AN1: Whooo, another chapter. This one is also one of my favorites...but chapter 12 still beats all.
Dedicated to: TheCrysinglyInsne1. Thanks for the 380th review!! Hope you enjoy this.
Disclaimer: HAHAHAHA! (Laughs uproariously) You are delusional. Are you seriously thinking that I own Harry Potter?
PS: Let's make Oliver Wood a seventh year. 'Kay?
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"Is this really necessary? I mean absolutely, seriously, necessary?" Hermione questioned with a pleading note in her voice.
"Yes!" Her friends shouted simultaneously.
"We do this for every chick night, so why break tradition?" Ginny stated.
"Yeah, well it's a stupid tradition and that's why we should break it." Hermione muttered under her breath. Ginny's eyes narrowed dangerously.
"What was that, Hermione?"
"Nothing."
"That's what I thought. Now, let's start our game. Alyssa! Truth or dare?"
"Dare." She declared after a moment of thought.
"Ooh! I have one." Elaine smiled wickedly. "I dare you to cast a disillusionment charm on yourself, sneak into the 7th year Gryffindor boys dorms, steal a pair of Oliver's knickers and wear them over your pajamas for the rest of the night." The group squealed in excitement and Alyssa blushed at the thought of wearing her not-so-secret crush's knickers.
"I'll do it."
About twenty minutes later the group was reassembled in the Astronomy Tower and Alyssa was triumphantly wearing a pair of Oliver's boxers.
"Oooh," Elaine giggled. "He's a boxers guy!" The group dissolved into laughter.
"Okay, now it's my turn to choose. I'm going to have to go with Hermione. Truth or dare?" Hermione glared at Alyssa, she had been hoping to not be picked. Futile as that hope was, she could still dream.
"Dare."
"Someone think of a great dare for Hermione." The tower was completely silent for about a minute until Marie burst into hysterical laughter.
"I've got one! Hermione, I dare you to go into the head dorms but not into your room; into Malfoy's. Once you're in his room, I dare you to climb into his bed with him and take a picture. Then once you've taken the picture, kiss him until he wakes up. Then we run." Everyone, every single person in the room—except Marie—gasped in shock. Hermione spluttered in indignation. "You can't be serious! That's insane. Malfoy and I have a relationship already. We mutually loathe each other. I can't just snog my enemy! That's just wrong."
Little did the occupants of the tower know, Hermione was lying through her teeth about the whole 'mutual loathing' thing. That was just a charade. Nobody else knew yet, but Draco and Hermione had been dating for two months. Inwardly Hermione was cringing at the dare; she thought it might somehow give it away if she didn't communicate to him in time that it was a dare. He would kiss her back and then their secret would be out.
"Can you modify it a little?"
"Nope." Ginny said calmly. "You know the rules: do the original dare or take the forfeit. And unless you want to streak through the Great Hall at breakfast time, I suggest you do the dare."
Hermione cringed, "I'll do it. But who came up with that forfeit challenge anyway?" Alyssa sheepishly raised her hand. "It seemed funny at the time."
Hermione rolled her eyes and stood up. When nobody stood up with her she looked around, very much confused. "Aren't we going?"
"Not like that you aren't." Her friends had gleams in their eyes.
"No way!" Hermione shouted. "You said nothing about what I would have to wear! Can't I just wear what I am now?" They shook their heads.
"Before we have you go into Malfoy's room, we're going to stop in your room first and see if you don't have anything more...seductive to wear." Hermione groaned. She knew exactly what she was going to end up wearing. Why didn't she hide that set of clothing—rather undergarments—under her bed? As the group quietly made their way to the head dorms, they didn't notice Harry start to follow them. Before one of them turned around and got him caught, he slipped on his invisibility cloak. They didn't know that once discovering what they did at chick nights, Harry and Ron made it a habit to follow them every month. They would listen in at the game of truth or dare. To the two boys, it was a bizarre game that brought misery on one person and fun to the rest of the group. It baffled them to no end. This month, Ron was in detention with Snape so Harry was by himself; not that he minded. If it was just him, it'd be easier not to get caught.
