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Chapter 5 – Pre-Feast Happenings

The next morning, Harry was awoken by the sound of whistling. He opened his eyes and saw Rhoetta with another tray of food. He drew back the translucent curtains and watched her as she whistled and danced in his room. After a few moments, she stopped and walked over to the table beside Harry's bed. She set the tray down on the table. At this moment, Harry decided to let her know that he was awake.

"You really should go professional," he said sincerely. Rhoetta gave a loud shriek and jumped in surprise. She put her hand over her heart and looked at Harry, who was grinning from ear to ear.

"Prince, Tjaroy," she gasped. "You gave me a fright!"

"Sorry," Harry said.

"Did you really see me…" she cut off and motioned to the place in the room where she was dancing.

Harry nodded. "Yes. And I thought you were rather good, if I do say so myself."

Rhoetta blushed. "Thank you," she muttered.

"No problem," Harry smiled. She smiled back. He reached out and brought the tray over to rest on his knees.

"Thanks for breakfast, by the way."

Rhoetta curtseyed. "I will leave you in peace, my Prince."

She left the room. Harry sighed and ate his breakfast, which consisted of bread, fruit and water (again).

After he had finished, he got washed and dressed, then decided to head over to Draco's room. Which, when he entered the room, he decided was a bad idea. Draco was still sound asleep in his large bed. Harry walked over and carefully drew back the curtains so he could see Draco. He looks so peaceful when he sleeps, Harry thought. He looks much more human without his trademark smirk.

For the next hour or so, Harry just stood there watching Draco as he slept, every so often eying the tray of food on the bedside table hungrily, which had being brought by Kara half an hour earlier, who, to Harry's amazement, hadn't being surprised that he was there. Harry was about to leave, thinking that Draco wouldn't be awake for a while, when Draco's eyes opened, his silver ones locking with Harry's emerald ones.

Harry gulped. He wasn't sure what to do. Was it wrong of him to come in here? Would Draco yell at him and ask why he was invading his privacy? He was about to say something, when Draco bet him to it.

"Hi," he croaked simply.

Harry smiled as his veins flooded with relief. "Hi."

Draco pushed himself until he was sat upright. "What are you doing here?"

Harry shuffled his feet, feeling embarrassed. "Erm, well I just came in here to see if you were awake. I thought that maybe you and I could, you know, do something together today?"

Draco couldn't help but notice how cute Harry looked when he was blushing. To him, though, that thought was a little scary. "Yeah, ok. I'd like that." He smiled.

"Well, er, ok then. I'll just, you know, wait in my room while you get dressed and stuff." Harry said, while backing away slowly towards the doorway. Draco watched him go. He found it strange that Harry was suddenly acting all shy around him. That had never happened before. He sighed. He was getting rather confused. Since he had been spending more time with Harry without fighting, he had started to notice a few things. Like how cute he looked when he blushed. And the way he ran his hand through his hair, making it look even messier, but a lot sexier. The way his eyes sparkled when he laughed. Even the small things such as when he bites his lip when he's nervous. And Draco couldn't deny how perfect Harry's body was. His strong, muscled legs, his broad shoulders, his hard six-packed chest…

Draco groaned. Oh shit, he thought. Now I have a bloody hard-on!

He slowly brought his hands down beneath the covers towards his aching manhood. He closed his eyes and pleasured himself while thinking of Harry. When he had finished, he got dressed, ate some breakfast (same as yesterday) and headed over to Harry's room. When he entered, he saw Harry sat on his bed, eating an apple. He looked up, and at the sight of Draco, he patted the spot next to him, signalling for him to sit. Draco obeyed, and sat as close to Harry as he could without making himself seem obvious. Harry finished eating his apple, and the two boys just sat there in a comfortable silence. At long last, Draco decided that sitting there quietly and not doing anything was not very productive.

"So what do you want to do then?" he asked.

Harry shrugged. "Dunno. How about you?"

"Anything, as long as it's something."

"Well I don't know what there is to do around here," Harry said.

"Neither do I. But there must be someone who does."

