do anything last minute." Shoppers, Ginny stepped outside unto the mystic world of Christmas air and magic. She looked up into the sky seeing some "dumb" constellation and moved on to the northern star. She had always wanted to follow that star and find what it led to. She was always of the romantic type who had her nose stuck in the latest Sue Hassler Romance Novels. She had always believed in one thing her whole life. The meaning of Serendipity. An unfortunate accident! When she had meet Ethan she know that this meaning was going to be the right accident! But maybe Ethan wasn't the right guy; maybe all along that dumb constellation was the direction to him!

The snow was starting fall in a light fashion catching a snowflake with every step. No two snowflakes were every the same type, a known fact that Ginny was still searching to see if that was right or wrong. She stopped in front of a used bookstore and entered Jingle Bells! Jingle Bells! Jin- the door slammed shut against a sudden burst of air. All around New York the all too common "Dings" when you entered and exited a shop were replaced with choirs singing Christmas Songs. She was hoping against hope that Ethan would take the clue to buy her this book but he didn't get it. She moved along to the Romance Novels and looked for "Love in the finesse of Chloe." It was the newest book of Hassler's and if Ethan didn't get the hint, well she would buy it anyway. She paid for it quickly and moved along, each stare growing worse. Its not that she did something bad or anything. It's just that she was from England and every time she went out she would receive stares and questions of how to say a certain word. She began to hurry her pace as she glanced at the overhead clock tower.

"Is that the time already?"

It was ten minutes till midnight and the store was going to be closed in two hours. Ethan was going to get worried.

Three minutes and a new record later she arrived at Macys' Department Store. There was a tremendous line. She pushed her way to the front of the line dashing to get the pair of gloves that she had loved since she has seen them in the ad at home. As she reached her hand to grab them, she was forced into a tug of war.

"Um..."

"Uh..."

A man in his twenty's stood their dumbstruck in the middle of the tug of war.

"I was going to actually buy these sir."

"Oh, me too. Excuse me Miss do you have one other pair?"

"We have what's there."

"Oh my god! He is British too!" Ginny thought silently to herself.

"Well then you can have it then." He said letting go of the other glove.

"No I don't want it, really but thanks for the offering." She put it back on the stand. A hand grabbed for it and a voice was heard.

"Then I'll take it-"

"You didn't let us finish. This is going to be my girlfriend in um..."

"Two months after the accident when..."

"Okay just take them you two, and have a nice holiday."

"Here you can buy them, and would you like to go out for Coffee?"

"Sure... I know this nice place."

This place was just the begging of the romance between these two. The name was Serendipity and only time can tell if this was an unfortunate accident or not.

"So where did you find this place?" He asked with great emphasis on his question.

"Oh, well actually it was the name that called me here. I've always loved that name, it has a certain ring to it. It means an unfortunate accident. It was always a sweet name for what it meant."

"Well they make the best damn coffee in this world. What part of England of you from."

"That's for me to know, and you to find out."

"Well I'm Draco."

Ginny looked into Draco's eyes slowly trying to re-ignite them. They looked so dead, like something had gone wrong in his life. She had always had the gift of reading eyes. Now I know it sounds crazy but it was the same thing as reading minds. She looked away in case Draco got suspicious.

"Well nice meeting you Draco I have to go. Its getting late and my boyfriend will be wondering about me."

"Yeah mine too."

Ginny gave a second look at him.

"I mean I have a girlfriend, not a boyfriend."

"Right."

She turned on her heel and tried to hide her laugh.

"Crap that always happens."

A family setting near by looked at him with endless disgust.

"What its America!"

Ginny was half-way home when she realized that she forgotten her gloves and book at Macys'

At the same exact moment a little voice hit Draco, he forgot his scarf at Macy's

They ran, but Draco got their first. He went up the escalator to see the girl grabbing her bag. Draco walked two steps and stopped. Little words came out of his mouth.

"Do you want to do something?"

"Alright then."

It was winter and love was in the air. So the two strangers went ice-skating. It was the right thing to do on a magical night such as this one. They talked of movies, of childhood, and of unfortunate accidents.

"Ouch!" A small voice called into the night. After talking about accidents Ginny had fallen unto the ice and hurt her elbow.

Draco rushed to the scene of the crime to help Ginny and put a bandage on her elbow and kissed her "boo-boo" away. He glanced at her freckles on her arm and up into the sky.

"Hey see that mix-up in the sky?"

