Chapter 28

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Jackie was reading a book in the Gryffindor common room when Heather sat down next to her. "Happy Valentines day!"

Heather looked at Jackie. "Valentines day isn't till tomorrow Jackie."

Jackie looked disappointed. (LOL) "You're not excited?"

"I am, I am I'm just uh still not over detention last night. Mr. Von Gooshy can be so…evil sometimes. Making us write those lines."

"Yeah I know."

"I think I'm going to remember everything he said to us last night forever."

"Really? Because I've already forgotten. I'm just so excited to celebrate Valentines Day tomorrow! And then after that it's 5 more days till my birthday." Jackie squealed.

"Valentines day is not a holiday."

Jackie looked at Heather.

"Christmas is a holiday, New Year's, Easter. Those are examples of real holidays. You know who invented Valentines Day?"

"Saint Valentine."

"Hershey's and Hallmark did. If you're single it's designed to make you depressed and if you're lucky enough to be in love you start shelling out chocolate, flowers and lingerie."

"Draco hasn't bought me lingerie."

"That's because he knows you're not ready, so he's not going to buy it for you!"

"Heather!"

"And see how upset you are! I hate this holiday!"

Danielle then walked over to her friends. "Heather are you talking about Valentines Day?"

"I am indeed." stated Heather correctly. "I hate this holiday so much."

"You sound like the grinch!" replied Jackie.

Danielle sat down beside Heather. "Okay I like Valentines Day and all but sometimes people just go overboard with it."

"Speaking of…"Heather said. She just noticed that Diego was walking towards the group holding a rose behind his back.

Jackie noticed this too. "Let's go find Nehal, come on Hey Hey."

Danielle smiled at Diego.

Diego smiled as well and held out the rose for Danielle to take.

Danielle raised her eyebrows and took the rose. "Okay this is nice…"

"I know. It's just a day before Valentines Day present."

"Aww how thoughtful of you."

"Yeah…"

"Well let's go get something to eat and will talk later okay?"

"Okay babe."

So together they held hands and exited the common room.

A couple hours later…

It was Quidditch practice for the Gryffindor team.

"Okay gang! You know the drill. We're playing Slytherin-"Nehal was interrupted by Jamie.

"Speaking of the devils!"

Everyone turned to se the new comers. It was Draco and Sean.

"What's he doing here?" sneered Mitchell.

"And what does he want?" added Jamie.

"Probably to place a bet." answered Westley.

Nehal walked closer to Draco and Sean. "Long time no see."

"Yes…" said Sean.

"We're practicing so you both should probably be going now!" Nehal started to walk back to her teammates.

"Wait, Pradhan!" yelled Draco.

Nehal spun around. "Yes Malfoy?"

"Tell Jackie to meet me at the Quidditch pitch at 8:00 tomorrow night. I have a surprise for her."

"What's the surprise?"

"I can't tell you!"

"Why not?"

"Because then you'll tell her!"

Nehal laughed. "Good point."

Draco did the nod thing. "Later."

Sean said, "Dude your becoming to soft. There was a bunch of Gryffindors right there and you didn't even insult them!"

"Your right but I didn't even acknowledge their presence either!" He smirked at Sean.

"So what's this whole thing with Jackie tonight?"

"I just wanted to do something special for her."

Sean laughed and shook his head. "Dude you really are in love."

The next day…

Danielle and Diego were alone together in the Astronomy tower.

Danielle said, "Wow the stars are so beautiful."

Diego wrapped his arms around Danielle's waist. "Not as beautiful as you."

Danielle smiled. "Happy Valentines Day Diego."

"Happy Valentines Day Danielle." He then let go of her waist and bowed to her. "May I have this dance?"

Danielle giggled. "But there's no music!"

"There doesn't have to be. Sometimes I dance with no music on!"

Danielle giggled again. "Do you really?"

"Yeah I do…and you know what?"

"What?" Danielle asked curiously.

"I love dancing! If I could I would dance forever!"

Danielle smiled at her happy-go-lucky dancing boyfriend. "I would dance with you forever."

"So let's start …" Diego wrapped his arms around her waist again and she wrapped her arms around his neck. Her head rested on his chest.

