Show me How to LOve

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CHAPTER 15: TEARS

SEPTEMBER 4TH

Ginny was shaken lightly by someone. “Uh?? Is there something wrong?” She arranged herself in her seat and flipped the pages of the report handed to them by Amanda.

“You're spacing out again Ginny… May I have a word after this meeting?” Amanda asked.

“Sure” Ginny nodded and pretended to listen to the rest of the meeting. She proceeded directly to Amanda’s office.

“Sit down dear…” Amanda offered a chair. “What’s wrong?”

Ginny stared at Amanda. For minutes she didn’t speak. “Nothing. I’m just tired that’s all” She smiled weakly.

Amanda sighed deeply. “Tired? You have been like that for about 2 weeks… spacing out as if you’re thinking about something or someone.”

‘So, she noticed’ Ginny thought. “I just need rest and I’ll be fine. Don’t worry about me… I’ll be working actively after a week maybe.”

“Ginny, take the next 2 weeks off or for as long as you want. This is not a request but a command.” Amanda smiled. “Don’t argue with me… I’ll have someone cover for you. Rest and when you are fine, you can come back.”

“Thank you Mandy but I don’t need it and I can’t take a vacation just for that.”

“Yes you can and I will… You may go now. Thank you!”

“Thank you too…” She left. She kept on reading books about diseases and illnesses. She only did that for the remaining hours. Many people noticed the change in Ginny. She used to be a jolly person… she was the one who keeps on telling people to cheer up and not be sad.

She left for work early and minutes later she arrived at her flat. As soon as she closed the door, she would collapse behind it and endlessly cry. She has been doing this for two weeks now and she can’t seem to stop.

She remembered her last encounter with Draco and she cried even more. Right after Draco ended the kiss, she pushed him away and ran to the closet… she didn’t like what she was feeling. Anger and sadness built up inside her. She didn’t come out of the closet until someone tapped at the door.

Even if she would visit Narcissa, she would make sure that it was a brief visit. She avoided him in every way possible and thankfully she hasn’t encountered him at all.

DRACO

He was burying himself in work. Coming home late and drunk…. He went back into his old ways. He kept on thinking what had he done that was so wrong. Surely it wasn’t a crime to love somebody… he was confused as she is.

“You look like shit, Draco” Blaise entered his study.

He looked at his friend. “Why thank you!” He drank the remaining brandy in his glass and stood up to get another one.

Blaise was concerned for Draco. He knew something is wrong but he just wouldn’t tell him. “What’s wrong with you? I’ve been calling you for these past days and Miles tells me that you're out.”

Draco chuckled. “I’m more than fine Blaise… I’m doing great. You look….. fine too”

“You have to stop this man. It’s not good…” Blaise motioned to grab his glass but he yanked Blaise’s hand away.

“Since when do you care that I’m doing this? This is me Blaise… did you forget that? This was me before and I can’t see the problem with that…” he unsteadily sat back on his chair.

“You're drunk and you don’t know what you're saying…”

“I’m not drunk… I’m happy cant you see?” He had a big smile on his face and was instantly replaced with a frown.

“It’s Ginny isn’t it?” Blaise sat across from him. His head jerked up when he heard a glass breaking. He looked at Draco’s hand and saw it bleeding.

“Don’t ever mention that name in this house.” He looked at Blaise as if he was going to kill him.

Blaise never expected that from Draco. “Sorry but wake up Draco… you think you're the only one who suffers?” He chuckled. “Look around you. There are many people who cares about you and you're just gonna sit here? Don’t you care for your mother? How about me? Did you think I wouldn’t get worried? Draco, you are my best friend… no, you're like my brother and how about Ginny? Do you honestly think she isn’t suffering?”

Draco didn’t know what to answer. He just stared at his bloody hand. ‘Who care about Ginny?’ he thought. ‘She’s just some woman right? Why would I care if she suffers?’

“Call me when you have come to your senses…” Blaise looked at him before he left. “God, you are stubborn.”

“Thank you for the compliment Blaise!!” Draco yelled. ‘Stupid Bastard… letting me remember Ginny… he didn’t have to state the obvious.’ He kicked the nearest furniture. He didn’t know what to think and didn’t know what to do. He spent the day locked up in his study.