Draco looked at Harry. Harry looked at Draco. They both grinned, and said at the exact same time, "Hetti!"

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Hetti wasn't as surprised to see the two boys as they thought she would be, although at first she couldn't think of anything they could do. Harry and Draco stood there, begging and pleading her to think of something. In the end, she suggested they go swimming in the pool located in the Palace. So they did. But it was awkward at first. To start off with, their swimsuits were rather uncomfortable, and Harry had a hard time convincing Draco to wear the girls' one that he refused to be caught dead in.

"But no one is even going to see you!" Harry had exclaimed, feeling rather impatient.

"You and I will have to see it!" Draco had whined. "And that's two people too many in my opinion!"

They argued for at least fifteen minutes, and finally, Harry made a compromise.

"Well, just wear the bottoms, then," he suggested, while sliding into the water. "And you'd better hope no one comes in here. I don't think they'd like seeing a topless Princess."

Draco took off the top part of the swimsuit and joined Harry in the large pool. "I beg to differ," he stated smugly. "I'm sure anyone would want to see this princess topless. She's a very good-looking woman. Nice body, too. I'd definatly want to shag her." He paused. "Well, I would if I was straight."

Harry looked highly surprised. "You're gay?"

Draco smirked. "Oh, sure. Didn't you know?"

Harry shook his head. "I'd always had my suspicions, though," he confessed. "But I never knew it was true."

"Really?" Draco smirked again. "I thought everyone knew. I was sure you'd be one of the first to know. It was the perfect excuse to torment me."

"How could I torment you when I'm the same myself?" Harry asked.

Draco's eyes almost bulged out of his head. "No way!"

Harry nodded. "Way."

"I can't believe it," Draco said. "The boy who lived is gay. How come I didn't know about this? There's a weekly gay's meeting, and Harry, well, you're never there."

"Actually, I've only come out to my friends," Harry blushed. Then a smile formed on his face. "And is there really a weekly gay's meeting?"

Draco laughed. "Of course. I thought every gay knew about it."

"Not me," Harry said. "But as I said, I've only just come out to my friends."

"So how did they take it?" Draco asked.

"Better than I expected, actually." Harry said. "Hermione was thrilled. She loves having someone to talk to about all the fit guys in school. Who knew that every girl wants a gay best friend?"

"I did," Draco said. "When Pansy found out she hugged me so hard I couldn't breathe, and kept going on about how we can go shopping together, do each other's hair and shit like that. I told her that just because I gay it didn't mean I wanted to do girly stuff."

Harry nodded. "I know what you mean."

"So how did Weasley take it, then?" Draco asked.

Harry sighed. "At first, terribly. He refused to talk to me for days," he said. "Luckily, Hermione had words with him, and he's ok with it now. I still think he's a little suspicious, though. It's as if he thinks I'm going to maul him, or something. Even though I made it perfectly clear that I would never go for him."

"I should think not, " Draco said.

"Would you?" Harry questioned innocently.

Draco made a disgusted face. "Are you kidding?" he said, appalled, and scrunched up his nose. "I would never go for ginger!"

Harry laughed. "And why not?"

"Come on Potter, that's just sick! Besides," he gave a seductive smirk. "I go for the dark haired type."

And with that, he swam off towards the deeper end of the pool.

Harry blinked. Did he just say what I thought he did? He thought. And was he flirting with me?

Harry looked over at where Draco was, who, as if he felt Harry's eyes on the back of his head, turned around.

"I wish you'd stop staring, Potter!" he yelled, and flipped him the finger.

Harry shook his head. Nah, he thought, and swam after Draco with a scheming look written all over his face.

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The whole class looked at her with high anticipation.

"And what exactly, Miss Granger," Snape sneered. "Are we waiting for?"

"To see if they wake up on their own, of course," she said. "We don't know what the potion they made does, so maybe they've just passed out and will wake up sometime soon."

"But they've been out cold for over half and hour!" Seamus exclaimed. "Surely if they'd only passed out then they'd have woken up by now?"