She looked up and gulped. That was the same dumb mixed up stars form that was directly left of the northern star

"No, actually I don't know of that mix-up of stars."

"Well that my friend is the mixed stars that form Coaspea. She was a queen and thought very highly of herself. Always looking into the mirror, making sure that her dresses were finer silk then any of her friends. Well one day she ran to Zeus begging him to name something after her. She pushed him little by little each day. One day she has gone to the max and Zeus banished her. She put her into the heavens forever upside down so she would have all the blood rushing to her head."

Ginny giggled a little bit as he drew Coaspea onto her arm and got up to walk around the park with Draco. The night was getting ready for Christmas, and on every street their were Santa Clause man dressed up to help the poor. They stopped at one and she quickly put in a five-dollar bill. They moved along and stopped at a band of tubas playing "Silent Night."

"Can I have your phone number? Man those are a lot of tubas."

"Sure thing." She quickly wrote it down, but as time will take its road the wind picked up again and set the number out of the eager hand of Draco.

"Can you write it again?"

"No, don't you see fate is telling us to back off. I can't just give it to you like that."

"Well forget about that fate stuff let's try that again."

"Do you have a five dollar bill?"

"Sure here, but what."

"Write your name and number on it and stay right here. Just stay!"

She grabbed it and ran across the street. With a blink of an eye she bought a package of candy and headed back over to where Draco looked shocked.

"Now if that five dollar bill gets back to me, then that means that fate wanted us to be together."

"Then we need something with your name and number in out into the world."

Ginny took out her book that she was longing to read. Hoping the fate would take the right direction.

"See this book. Tomorrow I'm going to write my name and number in it. I'm going to be selling this book to a Used Bookstore. You find it and you call me. Then we will let fate decide."

"We need one more thing then. To make this "fate" thing work."

Ginny looked above her. The Weldon Hotel was her dream hotel that as a little kid she wanted to go into. She made a mad dash with Draco to the elevators.

"Get into that one and I'll get into this one. If we randomly pick the same one then fate is telling us to be together."

The doors were closing and Ginny whispered while throwing the bag.

"My name's Ginny. Its Ginny!"

Inside Dracos' elevator he took a deep breath and pressed number twenty-three. If this is what fate was doing to him then this is how he was going to conquer it. At the same exact moment Ginny pressed twenty-three also. But something happened that fate didn't mean to do. The doors of Draco's elevator opened and in came an older man with his son. The son ran to the buttons and pressed random numbers.

"I'm actually meeting someone on a random floor."

"Well that won't be to hard now will it?"

Each floor more people piled into the elevator. The floor that fate was edging them into opened as Ginny pressed the bottom floor button. Draco ran to fate, only the fate that was in his keeping was gone. Everyone filed back into the elevator as Draco slammed his fist against the buttons. The last words staining in his mind. "My name's Ginny. Its Ginny." Everyone left the elevator and it was he and the bag. He slowly opened the back and saw the other glove to the pair. A single tear fall to his cheek. This one change he actually had with fate was lost forever. He has never felt this way about Emma, she was a wonderful girlfriend but he never felt that fate had cared about him and Emma. It was getting late and he had things to do, he wanted to see Ginny again. He never knew that something so sudden would stay like this. He had lost her! But why was fate doing this now? She had a boyfriend though and still she wanted to test fate. They had things in common that sometimes Emma just seemed like a bluer. He had past situations that he connected with Ginny about, and still fate was taking their time to push his luck. Well that was that, if fate didn't want them to be together then so be it.

Ginny walked home causing tears to run down her face. She had pushed fate's luck and now it was never going to be the same. She know exactly what was wrong with Dracos' past but she was not a liberty to say. She wanted to be with this guy that she only knew a half a million minutes ago. Ethan would never understand her strange ways of knowledge in the eyes of two people. Even Ethan was her Hogwarts School Sweetheart. She had loved him since her last year at Hogwarts; they were the couple of the school. They went to the best After-Hogwarts Schooling money could buy when she received an extra bonus from Dombuldore. She had saved his life once from enemy hands. This memory would never be forgotten. It was five days from graduation and Ethan and meet You-Know-Who one night in the Forbidden Forest. Ginny and Ethan were walking and talking about the future. He was very close to killing Ethan, as Ginny grasped her wand she shouted a curse to stun the living daylights out of him. She had always been talking into the dark arts when she found out about her gift. But maybe fate would come and escape into the stars and change the course of life.

To be continued...