SEPTEMBER 10th

GINNY

It was a wonderful day. The sun is up and the birds happily singing, Stores and shops started opening to prepare for the day. Newspaper was already in the doorstep of every house. Everybody was so happy except one person.

She sighed deeply. “Stupid TV… doesn’t have anything interesting on.” She lazily flipped channels. She reached for the potato chips beside her and found out that it was empty.

She stood up and opened her refrigerator. There was no food there… she sighed and got water instead. She went back to the couch and continued her ‘MOVIE Marathon’ only there were only few channels.

A knock disturbed her ‘MOVIE Marathon’ and grunted. “Goodness… it’s still 9 in the morning. Who would come here at that time?” she swung the door open.

“I would.” Luna smiled at Ginny.

“Oh it’s you… come in” Ginny was in no mood for visitors. She would entertain them for 5 minutes or so and show them to the door. She hated it when people would pity her.

“I can see that you're doing fine.” Luna looked around her dusty flat.

“What are you doing here? You're supposed to be in Paris.” Ginny slumped back to her chair.

“Well, I needed a break… I wanted to see you too. Why? Is that a crime?”

“No… Amanda told you didn’t she? You know she should learn to keep her mouth shut.” Ginny mumbled under her breath.

Luna shook her head. “No, it wasn’t Amanda.”

“Ron then”

Luna again shook her head. “Not even your brother knows I’m here.”

Ginny was beginning to wonder who could have told Luna. “Colin?” Luna shook her head. “Oh I know... It’s Harry or Hermione?”

“No, none of the people you have mentioned. It doesn’t matter who told me, what matters is I’m here.”

“I’m too tired to think…”

Luna continued to roam around her flat. When she first rang the doorbell, she saw newspapers piled up beside her door and when she entered, she saw things scattered anywhere. “God Ginny… why are you doing this?”

“It’s none of your business what I do with my life. Who told you?” Ginny followed Luna.

“We need to clean this whole mess… and you” She faced Ginny as if not hearing what she said “you will clean yourself up and we will go out.” She grabbed Ginny’s hand and dragged her to her room.

Ginny grunted. “I don’t want to Luna… I’m gonna melt under the sun.”

“Melt under the sun my ass! Get in the bathroom and I’ll be waiting for you outside. When I return I expect to see you in your robes…” she turned to leave her.

While Ginny was in the bathroom, Luna took the liberty in cleaning her flat. She started by picking up shoes, clothes and food wrappers. She then swept the floor and dusted the furniture. She raised the blinds and let the sunlight in and washed the dishes.

After about an hour and a half, Ginny’s flat was good as new. She knocked lightly on Ginny’s door.

“I’m in my robes. Now can you please go?” Ginny was indeed wearing her robes and her hair was wet with water, droplets of water fell from the tips.

Luna, without Ginny’s permission, opened her closet and began picking out clothes. “No, I’m not going anywhere… Here where this.” She handed her a denim skirt and pink sleeveless shirt.

“I’m not going out….” Ginny was serious this time but she only got a disapproving look from Luna.

“Okay, if you won’t cooperate I would just have to force you. You know I can do it, now I’m going downstairs to cook something. Come down when you’re done.” She left Ginny to dress herself.

The last time someone argued with Luna, they went home having a bloody nose and if not that then a broken arm. She sighed and grabbed the dress.

10 minutes later she was out of the dressing area and was looking at herself in the mirror. She can’t believe she was doing what Luna is saying… since Luna intends on going out, she decided to make herself pretty. She placed a little eye shadow, blush on and placed lip gloss on her lips.

Luna was happily humming a song when Ginny came down. “Morning sunshine!”

Ginny was still adjusting to the light in her flat. When she can clearly see, her mouth gaped open at what she saw. A clean and organized place, everything was back to normal. She wanted to cry…

“Don’t even think on crying now. C’mon eat something… I cooked eggs.”

Ginny was speechless. “Oh Luna… Thank you so much!!!” She hugged her friend tightly. “I don’t know what to do without you.”

Luna laughed. “Hee hee… welcome Ginger. I just don’t want to see you like this.” Ginny released her. “You are always there for me when I’m down, now it’s my turn to help you.”