"Well as I said, we don't know what effects the potion has. Maybe they will wake up, but it might take hours, days, weeks, even months." Hermione explained. "We don't know for sure. So I suppose we can only wait and see."

Ron panicked. "But we can't just leave them, and not do anything!" he cried. "There must be something we can do that might bring them back!"

Hermione looked thoughtful. "Well," she said. "I could do some research in the library. Maybe it will have some books on Potions that went wrong, and how to correct them." She looked at Snape. "But I might need to search the Restricted Section. I'll need Professor Snape's permission to do so."

Everyone looked at Snape with pleading looks in their eyes. He sighed loudly.

"Oh, very well," he said. "I think that maybe we should all do some research to try and help."

The students looked excited that they are able to help.

"Although," Snape muttered. "I don't know if we should help Potter, as I'm sure it was all his fault."

The nearby Gryffindors scowled, whereas the Slytherins gloated.

"So what are we supposed to do now, Professor?" Pansy Parkinson asked in her sickingly sweet voice.

"Leave your bottled up potions on my desk, then get out of my sight," Snape barked to the class.

"But what about those two?" Blaise asked, nodding towards the unconscious bodies.

"You don't have to worry about them," Snape assured. "Just leave them to me."

Barely satisfied with his answer, the class all filed out of the Potions lab, while noisily chatting about what just went on, and what they thought had happened to Harry and Draco.

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"You have got to be kidding," Draco said with distaste a few hours after leaving the swimming pool. "You must be out of your mind if you think I'm going to wear that!"

Harry and Hetti sighed. They had been trying to find something for Draco to wear to the feast that he will actually agree to, with no success. They had to make their way there in less than an hour, and Harry and Hetti had been ready for ages. Now there was only Draco to attend to. Which was proving to be a difficult task, mind you.

Hetti held up said clothing. "What's wrong with it?" she asked.

Draco was fuming. "What's wrong with it? WHAT'S WRONG WITH IT?" he glared at the long, pink tunic-like dress held in Hetti's hand. "How can you expect me to wear this? It's so…so…so…"

"Gay?" Harry offered innocently.

"Exactly!" Draco exclaimed with relief, until he saw Harry's face and realised what he'd said.

"Er, no, not gay! I mean…er…well it is a girl's dress…" he babbled.

Harry was trying to suppress his laughter. Seeing his face, Draco scowled. He grabbed the dress from Hetti's hand and threw it on the bed. "Fine!" he said angrily. "I'll wear the sodding dress. But don't expect me to like it one little bit!"

"Don't worry Draco," Harry grinned. "I didn't expect you to."

Draco made a rude hand gesture, and then disappeared behind the dressing curtain put up next to the bed. He quickly put on the dress, muttering quietly to himself about how he had no breasts to support it, and emerged from behind the curtain into Harry and Hetti's full view.

Harry nearly laughed out loud. The dress surprisingly did actually fit Draco, but it did not suit him at all. Draco, pulled together with a girl's dress, was the weirdest combination he'd ever seen. Harry stepped towards Draco with his hand over his heart, and said dramatically "Oh, my dear princess! You look beautiful! Just the sight of you makes me go weak at the knees!" He wrapped his arms around himself and edged closer. "Hold me Princess! Let me love you all night!"

He burst out laughing, and Draco gave him a playful shove on the arm, making him laugh harder. Draco looked at Hetti, who nodded, signalling it was time to go. The three of them exited Draco's room, Harry and Draco following Hetti down the corridor.

"Don't look so sulky," Harry said with an unrecognisable glint in his eyes. "I think that dress makes you look sexy" He winked and patted Draco's bum, then went to catch up with Hetti. Draco sighed. He didn't know what else was going to happen. And he didn't want to. But he knew that it was going to be a long night.

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Ok, there you have it! Chapter five! I know it took a little more time to post, but I kind of had a bit of writers block, and I didn't know what to write! But that's over now. The next chapter will be the feast, and I know what I'm writing for that hehe. So stay tuned. The next chapter might get posted in about 2 weeks, it depends. Oh, and please review, I love to hear what you guys think! Bye for now...