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Chapter 4 – Thankful for Maturity and Alcohol
Hermione
Lavender had been so right; he really was the perfect man for her and now she wasn't with Ron anymore. She had dated Ron for about 2 years until they both realized their relationship wasn't going anywhere and they were just better friends. Lavender and Ron had started dating about four months ago and honestly, she was so happy for her friends. They were both obviously worried that she would hate them for it, but she realized that they were perfect for each other. Plus, she had known that Lav had a crush on Ron for years, but never acted on it out of respect for her.
Since she and Ron had ended things, she been on a few dates. She attended a college Halloween party last year with Cormac Mclaggen. Ewwww never again! Poor kid was sweet, but the most horrible kisser and overbearing as hell! Then there was Viktor Krum. She had met Viktor through some friends at one of the parties she had attended with her roommates at a local club. He was older, tall, and all muscle. They went on a few dates and shared a few very hot nights in his apartment, but she didn't see anything long term or serious with him, so they had ended their arrangement. Arrangement?! Really Hermione, call it what it was, friends with benefits! You couldn't even hold a conversation longer than ten minutes without tearing each other's clothes off! Shaking herself out of THOSE thoughts, she focused back on her laptop.
She was looking at a set of lesson plans he had sent her to understand how he wrote his and the type Hogwarts used and wanted. She looked up when she realized he wasn't lecturing and noticed he had sat at his desk and looked like he was grading papers. He looked better than she remembered. She realized it had been almost four years since she had seen him in person, pictures on his social media didn't do him justice, but she took a moment to study his features now. His arms looked amazing in the crisp white dress shirt he was wearing; it looked like it was tailored to him perfectly. His shoulders were slightly broader, his jaw line was just as strong, and that mouth. His mouth was set into a small smile of amusement and confusion as he read over the papers in his hands, but she could also see the confidence in his eyes that came with loving what you did in life. Could he be any cuter? WAIT! Is he wearing reading glasses?! YES! Dear Lord, was it suddenly 1,000,000 degrees in here? No, just her, oh okay! Sitting adorably on his nose were a pair of black reading glasses that stood out perfectly against his alabaster skin. She choked on air and coughed to compose herself. He looked up at her and when he noticed she was staring at him again; he winked and went back to his papers. She grabbed her phone out of her bag and sent a quick text to her girl's group chat that she desperately needed a girl's night Saturday night! She had to tell them about everything that was going on and possibly partake in a huge glass of wine, or five!
Draco
Did he really just catch her checking him out? Yep! He smirked to himself as he went back to grading the elements quizzes, he had given his freshman classes yesterday. He was going to have to keep himself in check for the semester while she was in his room. He needed to prove to Dumbledore and Ed that he was more than capable of taking on any task they seemed fit to give him, but damn being in close proximity with her for that long was going to be hard! He needed to relax and destress this weekend, he needed a plan. He went against his own class rules and grabbed his cell out of his drawer and sent a quick text to Harry, Blaise, and Theo to meet at his townhouse for poker night on Saturday night. They had an understanding that poker night was sacred. He made a mental note to stop by the liquor store to get a couple bottles of some good and strong whiskey and a few cigars. Maybe if he could get them totally shitfaced, they wouldn't be total dickheads, and he would be able to express his frustrations with his current "co-teacher". They haven't had a poker night in a couple months, and they were all due for a good drunken night without worrying about work the next day!
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Saturday night saw the four men good and thoroughly drunk. They had already gone through two bottles of Jack Daniel's, shot by shot, and were now making their way through pitcher of blue motorcycle, a recipe Theo had picked up making a few years ago from a bartender he dated in college. Now they were sitting around Draco's poker table in his home office and he wasn't doing the best tonight having lost three games and $100 already. "So, what did you really call us over tonight for," Blaise accused, "you usually don't call for poker night without having a reason. Usually, we just plan it and show up here." The others laughed and the blush that crept up Draco's neck was making him uncomfortably hot. Here we go… "Well, y'all remember that girl from when I was a student teacher?" They nodded, eyes widening, "Well, she's my new student teacher."
