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Chapter 10: FREE FOODDraco had led Alexis to the seventh floor and were now standing beside the portrait of Barnabas the Barmy being clubbed my trolls. On the way up to here Draco had showed Alexis a few parts of the castle.
"This is it," said Draco
"Wow what a lovely tapestry," Alexis said sarcastically.
"Isn't it though. No, Alexis that isn't what I wanted to show you," he said rolling his eyes, "Think of a room, a room containing something you really want to do," he paused giving Alexis time to think.
"Ok, got it," Alexis said coming to a conclusion very quickly.
"Ok, now walk past this section of wall, across from this lovely tapestry, thinking of what you want."
She did as he said, and when she had walked past for the last time, she saw a highly polished door appear in the wall. She looked over at Draco.
"Open it," he said smirking, as he nodded towards the door.
She did, and walked in. She stood there amazed, all she could manage to say was, "Wow."
Draco followed her in, "So this is what you wanted."
They were standing in a room with a high ceiling, the floor and walls we covered in white shiny tile. There was dim lighting, but the rippling aqua blue water in the huge pool, gave off a tranquil glow. There were three diving boards, all of different heights at the far end of the pool. There were some rot iron chairs and a table on the one side of the pool. There was also a wooden bench against the wall, between two doors, behind the diving boards.
Alexis walked towards the doors, and Draco followed. It was silent, except for the noise their shoes made.
One door read ladies and the other said men. Alexis turned the handle to the ladies, the door swung open to a medium sized room, the floor once again was white tile, but the walls were white with a sea-green tile boarder, in several places, Draco was hesitant to followed, but also came in. There was another wooden bench in against one wall, but this one was wider, and had a sea-green cushion on it. There was a sink set in the sea-green colored marble counter top, set on top of oak cabinets. There was a large mirror that hung above the sink. Also there was a shower with a clear glass door, and a toilet. Sea-green, and white towers were hung on the rack on the shower door, some by the sink, and some on the bench.
A black bikini hung on the wall.
"Nice," Alexis said, "Lets see the guys," she said turning towards Draco.
"Okay," he turned towards the door and walked out, Alexis followed. He opened the door to the men's.
It looked the same except everything was hunter green instead of sea-green. A pair of green trunk with black trim hung on the wall.
"Cool, well I changing," Alexis said, and walked out.
She quickly changed in the swimming suit. The top was a halter top with a D-ring on the strap that went around her neck. The bottom was a regular low rise bikini bottom, with the same D-ring on the hip. She pulled her hair into a pony tail, grabbed a towel, and walked out.
Draco was sitting in one of the rot iron chairs, in his normal clothes still. She tossed her towel to him, "What are your trunks?"
He caught the towel, "In the shower room. Oh, and I locked the door."
"You terd, come put them on and swim."
"Naw, that's okay."
"Whatever," she said climbing the ladder of the highest diving board. She walked slowly to the end, and then counted 5 steps back. She ran to the end of the board, and jumped off.
Draco expecting her to do a very complex graceful dive, laughed as he saw her form into a cannon ball. The splash she made was huge, and water splashed onto the tile on the side of the diving boards.
Alexis headed towards the top of the water, she popped her head above it and pushed her hair off her forehead.
"That peaceful," Draco said to her.
"Who ever said I tried to make peace," she smirked, "Yeah, so I was on a swimming team, that doesn't mean I can't just do a cannon ball when I want to."
"You were on a swimming team?" Draco asked.
"Yep."
Draco shrugged his shoulders, "Cool."
Alexis swam to the end of the pool, she got out, and stood at the edge. She waited a few seconds and then, jumped in again, but this time in a well manner way. She started to swim links.
She did five, and when she came to the end she pulled herself up using the edge of the pool. She looked over to where Draco had been sitting, he wasn't there. She stayed there for awhile and caught her breath, she then turned and shot off for 5 more links.
This time when she had finished, she looked over at the spot where Draco had been and he still was there, but she heard his voice, "Looking for me?"
It was coming from above her. She swam out towards the middle of the pool, and looked up.
Draco was sitting on the edge of the highest board, his legs daggling. He was tanner than Alexis had expected, from to look of his face.
"So you decided to come out here with me?" she asked him, as she treaded water.
"Well yeah that, and I had to try this," he had now gotten up and walked back a ways from the end of the board.
