Chapter 4: The Next Morning!

Ron woke up the next morning to find his room empty. He saw the three beds made and no sign of any of the other boys. He looked at the time and saw that it was nine in the morning and thought: Mr. and Mrs. Granger must be long gone by now, but where is Harry? He made his bed, got dressed then walked out of his room, where he saw Parvati get out of hers. He smiled at her and she smiled at him, as she said, "Good morning Ron."

"Morning Parvati, do you know where the guys are?"

"No," Parvati said, "Lavender was still asleep I just woke her up and I was about to go wake up Hermione."

"Okay, well I'll be downstairs then, you guys can come and join me soon."

"Yeah," Parvati said, "we'll be right down."

"Okay," Ron said and he started making his way towards the stairs and Parvati went in Hermione's room. She found Hermione in her room dressed and she was surprised to see Hermione look so cute. Parvati never thought that Hermione paid any attention to her looks, but today Hermione's hair was straight and tied half up with a white bow. She was wearing slim leg white Capri pants with a pink tee shirt and pink flip-flops. She was looking at herself in the mirror and when Parvati walked in she immediately stopped and blushed. Parvati smiled, "You look cute Hermione."

"Thanks Parvati," Hermione smiled as she got away from the mirror quickly and said, "So should we go down stairs?"

"Yeah, sure," Parvati said, "But, uh, I had a question, today is when we're picking our subject right?"

"Actually," Hermione said, "I thought today we could go to the mall or something."

"Really?"

"Yeah, I mean, this bet, the pact, I mean – or whatever, we really need to start working on it, don't you agree?"

"Agree with what?" Lavender asked as she walked in the room.

"Lavender, hi," both girls said, as Lavender sat on Hermione's bed.

"Hermione you look cute," Lavender said.

"Thank you," Hermione said.

"Anyways, agree with what?" Lavender asked once again.

"Hermione thinks that we should take the day off the project and work on the pact," Parvati said.

"Really?" Lavender asked.

"I know," Parvati said.

"Hermione this wouldn't have anything to do with Harry going out with the guys and that girl last night would it?" Lavender asked looking at Hermione very closely.

"Oh you mean Maria?" Hermione asked.

"Yeah," Lavender said.

"Trust it's got nothing to do with her, Harry, Draco, Blaise or every other guy on the planet would not want anything to do with her. In fact if they're smart they'll stay as far away from Maria as possible," Hermione said.

"What do you mean?" Parvati asked.

Hermione looked at the two girls, "Nothing really, just that no guy should ever think about having something with Maria."

"Why?" Parvati asked, "Is she not pretty at all?"

"No, she's gorgeous, perfectly gorgeous, flawless in a way, and I can't say that I haven't been jealous of her at times. But then I realized that there is nothing to be jealous about," Hermione said.

"What do you mean?" Lavender asked.

"Nothing just forget Maria," Hermione asked, "she's not the reason for today at all."

"Then what is?" Parvati asked.

"Well," Hermione said, "Harry kissed me last night."

"Really?" Parvati asked.

"What?" Lavender said.

"Well only on the cheek, but still I mean it was magical," Hermione said as she touched the cheek that Harry had kissed the night before, "It felt like I was the only one that mattered, like I was his one and only, and I liked it."

"Aw," the girls said.

Hermione smiled, "It was perfect."

Lavender said, "Well I got to see Draco in his boxers how hot is that?"

"And?" Parvati asked.

"His body if so perfect, I can't begin to describe how I felt, I tried to hold all my feelings in, Merlin I wanted to jump him so bad. I swear even thinking about him makes me shiver," Lavender said as laid herself on the bed.

"Lavender," Hermione said, "stop it."

"Come on Hermione admit it, I know he can be a jerk but he is gorgeous," Lavender said.

"He is handsome," Hermione said, "but nothing more."

"Okay," Lavender said, "Think what you want I for one adore him."

Ron walked downstairs and he heard three voices coming from the living room. He knew immediately that it was Harry, Draco, and Blaise, and walked in the direction of the room, when he got there he stood there for a moment being completely ignored by the three who were deep into the conversation they were having. Ron saw that placed on the table in front of the three boys, they each had a pile of papers with some kind of writing that Ron couldn't see.

"What about Nicole?" Blaise asked holding up a card, "Now she was pretty hot?"

"Yeah," Harry said, "but not nearly as hot as Maria. The one that was hotter than Maria was Lauren."

"What?" Draco yelled, "That skinny little mouse? Are you two kidding me? Trust me there was no girl hotter than Maria. I mean even her name, Maria, huh; it kind of makes me want to sing. I mean such a beautiful name. Everything about her is beautiful she's flawless, I think I love her."

Ron thought, She's a muggle Draco can you love a muggle?

"Oh shut up," Harry said, "You say that about every pretty girl."

"Hey," Draco said, "In my life I have never seen a girl that gorgeous, maybe you two have, lucky you, but I haven't. I don't think there is a girl prettier than Maria."

"There's always someone better," Harry said.

"Not for me, I am stamped guys, and you know what that stamp says?" Draco asked the two boys, "Taken by Maria."

"Or at least until he sees a prettier girl," Blaise said as he and Harry laughed.

"Shut up, I am totally committed, she's perfect," Draco said.

