I apologize to everyone for the almost three week wait and the short chapter. I will explain in my author's notes.

Chapter Eight

Leaving the boys to get changed Hermione and Madi headed to the girl's washroom with their pyjamas tucked under their arms. "So?" asked Madi confidentially. Hermione sighed. She had known this was going to come up.

"So what?"

"You know," Madi was dying to know and her curiosity showed on her face.

"What about you?" Hermione asked quickly changing the subject.

"Me?" Madi blanched.

"Uh-huh, you and a certain boy. A boy named Harry."

Madi began to wring her pyjamas and glance around skittishly as if she could somehow escape. "How about we each tell each other after we hang out with the boys."

"Deal."

Unbeknownst to the girls, the guys were having a similar conversation.

"Spill Harry," demanded Ron.

"I actually agree with you on this, Ron," Scott said, "and Harry, what's going on with you and my sister?"

"Nothing."

"NOTHING?"

"Nothing…yet."

"I knew it," crowed Scott. "You better be nice to her," his voice took a serious tone. "I swear, if you do anything to her I will hurt you, bring you pain, you will wish you were in hell."

Harry visibly whitened then spoke to Ron, "I've met your soul mate. Here's a guy who's as over protective of his sibling as you are." Turning to Scott he asked, "Are you as over protective of Hermione as well as much as Ron is?"

"As well?" Scott was shocked someone else could be as protective of their friends and family as he was.

Harry told him, "You should have seen Ron in fourth year. He practically challenged this guy to a fight. I mean all Victor – that's the guy – had done was take Hermione to the Yule Ball."

"Hermione went with a boy to the Yule Ball!?!?" Scott roared.

I was right Harry thought to himself and began furiously muttering about "dunderheads who should mind their own business."

"Nothing happened between them," Ron quickly interjected but then realized he didn't know if anything had.

"No, we just danced." Hermione confided in Madi. "I mean he was a sweet guy and all but, there wasn't really a spark. Actually I guess I only did it to make Ron jealous, I had a bit of a crush on him."

"Really?" asked Madi feigning surprise. She had sensed that there was something Hermione wasn't letting on about Ron but wasn't quite sure of herself. As much as she would have loved to have Hermione as a sister-in-law Scott just wasn't right for Hermione. "I think he's kind of cute."

Hermione's head jerked around sharply and she stared accusingly at Madi. Her voice on the other hand came out as if she couldn't have cared less, "So you think you might like him?"

"Nah, but I think you might." Madi ducked quickly as Hermione sent a tube of toothpaste hurtling towards her.

The group came towards the chapel at midnight in their socks so as not to wake others up whose part of the vigil took place later that night. They silently made their way to the small room off of the large church and prepared to spend the next hour in prayer and contemplation. Settling down in the wooden pews none of the five teenagers looked at each other. They mutely prayed for world peace, the end of abortion, and aid for the sick. They thought about the past and what they had done to make a difference in the world and what they planned to do for the future. Near the end of their hour their reflections began to wander towards people and their feeling for them. Unfortunately, none of the tangled emotions were able to unravel themselves and they still remained oblivious to their true perceptions of the others were.

As they quietly shuffled out Ron whispered, "To the girls washroom."

Once the grey door of the bathroom was firmly shut Scott looked around in wonder. "I always supposed you'd have fluffy couches and plants and pristine towels." Hermione and Madi guffawed while Ron and Harry shared a smile. Scott turned around in the small, cubicle filled room. "What, didn't you guys think that?" he questioned Harry and Ron.

"Not since we were twelve, answered Harry.

"I don't want to know."

They pulled the towels, not quite as white as Scott had imagined them, off of the racks and placed them onto the linoleum floor. None of them wanted to sit on it directly. Leaning up against the wall Harry casually asked, "So, who's up for a game of truth or dare?" Everyone quickly agreed and as Harry had proposed the game he got to ask the first person. "Ron, truth or dare?"

Ron hastily answered, "Dare." He hoped that Harry would dare him to kiss Hermione.

