*Disclaimer: I do not own any Characters belonging to the Harry Potter World.*
I know, it has been forever, and I am sorry. At first it started out as being extremely busy, and then it escalated into writers block. This is not a party chapter, so I'm sorry if i disappointed any of you. I have decided to split that up into two chapters, just so that they can be super fun and super long.
I hope you guys enjoy this one, and I will get to work A.S.A.P on the next two.
-Rachel
Chapter Eleven
"Everyone in, in, in." Professor Vector demanded of her sixth year students who were waiting outside of the arithmancy classroom. "Everyone sit, get out your 'Numerology and Grammatica' textbooks and complete the problems from pages two-thirteen and two-fourteen. You may work on your problems with your bench partner, begin."
"Mind if I sit?" Cassi asked Hermione, who already had her textbook open.
"Not at all. Have a seat." Hermione smiled at her new friend as she took the seat beside her. "I figured you would sit with your brother."
Cassi shrugged and set her notebook and quill on her desk. "Looks like he got stuck with Draco again." She giggled.
Hermione looked behind her to the back of the classroom and sure enough an upset looking Draco was sitting beside a content looking Scorpius. "Malfoy doesn't really like your brother does he?" she asked when she turned back around.
Cassi shrugged again. "I don't think its dislike, as distrust."
"But he trusts you?" Hermione pointed out.
"More or less I suppose. It seems he doesn't really like what I have to say. He hasn't really talked to me since Monday."
"Why?" Hermione asked confused.
"I compared him to a muggle. Mind you, I have only known him for about a week. He isn't very complicated, he thinks he is, but he isn't."
Hermione giggled. "That makes sense as to why he would be so sour."
Cassi smiled and turned to her new friend, school work completely abandoned. "So, I heard that after I left of Monday, you and he left the common room laughing together."
Hermione blushed and looked down at her open notebook. "We weren't really laughing. He apologized for what he said that afternoon so I invited him with me to the kitchens."
"That's it? You didn't talk about anything else?" Cassi asked in disbelief.
"Well, he apologized for calling me those nasty names, and that he didn't really believe the nonsense he was spouting. We talked about classes, it didn't really get too personal, it was a nice change though."
Cassi smiled. "It sounds nice."
Hermione had a faint smile on her face as well. "Everything seems different."
Cassi looked at her mother, confused. "How so?" she asked.
"The snakes and the lions never got on well before, but now, I have three friends from Slytherin and hopefully a fourth."
"How do you think tonight will go with the boys?"
Hermione made a worried face. "I am not too sure. Ron was pretty angry at breakfast, but he will go anywhere Harry goes, so it might not be a problem."
"Are you excited for tonight?"
Hermione dipped her quill in her ink well to start her school work, and shrugged. "Yeah I guess. I'm not really sure what we are supposed to be doing tonight."
Cassi shrugged. "Trivial girl talk mostly. Maybe some muggle sleepover games. Pansy acquired some firewhisky, we also have butterbeer and pumpkin juice."
"Firewhisky is against the rules." Hermione whispered, in shock.
Cassi giggled. "It will be alright, Hermione. You don't need to drink it. You can stick to the other beverages. I will make sure no one tries to make you do something you don't want to do."
Hermione make a face of disapproval. "I still don't like it. What if a teacher catches us?"
"We will be in the room of requirement, so there isn't anything to be worried about. The teachers will probably make their way into Hogsmeade when the feast is over."
Hermione sighed in defeat. "Alright, as long as we are responsible about it." Hermione dipped her now dry quill and started her second row of equations. The two friends sat in silence for a few minutes working on their long neglected class work.
"Whose idea was it?" Hermione asked after she had finished her first page.
Cassi looked up from her work in confusion. "Idea about what?" she asked.
"The sleepover, whose idea was it?" Hermione asked again.
"Oh," Cassi giggled. "It was my idea. My friends and I have a sleepover every Hallowe'en. It's my favourite holiday that doesn't include my family. I figured you guys wouldn't mind keeping with my traditions."
