CHAPTER FOUR : - )
I walked over to my bed and pulled out the bag of equipment.
"Ok…" I muttered, pulling out the multi-talented extendable ears. I walked over to the wall that was the only thing separating my room from Draco's. What a safe thought…
Drawing my wand from my dress I pointed it at a small part of the wall and muttered a spell. A light immediately came from my wand and burnt a small hole in the wall. I then shrunk the extendable ears and fed one side through. I stood back to make sure that the ears weren't noticeable. After considering it for a moment I came to the conclusion that you wouldn't see it unless you knew it was there.
Next was the tricky part. I had to sneak into his room.
Shoving some equipment in a small backpack I stepped out into the hall.
I walked over to Draco's door and knocked to make sure he hadn't come back while I was in my room. No answer.
I pointed my wand at the door and started with a simple unlocking charm. It didn't work, I tried as many as I could, but nothing could open the door. My only guess was that a spell had been cast on the key. Smart.
Luckily I had a plan B. I gathered that most purebloods wouldn't think to cast spells against muggle sources because they didn't expect any pureblood to 'stoop that low'.
I quickly dug through my bags and pulled out two thin metal rods. Kneeling on the floor I put the two rods into the keyhole of the door. I worked at it for a good ten minutes, not once hearing that loud click signifying that I'd succeeded in unlocking the door. The only explanation for it was that he had indeed cast a spell against muggle sources as well. By Merlin he was determined not to allow anyone access to his room.
I was about to try something else when I heard voices from the stairs. One was male and the other female, they both sounded drunk and it wasn't exactly hard to imagine why they were leaving the dance early.
I quickly walked back into my room and closed the door. Looking out through the peer hole I managed to see the two exchanging smiles and slapping each other playfully. They stopped at the door across from Draco's and the girl took out a key and put it in the lock. She was about to turn it but the two got carried away and started kissing passionately against her door. This just wouldn't do if I planned to get anywhere near Draco's door without being seen. I sighed in defeat as the couple made no desire to move.
This wasn't going to work out…unless…
I walked over to my balcony door and opened it. I looked over to Draco's balcony and gulped. This was not something someone with a great fear of heights was likely to succeed at, but this was something that someone determined would at least try.
I removed my heels and threw them inside my room. I then pulled up my dress and tucked it in to the top part of the bottom half so that my legs had room to move.
I cautiously made my way over to the side and peered down. Great, solid ground…couldn't there have least been a pool?
Giving a nervous sigh I swung my legs up onto the railing. I tried to reach out but that didn't quite work. Taking deep breaths I stood up carefully. This is what I had not wanted to do, but it was known that in life you were faced with many challenges that you do not want to do.
Closing my eyes for a second to gain courage I breathed deeply. Then I opened my eyes and jumped as far out as I could.
Giving a scream I managed to grab onto the railing with my hands. Now my body was dangling. I tried to use my feet to give my support by trying to climb up with them, but every time my feet slipped.
I could feel the tears forming in my eyes, I was petrified. I wanted to be back home with Harry and Ron. But here I was, dangling from a hotel balcony because I was trying to break into a room.
"Stop it!" I told my myself, I was being stupid, of course I wanted to be home, those feelings were to be expected, but that wasn't happening, so crying was pointless, and as for heights, I'd be fine, all I had to do was figure out how to get up properly.
I glanced down and then glanced up with a pale face. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath and looked down properly. I scanned the area beneath me until I saw it. A surfboard was laying on the balcony a couple floors down. Gripping the railing more tightly with my left hand I let go of it with my right hand and reached down and pulled out my wand. I pointed it at the surfboard.
"Wingardium Leviosa!" I said through gritted teeth. The surfboard began to rise. It wasn't until it was up to my waist did I cast a freezing charm on it.
I placed my wand back into my dress and swung my legs onto the board. I didn't really wonder why someone would bring a surfboard to a pureblood convention, it had already been rumored that there was a very large salt water pool, charmed to have surf.
I managed to climb over the railing on my hands and knees. Once I was standing on Draco's balcony I wanted to cheer.
I went over to the glass door and did the same spells I had done to the front door. Nothing. I tried the lock picks. Nothing.
I sighed and then glanced at the table and chairs next to me, then back at the door. With a shrug I picked up a chair and hurled it through the glass, smashing it.
"Bet you weren't expecting that…" I said with a triumphant grin.
I stepped into his room and looked around. His room looked exactly like mine except it had masculine belongings, unlike mine which had hair accessories and crap like that.
I turned back to the balcony door. As much as I would like to see the look on his face when he came back to see it smashed it wasn't an option. If I left it he would cast spells of dark magic no doubt and I would never be able to get into his room again if need be.