They stayed like that for the rest of the night. At one point Danielle even fell asleep on Diego's shoulder. He was still dancing while she was sleeping. But Diego was really strong so he could hold her like that.

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"So…Nehal told you I guess." Draco tried to make conversation.

"Duh!" Jackie said bluntly impatient for the surprise. (Remember she hates surprises)

"Er…so I need you to close your eyes. And your gonna have to trust me." Draco led Jackie out of the great hall, out to the Quidditch pitch.

"Draco…where are we going?"

"You'll see."

They kept walking.

"Um…Draco are you sure I'm not going to bump into something…"

"Your fine, well…unless you let go of me." Draco smirked. "Walk faster, your taking baby steps and no peeking!" He ordered.

"I wasn't peeking!" protested Jackie.

Draco laughed and shook his head. "Come on we're almost there."

"Hey are we outside?" asked Jackie. "I can hear us walking on the snow, well what's left of it anyway."

Just then Hagrid walked by. "Hello Malfoy, Jackie." He nodded at them both even if Jackie couldn't see him. "I'm just…going back to my hut. Happy Valentines Day."

"That was Hagrid right?" asked Jackie

"Yeah…" Draco answered not really caring.

Two minutes passed and Harry was running by.

"Late for something scarheard!" sneered Draco.

Harry looked back, and suddenly tripped over a log. He quickly recovered himself.

Draco gave Harry a loathsome grin. "I guess you don't walk much, do ya Potter?"

"Yeah? Well, why were you watching me?" retorted Harry.

"Wow that was brilliant Potter. Did you come up with that one on your own?"

"Whatever Malfoy I don't have time for this right now. I am so late to meet with Hagrid. I hope the food's not going to get cold. Bye!" He then ran off.

"Bye Harry!" yelled Jackie.

"Oh you should have seen him trip! It was fucking hilarious!"

Jackie said sarcastically, "Yes I'm sure it was."

Draco then placed Jackie in the right spot. "Okay." He paused. "Open your eyes."

Jackie opened her eyes excited to see the surprise. She then saw the newest model of the Dirt Devil Quidditch broom. "Oh…it's a…a broom."

"Yeah do you like it? It's a Valentines Day and your birthday present combined."

"Yeah I love it." Jackie walked closer to the broom. She let her fingers touch it. The wood looked finely furnished

"You want to fly on it?" asked Draco.

Jackie shook her head. "I don't know…"

Any moment, everything can change,
Feel the wind on your shoulder,
For a minute, all the world can wait,
Let go of your yesterday.

Can you hear it calling?
Can you feel it in your soul?
Can you trust this longing?
And take control,

Fly
Open up the part of you that wants to hide away
You can shine,
Forget about the reasons why you can't in life,
And start to try, cause it's your time,
Time to fly.

All your worries, leave them somewhere else,
Find a dream you can follow,
Reach for something, when there's nothing left,
And the world's feeling hollow.

Can you hear it calling?
Can you feel it in your soul?
Can you trust this longing?
And take control,

Fly
Open up the part of you that wants to hide away
You can shine,
Forget about the reasons why you can't in life,
And start to try, cause it's your time,
Time to fly.

And when you're down and feel alone,
Just want to run away,
Trust yourself and don't give up,
You know you better than anyone else,

Any moment, everything can change,
Feel the wind on your shoulder,
For a minute, all the world can wait,
Let go of yesterday,

Fly
Open up the part of you that wants to hide away

You can shine,
Forget about the reasons why you can't in life,
And start to try,
Fly
Forget about the reasons why you can't in life,
And start to try, cause it's your time,
Time to fly.

Any moment, everything can change.

"Come on babe. You know how much this broom costs?"

"Oh…I'm sorry…"

"Can you just try it?" pleaded Draco.

Jackie looked like she was just about to cry. She loved Draco so much that she wanted to ride the broom but she also wanted to be friends again with Colt. She sighed. "Alright…I'll ride it for a little bit."

"Great!"

Jackie leaped on the broom. She looked over at Draco and he smiled at her. Jackie smiled back and kicked off into the air. She soared through the night sky. "Wow this broom is so fast." She thought. She then saw Danielle and Diego dancing well mostly Diego. "Hi Danie, hi Diego!"

