A/N: I guess the title works so I left it. I forgot a disclaimer in the last chapter but we all know all the people you recognize from the Harry Potter books are JKR. 6th book is coming!
LadySnake:I didn't really think about Ginny. I think I'll put her with Josh…that'll be fun. Bryan would be harder and I have a little…surprise for him. I don't think that'll happen until the fourth chapter though. Thanks for the review.
Alenor: Notice how I posted it only under Hermione? That's so you don't find out until I tell you. But you're right, it's Draco or Blaise. I believe you shall find out in the third or fifth chapter. It depends on how many people demand to know what pairing they're reading. Thanks for the review.
IISGREAT:Thnks for the review and I can't tell you yet…it wouldn't be fair. But it is coming soon and if I keep getting awesome reviews it will come very soon. I promise Hermione will pumel some one in this chapter. The question is who. I hope you enjoy!
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Girl's Night and More
Ginny and Hermione left Flourish and Blots without as much as a glance behind them. They walked briskly to The Leaky Cauldron and flooed to Hermione's house. Ginny packed up all of Hermione's school things while Hermione was playing with a spell that would make Ginny's things appear. They both finished at the same time with large grins.
"Movie!" They said in unison. The one thing the two girls loved more than gossip was a goods movie.
"Popcorn with loads of butter!" Ginny said as she started looking through the pantry. Hermione rolled her eyes and made the popcorn while Ginny watched with curious eyes.
"I think we should watch…" Hermione started but burst out laughing when she saw Ginny with puppy dog eyes and a pout that could melt any guy. Right next to that face was…Pirates of the Caribbean! (Who else loves that movie?)
"Pwease Hermione?" Ginny asked as if she was three.
"I don't need that look and voice to convince me to watch Johnny Depp!" Hermione said with a laugh. Ginny grinned like a maniac as Hermione put the DVD in the player. (Hermione is doing everything because she doesn't know how.)
Needless to say they laughed, they cried, and they turned it into a melodrama, throwing popcorn at the screen until Ginny started giving her the evil eye for 'wasting such a precious thing.' Hermione didn't see that popcorn again. They finished the movie and if right on cue, Bryan walked in the door with Chain and Josh in tow. Hermione clamped her hand over Ginny's mouth as she went wide eyed and Cain froze, got wide-eyed, but could still speak.
"Ginny, don't you dare say my name in anyone's presence. I'm Chain now. Okay?" He asked as if he was talking to a little girl. Ginny burst out laughing.
"Chain? That is hilarious! Even Crabbe and Goyle could come out with a better name. Why don't we call you loser and stick a sign on you. Then where ever you go when someone asks for your name you could say, 'that's my name, don't wear it out.' But you can't do anything with chain. Your supposed to be smarted than Hermione when it comes to who's with who and what happened when and all you can come up with is Chain. Lame. You know what chain?" Ginny ranted.
"I have a feeling your going to tell me anyway." He said.
"That's right! I'm going to call you Llama!" Ginny said with a laugh. "Better yet I'm going to call you Captain Jack Sparrow! That's a wonderful name." Hermione burst out laughing and Bryan cracked a smile. Chain looked confused.
"What's funny?" He asked while rolling his eyes. Hermione threw the movie's case at his head and he caught it easily. Just because you don't play Quidditich for the school team doesn't mean you can't. He looked on the box and saw the pirate version of Johnny Depp. "Not to burst your bubble but I don't look like him."
"Got enough girls lusting after you." Hermione said with a glare. "Not an ounce of self respect!"
"He's ugly!" Chain cried out. Hermione's and Ginny's jaws dropped to the ground.
"What?" Hermione said as she regained her senses. "He has mobs of girls chasing after him because of that movie. Don't you know throwing pirate on him makes him irresistible?" Ginny bobbed her head as Hermione talked.
"What ever. Bryan has the lyrics. Try to get practice into your schedule." Chain said with a glare.