"Repairo" I muttered reluctantly, watching as the door repaired itself and the chair went back outside to its original place.
Getting back to business I walked over to his bed and placed my backpack on the smooth satin sheets. I began to pull out equipment when I heard a tiny squeak from behind me. I spun around.
"You is not meant to be here!" It was a house elf that looked about Dobby's age.
"Shh!"
"NO! What is miss doing here!?" The elf said, looking at me half fearfully.
"Nothing you need to worry about!" I snapped.
"Master will not be happy, no he will not…" The elf muttered to itself. I snorted.
"I'm pretty sure that your master would be thrilled at the idea of a woman being in his room" I said. The elf looked at me.
"No, master gave Nob strict orders not to let anyone into the room…oh master will be so mad at poor Nob" The elf said, sitting down and scrunching it's eyes up before opening them, standing up and walking over to a set of drawers.
"Bad Nob!" The elf shouted, bashing its head against the drawers. "Bad, bad, bad"
"Hey! Stop it!" I shouted, grabbing the back of the sack the elf was wearing and lifting him away from the drawers. "What the hell is wrong with you!?"
"Put Nob down Miss! Nob must punish himself for failing to do as his master asked!" The elf wailed. I scowled.
"You do not have to punish yourself! It's stupid, Malfoy won't notice if you don't!" I said, trying to make the elf see reasoning.
"Oh no miss, Nob has already disobeyed master enough, he'd kill poor Nob if he ever found out I was not punishing myself!" Nob squeaked.
"Well I'm sorry but I can't allow you to punish yourself over something that wasn't your fault" I said, pointing my wand at him. His eyes widened.
I placed Nob down in a small pile of rags that was in a cupboard in the bar which I assumed was his bed. I had stunned him and erased his memory. In all honesty, he had given me no other option. Closing the cupboard door I went back to my original task.
I pulled about five tiny cameras out of my bag. The first one I placed right above the door, the second in the centre of the mirror, the third in the top corner nearest the bed, the fourth out of the balcony and the fifth in the bathroom. I didn't put the camera in the bathroom to perve either, in the case that he was to have a shower and or bath the camera lens would fog up anyway, no, I put it in there just in case.
Now, I had already fed one pair of super extendable ears through, but I needed at least one more.
I walked out to his balcony and cast several spells to stick the extendable ears to the wall until it had reached my side. I then shrunk it so that it wasn't so noticeable.
Finishing with that I went and took my backpack from the bed and went into his wardrobe; I was hoping that he kept a safe in there or something.
I searched the wardrobe and only managed to find a small box that contained a snake pendant made of ebony. Although I was fascinated by it I didn't dare let it take my attention from what I was doing. But why was the box so light if it were made of ebony? Perhaps it had a charm placed upon it…It didn't matter, it was of no importance. I swung the bag back over my shoulder and was about to leave the wardrobe when I heard the door slam shut. I froze.
I heard a lot of banging. Shit, I was stuck in his house and by the sound of it he wasn't happy.
I carefully made my way into the bathroom and over to the door that led to the main room. I glanced around the corner and my eyes widened.
I had been wrong, he was quite happy. Well, at least that was the impression I got when he fell back on his bed with a near naked girl on top of him, and by the looks of it she had been the one bragging in the bathroom.
I felt like gagging when he made her moan by kissing her neck.
"I knew you wanted me…" She said in between moans. He stopped for a moment.
"Don't assume what you don't know" He hissed. He glared at her for a moment before taking the advantage of having a now completely naked girl on his bed.
I didn't want to stay much longer. I carefully crawled out of the bathroom and stayed close to the bed so that they wouldn't see me. I was disgusted as the moaning increased along with the amount of clothes falling onto the floor.
Finally I made it to the balcony door, and without looking back I quietly opened the door and closed it. I stood up and hoisted myself over the railing and onto the surfboard. I walked across it slowly without looking down and then jumped over my railing. I removed the freezing charm from the surfboard and just shrugged as it fell and broke. Like the bastard couldn't buy a new one anyway.
Entering my room I opened a laptop-like-screen that was connected to the cameras and cringed. The cameras appeared to be working…too well at the present moment. I snapped the screen shut.
I could just imagine what that vile woman was going to be saying to her friends tomorrow, it was quite sad. She'd probably become a role model to most of the pureblood women for fucking Draco Malfoy.
I suddenly felt myself feeling sorry for Draco. Did any of these women love him? No. They all just lusted for him like crazy.
I heard a thump somewhere from the next room.
