Chapter 22

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter………………..

The next day, the four girls went to eat dinner in the great hall. They started to talk about their dates and what happened in Hogsmede.

Danielle started off first, "Ian and I ended up having a great time! Well most of the time we kissed but it's all good."

"So everything is cool between you guys now?" asked Nehal

"Oh yeah." said Danielle biting into a carrot.

Heather said, "I hung out with Tommy but then Neville came and things were a bit awkward between us…and oh my gosh it was so bad because they kept on talking about me and then I was like shut up! And then it was like silence for the rest of the afternoon."

"It was so much fun hanging out with Ron and Malfoy, and then Jackie came. Too bad Rocky was an asshole." said Nehal

"Right…" answered Jackie. Jackie thought, "I can't believe her! Colt blames me for framing him for stealing candy and the car, which is Nehal's fault! And she's trying to steal Draco too! And now I can't even make him jealous with Colt anymore. But I'm not gonna give up that easily…"

Nehal thought, "What's wrong? Is Jackie mad at me? Colt was bulling Jackie and I got the security after him. I hope nothing's wrong. It couldn't be Draco; I heard what he said about her in Honeydukes."

Heather thought, "Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy…mm…Tommy."

"Yes…" said Danielle trying to get a conversation started up again.

Just then Professor McGonagall came over and whispered into Jackie's ear. "You have 5 minutes until you have to report for detention in the hospital wing."

Jackie rolled her eyes, "Okay I'll be there."

Nehal said, "I wonder what's going to happen to Rocky and Colt?"

"Huh?" said Heather

"What's wrong with them?" asked Danielle

Nehal replied, "Well…they kind of stole stuff from Honeydukes and the store owner had to call security."

"Yeah." added Jackie. "And they accused me of putting candy in their pockets!"

"Well did you?" asked Heather

"Heather!" Nehal and Danielle said at the same time

"What? I just wanted to know if she did or not."

Jackie said, "Of course I didn't. Do you honestly think that I would do something like that?"

"Yeah!"

Jackie's jaw dropped.

Heather smiled. "I'm joking…I'm joking."

"Didn't sound that way though, did it?" Jackie suddenly snapped and walked out of the great hall.

"What's with her?" asked Nehal

"I don't know, but those French fries on her plate are tempting." As Heather munched off Jackie's plate, Danielle and Nehal looked at each other.

Just then Rocky and Colt came and sat down at the Hufflepuff table. Everyone was staring at them.

Nehal and Heather turned to face them.

Nehal said, "So what did security do?"

"Yeah." added Heather. "Did beat you until you started to cry and then eat all your candy!"

Nehal looked at Heather. "You have a weird imagination."

Heather smiled. "Well that's me! Well kind of…not the imagination part though I mean I had a weird imagination when I was younger because I was just a crazy wild child and right now I'm still…a crazy wild child…however…"

Nehal made a gesture that a conductor would use to cut off a band. "Heather it's not your turn to talk."

Danielle sniggered.

Rocky said, "Actually all they did was give us a truth potion and it turned out we were innocent."

"You're bluffing!" said Nehal

"No we're not!" objected Colt

Nehal figured that they were probably telling the truth so she just smiled and said, "Beware the Ides of March!"

Hermione said, "Hey that's from Julius Caesar! That book is very fascinating."

Danielle rolled her eyes.

Nehal said, "Come on girls we're leaving!"

"We are?" questioned Heather

"Yes…we are Heather."

They got up and started to leave but Neville called out to Heather.

"Heather!"

Heather turned around, "Yes Nev Nev?"

Neville looked at Danielle and Nehal. "Er…do you think we could be alone?"

Danielle replied, "Well you won't be alone here. Look at all of these people who are eating dinner."

Heather said, "Let's go outside Nev Nev."

Heather and Neville left the great hall holding hands.

Nehal and Danielle started walking down the corridors.

"Nehal?"

"Yeah?"

