AN: I hope you like this chapter, I was very tempted to make it longer but I thought people wouldn't read it anymore if it was long... so yeah. :) Please leave reviews:D Thank you all for the reviews! I appreciate it so much!
"Oie! Oie!! Settle down!!!" A frantic George was saying, waving his arms like mad as they all made their way inside his and Fred's room and formed a circle around an innocent looking bottle.
"Wicked. D'you get it from the shop?" Fred asked as he sat down beside Harry.
Hermione looked around frantically. Anything, anything from their shop was never innocent. -No matter how innocent it may seem.
George tapped the bottle with his wand, it quivered a little as he answered, "Of course dear bro. Useful, very very useful." And he sat down again.
They were now inside the twins' bedroom, the twins enlarging it so there was enough room for them to make a circle around their bewitched bottle, and enough room for their beds too.
"So, what do we do?" Draco asked suddenly.
The twins just grinned. The circle went like this, clockwise, we have Ginny, then Hermione, who was beside Harry, and then Fred, then Draco, then Ron and of course, George. All in all, Hermione was opposite Draco, they were facing each other. Of course, this scene would look really weird; Draco between Fred and Ron, and the three were smiling wickedly.
"How come they all suddenly look a like?" Hermione asked Ginny in alarm.
"Because they're all blokes." Ginny answered simply. Hermione nodded and both looked highly amused.
"Alright, your attention please." Fred said as he cleared his throat, "And Ginny, we are not blokes, only Malfoy."
"Hey! I am not!" Draco suddenly said. "I lost my memory and this is how you treat me?!"
"As I was saying, this here, this wonderful bottle in the middle? It turns blue when the person is saying the truth, and red if the person is lying. The darker and deeper the red color, the more the person is lying. Blue can't get any darker, is there such a thing as a super super truth? Oh, it turns green when the person's really ashamed. Super green if the person's extremely ashamed. And then, if it's sensing a lot of things at once, it will still show the colors even if it has to show blue and green, red and green, but never blue and red. How the heck can you lie while saying the truth?"
"You have a shop?" Draco suddenly asked craning his neck to look at Fred incredulously.
Fred waved his hand lazily and said, "Oh yes, of course we do."
"Alright!" Draco exclaimed and smacked Fred's back.
"Oie!" Fred said rubbing his back. "Just because you're innocent now doesn't mean you can go slapping my back!" He smacked Draco's back in return. "Unless I've done it to you first." Insert evil smile here.
"Anyway. We flick our wand, it spins and then eventually stops RANDOMLY, -yes yes yes Hermione!" George said exasperated. "We don't make it stop. It just stops, okay!? Don't look at me like that! I swear I'm telling the truth!!!"
The bottle turned blue, and Hermione was immediately convinced. "Okay, fine. Let's do this."
George flicked his wand and the bottle spun immediately. "How d'you do this?" Ron suddenly asked. "Oh." George said lazily. "Talent Ron, mere talent. Of course, you wouldn't understand now, would you?" He said snorting.
Ron was about to retort when the bottle stopped unnaturally and pointed straight at Ginny. All of them looked at Ginny. "Truth." She simply said.
"Oh I forgot!" Fred suddenly said. "You can't pick dare!" He said triumphantly.
"Unfair! It's called truth or DARE Fred!" Harry suddenly said.
"Yeah Harry, that's what we all call it. But honestly, the bottle just spins, points at someone, ask a question, he or she answers. Unless of course, if there's a real need for a dare, don't worry Chosen One, we will create the best dares." Fred answered simply, and Harry kept quiet, unsure whether he was reassured or not.
"So Ginny." George suddenly said. "Have you seen Harry naked?"
"What!?!?" Harry suddenly said in protest, turning beet red. "What kind of a question is that?!!?!"
"No way mate!!" Ron asked incredulously. "Harry?? Harry?! How could you!!!"
"How come you guys ask the questions?!" Harry asked viciously. Fred and George snickered. "Because we own the bottle." Said Fred. "Yeah, and we suggested the game."
Silence.
"Well." Ginny suddenly said, looking at the bottle. "Yeah." She said in the quietest voice. Everyone looked at the bottle; they momentarily forgot to react as all was eager to look at the color.
It was clear blue, not even a speck of green.
Then there was laughter, and shouts, protests and more laughs.
Hermione, Draco and George were the only ones laughing. They were laughing so hard, Hermine's eyes disappeared, Draco's silver eyes danced, and George's red hair was bobbing frantically as he shook his head hard.
"Ron! It was an accident!! It wasn't on purpose! I swear!"
The bottle turned dark, dark red.
"Oh you filthy hypocrite!!" Ron exclaimed.
"Hey is that bottle even legal!?!?" Harry asked in panic.
