Chapter Five:
Hermione arise about 5am, her head splitting from the blinding sun, she assumed that they must've forgotten to draw the curtains taken by the amount of light causing her eyes to feel a white hot burning. She buried her head under her pillow and blindly grabbed at the curtains closing them. Relieved by the darkened room, she sat up, reaching for her glass of water on her bedside table, she downed the clear water in one gulp. Upon instinct she grabbed for her wand, only to remember that Ness had locked them in a cupboard. Groaning she pulled her tied body from the warm comforts of her bed, she trudged towards the door to her ensuite but in her half dead state she tripped on the corner of the sofa, spinning round and landing upon a warm body asleep on the sofa. Shocked she tried to push herself up, it missed the side of the sofa and fall harder onto the soft warm body, waking him up
"Hermione?" Came the voice that shook her out of her half asleep state,
"Malfoy?" She asked,
"We're back to informal surnames I see" he said wincing after opening his eyes too fast, and the loud voice echoing through his head
"Why are you in my room?" She asked jumping up off him
"Your welcome by the way" he said laughing softly, his voice lost quieter now.
"What for?" She asked
"Tucking you into bed after your passed out" he smiled her eyes widened in shock
"Why?" She asked
"We're mates" he replied passing her a bottle of water "go back to bed, get some more sleep it's early" he said rolling over and closing his eyes, Hermione downed half the bottle and crawled back to her bed.
Theo woke up at 10, amazed to see that he was alone in the girls room, assuming that everyone was awake already he dragged his body up, squinting at the searing pain of the hangover. He walked downstairs to see the rest of the gang eating breakfast.
"Theodore, glad you can join us, what can I get you for breakfast?" Ness asked in an over enthusiastic voice.
"He'll have the full fat fried breakfast" Hermione said passing Theo a mug of coffee. Ness smiled and walked into the kitchen returning minutes later with a full English cooked breakfast.
"What is this hangover?" Theo asked clutching his head in pain
"Muggles don't have potions to help." Hermione said simply
"How do we get rid of it?" Blaise asked
"We go into town" Hermione said. They all agreed and once they finished their food. Hermione ran upstairs and grabbed her purse and phone, amazingly the phones had been picked up well and there was now minimalistic texting (being as they were constantly together so there was no need to text).
They turned the other direction this time. They walked down a long winding cobble stone road and ended up in a town similar, yet very different to the one the other side. The first shop they. Are across was another health and beauty shop, this one had a pharmacy. They went inside following Hermione lead and she picked up a few packs of tablets, they paid and walked outside,
"What is that?" Blaise asked,
"Paracetamol" Hermione said popping a few tablets out and handing two to each person, she grabbed a bottle of water and swallowed the pills, handing round the bottle as the others followed her example.
"How long until the pain goes?" Ron asked clutching his head from the blinding pain of the sun.
"Remind me never to drink again" Draco muttered.
"The next objective is to sweat it out" Hermione said
"I don't know how you plan on doing that Granger" Theodore smirked provocatively Hermione gave him a smirk worthy of a Slytherin. She walked towards a large building, once they were inside they were overwhelmed with the smell of chlorine,
45 minutes later they had all signed up to a gym membership. Deciding that the pills had kicked in and they felt somewhat better they went into town, with the intentions of buying some clothes suitable for the gym, despite tear huge shop just the other day they failed to buy anyting they could wear. But as they had an unlimited supply of muggle money, no one minded another shop.
They walked into a shop resembling one they saw on the television, (The concept of adverts still blew the minds of them all except Hermione) they found some clothes which they considered to be "appropriate"
They were on their ways back to the gym when they came across another shop, a "Gadget" shop as Theo called it. There the gang stood blankly as Hermione chatted to a man named "Adam" about something called "The Internet" ten minutes later they arrived in the Gym. They changed and met in the fitness room, amazed to find that they were the only ones. Hermione showed them the magic devices known as "Treadmills" "Rowing machines" and "Cross trainers". They settled into the equipment when Draco spoke up.
