Chuck led his four friends through the town, down several streets until 10 minutes later, they'd arrived downtown. There were quite a few cars still driving around, as well as parked ones. Several businesses were still open, even though it was a quarter til midnight.

"Alright Chuck, where is it?", Briana asked him.
"We're almost there; we just need to turn right here..."

They turned right and walked for less than a minute longer when Chuck stopped and gestured to a rather large, blue-painted building he was standing in front of. Briana read the giant sign that hovered nicely in front of the building:INCENDIO:THE BEST HOT TUBS IN ALL OF LONDON.

There was a slightly smaller sign floating under that one that read:Clothing optional. Briana laughed at this.

"Seriously, mate? Incendio is your favorite place in town?", Draco asked.

"When we pass this on our way to the Leaky Cauldron, you say you know nothing about it," Alex added.
"It's complicated. At any rate, this does happen to be my favorite place in town," Chuck smiled.

"Well come on, then. Let's go in!", Blaise pushed past them and opened the door.

The rest of the group followed him into Incendio, waiting for Chuck to lead them. Nobody knew what to do except for Chuck. The inside was decorated like a Japanese restaurant. There were koi ponds around, tons of little plants, paper lanterns floating in the air, candles everywhere, lots of sliding screen doors and shamisen music was playing softly. A small Asian woman approached the teenagers, and apparently recognized Chuck.

"So good to see you again! These are all your friends?", she asked, smiling.

"Every single one of them. Thought I'd bring them with me for once."

"Of course, of course! So do you want private room or to go in the public community room?"

"Think we'll go with a private room this time around."

"Alright! Follow me, this way."

The woman scurried down a hallway, past several screen doors on the sides. At the other end of the all, behind them, Briana noticed a particularly large screen with a sign that said "COMMUNITY ROOM". The group continued to follow the lady until she stopped at a screen door, slid it open and gestured them inside. All five of them entered.

"You know what to do. Have a good time. House elf will come bring tea in a minute," the woman nodded and began walking away, after shutting the door.
"Thanks Ms. Fujiwara," Chuck nodded at the woman.

Looking around, it was a fairly simple, small, nice room. There was a wooden floor and bamboo walls, there were small cherry blossoms in the corners, candles strewn around on the floor, a giant photograph of a Japanese girl in a kimono hung on one wall. There was a table with five, large, green and black towels sitting on it, as well as, of course, the fancy, giant hot tub in the center of the room.

Briana looked around in wonder, "This is extremely nice, Chuck. I like it!"

"I'd have to agree, mate. Pretty brilliant in here," Blaise agreed.

"What's this thing for?", Alex had found a dial on a wall next to the hot tub.

"Ah, now that controls the jets and bubbles," Chuck explained proudly.

"Sweet!", Alex messed around with it a bit and soon the jets were on in the tub and there were green bubbles in it as well.

A house elf suddenly came in and handed Chuck a tray that held five cups of steaming tea and a teapot. He thanked the house elf and scurried away again. He put the tray down next to the tub and everyone stood around for a minute.

"Wait, so how exactly does this work?", Draco asked.

"Pretty simple; you come in, ask for either a private room or to just use the community room. You go in and do what you do, then when you're ready to leave, Ms. Fujiwara waves a wand over your hand and that somehow tells her how long you stayed, and that decides how much you pay. Then you leave!", he explained the process easily.

"Sounds simple enough," Briana commented.

Suddenly, all at once, Alex, Blaise, Chuck and Draco were all stripping down to nothing but their boxer shorts, then all four climbed happily into the hot water, relaxing and getting comfortable. Briana stood off to the side, kind of looking around awkwardly. Surely she wasn't changing in front of them! She was afraid they would see.. certain things that nobody could know about...

The boys seemed to suddenly remember she was there as they all looked up at her.
Chuck smirked, "The time has come, my dear."

"Do you guys have to watch me?", Briana asked slowly, taking her shoes off.
"You do have clothes on underneath that dress, right?", Blaise questioned.
"Don't be barking, of course I do! Now all of you turn around and close your eyes."
"Fine..."

The four boys all did as they were told, turning around and shutting their eyes as Briana quickly took off her dress and sat down across from them in the hot tub.

"Alright, you can stop now," she told them, smiling.

Thanks to the many bubbles, when she sat down, all you could see of her was what wasn't submerged in water, which at this point was just from the collar bone and up.

