Chapter 24

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Tommy said, "Now Heather is gone with Neville. All my planning is complete! I'll ask her friends what she likes. All their secrets will be mine!"

"Tommy?" said Danielle

"Are you okay?" asked Nehal

"What are Heather's favorite foods?" asked Tommy

"Random!" said Nehal

Danielle said, "She likes pie. Any kind."

Nehal replied, "And chocolate and ice cream!"

Tommy looked disgusted, "I hate ice cream! What stuff does she like?"

"What is this about?" asked Danielle

"Iz amz planningz az surprise partyz."

"A surprise party!" exclaimed Nehal. "Ooo where?"

"The room of requirements, of course." answered Tommy. "Everyone can come…except Slytherins!"

"Why not!" whined Danielle. "At least Ian!"

"No I do not like Ian. He is mean."

"Only because you called him a borshka glutchtbez!" said Nehal

"Borshka glutchbez, good times. Oh yeah Neville is not invited either!"

"But he's Heather's girlfriend!" said Colin Creevy, eavesdropping.

"Boyfriend you idiot!" snapped Nehal

Colin took a picture and ran away. "Sanja, look what I got!"

Danielle said, "Can you please invite Ian. Please he's my boyfriend."

"Fine Ian, but no one else!" Tommy agreed at last.

"What about Mal-" Danielle started but got cut off by Tommy.

"Hey! I already agreed on one Slytherin!" snapped Tommy

"But-"

"No!"

"He's going to-"

"I said no!"

"I…have homework to do." said Danielle and dragged Nehal along.

"What?" said Nehal, after they were out of the crowd.

"Malfoy and Jackie!" Danielle said simply.

"She's pregnant with Ron's baby!" Nehal seemed mad at something or someone.

"Nehal…"

"Yeah?"

"Jackie would have shown signs of pregnancy by now! She's normal and still a virgin!" whispered Danielle

"You mean…Ron's not…" Nehal couldn't find the right words. Then she burst out, "Heather knows something and not telling?" Several people within earshot looked at them.

"Yeah…we need to find out for ourselves." said Danielle softly.

"Mm…right!" Nehal sank into an armchair and stared into the fire.

"You okay?"

"Too much noise here. I'm going for a walk." Nehal got up and walked out of the common room. Danielle sighed and went to go talk to Parvarti and Lavender.

Nehal walked around the grounds outside. Jackie had been avoiding her lately and she wondered what was going on with her. She had to find out somehow. Nehal had her head down and bumped into someone.

"There aint no man better meh!" said the person

"Er…" started Nehal

"Why hello Nehal, I was just thinking about coupons." said Daryl

"You remind me of Looney Lovegood."

Daryl laughed and he then said, "You look sad. Let's sit down, shall we?"

"Sure."

"Now let's discuss your feelings. I'm here to help!"

"Oookay, I think something's wrong with you."

"Hey I'm just trying to help you out here."

Nehal smiled, "Thanks."

"So…what seems to be the problem?"

Nehal scoffed, "Problem? I don't have a problem" She crossed her arms over her chest.

"Yes you do. Nehal you do have a problem."

"Okay now you're making me sound like I'm a freak or something?"

"Yeah except your not!"

"Well…I'm just kind of worried about Jackie. I mean I don't know what's up with her these days…I mean she's one of my best friends and now I hardly talk to her anymore."

"Oh…I see." Daryl remembered the conversation he had with Jackie last night.

"Thanks for bringing her back last night."

"No problem." Daryl paused. "Are you going out with Draco Malfoy?"

"What? No, no, no I am not going out with that Slimeball."

"Okay well I've noticed that you have been hanging out with him a lot. People are talking about you two. And someone believes the gossip…"

"Who?"

"Jackie."

"You mean…Jackie sees me talking to Draco, I mean Malfoy?"

"Yeah…" But before Daryl could finish Nehal ran to find Draco.

Heather and Neville came back to the common room all happy and laughing hysterically.

"Oh look there's Tommy!" Heather pointed him out.

Tommy was busy working away for Heather's surprise party in a table near the corner of the common room. He had all these papers spread around and had assigned different tasks to himself, Danielle, Nehal and Jackie who agreed to help.

Heather said, "Hey whatcha doing?"

Tommy tried hiding the papers, "Er…homework."

"Oh no I have to do my potions assignment!" said Neville. "Professor Snape is going to be so angry at me."

Tommy laughed, "I bet he will be."

Neville looked from Tommy to Heather and ran to the boys' dorm.

Tommy laughed again, "What a loser."

Heather crossed her arms over her chest.

"Hey I'm just doing my job!"

"What job? You have a job? Where do you work?"

"Well…it's not that kind of job…you see my job in this love triangle relationship is to try and win your heart over."

Heather smiled and pulled up a chair beside Tommy's. She leaned in and kissed him hard, without noticing that there were papers with her name written all over them. "I think you've already won it."

Tommy smiled and before you knew it the two of them were making out. Heather ran her fingers through Tommy's hair while Tommy had his hands on Heather's waist. All of a sudden Heather pulled back,

"What's wrong?" asked Tommy

Heather whispered, "Tommy, people are watching."

"Who cares?"

"But they could tell Neville about us."

"Well that's a good thing because then instead of you breaking his heart he'll just dump you and then I'll be the rebound boy who will pick you up and then we will start dating…"

"Tommy it's not that simple. I just…can't do this…its hard work being a P.I.M.P."

Just then Jackie walked in the common room, "Hey Heather, hey Tommy what are you guys doing?"