"Bryan," Hermione said as sweet as honey, making him flinch. It's never good when she faked sweetness. "take your creepy…people upstairs. One thing breaks and you're all dead." Hermione finished with a blinding smile. Her smile immediately dropped when she heard a knock on the door. "Are you expecting someone?" Hermione asked, confused. The three shook their heads. Hermione bounced off the couch and walked briskly toward the door. She opened the door quickly, wide enough so that the people behind her could see. There was a girl about Hermione's age who had raven black hair that was super straight. She was wearing a tank top and some jeans. Hermione noticed the enraged look on her face and took a small step back as she greeted her.
"Hello, who, may I ask, are you looking for?" Hermione said politely.
"Josh Castin," she replied as she narrowed her eyes. Hermione looked a little mad but masked it.
"Josh…you have been in my house five seconds and you're already getting guests. I'm not sure if you are aware of this, but it's a little unordinary and rude." Hermione said as she backed away from the door to let the girl in.
"Rachael? What are you doing-" Josh started.
"SO ITS TRUE!" Rachael screamed at Josh, effectively cutting him off, "YOU CHEATING BASTURD!" slap "I NEVEER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN! JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE STUPID I'LL SPELL IT OUT FOR YOU, WE'RE OVER!" Rachael stormed out the door after slapping Josh again. Josh looked about ready to cry.
"Guess today isn't your lucky day." Hermione said, cracking a smile because she couldn't keep a straight face.
"Shut it Granger!" Chain snapped as he hurried the two other guys upstairs.
"Captain Jack Sparrow looks like he has more girl issues than usual." Ginny said in all seriousness. Hermione just burst out laughing. Ginny soon followed suit and they only stopped fifteen minutes later when they started getting crept out at the silence.
"I think we should change and then we can have a little fun with the boys." Hermione said with a smirk.
"I'm in!" Ginny said as she started digging through her bag for pajamas. Hermione ran upstairs and changed as fast as the speed of light. She met Ginny on the stairs and they both climbed up to the attic silently. Hermione took out her wand and whispered a charm that sound proofed the attic and then another so they could see through the floor. First she explained how she able to use magic to Ginny and then they watched the boys. They talked and laughed and after ten minutes the two girls found themselves bored.
"How about we capture one. Then when the other two go searching for him, we can take one more once they split up. Then we can scare the last one with noises until they scream. Only thing is none of them can have wands. The two we capture we can take when we capture them, but the last one we'll have to trip him then accio it. Any questions?" Hermione explained quickly.
"Why aren't you in Slytherin Hermione?" Ginny asked.
"Because I'm a muggle-born." Hermione stated simply.
"Oh yeah. I forgot." Ginny said as she followed Hermione down to the second story. Hermione raised an eyebrow but didn't mention it.
"We can stow the captured ones in the attack. We'll have to tie them up so they don't get out though. Also we need to lure the first one out. How?" Hermione said.
"We can ask for help with something, put a spell that makes them have to go to the bathroom, or we could scream and hide. That would include zapping the electricity and those three being dumb enough to split up." Ginny listed. Hermione thought them over and knocked on the door before reaching for the handle. She jumped back when it shocked her. She instead slammed her fists on the door. Two seconds of trying to break the door down and it swung open.
"Why are you bobby trapping your door? It isn't safe. What happened if you died?" Hermione said. Bryan rolled his eyes.
"What do you want?" Bryan asked.
"I need to 'borrow' one of your…people because I can't get something." Hermione said.
"Too short halfling?" Bryan said with a laugh. "Just accio the damn thing." Bryan said as he turned to leave.
"It'll spill. Then there would be a huge mess. Just let me 'borrow' one person. He'll be back in two minutes. If he isn't you can…" Hermione didn't have an idea.
"I'll tell everyone who Chain is if you don't let us borrow someone already!" Ginny said forcefully. Chain was out the door in seconds.
"Come find him in two minutes. We might hurt him if you don't." Ginny said with a smile that was so scary even Hermione was scared.