"Where exactly are we going?"

"You know I couldn't tell ya."

Meanwhile, Heather and Neville sat down on a bench by the lake.

"Heather we need to talk?"

"Uh oh!" thought Heather. "Those four words never mean anything good."

"Heather?"

"Yes?"

"Well I think we should spend more time together. I mean we're supposed to be boyfriend and girlfriend and that's not going to happen if you keep hanging out with your friends or Tommy."

Heather immediately felt guilty. It was true; she hadn't been spending a lot of time with Neville lately.

"So what do you say?"

I agree Neville. We haven't been spending a lot of time together…"

"Great!" said Neville who leaned in to kiss Heather.

Heather was disgusted. This would be the perfect time to kiss Neville, except he had a giant booger hanging at the side of his nose. "Er…Neville?"

Neville got right in front of Heather's face. Heather sled down the bench a little too far and fell of it.

"Are you okay Heather?" asked Neville

"Yeah I'm fine er…Neville you have a little something…"

"2 + 2 4"

"Yes Neville I know that but you have…"

Neville jumped off the bench like a wild ape and started making monkey sounds.

Heather got a little bit freaked out so she simply said, "I'll meet you in the library tomorrow afternoon bye!" Heather ran all the way to the common room, and then dashed up the stairs to the girls' dorm.

Neville walked along the corridors sadly.

The caretaker Flich called out his name. "Longbottom."

Flich gave Neville a hanker chief from his pocket.

Neville gave him a questioning look.

Flich said, "I think you're gonna need this."

Neville blew on the hanker chief and looked in it. "Oh…so that's why Heather didn't kiss me!"

"Trouble with the ladies eh?"

"Yeah, being a boyfriend is a lot of hard work."

Flich sniggered, "Don't worry…you'll get used to it." He then walked into eternal darkness! Mua ha ha ha ha! (Sorry I'm hyper now)

Jackie walked into the hospital wing and saw Madame Pomfrey waiting for her. "Hi, I'm here for detention."

"Yes I know that my dear…I've been planning out what you're going to do for the next couple of weeks."

"And that is?"

"Well for today I want you to scrub the floors…with no magic."

"No magic? But that will take like 5 years!"

"Exactly! Well I better be off."

"Wait? Where are you going?"

"I'm going to a place…but before I go here is a bucket of water a mop, a sponge and some soap. Have fun!" Madame Pomfrey then slammed the door.

Jackie figured that this would take all night so she started scrubbing the floor.

Heather ran towards her bed and pulled the covers over her.

Nehal and Danielle both looked at Heather.

"Heather, are you alright?" asked Danielle

Heather was shaking in her bed. "The horror!"

"Hey Hey what happened?" Danielle tried asking again.

Heather poked her head out the covers. "The booger…it was so big."

"Oh my gosh you saw a booger!" Nehal said sarcastically

"Yeah but it was giant! And Neville wanted to kiss me and it his face was inches away from mine!"

Danielle said, "Yeah I'd be pretty grossed about that too."

"I know eh? And now whenever I see Neville I'm going to think about it!"

"Well…try not to." suggested Nehal

"But it's hard, I need some sleep…goodnight." Heather went back under the covers.

Nehal looked at Danielle.

Danielle replied, "We should let her get some sleep."

Nehal then walked over to the window. "Oh wow it's really raining hard outside."

Danielle went to stand beside Nehal. "Well at least it will be good for the plants and trees."

"Yeah but not good for us. There's nothing to do, since I had to cancel Quidditch practice!"

Danielle smiled. "I know what we could do!"

"Danie…"

"Let's have a party!"

"Right now, with the two of us?"

"No with the people that are in the common room. Come on it will be fun."

Nehal finally gave in. "Okay! Besides none of your parties are ever boring."

"That's the spirit Nehal!" Danielle and Nehal ran down the stairs to the Gryffindor common room.

Nehal saw Ron so she went over to go talk to him. "Haven't seen you much today."

