Chapter 2: Christmas!
Starting of Christmas Holidays (Hermione's POV)
I was going to go with Blaise to his place. Harry was coming too. Draco, Len and Valleria were decided they were staying instead but I opened presents with them before we left. Charles was going home for Christmas too. Draco gave me a sweater; Valleria gave me a whole wardrobe full of clothes. Len got me a book about the history of candy. The book was candy itself! Blaise got me a skirt and a Chocolate Heart. Charles got all of us a teddy bear that was our favorite colors. Draco eyed his teddy bear.
"I think it's staring at me." Draco said. Valleria laughed as she threw a pillow at him.
"Oh yeah, the most important gift of all." (We all knew whom this was going to). He got this long case. He opened it there was a silver necklace. Attached to it was a heart. When you pressed it, it would say Malfoy.
"I love it!" Valleria squealed. She leaped off the couch so quickly so she could hug Draco. She put her arms around his neck. As put his arms around her waist. Than Len and Charles muttered in unison 'at least he's not some gay guy.' They looked at each other and laughed. Than Draco put the necklace on her. Than it was time for us to leave.
"Take care of yourself Len." I said to Len.
"Who do you think I am? Some baby?" Len yelled. He sounded angry. I smiled. We heard Valleria's voice.
"Ok, ickle twin brother. I'm not going to be awound to comfwort you. So you have to stway safe. Ok?" Valleria said in a baby voice while waving a finger to warn Charles. Charles tried to bite that finger but she was too fast. When I left the Slytherin Common Room, I saw Harry waiting for us. We headed to the train.
"I heard Ron was expelled for only a year. So he'll be back next year." All of us made a disgusted look.
"Everybody's going to try to avoid him. Except for the Pavarti twins." Charles said. I raised a brow.
"Why?" Blaise said.
"They said they like him even more. They said that that's what Hogwarts needed. A bad boy."
"Didn't Malfoy cover that already?" Harry asked.
"Very true but they want one in Gryffindor. They say Malfoy isn't even available anymore." All of us nodded.
When we arrived, Charles went over to the Scarlet Sanctuary. It was right across the street and two houses (Well Mansions) away was the Malfoy Manor. This street was very cold. You could feel all the darkness all of them were suffering. I knew they all were different at home than at school. At school they could kick back and relax. At home they had to be tense and keep their posture straight. I've never seen any of them slouch before. It was like they were wearing masks at school. Strong, happy and Rude at school but at home they were cold, emotionless and depressed. The one at home was the real them. No wonder Slytherins are so mean. It's because all the pain they experienced. They don't want to be alone. So they cause pain so they show people what they've been through. Two blocks away was my place. It was scary as well.
"Well this is my home." Blaise said. I looked right in his eyes. Right when he said home, his eyes went emotionless. Than you could feel coldness spread around. When Charles waved to us, his eyes were emotionless too. He didn't even smile. Is this what they experience at home? Wow. When Len spotted our house his eyes went emotionless. Harry was the only one filled with emotion.
"Well let's go than." We all walked to his house. The place was not as big as mine, but it was big. The only two houses bigger than the Richardson house were the Malfoy Manor and the Scarlet Sanctuary. The door opened there were four adults standing there. I saw my parents. Blaise's dad had an orange-like brown hair. His mother had bleach blonde hair that went all the way down to hair waist. His father had green eyes. His mother had pale blue eyes.
"Hello mother, father." Blaise said.
"How was your school year so far?" asked his mother.
"It's been great. Especially with my friends." He said as he grabbed my hand. All of the adults smiled. I had a great time with all of his parents. Harry had fun as well.
Valleria's POV
"So..." Len said to Malfoy who looked very sleepy I was changing. When I came out, I was wearing a dirty white sweater. And a red skirt with cacky boots.
"Ok, let's go get some lunch shall we?" Malfoy agreed. Len followed. There was barely anybody here. Good. I have Malfoy all to myself. I love him...lots.