"Right," Hermione said as she pushed the two down the stairs. The group of three went silently down the stairs. Hermione stopped and both looked back at her.
"Ginny, would you hold on a second, just walk slowly, I'll catch up." Hermione said as she turned around. Ginny shrugged and led Chain down the stairs agonizingly slow. Hermione met them at the bottom of the stairs after placing a silencing charm around Bryan's room. She whispered what she had done to Ginny as they marched him into the kitchen. Chain looked skeptical.
"What did you need?" He asked carefully. Ginny fidgeted and Hermione headed over to the pantry. She pointed to the bag of flour on the top shelf. Chain reached up to get it when suddenly he was on the floor. Hermione had rammed him in the side. She quickly frisked him for his wand before pinning his arms above his head as she sat on him. Ginny raised an eyebrow at the bad position.
"Where's your wand?" Hermione demanded as she pointed hers at his face. Chain looked confused.
"Why do you need-"
"Answer the question!" Ginny said, aiming her wand at him also. Chain looked scared before masking his emotions.
"I'll never say." He said flatly.
"We are going to take off all your clothes if you don't tell us." Hermione said.
"A little kinky there Granger? It's miniaturized. It's the charm on the chain around my neck." He said with a sigh. Hermione ripped it off and it became full size magically. Hermione threw it to Ginny and glanced at the clock. Almost out of time. Hermione put a silencing charm on him before bounding and gagging him magically. While Hermione was tying up Chain, Ginny shut off the flow of electricity in the house and locked the doors. They were trapped. Hermione and Ginny levitated Chain into the attic. They hurriedly made it look like they were coming up the stairs. They ran into the boys, literally. The four sat up and lit their wands.
"Where's Chain?" Josh asked.
"That's what we came to ask. The lights went out and we couldn't find him." Hermione said as she trembled. They believed her.
"Let's look for him then." Bryan said.
"We should split up, I'll go with Bryan and Hermione can go with Josh." Ginny said. "We can meet back up here in ten minutes."
"Whatever." Bryan said, as he helped the two girls up. Hermione and Josh were assigned downstairs while Ginny and Bryan stayed upstairs.
"Why do we have to go where the creepy person is?" Hermione asked before they split up.
"Because you're stronger." Ginny said. Hermione had found out exactly what she needed to know.
The two crept downstairs. Hermione led them to the kitchen first. She lit the lights magically and started to look around. When Josh had his back to her, Hermione cast a silencing charm and walked over to Josh
"Hand me your wand so I can give you light. You get to check the root cellar." Hermione lied. The door led to a closet and Josh had fallen straight into her trap. Right before he opened the door Hermione pounced on him like a cat and whacked him in the stomach, slammed his foot, and head butted him.
"Today really isn't your day, is it?" Hermione muttered to herself as she quickly healed the knocked out Josh.
He was then silenced; bound and gagged for when he woke up. She quickly levitated him into the hall, making sure it looked like he was walking. When she saw Ginny lead Bryan into Hermione's room, Hermione quickly stashed Josh in the attic and locked the trap door, in case they broke free. Hermione then ran down the stairs quietly and then started screaming.
"Help! Get down here! Josh come back! Where are you two?" Hermione screamed as she thumped on the stairs loudly, screaming over it. Once she reached the top she latched onto Bryan out of breath.
"Where's Josh?" Bryan asked her calmly.
"Gone. He left me. I'm scared to go down there." Hermione whispered. "What if I'm next?"
"No one is being killed." Bryan assured her. "You two finish up here and I'll go down stairs."
"By yourself! I told you guys splitting up was a bad idea!" Ginny said. The two stared at her.
"It was your idea!" Hermione shrieked hysterically.
"Change in plan. You two relax in Hermione's room. I'll search." Bryan said as he shoved them in the door.
The two girls grinned. They listened as Bryan went down the stairs. Hermione silenced the room just in case.
"You got Josh?" Ginny said.
