Chapter 24

"HEATHER!" yelled Nehal. "I can't believe you talked me into doing this. I haven't been ice skating in such a long time." Nehal cautiously walked onto the ice.

Heather laughed and twirled around on the ice. "Come on Nehal it will be fun!"

"Fun? You think this is fun? Falling on my ass is NOT FUN!"

"Yeah it is, that's the best part. Making a fool out of yourself."

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Danielle was teaching Diego how to build a snowman. "You have to bundle up snow together and then roll it into a ball!"

"Like this?" asked Diego bundling the snow together.

"Yeah! Good job!"

Diego looked at Danielle. "I think I like snow now."

Danielle laughed and kissed Diego on the cheek. "You're too cute!"

Meanwhile Jackie and Draco were walking around the grounds.

Jackie said, "Draco I'm really sorry."

Draco said, "About what?"

"You know…how I was lying to you. I feel really, really bad about it…"

Draco studied Jackie. Her nose and cheeks were red from the cold weather and she kept on fidgeting with her Gryffindor scarf which showed that she was nervous.

"I SAID I'm sorry." said Jackie, thinking that Draco didn't hear her because he didn't say anything.

"You don't have to be." Draco finally said.

"Say what?"

Draco kissed Jackie on the lips.

Surprised Jackie stepped back. Draco took hold of her hands and pulled her towards him. He tilted her head upwards and kissed her fully. (Aww) After a while they broke apart.

Jackie thought, "This is like a fairytale."

Draco thought, "Should I tell?" Draco had a calculating look on him.

"Jackie." Draco paused looking intently in her brown eyes. "I know why you're doing this."

"Doing what?" Jackie asked puzzled.

"When you said-"Draco was cut off by a snowball hitting him directly in the face.

"Snowball fight!" yelled Heather.

Nehal laughed and threw a snowball at Jamie. (Oh by the way Nehal and Heather have their skates off now)

Jamie grinned. "It's time to die."

Nehal smirked back. "I don't think so buddy."

While everyone was having a snowball fight, Danielle and Diego were rolling around and snogging in the snow.

Jackie ran after Draco who threw a snowball at Jamie. "What we're you gonna tell me?"

Draco turned around. Before he could answer Nehal threw a snowball at Jackie.

"Ow! Neh Neh!" whined Jackie.

"Oops…sorry." replied Nehal.

Jackie wiped the snow off her face and sighed. "It's okay." She threw a snowball at Nehal but Nehal dodged it so instead it hit…Riley. Jackie covered her mouth with her hands. "Omg I'm so sorry Riley."

Draco looked at Jackie. "Why are you apologizing to him? He's a git!"

"Git or not I accidentally threw a snowball at him!"

Nehal glared at Riley. "What do you want?"

Riley said, "Nothing. I just was…minding my own business when I got hit by a snowball."

Rocky and Colt walked beside Riley and crossed their arms.

"Sup sup Coltness!" Jackie waved at Colt.

Colt said, "Hey."

Draco glared at Colt.

Nehal said, "Why don't you boys run along now before I hex you all."

Rocky and Colt looked at Riley, their gang leader for further orders.

Riley shook his head and laughed. "Nehal, Nehal, Nehal you really wouldn't do something like that would you? Come on we're all friends here."

"Yeah and we trade e-mails too!" Heather said sarcastically.

Riley raised his eyebrows. "E-mail?"

"Ha! You don't what that is. Well it's only the latest and coolest way of communicating with people these days. Way better than the telephone, but I bet you don't know what that is either!"

"Your right I don't."

Heather wasn't expecting this answer so she kept quiet.

Riley walked towards Nehal and handed her a piece of parchment. "Here."

Nehal snatched the parchment out of his grip.

"Think about it. Let's go guys." So the three guys left.

Jamie looked at his girlfriend. "What does it say baby?"

Nehal read it out loud to everyone. "It says meet me at midnight at the Quidditch pitch."

"You can't go Nehal! Do you know how much trouble you'll get in!" replied Jackie.

