Chapter 3: Showing Some Skin

Padma ran to the bathroom with a towel in her hand. She only had about an hour and a half to get ready! She ran past Malfoy and out the door, stopped before she reached the door and ran back to the bedroom.

"Malfoy. Malfoy!" Padma bellowed.

"I only did it once!" Malfoy awoke yelling.

"What?"

"oh nothing…what did you want Patil?

"I need you to make that wall now, before I get out of the shower. And if you could move all my things in that would be-"

"Do I look like a mudblood to you?"

"Oh fine then, I knew your were to incapable of doing such a simple charm,"

"Me? I could do all that before you can say 'Thank-Merlin'!"

"No, no its okay, I didn't expect someone like you to be able-"

"Let me dot it Patil! I'll show you."

And with that Malfoy jumped out of his bed and began to furiously chant charms. Things were flying across the room. Padma took this oppurttunity to run into the restroom. About thirty minutes later she had finished. When she stepped into the room Malfoys stuff was all moved around and in the center of the room there was a wall with a door.

"Told you I could do it," Malfoy said as he stepped out of the door. "But tell me, are the only kind of under wear that you own?" He brought his hand from behhind his back holding her red bikini thong. She charged after it,

"Answer the question first." Malfoy smiled as he pulled away the undergarment.

She laughed at his eagerness to know.

"Yes Malfoy, they are. Satisfied now?"

"Very." And he threw them onto her bed.

"Oh merlin." Padma stepped into the room, it was huge and the walls were her favorite color, hot pink. With black border lining, these were the colors of all her bedroom furniture that she had brought from home with her. The colors matched perfectly. And some new things were added, like a sofa, and a beanbag.

"Yup, I do clean up nicely don't I? I thought you would like the colors matching and everything. My mother is a designing freak…I picked up a few things. And to think I did all this in 30 minutes. I am good." Malfoy went on complimenting himself. "I do think I deserve something Patil." She ran and gave him a hug, that he obviously wasn't expecting. He just stood there not hugging back, but it was very brief. Padma pulled away and sighed "Thank-you!" And she grabbed her wand and uttered a charm. The next moment all her matching launderette came flying onto her bed. They were all matched up, "which one do you think is best?" Padma asked Malfoy. Malfoy went to the bed and started to throw some to the side on the floor, he kept only a few on the bed.

"I find these most amusing." He said smirking. She took a look and found that most of them were see through. She went to the bed and looked at the sets…the next moment pairs were flying to the floor. Malfoy was confused at first, no one was touching the clothes or even pointing their wand at them. But then he realized Patil was watching them intently.

"Patil! You're a kinetic?" Malfoy began in amazement.

"Really Malfoy, ive been doing it for years, the whole school probably knows. And yet the one guy who practically knows everything about every girl doesn't know a simple thing like that?"

Helpful Clue: Kinetic? It is a telekinetic. They are able to move things with their mind. It is a very rare gift. Only witches and wizards are able to receive this gift, muggles usually think of this as a 'special ability'. Padma is the only one since her time being at Hogwarts that's had this gift.

"This is amazing." Malfoy said in astonishment. "This will bring great fortune to us." He said it again us. Was he refferring to himself and Padma?

"Who is us?" Padma replied a little confused.

"You will find out soon enough."

"Okay, what ever. These are the two choices left." She had gotten rid of all the see through ones and was left with two.A pink and red set, the bra was red with pink stripes that read 'I stop traffic' and the bottom thong had pink traffic lights with a red background. Then there was the other set, which were black and white, the bra had little dogs in white that were barking 'bite me' everywhere. With a black background.

"Um…I choose red and pink!" Padma squealed realizing she had 30 minutes to get ready. She flicked her wand and all but the garments she chose flew into the open drawer.

"Malfoy get out please."

"Why can't I stay?" He said plopping into the beanbag. Padma became annoyed and with a wave of her hand Malfoy was being pushed hard by a force out the door. He felt as if 3000 pounds were pushing against him. Then the door stopped him, she had forgotten the door. So as he leaned against it and the pressure went away he smiled, still leaning on the door. Then Padma grabbed her wand and the door swung open with Malfoy falling to the floor. She laughed ran to the door and shut it quickly.

"Stupid bitch." Malfoy muttered rubbing his head.

Half an hour later…

Padma came bursting through her door, wearing nothing but her undergarments. Malfoy smiled, "Patil, we still have to go to class first."

"Oh shit." Then she held out her hand waiting expectantly for something.

"What are you-" Malfoy was soon answered his unfinished question.

