Show me How to LOve

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CHAPTER 13: EXCUSES WON’T GET YOU ANYWHERE

GINNY

“What took you so long Ginny?” Luna came up behind her.

“No-, nothing… just didn’t felt like it.” She blushed again.

Luna eyed Ginny carefully. “What is with you and blushing today? You seem a little distracted… something happened while you're at the back?? I can read it in your face Ginny.”

“Stop that! Nothing happened…it’s just that… I mean…I can’t…..” Ginny denied. She wasn’t ready to tell anybody what happened between her and Draco. She was too embarrassed to tell them knowing she was the one who offered to make love.

Zenia came up to them handing two outfits… “Please change into these and proceed to room 481 for hair and make-up..” she walked off and handed the rest of the suit to Harry and Ron and the outfit to Hermione.

While Ginny was waiting for Luna to finish dressing up, she kept on looking for Draco. ‘What is wrong with me? Stop it Ginny! I’m warning you… you promised you wont fall for the guy…’ she found herself scolding herself.

“Ehem!” Ginny looked at Luna and her mouth was wide open. Luna twirled around for Ginny to get e better view.

“Oh my God!” Ginny was seeing a whole new Luna before her. Luna was wearing a short black pleated skirt paired with a blue haltered oval-shaped blouse; the cut reached near her stomach.

“So? What you think?” Luna asked with excitement.

Ginny was staring at her friend. “I hardly know you… you look… WOW!”

Luna giggled. “Thanks! Now your turn.” She pushed Ginny inside the dressing room. 15 minutes passed and Ginny still hadn’t come out. She tapped her foot, waiting patiently for Ginny. 5 minutes passed by and Luna banged the door of the dresser. “Ginny? Are you still there?”

“Yeah... I’m not going out Luna.”

“And why not?”

“Cuz… I don’t like the dress. You go ahead.”

“Lemme see and I’ll be the judge of it… I’ll give you 3 counts Virginia Weasley. 1….2...”

“Alright, alright… I’m coming.” Ginny pushed the door open. “Well?” Ginny kept her eyes closed, afraid of seeing Luna’s expression.

“Who are you? What have you done to my friend?”

“What does that supposed to mean?” her eyes flew open and saw Luna’s jaw dropped.

“Absolutely amazing!!! Terrific… every man would be drooling for you Gin.”

Ginny wore a red backless dress. Like Luna, it was a halter dress only the cut was V-shape below her stomach; it showed a little of her bosom and to top it all off the dress was very short; it ended 9 inches below her waist. She looked like a model... No, a supermodel “C’mon no one would be drooling… they’d think I’m a whore.”

“I don’t think so… that’s called fashion girlfriend… c’mon we should go to room 481 for make-up…”

“Wait, I can’t go out wearing this…” she grabbed her robe.

Luna looked at herself. “Right.” She too grabbed her robe. They reached Room 481, laughing on the way. Hermione was already there getting her hair fixed.

“Hey guys… so how was the outfit?” Hermione asked. She was wearing a simple pink spaghetti dress that reached just below her knee.

“Amazing! You should wait until you see Ginny…” Luna replied.

“Ladies, please take your seats and we’ll start. By the way my name is Glezanie Baclayon and I will be handling you two lovely ladies…”

“Oh hi Glez! You seem an expert in this job…” Luna smiled as she took the seat first.

Glezanie untied her hair. “I’ve been working for this magazine for 1 year now and I guess I could say I’m pretty good at my job… now,” she paused “what would your hair be?”

“Do you know where Pansy is?” Ginny asked.

“She’s outside Ginny… she was done moments ago.” Hermione answered Ginny’s question. She sat on a chair and waited for Luna to finish. As she waited for Luna to finish, Zenia told her that she could take her lunch ahead of them and so she did.

