Disclaimer: Still don't own Harry or anything from the books cos if I did it wouldn't be on the net…
A/N: Hey everyone...sorry i've taken a while to update but i've been so busy...i've had exams for one week then i had work experience the next where i had to get up at 6 and didn't get home until almost 5 at night i was buggered ...anyway once again thanks for the reviews…you guys all had some really good ideas….
Sunday Morning, it rained, and Alex found herself waking up earlier than normal. Shivering she pulled her blanket off the bed and moved into the common room in search for her socks which she had lost the previous night, but to her surprise, she found Logan and Nicole both up, talking quietly on a couch.
Quietly Alex moved tried to move back into the dorm they were staying in, not wanting to disturb her two friends that was until she tripped over the end of blanket.
"Ow," she said as she picked herself up from the floor, "Um...sorry…I was just um looking for my socks." She finished as both of them looking at her, Logan blushing slightly.
She stood there for about five seconds, avoiding eye contact with Logan in fear of getting the giggles, "I'll think I'll just go back to bed…"
"Well, actually Alex, Logan was just telling me about your band, how come you never mentioned it before?" Nicole asked her, oblivious to either of the other two's behaviour.
Realising that Nicole wasn't going to let her go back to bed, Alex sat on the couch across from where the other two were sitting.
"I don't, know I guess I didn't find it important…" she trailed off.
"Not important?" Nicole exclaimed, "According to Logan here, music is your dream, you don't just give up on your dreams."
"Dreams can change," She replied, avoiding eye contact with Logan again.
After five minutes, a figure, which Alex recognised as Riley, came out of the boys dormitory sleepily wearing only his pyjama pants. Silently, not noticing the three sitting in the common room, he walked toward the bathroom.
"Morning," Alex called out, almost him from his trance.
"Uh…Morning," he replied sleepily before entering the bathroom.
A couple of minutes later, Riley emerged from the bathroom, completely aware that the three where waiting for him to come, and when he did he was greeted by laughter from his cousin.
"Riley?" Nicole giggled as he sat next to Alex, "Are those the pyjamas that Fred and George gave you last year for your birthday?"
"Yeah why?" He replied confused, looking down at his blue and green striped pyjama pants, "what's wrong with them?"
"Nothing, unless you do this," Nicole flicked her wand toward them, which had been sitting on the table.
At first, nothing happened, at least nothing Alex or Logan see, until Riley started to squirm in his seat, and then frantically scratched at his knee.
"Remember when they invented Ants Pants?" Nicole asked, laughing slightly, she flicked her wand again and slowly Riley stopped squirming.
Standing up he headed toward his room.
"Where you going?" Logan called after him.
"To burn these," He called back, as Nicole flicked her wand toward him again.
"Whose Fred and George/" Logan asked Nicole, as Alex watched silently.
"Their my uncles," she replied, placing her wand on the small coffee table in front of them.
"And they purposely give you presents like that?" He continued.
"Yup," Nicole replied, "Well not me, usually just Riley, Paul, and my brothers, it's funny though cos they tell me, Claire and Stef how to activate most of the charms on the new products that they don't know about."
As their conversation continued, Alex silently, and successfully got up from the couch with out either of them noticing, seeing Riley remerge once again, this time from his dorm, now fully dressed, she quickly grabbed his wrist pulling him into the nearest room, where they wouldn't disturb Nicole and Logan. That room just happened to be the bathroom.
"Alex, what are we doi-" He cut himself off, grabbing the back on her pyjama top as her foot slipped against both, the tiles and her blanket that was still wrapped around her.
"Gee thanks, Potter, my hero," Alex grinned, as she sat on the edge of the bath.
"So why are we in here?" He asked, yawning, sitting across from the bath, and leaning against the vanity cabinet.
"Well, Nicole and Logan are talking," Alex simply replied, moving so that she too was sitting on the bathroom tiles, leaning against the bath.
"Yeah and?" He looked at her.
"And I thought we should give them privacy." She replied, poking his leg with her foot.
"So you thought you'd hideout in the bathroom?" He asked, poking her back.
"Well no, I was going to sneak back to bed, but you came out and well I couldn't let you interrupt them," She replied, grinning again.
