Your Joking, Right!
Chapter 10: The Big Day!
(A/N: Thanks again for the reviews, 74 of them, Wow! Ok last chapter, some of you didn't pick up on the fact that they were fighting about Hermione, Blaise thinks Draco wants Hermione for a one-night stand and that's it, and he doesn't want to see Hermione get hurt because she is his cousin and one of his best friends. Also, Machika: you had a really good point, I didn't really think about that, but too late now, I will just have to go with the flow. Now on with the Chapter!)
Hermione, Ginny, Blaise and Draco were all rudely awakened by a loud banging and shrill voice coming from the portrait hole leading into there common room. Hermione and Ginny grabbed their robes and headed into the common room where they met with Draco and Blaise. From here the voice was crystal clear.
"Drakey, Drakey are you up yet, come on you have to help me pick out what im wearing for the ball!" came the voice of Pansy Parkinson from the other side of the portrait hole.
Hermione, Ginny and Blaise gave Draco withering looks, it was because of his annoying date that they were up at 5 am on a Sunday. The trio proceeded to the steps, leaving Draco to deal with his date. When Ginny and Hermione reached there room they put a quietus charm on it, and proceeded to do the same when they went into the kitchen 10 minutes later, realizing they were not going to be able to go back to sleep. Blaise also came into the kitchen a few seconds later.
"Damn that Pansy Parkinson, she used to do this at the Slytherin dormitories to but I never dreamed she would come here and do it, this was my year to actually get some rest." he exclaimed.
"She must be really taken with Malfoy to be doing this at 5 am!" Ginny grumbled, putting emphasize on 5 am.
"Oh yes, she would die if Draco wasn't around her for at least 10 hours a day." Blaise replied, sweeping a strand of hair from Ginny's eyes and giving her a kiss on the forehead, she appeared to be in a very foul mood.
Ginny got up to make some coffee she had just magicked out of the air. "Draco better not come in here, Ginny might just strangle him." Blaise said to Hermione, which caused her to laugh.
"Nah not Ginny, she'll hit him with her bat-boogey hex, those are her specialty." Hermione casually replied.
Ginny returned to the table with coffee for the three of them, Blaise wished for doughnuts out of the air, the three had been eating and talking, while still waking up, for at least 15 minutes before Draco walked into the room, looking highly-annoyed, but not as annoyed as Ginny.
"Get rid of your stupid girlfriend?"she snarled.
"She is not my girlfriend" he replied, an icy tone coming to his voice.
"Then why the bloody hell is she waking us up at 5 am?" Ginny yelled, getting to her feet and drawing her wand from her robe.
"Because she is Pansy Parkinson!" Draco replied simply, taking a seat and grabbing a doughnut "It is her job to be annoying!"
"Well she should get a raise" Hermione put-in, this caused everyone to chuckle. "If Pansy would get a galleon for all the times she was annoying, she would be richer then every family in the wizarding world combined"
About half an hour later, all four were once again in the common room, dressed in their worst clothes. They were about to head down to the Great Hall to meet with the other prefects and start decorating for the ball. The four were one of the first people to show, Hannah and Ernie were already there, but that was it. No more then 5 minutes later the rest of the prefects showed up, Ron, being last gained an aggravated look from Hermione.
"Ok prefects, first thing I want you to do is divide into pairs!" Hermione commanded, once everybody had found a partner Blaise gave them the next set of directions.
"1 person from each pair, come up to me or Hermione and grab a sheet of paper, each piece has a specific job that you and your partner are to work on!"
Each pair came up and got a piece, Hermione took one for herself and Ginny and Blaise took one for himself and Draco. Hermione passed out all the sheets then went to find Ginny and begin there job, going down to the kitchens and foreseeing the cooking, Hermione had made sure to save this sheet for herself and Ginny.
Hermione and Ginny had stayed down in the kitchens for 2 hours, they had also made there special treat while they were down there, brownies with a potion in them to change the appearance of the person who eats the brownie, such as, if Ginny ate a brownie, her appearance that gets her noticed the most, in her case her hair, would change to what she would like it to be, blonde. They could not wait to see what would happen to other people, the brownies also had a dose of Veritaseum in it, no liars tonight, both girls had said. They proceeded back up to the Great Hall to find everybody had finished, the hall looked marvelous. There was fog hanging in the air from a spell Dumbledore had given Hermione, live bats flew from one end to the other. There was an eerie, spooky feeling to the room and Hermione loved it, she had always enjoyed going to muggle haunted houses when she was younger, but in the magical world a haunted house, or hall in this particular case, was taken to new height. The house ghosts were floating around the hall and fake blood was splattered about.
"Wow!" was all Ginny could say.
"Its awesome" Hermione exclaimed, "Just as I pictured it."
Ginny ran to the other end of the hall "Wow Mione' look" she exclaimed pointing at the large pond in the corner of the hall.
"Yeah it's a magic swamp from Fred and George but I enlarged it and put a few boggarts, charmed as Inferi, into it. But they will not attack you, I had already formed Harry and he flipped out, until I told him they were only boggarts of course. There are also a few boggarts charmed as dementors around here too, they also will not attack you either."