Ron said, "Yeah, I know. Every time I get within about five feet of you-"

"Padma happens."

"Or Malfoy. You've been hanging out with him a lot."

"Yeah he's really wild. But those are loose ends that are all tied up now."

Danielle grabbed a bottle of fire whisky and walked into the center of the common room. "Listen up, everybody… it's time to play truth or dare. Or maybe just dare…" Danielle looked at Nehal and Ron. "Because nobody really tells the truth anymore." She turned around and spotted Hermione. "Let's see… Hermione, I dare you… to go pinch Harry's ass."

Hermione smiled, "Be right back."

Everyone laughed.

Danielle smiled and turned around to face Nehal. "Let's see…Nehal?"

Nehal said, "Danielle come on."

"I dare you to show us how you really feel. Kiss Ron."

Nehal looked embarrassed, but after a nod from Danielle, she eventually turned around and kissed Ron. Danielle smiled happily. Nehal finished the kiss and walked away, embarrassed. Ron turned to Nehal, then back to Danielle, who indicated to Ron to go follow Nehal.

Nehal paced back and forth in the Astronomy tower. Not exactly sure what she was doing there. She just really needed some time to think.

Ron saw Nehal doing this. "Hey."

Nehal looked up at Ron. "How did you find me?"

"Maurders Map." Ron held the map out for Nehal to see.

"Oh…right."

"So that was…"

"Yeah…"

"What was that exactly? A game?"

"Kind of." Nehal crossed her arms over her chest. "Not really. Want to play again?" She and Ron both laughed.

Meanwhile, in detention Jackie had her hair tied back in a messy ponytail, was on her knees cleaning the floor with a sponge.

"You missed a spot!" said a voice

Jackie looked up and saw Luna Lovegood.

"You missed a spot, right over there!"

Jackie wiped the spot that Luna was pointing to. "Better?"

Luna titled her head to the side, "You remind me of Cinderella."

"Eeeeeee, really I love Cinderella, but I like Belle from Beauty and the Beast better!"

Luna smiled. "You hanging in there?"

Jackie sighed, "I take it you've heard about my 3 week detention deal."

"Well, Professor McGonagall can crack the whip. I'm glad I'm not in Gryffindor…Ravenclaw is absolutely perfect for me, except for the fact that I don't fit in with anybody…"

Jackie bit her lip. She really didn't know what to say.

Luna watched Jackie scrub the floors for a little while, till speaking up and saying, "You're using a sponge to scrub the floor."

"Yeah I know, it's because I'm not allowed to use magic. Can you believe it?"

"And like I stated before you're using a sponge?"

Jackie looked at Luna, "Is that wrong?"

Luna laughed her shrieking laugh. Jackie covered her ears.

Luna walked kept laughing and walked over to retrieve the mop and Jackie stood up to see what she was doing.

"Okay, Jackie." Luna set the mop in front of her. "This called a mop."

Jackie looked at it quizzically. Even though she was a half-blood she hadn't seen the likes of a mop before.

However, Luna was very amused by this. She laughed again. "Use this!" Luna handed the mop over to Jackie. "Your job will go by much faster."

Jackie looked at the mop; it was just like a Quidditch broom. "Thanks Luna." She smiled at Luna.

Back with Nehal and Ron. They just stood there staring and admiring each other's features.

Ron said, "You know, I can't believe I'm gonna say this, but I'm glad we played a random game of truth or dare."

Nehal replied, "So, what do we do now?"

Ron sighed, "I don't know."

Nehal thought about what to do. She grinned at Ron "Come on."

Ron followed Nehal back to the Gryffindor common room. "What are you up to Nehal? Please tell me you're not going to be pulling another prank?"

Nehal walked up the stairs to the boys' rooms.

Ron blushed, "Er…Nehal?"

