A/N-This is my first ever story that I have written and am actually posting somewhere for others to read. Sorry if it seems completely plain and predictable, my first chapters usually are...
Chapter 1 Truth or Dare
Saturday's at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry were usually very relaxing. It was usually a day to sit around and catch up with friends… But not this one, everyone was loaded with work, essays, potions to make and not to mention all the studying they had to do for their upcoming exams. It was the quietest the Gryffindor common room had been in what seemed like years. Even 5th year, Ginny Weasley was being quiet surrounded by her 3 best friends, Alyson, Mileigh and Rachel. The stress of their work was beginning to drive them crazy, when Ginny finally spoke.
"Let's go down to the pitch."
"Why? There isn't anything going on today, everyone is just as loaded down with work as we are," Alyson answered.
"So, it would be a little more relaxed than this, I can't take this quiet anymore, and I know you guys can't either."
"She's right Aly. This is a little too quiet, I feel like we are in a library without being surrounded by all the books. I'm in." Mileigh started packing her books in her bag.
"I'm in too, but I will meet you guys down there, I have to stop somewhere first." Rachel finally spoke up.
"So Aly, are you in, or are we going down without you?" Ginny asked, silently hoping her friend of 9 years would join them.
"Well, I guess this work can wait until later tonight. I have been working on it since breakfast."
After about 15 minutes, Rachel had already gone and was on her way to wherever she was going and the other 3 girls were heading down to the quidditch pitch. The day was comfortable, sunny and not too hot or to cold. The girls were dressed in muggle jeans and sweaters because it was Saturday and none of them wanted to be bothered with their school robes, especially when it wasn't required. As they approached the pitch they saw exactly what they weren't expecting, two people flying around tossing what looked like a quaffle back and forth. The girls were thinking about asking to join, until they saw who it was. Draco Malfoy and his presumed best friend, Blaise Zabini.
They had turned around and began to walk towards Hagrid's hut but were stopped when they heard someone calling Alyson's name. Slowly, knowing the only two people not inside the castle were the two people none of them felt like putting up with at that particular moment, their brains were all too fried from their day of homework to think of any retorts to smart comments, they turned around coming face to face with Blaise Zabini.
"What Zabini?" Blaise looked confused, which was confusing to Ginny, since to her knowledge Alyson and Blaise never spoke to one another civilly.
"Why are you guys out here?"
"Why are you trying to make small talk?"
"Don't answer a question with a question. Now, why are you out here?"
"I don't know why it is your business, but it was too damn stuffy in our common room. Now, answer my question, why are you trying to make small talk?"
"Well, I couldn't just walk over here and say, come and join us, we wanted to have a small game of quidditch but couldn't exactly with two people."
"Well, we couldn't exactly with five either."
"Well, I notice you are missing one of your group. Are you guys expecting her anytime?"
"What the hell is this, 20 questions? Yes, Rachel is meeting us down here, she had to stop somewhere before she came down, but no she won't play, she hasn't been doing very much lately, she's barely been talking to us."
"Oh, well Matt is coming down when he is finished his extra Transfiguration essay; damn idiot went and mouthed off to McGonagall again."
"And that means what to us? Even if he comes down, there would only be six people, you need at least eight."
"We could play a muggle game. Just make it better."
"I'm surprised you know any muggle games."
"I know of a few, especially capture the flag, mostly because they used a form of it during that Tri-Wizard Tournament in 4th year. All we have to do is think of something to be a flag, and we can add brooms."
Alyson turned to Ginny and Mileigh who, that entire time, had been standing in the background listening to what was being said. "Girls, what do you want to do?"
They just shrugged as if to say 'it didn't matter', they all just wanted to get out of the common room, they didn't care what they did, they just didn't expect to be getting ready to play a 'muggle' game with Draco Malfoy and Blaise Zabini. As if on queue, Blaise looked up and saw Matt walking down towards them, and he turned back to Alyson.
"So are you guys playing, here comes Matt now."
Alyson turned back to Ginny and Mileigh and gave them a look, which looked oddly enough like she was begging them to agree
"Fine," Ginny finally said, she'd asked Alyson about that look later on.
The girls followed Blaise and Matt onto the pitch where Draco had finally landed and was waiting impatiently.
"Damn, what the hell took you so long."
"They didn't want to answer me at first. They were trying to make it difficult."
Draco just rolled his eyes and walked over to where Matt had gone leaving Blaise standing alone, since the girls had gone to get a broom out of the shed where they kept the extras. When the girls got back to them, they split into teams; Draco, Blaise & Matt and Ginny, Mileigh & Alyson. Just as Alyson had said, Rachel showed up but said she would just sit on the bleachers and watch. They transfigured the quaffle into a white towel, to serve as the flag. When they finally got the game started, it turned out to be the classic boys versus girls game. They played for about an hour before Mileigh grabbed the 'flag' and got it to their end of the pitch to win the game for the girls. The boys of course were sulking because their egos were badly bruised since they lost the game. The girls landed in a better mood than when they took off, since they knew they won with the three boys trying their hardest. They put their brooms back in the shed and began walking back up to the castle. They didn't bother saying goodbye since they weren't all friends, they were just there and it was a convenience for the boys' boredom.
