The Love of a Bet

Chapter 3

Ginny walked over to the Gryffindor table and sat down by Hermione. She didn't have much time to eat so she started eating quickly.

"Ginny, did you really say yes to Malfoy?" asked Ron with a look of disgust on his face.

"Maybe I did, maybe I didn't. What's it to you? It's none of your business; remember? Unless you want me to write to mum I suggest you bugger off."

"No! Don't write to mum, I'm just wondering if you did or not so I can avoid you."

"Ron, that's not very nice. She's your sister; you should support her in whatever decision she makes."

"What do you know Hermione?" Ron grumbled.

"A lot more then you!"

"Only because you stick you nose in books all the time. You aren't normal like everyone else. How can you like to read?"

"I'm not having this discussion with you Ron. I'll talk to you all later." Hermione got up from the table picked up her books and hurried out of the Great Hall.

"You need to learn to keep your big mouth shut, Ron. One of these times she won't talk to you anymore," Harry said.

"She started it."

Ginny just sat there and sighed, "Men. Well, I should be going too. Talk to you all later." Ginny got up from the table, grabbed her books, and hurried off to her next class.

"Come on Ron; we should be going to our next class. We're going to be late if we don't hurry." With that said, they both left the table in a hurry.

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Draco was sitting in his bed staring at the wall thinking of what his father would say if he ever found out what he was up to. He was also wondering why Ginny would even say yes in the first place. He never did treat her nicely. He was always doing mean stuff to her and her friends and always calling her names. He just didn't get why any one would. He was an annoying bastard that didn't care for anyone but himself. He decided that he would never understand women. "Now what are we going to do in Hogsmeade?" he said thought to himself. "Let her do what she wants to do, that way this can get over as much as possible. Yeah, nice and quick, just the way he liked almost everything. Just think, after Saturday only 2 months of her. This is going to be a nightmare." That was Draco's last thought before he fell asleep.

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Ginny was sitting in her bed, writing in her diary. She was writing everything she could possibly do to make Draco fall in love with her so she can win this bet. This bet wasn't that big of a deal, but it was fun trying to come up with things. Better then sulking all the time about being bored. She thought it would be fun to mess with a guy's mind, especially Draco's. "Why wouldn't it be?" she thought. "He deserves it. He deserves everything bad that comes to him. He's the one who decided to be an ass to everyone else, so it's not like he didn't do anything to deserve it."

"No one deserves anything bad that happens to them," said another voice in her head.

"Where did that come from?" she wondered aloud. None of her other dorm mates where in there. She was all alone in there. "Malfoy deserves it. He definitely deserves it. He's put my friends and I through hell. How doesn't he deserve it?" she asked herself.

"Because maybe he is holding in his true identity so no one sees who he really is, what he is capable of, what he can be. Maybe he wishes that he could change, but he can't, because he is too scared to. Maybe he really does want to change and just sees no reason to do so. Maybe it's too late for him to show who he really is and what he can be."

Ginny didn't want to think anymore about this. She knew if she kept on about this subject, everything could change, and she didn't want it to. She wanted to keep those thoughts lost to her self so she didn't end up feeling guilty about it later. She decided that she had a trying day and that she just needed some sleep. She closed her diary, put it in her secret hiding place, changed, and went to bed. For some reason though, she just couldn't get to sleep. She kept tossing and turning well after all of her dorm mates came in and went to bed them selves. When she finally did fall asleep, she had the weirdest dream she thought she would ever have.