At this point Danielle and Diego came over to the group.

"So what's going on?" asked Danielle.

Everyone just looked at her.

Draco took hold of Jackie's hand. "I need to tell you something." He whispered in her ear.

"Okay…um…let's go over here." Jackie leaded the way so they were away from the group. She spun around. "What's up?"

"Jaxs I overheard Treanor and Slade's conversation in the library."

Jackie widened her eyes. "Draco how could you? Eavesdropping is so wrong."

Draco ignored this. "You don't have to do this. Slade's just being a bully."

"What are you talking about?" asked Jackie, though she knew exactly what he meant.

"Slade put you up to this, so Hufflepuff has a chance at winning the Quidditch cup."

Jackie moved away slowly. She shook her head. "No, he wouldn't do that. Coltness isn't like that."

"Maybe over the summer he turned into coldness."

Jackie pointed her finger at Draco. "That's a good one."

"Jaxs, you should go back on the team."

"Well I have been missing it…"

"I also want you to stop talking to him." Draco said this in a sterner tone.

Jackie didn't say anything, getting sadder by the second before she finally answered. "I won't do that."

Draco didn't respond. Instead he just walked off.

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Heather wondered off in a vague direction without telling anyone where she was going.

"Where's she going?" asked Danielle.

"No one knows." answered Nehal mysteriously.

Heather meanwhile was having a delightful time. She ambled through the snow-covered ground, catching snowflakes and singing to herself. Eventually, she lost track of time and space. Minutes turned into hours. Everything was blurry white. The snow was really coming down thick. It was blocking her vision and she couldn't find her way back to Hogwarts. "No!" yelled Heather.

Heather would've cried as she stumbled through the snow, trying to find Hogwarts, but the tears froze on her cheeks! "Dammit, I'm so cold. I'm going to DIE!"

By the Heather realized there was a long gray shape through the snow. "It's a dragon!" She screamed. But then she remembered they didn't have dragons at Hogwarts and ran to it.

The closer she got the more it looked like a house until finally she crashed into a wall. "It's Hagrid's hut!" yelled Heather. Through the window Heather could see the orange glow of the fire. "Mm…warm. Maybe I can stay here for the night."

The windows were all steamed up. That should have warned Heather to stay away but she knocked on the door.

No one answered.

Heather yelled, "I know you're in there!" She wasn't going to freeze to death outside when she was so close. Heather pushed the door open and jumped inside. But what she saw made her jaw drop and eyes pop. (Ahaha, that rhymes) It was quite horrible. Heather tried to scream but no sound came out.

Hagrid was there…but so was Harry…and they were… INTIMATE. Their bodies were joined together on the quilted bed.

Heather couldn't understand how it was possible, but it was still horribly real.

After making several gagging noises Heather backed slowly away to the door.

"Oh Hagrid!" gasped Harry.

Heather backed away out of the hut and slammed the door. She ran away furiously in a random direction, she couldn't stop screaming. Heather didn't care if she froze to death. She wanted to burn her eyes out.

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Colt was lurking in the corridors when Draco started to walk towards him. "What's up?"

Draco stared at him unblinkingly.

"Looking for your girlfriend?" mocked Colt.

"You're funny. You're also done messing with Jackie."

"We just talk man."

"Well that's going to be over now."

"Why?" Colt paused. "Can't you trust her? I mean, isn't that what this is about?" He walked towards Draco with some hesitance since Draco was a Slytherin. "You're going out with her and you love her. But can you trust her? Because if you can..." Colt paused again. "You got nothing to worry about right?" He held out his hand for Draco to shake. "Come on, man, I don't have a problem with you."

Draco paused for a second before grabbing Colt around the neck and pushing him up against the wall. Draco held Colt's arm against the wall with his free hand.

Colt tried to get Draco's hand off from his neck but he couldn't because he was too scared of what Draco would to do him. Riley wasn't here to help him out.