"So Hermione…what is the Internet that you spoke of?" He asked
"The Internet…ok basically the internet is…imagine a door, to which you could ask any question and it would be answered. The internet is basically everything" Hermione said. This led to blank faces so she spent the next hour explaining everything That the Internet was is and could be.
Eventually they had all worked up a decent sweat and an appetite. Relieved that the worst of their hangovers had gone. The entire session went surprisingly well, they all got along…mostly. There was an instance when Ron was on the Treadmill, missed his footing went flying backwards and ended up straddling Blaise on the rowing machine, only to be harshly pushed off his lap and landed up landing head first into a weight, his buttocks pressed in Theo's face.
Needless to say that the Slytherins didn't take this as a compliment, and the twins had a good giggle about it. Hermione and Ginny tried to be supportive but couldn't suppress their giggles when Theo mention the sudden appearance of a rather unattractive full moon. Especially as Ron had gym clothes a size too big (child born of hand me downs) And the reason he fell was because the bottoms fell down and pooled around his ankles. Leaving him horrendously exposed.
After the "incident" Hermione decided that it was about time they headed back to the changing room.
They changed and walked back into town, Hermione grabbed an internet-making-Thingybob as Draco called it. They made their way back to the house. They went to their rooms and showered, then changed, they agreed to meet up a few hours later to go into town for tea.
Ron grumbled back to the house, the others were engulfed in a comfortable natter, but Ron was far from amused. He hung a few steps away from the rest. He was sore and embarrassed and envied Harry for hiding in the warmth darkness of the room.
The Slytherins and the twins went to shower and change, still exchanging in friendly natter. Ignoring them Ron moved over to the other side of the room. Joining Harry and Neville. Ron didn't join the Slytherins and the twins that night.
Six pm rolled around rather fast. The guys and girls felt quite relaxed despite the intense work out. They changed into some clothes seen as smarter than before. Once they were presentable they left the house, notifying Ness that they would not be requiring a meal that evening. They walked the town they went to first was on the right. They went back down that road an not even 5 minutes later they saw another path to the right. Seeking adventure they walked down there. It looked like it was going to a dead end hut when they got there, they found a mini-Golf course. Hermione paid the rental fee for some clubs and balls and taught the others how to play.
They soon got the hang of it and made their way round the 18 holes. Eventually, after a LOT of giggles and laughter they finished. Hermione obviously coming first, and George and Fred, tied in last pace with 186 hits.
Once they had finished with the mini Gold they felt the afternarth of the gym with an empty stomach. It was now about half past 7.
"What do you guys fancy for food?" Hermione asked
"Something quick and tasty" Blaise suggested. Hermione shrugged and walked into a local pizza shop. After explaining to the guys what pizza was, they all ordered the buffet. They helped themselves. Stacking their plates high with pizza of all various flavours, amazed by the flavour.
"We need this back in the magical world" Ginny moaned quietly, not to besheared by nearby diners.
After finishing and paying, they made their way back to the house. They walked upstairs, bade goodnight to each other and went into their rooms.
-Meanwhile-
The gang left without Ron, not that he intended on going. About 10 minutes after silence overtook the room, save for Harry and Neville's hushed whispering, Ron walked over to them and sat on the bed next to them. Harry slammed the book he was writing in closed and they both looked at Ron, an odd alienated look upon his face.
"What are you guys doing?" He asked. Neville and Harry exchanged a look
"Look mate, if we tell you, you have to promise not to tell the others. I mean I don't know what's gotten into Fred, George and the girls, it those Slytherins are bad news. Personally I can't believe Dumbledore trusts them enough to leave them with us. I'm scared to be honest mate" Harry said
"Glad it's not just me then. You should have seen them last night. I didn't drink anything they gave me, didn't trust a drop of it, but Hermione and Ginny practically lapped it up. I recon their under some sort of curse" Ron said, happy to get it off his chest
"Then why do you hang out with them?" Neville piped up
"Trying to Suss out their game but it's bloody difficult. What are you doing?" Ron asked Once again Neville and Harry exchanged a glance.
" Ok but it stays only between us three" Harry said