"This coming from the girl who got mad at Draco Malfoy for trying to play Matchmaker, for her," He smirked.
"Hey, I never said I was mad at him," Alex protested, fiddling with the hem of her pyjama top, "I just asked you what you wanted to do about them."
"Oh right," He replied, "you know, I never got around to telling Draco that we knew,"
"Why not?" Alex asked, her eyes filled with curiosity, she dropped the end of her pyjama top and moved forward slightly, as if she was afraid she wouldn't hear his answer.
"I don't know," He shrugged, " if figured if we ignored them they might've just dropped it."
"Oh right," Alex said smirking, "or were you afraid to confront the little blonde prat?"
"No. I'm not scared of draco, or anyone else for that matter," He replied, "Plus he's not really a prat, not when you get to know him."
"You see, that's where you're wrong, I'm pretty sure he really is a prat," Alex said back.
'That's because you don't know him, the real him," Riley said, rolling his eyes.
"What's there to know?" Alex interrupted sarcastically, "he thinks he's better then everyone."
"Well, obviously it's not use me explaining it to you, since all your going to do is interrupt me…" Riley trailed off, his tone ending the discussion.
"Fine," Alex replied, sitting back against the bath.
"How long have they been in the bathroom now?" Georgie asked as she emerged from the girls dorms with Nicole, both now fully dressed.
"Um, about an hour I think," She replied.
"And they're in there why?" Georgie asked confused, as she sat on the couch next to her brother.
Nicole looked at Logan and he looked at Georgie shrugging, "Why does Alex do anything?"
"I bet it's so she can finally snog him," Draco interrupted, looking up from his game of chess with Sam, before Georgie could reply.
"Draco, can't you just them alone, their friends," Sam said as her king took out his queen.
"Friends, my arse," Draco replied.
The five of them sat there in silence, thinking about what draco had actually said.
"You know, draco might actually be right," Georgie finally said.
"What?" Logan asked, shaking his head at his sister, knowing that she was right.
"Well, has anyone actually been in there to talk to them?" She asked, looking at them all, shake their heads, "Okay, I'll be right back." She disappeared through the common room door.
Minutes later, she returned to the common room, with a jug of water in one hand a glass in the other.
"Drink this," She said handing both to Draco.
"What…. No…. Why?" He asked, taking neither the glass or the jug.
"Well you're the one who seems to think their doing god knows what in there, so you're the one who's going to find out," She said simply, filling the glass with water.
"So what's the water got to do with anything?" He asked, slightly confused, and dreading what he may or may not see.
"Well, if you drink it all then you'll need to use the toilet, meaning that's the reason why you're going in there," she said shoving the glass in his hand.
"Can't I just go in there with out the water?" He said standing up, not waiting for a reply, headed straight toward the bathroom.
Alex and Riley were both still in the same positions, her leaning against the bath, him opposite her against the vanity cabinet. Neither were talking to each other, Alex mad that he kept trying to prove her wrong, Riley mad because she kept interrupting him.
Arrgh…this is so uncomfortable, Alex tough, shifting her body so that she wasn't sitting so straight back against the back, they better have done more than bloody talk out there. Sighing, she shifted back to her first position, accidentally kicking Riley in the foot.
"What the hell was that for?" He asked.
"It was an accident," She replied icily, as the bathroom door opened.
Draco walked in, pretending not to notice the two sitting on the tiles. Standing up, Alex pushed her way past Draco and out into he common room, if he's up, then they would have stopped talking now, she thought, stopping, when she saw the four in the common room looking at the bathroom door. Quickly they all turned away when Alex appeared, Georgie and Sam seemed to be in a conversation about make up and Logan appeared to be showing Nicole what he was writing. Something Alex noticed immediately as this was something he never did. He didn't even let Amelia read his notebook when he went out with her.
With out saying a word, she made her way into her dorm.
"What did I interrupt something?" Draco sneered, as Riley stood up.
Ignoring him, he moved toward the door.
"Um hello? Are you even listening t me?" Draco asked, stepping in his way.
"What?" Riley asked.
Staring at the blonde boy, Riley suddenly felt a flash of anger, but without saying a word, he pushed past him and disappeared through the common room door.