Len went to hang with other Slytherins his age. I sat with Malfoy we got some hot cocoa.
"So...you want to talk? I had a feeling you did." Draco said.
"Yeah. Call it boyfriend's intuition?" I did my stupid giggle.
"Here, let's go to the library. Only a few Ravenclaws are there. The rest went home. By the way, why didn't you go home with Charles?"
"I wanted to have some alone time with well...you." I blushed. He smirked.
"I have to be the happiest guy in Hogwarts right now."
"Besides Snape?" I said sarcastically.
"You know, this is my first Christmas where I was allowed to smile." I said.
"Yeah...same here." Draco said.
Summary of rest of Christmas (Hermione's POV)
The Christmas Holidays were fine but not once Blaise smiled. Harry just smiled here and there. Same thing happened with me. It was fun when the three of us weren't hovered by his parents. His parents always made me nervous. Harry told me they made him nervous as well. So many nerves!
Summary of rest of Christmas (Valleria's POV)
I got to know things that I didn't know before about Draco. It wasn't that cold. Probably because Draco always there to make me warm. Rita Skeeter even said we were the 'it' couple and put us in the paper. She sort of over did it though.
Two cold hearts combining
The son of Lucius Malfoy, the death eater serving his sentence at Askaban (Draco Malfoy) and the daughter of the local snob, Edward Scarlet (Valleria Scarlet)(it's runs in the family)[ok, that was true.] are both in love. Could this be a match made in Heaven or Hell? Most likely Hell, because this couple is on fire! Both fell in love ever since the third year. Valleria was known to save Draco Malfoy during summer. Before the third year, Draco was in a fight with 3 Muggles. Who thought he was being racist. Luckily, a beautiful, thrilling girl named, Valleria Vivica Scarlet came and she just came from taking a photo shoot in the calendar 'Whip Weekly'. So she came over with her whip. She was walking towards them and the Muggles ran. She didn't even know what was going on.
After New Years Day (Hermione's POV)
[A/N: I'm really speeding it up, sorry.]
Ron came back faster than we thought. When they meant next year, we thought in the seventh year but they meant after New Years. When he came in all of us looked at him disgustedly. Some of the girls though looked at him very dreamily. Ugh, so disgusting. The Slytherins came in to see him. Blaise came and kissed me.
"Oh, you're here huh?" Valleria said. She was still furious with him. Valleria had her whip with her. She put the whip very closely around his neck.
"Don't touch me ok? You know, do you still have that bruise on your stomach? Yes, I seem very murderous but remember, you caused all this. This will be the closest you'll ever be to me. If you come any closer, Draco and his pals will pumble you into oblivion...and I'm serious. Don't stare at me all of you, I'm just angry. Even the rest of Weasleys allowed me to threaten him." Ron kept a straight face but he looked really scared. I could just tell. When she let go of his neck there was a red marking to become a bruise. The Slytherins just walked away and I held hands with Blaise. The Slytherins and I left.
"Your just a traitor Hermione!" Ron yelled. I looked at him in disbelief.
"Right! Coming from you? The girl-obsessed Weasly! You think you can just pick one girl up. When she denies you, you go to another girl. You try to make her fall in love for your not-so handsome charm. When she doesn't you just force it on her!" I yelled back. He looked stunned. He never expected me to yell something like that back at him.
"Hermione...I'm sorry about Valleria. She's just hot." Draco snorted and walked up to him and punched him in the same place where Valleria kicked him before. Ron fell to the ground. Blaise came over and kicked him in the rib. Valleria came and was about to kick him even harder than...Valleria just did a light little kick. Ron looked at her so curious.
"Why didn't you kick me as hard?" Ron said while gasping for air.
"Cause...I..." She went to sit on a couch. I heard her muttering 'stop thinking of yourself, Valleria. You already picked the pieces of your heart. Your only boyfriend, Draco helped. Come on! I hate it when your like this!'