Tommy gathered up all the papers, "Nothing…"

Heather replied, "Actually we just finished making out."

"You know I really didn't need to hear that." Jackie walked up to the girls' dorm.

The next day, Danielle saw Ian at the Slytherin's Quidditch practice. She then ran towards Draco who was instructing them from the ground. "Hey Malfoy!"

Draco whipped his head around, "What are you doing here? You're not a spy for Pradhan are you?"

"Hell no! I just need to tell Ian something really important."

"Well he's practicing now…"

Just then Nehal came, "Hey Malfoy we need to talk."

Danielle said, "Hey Nehal what are you doing here?"

"Same reason why you're here."

"Why? You need to talk to Ian."

"No I need to speak with Dra- Malfoy it's urgent!"

Draco rolled his eyes, "Okay fine! Why don't we all just take a break and socialize!"

Danielle and Nehal kept their mouths shut.

Ian flew to the ground and hugged Danielle, "So what's up?"

"Uh…let's talk over there." Danielle said dragging Ian off.

Nehal looked at Draco, "And I need to talk to you."

"Is it about the other day?" questioned Draco

"It's about Jackie."

"Is she okay? What's up?"

Nehal smiled. She could tell that Draco really cared about Jackie. Not many people got to see that side of Draco.

"Calm down lover boy. Listen…I'm not sure if we can keep this up much longer."

"Keep up what?"

"This match maker thing."

"Why not?"

"Okay well first of all we're not making much progress on that and second of all people think we're the ones that are dating!"

"Dating? Who would think that?"

"Try the whole population of the student body!"

"Name some."

"Daryl Rest, the guy's who on my Quidditch team and…" Nehal hesitated. "Jackie."

"Jackie?"

"So, if you want to talk to me I think the best way possible is if we meet in the room of requirements."

"Good idea, now where did Smith go?"

Danielle said, "Omg Ian, guess what?"

"What?" asked Ian

"Tommy is planning a surprise party for Heather for her birthday next week and you're invited to come!"

"Oh…wow that's great."

"Yeah but you're the only Slytherin invited so you can't tell anybody else about it okay?"

"Don't worry I won't tell sweetheart." He kissed her on the cheek.

Danielle smiled. "Great! Now my new karma can get started."

"But I'm gonna miss your old karma."

"Ian, it's not going away, I just…I think we need to make a few changes in this very intimate relationship of ours that we have going on…bye boyfriend.."

Days had gone by and it was now Nov.7. The day before Heather's birthday. Tommy, Jackie and Danielle met in the room of requirements.

"We have to make this work!" yelled Tommy, pacing back and forth.

"Whoa calm down." said Danielle

"Just hurry up and finish writing the invitations! And I'm double checking, so don't try to give any to any other Slytherins."

Nehal burst in the room.

Tommy said, "Do you have it?"

"Yeah, I put in all the food and drink orders." answered Nehal

"Excellent!" said Tommy (Mr. Burns style)

"We've got cake…crunchy pie…iced tea…and ice cream"

"ICE CREAM!" roared Tommy. "How could you?"

"Heather likes ice cream!"

"Why, why!"

"Um…hi?" said Jackie

"Music and decorations! What's your theme?" asked Tommy

"I have a name." said Jackie. "Anyways, I think we should do an evil smiley face theme."

"Fool! It's wrong, all wrong!"

Nehal said, "Take a chill pill."

"Damn you –DAMN YOU ALL!" Tommy pounded his fist on the table.

"Oookay." said Jackie, "And we're going to play Get Right by Jennifer Lopez and…"

Tommy started twitching and muttering to himself.

"Maybe we should go…" said Danielle

Jackie, Danielle and Nehal ran away from Tommy.

"Jackie we can talk?" asked Nehal

"I have to go meet Colt." Jackie said quickly. "Sorry." But instead of seeing Colt, Jackie saw Luna Lovegood sitting by the oak tree where they first had their conversation.

Luna without looking up from the Quibbler said, "Fancy meeting you here."

Jackie sat down beside her. "How did you know it was me?"

"Because no one else talks to me."

"Oh…I was hoping you'd be here."

Luna looked at Jackie. "I'm here all the time. What do you wish to speak about?"

"Um, I actually need some advice, and I didn't have anybody to talk to. Usually I can handle this sort of stuff, but I um…um…am kind of in a jam right now."

(Some of this is from One Tree Hill and Cinderella story)

"Danielle's not around? Sorry. Where's the rest of your minions?"

"What Minions?"

"You're like the queen of the hive."

"I guess I have a lot of friends, but I can't really talk to them about this…jam."

"Okay, so what's on your mind?"

"Ever feel like you don't belong?" asked Jackie

Luna answered, "Everyday of my life. I can be surrounded by a sea of people, and still feel alone."

"Yeah like being yourself isn't good enough. Like your wearing a mask."

Luna nodded her head. "Hmm mm."

"And you just want to be honest with this person, but you can't…"

"Why not?" asked Luna. "Are you afraid to show people who you are?"

Jackie tucked a stray of hair behind her ear. "Sometimes. Especially with Draco because he's a pureblood and his father didn't approve of me because I'm a half-blood. His father didn't even get a chance to meet me you know…and I love hanging out with my friends, there so great and everything but again…I feel like life would have been so much simpler if I went to a muggle high school."

A/N: Ooo drama! Looks like Jackie and Luna are becoming good friends, Ian and Danielle seem like they'll be okay, Nehal wants to talk to Jackie and Tommy wants everything to be perfect for Heather's surprise party! Actually, the next chapter will be about her party and it's going to be a long one. Please review, thanks.