Up at the school, Ginny, Alyson, Mileigh and Rachel went straight into the Great Hall for supper. After 30 minutes, they bored of the conversation with Harry, Ron and Hermione. It wasn't that they didn't like them, it was just that Ginny was sick of Ron, having lived with him and seen him everyday since she was born (with the exception of his first year of Hogwarts), and the other two were always talking about the same things, never anything new. So the four girls left and headed back up to Gryffindor tower. They found the quietest, most secluded corner in the common room and made themselves comfortable and just started talking until Ginny remembered the look she was given when Aly wanted to play Capture the Flag.
"So Aly, what was with the look you gave us when Blaise asked you if we wanted to play today?"
"I don't know what you are talking about." Alyson turned her head away from them as she was speaking.
"Aly, we know better than to believe that," she paused and thought for a second, "especially when you can't even look at us to tell us."
Alyson turned to them and it became apparent why she had turned her face. She was blushing. The other girls just looked at each other; they knew exactly why she had looked at them like she had. She had a crush on Blaise, and now that Ginny thought back on it, Draco Malfoy, would never be open to having a bunch of Gryffindors, let alone a group of Gryffindors with one of them being a Weasley, play a game with him or any of his friends, without coaxing and possibly begging from someone. Blaise had a crush on her as well.
In an attempt to move the focus away from herself Alyson looked at the other girls sitting around her, "Wanna play Truth or Dare?"
In unison the other three girls agreed and decided that since Alyson thought of it, she should get to ask someone first because in a way she had admitted something already.
"Rachel. Truth or dare?"
"Truth." She knew what the question was going to be but she figured she would answer it awhile.
"Where do you go all the time?"
She knew it, "well," she paused to think of how to word her answer, "for a while there I was meeting
Matt "
"Matt who?" Ginny cut in.
"The Matt you guys were playing that game with today. But anyways, before I was interrupted I was about to say, today I had to go pay Madame Pomfrey a short visit, which turned into a not so short visit."
"Yea, ok, so you kept meeting up with Matt Saunder, and today you went to Madame Pomfrey for a short visit."
"Yes."
"And that was so secretive you couldn't just tell us?" Mileigh asked her.
"I don't think you are getting what I am telling you."
"I get it," Alyson turned from the wall she had been looking at, "you are pregnant. Aren't you?" Rachel didn't answer she just looked down. "I knew something was up with you, you haven't been talking to us, and you haven't wanted to do anything, well, with us anyways. Did you tell him?"
"I told him I might be, but I haven't gotten to tell him yet. I am going to do it tomorrow. But let's not dwell on this, let's play. Ginny." She looked up; she had been trying to process what was being said by one of her best friends, "truth or dare?"
"Truth."
"What was with those looks you were giving Malfoy today?"
"What looks?" She honestly wasn't aware she had been giving him any 'looks'.
"You were like staring at him, even I could see it from where I was sitting on the bleachers and I know Matt saw it because he is the one who directed my attention to it." Ginny's face got red, "I don't think Draco saw it though, but I don't think he'd care. He knows he is hot. Ok, wait; let me rephrase my question, because what I am asking isn't coming out right… Do you like Malfoy?"
"So you are on first name basis with him now are you?"
"Well, I am dating his friend, we do talk, and it is a bit weird to call him Malfoy all the time, not to mention it pisses him off. He isn't as bad as everyone thinks. Wait a minute, answer the damn question."
"I think he is hot, but you said yourself, he knows he's hot, which in turn means that he probably knows that every female in Hogwarts thinks he is. Is that answer enough for you because I am done answering."
"Yup." She smirked a Malfoy-worthy smirk.
"Aly. Truth or dare?"
"Since everyone before me has chosen truth, I am going to as well."
"How long have you liked Blaise Zabini?"
"Last year." Their game had continued until the very last person, directed the question to Ginny.
"Truth or dare?" Mileigh asked her...
"Dare."
"Ok." She got a small smirk on her face, "I dare you to get Malfoy to make out with you for 15 minutes."
"Is that all?"
"Yea, I don't think you will do it."
"Oh, I'll do it. When and where?"
"Tomorrow night, I will try to enlist some Slytherin help for you, since one of our very close friends is very close with one of his very close friends." At this she smiled and asked Rachel for help.
