A New Mind in a New Place
Chapter 2-Exploring
"Hey Harry, what's up?" James walked into the room and plopped down on the couch next to the rather nervous green-eyed Gryffindor. "What'cha watchin'?"
"Something called The Rock Countdown on Mtv2."
"Really? That's one of my favorite shows. Oh, this is one of the best music videos, Breaking Benjamin with Sooner or Later. I just love it."
They sat in silence while the music video ran. Hermione, Ron, Draco, Eliot, Paige and Lydia walked in just as it ended.
"Was that Breaking Benjamin?" Paige asked sitting down next to James.
"Yeah you just missed it."
"That sucks, I really like that music video. The lead singer is totally gorgeous."
Eliot rolled his eyes at the statement.
"Hey since the shows over, power off, let's play truth, dare, double dare or choose." Lydia offered.
"How do you play that?" Hermione asked interested at the sound of the new game.
"Paige."
"Ok, have you guys played truth or dare before?"
"Yeah."
"It's like that only, we each get three chickens. You can only use chickens on truths or dares and once you run out that's it until everyone runs out. You can't back out of a double dare or choose. With choose you are given two dares and you have to choose which one you want. Every one got it? Good, Kaleb, t, d, double d or c?"
"Truth."
"Oh, you're no fun. Are you still a virgin, if not who, where and when?"
"No, Morgan, party and the summer after 9th."
"Oh, scandalous Kaleb," Lydia practically cackled.
"Ok, Lydia t, d, double d or c."
"Choose, I'm not a wuss, like you."
"Ok, captain bravery, choose between macking Harry or Draco for 7 seconds."
"Oh-kay, let's see here, Hermione, could you offer advice."
"Sorry, hun, I haven't ever kissed Malfoy, though he is good by reputation."
"Good enough for me, I choose Draco."
He rolled his eyes; he hadn't had very good experiences with girls. He had decided to see if boys offered anything better. In fact, he had secretly been hoping that he and Harry would be dared to kiss. The kiss was over in a flash and now it was Lydia's turn.
"Harry, t, d, double d or c?"
"Ok, I'm a wuss so truth."
Lydia grew a devious smile and leaned in Harry's direction, "Are you," pause for effect, "strait or gay and how did you find out? Tell us some of your past girl/boyfriends."
"I…think I'm…bi. I went out with this girl, Cho Chang, but it…didn't work. I kinda decided that I might check out blokes, since I have a major girl problem."
"Cool," Paige said. "It's your turn, Harry."
Lydia and Paige have a huge thing for guys who are bi, and every one knew it, except for Harry.
'He's bi, maybe I have a chance then,' Draco thought as a smile graced his pale lips.
"Draco, t, d, double d or c?" Harry asked, having spied the blonde's smile at his confession.
"Truth."
'OMG, I would have thought that Draco would want to appear strong in front of new people, and therefore chosen dare, oh well.'
"Are you strait or gay?"
Draco had been hoping that someone would ask him that. "I'm also bi. Not having good experiences with girls tends to convert one."
Paige and Lydia exchanged excited glances. Two new, hot, bi boys! Could life get any better?
"Ok Eliot, t, d, double d or c?"
"Choose, I want to see what you can come up with."
"Hmm…Choose between…macking Hermione for ten seconds or…Paige for ten."
"I choose Hermione."
Eliot stood up from behind Paige, walked over to Hermione and ended up kissing her for around fifteen seconds. It would have gone on longer if Hermione hadn't pushed him away.
"What the hell? The dare was for Ten seconds not thirty. I also have a boyfriend and, by the looks of it, you used too have a girlfriend!"
"What d'you mean by used too?"
"Look for yourself."
Eliot turned his head to where he and Paige had been sitting together a moment ago, the chair was empty now.
"What?" Eliot stood up with a confused look on his face. "Where'd she go?"
"It's about fucking time she dumped you!" Lydia spat at Eliot as she ran out the door after Paige.
Eliot dashed out the door after them and every one could hear raised voices coming from the barely cracked door.
"Well, perhaps we should call off the game since I'm the only girl left," Hermione said.
"After one more dare, Mione," Ron said, a mischievous look creeping into his eyes. "Harry, I double dare you-"
"I didn't choose double dare, Ron."
"So? This is the last one for the day. I double dare, that means you can't back out, you to kiss James. On the lips mind you."
"Ok, you had me worried there mate, I thought you were going to do something evil."
Harry turned to James and kissed him lightly on the lips.
"I think we should go to dinner." Draco hissed through clenched teeth. However he made no inclination to get up, he just sat in his armchair and glared daggers at James.
"I'll show you guys the way."
James stood up slowly and walked dreamily towards the door with Harry right next to him.