"All of you get out. Except for you four, Charles, Len, Draco and Blaise." I said. Everybody left except the people I demanded to stay.
"What do you mean Valleria?" Len asked. He looked at Charles. No response.
"Yeh, what's going on Charles?" asked Blaise. Still No Response. Finally he gasped as if he forgot to breath.
"Since you're all like family, you should know. You remember the stalker? Well, he sent her a picture of her of what she would look like if he beat her up. My father was very, very furious. That's why." We saw Charles's eyes watering. He ran to hug his sister.
"I'm fine, fine." Valleria said.
"Sometimes you could be such a sissy." She continued. As she playfully punched him.
"Um, guys Dumbledore wants to talk to the four of you (he pointed at Valleria, Blaise, Draco and I). Except for you, Len." Said Harry.
"Darn it. Darn it all!" as he stormed out to go back to the Slytherin Common Room.
Dumbledore's Office (Blaise's POV)
"You wanted to talk about something Professor?" Hermione said.
"Yes, you four are all friends correct?" Draco snorted. Valleria elbowed him in the stomach...not that hard.
"Blaise and Hermione are a couple and Valleria and Draco are a couple. Well, there's going to be a couple Tournaments. We had to choose 4 students. Fortunately, those four were you guys. You'll be playing on the same team. It's nothing like the other Tournament. It'll be about knowing your soul mate. They'll ask you questions about your soul mate if you answer them right you move on." Dumbledore explained.
"Go pack your stuff your going to a Muggle place to do this. It's called a mall. Sort of like Diagon Alley. Remember your school is Okeidian Academy. Ok? No magic will be allowed either. Don't worry Magic got Okeidian Academy covered. They don't know about it. We erased all of their memories about the thing. Valleria and Draco you' two are the team captains because you know each other longer." Valleria, Draco and I dropped our mouths open.
"Professor, are you off your rocker? Mug...Muggles!? We won't have to touch them correct?" Valleria asked they all looked disgusted yet scared.
"No, go pack up." Dumbledore said.
"Professor but my face hurts..." Malfoy said trying to make an excuse...very lame.
"No excuses Mr. Malfoy." Dumbledore said with that odd twinkle in his eye.
When we walked out, all of us didn't say anything. To speechless to even be angry. Except for Hermione.
"Oh come on, you'll enjoy it! I'm pretty sure you will." Hermione said. Nobody said anything. Just gave her disgusted looks.
When we were in the Slytherin common room. While packing, I could hear Malfoy mumbling rude things. Valleria was muttering the Avada Kadavra at a spider for a few numerous times. Even after it was dead.
"Guys...I hope we just don't get hurt. With all the muggle technology that knows almost everything." I said. They just gave me a dirty look.
Going to The Mall (Hermione's POV)
"While we're waiting for the bus, let's watch some television!" I said.
"Tele fishing? Right..." Blaise said.
"Never mind. Let's just watch shall we?" I turned the public TV on.
"Oh no! That Muggle is stuck in that stupid box! No wonder father told me to stay away from Muggles! Just help him!" Valleria yelled. Draco saw the worry in his girlfriends face and kicked the TV over.
"He's not stuck in there! Draco stop kicking the TV!" I yelled. Draco stopped kicking TV and sat down on the bench with Valleria. The bus finally arrived. We each got 100$ of muggle money just in case. We got at the Mall. I couldn't believe that we actually blended in! We had to go up stairs on the escalator. The other three didn't get it.
"Stop moving you three! You'll fall!" I screamed.
"These stairs are messed!" Draco yelled. Everybody was looking at us.
"Ahhh! I'm falling!" shrieked Valleria. Draco grabbed for her arm. Just than Blaise stumbled over a step. All three of them fell down the escalator. None of them got hurt, except for some bruises.
"Damn stairs..." Blaise said.
"Tell me about it." Draco said.