"There's no such thing as perfect," Ron said as he walked up to them and sat near Harry, "the more perfect someone seems the less they are." All three boys looked at him and Draco said, "Very deep Weasly but you didn't see Maria."

"I'm glad, too," Ron said.

"Trust me Ron, you're wrong," Harry said, "The girl is perfect, Malfoy is right, there is not a girl more gorgeous or perfect, there is no girl like her, trust me."

"Hell, yes," Draco said, "but forget about that, I'm glad you're up, I have come up with a chance for you to redeem yourself Weasly. A chance for you to become friends with us, be in our gang."

"What chance?"

"Very simple," Draco said, "It is for all of us in fact."

"What is it?" Blaise asked.

"Well… I came up with it last night, while I was lying awake thinking about the love of my life, Maria, or Mia, as I like to call her. The sweetheart of this town, the apple of my eye."

"Get on with it," Harry said.

"Okay, Harry," Draco said, "Last night I came up with something to spice up our summer. I was in our bedroom thinking guys and girls living together in one house, and there's nothing going on between us. No drama no chemistry, no nothing, just boredom. So I thought why not shake things up? Make it a little interesting. I have come up with a contest. We will each be chosen a girl, by random draw, the girl that we chose will be the girl we have to sleep with by the end of the summer. The guy who accomplishes the deed first wins 30 galleons that means every loser has to pay 10 galleons each to the winner. The second one to finish shall get paid 5 galleons each by the 3 others, including the winner, the third one to finish gets nothing, and the last one to finish has to do a dare, any dare chosen by the other three. No matter how bad, no matter how horrible, no matter how much you hate it, you shall have no choice. So what do you guys think?"

All three boys looked at him. Then they looked at each other. Blaise smiled and said, "You don't even got to ask me, man."

"All right," Draco said, and gave Blaise a high five.

"Harry?" Draco asked.

"Man, I wouldn't miss out on it," Harry said, and he got a high five from Blaise and Draco. Then the three boys turned to Ron. Ron though looked at the ground. He couldn't believe what he was seeing, his best friend, Harry Potter, the one who hated Slytherin, was now best friends with Draco Malfoy and Blaise Zabini. He couldn't talk to Harry now; he would later, but not now. Something in his gut was telling him not to do this, but he didn't want to be left out, not again, he couldn't let Harry drift away from him and get closer to Malfoy and Zabini. He had some money, Fred and George had given him 50 galleons because they had won a bet, his parents didn't know but he had the money. So left with no option Ron looked up and said, "Yeah, I'm in."

Harry smiled at him and said, "All right Ron."

Draco smiled and said, "Yeah, Weasly finally decided to show some backbone."

"Shut up," Ron said.

"Continue Draco," Harry said, "Which four girls are we talking about?"

Draco smiled, "The only girls we've got, Lavender, Parvati, Hermione, and Maria."

"What?" Ron asked.

"You said, you're in Weasly, now you can't back out," Draco said.

"Fine," Ron said, "Give me the damn hat I'll even draw first."

Draco took out the hat that he had been hiding and put it in front of Ron. Ron put his hand in and Draco said, "Take out the paper and don't say whom you got just yet." Ron nodded and took out a piece of paper that was folded in half, he didn't look at it, next Blaise drew, then Draco, then Harry. Draco looked at his paper and said, "Weasly open yours first."

Ron looked at him and then opened his paper, "I got Parvati."

"Harry," Draco said, "You're next."

"Hermione," Harry said.

"Well ain't that just fate," Blaise said.

"Hey, I told you guys, I don't like Hermione," Harry said.

"Yeah," Draco said, "But we know better. However for now we can pretend, we'll let it go."

"Now Blaise say yours is Lavender and you've made me the winner the today," Draco said.

Blaise opened his paper and jumped with delight, He got up on the table and screamed, "Yes! Yes! Yes! I got her, I got Mia, I got Maria Parker! Maria is mine!"

"What!" Draco screamed he looked at his paper, "I got Lavender? Come on Lavender?"

"What about me?" Lavender asked as she came down the stairs following Hermione and Parvati behind. Draco looked at each of the boys as they each hid their papers and then Draco said, "We weren't talking about you Lavender, we were talking about my favorite flower, which is a lavender, isn't that weird?"

"Yeah," she said.

"So are you guys ready to eat?" Hermione asked.

"Yeah," everyone said.

"Great do you guys want to go out to eat?" Hermione asked.

"Yeah," Draco said, "I want to go to the same place where Mia took us yesterday."

"Mia?" Hermione asked.

"Yeah," Draco said, "that's her nickname you know, that's what this one girl called her."

"She hates it," Hermione said, "but forget her, how about we forget her completely and think about breakfast, now we'll go and eat breakfast there, but we'll focus on our project, okay?" Hermione said and she winked at the two girls as they smiled.

"Great," Blaise said, "because that's all I wanted to talk about to too."

"Really?" Hermione asked.

"Yeah, because I got the perfect idea, for it," Blaise said.

"And what is that?" Hermione asked.

"How about we make Maria, our subject?"

"Maria?" Hermione asked.

"Yeah."

"We can't."

"Why not?" Parvati asked.

"Yeah, Lavender said, "What is so horrible about Maria?"

Author's Notes:

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