"No Shit! The hot, brunette, cheerleader with the perky tits?!" Blaise asked. "Haven't you been hung up on her", Draco sneered at him and wished he was sitting closer so he could punch him right in his smug face. "Well, at least it's not illegal now!" Harry pointed out chugging the rest of drink while staring at his cards. "Fuck! I Fold!" "It wasn't "illegal" then either," Theo said while making air quotes. "She was eighteen back then right? However, it WOULD have been frowned upon. Which I think it still is since she's technically under you. Damn! I fold too!" "More like WISHES she was under him!" Blaise choked out while laughing and choking on his drink. "Oh, grow up", Draco glared. Harry and Theo both laughed out loud while Blaise stood his ground, smirking. "Don't get so worked up Drake! You know I'm telling the truth! Even if you don't wanna admit it to us!" Oh I want her under me, over me, bend over my desk in those chunky heels, fuck. Get a hold of yourself Draco! "I don't know about y'all, but I bet she is a freak! You know those bookish science nerds usually are. Imagine the teacher/student fantasies with this one now that the classroom is yours. Oh wait! You probably already have!" That time he threw a handful of poker chips in his direction.
After a couple of daring glares and raises and calls between Harry and Draco, Blaise spoke up again. "Hey Wait! Didn't she date that trooper that Harry has partnered with a few times! The ginger dumbass with the sexy younger sister with the gorgeous long legs and tight ass!" Draco rolled his eyes. "Yes, Ron. He's not a total dumbass," Harry answered, "pretty okay cop. But you are right about his sister. I've talked to her a couple times when she would bring some food down to the station from Mrs. Weasley. She's hot! And she is fit! Played softball all through college." Blaise's eyes glazed over for a second and then he zoned back on Draco. "Well Drake, if you hook up with your hot student teacher, make sure you give her hot red-headed friend my number. I wouldn't mind a younger woman. The ones our age just wanna get married and start popping out babies and shit!" Theo fake coughed and shot a sneaky smirk at Blaise's statement, "well as a HAPPILY engaged man to one of those "our age women wanting marriage and babies" maybe you just aren't mature enough for a woman your age!" Blaise winked at Theo. "Maybe I'm just upset Daph nabbed you before I could!" Theo winked back and just like that they feel back into their game.
Hermione
Saturday night saw the four girls tipsy at a local club sitting in their booth with their mouths hanging wide open. "NO FUCKING WAY!" Pansy Screeched. "How did that happen?" Did you know Snape retired?" Lavender added. "WAIT! He works with your dad?! OMG Are they friends now?!" Ginny was laughing through her words. Hermione was blushing and trying to calm herself while answering their questions. "I found it weird that Dumbledore didn't tell me Snape had retired, but I guess he thought I knew, and I don't normally talk to dad about his job. All I know is now for the rest of the semester I have to stand being in the same room with him and learning from him, again." She exhaled into her seat more as they asked more questions, the alcohol clearly getting to them. "Well, is he as hot as a teacher as he was as our student teacher?" "Does he still wear those tight dress pants?" "Is he still single?"
The last one was a question she had been asking herself. She hadn't seen any girls on his socials for a while. Not that she was checking! There was a tall leggy blonde about six months ago in a few pictures with him, but she never noticed if he had changed his relationship status. Fleur Delacour. Skank! Now wait that isn't nice. She is probably a perfectly nice woman. They just looked so good together. She was too pretty. Skank. Hermione took a big gulp of her third liquid MJ and prepared herself. Well… might as well give the harpies what they want.