Every time we passed girls they would wolf whistle at Draco or Blaise. Every time boys passed us, they would wolf whistle at Valleria and I. Most of the guys wolf whistled at Valleria and most of the girls wolf whistled at Draco. They proved they were taken by kissing Blaise and I did the same. All of them just frowned. When we arrived where we were supposed to sign up and start, lots of people whispered mean things about us. Draco almost beat the crap out of a girl for calling Valleria a player. Luckily, the girl's boyfriend was there.
"Names please? Captains first." said the person at the sign-up table. Everybody was watching for our names.
"Draco. Draco Malfoy." Draco stuttered. Some guys snickered.
"Valleria Scarlet." Valleria said as she gave dirty looks at the people snickering. Than one guy said...
"Wahoo! Pretty gal! Sexy name! It rolls off the tongue!" Valleria's eyes widened. Draco went to see who it was. You could see in his eyes that he would kill. Even though the Slytherins always looked like they would kill. He saw this one guy who was, alone and single. He just came to watch.
"Oi! You! The boy with no date! No wonder you're alone! Nobody wanted to come with you and I'm pretty sure Valleria wouldn't go with you." Draco yelled the guy frowned at him.
"You got that right! You? Ha! As if! Your nothing compared to Draco!" she said as she rubbed Draco's cheek.
"Now...what about you two what are your names?" said the Muggle at the sing-up table.
"Hermione Richardson..." I said
"and Blaise Zabani." Blaise stated.
"What school?"
"Hog-Okeidian Academy" Valleria said.
We all found seats. For a mall, it was pretty fancy. Close to Hogwarts but not really. We saw many Muggles in uniform like what they call 'cheerleaders and jocks'.
"Isn't jocks like a hockey underwear though?" I asked.
"Hockey?" Draco asked.
"Never mind." I said.
"Silence! Please!" Yelled a Muggle. Everybody was quiet.
"I hope all of your Heads have told you about the contest. We will ask you questions about your boyfriend or girlfriend. We'll give you points for every question correctly. If you lie about a question you will be disqualified. Luckily we only invited 7 schools. So, don't let your school down! First we have Sherlock Park Public School! Howard and Cindy, please come up. Ok, attach Cindy to a lie detector. Howard we'll ask you questions about Cindy and Cindy you will say correct or incorrect. This lie detector will make sure your not lying.
"Ah, like Snape's potion." Blaise stated. We all nodded.
"Ok, Howard what does Cindy like to talk about?" The Muggle, Reese stated.
"Concerts or Bands." Howard said.
"Incorrect. I like to talk about you." The LD (lie detector) made a correct noise.
"Good. You're both telling the truth. Unfortunately, you don't get a point. Now, your second couple, Holly and George."
"Holly, what does George hate about you?"
"Obviously, it's the way I can't keep a secret!"
"Correct...ugh." George said. The LD made a correct noise.
"One point for Sherlock Park! Next, Okeidian Academy, Valleria Scarlet and Draco Malfoy." We all forgot that we were Okeidian Academy than Valleria nudged Draco.
"Okeidian Academy, we're Okeidian Academy!" She said as she dragged Draco with her. They were wearing a sort of uniform. Draco wore black jeans and a green shirt that looked like a pale green. Valleria on the other hand, was wearing a black shirt that said 'I'm with Draco' but it magically changed if she was with somebody else and a green skirt that said 'Scarlet' on her butt. As they swaggered they got dirty looks.
"Draco, what's Valleria's fear?" Valleria's eyes widened. By the looks of it, it looked like
She hasn't told Draco this. Big trouble...
"If any of her family members got hurt. Or me getting hurt and definitely bugs, giant, fat, ugly bugs." Draco lifted his chin high and snorted.
"Correct." Valleria said with a smirk. The machine beeped about 5 times.
"Actually, that's absolutely correct! Five points for excellent answer!" Draco smirked. Valleria hugged and kissed him on the lips and both of his cheeks.