"Wow this is neat Hermione!"
"Thanks, I really put are ideas to work , huh?"
"Yeah you sure-"
"BOO!"
"AHHH" Both girls took off running to the other side of the hall.
"What the bloody hell was that!" Hermione yelled.
There answer came soo enough when Draco and Blaise sauntered across the hall to them, laughing their heads off.
"Aww did we scare you ladies?" Blaise asked.
"Noo!" Ginny replied.
"Ha, yea right, you ran like little girls, and Gryffindors are supposed to be brave!" Draco said rolling his eyes and smirking.
"Shut up ferret!" Ginny replied.
"Not again with the ferret stuff!" he sneered. "Well Head Boy/Girl I must compliment the both of you, this is going to be the best Halloween Dance I have ever been to in my 7 years here!"
"7 years!" Hermione said "It's a miracle to think on September the 1st next year I will not be in a rush to catch the train for Hogwarts again, isn't it?"
"I will" Ginny replied, happily but a little sad at the same time.
"Oh don't worry Gin, just because were not here with you doesn't mean we won't keep in touch, just think how many letters you will be getting next year!" Hermione laughed.
"Yeah Gin, don't worry we still love ya!" Blaise said putting his arm around his girlfriend.
"I know you do!" Ginny said, kissing him, which caused a major snogging session.
"Major PDA!" Draco stated as himself and Hermione continued making there way to the dormitories.
When they reached the Head room, the two sat down on the armchairs facing the fire.
"Its amazing how I came back this year expecting the same, you, the stupid slimy git, Blaise the Slytherin weird-o, and Ginny, me and Harry and Ron the inseparable group that almost all the teachers loved, but it is soo different." Hermione said.
"I know, its soo weird how I came back and you and Blaise were friends, Ginny and him more, Potty and Weasel barely had you around, and I actually like you, a lot."
"Gee thanks Draco!"
"Your welcome, its true though, soo you know!"
Hermione walked over to the couch, plopped down beside him and gave him a hug,"I like you a lot too!"
Draco and Hermione just kept staring at each other, Draco moved in, Hermione could see his blue-silver eyes very clearly, he was mere inches apart, then...
BANG, Ginny and Blaise slammed in through the portrait hole, Hermione and Draco hurriedly moved to opposite ends of the couch.
"Well come on Mione' we have got 5 hours to get ready" Ginny grabbed her best friend off the couch and they proceeded to make their way into their rooms to get ready for the Ball.
"5 hours" Both boys, staring at the path the girls had just taken to their rooms, one looking as little upset.
"Perfect timing Blaise my-man!" Draco snarled.
"Now what did I do!" Blaise said, cooly.
"I was just about to tell Hermione how much I liked her then bang, there's you two at the portrait" Draco said.
"Ohh so that's why you two were sitting soo close." Blaise laughed until Draco chucked a pillow at him, hitting him square in th face.
"Gin, can I ask you something?" Hermione asked, as Ginny brought out there dresses.
"Sure, anything, you know that Mione'." Ginny replied, dropping their robes on her bed, then gracefully sitting on the edge of Hermione's bed facing her best friend.
"How did you know you liked Blaise?"
"Easy, when he came over your house, I would try to act like I was the best around him and not even knowing it, I would defend him, even though I didn't have to, I would always try to look great around him also., plus we would bicker and fight about the dumbest things." Ginny replied smoothly.
"Check, Check, Check, Check!" was all Hermione could think. "Gin, can I tell you a secret, that you cannot tell another soul."
"You know you can Mione'!"
"Pinky Promise?"
"Pinky Promise, Now get on with it!" Ginny said.
"Gin, I think I like someone!"
"Who?"
"Ohh um, do I have to tell you who?" Hermione asked,
"Of course you do!" Ginny said, she was excited now.
"Ohh ok umm... well.. he's really hot, he's not in Gryffindor, and we live with him, 3 guesses who"
"Oh my GOD, Hermione, you like Malfoy!" Ginny screamed at th top of her lungs, and pointed an accusing finger at her best friend.
"God, Gin' shut the bloody hell up" Hermione yelled, clapping a hand over her mouth, she had never cussed before.
"The rooms are sound proof, no worries!" Ginny replied, "So what are you gonna do about it?" Ginny asked.
"I don't know, we were gonna do something until we were rudely interrupted!" Hermione replied.
"Ohh so that's why you were sitting so close on th couch!" Ginny said, slapping her hand to her forehead, it had just dawned on her. "He was gonna kiss you!"
"Duh, now let's get ready for the ball!" Hermione replied, jumping off her bed and grabbing her robes.
(Well guys there chapter 10, next chapter, The Halloween Ball! I am sooo sorry it took me soo long to update, please don't hate me! I had a hectic weekend, tomorrow, if I can, I will post 11 and 12, that's if I can though! Ok well press the cute lil' review button! XoXo NiCoLe OxOx!)