They ran to the common room as quickly as they could, still dripping when they finally reached the gray wall. "Halloween," they stuttered shivering and the wall pulled apart before them.
Hurriedly they went into the common room where they saw that huge group of people, also soaking wet.
"I guess the BBQ had already started when it started raining," Ash muttered as she saw her fellow Slytherin's shiver and walk towards the rooms in order to change.
"No BBQ today guys, its pouring out of bucket out there," a 5th year called out to them hugging herself.
Ash rolled her eyes, "No shit, Sherlock".
"Don't worry, people! We're still gonna celebrate returning to Hogwarts!" Draco chimed from one of the couches and got up. His hair was still dripping but he had dried of his clothes. "We'll just have to relocate the party into the common room, it'll be a blast." The people in the common room cheered and started setting up the things they planned for the BBQ in the common room instead.
Still shivering due to the wet clothes, Ash and Tracy ran to their room to get changed and tell the others about the party relocation.
When they finally reached their room, Pansy and Daphne where already dressed and ready to go to the party.
"Hey guys!" Tracy said while she started stripping out of her wet shirt and pants.
"Hey... What happened to you guys? Fell into the lake?"
"Wish we had. No, it started raining outside. The party was relocated into the common room." Ash told them as she also started stripping out of the clothes that were clinging to her body.
"Damn. Now I have to change again!" Pansy wailed.
"Why? What your wearing looks stunning," Ash tried to calm her. Looking at Pansy's get up. She was wearing a light green summer dress with matching high heels and a matching green jacket on top.
"Are you seriously asking this? This is an outside dress, but if we're going to party inside I need to wear a inside dress," she explained as if it was common sense. Ash just frowned and turned away.
"Why are you all dressing up like this anyway? It's just a dorm party."
"Just a dorm party? No, no Ash, this isn't just a dorm party. Tonight's party is the time you show all the guys out there what your made of. It's the night to make them lust for you, make them crave you. If you work it right on this night, you won't have any troubles to get any of those guys out there do to you bidding."
Ash looked up at her room mates and furrowed her brows. Through with trouble they went to get with some poor bloke. She didn't understand all this commotion, just for a fuck and a broken heart. She thanked the Merlin that she wasn't one of the people who needed a boy desperately.
"So Ash, did any of the guys catch your interest yet?" Daphne asked.
"No not yet," she answered with a light voice but somehow that statement felt to her like a lie, when Draco's image popped into her head. His icy gray eyes, his platinum blond hair that looked so sexy when she saw him just a minute ago in the common room, when they framed his face in their wet form... his rose coloured full lips that had such a hypnotic pull to them for her... quickly she shook her head. Bad Ash, bad. Draco is a no go and you know it. Still the memory of the kiss filled Ash's mind.
"What about you guys?" she inquired hoping that she would be able to get rid of the image by talking.
"Well, I've heard Blaise was still be available," Daphne answered happily, Tracy just shook her head no.
"For me this will be a very special night, you see, today is the night I'll fish myself Draco again. With this dress, he has no way of escaping me." Pansy smirked as she looked at herself in the mirror. She was wearing a black mini dress that showed way to much cleavage and ass for Ash's liking, but if that's what she liked.
"Again?" she asked confused.
"Yeah, Pansy and Draco were an item for the whole of 2nd and 3rd grade, but he broke up with her as he found out that there are other fish in the pond, if you catch my drift. However, she and Draco always end up together again at some point in time." Daphne explained as Pansy hissed at her and then giggled.
"Well my mother always said that you needed to keep guys on a loose leash, if you wanna keep them." Pansy giggled, "anyway, we'll go on ahead, don't take too long!"
Together with Daphne - who was wearing a dark gray skinny jeans and a green tank-top revealing her chest - she went out of the door and towards the common room.
Seeing that the others were already finished, Tracy and Ash hurried to get ready as well. Tracy, already having her shower things in the bathroom went into the shower first, while Ash tried to fish out the toiletries out of her trunk and started picking out a couple of outfit ideas.
While she waited for Tracy to finish in the bathroom Ash contemplated which outfit to wear. Either she could wear a jeans-blue skinny jeans with boots and a black blouse that was tight round her waist loosened right under her breasts. Or she could wear black leggings with a nice gray strapless mini dress that hugged hear breast nicely and frilled out as it hung down.
High light the cleavage, or not so much, highlight or not, highlight or not...
Just as she was about to give up Tracy came out of the bathroom and looked at the outfits Ash had laid out. "Nice, " she whistled, "which one your wearing?"
Ash looked up at her with puppy eyes. "You tell me."
Tracy chuckled and looked at the outfits again. Then nodded at the gray dress with a smile.
Grateful for her help Ash took the outfit and wet into the bathroom to get fresh and dressed for the party.
As Tracy and Ash made their way down the corridor, towards the common room, they could already hear the music blasting.