When they finally reached the 6th year boys' dorm room Nehal turned around and cupped Ron's face kissing him passionately. Nehal then started to kiss his stomach, taking off his robes and tie. (Eager, aren't we? LOL)

Nehal said, "Gosh Ron you must be so hot in these robes."

"Likewise." said Ron, helping Nehal get out of her robes. He then said, "I've wanted this for so long. I've even dreamt about it…"

Nehal gave him a weird look but then laughed, "Well looks like your fantasy dreams about me are going to come true Ron."

"No, no, no. I don't mean just that. I want this." Ron put his hand over her heart. "You know? I want to be here. I want to have everything with you. I want it all. I want us, Nehal."

Nehal backed away, leaving Ron confused.

"Hey what's wrong?"

"This isn't supposed to be that."

"Nehal-"

"Why couldn't you just leave it alone?" Nehal walked out of the room.

Back in the hospital wing, Luna lay in her bed, feeling quite tired from teaching Jackie how to mop floors.

"How are your friends?" asked Luna in a sleepy voice.

"Danielle and Heather are both good and Nehal…well she's just…just….doing stuff that kind of upsets me."

"Like drugs?"

"Oh no nothing like that…it's oh never mind."

Luna yawned. "How's Colt?"

"Colt?"

"Yeah I heard about your date yesterday. Ended up in chaos."

Jackie laughed. "Yeah"

Luna smiled and left her eyes closed, "He's a worthwhile guy."

Jackie laughed remembering what Luna had said the first time they talked, "He is. You were right and I was wrong. Like always."

"Not true."

"It is too true. I judge people without knowing them."

"But you changed your mind." Luna said her voice slow and drifting.

Jackie looked over at Luna, she looked like she was about to fall asleep any second.

"Thanks for sticking up for me, when your friend was making fun of me."

"Oh…Danielle's usually not like that. She was just pissed at Ian, so don't take it personally okay?"

"What about all the other people that make fun of me?"

Jackie really didn't know what to say so she changed the subject, "Alright then. Time for you to go to bed."

"Sleep is for the weak!"

Jackie rolled her eyes, "Whateves."

"I should clap you in irons, fool. Now will you please give me my pills?"

"Um…these ones?" Jackie said holding a bottle of pills.

"Yes those are the magical little devils that put me into a depression state. They help fight off the pain that your going through."

"Any kind of pain?"

"Yes, it will make you drift of into another world where there is no pain. I love wizarding pain killers."

Jackie then put the painkillers away in a shelf.

There was silence.

Luna said, "Did you know that your friend Nehal is dating your ex Draco Malfoy?"

Jackie turned around, "Say what?"

Luna smiled, "I'm pretty sure you heard me." Luna started to fall asleep.

"Luna!" yelled Jackie. She rushed over to her bedside. "Luna please…tell me more…I need to know what's going on between them."

"I…can't."

"Don't leave me here!"

"I have to…the pills are kicking in."

"Please gurlio…try to stay awake."

"I'm sorry." Luna fully closed her eyes and fell asleep.

"Noooooo!" cried Jackie. "I hate this world!" Jackie took a bunch of Luna's pills out of the bottle and looked at them in her hand. She then got a drink of water and swallowed the pills. She felt a sudden feel for relief. She then decided to chug all the pills. Jackie felt even more better, Luna was right as always. But then her head started to hurt and she felt dizzy. Jackie looked around and saw that everything was blurry. She started to sweat badly and pant. (Like Marissa on the O.C.)

(8) Now I will tell you what I've done for you. 50 thousand tears I've cried. Screaming, deceiving and bleeding for you and you still don't hear me. I'm going underrrrrrrrrrr (8)

Jackie walked along the corridors. Everything was blurry and all a she could make out were little shapes. Jackie groaned in agony. She leaned her head against a wall. She couldn't bare the pain much more. She started banging her fist against the walks hoping the pain would stop, but obviously it wouldn't. Jackie also didn't realize that someone could hear her.