Then again he didn't seem to mind either way…
I placed the laptop in the drawer of my bedside table and sighed. Tonight had been a long night.
I got up and walked into my wardrobe. Changing into a short black silk night-dress I walked back over to bed and collapsed on it. The softness was so welcoming. I crawled under the blankets and immediately fell asleep.
The next morning I woke up to the sound of a knock at my door. Muttering curses under my breath I practically fell out of bed and walked over to the door, smoothing out my hair with my fingers as I went.
When I opened the door I was greeted by one of the hotel staff.
"Good morning Miss! I am 'ere to notify you zat breakfast is on the first floor, so please join us all if you please. Also, are you interested in buying a copy of today's Daily prophet?" He asked.
"Oh…uh…yes please, I'll just get the money" I said. I left him at my door to go and fetch a couple of Knuts from my wallet that was in my bedside table drawer.
I returned not a minute later holding the required amount of coins. He gladly handed me the paper.
"If you wish to buy any more copies you will have to order zem, Now…is zere any…zing else zat you would like-" He was interrupted as the door to the left burst open.
A woman wearing a formal dress that looked like it had been carelessly put on came out holding a pair of heels in her hands.
"One last kiss?" She smiled sweetly at the person in the room.
Draco Malfoy stepped out of the room and gave her a bored peck which she tried to make more passionate but he pulled away.
"Now go back to your room" He ordered. She nodded.
"See you at breakfast" She winked.
Out of all my efforts I couldn't stop the disgusted look coming onto my face.
The hotel worker coughed slightly to draw my attention back to him. Draco's head whipped our way. He paled when he saw me and the look upon my face.
"No that will be all thank you" I said to the worker and then stepped back inside my room and shut the door.
I was mad to say the least. But I wasn't mad that he had screwed her, no. I was mad because he treated her like a lower-being.
I mean sure, the girl was a clingy bitch, but to use her because he felt like it? I really hoped that she became possessive like Pansy; it'd serve the bastard right.
Sighing I gave up on the matter and went into my bathroom. After having a shower I walked into my wardrobe and took out a pair of ¾ length black pants and a light blue blouse. I rolled up the sleeves to my elbows. I put on a pair of black heels and put my wand in my pocket.
Learning my lesson on how easy it was to break in I cast the required spells on my balcony door. I then charmed my door key. Walking over to the door I peered out into the corridor. Draco was just leaving.
He closed his door and locked it; he then glanced at my door and waited a couple of moments.
"Come on…" I hissed under my breath. Finally he walked away. I waited until he disappeared on the staircase and then I came out of my room. I locked my door just like he had done.
I walked over to the stairs, taking my time so that he had time to sit down at a table. I then walked down the stairs. In two moments I appeared on the first floor.
There was a restaurant on this floor with hundreds of tables. Most were taken up. Walking into the restaurant I looked around for a spare table.
"Rosalie!" I heard someone call. I turned my head in the direction of the voice and saw two women waving at me while the other patted an extra seat implying that I sit down. I walked over to them.
"Hey" I smiled, sitting down. Miriam and Katrina smiled widely while Natalie blushed deeply.
"What's up with you?" I asked her as I picked up a menu. She didn't answer. I looked at Miriam and Katrina questioningly.
"She didn't come back to the suite last night" Miriam grinned.
"What?" I asked, not entirely confused, but it was fun to watch how red she could go.
"She seemed to think that that lovely gentleman that she was kissing last night had a better suite…and bed" Katrina sniggered. She had to duck as a menu was thrown at her.
"Oh my God, did you really…?" I asked her, excited for my new friend. I was quite often deprived of girly talks as my friends were made up of the male population with the exception of Ginny who seemed to talk about Quidditch more then boys anyway.
Natalie blushed deeper and nodded.
"Oh, good on you Natalie" I laughed. She smiled.
"Thanks" She said more confidently then I ever thought she was capable of.
"And Rosalie, don't call us our full names for crying out loud" Katrina said. "It's Nat, Kat and Mi (said 'My') to you"
"Uh…sure" I laughed uncertainly.
"Oh and we'll call you 'Rosie' every now and again, it makes up for lack of nickname on your behalf" Miriam joined in.
"Sure thing, call me whatever you want" Except Hermione, Mudblood or Granger.
Finally a waitress came.
"What would you like?" She asked, holding a pen to a pad ready to write down our order.
"I'll have the eggs benedict and a coffee" Miriam said, closing her menu. "And you can throw in a side of order of Draco Malfoy if you like" She whispered so only I could hear.
"I'll have an orange juice and some French toast" Katrina said.
"Um…I'll have some strawberry pancakes…and some orange juice as well please" Natalie said.