"Ginny! What did you see-!?!"
"-Fred!!! You pervert!! Are you gay?!"
"Geez! Ron, get a grip! They've been on at it for a year, and known each other since we were small!!" George said in shakes of laughter.
"Yeah, and Fred, why do you want to know what Ginny saw?" Hermione asked giggling.
Draco roared with laughter.
"Oh shut up you hyena!" Fred said viciously to Draco. "I was just curious!!" Fred said in defense. Draco roared in fresh new laughter. "Honestly Draco! Shut it!! I just wondered if it was true that there was a hypogriff tattooed on his chest!!"
"It was a Hungarian Horntail!!" Ginny exclaimed.
"Oh. Right." Fred said sheepishly. Then he nudged Harry. "You better watch what you let my sister see mate. You may be the chosen one, but trust me, the moment Ginny's seen too much, I swear I'll be worse than Voldemort." Fred said darkly, slapping Harry's head.
"Ouch! Yeah okay." Harry muttered grudgingly, massaging his head.
"Now." George said, trying hard not to laugh. He flicked his wand, and it spun and spun, non-stop, until it stopped unnaturally again. This time, it landed directly at the platinum blond boy.
"Ooooh. Revenge is sweet." Fred said as he rubbed his hands together. "So. Have you gone at it with Pansy?" He asked conversationally.
Hermione suddenly went cold. She didn't want to hear this.
They all looked at Draco, who looked innocent and surprised. "Who's Pansy?" He asked suddenly.
"Lame move Draco!! Ha ha ha!!!" Fred exclaimed triumphantly.
"No No!! Look! The bottle's blue!" Ginny suddenly said. They all looked at the bottle.
It was clearly blue.
"Weird, how come you don't remember Pansy?" Fred asked Draco curiously.
"Oh!" Hermione suddenly said. They all looked expectantly at her. "We met her at the Three Broomsticks when we went out, we told you we met someone, remember? So Draco knew her before coming to the Burrow, and after too." Hermione said in a rush, trying to conceal her glee in having to know that she wouldn't hear the answer and that Draco knew nothing of the Slytherin Slut.
Harry suddenly roared with laughter.
"What?!" Ron suddenly spat viciously as Harry continued laughing.
"Nothing." Harry suddenly said. "I just felt like laughing."
Ron looked up at the twins. "I'm getting scared."
George shook his head and racked his brains. "So, new question, new question… Ah! Do you know anything, anything about Snape and Professor McGonagall?" He asked eagerly.
Hermione raised her eyebrows. "Where the blazes did you get that?!"
"Yeah, where do you get all of it?" Draco asked suddenly.
"Oie! Don't ask us the questions, answer!!!"
Draco fell silent. And then, slowly, very slowly, he broke into a wide grin.
"WHOAAAA!!!" Fred and George exclaimed. Immediately there was a burst of catcalls and laughter. Ron and Harry were laughing like hyenas as Hermione stared dumbstruck.
"How do you know?!" Hermione asked vehemently at Draco.
Draco laughed and said, "Trust me, you don't want to know. I'll just tell you this: I caught Snape drunk once, and believe me, he thought I was Professor McGonagall. He started talking in husky tones and what not. It wasn't nice." Draco shuddered.
Fred thumped on the ground hard. "What did he say?!" He was having a hard time breathing.
"Oh, you don't want to know." Draco said darkly as he shuddered once more.
Ron suddenly gave a really, really high pitched laugh. High pitched to the point of Mariah Carey material. Everyone suddenly went silent.
"What?!" Ron asked in defense.
Fred blinked. He blinked again. "Okay. We did not just hear that." He said.
They all started laughing as Ron gave mutinous looks. The bottle spun once more, and then, it landed right at Hermione.
"Oho!" Fred said triumphantly. "Hermy Permy!!"
Hermione was suddenly scared.
"Did or do you have secret desires for Cedric???" He asked in a knowing voice.
Hermione blinked incredulously. Where do they honestly get info?!!?
"Uhmmm." The bottle suddenly turned green.
Draco was looking at the girl opposite him. "Cedric? Cedric Diggory? The Triwizard Champion??" He asked suddenly.
"Got that right." Harry answered, anticipating the answer. It was deep green.
Draco suddenly fell silent. There was something lurking at the bottom of his stomach, creeping slowly upwards, anticipating the answer. He was unnaturally, very, very silent.
And then, she spoke.
"Yeah. For three years." Hermione answered in a really small voice.
Catcalls and fresh roars of laughter immediately erupted. Fred and George were whistling loudly while Harry hit Ron saying 'I told you so!!!' while Ginny smiled serenely, Draco suddenly hunched that Ginny knew long before.