While Hermione and the rest of her friends were in Hermione's room, Harry waited outside. He had an intuitive feeling that he shouldn't go in there. When Hermione came out, his mouth dropped open. What is she wearing?! Oh man, Ron would flip if he knew what he missed...but I don't think that I'm going to tell him. It's probably better that I don't.
Hermione entered Malfoy's room, leaving the door open so her friends could make sure she did her dare. She placed her wand on his bedside table and quickly positioned herself next to him. Ginny silently came in, with a camera in hand and was about to take the picture. She stopped. Hermione motioned for her to hurry up but Ginny shook her head.
"Robe." She mouthed. "Take it off." Hermione rolled her eyes before taking off her bathrobe and revealing a black lace bra and panties set with a see-through black baby doll over it. Her aunt had gotten her from Victoria's Secret. It was the first time Hermione had worn it, and it was most certainly going to be the last. Once the robe was on the floor, Ginny took the picture and left the room.
Hermione took a deep breath and placed a light kiss on his lips. She turned back to Ginny who shook her head. "Make it convincing." She mouthed. Hermione just sighed internally. Ginny wanted convincing, Ginny would get convincing. She slowly eased herself under his covers and wrapped her arms around his neck. She kissed him hard on the lips and felt him start to wake up. Thinking quickly of how to warn him not to respond, she trailed kisses along his jaw line to his ear where she whispered to him, "Draco, it's a dare. When you wake up, be mad." She kept kissing him, moving her mouth back to his lips. This time he responded to her his tongue flicked into her mouth and he wrapped his arms around her almost bare waist. Only after feeling her lack of proper clothing, did his eyes snap open.
"What the hell is going on? Why are you...what the hell are you doing?" Malfoy yelled angrily. He sounded so mad that it even convinced Hermione for half a second. Hermione squealed and hightailed it out of his room.
"Run you guys!" She yelled. Harry didn't move for he was frozen in shock. He couldn't believe Hermione had just done that. She wasn't the type of person to do that for a dare. Was she? If Harry didn't know any better, he'd have thought that she and Malfoy had something going on that wasn't just loathing.
"We wanted you to make it convincing--but damn! That was beyond what we thought you would do. It looked like you were his friggin lover or something!" Ginny exclaimed, a note of awe in her voice. "And he even kissed you back before he realized who you were!"
They were almost back to the Astronomy Tower when Hermione paused. "Oh crap you guys! I forgot my wand. I left it on Malfoy's table." Her friends' eyes widened.
"I'll go with you." Alyssa volunteered.
"No it's okay. I'll be right back. I think he'd be less mad if it was just me. After all, he doesn't know that you guys were there." She turned around and headed back to where Malfoy was. Harry decided to follow her. He didn't believe that she would 'forget' her wand.
Once again, he barely made it through the portrait hole without getting squashed. Hermione steadily made her way back to Malfoy's room. When she got there, he was just sitting on his bed. At the sight of her, his eyes lit up. Then, bold as brass, Hermione walked up to him, placed herself in his arms and tilted her head up; waiting for a kiss. Needless to say, Malfoy didn't keep her waiting. It wasn't long before they had shifted their positions, Draco straddling Hermione, with her robe halfway off. It was at this point that Harry left the room, his face a sickly green. That image would haunt him for weeks.
But despite that he smiled to himself, not really that surprised that the two were together. Opposites attract, right? As long as she was happy, then he was okay with whoever she decided to date. Harry chuckled to himself knowing that Ron would be crushed and furious at the same time. He closed the door silently behind him and made his way to his dorm; he had seen more than enough tonight.
"Well, what happened?! What did I miss?" Ron started pelting Harry with questions as soon as he walked in. Harry grinned.
"Nothing really; it was actually rather boring this month."
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AN2: There was my try at the clichéd truth or dare plot. What did you think? REVIEW!
lovelove, Amanda