The next day passed almost too fast for Ginny. Before she knew it, it was five o'clock and Rachel had already gone to get help from Matt, to get Draco into an empty classroom for Ginny to complete her dare. Why are they helping me? Ginny thought, usually when given a dare, you are required to complete it on your own but for some reason unknown to her, her friends were pulling out all the stops for her to complete this. They had found an old classroom that was now empty, they had arranged for Rachel to ask Matt to help, with Draco, when she told him her newly discovered revelation, and as a back up Alyson was set to talk Blaise into it if things didn't go so well with Rachel and Matt. It was just strange to her. She had never known her friends to put forth so much effort in something that wouldn't benefit them in any way, shape or form.
When Rachel came back in, with Alyson in tow, Ginny was pacing the common room; they motioned for her to follow them, which she did. Once they were out of the common room, Alyson turned to her, "Are you ready to do this?"
"As ready as I'll ever be."
"Alright. You are going to be locking in an empty charms classroom for a half an hour-"
"I thought you said 15 minutes!"
"Yea that you have to make out with him. We know that it is going to take some time to convince him to go along with you, so we added that into the time you are going to be locked in with him."
"Great." Ginny said, her voice laced with sarcasm.
They continued their walk until they stopped in front of a classroom door that was back in one of the empty side corridors, so they were sure not to be discovered. They opened the door with a simple 'alohomora' and Ginny went in and sat down in one of the chairs to wait.
About five minutes passed until Draco walked through the door. She could tell by the look on his face that he wasn't informed of the reason he would be locked in an abandoned classroom with Ginny Weasley, but there was also something else hidden in his eyes, her thoughts were interrupted when he spoke, "Weasley, do you know why we are in here?"
Ginny was silent, she wasn't sure whether or not she wanted to tell him. After a few minutes she figured it would be easier if she would just tell him. "Yes." She finally said.
"Yes what?" He seemed to have forgotten even asking her the question.
"Yes, I know why we are locked in here."
"Why then?"
"I had a dare-"
"What does your dare have to do with me being locked in this dusty classroom?"
"If you would kindly let me finish," she began, aggravation sounding in her voice, "I was dared to get you to make out with me for 15 minutes."
"What makes you think I will go along with this? Just because you have me locked in this room with you, doesn't mean I will just make out with you because you were dared."
"Firstly, I didn't have the idea to be locked in here with you. Secondly, I wasn't the one who dared me to do this, and thirdly, since I was dared, I am going to do this." She walked right up to him and kissed him as hard as she could. She was surprised when he pulled her right up against him and began kissing her back because she honestly thought his reaction would be to push her away. Before she knew it, they were getting a little carried away, somehow they ended up on the desk in the front of the room and the next thing she knew Alyson was walking through the door to let them out. There was a scramble to find their clothes and she could feel the blush forming on her face. What she had just been caught doing wasn't something one typically wanted others to see. She looked at Alyson, who had turned away from the two as to give them some privacy; she could only imagine what she was thinking.
The walk back to the common room was quiet, Ginny was still blushing and Alyson was still not looking directly at her. The whole situation was kind of embarrassing. How does a simple, 'innocent' dare turn into something so not innocent?
When they got back into the tower, they headed straight for the stairs leading to the dormitory, Alyson beckoning Mileigh and Rachel along. Once in the 5th year dormitory, they all sat down on Ginny's bed, closed the curtains and placed a very strong silencing charm on them so that no unwanted ears could hear their conversation. All they needed was for this to be around the school by breakfast.
Finally the silence was broken, by Mileigh, "So Gin, did you do it?"
"Yea, she definitely did it."
"What does that mean?"
"She means, she walked in on a little more than what my dare was."
"You mean, you…" Ginny just looked down at her lap, almost ashamed of what she had done…Almost.
"So what does this mean? I mean what is it between you two now?" Rachel asked.
"Nothing I suppose. We just got a little carried away. It didn't mean anything."
"Come on Gin, we all know you wouldn't get that carried away. You are a little more responsible than that."
"Well, tonight I lost control. It didn't mean anything. I am pretty sure we took the proper precautions, so it is a once and done thing, I don't plan on doing it again, well with him anyways, and I am pretty sure he doesn't plan on doing it with me again either. So can we please just leave it at that?"
"Fine." The other girls answered in unison, but Mileigh decided to add to the statement, "So how was it?"
Ginny just shrugged and said, "a girl doesn't kiss and tell."
The next morning, Ginny woke up to an owl tapping on her window. She tried to ignore it but it kept on tapping until it had woken up the rest of the girls in her dorm as well. She had no choice but to let the bird in before she had 5 very pissed off roommates. So she walked over and opened the window, allowing the owl to fly to whomever it needed to deliver its message to, only, it didn't move, it stood right in front of her and stretched out it's leg, off of which she took a piece of parchment showing her name on the outside. She gave the bird a treat and then he was gone. As soon as she got back to her bed, she unrolled the parchment.
A/N- So I hope it wasn't completely horrible but if it was I am sorry. My next chapter I am going to try to make better.. Now please review, I need someone to tell me what I am doign wrong so I can change it...