Diego looked up and waved at Jackie. He didn't want to say anything to wake up his sleeping beauty.

5 minutes later Jackie came back to the ground, finding that Draco wasn't there.

Jackie started to feel scared being all by herself. "Draco! Draco, I'm scared. Draco, this is so not cool. Come out here right now, Draco Malfoy!"

Suddenly, Draco jumped out from behind a bush and scared the living day lights out of his girlfriend so much that as a quick reflex learned from Nehal she punched Draco hard in the stomach.

Draco bended over in pain. "Damn it, Jackie. You almost killed me. You know Houndini died like that."

"You deserve it, dumbass. And who is Houndini?"

"He was a magician who died of extreme stomach discomfort."

"Well, you have abs so it shouldn't be that bad…" Jackie blushed realizing she said that out loud. "I really didn't mean to hit you that hard it just sort of happened…"

Draco smirked and suddenly was feeling better then ever. "You think I'm sexy don't you?"

"Of course! If I didn't, I wouldn't be dating you."

"Is that so?"

"Yeah, yeah it is so."

Draco laughed and gazed into Jackie's eyes. He leaned down and kissed her. Which led to him wrapped his arms around her waist and a make-out session.

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Heather was sitting by herself in the common room. She was surprised to be doing her homework since everyone else was off with their respective boyfriends.

Timmy walked in. His left eye was all puffy, swollen and red around the edges. He had lots of grey fur-that wasn't his-in his mouth and paws.

"Timmy!" yelled Heather.

Timmy didn't answer but curled up in a little ball on the end of the couch. (Aww)

Heather looked at Timmy and saw bite marks on the top of his head filled up with puss. She screamed.

"Will you shut up?" said a 5th year boy.

"My cat's hurt!"

"And my donkey eats cheese!" (LOL)

"Really? I hate cheese."

"Take your cat to the hospital wing."

"THE HOSPITAL WING! OF COURSE!" exclaimed Heather. She scooped up Timmy and dashed away. "Madame Pomfrey!" yelled Heather once she had reached the hospital wing.

"What?" answered Madame Pomfrey annoyed.

"My cat's hurt! MY CAT'S HURT!"

"Calm down, let me have a look…Oh I see, I see."

"YOU SEE WHAT?"

"I'll have to take him into the back room to do a few testes." She turned around and walked away.

"Meow." whimpered Timmy, meaning don't leave me here.

Heather felt helpless. She remembered from last year how scary the backroom was. "Timmy, I love you!"

Madame Pomfrey slammed the door shut.

Heather ran out of the hospital wing. Right away she thought of Crookshanks and that he should be told about it. She turned a corer and saw Vlad.

Vlad smiled, happy to see Heather. "Hello."

Heather yelled, "I need to find Crookshanks!"

"Why?"

"Timmy's hurt! I think he got in a fight with another cat because he had all this grey fur in his claws. It was horrible. Oh so horrible."

"Timmy?"

"He's my cat!"

"Oh, Timmy! That's too bad, he's helped out in a fight or too."

"TOO BAD! IT'S TERRIBLE!"

"You need to calm down. He'll survive. Here, want to go somewhere?"

"Sure!"

Mr. Von Gooshy grabbed her and started flying along the hall until they got outside. Then he flew up into the air and down again to Hogsmeade. "Where do you wanna go?"

"Er…the three broomsticks." suggested Heather.

Mr. Von Gooshy smiled to himself.

"What?" asked Heather looking at him.

"Nothing…" He shrugged and flew down to the three broomsticks.

Mr. Von Gooshy opened the door (Aww gentleman, LOL) and they walked inside. Heather was going to sit at a table but Mr. Von Gooshy said, "No, follow me."

Mr. Von Gooshy led her up some rickety stairs and across a corridor to a heavy metal door. Heather tried to open it but she couldn't. "You need preternatural strength." replied Mr. Von Gooshy as he demonstrated this by opening the door.

Heather saw a table with this pale tall women and a fat red-faced guy. There were a bunch of shaved-head people in rubber body suits talking to each other by the bar.