"First, he is hotter now! His shoulders look like he is working out on a daily basis. Yes, to the tight dress pants, but I think they are really well tailored. He wears reading glasses while he grades papers, laughs and jokes with his students, and yesterday he had his sleeves rolled up to his elbows, so I guess he has stopped caring about covering his tattoo." They all were swooning and glazy eyed at her words. "I'm guessing he is single, I may or may not have stalked his Facebook page yesterday… again." Hermione was blushing so hard now that she could feel the burn from the heat on her skin. "You Facebook stalked him, wow Mione, you've got it bad," Pansy interjected her question answering. "She always has, Pans," Ginny piped up and giggled, "everyone knew that. She probably has dirty dreams about him. What was that one from sophomore year Mione, you and him on Snape's desk with you in your cheer uniform?"
DAMMIT… she was going to murder Ginny Weasley! Lavender spit her drink out and choked gasping for breath as Pansy hollered with laughter, they both shrieked, "WHAT?!" Hermione dared Ginny to say anything more with her death glare. "Oh yeah! She was moaning his name in her sleep one night so loud that it woke me up! I woke her up and made her tell me what the fuck she was dreaming about! It took me threating to tell Viktor that he wasn't pleasuring her enough that she was having hot sex dreams about a guy she has never even touched for her to tell me!" YEP! SHE WAS DEAD! "Oh my god Gin and you never told us about it! What the fuck?! Moaning out his name in your sleep Mione, really? Was dream Draco really that good? Damn!" Pansy gushed as she and Lavender were fanning themselves. Hermione knew she was good and drunk, because the next words out of her mouth would have never came out when she was sober. She fixed a dirty smirk on her face. "Well I mean he was an amazing kisser back then, so I mean I guess it would be much of a stretch for my mind to imagine sex would be spectacular."
Draco
"Fuck Nott! How are you winning? You used to suck at poker!" Draco was scowling as he looked around the table. Theo smiled a killer smile, "well law school will teach you a pretty good poker face. Gotta have a good one for the courtroom ya know! He had now lost $125, Harry had lost $95, and Blaise had lost $200. Blaise had sat this round out stating he needed to run to piss and running out of the game room. Just as the laughter from the three other men died down, Blaise returned to the room whistling out a breath. "You know Malfoy, it's probably a good thing that it isn't illegal to lust after your student teacher, cause dammmmmmmmnnnnnnnn." Blaise said into the phone in his hands. His eyes and his smirk as evil as ever as he held the phone up showing a recent selfie from her Instagram taken at a club. She was wearing a hot pink mini dress that looked like it was made of latex or something and her wild hair was flowing down her back. Draco snatched the phone and studied the picture while Harry and Theo were trying to see over his shoulder. "FUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKKK!," Draco blew out a breathe he felt like he had been holding for hours. Fuck! Holy Shit! Damn! That dress is.. FUCK! She was wearing a matching set of heels that had to be four inches high. Yep! My heart is going to give out. I'm dead right here. God Damn! Wait… "Blaise, how did you find her Instagram? I don't even follow her on there?" Honestly, I didn't even think to look to see if she had one. Blaise just smugly shrugged his shoulders and said, "she has it listed on her FB page. I stole your phone when you weren't looking and looked her up." Draco then noticed he was holding his own phone and not Blaise's and he growled under his breath. He looked more at the picture and then noticed the date. She just posted this an hour ago.
"Looks like they are at that club down on Diagon Alley," Harry questioned noticing the set-up of the club. "Ginny and Lavender were talking about it the last time the girls came to the station. Apparently the "girls" get together there quite often." Blaise and Draco looked at him confusingly intrigued. Harry laughed as he continued remembering the conversation he had had with the youngest Weasley and Ron last week. "Yeah, Ginny, Hermione, Ron's girlfriend Lavender, and Pansy. They are still as close as they were in high school apparently. You should know them Draco, seeing as you were their teacher." Harry couldn't help but throw a jab at Draco's expense. He laughed as the boy in question threw up a middle finger and a "fuck you Potter" in his direction. Draco was still staring at his phone, imagining Hermione in that dress, preferably in his bedroom, when Harry shot up choking and laughing. "Well, it looks like a girl's night at the club. Look at this!" Blaise jumped up and took Harry's phone and there was that whistle breath again. "Hot Damn! I should have been a teacher! Draco you lucky bastard!" Draco took the phone and felt his blood travel south as he heard Theo and Harry dying of laughter while he started at the picture on the screen. The four aver mentioned girls where all standing in front of a bathroom mirror of what had to be the club. They were all obviously drunk, Ginny and Hermione were leaned over in laughter. You could almost see down the front of both girl's dresses. Control your breathing and your cock! You have seen breasts before! Dammit you're a twenty-four-year-old man, not a fucking teenager! He rolled his shoulders and relaxed his breathing. He needed a witty comeback dammit! "Blaise, if you would have gone into teaching you would have been fired or in jail by now." Blaise just shrugged and nodded while smirking. Undenounced to Draco, across the table, Theo had picked up his discarded phone and double tapped the photo on the screen.