"And I'll have some strawberry pancakes as well and some tea please" I smiled. The waitress finished writing down the order, repeated it to us to make sure she had written everything correctly then went into the kitchens.
"So…What was all that with Draco Malfoy and yourself last night?" Miriam asked, leaning in close as to pressure me into telling.
"That was nothing" I replied bluntly. "I just don't like him"
"Well we got the impression that you did like him" Katrina said.
"What!?" I hissed. "That is preposterous! The very idea is just…sickening"
"If you had just said a simple 'no' I would have believed you, but you said everything you could think of to make us change our minds" Miriam said with a shake of her head. "You Rosie, are an awful liar"
"But I don't…" I said with a frown.
"She's in denial" Katrina said to Natalie and Miriam.
"I'm not! Seriously, how could I like someone who kept me awake most of the night because he's screwing some woman?" I argued. I was only lying a tad, I had been so exhausted that I hadn't woken up once all night, but I needed to get the point across.
"Ah the emotional pain of knowing that he as with her and not you kept you awake did it?" Miriam said dramatically.
"No, try the bangs and thumps coming from the room next to me" I said.
"Oh- wait what? Your room is next to Draco's? Or is it next to the girl's?" Katrina asked.
"It's next to Malfoy's" I answered.
"Then you have to invite us over sometime" Katrina grinned. I rolled my eyes then looked at Natalie.
"What is wrong with your family?" I asked her. She shrugged.
"They haven't been laid in a fair while" She smirked. Miriam and Katrina glared at her.
"And you'd be in the same situation as us had we not spiked all the food last night" Miriam said.
"You did what?" Natalie growled.
"Oh look, the food is here" I pointed out, trying to save both Miriam and Katrina from Natalie's well hidden wrath.
"So it is…" Katrina said.
The waitress placed our plates in front of us along with our drinks.
"Will there be anything else?" She asked in perfect English, even though she looked quite French.
"No thank you" Miriam said with a smile. The waitress nodded and left us.
"This is good" Miriam said, trying to ignore Natalie's piercing glare. Finally she got sick of it.
"I don't know what your problem is! If it weren't for us you wouldn't have slept with heartthrob Charlie Lock!" She almost yelled, drawing some attention.
Natalie blushed and sunk down in her seat, trying to avoid the attention.
"Ok, ok, just keep your voice down!" She hissed.
"Not until you said 'thank you Mi and Kat, you're my favourite people in the whole entire world except for Charlie Lock'" Miriam said with an evil grin on her face. Natalie looked like she about to die of embarrassment.
"Say it!" Katrina said loudly. Natalie sighed.
"Thank you Mi and Kat you're my favourite people in the whole entire world except for Charlie Lock" Natalie said, loudly enough so that she wouldn't have to repeat it, but quietly enough so that most people wouldn't hear…namely Charlie Lock himself.
"Good girl" Miriam said, patting her on the head. "Now maybe we can get Rosie here to admit her feelings for Draco in the same way"
"Don't you dare!" I almost yelled. "There are no feelings other then hatred and disgust"
"Oh please Rosie, you can't hate someone after only 24 hours" Katrina said with a roll of her eyes.
"The hell I can't" I muttered, remembering that I was Rosalie to them and not Hermione.
Miriam and Katrina rolled their eyes.
"Stubborn shit" Katrina muttered. I raised my eyebrows at her and she just smiled innocently.
"Well, I'm finished so I'm going to go and get changed" Natalie said, standing up from the table.
"I'll come with" I said quickly, wanting to get away from Katrina and Miriam before they started chanting any false feelings I had for Draco Malfoy.
Natalie had gone to her room which was on the tenth floor and she was going to come back down and meet me at my room.
While she was gone I quickly hid any equipment that I didn't want her seeing and then I went and got changed into a purple bikini. The top was a halter neck and it had two black beads on the part between the cleavage.
The bottom part had to be tied up on each side; the ends of the string also had black beads. I looked at my reflection in the mirror and smiled. I looked good.
There was a knock at the door. I looked through the peer hole to make sure it was Natalie and then opened the door, allowing her entrance.
"Wow" She said, looking at my bathers. "You look great" I smiled at the compliment.
I now had to throw some clothes over the bathers. I settled on a black mini and a tight black singlet. I then threw on some heels.
I didn't know what it was with the purebloods but there was some unwritten law that all pureblood women had to wear heels everywhere. Merlin it was annoying.
I hid my wand in the room, not wanting to take the risk of taking it.
Walking back out into the main part of the suite I turned around for Natalie to judge my clothing.
"Hot" She nodded.