"Sup?" said one of them to Vlad as they walked by.

Then they saw a weird band with a bunch of pale people moaning, playing Congo drums, or turntables. They were a bunch of pale-couples dancing close together.

Heather and Vlad sat down. (Okay when he is with Heather he shall be called Vlad and when he is teaching he'll be called Mr. Von Gooshy, okay? Remember that!)

Vlad said, "This is a private vampire club."

Heather said, "Really? Awesome."

"So do you want anything to drink?"

"Yeah!"

A couple of drinks later…the couple were really making out. Heather looked over and saw this lumberjack type guy with 3 other vampires all over him biting his arms.

Heather looked utterly grossed out. "Omg! Eww!"

"What's wrong?" asked Vlad concerned thinking she was talking about him.

"They're sucking his blood!"

"Oh, sorry I forgot. Here…let's go somewhere else." Vlad led Heather into a separate room.

"What's this?" asked Heather.

"It's a karaoke bar…but at least you're not allowed to drink blood in here."

"That's so funny! What songs do you have?"

"Vampire songs…I'll sing you one!" Vlad got up on the stage and grabbed the microphone. The music started…it was gothic music.

(Okay I don't know all the words to the song but here's some of it)

The jury is coming coming to tear me

apart all this bitching and moaning

come on its fine

I'm not from this world

Lonely and fading

Heart-broken and waiting

For you to come

We are stuck in this world

There's nothing for me…for me

Heather sighed. Her Dada teacher/boyfriend was so hot. "How romantic." She said dreamily.

Meanwhile Nehal and Jamie were in the heads room debating on what to do.

"Wanna go out on the school grounds?" suggested Nehal.

"Sure." Jamie answered with a shrug. He took Nehal's hand as they walked outside together.

It was a beautiful night, it was deserted but beautiful.

Nehal and Jamie walked by Hagrid's hut hearing loud noises.

Nehal looked at Jamie, an odd expression written on her face. "Is somebody getting murdered?"

Jamie laughed but then realized that he probably shouldn't have because he got a glare from Nehal. "I'm sure Hagrid's just…playing with Fang. Come on let's go to the lake."

Once they reached the lake they both sat down. Both of them sat like that for a couple of minutes, glad to be in each others company and not wanting to ruin it by speaking.

"I brought some food with me. Do you want some?" Jamie asked, showing her the bag of food he had brought.

"Why did you take food?" Nehal asked, holding back a laugh.

Jamie blushed. "I thought one of us would be hungry."

"Aww your sweet. What did you bring Jamie?"

"Doughnuts!" (Yummy!)

"Oh good thinking." Nehal said munching on a doughnut.

Although the two of them didn't talk much, it was a testament of how comfortable they both had become in each other's presence that no words were needed to be spoken.

Nehal and Jamie turned to face each other and before she knew it, Jamie's face was only inches in front of hers. She closed her eyes, waiting for the kiss. Nehal leaned forward and gently pressed her lips onto Jamie's lips. He responded by moving closer and making the kiss more passionate. His arms had started to roam over her body and she mimicked him, feeling every inch of his upper body. (Ow!) Although Nehal was enjoying this she didn't want to go too far at the moment. So whenever Jamie's hands roamed a little too far, she would gently push them away to where she was comfortable until Jamie pulled away.

Jamie said, "What's wrong baby?"

Nehal replied, "I don't know." She was a little embarrassed about this.

"Why?" asked Jamie

Nehal shrugged self-consciously and tried to get up, but he held her down.

"It's alright if you don't."

Nehal smiled at his answer and leaned back in his arms happy to be with him.

After a few minutes it started to get cold.

"Can we head back?" asked Nehal.

"Okay." answered Jamie.

They walked back and entered their common room. Nehal was about to kiss Jamie goodnight and remembering what happened that day, changed direction and kissed his cheek instead.