"I dare you to drink water from the toilet." Ron frowned and looked dubiously towards the cubicle door. As he pushed the swinging door open his features hardened as his resolve grew. Determinedly he ducked his head into the bowl of the toilet and took a gulp. With a mischievous grin on her face Madi dashed forward, and pushed his face back into the toilet. She then pulled down the lever and held his head while the toilet flushed. Ron pulled his head out of the toilet allowing his soaking hair to plaster itself to his head. His face began to turn red until she let out a tinkling laugh.

"I've always wanted to do that, it's mean, I'm really sorry but ever since I read about it happening to kids and never actually saw it get done, I have had the urge to flush the toilet while someone's head was stuck in it. That was the first time the opportunity arose. I also have always wanted to cut off somebody's eyelashes when they were sleeping or maybe shave their eyebrows so don't take it personally." She gasped for air after this long-winded statement that she had delivered without a pause. Ron nodded slowly then asked,

"Madi, truth or dare?"

"Dare," she said defiantly praying that he wouldn't give her anything as bad as Harry had given him, but the choices were limited, being in a bathroom.

Ron was a nice person and had immediately forgiven Madi for her little stunt; he decided to play matchmaker, "I dare you to kiss Harry for three minutes in the boys bathroom."

Madi looked at Harry shyly then nodded towards the door. Once they were gone the boys and Hermione laughed, "three minutes!" exclaimed Hermione, I bet they'll be back in half-an-hour at the earliest."

"So, Hermione, truth or dare?" asked Scott.

Hermione paused, she had an inkling that Scott liked her and didn't want to be forced to kiss him. Slowly she formed the word, "truth" and spoke it aloud.

"Who do you like?"

Hermione stayed silent. She didn't truthfully know who she liked. If she said that they'd call her a liar and make her pick someone. She was attracted to the pair of boys but didn't want to pick either out and make the other jealous. "Draco Malfoy," she replied hesitantly then smiled brightly. "He's absolutely gorgeous and when he calls me a Mudblood it makes my knees go weak and I'd do almost anything to hear him say it again."

She wanted to give herself a cookie. Ron had this look of absolute disgust etched in his features and Scott's mouth was hanging open in shock. He had been sure she'd say him. Hermione knew she had done her job well and had thoroughly convinced the boys.

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A/N So there's the next chapter. There will be one more chapter after this dealing with 24 Hours of Hope, it was originally only suppposed to be one chapter but stuff just kept happening.

Please read the story Mage-Aurian 's story. It's on its first chapter and has a pretty good start.

I took so long to update because I'm working two jobs. Not by choice mind you. It was just that I didn't tell Laura Secord I got a job at Wal Mart until a week after I'd been working at Wal Mart and they wanted two weeks notice so I've been working every single night, plus my mom is insane and expects me to get really good grades, and I'm on Student Council, SHOUT, and am starting a United Way Chapter at our school. Plus, I'm Georgia' sister and she demands lots of attention.

I don't think anyone actually reads all this rambling because in your reviews nobody gave me a reason for Draco to hate the Weasleys, so please try to do so I have this great story idea. I will give you credit.

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Thank you balewilyiel, mage-aurian, angel-within, Jessica-McConell, GwEnEtH, cherokeegirl47, sakura1221, actionmaster, nichole-sumpter, dancerrdw, thehalfbloodprincess, kelsey, litakino22, ronsluvr, passionflower24, and timorous for your positive and encouragingreviews theymake my day.

kirstyn - you think these chapters are long? lol. Thanks for the review

jeaniebeanie33 - even if Alexis does belong with Draco he won't really be in the story except for the slight mention above

the-dark-rose-of-insanity - I'm glad you love the characters. Don't be scared, they're not actually real people, you probably misunderstood my author's note. The names are real but the characters are completely made up, I stole some situations from my life though, The Defenestrator, being taught how to paint, the old man....

kazz - Please give me constructive criticism if you want to say that I can't write. It's one thing to be told you can't write but if you can tell me how I can improve my writing that would be helpful

ruperts angel - yes she refers to them as servants, not slaves. She's not against servantsonly slaves, she has no problem with Dobby working to clean up after her.I kinda guess that she should be all against it urright, I didn't really notice when I was writing. I'll fix that in my master copy, just not on here. OLD MAN is super funny and real. And hilarious in reality.

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