! The Consequences of Boredom !
AN/ Here we go again…
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GC is not POP, and should never be compared with Simple Plan, sorry but they make me twitch. God, if Lyndall read this, she'd kill me…
Now on with the story…
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As Draco worked on the outside, Harry waved his hand and finished all he had to do in the lounge room to transform it into a karaoke bar sort of set up. Some thing he had not told Draco was that Pansy would be coming over at around twelve, which was about half an hour away, giving Harry enough time to finish last minute touches to the room.
He heard the front door bell ring and answered it, as he expected, Pansy was there, "Ah, right on time!"
Pansy looked at him in confusion, "You said to be here at a quarter to twelve…"
"Yes but I knew that you would try and be fashionably late." Harry said, stepping out of the way to let the grumbling bleached blonde into the room. "Just come into the lounge room and we'll talk there."
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Draco swore he heard singing just before he entered the house, but as soon as he turned the handle, the music stopped. "How are things going, Harry? Are you almost finished?" Draco asked as he entered the hall way, but as he was about to enter the lounge room, he found himself face to face with Harry. "I', fine Draco, but you aren't allowed in there yet, not until the party at least.
Draco groaned, never in his life had he liked surprises. But this had been driven from his mind when he saw Pansy coming up behind Harry, she walked past him, threw him a smile and left. "What was Pansy doing here?" Draco asked, obvious to Harry that he was jealous.
"Don't worry babe, she was just helping me out. You will find out later." Harry gave Draco a peck on the lips and whispered in his ear "You know you are too cute when you're jealous?" Draco shuddered at the sensation Harry's breath caused, before muttering, "I am a Malfoy, I am never cute."
"Sure hon." Harry said as he walked to the drawing room to set up in there too.
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It was almost five and Molly was well on the way to finishing off the preparation of the food, the munchies were all in the drawing room, which had been expanded and had all the furniture removed and now there were three tables, with ten chairs around each. There were also a few tables around the edges with snacks like chips and party pies.
There were streamers hanging from the roof and across the walls, in the corners confetti fell continuously, a Weasley twin invention. They would occasionally creep up on you if you had your back turned and would dunk you in confetti, which would not get out of your hair, no matter what you do, another component of the party decoration. Harry was surprised that Draco liked them, he was half expecting him to say it's tacky, but the blonde just said that they were a really clever invention.
There were red silk table clothes covering each table, all with a stain proofing potion in the dye to help protect them, seeing as though there would definitely be alcohol at the party. Some people were wondering around the house, talking to others, catching up, gossiping and snogging, you know, normal party stuff. (:-P)
Harry stood in the entrance, first to welcome people and tell them where things were, but secondly to keep Draco from the lounge room where a surprise was waiting in the lounge room. The surprise was also for Percy, but that part was coming from Pansy. At the beginning of the party, Draco was standing next to the brunette and welcomed the quests, but as time went on he had started to get really angry at each guest that looked at him like he should not be there. He told Harry that he was going to go and help Molly with the food, but when he asked her if she needed any help. She assured him that she didn't need any help and that he should go enjoy the party.
But even as he walked around and talked to people, they always enquired as to why he was there as if he really shouldn't and after about half an hour he thought that he shouldn't be there either.
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As it was getting close to dinner time, Harry started ushering the guests into the drawing room turned dining room. As he made his way through the house, he noticed he couldn't find Draco. Once he had made a complete circuit through the down stairs, he went asked Mrs Weasley if she had seen him. She just shrugged and said she had seen him go upstairs a while ago.
Harry nodded thanks and went up stairs. He went straight to his room and opened the door to find Draco lying on his bed looking up to the canopy. The only problem was that it didn't look like his room or his bed any more. The bed was now a four poster, but was stained black, as was all the other wooden furniture in the room. The bed had a green doona and pillow cases with silver edges. Climbing up the bed, starting at the foot and flickering up to the head of the bed were flame-like silver embroidery. The pillows matched the design.
The canopy was a black gauze mosquito netting and black satin covers with green sashes to tie them back with. Harry smiled when he thought of what the opaque curtain could be used for. The walls were a dark, dark emerald and the floor boards were oak, with a Persian rug under neath the bed.