Alexis knew what he was going to do so she backed up a little. He ran of the board, and plummeted to the water.
His splash was just as big as Alexis's if not bigger, it sprayed her enough she just slid under that water.
She slipped her head back up again, and saw that Draco hadn't come back up yet, so she just stayed there and when she realized what he was up to it was to late. She felt a yank on her foot. She had just enough time to get a gulp of air, and she was under. He kept tugging until she has at the bottom, and then he pushed off, off her. He shot up, and she followed. He made it to the top and made a gasp for air, but Alexis was quick after him. She had tugged him down, and pushed off he his shoulders, pushing him down and her up.
Alexis broke the surface, gasping for air. She was soon followed by Draco who was, as well, gasping for air.
He laughed at her, and she laughed right back at him. They both were to worn our from that accident, to do much more of awhile, so the stayed where they were treading water, and breathing heavy.
"I'll race you down and back," Draco said.
"Sure," Alexis responded. They slowly made their way, to the end of the pool.
"I count," Draco said pointing to himself.
"Go for it, you will lose anyway," she said getting out of the pool.
Draco followed her. They stood there for awhile. And then Draco began to count, "3…2…1."
They jumped into the water and shot off. Draco was a fairly good swimmer, but nothing compared to Alexis. She took and early lead and didn't slack off. She finished way before Draco. So she hurried out of the pool and sat down on the edge, letting her feet dangle in the water.
That had been a very short race for her, and she hadn't barley need to breathe hard, but she quieted he breathing to make it seem like she had been there a long time.
Draco's head popped out of the water, he looked over expecting to see Alexis there but she wasn't, he turned back, thinking he might have beat her.
"Up here Draco."
He turned and looked up at her, he looked confused.
"Do you want to see how fast I really am?" she asked, but didn't wait for an answer. She stood up. She took a few deep breaths and jumped in and took off, she swam as fast as her body would allow, she flipped around when she came to the other end and shot back at full speed.
She finished and popped her head out of the water, she was breathing heavy from the two she had just done.
"Bloody hell, woman, your really fast."
"Yeah," she said smiling and nodding her head.
She got out of the water, and sat on the edge letting her feet daggle. Draco got out and sat beside her. They talked for awhile.
Draco saw no point in racing her again, for it was pretty much useless, for she would beat him 99.9% of the time.
After awhile Alexis got up and climbed up to the highest board. When she got up there she stood at the end of the board and jumped off, doing the complex graceful dive, that Draco had expected the first time.
She did a double forward summersault, and landed in the water with a tiny splash.
She swam over to Draco, and got out while saying, "Was that better."
"It wasn't better, it was more of what I expected," he said smirking.
For the next hour or so, they mess around on the boards. Alexis taught Draco a few dives, and helped him with his entry, even though there was really no need for him to know any of this stuff.
After awhile Alexis got hungry, and that is when she noticed, a rectangle cut out in the wall, there were latches that held it up.
She got out of the pool and walked over there. She undid the latches and a table slowly folded down. There were all sorts of different food on it and juice. There was Pumpkin Pastries, Chocolate Frogs, Bertie Botts' Every Flavor Beans, and every other kind of junk food.
"Bloody hell," Draco said, for he had seen her walk over and open the snack bar. He got out of the water and walked over.
Alexis had already grabbed some Pumpkin Pastries, and box of Bertie Botts' Every Flavor Beans, and 2 Chocolate Frogs. She walked over and sat down at the table, opening one of the chocolate frogs.
Draco grabbed some food also and sat down across from Alexis. Alexis picked up her towel that was sitting in the chair next to her. She stood up and wrapped the towel around herself and sat back down.
"So when were you on this swimming team?" Draco asked, while digging around in his box of Bertie Botts' Every Flavor Beans, picking light brown colored one, and popped it in his mouth.
"Well sense I was like 8, I think, and . . ." she began, but was interrupted my Draco who was spitting out his bean.
"GROSS, varnish," he said spitting the remains on the floor, "Sorry," he said picking up his wand, which was sitting on the table, and said, "Deletrius," and the remains disintegrated.
Alexis laughed, and then continued, "Well as I was saying I joined a team when I was eight and then when I was ten we moved and I joined a different team then. I stayed on that team all through school, we had meets during the summer. Then when we moved this time I just decided to give it up. I only have 2 years left of school, and that means only one summer left to swim. I was on the team this summer until I had to moved."
