Chapter Seven

First Potions Project

Veritaserum (Truth Potion)

One Week After the First Day of Classes

Pansy, Draco, and Blaise were walking into the Potions room getting ready to start their first class project. When they got into the class there was Hermione sitting there by herself. Blaise turned and gave the other two a smirk and walked over to Hermione and sat down next to her, she immediately started to blush as he said something in her ear. Draco and Pansy just laughed quietly. Then Prof. Snape walked in and said

"Okay class we are getting started today we will be doing the Veritaserum Potion, and the partners you picked last week will be your partners for all potions and this one as well." Said Snape.

The four of them got to work right away and about an hour the potion was done and now they were going to try it out on their partners. Hermione and Blaise were first.

"Okay Hermione drink the potion now." Said Snape.

She drank it and a small blue light covered her body for a second, then it dissipated.

"Okay Blaise I want you to ask the questions first then Hermione can go, okay ask away."

"Alrighty then Hermione who do you have a crush on?"

You could tell Hermione was trying to fight the answer but the potion was too strong for her.

"I have a crush on you Blaise."

Blaise smirked and looked at his fellow house mates and continued with the questions.

"Why do you like me, what have I done to make you like me?"

"I don't know why I like you, I guess it is because you showed me attention unlike any other guy, and you are very attractive, and a very good kisser."

"Well this is the last question you can ask her Blaise make it a good one because she has one minute left before it wears off of her." Added Snape

"Okay Hermione what is the one thing you want from me?"

"I want you to ask me to Hogsmeade on a date and ask me to be your girlfriend."

Once she said her answer it wore off and she started blushing because she knew what she had said. Hermione knew then and there that she had to get him back for asking her those certain questions. It was now Blaise's turn and he too took the potion and a small blue color radiating off of him, slowly disappearing.

"Okay then Blaise why have you taken a certain interest in me this year?"

"Well at first when I came to school this year I said I wanted to find a girlfriend because I was sick of not having a date to hogsmeade. I was going to try and find someone from slytherin and I then I saw you and I thought you looked really pretty and I was trying to fight the attraction I felt to you because I knew none of my friends would accept it and understand it. then I decided screw it I liked you and I didn't care what my friends said so when they asked what was going on between you and me I would just tell them I was messing with your head, but I was really trying to get to know you."

After he finished with that answer the other four people in the room sat there in shock for a minute before Hermione asked the next question.

"Blaise what would you do if you found out that I already liked you before this year and I still like you?"

"I would be so happy that I would kiss you everywhere in the whole castle and shout out to everyone that I didn't care you were in Gryffindor and then I would ask you to be my girlfriend."

"Okay then Blaise if I were to ask you what you wanted to ask me right now what would you ask me?"

"I would say Hermione will you do the honors of dating me and becoming my girlfriend?"

After he answered this question the potion wore off and he sat there for a second thinking about what the hell he was going to do his friends heard everything he said about Hermione and he didn't want them to hate him. Then Hermione looked at him and just said yes and Blaise smiled at this and moved a little closer to Hermione.

"Well started Draco this is a surprise to me I never expected this one to ever happen why didn't you tell me Blaise or at least Pansy we are you're best friends?"

"I didn't tell you because I knew you would never accept it I know how you think Draco you agree with your father."

"I don't always agree with him but you are my best friend if you decided to be with Granger I am not saying I will be friends with her too but I won't on her as much as I do to potter and weasel."

"That is all I ask, and I hope that I can expect the same from you Pansy?"

"I am the same way as Draco I will be a little nicer but I don't know if I can be friends with her there has been too much bad blood between us since the first year."

"That's fine with me just try your hardest."

"Well now that, that is out of the way Draco and Pansy it is your guy's turn to drink the potion we will make Pansy go first since the girl went first in the last group as well." Said Snape.

After Pansy drank the potion the blue mist covered her body and went into her body as it did with Hermione, and Blaise then she was ready for the questions to be asked.

"Okay Pansy who do you have a crush on?"

Pansy really didn't want to answer this question she knew that Draco would then find out that she like him.

"Well Draco I like you I have for a little over three weeks now, I like your eyes, your hair, and your cute butt."

Blaise and Hermione were sitting there laughing into their hands at the look on Draco's face. Draco was sitting there thinking to himself what he was going to do about his because he had never had to deal with his best friend liking him before.

"Okay Pansy why do you like me besides the reasons you already said?"

"I like you because you are so sweet to me, you went to the dance with me because I didn't have a date and you tell me all the time how pretty I am and how beautiful I am. You always go out of your way to make me feel better and just last week you got into a fistfight standing up for me. In my eyes you are perfect for me, but I know you will never see me in that light I am just one of the guys to you and I have accepted it a long time ago."

"Draco didn't know what to think or what else to ask her so he just asked her a stupid question."

"Who else knows you like me besides the people in this room?"

"Umm. I think that Millie knows well I know for a fact that she does because I told her the night of the dance and she seemed happy about it."

