DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING!!! Not a thing, except for Zach and Nikki, but Zach is based on a real person, so to you Zach, I give you credit for your name and for your impact on my life, it means the world to me.
Chapter 3
A New Year, A New Love
As Nikki made her way down to breakfast, she ran into Ron and Hermione.
" Have you seen Harry?" she asked them.
" Yeah, he left for breakfast about ten minutes before I did." Ron answered.
They continued on. As soon as they arrived, Harry handed everyone their schedules. They could not have had a worse Monday. Their first class was Double Potions with the Slytherins, followed by History of Magic with Hufflepuff, then Divination again with Slytherins. Also, they had Defense Against the Dark Arts. All had the same classes except for Hermione, who, instead of Divination, had Ancient Runes.
As soon as breakfast finished, the gang headed down to the dungeons, where the Slytherins were waiting for them. Luckily, Malfoy and his cronies were not there yet.
The minute Snape walked in the door, he deducted 5 points from Gryffindor just for having a disrespectful look about them. Snape seemed thoroughly pissed off at something. Probably for being passed up for DADA teacher. Again.
The rest of the classes that day were bearable. Defense Against the Dark Arts was amazing. Sure, Tonks was a bit of a klutz, but she was a great teacher.
The first day, the studied then attempted a Patronus. Of course, all of those who joined the DA were successful, even Neville. Everyone in the school instantly made her their favorite teacher...except for the Slytherins. Though, they didn't seem to mind her class too much. In fact, some seemed to enjoy it.
One night in the common room, a few weeks after Harry and Nikki got to know each other, they were working on their homework…like good students. Harry began to have some interesting thoughts. 'Damn, I never realized how smart, funny, and really pretty this girl is. She's not like other girls, and I like that. Oh man, I think I am falling for this girl. Hard. I have to have her. I have to make her mine. But she probably doesn't like me. How the hell am I supposed to find out if she likes me. Maybe Hermione would know. But where to find her. I suppose I could go ask Ron where she is.'
"Shit, Nikki, I left my book upstairs, would you mind if I go get it?""Sure, that's fine."
Harry rushed up the stairs and into his room. That was the last time he ever went into his room without knocking. Lavender was laying in Seamus's bed, topless, snogging Seamus himself. Harry's eyes went wide; he grabbed his wand and muttered a spell that shot out cold water onto the horny couple.
"WHAT THE?! HARRY!!!" Seamus shouted, trying to cover up his newest girlfriend. "I was having fun!"
"Sorry, but I really didn't think the other guys would like you shagging so close to bedtime. Besides, seeing as it is 10, the other guys will be coming to bed soon and you wouldn't want them looking at this lovely lady with no shirt on now, would you?"
"Good point."
Just then Ron walked into the room, luckily by this time, Lavender had already gotten dressed.
"Hey, Ron, where is Hermione? I need to talk to her." Harry asked.
"I'm right here, why?" Hermione spoke up as she appeared behind Ron.
" I have to ask you about something. Alone"
"Ok, let's go down to the Common Room." Hermione offered.
"No, we can't go down there." Harry replied rather quickly.
"Well, I need to go to the Common Room and get my things." Lavender said.
"And I will walk you there." Seamus cut in.
"And I am just gonna…go." Ron stated.
They then all left the room leaving Harry and Hermione alone. As Ron was walking out the door, he popped his head back in and said "Don't you go steal my girlfriend, or else I will Avada your ass."
"Don't worry, I just have to ask her something." Harry replied; and with that, Ron left the room.
"Ok Harry, what do you need?" Hermione asked, sitting down on Harry's bed.
"Do you know if Nikki likes me?" He asked.
"Aww, Harry's got a crush!" Hermione said in sing-song voice.
"HERMIONE! Please, I really like her and I need to know!" Harry said with a note of panic.
"Don't worry Harry, she asked me the same thing, she likes you too Harry. She even asked me what to do."
"Well, what did you tell her?" Harry asked.
"I told her to wait for you to come to you, so…get going. She isn't going to wait forever."
"You don't have to tell me twice."
A bit of a cliff-hanger there. Yes, I know that chapter was a bit short, they will get longer, I promise. Of course, I don't know who I am promising to. There are only like 3 people who even bother to read this. And to you who do…THANK YOU!!!
Ok, that's all, must get started on Chapter 4!