"Yeah, poor guy was knocked unconscious when I only meant to distract him." Hermione said. Ginny went wide-eyed.
"He isn't dead, is he?"
"Nope, I healed him so he won't hurt when he wakes up. He's bound and gagged in case he wakes up too soon." Hermione responded.
"Now what about the noises?" Ginny asked excitedly.
"Send a few fake ghosts to do it. They love it when people summon them when it isn't Halloween." Hermione said.
"Well how is that fun?" Ginny asked with a pout.
"We get to watch from the safety of my room. I'll get a camera to follow him around. A nice movie Ginny?" Hermione smirked.
"Well I do love horror movies. Let's get to it then. I'll summon ghosts, you make the camera." Ginny said. The two set to work and were done in minutes. The sent the camera out first to find him, then instructed the ecstatic ghosts on what they should try and what the goal was. They all said easy as pie as they left to go spook one unsuspecting Bryan.
Dun dun dun…
Bryan was walking with his wand lit in front of him. "Where could they have gone?" He asked aloud. Suddenly pots were clanging and Bryan ran toward the kitchen to find everything the way it should be. "Odd." He muttered. He went into the hall and heard a movie in the living room. "Why are they down here?" He said aloud. He walked into the room to see a fuzzy static screen you get when there is no signal. Suddenly the TV got a signal and it was a cartoon channel mixed with a gangster show. The words didn't match with the dumb animations. The man was saying, "talking to yourself is the first sign of insanity, then comes imagining noises and lastly comes seeing people who aren't really there. Poor John…"
Bryan rolled his eyes and tried to turn of the TV but it wouldn't stay off. He shrugged it off before he saw a robe turn around the corner. He ran after it to find no one around. 'I must be going crazy.' Bryan thought. Then, he felt a freezing cold hand on his shoulder; he turned to see…an arm that was rotting, severed just below the joint. It had roaches and beetles running across it and onto him. He immediately threw it off. But it jumped back on him. He ran from it but he wasn't fast enough. The beetles were heading for his mouth when suddenly a man swinging an ax attacked. Bryan ran screaming through the house. He kept being stopped by zombies or ghosts until finally he just broke down crying. The two girls felt bad and immediately ran down stairs and hugged him. Bryan just cried. Hermione perked up.
"Feel better?" She asked sympathetically.
"Feel better that what?" He snapped. "What the hell did you do?"
"Taste of your own medicine, you wouldn't let me come over by making her stay." Ginny said. "Nothing against you anymore."
"You made me join that band and you made me cry because of that urn. Besides you're over protective." Hermione said.
"Well at least you didn't do it because you were bored." Bryan said with a smile. Both girls crossed their fingers behind their backs.
"Never would I think of doing such a horrible thing for no good reason." Ginny said.
"Of course, we aren't like Slytherins." Hermione agreed. Their fingers came undone as they hugged Bryan again.
"What happened to Josh and Chain?" Bryan asked. Hermione and Ginny got identical looks of shame. They ran up the stairs and brought them down. They were about to tackle the terrible two but Ginny spoke up first.
"Free copies of the haunted house scare to anyone who doesn't hurt me." Ginny said.
"You taped it?" Bryan said feeling light headed.
"Duh!" The two girls said at once.
"How about we go to sleep?" Josh said. "I think that the sooner this day ends the better!" Everyone laughed and went to their respective rooms. The girls sent all the ghouls and haunts away and the guys changed and tried to forget. Needless to say, they all fell asleep late that night.
The next day…Hermione and Ginny woke up early. They got showered, dressed and ate in silence. Then Hermione perked up like she always did after eating.
"Ginny, it's our last day of vacation…what should we do?" Hermione asked.
"Go back to bed?" Ginny suggested as her head fell onto the table.
"Practice like crazy!" Chain said as he strolled in wearing boxers.
"Most people wear clothes when they walk around other people's houses." Hermione said. Ginny's head shot up and Chain smirked.
