Mario Kart Strip Racer

Chapter 2. At Twelve O Five, the Plot Thickens

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Hermione's POV

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I left the common room at 11:45. Ron, Harry and Ginny had stayed up playing rounds of Wizards Chess. I ran out of the portrait and down the halls, barely escaping Mrs. Norris twice. Damn that cat.

I ran into the dungeons and toward the Slytherin common room. I had been there before on a dare a few weeks back. Lavender had given the dare to me.

"Hey Hermione." She said. Lavender, Parvati, Padma, Ginny, and Lavender's little sister Violet were sitting on Lavender's bed. I was reading again, but I'm not complaining. It was a good book.

"Yeah?" I asked without taking my eyes off my book.

"Truth or Dare?" she asked. I had been listening, but I just picked one without caring.

"Dare." I said. All the girls squealed and that's when I noticed what I said. "No! I mean Truth!" they only laughed and I set down my book. "Truth!" I yelled.

"Nope Mione. You already said Dare." Ginny giggled.

"Dang it." I said.

"Good thing too. It was getting boring." Violet said. She was fourteen but had been pushed two years because her superior knowledge on everything wizard and muggle. Hermione was asked to go seventh year in her fifth year, but she had declined. She had yet to tell Harry and Ron about it.

"Ok Mione. I dare you to go down into the Slytherin common room and take these," Lavender tossed me two spray bottle cans. One was red, and another was yellow. "And spray paint "Gryffindors Rule!" in. If you chose to pass the dare you get a consequence and you have to do the same thing, only sign your name." Lavender told her.

"Damn you Lavender." I told her angrily. I stood and left the room, the cans in my hands and I had walked into the Slytherin Common room, after saying the password to the wall (they didn't have a portrait, just a stone wall) and I did it over the mantle of the fire. I didn't get caught, that's the cool thing about it. But I don't know what made me do it. Colin Creevy got detention for a full two months because he said that he had done it. He was now labeled the Gryffindor Bad Boy, even though all my friends knew it was I, I was the Bad Girl. But that title burned out when Violet went streaking after a Slytherin drugged her drink.

"Candle Wax." I said to the large stone wall. It started to disappear and I saw Draco sitting on the couch, not a Nintendo in sight.

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Both POV's

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Draco looked up at her when she entered and he smirked. He didn't know she was going to make it. It was twelve o five. He thought that she had backed out. She was flushed terribly and her hair was in two pigtailed braids on the back of her head. She had on what she had earlier only she had flat bottomed school shoes instead of the high-healed school shoes.

"Granger." He said nodding. She kept a straight face and stood where she was.

"Malfoy." She nodded.

"Shall we?" he stood and walked into a door that was by the fireplace mantle. Hermione looked after him but reluctantly followed.

A fireplace on the far wall of the door poorly lighted the large room. There was a couch that was pointing away from the fireplace with a small table with a television. The Nintendo was on the floor underneath the TV. A sheer green controller was in the first player slot and a sheer red controller was in the second player slot.

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Draco sat on the couch and grabbed the green controller. Hermione sat down as far away from him as possible.

This game was easy to her. Simple. A synch. She never got worse than first place. She was undefeated champ. He took a box from on top of the TV and threw it to Hermione.

"What the-," she cut herself off when she saw that it was an unopened Nintendo game of Mario Kart.

"I got a new one so you would know I wasn't cheating." He said sincerely. Hermione looked up at him with cautious eyes. She didn't say anything she only opened it. She tossed it to Draco and he put it into the Nintendo.

"Get ready to lose Malfoy." Hermione said to Draco slyly.

"I am quite good at this game. But I did say twelve. You were late. So, we're going to up the bet." He said, a mischievous glint in his silver eyes.