Meanwhile I talked to Blaise.
"I don't care if you got anything wrong, as long as you still love me." I stated.
"You actually think I'll get a question wrong? Plus, even if I got it right I would still love you, Herm" I could see Zabani is very competitive.
"Herm? That's my nickname now?" I asked. It sounded funny but cute. Just then, we saw Charles come in. Unfortunately, he had a bruised jaw and eye. He didn't seem to care.
"Oh my gosh, Charles! What happened?" Charles smiled.
"You will not believe what happened! These Muggles are very mean!" Charles whispered.
"What, you fell down ecalimator too?" Blaise asked.
"You mean those moving stairs? Yes! It's called an ecalimator? It's very dangerous." Charles stated.
"Guys, it's called an escalator." I corrected.
"Oh. Well it's still mean! How could they make such a thing?" Charles said.
"For the last time! Will Hermione Granger and Blaise Zabani come up?" Reese yelled.
"Sorry." Blaise yelled as we rushed at the hot seat.
"Finally, Hermione, if Blaise died, what would you do?" Ok, that blew my top.
"What do mean if Blaise died? Well, definitely I would be outraged that they would even ask this question! It's so offensive!"
"VERY, VERY CORRECT!" Blaise yelled. The LD beeped 4 times.
"Wow...four points to Okeidian Academy." Reese said.
You could just hear Valleria and Draco laughing. When I glared at them they shut up and straightened themselves out.
After the rest of the schools finished, we just sat at a very fancy place to eat.
"Oi! You house-elf! Get us something to eat! We're famished!" Draco yelled at a waiter and called him a house-elf! Oh shoot...
"Excuse me monsieur! Do not have an outburst like that in zee restaurant!" Draco just rolled his eyes.
We all ate. Didn't really have a conversation. Until, we saw George and Holly shopping at a candy shop. George was eating a lollipop that Holly just licked.
"Ew, disgusting. Muggles are so simple minded." Valleria said as she drank the same glass that Draco used.
When we got the bill, went shopping at a make up store.
"Ugh. Girls always want new make up. Last year I put the money I spent on lip-gloss on Valleria and it added up to 153 Galleons a year. Oh well, she is worth it. Right Blaise? Right? Oh shut up." Blaise laughed.
"Malfoy, you could spend a whole day talking to a brick wall noticing it wasn't listening. Oh well, might as well watch them put on lip-gloss."
"Let's check the flavors shall we?" Draco said with an eager voice. What he meant, was when we try a lip-gloss they'll kiss us. If they like the flavor, we'll buy it.
"Mm...banana." Blaise said.
"Fine I'll buy it." I said. All we heard from Malfoy and Scarlet was:
"Mm! Try more! Try more! Mm...mm. Buy all of them, I don't care what flavor! Mm..." We stared at them cause' they were putting a show.
"No wonder he spends 153 Galleons each year." I agreed.
"Oh sorry, guys. Got lost in the moment." Valleria said.
"Nah, we'll get lost in a moment too." Zabani said as kissed me. He still smells like a mint. Any moment, I'm going to smell like a mint too. Valleria smelled like expensive cologne anyways.
"They say the next game is next week. We can go to our ghobel for now. Mm!" Blaise said.
"It's hotel, Blaise. Mm..." I corrected.
Than we all went to our hotel. We also had a race of who is the fastest at piggybacks. We bumped a lot of Muggles. They got mad. We finally arrived at the hotel. Our room was at the very, very top floor.
"Those Muggles look so small!" Valleria said as she dropped a piece of sushi (a japanease food thingy that Muggles eat) on one Muggle.
"There's only one problem..." They all raised an eyebrow.
"There are only two beds." All of our eyes widened.
"Valleria, you can use the bed. I'll sleep on the floor. Me being the usual gentleman." Draco said.