MEANWHILE (2:50 pm)

Draco stood in front of a full length mirror. Twisting and turning until he was satisfied with himself. He wore a green polo. The first four buttons were unbuttoned, showing his muscular chest and paired with black pants. Blaise came up behind him wearing a black polo shirt but only three buttons were left unbuttoned. He too wore black pants.

Both of them looked so hot, it would make any woman drool. Blaise looked extremely good looking in his attire while Draco looked like the Greek God Adonis.

“Yo man… you look good aight? No questions about that…”

Draco smirked “I known that Blaise…”

“Of course you you you are, as you say, the ‘LADIES MAN’” Blaise chuckled. “Is that lip gloss I see Draco Malfoy?” he leaned forward to examine Draco’s lips.

Draco, by reflex, grabbed his handkerchief and wiped his lips. “None of your business Blaise…”

“Something did happen. Care to enlighten me my dear friend?” Blaise folded his arms on his chest.

“I told you… none of your goddamn business. Learn to keep your nose elsewhere…” he threw his hankie aside.

Blaise picked it up and examined it. “It looks like…” he paused and his eyes widened “Gineasleasley’s…”

Draco just cocked an eyebrow at him. “So? And how do you know what lip gloss she wears?”

Blaise approached Draco “Drakie darling, you do know the rules right?? It seems to me that you are falling for Ginny and she’s the only one among the women who wear one… the rest wears lipstick.”

Draco knew he was teasing him but he couldn’t help and wonder: what if Blaise is right?. “Excuse me, that’s my mission and I am not… I repeat I’m not falling for her.”

“Whatever man…” he patted Draco’s back.

RON

“What’s taking them so long ‘arry? Is it that difficult to beautify a woman??” Ron paced back and forth the room.

“C’mon Ron… you must know by know that women are extremely slow.”

“Speak for yourself boys… you men are much slower than us, women.” Pansy stood behind Harry and Ron.

Both Harry and Ron jumped simultaneously. “Bloody hell Parkinson…” Ron looked at her like he saw a ghost.

Pansy just smiled. “Well, you guys sure are ready.” As of the moment she was still wearing a silver robe.

Harry smoothed his polo. “Yeah but the ladies are taking so long. We are getting really tired of waiting.”

“A complainer. Tsk, tsk... It won’t get you anywhere. Oh Weasley, that’s Flint not Parkinson. Don’t look so shocked… not everybody gets what they want. Some don’t have the freedom to choose.”

“I’m not saying anything.” Although he said he didn’t say anything, his eyes tell it all. He felt sadness and pity for Pansy.

Pansy smiled. “Yeah… that’s the problem. You're not saying anything…”

Harry, who watched the two people exchange thoughts, was getting nervous. One fight was enough for one day and he didn’t like another one. “Hey, you yourself look ready. Now how come you finish early and the rest are still in the room?” he intentionally changed the subject.

“That’s because we wanted you to wait...” Hermione, Ginny, Luna were standing near the doorway.

“Hmph… women.” Ron grunted.

Luna laughed. “Well Ron, you better start stretching that patience of yours… women wont last long when they are your girlfriend.”

Ron rolled his eyes. “Yeah yeah… Oi, why don’t you ladies take off your robes?”

All the women looked at each other and said “It’s none of your business.”

Ron covered his ears. “No need to shout… Where the bloody hell is Colin?”

“Right here… Sorry guys.” Colin came running bringing two boxes. He carefuset set them aside. “Before we start, can we do an attendance check? Zenia?”

Zenia was behind Colin, following him everywhere. “Harry Potter?”

“Here…”

“Hermione Granger?”

“Correction please… that’s Hermione Potter.” Hermione smiled at Zenia.

“Oops… sorry. Ronald Weasley?” Zenia scratched out Granger and changed it with Potter

“Present.”

“Luna Lovegood?”

“I’m here darling.”

“Ginny Weasley?”

“Alive and still kicking ass.”

“Blaise Zabini?”