Daryl was reading a book in the Gryffindor Prefects room when he heard banning against the wall. "Bloody hell! Can't a guy read in peace?"

Daryl then walked out of the prefects' room. "I'm gonna kill whoever is doing that…" He then saw Jackie banning her fists against the wall. "Jackie?"

Jackie looked and saw a blurry figure that resembled Daryl.

Daryl said, "What are you doing? Did something bad happen in detention?"

Daryl walked closer to Jackie but she backed away thinking that this blurry figure would hurt her. Daryl knew that something odd was going on since Jackie was usually always happy and cheery. He saw something poking out of Jackie's robes. "What's that?"

Jackie looked down and saw the pills poking out. She quickly stuffed them back in her robe pocket. She then put her hands behind her back like nothing happened.

Daryl started to become more suspicious. "Aren't you supposed to be in detention right now?"

Jackie slumped against the wall in defeat. "Daryl, if that is your name?"

"It is! Jackie are you okay?"

"Can you help me?" Jackie said timidly

"Come…" Daryl helped Jackie up and led her to the prefects' room and made her sit on an armchair. Jackie felt so comfortable she did not notice Daryl taking the pills out of her pocket.

Daryl examined the pills. "Why are you taking these?"

Jackie looked dazed and confused. "What are you talking about?"

"These." He held up the bottle. "There only supposed to be used for people who are in pain."

"I am in pain!" Jackie practically yelled. She suddenly came back to her senses and everything became clear again. "Whoa…that was weird."

Daryl walked off and got his handy therapist notebook and sat down across from Jackie. She laid back down trying to figure out if this was all a dream or not. "Jackie?"

Jackie looked at Daryl.

"Why are you in pain? Tell me how you feel."

"Why are you some kind of therapist?"

"Well, I want to be one when I'm older."

"Oh…I see."

"Jaxs tell me what's wrong. I want to help. I'm not going to tell anybody."

Jackie didn't know if she should tell Daryl what was going on. She still felt dizzy, so she wasn't really thinking clearly. "I don't know…"

"Come on you will feel better. Ever since you went psycho on Nehal at Quidditch practice, everyone on the team has been worried about you."

"No offense or anything Daryl, but it's really none of your business. And I've only told one person how I really feel."

"Who?"

"Can we please just drop the subject?"

"Did you tell, Nehal? Danielle? Heather?"

"Yeah." Jackie quickly covered her mouth.

"You told your friend Heather didn't you?"

"No...I was saying that I did tell someone but I just said yeah because…I was…imitating Lil' John. That guy cracks me up. I get so amped when I see him, you know? He's just full of energy." Jackie did an imitation of him. "Yeah. What? Okay." (Omg I love Lil' John)

Daryl rolled his eyes, "I have no idea who you're talking about, but tell me, what was going through your head when you decided to take those pills?"

Jackie crossed her arms over her chest. "I don't know what you're talking about!"

Daryl rolled his eyes, "Yes you do!"

"Um…no I don't."

"Okay let's go through this all over again. You were in detention and for some bizarre reason you decided to take these pills?"

"Yeah, that's pretty much it."

"No it's not. There's a whole huge chunk missing."

"Are we talking about cookies or about me?"

"About you! We're talking about you Jackie!"

"Well…let's talk about you then?" Jackie sat up straight. "Who do you like?"

Daryl just stared at Jackie.

"Okay so you don't want to talk about that…um…let's talk about Quidditch. Everybody loves Quidditch."

"I'll be back." said Daryl and he ran out of the prefects' room.

"Wait!" yelled Jackie. "You can't just leave me here! I'm not a perfect!"

"It's a prefect." said a Hufflepuff prefect.

"Whateves." Jackie laid back down on the couch again.

Daryl ran to Professor Snape's office (Which he always kept open) and quickly made a truth potion since Jackie wasn't going to tell him what was wrong. Once he was done making it, he ran back to the prefects' room being careful not to spill the potion. He saw Jackie reading a random book that was lying around on a table nearby. "It's a good book isn't?"