Hermione
Hermione was dancing with Ginny, heartbeat matching the bass of the music when Pansy came over and pulled them both back to their booth. Hermione had left her phone on the table, so when the notification popped on the screen, the light shocked Pansy and Lavender causing them to look down. Both girls gasped and Pansy ran to get Hermione and Ginny to make them look at the phone. She kept calm and sneaky as they all sat back down at the booth. "So, Hermione, do you only stalk Draco on Facebook?" Hermione laughed too drunk to notice the smirk on her face and the tone of her voice. However, Ginny was not. "Yeah," Hermione purred, "why?" "Because a " " just liked your Instagram photo from tonight." Hermione sobered a bit immediately. "WHAT?!" She grabbed her phone from Pansy and stared at the screen while the other girls were cackling with laughter. "Does he follow you?" Hermione went to profile to check and just as she thought she shook her head no and continued to stare. He would have looked her up. He was thinking about her, no! no way he's thinking about her, right? She scrolled through his Instagram and found the photos he obviously didn't post to Facebook.
Her throat dried as she stopped on a photo of him working out shirtless. His muscles of his back and shoulders were rippled, and she wished the picture could move so she could see them move. She then noticed the Hogwarts crest on the wall and football lockers. He was using the Hogwarts workout room. Interesting. Ginny blew out a breath and grabbed the phone. "God Damn! If you are gonna be a wuss and not go after him, I'm going to. Just so you know! I mean FUCK look at him!" Pansy and Lavender scrambled to grab the phone next. "There's another tattoo!" Pansy shrieked pointing at the back of a tattoo peeking around his arm. "I think it's a snake!" Lavender squealed. Hermione grabbed the phone back and looks at it closer. "No," she smirked wickedly, "It's a dragon." Dammmmnnnn… "Wait! Can we get back to the fact that he liked your photo?!" Ginny piped up again. "You should message him on Facebook and tell him to stop insta-stalking you!" Hermione, still drunk, had started nursing her next drink. "Oh My God NO! I can't do that. I have to work under him for the next two months." "Well, if you message and flirt him now, maybe you can work UNDER him longer than that!" Pansy added as a help for Ginny's statement while wagging her eyebrows! All four girls laughed and Hermione blushed. She actually thought about doing it.
Would he answer? Would he flirt back with her? I've caught him checking me more than once.
Wait, maybe he wouldn't. Maybe it was a mistake and he didn't mean to like the photo?
She would have to explain to her professor why she had to get a new placement.
Nope! She wasn't doing it. There was no way he felt that way about her and she couldn't jeopardize her placement and her future job over a silly crush on a former teacher!
Even was a walking Adonis and she wanted to lick the muscles! Good lord Hermione get ahold of yourself!
You're Drunk!
Little did she know, while she was having her drunken internal monologue, Ginny and Pansy had sent him a message from her phone.
A/N- Hello Darlings! Queen on the cliffhangers here! hahaha! I know this story is taking a turn for the fast! Haha! I wasn't excepting it to be a slow burn at all, but I did have to at least have some context! I hope you all are enjoying this story as much as I am! As always, much love to my beta bestie belledanielle for fixing my mistakes!
Xoxo, GreyHale