"If any of you have ever wondered why I hate bubbles, this is why," Chuck half-joked.
Blaise laughed and Draco splashed some water at him.
"So why is this your favorite place, anyway?", Alex asked Chuck.

"That's an easy question; he likes it for the girls, of course," said Draco.

Chuck smirked, "That's just a bonus. I mostly come here by myself once in a while, just to get away from it all, you know? Nothing to worry about when I'm here. I feel like I've escaped from all my troubles, even if just for a moment, when I'm here."

Briana smiled. Blaise commented, "Wow. I can't believe that just came out of your mouth."

"Believe it, mate. Never judge anyone too quickly," Chuck smirked lightly.

The five friends sat in a comfortable, relaxed silence for a few minutes, when Blaise finally broke the silence, "Briana, what's that charm on your necklace?"

Opening her eyes, Briana took the charm in her two fingers and played with it, answering, "It's a flower. Called a forget-me-not."

Nodding, Blaise further questioned, "I see, so did one of your friends in America give it to you before you left?"

She smiled, "Guess again."

Blaise's eyes flickered over to Draco, whose eyes were downcast, "Really? Draco, you gave her that necklace?"

Looking up, Draco answered, "Yeah, when I first heard news she was leaving me, I asked my mother to help me pick out a gift for her. In the end, I chose that forget-me-not flower, for obvious reasons..."

"Merlin's beard, I can't believe it! Draco Malfoy's had feelings before," Chuck commented.

"Come off it, mate," Draco waved him away, smirking slightly,"I'm actually surprised you haven't lost that after all these years, Bri."

"I've never taken it off, Draco," she answered him, now looking down at the necklace, herself.

If anyone had bothered to take a look at Draco at that moment, they would've noticed the short, but very happy, big and genuine smile that he'd had on his face when those words went through his ears and his brain made sense of them. Fascinating how a few simple words can cause such big emotion in people.

"Chuck I really like you right now, for choosing this place as you favorite; I love it here!", Briana told him.

"Yeah, I know. It's the first thing I thought of. My rule is, if it's the first thing that comes to mind, it's the one you think or care about most, so..", he explained.

"All my mates are turning soft on me, it's kind of creeping me out...", Blaise chuckled.
"That's what she said...", Chuck couldn't keep himself from commenting.
"Seriously, man?", Draco laughed.

"Hey, guys, look...", Briana gestures towards Alex, who was asleep.

Draco smirked, "I hadn't even noticed he'd fallen asleep, he's pretty quiet in public places."
"I don't really think your presence really helps, either, Briana," Blaise said, half-jokingly, half-seriously.

"I feel the greatest urge to pull a prank on him or something of that sort...", Chuck got an evil glint in his eye.

Draco and Blaise knew well enough to know that evil little glint Chuck got in his eyes meant some sort of trouble was going to happen. Well, that is, if someone like Briana isn't around to stop him. But, fortunately for Alex, Briana was around to stop Chuck from causing mischief.
"No! Chuck, don't be mean!", she stared at Alex.

"Aww, come on! Opportunity's knocking!"

"Well, tell opportunity that nobody's home. How could you ever prank him?Look at him, he looks like such an angel!"

Chuck considered, "Fine, whatever, you win this time. But know this! I won't be so nice next time, I'm just giving you a free-pass because it's your first night with us. So don't get used to it, honey."

Briana smiled, "I'll keep that in mind, deary."

They all sat around in another comfy silence for quite a few minutes longer, when Alex was suddenly awake. He said, "Shouldn't we be leaving? I mean, if we're gonna go to all of our favorite places, we should get a move on, yeah?"

Draco raised an eyebrow, "Exactly right, sleeping beauty. Come on you guys."

"Wait, shouldn't we let Briana get out first, since she'sfor some reason so self-conscious?", Blaise asked.

Briana rolled her eyes, "I'm not self-conscious! I just don't particularly like you guys staring at.. my lady parts." They didn't see through her lies.

Again, the four boys turned around and closed their eyes, while Briana got out, dried off then put her dress back on. Chuck, Blaise, Draco and Alex got out as well, and copied in the same fashion. They paid Ms. Fujiwara, then walked back out into the cold night air.

Briana looked around, "So... Where to now, boys?"

"Mine.. Mine is close, so let's go...", Alex began to lead the way to his favorite place in town, with his four very good friends behind him.

One down, three to go.