Before Hermione could answer Professor Vector was calling for the class's attention. "Everyone!" she called. "Whatever you have not finished in today's class will be issued for homework, and everyone who has finished, congratulations, you are off the hook. Dismissed, have a good Hallowe'en."
"I thought that class would never be over." Scorpius said from behind his sister and Hermione, who were just starting to pack up.
"That bad, huh?" Cassi giggled.
Scorpius groaned. "I was done the work about twenty minutes after class started. I sat there the whole class bored out of my mind."
"Why didn't you talk to Malfoy?" Hermione asked.
"He made it very clear that we were not to converse this entire period."
"Bummer. Well, I am off to Herbology, see you after lunch." Cassi said as she grabbed her bag and bolted from the seventh floor classroom.
"She doesn't stick around often does she?" Hermione asked.
Scorpius laughed. "No, she likes to make conversations short and to the point. Let's go or we will be late for 'History of Magic'."
Hermione grabbed her bag and made her way out of her Arithmancy class, Scorpius not too far behind her.
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"Finally, classes are over until Monday. Let's get our party on!" Theo celebrated.
"You guys have to wait until after supper." Daphne giggled.
Theo pointed his fork at Daphne. "That doesn't mean we can't have some pre-party drinks, does it love?"
Daphne made a face at Theo and turned towards Pansy to talk about the preparations that still had be made before the other girls arrived at the room of requirement.
"Hey guys." Cassi greeted as she sat down at the Slytherin table.
"Where were you?" Blaise asked.
"I ran into Fred and George, they had bags full of sweets and a few of their Weasley's Wizard Wheezes products."
"Mhmm, alright?" Blaise mumbled.
"Hey, Blaise, can I talk to you for second, in the entrance hall please?" Cassi asked.
Blaise looked her in confusion then looked to Draco before answering. "Uh, sure. I guess you can. What's it about?" he asked while standing.
Cassi looked over at Draco as well before answering Blaise. "Just a favour, nothing special." She looked at the rest of her friends and finished. "See you guys later." And walked off.
"What do you think that is about?" Theo asked when Cassi and Blaise left the table and were long out of ear shot.
"A favour, obviously." A very oblivious Goyle stated. Pansy rolled her eyes at Goyle.
"Maybe they are sneaking off to get some action." Theo said in a suggestive tone.
"Excuse me?!" Pansy asked with a hint of jealousy in her voice.
Theo rolled his eyes and sighed. "They are dipping their wands into each other's cauldrons, if you understand where I am coming from."
"Theo," Pansy stated calmly. "Cassi has a boyfriend, there for she couldn't be doing… that… with Blaise." Pansy's anger started to rise the farther along she got into her sentence.
"Pans, just because you are in a relationship, doesn't mean you can't cheat, it just means you shouldn't." Draco stated.
"They are not shagging!" Pansy shrieked as she threw her fork at Theo Knott and stormed away from the Slytherin table.
"You are really thick, you know that, right?" Daphne gave Theo an unimpressed look and ran after Pansy.
"What has their wands in a knot?" a very insensitive Theo asked while rubbing his temple.
Draco shook his head in sympathy for his thick headed friend. "Pansy is jealous." He stated.
Theo looked at his friend in confusion. "Over what?"
Draco shook his head in disbelief. "You really are thick." He laughed. "It would seem that Pansy fancies Blaise."
Theo looked intrigued. "Really? There is so much we can so with that information."
"Leave it alone Theo. It is none of our business."
"What's none of our business?" someone asked from behind Draco. Theo and Draco turned around to find Blaise looking confused. "Pansy's affairs. It doesn't matter." Draco waved the conversation away. "What did Cassi want?"
Blaise resumed his seat beside Draco and answered. "She just needed me to get something from our room, no big deal."
"What was it?"
"That is for me to know and for you to find out/" Blaise mused.