Both felt a bit awkward about the exchange and walked up their separate stairs. As Nehal was changing into her PJ's she felt bad and thought that she owed Jamie a better explanation. She walked across to his door and opened it…without knocking…

"Jamie I'm-"Nehal stopped in mid sentence. There Jamie stood with no shirt on. Nehal thought, "God he looks hot." She then stopped gaping at him. "Er…I thought I owed you an explanation." She walked over to him and said casually, "Quidditch did some good to you!" She patted his muscular stomach, and looked into his eyes. They stared at each other for lasted ten seconds when Jamie dropped his gaze.

"Nice PJ's!" (Their blue by the way, incase anyone wanted to know, LOL) Jamie turned to go to his bed. He was about to get in when Nehal stopped him.

Nehal said, "Wait!" She hesitantly grabbed his arm and grabbed and kissed him fully on the lips.

Jamie pulled her gently toward him and returned the kiss. Nehal pushed him onto the bed and started French kissing, her hands running through his hair.

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Jamie woke up next morning and found Nehal sleeping on his chest, fast asleep. He gently pushed back some strands of hair that fell on her face. She stirred and opened her eyes. Nehal suddenly realized where she was.

Jamie joked, "Loved your explanation."

"Uh-oh!" muttered Nehal.

"Don't worry…its Saturday." (Ahaha, that's actually really funny. The next time someone says uh-oh I'll say that line, okay I tote think I had too much coffee this morning…3 mugs of it! Whoa baby! Plus I'm listening to the Final Countdown! Best song ever!) Jamie looked intently at Nehal.

"Jamie?"

"Hmm?"

"It's a Friday! And we have classes in 20 minutes!" Nehal jumped out of bed with Jamie behind her.

"Shit! Damn alarm clock!" shouted Jamie.

On the way to the great hall, Jamie said, "Are we gonna start fresh?"

"Yepp, we can start today."

"Okay…but what are we neutral?"

Nehal looked at Jamie. "I'm not exactly sure yet, I'm just not ready for sex yet…"

"So can we still kiss?"

"Of course!"

They both burst out laughing.

They reached the Gryffindor table and Danielle raised an eyebrow. Nehal could see why.

Jamie and her clothes were not exactly neat, and looked like they just made out!

"Jamie, turn to me!" Nehal started fixing his tie, and in turn he brushed her hair enjoying the grooming session. Nehal said, "Okay, so we look a little more presentable."

"Stay still for a second!" Jamie did a neatness spell and they looked better than ever. He also somehow managed to do a make-up spell. (On his girlfriend not himself!) "You look enchanting." He said softly brushing her hair aside.

Jackie's eyes widened. "Omg Jamie can you do me next! I want to look enchanting too! But I want pink eye shadow instead of that neutral tone that you used for Nehal."

Jamie sighed. "Okay." He performed the spell again.

"Oh wow that looks really good." commented Heather.

Jackie looked in Heather's handy mirror that she carried with her. "Thanks Jamie."

"Okay it's my turn now!" said Harry excitedly.

Hermione and Ron rolled their eyes.

Ron said, "Harry I don't think you need to do this."

"But I want to impress Hagrid!"

"Honestly." muttered Hermione.

Nehal looked at Diego who was beside Danielle and noticed that he looked like he didn't get much sleep. "Danie, what's up with Diego?"

Danielle looked at Nehal guilty. She told Nehal what happened. "We were dancing but I sort of…fell asleep on him."

Nehal laughed. "I'll tell you my Valentine's Day story later…" Nehal gathered her books and went to Astronomy class with Jamie for their class. On the way there Nehal brought up the subject that she was getting excited about. "Jamie?"

"Yeah?"

"I never gave you my present."

"You got me a present?"

"Uh huh. Quidditch practice…just the two of us. I learned a new move and I want to show you it." Nehal smirked and walked to class leaving Jamie standing there with his jaw hanging open. His girlfriend was just full of surprises.

A/N: Hey everyone. Wow this chapter was long. But it was fun to write. So I might be able to update another chapter by tomorrow because it is a short one but we'll just have to see…

Rosepetal05- Aww you got Danielle. That's good!

Poisonous Tosspot- I liked your comment on Mr. Tepper. I've had teachers like that before too…it's not fun. Oh and Smale too but he's more fun. I agree with you on Mr. Von Gooshy being Machiavellian, he really has all the qualities. Hmm…