Draco said, "You see, you do have a problem with me; a big problem! You could smile and act cool if you want to but the fact is, man: I used to destroy guys like you. Daily. It'd be a shame if something happened to this hand; you wouldn't be able to play Quidditch for a couple of weeks. Yepp that would be bad for Hufflepuff since I heard you guys were making up a plan to win the cup this year."

Colt tried to get away but Draco pushed him back against the wall.

"Just like it'd be a shame if you were taking advantage of Jackie." He glared at Colt before letting him go.

Colt rubbed his neck and looked jittery as Draco walked away; hoping Colt would get the message.

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Danielle walked, as if in a trance to the dorm room. She moved piles around aimlessly. She looked harder. With a certain effort she pulled her mind into the task. Her expensive True Religion jeans that she wanted to wear for Diego tonight. It was not okay to lose them.

Just then Hermione walked into the dorm room. "Hi Danielle!"

Danielle gasped and sucked air. (Very fishlike LOL!)

"What?" asked Hermione.

Danielle poked her finger in the air unable to summon words out of her mouth. "Y-you…! Those!"

Hermione looked deeply uncertain.

"My jeans!" Danielle howled like a beast. (Not literally thought, but that would be funny) "You stole them from me!"

Hermione looked down at the jeans in confusion. "I didn't steal them. Technically speaking, I borrowed them without your permission. I wanted to look hot for Ron. These jeans make my ass look so good!"

"Take them off now! Now! Now, now, now!"

"Okay calm down. Honestly."

Danielle clenched her jaw. "Omg! Do not change in front of me. Gross Hermione!"

"What? We're all girls here."

"Yeah except for Timmy!" Danielle rolled her eyes in impatience. "I'll be back in 5 minutes. Leave the jeans on my bed, will yeah?"

Hermione nodded her head. "Okay."

Danielle groaned and slammed the door. She stomped like a 5-year old to the common room couches where Diego was sitting, waiting for her return.

"Hey what happened?" asked Diego concerned.

Danielle laid her head on his shoulder. "Hermione happened. She wore my favorite pair of jeans."

"Well can't you ladies share them?"

"No Diego!" Danielle sat up and looked at her boyfriend. "I'm not going to share my clothes with Miss Algebra Queen!" (Remember Danielle called her that in the 1st story)

"It was just a suggestion."

"I know, I know. I'm just so stressed out right now it's like not even funny."

Diego said, "Come here." He embraced Danielle in a hug. In a way he hoped he could absorb her pain.

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Jackie was in the library. She was supposed to be doing her homework but she kept getting on distracted by the fight she had with Draco earlier. It kept on playing over and over in her head again. Jackie looked at her princess bracelet that Draco gave her when they first started going out. She smiled.

Draco walked towards Jackie looking for.

Jackie reached him first and hugged him tightly.

"What's going on with you?" asked Draco.

"I'm sorry. I'm not gonna talk to Colt anymore." Jackie shook her head. "I don't want it to come between us. I just-I don't want anything to come between us." She hugged him again.

Draco returned the hug by wrapping his arms around her shoulders. (It's like one of those side hug things) He smiled.

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Nehal met up with Riley at the Quidditch pitch. She told Jamie that she was going to see what Riley was up too and not to worry.

Riley said, "Didn't think you'd show up?"

Nehal answered, "I wasn't going to…but then curiosity got the best out of me."

Riley smiled.

Nehal walked closer to him. "I'm not here to play games Riley. Just tell me what you want."

"I want another chance with you."

"I have a boyfriend now."

"No-as friends."

Nehal froze unsure of what to say or do. Was Riley really asking her this?

"What do you say Nehal? Can you put the past behind you?"

Nehal still didn't answer.

"Can you…? Can you?"

"You had your shot and you blew it! That's all you get with me. One chance." Nehal stormed off angrily.

A/N: Hello everyone! I'm updating earlier! Yay! I got out of school early today and since it is close to the holidays I don't have much work, though I do have some but I decided to update. Wow 85 reviews! That's so awesome! I guess people like this story better then the other ones. Anyways Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of us writing this story!

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