"Don't kill him Draco, it was only a kiss," Hermione said lowly as she and Ron passed him on their way out. Draco slowly rose from his chair and stalked off after the others.
"This is the dinner hall," James said with a big gesture as they entered the cafeteria.
They choose a big round table in a corner and James took Harry, Ron and Hermione to get some food. Draco stayed, having suddenly lost his appetite. He was muttering something about some stupid little twit who should keep his hands to himself when they got back.
"Eyeing someone already, Draco? Tell me who it is, I can tell you if they're available."
Draco just grunted as James attention suddenly went from Draco to a very good looking boy, with shaggy brown hair, brown eyes and a leather jacket, who had just walked through the door.
"If you'll excuse me for a second, I have some business that needs attending."
He shot out of his seat and headed towards the good looking boy, with a rather mischievous look gracing his features. As they turned to head back to the table Harry realized who the boy was, sure enough when they reached the table, "Hey guys, I want to introduce Sameth. Sameth this is Harry, Ron, Hermione and Draco. They're the exchange students from London."
Sameth and James sat down between Ron and Draco. Harry could see Sameth inspecting Ron, Draco and himself, 'Probably trying to figure out which one of us is more likely to take James from him,' Harry thought to himself. The only newcomer that Sameth was nice to was Hermione and Harry surmised that it was because she was a girl. Throughout the entire meal Sameth held onto James tightly and if any guy got to close they were sure to get a growl. James, of course, calmed him down easily with a soft kiss on the cheek. A reassurance that no guy was about to take him from Sameth.
"So, how are you guys liking Sadian Academy so far?"
"Oh, it's positively brilliant," Hermione replied. "However, I wasn't expecting so much drama so soon."
"What do you mean by that? It's actually been pretty calm today."
"Not up in our room. Eliot, was it, and…Paige? Well they had kind of a spat."
"Did she finally dump that loser, or did he dump her?"
"She dumped him because he took a dare too far," James decided to contribute to the conversation.
"Oh, great, what'd he do this time?"
"He kissed Hermione well after when he should have stopped, and in front of Paige no less."
"I always told her that he was no good for her and she should go out with that black haired guitarist."
"Paul?" They herd a voice ask from behind them.
Lydia, Rose, Jordan, Steph, Kaleb and Miranda were standing a few feet from the table.
"Funny you should mention him, we, Paige and I, bumped into him in the hallway as Paige was crying her eyes out. He was really sweet though her comforted her and offered to take her to her room, since he wasn't coming to dinner anyway," Lydia explained as she took an empty seat next to Hermione.
Every one else sat down and Sameth gave Lydia a look that said I-can't-believe-you-let-him-escort-her-to-her-room-alone.
"What, he said he wanted to help and he wasn't coming to dinner anyway."
"You left Paige alone with a boy that she likes and she's extremely distressed! And he's a guy!" Kaleb said, the same look placed upon his fine features.
"Yeah. Oh come on, he won't try anything! He's better than that, see here they come now."
Sure enough Paige and a, rather good looking, tall boy with jet black hair walked through the doors and started towards the table.
"Well you look considerably better." Lydia said a questioning look on her face.
"I feel considerably better. Paul did a great job of cheering me up." Paige and Paul sat down between Lydia and Kaleb. "Oh, Paul, you haven't met the exchange students yet have you?"
"No I haven't."
"Well, this is Harry, Draco, Ron and Hermione. Harry, Draco, Ron, Hermione this is Paul."
"You hungry, Paige?" Rose asked. "Cause I'm gonna go get in line, wanna come?"
"Sure, crying really takes it out of me."
At that Paige and Rose stood up and walked over to the food line.
"So, why is this Eliot guy so bad?" Harry asked, genuinely curious.
"He's just been playing a lot of stupid games with Paige all year and she still likes him. Well, maybe this will keep her away from him."
"So, who wants to beat the shit out of him?" Sameth asked, seriously.
Lydia, Kaleb, and Paul all raised their hands.
"We shouldn't though; Paige would be so pissed if we did." Lydia said shaking her head and putting her arm down.
"Then can we at least give him a good scare?" Sameth suggested.
"Oh, I'm totally up to that. As long as we don't physically hurt him I'm on board." Lydia said a smile appearing as she thought about all the threats she could make.
"Yeah, I'll come to. I want to give that scum bag a piece of my mind." Paul said.
"Why does everyone look so…upset?" Paige and Rose had returned from the line trays in hand.
"Just chatting, nothing for you to be worried about." Paul said placing his arm around her shoulders and a kiss on her cheek.
"Ok, now I'm worried. What were you talking about?"
"Nothing will you believe us? Any way, what's Hogwarts like?"
"Oh it's nice. It's more of a castle than a school."
"Really that's totally awesome. I've always wanted to see a castle. What's it like."