"Aw. Thank you." Valleria said with awe. "Yes, very true, Sir Malfoy. Hermione you may use the bed. While we order a second room, Draco and I will have a little drink. Not that kind of drink though. You never know what happens to Malfoy. " Blaise said.
"But he's really nice when he's drunk. He keeps on giving me complements until he falls asleep." Valleria said. Draco pouted. As they both went downstairs.
Downstairs (Draco's POV)
It's not my fault I'm very mushy when I'm drunk! It's only happened once though. I think...we had finished getting our second room but we want a drink.
"Well, Malfoy let's go to the bar now!" Blaise yelled. Geez, would it kill him to not yell in public?
"Holy crap! Don't yell Zabani!" Oops, I just yelled. Everyone was looking at me.
"What are all of you looking at?" They stopped looking. Blaise and I got a drink. He ordered a Sprite I got a Coke. Funny, it tickles my nose. Just than Zabani and I heard:
"o0o0o look girls! Cute boys!" his one girl came. She was really ugly. She reminded me of Parkinson and Padma made into one. Another ugly girl came. They were both brunettes. Nice hair, ugly people.
"Hi, I'm Lulu and this is Daisy." We ignored them.
"Hello?" Ignored again.
"Why aren't you talking?" They asked.
"Because we have girlfriends! Who would be willing to kill if they caught us with you! Plus, they're prettier than both of you." Blaise yelled. Damn...he's yelling again. Well, I just kept on ignoring.
"Let's go Blaise, Muggle filth. Good thing our rooms right beside the girls room." I said as a led the way to our room.
Next Day (Hermione's POV)
"Valleria? Wake up! Valleria...are you awake? Hello? Anybody there?" Man, she's hard to wake up. Just than her hand flung around. 'Shut up! Father, you can sometimes be so reckless! Oops, I'm so sorry father...' she said as she wiped her eyes. She ran around changing and everything.
"It's me Hermione, Valleria." I said she sighed.
"Don't ever do that again! Man...you scared me." The two boys came in with their PJs on. Draco's was an emerald green PJs. Blaise was an odd banana yellow, also wearing pink bunny slippers.
"What happened we heard one of you yell." Blaise said as he collided on to my bed. I guess they all sleep in most of the time. Draco collapsed on Valleria's bed. Even though, he squashed Valleria. Am I the only one up?
"Get off, Malfoy." Valleria said while gasping for air. Draco and Blaise both played Quidditch so they had muscles. Very heavy one's.
"Not yet." Malfoy said.
"Why do you smell like candy and flowers?" Draco continued.
"Because' I was born that way...actually I don't know why. I think it's because of my shampoo, conditioner, soap and perfume."
"Well, keep on wearing that stuff it smells nice." I said.
"You know, why did we go to this contest again?" Blaise said.
"Can't we just escape? There's no prize! I'm going to owl Dumbledore." Valleria said. She wrote this:
Dear Professor,
Not to offend you or anything, but why the bloody hell did you send us here! There's absolutely no point in doing this action! It's very boring too. Send us more money, by the way. About 1000 would do it but why? Just answer or I'm telling my father.
Sincerely,
Valleria Scarlet.
We waited for the response. About an half hour later, her falcon came.
Dear Miss Scarlet,
I never knew you had a temper like that. Well there is 1000 Muggle money here. Well, the reason is for a project about Muggles. Do they have to know everything about each other? You can leave though, if you want to. Or just check more things out.
Sincerely,
Dumbledore.
"Guys, what if we stay here longer hmm? That would be fun we'll check out some other malls."
"Great idea, Valleria Vivica Scarlet!" Blaise said. Valleria frowned at him.
"Don't ever use my middle name ever again!"
"Let's go!" I said.
Well, that's the chapter! What will they do? Will Valleria go on a shopping spree! Will Draco and Valleria get into a fight? Or would it be Hermione and Blaise? A love cursed dilemma. R&R! Thanks for those people who did. Tell your friends...I need alot of Reviews...