They ate breakfast and were out into the world. They went shopping for hours, buying new clothes, shoes and accessories. She was feeling better and was glad.

They ate their lunch at the Three Broomsticks. Luna was telling Ginny about this guy who thought she was gay.

“And I was like ‘No you did not just call me gay’… I mean I was so shocked. Do I look like gay to you?”

Ginny was literally laughing her ass off. “NO… And then what did you do?”

“I told him in a very gayish tone ‘I’m gonna bitch slap you back to Africa’ and he got a big red slap mark in his left cheek.” Luna sipped on her drink.

Ginny was still giggling. “Thank you Luna for doing this… I never thought that I would miss the world this much. So tell me… who told you about me?”

Luna was hesitant to tell Ginny but being her best friend she couldn’t resist. “It was Blaise… he didn’t know that you were like this. He just called me on the 4th and asked me if I could check on you. What he didn’t know is that I was on my way here for a business trip. I cancelled it just for you cuz’ you are much more important than some silly business meeting that has no meaning.”

Ginny wanted to cry. She was so touched by Luna… “Thank you Luna… hey, I’ve noticed that you and Blaise are getting closer these past few weeks. Is something going on that I should know about?”

Luna blushed. “NO… we are just friends. Just friends.”

“But you want to be more than that, don’t you?”

Luna nodded. “Just after the photo shoot he asked me if I was free on the evening and I said yes. We went out to dinner and talked about a lot of things. Majority of our topics led to you and Draco… Sorry for mentioning his name… Anyhoo, he told me that I was the sister he never had.”

“Aaww Loonie… I’m sorry. Maybe he was trying to avoid trouble. Don’t feel bad cuz’ you deserve someone better than him.” Ginny placed her hand on top of Luna’s and lightly squeezed it.

“You know Gin, you two make a good pair. Honestly speaking, you two are compatible and I’m sorry for saying this but I want you guys to ogetogether.”

‘Who are you talking about?” Ginny asked innocently.

Luna eyes her suspiciously. “Draco Malfoy… Blaise told me that he’s a total mess. He didn’t know what to do with him. He even suggested that you go and see him…”

Ginny frowned. She was having a very nice day but all had to be ruined at the mention of that bastard’s name. “What good does it make? He won’t come to his senses… and we are not compatible. Lately everybody has been telling me that and I really don’t care about him!”

“Fine. All I’m saying is that you never know what’s going to happen. By the way, have you visited Narcissa lately?” Luna licked her spoon.

“No, not yet. I’m not ready…”

“If you say so… c’mon we have lots of time to shop.” They paid or their bill and went shopping again.

5:00 PM

“WOW! You bought many clothes Luna…” Ginny was rummaging through all the clothes they bought.

Luna, who was looking at herself in the mirror, looked at Ginny. “Look who’s talking… you almost bought the whole store.”

Ginny laughed. “Well, I needed them and besides you have Paris… I have London. Shopping really is a girl’s best friend.” She looked at herself beside Luna. She managed to get herself a skirt and a very sexy top.

“That’s looks good on you… His eyes would get big.” Luna was now trying on a new outfit.

“I don’t care about him Luna. I don’t want to see his ugly face… that bastard.”

“Okay I think that’s enough. He’s probably choking right now…” Luna laughed.

“Let him die!!” Ginny shook her head. ‘Would I let him die?’

“Sickle for your thoughts Ginger. You’ve been staring at the wall for about 5 minutes… got something on your mind?” Luna started placing her newly bought clothes on a bag.

Ginny gave her a smile. “Nothing. Do you really have to go tomorrow? Can’t you go on Friday?”

“You know I can’t. Don’t worry sweetie, you’ll manage.”

“I hope your right…”
SEPTEMBER 11th

9:00 AM

“Bye Luna… thank you for coming.” Ginny hugged Luna.

“Welcome, just don’t forget that I’m just a pop away. Holler me gurl…” Luna was getting ready to apparate.

Ginny released her from her hug and stepped aside. “Have a nice trip.”

“Bye.” POP! She’s was gone…

Ginny sighed deeply. “Now what am I gonna do? I think I’ll pay a little visit to Narcissa.”

MALFOY MANOR

“Giles, is Draco still on his study?” Narcissa asked.