Padma's robe came soaring out of her room and into her hands. She quickly pulled it over.

"Meet me here directly after first class." Malfoy implied.

"Malfoy, we have all of our classes together. We can walk here together."

"No, I don't want to ruin anything, we may look suspicious. Okay we have 15 minutes for break. It will take you five to get here. That will give us time to walk down the hall before the next class starts."

"See you then!" Padma said.

With that she ran down the hall to meet Rochelle. They walked to first class together. And sooner than Padma had hoped…the period ended. During the entire period, Malfoy was throwing excited glances toward her. She was feeling really nervous.

'I am a prefect I should not be doing this! What if we get caught? I will lose it! Oh no.…I can just not show up..then Malfoy will kill me! Okay, be a woman Padma.Is it me or is Blaise really sexy this year?Wait, what am I thinking? He is Slytherin scum just like Malfoy, but Malfoy isn't all bad. Ah, stop thinking this way! Okay, but he does look really cute, with his chocolate brown hair, and liquid black eyes. Oh, and he has the biggest hands, my one weakness. He must have a big-'

"Ms. Patil, what are the three main combination charms in transfiguring a frog?"

Parvati seeing the startled look on her sister quickly jumped in and said "The Vi-"

"Not you, Ms. Padma Patil" Mrs. Macgonagal strictly retorted.

"Um…the," Parvati was mouthing something to her, probably the answers. But Padma had no idea what they were. Draco was snickering in the corner.

"Vincetar?"

"No that is not even close to any of the three. I will stop you now, before you make an even bigger-" The bell rang loudly and Padma was too busy chatting to Rochelle to hear the rest of the sentence.

"Okay, here are my clothes, and an extra robe. Wait for me by Myrtle's bathroom." Padma briefly explained to her trustworthy friend.

"Okay, but I can't be late to divination or I'll die! So if you don't come fast I'll leave it in the sink. Myrtle's a ghost anyway, she can't even pick up a piece of paper. She won't be able to do anything." Rochelle sighed walking away.

And with that Padma rushed off to the prefects dorm. She arrived there, but no one seemed to be around that area. She quickly disrobed, and no sooner then she had started someone appeared around the corner.

"You know, no matter how many times I see you undress, it never gets old." Malfoy gave a foolish smile.

"Yea, well this is the last time too."

After she had thrown her robe aside she grabbed Malfoys hand.

"You ready?" Malfoy said with a wide grin on his face.

"No, but do I have a choice?" She asked aggravated.

As they walked out of their dorm, they heard the ruffle of footsteps, and laughter from other students. Padmas stomach just did a flip and she suddenly felt nausiated. She had never ever felt embarrassed about her body. She was told she had the best ever body, by many of her male friends. But now she felt…nervous. As they walked into the crowded hall silence slowly fell over. All the students were in complete shock! They all reared their heads in her direction, Draco had squeezed her hand, sensing her uneasiness. She felt a little more at ease. Students started silently whispering and pointing. Draco whispered in her ear, "Just smile, you look beautiful."

As soon as she heard this a smile quickly appeared as her cheeks grew warm. She hoped she wasn't blushing. She started to regain her confidence.

Half way there

Padma repeated in her mind. She looked up from the floor to see what was going on above the floor. Everyone was staring, but as soon as she looked up they were passing the Gryffindors; Lavender, Parvati, Harry, Ron, Ginny, Dean, Seamus and best of all Hermione. Padma took this oppurtunity to strut her stuff right so Ron and Harry would become amused. She caught their eye, they both were practically drooling. Her confidence was completely boosted, she winked at them as the girls scowled the boys' mouths hung scraping the floor. Then she looked at Draco, he had a huge grin, and he clearly loved the attention. There was complete silence but it didn't bother Padma, every guy had their tongues licking the linoleum off the floor. She waved at girls who gave her dirty looks, and occasionally licked her lips or winked at the guys. They had passed so many students, from all years. The poor first years might as well have seen a basilisk! They were so horrified by the sheer nakedness of Padma. She giggled at their faces. And the last group of students they ran into were the Slytherins. Crabbe, Goyle, Blaise, Millicent and Pansy were standing in a small huddle. But as soon as they saw Draco and Padma their heads shot up. Draco took Padma to talk to them, she was loving the look she got from Blaise. He was full of lust and linger in his eyes. The girls had their fist into tightly squeezed balls, and Crabbe & Goyle had even bigger stupidity faces on.

"What's up mate?" Draco walked up hand in hand with Padma.