"Same goes for you…I'm not sure if Charlie will be able to resist" She blushed but she couldn't help but smile.
We made our way out into the corridor and down the stairs.
We saw Miriam and Katrina walking someway ahead of us. Apparently I took so long to get ready that they beat us.
They teased me about that as we all walked to the pool together.
The pool area was amazing. There were at least ten pools, each different in its own way.
But today we weren't going to swim; we just assumed that we'd have plenty of time for that later. No, today we were going to sit in the spa all day, drinking cocktails and commenting on all the hot guys that walked past.
"Waiter!" Katrina called. I had my suspicions that she liked him.
"Yes ma'am?" He asked.
"Can we please have four more of the same thing?" She asked sweetly. The waiter chuckled.
"Very well" He said. He was obviously finding amusement in how much we had managed to drink. She smiled at him and he left to make the drinks.
"Oh! He's nice" Miriam said, pointing in the direction of some tall, muscular man with dark hair.
Katrina managed to pry her eyes away from the retreating ass of the waiter to look.
"Yummy…and I'd say he's about…29-30? Not bad…" I laughed at how they spoke about them.
"This is like your own personal catalogue, isn't it?" I laughed.
"Yes, but unfortunately it's not as personal as I would like" Miriam said as a group of woman walked past the man she had just pointed out, each one smiling at him seductively.
"It's really no wonder why all these men have big egos" I said, shaking my head.
"Not all of them do" Natalie said.
"Ok, all except Charlie, happy?" I winked. She splashed me with water. I splashed her back.
"There isn't a dance on tonight" Katrina suddenly said. We followed the general direction her eyes were facing to see a poster that had just appeared on the wall. It said that although there was no dance, a dinner would be there for all of those that were interested.
"So, you are going to go to dinner, aren't you?" Natalie asked me.
"No, I'll think I'll just hang out in my suite" I said with a smile.
"Fine" All three of them pouted.
"Yes I'm sorry that I don't get to give you a great opportunity to embarrass me in front of everyone" I smirked. I got slashed three times. I was officially drenched…well compared to them at least.
"Your drinks ladies" The waiter said, handing us our drinks.
"Mmm, thank you" Katrina said, smiling up at him. "Here's a tip" She passed him a galleon. I looked at it closely and saw a piece of parchment attached to it bearing some numbers; no doubt her room number.
Once the waiter had left I splashed her.
"I saw that!" I laughed.
"Saw what?" She said innocently.
"Just a coin that had your room number attached to it!" I said. The other two looked around at her with open mouths.
"You didn't…" Natalie said.
"Oh you totally rock!" Miriam said, hugging her cousin.
"I know, I know" Katrina laughed.
All three of us turned to look at the waiter who had stopped walking momentarily. When he did start walking again we could see a smile on his face.
"Too bad he can't" Natalie said.
"Why can't he?" Katrina asked suspiciously.
"Because he's not allowed to be romantically involved with the hotel customers" I answered. Katrina snorted.
"Oh please, like that silly old law ever stops them" Katrina said.
"Spoken by someone with experience in the matter" Miriam laughed. They clinked their glasses together and sculled the lot.
"Oh! He looks hot!" Miriam said. She was good at pointing out the particular hot looking guys.
"That's Blaise Zabini I believe" I said. Of course I knew it was him, he was in my year at Hogwarts! And yes, he was definitely a looker; well, you'd at least expect so from someone whose mum had been famous for her looks…then again she had also been quite famous for the fact that each of her seven husbands had died mysterious deaths leaving them their fortunes. She had never remarried, mainly because all of the bachelors didn't have a death wish.
"Blaise…even his name is hot…" Katrina said, fanning herself with her hand. Both Natalie and I laughed.
"He's out of your league Kat" Natalie said. We all turned to look at her with raised eyebrows.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"I mean that a couple of the girls have told me that he is very particular in who he chooses to date. Of course, there's always the exception of Pansy Parkinson with all of the guys, but she's just a quick fuck apparently" Natalie said knowingly.
"Oh, my sister is becoming the little gossip I always wanted her to be" Katrina said, flinging her arms about Natalie and hugging her.
"Get…help…" Natalie said dramatically.
"Yeah right" Miriam said, splashing water into her face.
"Hey!" Natalie squealed. She managed to pry her sister's arms off of her and splashed Miriam.
"You know what this mean don't you?" said a now dripping wet Miriam.
"What?" Natalie grinned.
"This means war"
"Oh dear Merlin" I said, sculling my drink quickly so that it wouldn't be ruined by the water that was about to be everywhere. Katrina did the same.
A/N: Reviews...you know I love 'em ;)