Alex emerged from the girls dormitory, (wearing jeans and a bright blue t-shirt for those who were wondering), to find both Logan glaring at Draco, with Georgie, Sam and Nicole avoiding the two of them.
"What's going on?" Alex asked, sitting on the couch between the other two Hogwarts girls. Both of who just shrugged in reply.
"Hey, do you guys still go to the practise room on Sunday afternoon's?" She asked Georgie, drawing her attention away from the magazine she was absorbed in.
"Uh…what? Yeah," The blonde replied, glancing at her watch, "Actually, I, um have to go to the library first, so I'll see you there in about half an hour," she absentmindly wandered out of the common room, leaving her brother with the four Hogwarts students.
"Where'd Georgie go?" Logan asked as he picked his notebook up off the table, Draco sitting opposite smirking at the other boy's back.
"The library…apparently," Alex said, raising her eyebrows at the boy, "where are you going?"
"The practise room, I told Brian I'd help him with some new music, later," He too began to exit the common room.
"Logan, wait," Alex called, jumping up, "um, I mean, can you take Nikki up there, I, um I have to go see my mum and dad, and Sam and Draco wouldn't be that interested."
"Actually-" Draco cut himself off when Alex gave him the granger Death stare.
"Um, okay. If she doesn't mind sitting through me and Brain go through music notes," Logan replied, stopping near the door.
"I'm sure she'll be fine," Alex smiled, pulling the slightly shocked Nicole out of seat and pushing her toward the door.
Once she had watched them leave, Alex too made her way toward the door.
"Oy, Granger, where are you going?" Draco yelled after her.
Turning around, Alex gave Draco a smirk to rival the Malfoy one, " I don't really think that's any of your business Malfoy. Sam if you go to the eighth floor, there's a room with a silver door, go there in about half an hour."
After Riley exited the common room, he just continued walking, unsure of where he was going, only aware that he was going up.
After fifteen minutes of walking Riley found an unlocked door, that led to the roof of Fascino Quas. Here he found a courtyard, which gave him an almost perfect view of the city. Almost as perfect as the view the astronomy tower gave him.
It would be perfect if she was here, Riley thought, Arrgh why did I have to snap at her, she's right anyway Draco is a prat. But no I couldn't let her be right.
Sighing he sat on a small bench, between two trees, which were obviously magically grown since there was no soil up here.
Ten minutes went past, as Riley sat in what would have appeared to some one watching him as peaceful silence. Inside however, it was not so peaceful, as he continued to wrestle with his feelings toward the brunette.
"You know, generally when people sigh a lot it means they have a problem,' Her voice came from behind him.
Riley turned to see Alex standing there grinning at him, when her facial expression changed from a grin to a look of concern, her brown eyes searching his own green ones.
"Riley, what's wrong?" She asked, sitting on the bench nest to him.
"Honestly?" he asked.
"Honestly…" she repeated, continuing to search his eyes.
"Well, I have a problem…." He trailed out, looking out to the city.
"Well, that's obvious," Alex stated, all trace of sarcasm gone from her voice, "what is it?"
'Well, I like this girl she's smart, obnoxious, gorgeous…" He trailed off again, unsure as to whether to reveal his feelings for her, to her.
"So, what's the problem," her voice sounding small.
"I don't think she likes me back," Riley said calmly, avoiding her gaze.
"Have you asked her?" She asked.
Finally Riley looked at her, and noticed a smile playing on her lips. She knew.
"um, well you see," He stopped.
Moving closer to him, she pulled a stray hair behind her ear and kissed him gently on the lips.
"If you never asked, then you'll never know," she whispered into his ear playfully, before standing up.
Slightly in shock, Riley watched her walk toward the door back into the building.
"Are you coming?" She asked, turning back toward him, pulling the door open.
He stood and followed her quickly into the hallway.
Walking side by side, Alex gently slipped her hand into his, their fingers entwining, as they made their way down the hallways.
A/N: ok there's the next chapter…yes I know I can't believe, she made the first move! Haha…I was actually going to wait until the dance until I got hem together but I couldn't help my self…also I know there is no Hermione/Blaise stuff in this chapter and there probably won't being the next chapter either, I want to wait until they get back to Hogwarts until I continue with them….
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