Chapter Three
(The guys are having a hard time)
In the middle of the night, around midnight, Ron woke up facing the wall. Hestretched and groaned turning over to a pile of hair. Ron backed up suddenly and silently remembering that that was Hermione and they were on a train to safe keeping. His heart slowed down but then sped up noticing that their beds were pushed together. The train probably did a large turn and pushed the bed toward me. Yeah...that's it. Ron calmed himself and laid down again. This is going be a long night!
On the other side the train poor Harry hadn't gotten a wink of sleep. Seriously he had barely winked either! He was sitting on his bed staring at the back of Cho's head, she can't do anything to me in my sleep if I'm not asleep...right? Harry kept his eyes on Cho. Her hair fell from her side and Harry jumped,shocked from the sudden movement. This is ridiculous! I need to sleep! Harry started to lie down, never taking his eyes away from Cho. He got under his covers and kept staring at Cho like she as going to pounce him at any moment.
Who am I kidding! I'll never get to sleep!
In the Slytherin part of the train Draco woke up to the pitter patter of raindrops. He conjured a mirror in front of him to find his once perfect blonde hair in a ratted mess. He gasped, "Damn train...took me forever to make it right..." Draco muttered under his breath so he wouldn't wake Pansy. He huffed, looking at her, What's her problem? Just wanting to sleep... He shrugged off the hair problem, vowing to fix it in the morning. His eyes softened, I really shouldn't push her to do anything...but if I didn't Crabbe and Goyle would surely think of me as cowardly. I wouldn't want that. And father always said that if I wanted something I should try my hardest to get it. But I dunno if Pansy is ready... Then Draco spoke aloud partly to himself and partly to Pansy, "I shouldn't be pushing anyone to do anything they don't want to do. I love Pansy, but if she's not ready...then neither am I". He ran his fingers through her dark brown hair once and drifted back to sleep unaware that Pansy had heard every word, smiling to herself as she too drifted into slumber.
The next morning Harry was still staring at the back of Cho's head. His eyes were blood shot and twitchy. The alarm clock on the night stand hit 8 o'clock A.M. and went off into an annoying ringing. Harry jumped and Cho turned slowly turning off the alarm clock. She sat up and stretched wide like a cat on her back and looked over at Harry, "Have a good nights rest Harry?" Cho said licking her lips, not taking notice of Harry's blood shot eyes and twitching. Poor Harry just nodded. "Good! Let's go get breakfast!", Cho said grabbing Harry's arm and yanking him out of bed. Harry looked down, "In our pajamas?", he was still shirtless from the night. Cho looked him over. Over the years Harry had gotten quite a workout from Quidditch so his abs, in Cho's opinion, were to die for. Harry noticed her starring at his chest and waved his hand in front of her eyes, "Oh, sorry...um,let's go to breakfast then?" Cho said suddenly out of her trance. Harry nodded
If I survive these next few days I'll be forever thankful!
A couple compartments down Hermione woke up, to find both beds together. She raised her eyebrow at the situation and thought for a moment that maybe Ron did it. No that would be ridiculous. The train probably took a big turn and made my bed slide over to his. Yeah...that's it. Hermione stepped out of bed and stretched. She opened the curtains to the window to find it bright and sunny outside. "Good, sun will brighten all our spirits". She turned around and decided to wake Ron. She didn't know how she was going to wake him. Shake him I guess, she thought. Hermione turned Ron over, who was snoring loud, and grabbed his shoulders ready to shake him right. Her arms got uncomfortable so she got on her knees on his bed. One knee on one side of him the other on the other side. It felt strange but Ron was a heavy sleeper. It took her a second and right when she was ready Ron opened his eyes to find her holding his shoulders and on top of him. They both gasped in unison and started laughing. "What were you doing?" Ron said steadying his breath. Hermione got off of him and was looking at the floor, "I was going to wake you. Its morning now and I thought you'd want breakfast...". Hermione said talking to the ground. There was a moment of awkward silence and then they finally decided to head to the dining car.
Pansy woke up first in her car to find Draco's back to her. She ruffled his hair and whispered in his ear to get up. Draco was a light sleeper so that's all he needed was a sweet whisper. He smiled, eyes still closed, and hopping out of bed and giving Pansy a warm hug. He has no idea how much I heard last night...Pansy sighed. "What's the matter Pansy?", Draco asked as he straightened out his hair in the mirror. "What makes you think there's something the matter?", Pansy said smiling even though she was still cold. As sunny as it was out side, there was still frost, and no heat in the compartments. "You just...seemed like there was something wrong", Draco shrugged finally getting his hair right. He saw her teeth chattering, put his robe over her shoulders, and they headed to the dining car.
In the dining car Ron and Hermione found Harry at a small round table in the dining car. Cho was over on the other side of the car getting her food. Harry looked miserable and only Hermione noticed this at first. She poked Ron and he looked up from his eggs and saw Harry's blood shot eyes drooping. His head almost fell into his bacon when Hermione caught it. "Harry, did you get any sleep at all last night? What were doing all night-" Hermione stopped there and Ron cut in choking on his food, "Yeah Harry,", Ron nudged Harry with his elbow, "what were you doing last night?". He started laughing until Hermione gave him a cold look. Ron shut up and they both looked at Harry for an answer. He finally spoke but was still looking down at his plate playing with his food., "Cho kept me up all night-",Ron smiled wide, "She was asleep and I didn't trust her. I had to stay awake. I thought I'd wake up to her snogging me while I was sleeping or something!". Ron's smile disappeared. Hermione looked worried, "Harry why don't you and me trade? You really need to sleep!". Harry shook his head, "Nah, tonight I'll sleep. I promise." Ron was still silent and then his eyebrows narrowed like something was bothering him, but before they could ask he spoke, "You were afraid she would snog you. Harry, are you insane? You've fought You Know Who more than once and you're afraid of snogging?". There was an awkward silence and Harry nodded. "Ron there's nothing wrong with that! Harry's never done that before! And neither have you! You are barely the man Harry is so you shouldn't be talking!", Hermione gasped at herself and put a hand over her mouth. Harry was now wide awake, Ron's mouth was open wide and he looked like Hermione had slapped him, and Cho had just arrived at the table clueless of the current scene. "This is about the pajamas huh? Harry has no shirt and I'm in pajama's that I've been wearing since I was 13. Well I can go bare backed too!" Ron said taking it too far, he ripped off his pajama shirt and turned maroon realizing what he just did. Hermione's and Cho's eyes were wide and impressed. Ron may not have been in Quidditch but he didn't spend all summer being lazy. He was just as fit, if not more, than Harry was. Harry even raised his eyebrows,surprised and shocked. Ron sat down and went back to poking his eggs, a furious glance at Hermione every once in awhile. Harry held back laughter and Cho sat down still clueless, "Did I miss anything?".