"Yeah it is."

"So then why are you reading the book upside down?"

Jackie looked at the front of the book. "Oh well what do you know, it is upside down. Silly me."

"Er…you want something to drink?"

Jackie still reading the book upside down said, "Yes please, I would like a cup of hot water."

Daryl held out the truth potion in his hand. "Here you go."

Jackie looked at the potion and wondered how he got it so fast. "Whoa that was quick."

"Yeah now, drink up!"

"That doesn't look like water!"

"Oh but it is…it's just this water isn't as good as the water you get in the great hall."

"Fine I'll drink it. I'm really thirsty anyways." Jackie took the potion and drank it.

Daryl sat back down and opened his notebook. "So do you want to tell me what's wrong now?"

"Well everything's wrong in my life right now. I'm such a mess. I mean ever since Draco and I broke up I can't seem to get him off my mind. I mean I'm constantly thinking about him 24/7 and now he's going out with Nehal? Its one thing for someone to say something to your face and then another behind your back. I would rather have them come clean and just tell me that there dating instead of what their doing now, sneaking behind my back, and thinking that a girl like me wouldn't' notice because I'm all about fashion and make-up…"

"Whoa slow down motor mouth."

"And now I'm hanging out with Colt because I know for a fact that Draco hates his guts so I'm trying to make him jealous, but I don't think it's working because he's so involved with Nehal that he doesn't realize that Nehal also likes Ron and that he likes her back…gosh does Nehal think I'm really that stupid? I swear sometimes she just thinks she's so much smarter then me just because she does her homework and studies for tests and stuff. She doesn't even know the real me…she thinks she does, but she doesn't."

Daryl said, "Okay…wow…so your dealing with relationship problems…it's not the end of the world…"

"True…but I miss Draco. I know he comes off as this arrogant bastard, but he is so fine! Draco Malfoy so hot right now! (Zoolander) He's sweet he's caring he's charming and I miss his smirk, omg his trademark smirk is too die for."

"Well I think today's session is over. If you would like, you can schedule another appointment with my secretary at the front desk on your way out."

Jackie sat up, "But you don't have a secretary."

"I know I'm just practicing so when I actually do become a therapist I'll be the best one that there is."

As Jackie walked out of the room she started to feel faint and dizzy. When she reached the corridors she spotted Roger Davies patrolling the hallways.

Roger said, "Hey at this hour you're supposed to be in your common room."

Jackie smiled at Roger. "Roger…Roger, Roger, Roger."

Roger said, "Oh, Jackie, Jackie, Jackie."

Jackie grabbed his Ravenclaw tie. "I'm fucked up. You'll do."

"Oh, oh, hey, er, it's quite an honor, but I got to be somewhere."

"Oh right you're a perfect!"

"Prefect actually. Anyway I should-"

"What's going on anyway? Draco doesn't want to go with me. Colt doesn't want to go out with me. You turn me down. Oh, my god! I got it! You're all gay. That totally explains it!"

Roger laughed, "Yeah, yeah, we are. We're actually-we're gay."

"Then what is it? Come on, you can tell me. I won't even remember tomorrow."

"You want to know?"

Jackie nodded her head eagerly.

Roger whispered in Jackie's ear. "The truth would kill your buzz." (Sorry One Tree Hill moment…been getting those a lot lately) Roger then walked away.

Jackie looked at Roger's back confused.

5 minutes Daryl went to go see if Jackie had made it back to the common room because she seemed kind of out of it. He noticed something on the floor. He knelt down and let out a sigh. It was Jackie and she was sound asleep.

A/N: Wow that was intense. Anyways the next chapter might be shorter than the rest of the ones that I have been posting. Find out if Jackie remembers what happened, if Danielle's plan to get Nehal and Ron together worked, will Nehal find comfort in Draco and will Heather get over the idea of boogers!