Chapter one
"It's not that I will" She defended herself. "But I know you will."
"Okay. But this is the first and the last time I am doing this." He stated. Hermione shrugged her shoulders giving him a 'we will see' sort of look.
He took a deep breath mocking an attacker's look and strolled off till the Bar-counter. "May I help you sir?" The Barman squeaked peaking over the over-sized table. Dean walked past ignoring him. He went straight to the girls sitting in a group on the other side of the bar.
All that the Gryffindor, Hogwarts students knew about these girls was, that they were witches and belonged the magical world. Also, they had come to attend the party of the most allegeable bachelor of the year.
"Why did we have to come here out of every place in the world?" Hermione asked.
"Bvecause it fould b' fun, I h'd thoht, to ruin Malfoy'z fparty." Ron slurred around, his mouth filled with bread.
Hermione raised her brow in disgust. As she watched Dean walking around the table nervously on which the girls were sitting. "Faster Dean" she whispered impatiently.
Dean was not as confident as he was earlier when he had accepted the dare. Compared to what Dean was in school, Dean had changed a lot. Going out with different girls, drinking and gambling was his favorite past-time. Especially, since Ginny was in a relationship with Harry Potter.
Right in the morning Ron had appeared in the fire. He invited his friends for a small gathering in Hogs Head. Ron Weasley was no more financially in a poor state. His luck had changed in a very positive way.
It was a long time since all the friends had met. Ron decided to finally keep the gathering when he heard the Malfoy's party was taking place in Hogs Head.
Draco Malfoy and the trio, Harry, Hermione and Ron were School mates in the same year. They supported opposite sides in the war. Also, They never enjoyed each other's company.
After the war, all students had appeared for their Newt's after sufficient time for studying. Later on, after a lot of hard work, Harry and Ron turned into successful Aurors. Ginny Weasley appeared for her seventh year at Hogwarts. Hermione Granger started her work appreciably in the department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. Hermione was also offered the post as the Deputy Head of Department of Magical Law Enforcement which she proudly accepted. Neville Longbottom worked in the Department of Care of Magical Herbs And Plants in the Ministry and had blocked the job as the Herbology teacher when Madame Sprouts would retire. Luna Lovegood was working with her dad Xenophilius Lovegood as an assistant to him. In conclusion all the sprouts sown in Hogwarts eight years ago had returned, nurtured beautifully.
Harry and Ginny were staring into each other's eyes. Ginny's palm was softly cuddled into Harry's hand. They were ignoring the presence of Ginny's brother, Ron, Hermione, Neville and Seamus Finnigan around the very same table they were sitting around.
Neville was looking at everyone blankly. His face clearly depicted how much he was missing Luna who was out since a week for an expedition with her dad to India.
An hour ago all friends had reached the bar and patiently stared at each other as they had nothing to say. Finally Hermione who was losing patience had spoken up. She suggested playing a very interesting muggle game she had learnt in school when she was young.
"It's called Truth and Dare" she had said. "It's very interesting and we will have fun playing it!"
They all had readily agreed as they had nothing to do after they finished eating. Hermione explained them the rules: "Look, once this bottle stops at one of us we are supposed to choose between Truth and Dare. The one, who chooses Truth, will be asked a question, and he cannot lie." She said emphasizing on the word 'cannot'. She glared at all of them mocking a professor's look. They all agreed nodding in unison. "To relate this to our world, what I think we can do to make this game more entertaining is, lets spellbound each who chooses Truth to indicate if what he or she says is true or not." Hermione paused to entertain any quarries. When she realized there were none she continued "And the one who chooses Dare, here comes the interesting part," Everyone shifted in their seats focusing on Hermione's coming words "we will give him or her Dare and he or she has no choice but to accomplish it."
"Nothing that has come out of our mouth will spread around! It will stay amongst us." Ron stated nervously. Everyone nodded in agreement.
"And dares should not be dangerous, stupid or a very serious condition please." Neville added. On no reaction by anyone Ginny politely said she understood what he meant and placed her hand on his shoulder.
When everyone were ready they had three rounds where all chose Truth and were asked questions which they answered truthfully. Then bored with the continuous pattern Dean bravely opted for dare and interested Hermione readily dared him to go the girls waiting for their bachelor and buy one of them a drink. After that, spill the drink over one of their faces. A fifty seconds awkward silence followed and then Dean laughed, at first expecting others to join him. But soon he realized Hermione was actually serious.
Hermione looked at Dean who was making friends with the girl sitting outside the circle. He pulled a chair and sat beside her. Then they shook their hands. Hermione could see how quickly Dean had made her comfortable.
"Can I buy you a drink?" he finally asked. All the Gryffindor's tensed excitedly.
"Sure" she smiled "butter beer". Dean smiled back at her nodding. He stood up with a jerk and turned around.
Facing towards Hermione and Seamus, he made guilty faces. Hermione smirked waiting patiently for the climax. Dean took a glass of butter beer from the tiny Barman, and started walking slowly back to the girls. Just the time Hermione was waiting for since long, Hermione's attention diverted to the door.