"Umm, love, what have you done to the room?" Harry asked, glancing around the room once more after sitting next to the laying form of his boyfriend, placing a hand on his back.
"Oh, right sorry, I came up here to get away from all the looks that I was getting, and I couldn't stand being in here with all the red and gold, way too Gryffindor for me, but I didn't mean to go so over board with the Slytherinisation of it, I'll change it back if you want me to…" Draco said sheepishly as he sat up. Harry nodded and out his arm around Draco's waist.
"Sorry 'Co I forgot about how they don't know about us. Don't worry, they will soon. But for now, let's go down to dinner. By the way, the room looks good like this, and since it is now our room, not just mine, you should have a say on how it looks too." Draco smiled and pulled Harry onto his lap. He gave him a kiss on the neck and whispers into his ear, "Come on, let's go, I'm starving, and from what I've heard about mum's cooking, it's going to be good."
The two stood up and made their way down to the temporary dinning room with the crowd who were all ready and sitting waiting for them to sit down. Draco and Harry sat in the two seats left over which were next to Percy who was at the head of the centre table with Pansy next to him. Harry stood up to make a speech, "Good evening every one, I'd just like to thank you all for coming tonight to celebrate Percy's birthday, although it had been a week and a half ago, but since he wasn't back from where he had gone, we could not celebrate, but now we can and we shall. Percy, if you would like to say any thing, do so now then we'll dig in."
Percy nodded to Harry and stood up. He waited a moment for the crowd to settle a bit before speaking. "I would also like to thank you all for being here for my birthday, I was a Pratt for leaving the way I did, with out word, I know I hurt a lot of people, an I am immensely sorry. But for now, let's eat, and explanations can be done later."
At that every one picked up their knife and fork and began eating the dinner that had appeared in front of them.
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The conversation at the middle table turned to where Percy had been and why he had not come back earlier. And to put it simply, it was because he didn't know how he would be taken, especially with Pansy as well and their relationship. Harry and Draco, who already knew the story, started talking about other things, not really paying attention to what was going on around them. Harry suddenly remembered some thing and decided that Draco owed him an explanation. "How come you never said any ting about Percy? I mean, you obviously knew about him and Pansy long before any one, so why didn't you tell any one, or even me?" Harry asked slightly hurt, shown slightly on his face.
"They had sworn me to secrecy and it wasn't like it was that high on our priority lists, sorry Har, I wasn't trying to keep any thing from you, I never would." Draco said sincerely, Harry smiled and nodded, but held the urge to kiss the blonde, they hadn't yet told any one there about their relationship, all they know is that they aren't enemies any more, but was going to change, and soon. Harry hadn't thought any one would be watching them close enough to see the nod, but he was mistaken there had been one set of eyes that saw the slight movement.
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Ginny sat across from Harry and Draco, one of the many who did not know about their relationship, watching in fascination as they stayed silent for most of the dinner, but had nodded and smiled, at nothing she could see or hear.
There was something going on that Ginny did not know about and she felt the need to know. Since her fourth year, she had become an observer, but still curious about what the 'love of her life', aka, Harry Potter, was up to and why he had entered the room, standing so close to one, Draco Malfoy, both with a full snogged out expression on their faces.
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"Hey Ginny, you're being awfully quiet." Fred said to his little sister.
"You're usually the one who helps us plot and plan pranks against Percy. What's going on? You had some excellent ideas on the way here and you promised to tell us more." Fred and George said, alternating between the two of them.
"Oh, Sorry guys, just thinking, now about those pranks…" Ginny continued on with her plans, the one thing that could ever get her mind away from Harry. And so she did, she forgot all about Harry… For now.
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AN/ The reason I said about need of stain resistant is because of the silk and the fact that no matter how hard you try, if there is alcohol, there will be a spillage and it is imposable to get any thing from silk.
Sorry for such a long wait, I had said I would update in three days, and that was more then a week ago, but I just haven't had the inspiration to and I've been addicted to 'take me home' and 'family' and 'life after sirius' and 'harry, seamus and the master plan' but hey, I've finished what they have up now, so there's the chapter, hope you liked.
I'm working on the next chapter already so it should be up sooner, it's the holidays now so it's easier for me to work on it.
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