"So, you two weren't shagging?" Theo asked in disappointment.
Blaise was confused once more. "No we weren't. Why would you think that?" he asked in disbelief.
"Wishful thinking." Theo grumbled while turning back to his barely touched lunch.
"You're mental, you know that." Blaise shook his head and grabbed a sandwich. "Where are the girls?"
"They left. Party tonight, remember?" Draco lied.
"Girls." Blaise laughed and started to eat his sandwich.
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"Why is Theo so stupid?" Pansy shrieked to no one in particular.
"Pansy, calm down. You may just be over reacting." Daphne soothed from an over turned crate she was sitting on in the corner of the girl's bathroom on the first floor.
"Calm down?" she shrieked again. "Over reacting? Daphne, I am far from calming down. Why would Theo say something like that?" Pansy asked for the hundredth time since entering the bathroom. She had been pacing back and forth in anger and jealousy.
"I doubt Cassi would do that to you, Pansy. She was in the pub while we talked about Blaise."
"But what if?" Pansy plead in desperation.
"There you guys are. I have been looking all over for you." Cassi said from the open doorway.
"What do you want?" asked a seething Pansy.
Cassi looked taken aback for a second before she answered Pansy. "I thought we were going to decorate the Room of Requirement before it was time for all of us to meet up."
"What did you want Blaise for?" she asked, completely ignoring the fact that Cassi even spoke.
Cassi stepped into the bathroom, letting the door shut behind her. She looked over at Daphne, who just shrugged. "I needed him to grab something for me."
"What? A pair of knickers you left under his bed?! What, Cassi?"
Cassi stared at a very angry Pansy in shock and confusion. "What knickers? What are you talking about?
"Theo thinks that you and Blaise are sneaking around." Daphne clarified. "That is, apparently, the favour you asked of him."
"WHAT? No, I needed him to grab this." Cassi reached into her bag and pulled out a Slytherin Quidditch jersey.
"What are you doing with his uniform?" Pansy seethed in anger.
Cassi rolled her eyes and turned the shirt over so the back was facing Pansy and Daphne. Pansy looked shocked, Daphne was impressed. "I needed him to grab Draco's jersey for me. I didn't know where it was and I didn't want him to know it was gone.
Pansy sat down on the crate beside Daphne. "Why do you need Draco's jersey? I don't understand."
"I'm going to get Hermione to wear it tonight. Blaise and I plan on merging these parties tonight."
"Won't Hermione be upset about this?" Daphne asked.
Cassi shrugged. "Probably, but there isn't much you can do when you are dared to do it, now is there?"
"What do you think Draco will say about it when he sees you stole his shirt?"
Cassi shrugged again. "I don't think he will have any problem with it. And besides, I personally don't really care. Now, come one you two, lunch will be over soon."
Daphne stood up as fast as she could. "Finally, I can leave this stupid room. No offence Pansy."
"Mhmm." Pansy grumbled.
Daphne walked passed Cassi and exited the bathroom, leaving Cassi and Pansy alone together.
"Do you really think I would do something like that to you, Pansy?" Cassi asked, sounding kind of hurt.
Pansy sighed and slumped against the wall in defeat. "I don't know. I didn't think so until Draco said that, just because you had a boyfriend, didn't mean you had to be faithful to him. I panicked, I was thinking the worst things of you. I don't know why I chose to believe Theo, but I did, and I am sorry."
Cassi waved away Pansy's apology. "Don't worry about it. But tell Blaise about your feelings soon, or I will!"
Pansy chuckled and stood up. "Deal! Now, let's go and set up for tonight. It's going to be so much fun!
Cassi laughed and rolled her eyes. Following a now excited Pansy out of the first floor bathroom and up to the seventh floor to start their party prep.
Thank you for reading, once again. I honestly hope you enjoyed it, and if you didn't, that is fine too. Please review, positive and negative comments are welcome. If you don't like it, tell me, I would like to know.
The next chapter will be up soon, hopefully.
-Rachel