"Looks like Virginia is awake." Chain said. Ginny blushed and buried her head in her arms.
"Aye, captain! She be awake." Hermione said with a laugh. Ginny started laughing at Hermione's very bad impression and Chain sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Chicks, can't live with them, can't live with out them." He said as he snatched an apple and sat at the nook across from the other two.
"So what do we call you at school captain?" Ginny asked as seriously as she could.
"Your Royal Highness." Chain said with a roll of his eyes.
"How about tyrant band leader?" Hermione said. "Bossy enough." She said and a smile cracked on her face.
"What are you fools smiling at?" Josh asked as he walked in wearing the same clothes he was wearing yesterday, but cleaned.
"We're thinking of names to call Captain Jack at school." Hermione said.
"But he goes to some little place no one has heard of with an old fool as a headmaster, not Hogwarts." Josh said in ignorance.
"Dumbledore isn't an old fool!" Ginny said. "He let's me get away with everything." She added with a smirk.
"I really go to Hogwarts." Chain said. "Shame."
"Nice glamour spell." Hermione said. "I finally realized why I didn't recognize you. Your eyes and your hair."
"Thanks, why don't you shut up now." Chain snapped.
"That's what's off! I noticed the hair but I knew something else was off. I spend more time with him than anyone else and I didn't guess it."
"What are you talking about?" Hermione asked.
"He's gossip king. Knows everything." Ginny commented.
"I don't gossip, I deal in facts! Like I know every wizard who has dated you Hermione. Victor Crum." Chain said.
"Wrong Captain. I've dated over twenty wizards." Hermione said.
"More like half of the wizarding population!" Bryan said as he walked. "Thanks for waking me for this chat."
"No problem!" Josh said. "I'm lost."
"Good…for…you?" Bryan said.
"I'm going to take a shower." Josh said. He left.
"I think the beatings effected his head." Hermione said.
"I think you two are liars. Hermione hasn't dated anyone besides Victor Crum."
"Umm…I would laugh but there seems to be tension in the room." Ginny said.
"Oh for the love of Merlin get over the fact I date almost constantly under everyone's noses. Busy bodies all of you!" Hermione's rant was interupted by the phone which she almost pulled off the wall. "Hello?" She asked sweetly. "Granger residence."
"This is she…I can't. I leave tomorrow for the prison…I can't go on a date tonight John, I have to pack…of course it'll take all day…no, that's not it but he probably won't let me out of the house to see anyone…no just you…hate you too…loser!" Hermione screamed into the phone as she slamed it on the hook. She sat down and sulked.
"Johnny Apple Weed break up with you?" Bryan asked with a smirk.
"I would kill you but it isn't your fault. It's all Chain's fault because I saw the bane and I was seen and Racheal obviously has a big mouth so it's Josh's fault for dating her and it's your fault you wanted to be in a band but it isn't your fault you moved." Hermione said.
"That's right! I'm a free man!" Josh said as he strooled in. "Thanks for a place to crash, I have to go." Josh then left again.
"I'm going to go practice." Chain said as he left out the door too.
"Don't look at me, I like it here and I'm not allowed home for another twelve hours." Ginny said. "Ron got a tad mad when I made him stay home. It takes Harry a day to calm him down. I'm not going home yet."
"Well I have to go sleep enough to make up for the whole semester so I will see you to tomorrow." Bryan said with a yawn. Then it was two.
"You want to watch secret window?" Ginny asked with her puppy dog eyes and pout combo.
"Why not?" Hermione shrugged as she started to make popcorn.
"Remember to put loads of butter on it."
"You're going to die from a heart attack." Hermione said.
"I thought you didn't believe in the whole inner eye see the future thing?" Ginny said. Hermione just groaned.
A/N: Sorry the chapter is short but it was fast and that is a perfect stopping point. Besides, I have almost a thousand words for every review. Please review!
Just for Jaded-Chaela, thank you. If you noticed, I fixed. Now I feel stupid. But then again it was bound to happen.