Right after she answered just like the other two she woke up out of the trance the potion put on her and she looked at Draco and he diverted his eyes from her. She was really hurt by this, she knew in her heart that this project had just messed with her friendship with Draco.

"Okay Draco it would be your turn to do the potion right now but it seems we are out of time for the day we will continue with the potion tomorrow I will see you all tomorrow have a good day." Said Snape

After he said this Draco walked out of the class without saying anything to Pansy or Blaise and he headed to the Quidditch field to think some things over. When he left Pansy just starting crying as hard as she could and Blaise came over to her and gave her a hug.

"Hey Hermione I need to talk with Pansy I will meet you by the Great Hall around dinner time okay?"

"Yea that's okay I hope she will be okay."

"She should be but I will see you later okay."

"Okay bye honey."

Before she left they shared a quick kiss on the lips and she walked out. Blaise convinced Pansy to get up out of the seat and walk to the slytherin common room so they could talk. She could hardly walk because she was crying so much. Once they were in there Pansy let loose and started balling her eyes out harder then Blaise had ever seen her cry.

"Honey stop crying it will be okay trust me we both know Draco he will be back here in a little bit he is just confused right now."

"He is not confused he is grossed out by the fact that his best friend has a crush on him and I don't blame him at all I mean look at me I am gross and all the things he said to me about me being pretty were just probably to make me feel better about myself he really does agree with everything the ravenclaw girls were saying. Oh My God I just lost my best friend what am I going to do Blaise I don't know what to do right now I feel so lost."

"You did not lose your best friend you and Draco have been friends since you guys were five years old I don't think he will end the friendship over this trust me with this one okay, why don't you go to your room and lay down for a bit and I will send Millie up there in a little bit to tell you when dinner is."

"Okay fine I guess I am a little tired please try and talk to him, tell him I am sorry and I didn't mean for this to happen it just kind of did."

"I will tell him Hun don't worry your pretty little head about it."

Pansy then went to her room and fell asleep right away. Blaise knew just where Draco would be and walked out the Quidditch Field and sat down next to Draco.

"What the hell is wrong with you Draco how could you do that to Pansy just walk out on her like that do you know what you just did to her, as soon as you left she started balling her eyes out I had to carry her to the slytherin house it was like the bones in her body were gone or something she couldn't even walk."

"I'm sorry okay it's just I am not used to my best friend telling me she is practically in love with me, it shocked the hell out of me, and how could I do that to her, how the hell can she do that to me in front of everyone, I was embarrassed."

"You asked the damn question Draco and she just answered it like the potion made her do okay, it's not her fault at all she had no fucking control over what you would ask or what the potion would make her say out loud, if anything she should be the one embarrassed for you asking her that in front of everyone."

"God your right I really fucked up didn't I?"

"Yes you did now you need to go to her right now and tell her you are sorry she is completely broken right now. She was sitting there saying well he is grossed out because his friend has a crush on him, and she was saying I don't blame him just look at me I am gross and he did agree with the girls in ravenclaw. I mean she thinks that you telling her she was pretty was just to make her feel better and she doesn't think you really think she is pretty you really messed her up man."

"God I feel like fucking shit right now, I know I deserve for her to hate me don't I?"

"Yes you do but you can make it better by going to talk to her and work some things out. Draco what's wrong with you, I mean you have never been this upset by one of your friends liking you I mean Millie used to like you and you never got this upset about it ever."

"I don't know man it just got me thinking, I never thought of Pansy as a girl I always thought of her as one of the guys and hearing her say she liked me made me see her in a different light I mean she is really pretty. She does like me too."

"Are you trying to tell me that you think you might have a thing for Pansy too?"

"I don't know what the hell I am trying to say all I know is now I look at Pansy in a different light I don't know if I like it or if I don't I'm just really confused right now."

"Draco if you like Pansy then like Pansy don't try and be all tough and shit and say you don't know what to think. If you want to know what I think I think you should go to her right now grab her and kiss her and see how you feel afterwards and if there isn't anything then talk to her about how you feel, but if there is something there then tell her how you feel and tell her you aren't messing with her head you were just confused."

"Wow Blaise no wonder you always got more girls then I did you are almost too nice of a guy."

"Well being a nice guy got me Hermione Granger and I thank my mom for that one I was raised to be a nice boy well sometimes."

"Yea about that you and Granger together you know you are going to have to deal with her friends' right?"

"I am well aware of that and if they confront me about it I will just simply tell them well you fight me you lose Hermione as a friend, you accept me you keep her as a friend it's your choice."

"Well put Blaise well I need to go talk to Pansy now I will see you later at dinner."

"You guys will probably want some privacy so I will go get her and tell her to go to the room of requirement and meet you there."

"Okay thanks Blaise."

After that he left to go get Pansy and Draco headed to the room of requirement to wait. Either he was going to gain a girlfriend or he would lose a best friend.