Alexander Whittaker led his friends just a couple minutes walk away to the Leaky Cauldron, which was surprisingly busy, for the time it was.
"Here we are," he announced, turning around to his friends, then looking down at the ground.
"The Leaky Cauldron? This is your favorite place?", Chuck asked him, eyebrows raised.
"Obviously, if I took you here," he retorted. Beside him, Blaise chuckled, "Well let's not stand around in the cold, let's go on in."
The group of five swung open the door and looked around. Most of the tables were taken up, and all of them were surprised with the amount of people.
"Anyone got any idea why the extensive amount of people tonight?", Draco asked.
Briana spotted the culprit. "Found it!", she pointed to a small, swinging chalkboard hanging in the window that read:Drinks half-off after 1am
They all grunted in understanding. Alex asked, "It's already after 1am?"
"It's 1:09, bro," Draco confirmed. "You should go get us some drinks while we get a table."
Briana gave Draco a firm look, "Draco, I don't exactly think more alcohol is what any of us need right now."
He frowned, while Chuck and Blaise chuckled. "You better listen to mummy, little Draco," Chuck teased.
"Yeah, I wouldn't cross her," Blaise agreed, still slightly laughing.
"Shut up, you brown-nosers," he sneered at them.
"Right, I'll just order butterbeers, then...", Alex walked off and the other four went to find a table.
They were able to find a booth large enough for their group, off in one of the corners. Even though the place was almost filled with people, the Leaky Cauldron wasn't all that noisy. It was a rather comfortable placed to be settled in. After the four of them had taken their seats, Alex approached them with five butterbeers in his hands.
The five teenagers sat together, observing the other people in the environment, drinking their butterbeers happily. At one point, Blaise looked at Alex expectantly, "So?"
"So what?", Alex asked, confused.
"So, why is the Leaky Cauldron, of all places, your favorite place?", Blaise elaborated.
"Because, I used to come here all the time with my parents when I was really little. Plus it's where I met you guys, five years ago," he smiled to himself.
"Ah, yes, back when we were juvenile delinquents," Chuck smirked, apparently recalling fond memories of his younger years.
"What do you mean, 'back when', you guys are still juvenile delinquents!", Briana laughed.
"We may be delinquents, but we're not juvenile! Somewhat immature at times, but never juvenile," Draco retaliated.
"Exactly, thank you for that, Draco! And by the way, I'm pretty sure you're a delinquent too, Briana, so don't try and act like the innocent one of the group," Chuck eyed the top of her dress, as Briana followed his gaze, then gave him a sneer as she self-consciously pulled the top of her dress up.
Briana stood up, "I'll be right back, okay? I'm going to the loo."
"Be any longer than 5 minutes and I'm coming in there," Draco warned her. She smiled at him sweetly, then left to the restroom.
The front door swung open and the four boys instinctively whipped their heads around to see who was there. To there dismay, it turned out to be two out of three people who made up the so-called golden trio; Harry Potter and Ron Weasley. They also seemed to be accompanied by Seamus Finnigan and Dean Thomas. A classic group of four Gryffindor boys.
"Oh brilliant, just who I wanted to see," Blaise mumbled, drinking more of his beverage.
"I never thought I'd see those four out this late, ever," Chuck commented, surprised by their appearance.
"Yeah, well I don't want them here," Draco was unhappy.
Alex stared at Draco, "Hate to break it to you, mate, but you can't exactly make them leave."
"I think we'll be able to find a way," he replied, standing up. He motioned for Chuck to follow him, which he gladly did; Chuck loved a bit of drama, here and there.
The Gryffindors were still standing in front of the door, their eyes searching for an empty table big enough for their group, when Chuck and Draco approached them.
Seamus rolled his eyes and loudly exhaled, "Fantastic, just who we wanted to see tonight."
"What do you want, Malfoy, Solomon?", Harry asked them, trying not to act too annoyed by their presence.
"You could lose the attitudes, we were only wondering what you four were doing out this late?", Draco asked, barely interested in their answer.
"We could ask the same of you two. Isn't it past your bed time?", Ron attempted to insult them, but they only laughed.
"Nice try, Weaselbee. Unlike you lot, we're sane enough to hold our own without out mothers telling us what to do," Chuck laughed lightly as Ron glared heavily at him.
"And if it's any of your business, we've just been showing an old friend of mine around town," said Draco.
"Well if he's anything like your new friends, we should be going," Harry mumbled.
"She, Potter. As in female. And exactly right, it's about time you cretins walked out. We don't want to have to send you home, crying to your mummies."
At this point, they were extremely angered, especially Ron, who retorted, "Oh, a female friend! Why am I not surprised? Did you have to sleep with her to make her hang out with you for a day?"
"No, actually Ron, I think it's just another one of his usual sluts that just follows him around everywhere, like Parkinson," Seamus laughed.
That comment made Chuck angry and Draco furious, and just as Draco was about to do something, Briana appeared between him and Chuck.
"What's going on here?", she looked between the two of them with her eyes slanted, then turned to look at Harry, Ron, Dean and Seamus. Her eyes widened for a second, upon realizing who Draco and Chuck were interacting with, then whipped her head back around to her two friends. Briana was aware of the fact that Draco didn't like Harry; he'd told her before, so she knew something bad was going down.
Without thinking, she told her best friend, "Dray, I know you don't like these people, but is a confrontationnecessary?"
He protectively put an arm around her waist pulled her close to him, eyeing his enemies the whole time.
Chuck answered her, "We were just trying to get them to leave, so we wouldn't have to be in the same building as gits quite yet."
She looked up at him, "But shouldn't we be going now, anyways? We have a few other places to go."
"Fine, whatever, we'll leave. Whatever it takes to get out of their company," Draco motioned to Blaise andAlex that it was time for their departure.
Chuck pushed past them rudely, while Briana smiled at the group of Gryffindors, "Place is all yours now."
Pulling her out of the Leaky Cauldron with him, Draco commented, "I know it's in your nature Bri, but stop being so nice to them."
She mouthed the word "sorry" to them before she and the others in her group were standing outside in the cold night air.
Ron, Seamus, Dean and Harry were all extremely surprised about how nice and actually decent looking (in this lighting, anyways) Draco's friend was. But more than anything else, they were shocked at how easily she was able to control Draco and his friend, Chuck. The four of them stared around at each other for a moment, then finally sat down at a table.
Outside, the group of five were discussing what just happened. Blaise was laughing at the whole scene, "That was hilarious. You guys were hilarious. I could tell you were going to murder someone, Draco. But then Briana came in, and she has complete control over you. Well, almost, but not completely."
"If Briana had come a minute later, she would have found the lot of them bloodied up and on the floor. The things they were saying...", Draco trailed off, getting angered again.
Chuck put a hand on his shoulder, "Hey, man, it's all over now, right? What's done is done, we have all school again in less than a month, we can get them back then, yeah?"
Draco nodded, while Briana hugged him, trapping his arms, trying to calm him down as well.
Alex thought of something that he hoped would make Draco a bit more peaceful once again, "Draco, why don't you take us to your favorite place now?"
Briana let go of him and grinned, "Yeah, that sounds wonderful! Come on, it'll take your mind off this."
Draco nodded, "Alright, come on you lot."
He started walking ahead and the rest followed closely. Chuck couldn't help from commenting, "See, if it weren't for us, you'd still be very worked up and whatnot."
"Shut it, Solomon," he smirked lightly.
"Ah, what would you do without us?", Blaise chuckled again, causing Alex and Briana to laugh along with him.
And they were on their way to Draco's favorite place.
Two down, two to go.