25
Alyssa
"Hey, um, where are we going?" I asked Harry.
"We aren't going back to the Dormitories, just yet." He explained quickly, as we turned the corner to see Taylor, Ron, and Malfoy.
"Ah! Just the girl I was thinking about!" Taylor said, seeing me.
"Um…Okay?" I asked strangely as she skipped up to me.
"So, I need to ask you a favour." She said, putting her arm around my shoulders.
"If it involves putting a smoke bomb in the hall, I am NOT doing that. You know how THAT turned out the last time."
"Hey, that's cuz you ran off, leaving it on the ground."
"Ohmygod, whatever. What is it that you need so badly?" I sighed, feeling defeated.
"Well, I'm going down to see Hagrid with Harry and Ron, and Malfoy wants to go, but you see… Um… Can you babysit him for like, a half hour?"
"I can still hear you!" Malfoy yelled.
"Baby-sit? You want me to baby-sit Malfoy? Do you even know how well that will turn out?" I asked, raising my eyebrows.
"Please, just do this. If you do, I'll tell you a secret…" She trailed off, looking desperate.
"What secret do you have that I don't yet know about?"
When she didn't say anything, I just sighed again.
"Fine, whatever."
"Yay! I love you!" She cried, hugging me.
"Yeah yeah…" I returned the hug.
"Okay, let's go!" She turned around, and bounced back to Harry and Ron. With a quick movement, a swish, and they were gone underneath Harry's magnificent cloak of invisibility.
"What the bloody hell? Where'd they go?" Malfoy exclaimed, looking wildly around.
"You, poor child, have obviously never heard of magic."
After the muttered swears of Taylor and Ron had disappeared out the doors, I turned on my heels and went to Malfoy.
"Okay, so this is going to be awkward." I sighed, crossing my arms tightly.
"Just to clarify, I do not need to be babysat." He spat, turning away.
"Well obviously you do. You're taking a temper tantrum. You are a child." I smirked.
"Would you get that off your face? You're not doing it right." He mirrored me, and I laughed.
"Yeah, um, I think I'm wearing it better than you."
"Is that so?" He stepped closer, trying to look menacing in his inch taller height.
"Oh, definitely. And you'd better be careful on what you say; You're still on emotional arrest." I grinned.
"She didn't specify on whether or not I could torture you."
"You wouldn't even dare." I said, backing up. He followed swiftly, smirking hugely.
"Watch me." With that, he started to run towards me, and I turned and sped down the hall from the scary blonde headed PMS central.
"No! No! Leave me alone!" I yelled, running as fast as I could around the tight corner. I rummaged in my bag for my wand, and pointing it back at me, "Aquamenti!"
Water poured out behind me, and I heard Malfoy yell, "What the-?" Before he slipped on the long 'waterslide'. He fell on his stomach, and slid close enough to my fleeing ankles to grab them, making me fall face first into the floor.
"Bastard!" I muttered into the floor. I started to get up on my elbows, before I was yanked backwards towards the water.
I looked back, to see him already up on his feet and grinning. The front of his white shirt was wet and see through, and I could perfectly see his nice, toned abs.
Than remembered that I myself was wearing a white shirt, with a purple bra underneath.
"Ack! NO! NOOO!" I scraped at the floor for some type of hold.
"Oh, yes." He laughed, and suddenly I was laying in a puddle of water.
"No!" I cried, looking down and being able to see my bra.
"What?" He asked, letting my ankle go and walking around me.
"Um, nothing." I quickly got up, and crossed my arms. I turned, facing the opposite way.
"Aw, c'mon. let me see!" He grabbed me from behind, trying to unwind my arms.
"Nononononono!" I got out of his grip, but made the mistake of forgetting about my shirt and facing him.
He chuckled. "That is a wonderful view," He laughed.
"Oh, this is just great…" I muttered, trying to remember the spell to withdraw water.
As I tried to remember the spell, I saw a shadow out of the corner of my eye. It looked like a…
"What time is it?" I whispered to myself, looking at my watch.
It was ten minutes after curfew.
"Oh shit. We have to go. Like, now." I stuffed my wand in bag, and ran off.
"Why-?" Malfoy looked around, and saw the cat.
"Aw, REALLY?" He took off at a run behind me. As he caught up beside me, I huffed out," Does this remind you of something? As in, doing the same god damned thing we did a few years ago? As I recall, that was also your fault."
"Shut up and run!" He breathed as he ran ahead.
"Hey! Wait up!"
We ran as fast as we could, and eventually we could hear Filch behind us.
"…Heard two students down here, sir."
"Than they won't be far," Came the slow drawl of Snape.
"really? Of all teachers, you had to pick him?" I looked up at the ceiling.
I felt Malfoy snag my wrist and drag me along into a little room, shutting the door tightly behind me.
"Sh," He muttered, breathing as heavily as I was.
We tried to hold our breath as we heard footsteps shuffle closer to our hiding place.
"Doesn't look like anyone's been down here." Filch wheezed in his icky, creepy voice.
Silence, and than the footsteps seemed to miraculously disappear.
"Oh, thank God." I muttered, sitting on the ground and closing my eyes as I leaned my head on my hand.
"You know, the last time we did this, the exact same thing happened, except you hadn't fallen into the water with me." He must have grinned.
"Yeah, but remember? The door-"
"Wouldn't open last time." He said at the same time.
He got up, and turned the door knob.
"Oh, dear God. Please tell me you can open the door."
"Um, yeah… No." He grunted as he tried to push the door open.
"Fucking God. He does this to me, on purpose. I swear!" I cried, as I tried to look for my wand in my bag.
"Here. Let me try." I said, trying to get at the door.
"You couldn't open it last time, what does that tell you?" He asked.
"Just get some light." I told him, shutting him up. He took out his wand, and muttered "Lumos," and the little closet was illuminated. Looking around quickly, I saw that it was way smaller than I thought it was.
"Please let this work," I murmured, before saying, "Alohamora."
The door stayed closed.
"Maybe you said it wrong?" Draco asked hopefully.
"No. If you weren't paying attention the day they taught us that, I was the first besides Hermione to get it right."
"Than we're screwed." He said, and slid down the wall.
"Yeah. Pretty much." I added, sitting across from him and keeping my knees up.
Because my shirt was still see-through.
Damn Malfoy.
"Now what?" He asked, looking up at me.
"We wait for Taylor and them, and hopefully they don't leave us here until morning."
He groaned, and lowered his head into his knees which were curled up into him like a ball.