“Yes madam… he won’t come out. He said he doesn’t wto bto be bothered.”

“I see…do you have word from Ginny?”

“No madam but-”

DING DONG!

“Excuse me madam. I’ll go get that.” He bowed to Narcissa and left. He could sense that his mistress is worried about Draco and Ginny. Something must have happened that the two of them are acting really strange. “Good Morning!” he didn’t look up to look at the person.

“Morning Giles. Why the long face?” Ginny happily chirped.

He looked up and smiled. “We thought you would leave our mistress but thought wrong. How have you been Miss?” he gestured her to come in.

Ginny entered. “I’m great… Nssa ssa is in her room?”

“Yes miss. Souldould be happy to see you. She has been asking if you have dropped word…”

“Okay, thank you Giles.” She made her way to Narcissa’s room. She knocked lightly and entered the room.

“GINNY!!! Where have you been?” Narcissa opened her arms for a hug.

Ginny was happy to accept it. “I was just here… You look fine.”

Narcissa released her and was wearing a smile on her face. “I’m so happy to see you. Any news for me?”

“I’m happy to see you too… I’m on vacation now but I will still come here daily.”

“Daily?”

“Yeah, I don’t have anything to do. Don’t you want me here? Fine I wont” Ginny turned to leave.

Narcissa grabbed her hand. “C’mon Ginny… it was just a question.” When Ginny faced her, she was laughing.

“I’m only kidding. I’m not gonna do that and leave you…”

Narcissa slapped her playfully. “I hate you!”

“No you don’t…” Ginny continued laughing.

Narcissa and Ginny talked for many hours and Ginny was thankful she hadn’t seen Draco. She wanted to ask Narcissa about him but it would just make Narcissa curious. She promised Narcissa that she would come by and check on her everyday.

When it was time to go home, Narcissa asked a question that Ginny was trying to avoid. “Do you know what happened to Draco?”

Ginny fell silent. “Uh... I… no idea”

“Cuz’ he hasn’t come out if his study for weeks now. Since he came home on… when was that?”

“August 17th” It was Ginny who answered her question.

“Oh yeah… how did you know?” Narcissa asked.

“Lucky guess?” She hoped Narcissa won’t ask anymore questions.

“Yeah I guess so. So you’ll be here tomorrow?”

“Yes… I’ll see you tomorrow okay?” She lightly kissed Narcissa on the cheek. “Bye!”

She decided to take a cab home since it ’t t’t that far. She was getting dizzy from apparating. She descended the stairs and was greeted by Giles. “Goodbye Giles! I’ll see you tomorrow”

“Look what the cat brought in…”

She knows that voice. “Well hello to you too!”

Draco was leaning on a wall. “So it’s true… you are here.” He said in a rude manner.

“No, I’m just a shadow of Ginny Weasley… of course I am” she sarcastically said. She couldn’t clearly see him cuz he was in a dark place. But when Draco stepped into the light, she believed Luna.

He was in total mess. His hair has grown from shoulder length to below. He hasn’t shaved his face and looked like he lacks sleep. My God… he was still handsome. No matter how he looked, you could still say that he is handsome.

“I never thought you would come back.” Draco placed his hands on his side pockets.

“Why wouldn’t I?” Ginny asked.

For about 5 minutes, they stood there just staring at each other. Draco looked at her from head to toe and nodded. “You're looking fine.”

“Yeah… look I don’t want to waste my time here. So, I’m leaving now…” She turned but Draco stopped her.

“About what happened…”

He was cut off by Ginny “Look, things happen when they are caught up in the moment. I told you before and I’m gonna tell you now… that was all in the past. Do you see me affected? I don’t think so…”

“All in the past huh…” He repeated her words.

Ginny turned to leave and Draco followed her at the door. “Goodbye Giles…I’ll see you tomorrow. At least you're a gentleman, unlike some people here.”

“Gin-” he called after her but she already left. “Damn it!”

Ginny walked out of the house and almost lost her balance on her way outside. It took a great deal in masking her emotions in front of Draco. She was teaching herself to be a cold-hearted person. Not for Draco but for herself… she promised herself that she won’t cry anymore but she broke it but t tea tears where not for Harry. They were for Draco.