Draco nodded, but he looked over at her, she was also rooting through he box of Bertie Botts' Every Flavor Beans. She looked up at him once or twice not saying anything. He looked in her eyes, he say something so familiar when he looked in them. The look on her face seemed just as familiar. He wondered what was it about her, that always seemed so familiar.
She got up and walked over to the shower room, and walked in.
Draco wondered what she was up to but stayed where he was and said nothing.
She was back in a couple of seconds carrying her wand. "I've got something to show you," she said sitting down. She dumped the box of beans out on the table, she then pointed her want at then and muttered, "Namada" A puff of smoke was emitted from the end of her wand.
There was no noticeable change, or so Draco thought.
"Look," she said picking up a few beans and handing them to him.
He looked at them, each one had a word written on it. He picked one up that said 'Ham', and ate it. Sure enough it tasted like ham. "Wicked," he said, picking another one, this one said 'Dirt'. He had to make sure that they were all labeled right. He spit this one out.
"What was it?" Alexis asked.
"Dirt"
"Why did you eat it if it said 'Dirt'?"
"I was testing your charm."
She rolled her eyes, "I know it kind of takes the fun out of eating them, but this way you don't end up with paint, or something worse. We learned it in charms class. It is a labeling spell, and then this friend of mine, tried it on these and it worked."
"Cool," Draco said looking through all of the beans, picking one up every once in awhile, and eating it. "Eat this one, I dare you," he said handing one to Alexis.
"No thanks, I don't need to start a fire in my mouth."
"Its just paprika."
"JUST PAPRIKA?"
They sat there picking all the good beans out and eating them. After about 20 minutes there weren't any good ones left, so Alexis decided to do ten more laps, and call it quits.
Draco sat and watched her do some laps and then headed to the shower room before she had finished.
When Alexis had done he ten laps, she got out of the pool, and also headed for the shower rooms.
She took a shower and put her clothes back on. She used a drying charm on her hair, and then pulled it back in a pony.
She walked out of the shower room. Draco was sitting in one of the chair again, eating a pumpkin pastry.
"Took long enough," Draco said smirking.
"Oh, be quiet, besides what is the hurry?"
He shrugged his shoulders.
"See, free food why hurry," she said as she grabbed a pumpkin pastry, and plopped down in a chair. "I have a feeling that tomorrow I might be a bit sore, sense I haven't swam, in probably a month."
"You sore? I won't be able to get out of bed."
"If you stretch right now I guarantee that you won't be that sore, you'll still be a little sore though."
"Naw, I like to sleep in on Saturdays."
"I like to sleep in on days that end in y," Alexis said starring at the pool.
"Don't we all?"
Alexis starred at the pool awhile more before saying, "Well I suppose if you are in such a hurry we can go." She got up and brushed of her hands, and started off towards the door.
Draco got up and followed her.
They stepped out the door. Alexis turned around to see what would happen.
The glossy door shrank into the wall, leaving it to look like it had when they came up.
They walked back talking quietly. Alexis asked how Draco had found out about the room.
He told her the whole speel about how he had busted that Potter kind and his friends having secret meetings last year. He said he had come back up to see how the room work, and after a few tries he got it to work.
They arrived at the trap door that lead into the common room. Draco said the password and they walked in.
There were about 12 kids sitting around in different groups. Alexis turned and looked at the grandfather clock, it said 10:41.
"Geez, everyone must have crashed early," Alexis said looking around at everyone.
"Well the usually do after the first week, but crashing early is 11:00. I bet most of them are in the library working on homework," said Draco walking over to a couch and sitting down.
Alexis followed, and sat down beside him.
"So that was fun," said Alexis.
"Yeah not bad, I'd been meaning to show you that."
"Why?"
"Because it is a cool place to hang out. The first time Blaise and I went up there, it was a hang out room with lots of candy," he smirked.
"Let me guess, mostly Blaise's idea?"
"Yeah."
Alexis turned towards Draco, "Well, thanks for the good time," she said and got up. She walked towards the girls dormitory.
"Later," Draco said.
da end, of dis chapter. don't got a lot to say, but REVIEW! 7days of school left. woo-ya. also i wrote a poem called, OUR LOVE, HATE RELATIONSHIP, i think it is good, so read it and tell me what you think. cya
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