"Draco! Having fun?" Blaise greeted as if Padma weren't there. But his eyes were still darted towards her. She kept her flirty grin to a minimum.

"You know it. Just doing a little business."

"Drakey, can I ask why you're with a naked patil?" Pansy asked in a little-girly voice. Walking over to his other side. Padma always hated Pansy, she was very pretty, if anything probably prettier than her. But Padma wanted to make her feel jealous, so jealous it would show in front of her friends.

"Because, maybe he had business with a naked Patil" Padma put some extra emphasis on business. "I like to keep it kinky that way."

Pansy had the biggest glare and was about to retort but then,

"Okay, well we have places to be! See you later…much later." Draco gave a little wink to Blaise and the guys. Padma gave a small giggle playing into the roll.

The rest of the way was completely empty from the looks of it. All they had to do was the last flight of stairs and they'd be in Myrtle's toilet room. They had only 2 minutes to get to class.

"That was so wicked!" Padma shrieked while climbing the stairs.

"I knew you would like it."

"Oh yea, I just love prancing around in my und-ahh! Oh shit!" Padma cursed herself. She had stepped into the trick stair, her heel had gone straight through the step. "I don't remember the spell to get me out." She sighed.

"I do, but you know this is a very vulnerable situation. This would be a perfect moment to lay the old Malfoy charm. I can easily take advantage." He began to caress her cheek and moved down toward her waist.

She smiled, "Not now! I don't want to be late for Divination."

Then as Malfoy was about to comment, Padma held her finger up to his lips, "Shhhhh!" She hissed. Good thing she did too, footsteps were becoming louder from down the hall. Draco's eyes quickly turned worried "Mcgonagal!"

"Hurry say the counter curse!" Padma whispered urgently.

"Um, it's something…oh right!" Padma saw Mcgonagal's foot and concentrated hard. All the sudden the professors' papers flew everywhere behind her. Her foot became loose, and she ran to the top of the stairs. Draco was in such hurry to follow her, he stepped into the step. "Draco!" She yelped.

"Just go, and get some robes on!" He rapidly spoke.

Padma began into a dash across the hall. She was supposed to be at the divination tower in 5 minutes! This was going to be a miracle if she made it.

Draco knew he had no time to run away, so he calmly thought of a story as the professor approached.

"Mr. Malfoy, what on earth are you still doing in the halls? If I'm not mistaken you are to be at the top of the tower in just a matter of minutes." She croaked.

"My deepest apology proffessor, I was in such hurry to get to the tower I've forgotten this hidden step. It's been such a time since I've last seen it. I've even forgotten the spell to release myself! Thank Merlin you came, I thought all teachers are prepping or teaching right now?" He sounded the statement into a simple and innocent question.

"Well, Mr. Malfoy. You of all people should know the spell, you are a prefect. Why if it were a student, and you were the only one around. Don't you think it would be quite embarrassing?"

Dracos eyes grew cold and dark.

"But, I can see how the summer holidays take away from a students knowledge. You are however lucky, I was prepping when I remembered that I left my ambrosia in the lounge." She mumbled the counter curse. "Here I will zap a note to Professor Trelawney, please do try to be more careful, and I suggest that you review your prefects manual." She sighed with disapproving look & stalked away.

Draco muttered unpleasant words under his breath and took off at a quick speed towards the tower.

Padma shouted "Accico Robes!" And they came zooming in after her, she looked at the clock above her drifting in the air…2 minutes. She was so close to reaching the top of the tower, only a few steps away. Yet her robes were still flying after her. Finally with one minute left, her robes came creeping around the corner. She quickly rapped them over herself and ran in the door. The bell had just rang, hoping Draco was okay, and she sat at her table with Rochelle. Rochelle was giggling under her breath. "What?" She asked. Rochelle looked at Padma and pointed to her robes, they were unbuttoned and again her undergarments were showing. She gave an embarrassed smile and buttoned her robes up. Everyone was laughing and staring. Just as the professor made her remarkable entrance, so did Draco. He strolled in smirking wildly, as if he had just walked through heaven. Everyone turned to look at him, and Trelawney was about to ask where he had been. But before she could mutter a word, Draco pointed to her desk, and there lay a written note from Mcgonagol. He began to stride to his seat next to Blasie, Pansy and Millicent. But he stopped right be fore Padma, as Trelawney was turned looking over the note, he whispered in her ear, we should do this more often love. But loud enough for many students to hear around her. She felt her face growing hot, but just remarked back "Definitely."

He grinned, as did she and took his place.