No one answered. “Blaise Zabini? Draco Malfoy?” still there was no answer.

“Where in God’s green grass could those two be?” Colin has his hands on his waist.

A few minutes later, Blaise and Draco entered the room laughing. “What is going on?” Blaise asked.

“What’s going on? We had to wait for you for 5 minutes… that’s what’s going on…” Colin stated.

“What’minuminutes of your time? We always get the grand entrance.” Draco smirked.

“Argh!!! Listen here…Since all of you are here, I’ll set out the rules. I am the director. You do whatever I say and no complaining… let’s start. First is Harry… step right up.” Colin guided him into a platform with plain white sheet as background.

“What do you want me to do?”

“Just follow my directions and you’ll do fine… the rest of you: OUT!” Colin shooed the rest o’ them out of toom.oom.

“That is so unfair!!! Maybe we could just take a peek inside…” Ginny sulked in one corner.

“Still in love with Potter eh Weasel…” Draco said, wearing his usual smirk.

Ginny slightly blushed. “Excuse me, first of all… He’s married to Hermione, second… I’m not in love with him; third… he’s like my seventh brother besides I have Colin.”

Draco felt hurt at the mention of Colin’s name. He forgot that she was his girlfriend but why did she ask him to…. Make love? This thought kept him busy. He was now confused. ‘Fuck! Focus Draco!’

Few minutes passed by and Harry came out. “Hun, you're next in line…” Harry told Hermione.

“Hey, how did it go? Was Colin too harsh on you?” Hermione slightly rubbed her hands on his back.

Harry drew Hermione in a tight hug. “No, he wasn’t, in fact I was having fun. Now, go inside or else you’ll fins yourself turned into something we don’t want.” He chuckled.

Hermione slapped his arm. “Fine be that way…” she went inside the room; leaving behind a pouting Harry but he knew that Hermione was only playing. He went over to Ron and began talking to him.

Luna and Ginny stayed in one corner coincidentally near Blaise and Draco. “Loonie, don’t you like Pansy?”

“I like her but she acted bitchy with me while we were at Hogwarts…”

Ginny smiled. “True but she isn’t all that bitchy now… would you like to meet Pansy?”

“Sure... why not?” Luna didn’t mind as long as she wasn’t all that bitchy with her.

Ginny looked for Pansy and spotted her near Blaise. She waved at her to come join them which she smilingly accepted. “Hullo Ginny!”

“Hee hee Pansy… meet Luna…. Luna meet Pansy.”

Pansy offered a hand to Luna. “Nice to meet you… Ravenclaw right?”

Luna looked at Ginny then at Pansy. She took her hand and shook it. “Nice to meet you too and you're right I’m from Ravenclaw. Are you really Pansy? You seem different…” Luna looked at her in an odd, weird but in a good way.

Pansy laughed. “Hahahaha… of course it’s me. Few things have changed just like you. You look more beautiful…”

“Thanks… so do you. So, where does life take you?”

“Oh, just at home… I heard you're working in Paris.” Pansy sat beside Ginny.

“Yeah and it’s tiring but thankfully Ginny here gets me there in France for vacation.” Luna pointed Ginny with her thumb.

“Hee hee hee. She won’t come off her work if you won’t literally drag her out of her office. She’s a workaholic.” Ginny giggled.

“That’s nice… you two must be really close. I’m jealous; I never had friends who were close to me. Okay I think I’ve said so much… Hehehe. Anyhoo, sorry about that” Pansy smiled weakly.

Luna reached out for Pansy’s hand. “Don’t worry darling… we can be your friends.”

“Yeah, whenever you have problems, just come to us and we’ll listen.” Ginny added.

“EHEM! Did I spoil your moment?” Blaise and Draco stood before them.

“As a matter of fact, yes! What do you want?” Ginny was the one who answered.

“Ouch! You sound like you hate us… Colin wantna ina in. You were so engrossed in your conversation that you three are the only people left whose solos aren’t taken.” Blaise sat across the three women.