Excited they looked at each other before opening the door. The room was illuminated by the warm green lights and a couple of floating lights that someone had magicked there. One of the sofa colonies was pushed against the wall and had made space for a dance floor on which several people already grooved to the beat of the music and ground their hips together.
Next to one of the moved sofas Ash could see a bar and pulled Tracy to grab a drink. Once they both had a bottle of mead in their hands they looked around to see if they'd find some familiar face. While she looked around Ash noticed the shock in the eyes of the first years as they where introduced into the Slytherin way of partying.
All of a sudden she saw one of the more cocky first years go over to the bar and try taking an alcoholic beverage but quickly one of the goons stood in front of him, handing him a butterbeer. Ash smirked turning to were Tracy had stood a moment ago, only she wasn't there any more. Quickly she glanced around herself again, trying to catch a glance of where Tracy could have gone to.
Then she saw the clique and started moving towards them. "Hey you lame people, why are you sitting around on a couch? Isn't this supposed to be the party of the year?" Ash grinned and snaked her arms around Blaise and Theodore who were standing. Both boys looked down at her and the rest of the group turned to look up at her.
"What do you mean?"
"What do I mean? You can't tell me that you think a party is sitting on the couch until your to drunk to think straight and then doing stuff! In my dictionary a party means actually having fun while drinking, flirting and dancing. So come on people lets get this party started and dance a bit!" Ash grinned and pulled the two boys in her arms towards the dance floor, sure that some of the others would soon follow suite.
The moment the three friends appeared on the dance floor a new song started playing and Ash raised her arms in excitement and grinned at the boys. Then she started dancing like she used to in her Germany, when she and her friends visited discos and took part in the muggle apri-ski parties.
Sure to an onlooker her dance moves could have looked a bit sexual, but if you were actually dancing with her you could feel that she was only dancing for her own fun and didn't have any second thoughts. Yet she managed to excite the two boys enough that they stayed on the dance floor with her.
After two songs the others still had not joined her. Ash sighed and looked over to the group who where watching the three teenagers. Smiling she waved to the others to join them. No one moved.
With an annoyed sigh she stopped dancing, confusing the other two as she made her way over to the group again and grabbed Daphne and Tracy. "Come," she insisted, "its fun."
"No, I haven't drunk enough to dance yet." Daphne said
"Oh come on you loser, you don't need to drink to dance, just feel the beat..." and leaning closer to Daphne she added, "and Blaise."
Daphne turned red as Ash pulled away from her and winked. She didn't need any further convincing. Also Tracy seemed to give in as she saw Daphne start to dance. Soon the others also followed suite and started to dance.
A few hours, a couple of songs and a handful of mead bottles later the party was still far from ending, although the first and second years had been sent to bed and a couple of others had slid into the dorm quarters together. Including Pansy and Draco, about half an hour ago.
Ash had unconsciously watched the whole night as Pansy had pressed herself to him, groped him, smooth talked to him and near to humped him on the dance floor. Furthermore, she had seen him glancing towards her whenever Pansy was sucking off his face once again.
Not once had Pansy parted from Draco's side and he hadn't pushed her away, only made sure Ash was there to see. See them dancing, see them making out, see them slid through the door together.
She had tried to tell herself that it didn't matter, that he was an ass anyway and that she wasn't the type of girl to go for such a guy...
Frustrated she let out a sigh and sat down on the couch. 'What the hell is happening to me? I've only known the git for two days now and already I'm getting jealous of... wait a second. Jealous? Why, by Merlin's beard, am I jealous? Sure he's hot, yes he does have the most extraordinary eyes that I have ever seen and hell yeah, that little peck on the lips I gave him this morning sent electricity all over, making my body beg for more. But I'm not in love with him, just attracted... right?'
Ash slumped into the couch and took a deep breath. I'm just a game to him. A new girl to conquer... probably even has a bet running with someone: how long it'll take for him to win this quest Ash snorted and slapped herself. "No chance in hell is he gonna win this quest," she muttered to herself and stood up to get another bottle of mead and dance a bit more.
Another half an hour flew past and Ash was starting to feel light headed, after she had drunk a glass of fire whiskey - the mead was gone. She was standing all alone at the edge of the dance floor, taking a break when an arm snaked around her waist and a harsh voice whispered "Hello sexy," into her ear, making her jump.
"Draco! What the hell, you gave me a heart attack!"
He snickered and tightened the arm wrapped around her waist. She caught her breath. "Wanna dance?" he whispered into her ear again and started walking onto the dance floor with her.
"Where's Pansy?" she spat, quickly looking around, thinking she could maybe escape - silently hoping she wouldn't see her.
"She's sleeping," he told her and started swaying his and her hips with the music.
"Listen Draco, I know about you two. Don't dare think that you'll be able to conquer me," she hissed at him.
He just smirked and snaked his arm further around her waist, pulling her even closer to him. "Don't worry, I'm not trying to conquer you Weasley. We're just friends dancing with each other." he whispered to her once again. His breath brushing her skin, making her shiver.
"Just making sure you knew." she whispered back and started moving her hips to the music on her own accord.