The creature lurking at the bottom of Draco's stomach suddenly erupted, flying high at alarming rates. He didn't know what it was. He subconsciously clenched and unclenched his fists, breathing slowly. Hidden desires. Hidden desires! What, until now? Just before? Does she dream of him? Does she wish he was still here…?
Draco was only awakened from his thoughts when he saw the bottle stop abruptly, pointing at the scared looking Ronald Weasley.
"Ha!" Harry exclaimed. "Your turn mate!!"
The game went on and on, George asked if Ron really had secret feelings for Professor McGonagall, and the bottle turned an alarming maroon when Ron said of course he didn't.
When everyone erupted in laughter, Ron suddenly exclaimed that he was just curious to know how McGonagall looked when she was younger. The bottle turned deep green and was blue. Draco this time was the loudest to laugh, earning his title as hyena once again.
Then the bottle stopped at Fred, this time Ron, Ginny, Harry, Draco and Hermione rejoiced! They huddled together, making sure they asked the best revenge question ever created in the Wizarding World, and when they sat down, they had disbelieving wicked grins.
"So." Draco said gleefully. "Tell us please, your most, most MOST embarrassing moment Mr.Weasley." He finished. A common question, but the answer was rare.
They discovered that once Fred got drunk in Three Broomsticks and so did the caretaker of Hogwarts with the hideous cat whom Fred shuddered to say his name, they got drunk and next thing they knew, they were arm in arm, crying about how a Muggle named John Lennon was assassinated.
They comforted each other and started singing slow love songs, saying they were glad to have someone understand the other. Fred only came back to his senses because a sixth year saw them and he made him swear not to mention it ever to anyone, as he hurried out the shop wiping his clothes frantically.
The bottle was an alarming dark color of green and blue.
"Oie!! I didn't know that!!!" George exclaimed as everyone started laughing and roaring, Harry and Draco were actually dancing hand in hand, waving their arms in glee, Ginny and Hermione were laughing like mad, Ron actually got a quill and started writing it down, while Fred swore under his breath.
"Okay moving on!!!!!" He said in great alarm at the sight of Draco and Harry dancing.
He flicked his wand with much force.
The bottle spun again and stopped at Hermione.
"So!" Fred exclaimed. He was excited, his question came out in a rush. "Ha! 'Mione, do you like anyone at the moment? Anyone who studies at Hogwarts?"
Hermione turned beet red, the bottle, dark green.
Draco felt a surge in his stomach. There was that feeling again, aching to rise up again. He began breathing very slowly. So. Who could it be? He clenched and unclenched his fists again.
And then, the girl he was contemplating on spoke.
"Yeah." Hermione said in the tiniest of voices. The bottle turned blue and green.
"Oho!!!" Fred exclaimed. "So!!!" He was dancing. "Who is it Hermione?!"
"Excuse me!! You just asked if there is someone, and I think there is! So let's get on! No names, you didn't ask!"
Draco felt curious to know who the guy was, but he didn't know why. He also felt sudden relief in not having to know who the person was, he might've hexed him; somewhere along the back of his head, he was half-hoping it was him.
Fred and George made sure to give fits of laughter before making the bottle spin again, now it landed directly at the handsome blond boy, who immediately fell silent and anxious.
"So. Same question Draco, same as Hermione's." Fred and George simply said.
Draco was silent for a while, and when he said yes, the bottle turned blue, there was no green whatsoever. So he was actually proud of the person he liked? Hermione went dead quiet.
So who is she? Hermione found herself thinking. So he likes someone… he likes someone already… He's just really friendly… that's all… Hermione felt a sinking feeling at the bottom of her stomach. She couldn't identify what she was feeling, she was half-disheartened at having to hear he already liked someone and half-thankful she didn't have to hear the girl's name and feel eternal dislike for the lucky soul.
"Oooooh!!! Interesting!!!" Fred exclaimed.
"Yeah, well, whatever." Draco said sheepishly, he was actually turning red. He was blushing!!
Draco Malfoy was blushing!
Hermione couldn't help but smile at the Draco she was seeing; he was actually humble and modest.
"Hey, let's get something to eat, I'm hungry!!!!" George suddenly whined.
"Alright alright you infant!" Fred said in exasperation, disturbed at the fact that he had to stop his moment of satisfaction.
"Yeah." Ginny suddenly said. They momentarily met eyes, and she said, "Hermione, let's check the kitchen for food. Guys don't know anything." Hermione looked up at Ginny, then at the twins, who alarmingly looked innocent.
Twins looking innocent was not good, not good at all.
Was this all planned?
She slowly got up and walked with Ginny, then they disappeared.
"Well, I'll just go to the room…." Draco suddenly said, slowly getting up.
"Just you wait Mr. Malfoy." Fred slowly said.
"We'd like to have a word with you."