“You're done all ready? Both of you?” Luna asked. Both of them nodded. “Oh! I guess I better go then…” Luna stood.

“Let me take you there…” Blaise offered but when Luna started to shake her head, he took her hand and said “I insist Luna…” with that Luna smiled.

Ginny and Pansy was left to talk more about things and Draco just stared at the redhead woman before him. It wasn’t long before Luna emerged with Blaise and gestured Pansy to go inside.

“Why do I have to be the last person? Don’t I mean anything to Colin? How did it go?” Ginny sulked.

“Don’t sulk Virginia… you look like a puppy.” Draco was now sitting beside Ginny.

“Shut up! I wasn’t talking to you… Loonie? And sit somewhere else would yah?” Ginny moved to the left.

“Well, it went fine… I guess. Nothing to worry about Ginger.” She gave her friend a smile.

Ginny sighed. “It’s so boring… I wanna go home and sleep.”

“Why don’t you take off your robe Virginia? It’s so HOT in here and with that thick robe you got there just adds to the heat…” Draco whispered in her ear making her blush.

“Sod off Malfoy… I don’t need you to tell me that. Besides, your eyes may pop out when you see me.” Ginny stood up. “I’ll be waiting for Pansy outside the door…”

Draco just smiled. Surely he would enjoy seeing Ginny take off her robes for him. If only he could just get her to tell him that she loved him, it would be so much easier for him.

Meanwhile, Luna and Blaise were watching the two argue. Luna chuckled and Blaise smiled. “Our best friends make a good couple don’t they?” Luna giggled some more.

“What do you have in mind, sweetie?” Blaise and Luna were whispering so that Draco wouldn’t here them.

“Hmmm I’m not sure… hooking them up maybe. I don’t know… what do you think?”

“What? Did you forget that Ginny’s boyfriend is Colin?”

Luna laughed. “You actually believed that? Colin has a girlfriend and is certainly not Ginny… I can’t believe you fell for that.”

Blaise expression was shocked and at the same time relieved. “They’re not? Draco doesn’t know that… I mean how come?”

Luna’s fingers were pressed on Blaise lips, preventing him from continuing further. “Sweetie, he doesn’t have to know… let’s see how he copes with it.”

Blaise smiled. “You're evil woman, I tell you.”

“Thanks!” Luna winked.

GINNY

She paced back and forth; waiting patiently for Pansy to come out. 5 minutes…. 10 minutes…. 15 minutes… she was getting pissed. Sooner or later she would break this door down.

Pansy came out. “Oh… you're here. Go right in.”

“Thank Merlin!” Ginny went in and immediately approached Colin. “I hate you!”

“Hey, hey… remember my rules. Now, I want you to stand there.” Colin pointed to the same spot wherrry,rry, Ron and etc stood. “And for goodness sakes, take of that blasted robe you're wearing.”

“Colin I think the dress isn’t appropriate for the occasion.” Ginny complained as she positioned herself.

Colin motioned towards Ginny. He surveyed her for a moment and with one swish, Colin tore the front part of the robe leaving Ginny’s front exposed. “There… you don’t have any problems anymore.”

Ginny gasped. “How could you? Now I won’t have any robe to wear when I go out.” She angrily took of the torn robe and placed it on the floor.

“Honey, there is no need. With that body of yours… you should at least flaunt it. I’m sorry for that. I’m just tired of listening to people complain.” Colin massaged his forehead.

Ginny felt guilty for getting angry at Colin. “I’m sorry Col. It’s just that I’m confused right now and I don’t know what to do.”

“Nah, it’s alright… I’m pressured by this photo shoot that I don’t know what to do too. C’mon lets get this over with. Stand right there and give me a pose darling.”

(A/n: whew! Thank god that day was over… am I making Ginny suffer badly? Is Draco too harsh on her? Hahahaha please review later... :D)