After a week of awkward tension between Harry and Draco, Friday rolled around and with it came the weekly party. Draco started towards the alcohol as soon as he got into the room, and Harry eyed him from across the room.
By the time Pansy was calling them all to gather up for games, Draco was dizzy.
The game was decided to be Never Have I Ever and Pansy had brought along a little bag full of never have I ever questions that she placed in the middle.
"-And we'll go clockwise around the circle, taking turns to draw a paper. Any questions?" Pansy finished up telling the rules and everyone nodded in understanding.
"I'll go first this game," Seamus announced and drew a question from the bag, "Never have I ever ridden a Hippogriff."
Hermione and Harry were the only ones to take a shot and Hermione shuddered at the memory. She did not like flying.
Parvati went next, "Never have I ever stolen something."
Ron was sitting smugly as about half the circle took a shot when Hermione elbowed him.
"What? I've never stolen."
"Your dad's car?" Hermione reminded him, laughing as his face pinkened and he picked up a cup.
"Never have I ever fallen asleep in Binns' class," Padma said with a laugh. Just about everyone drank at that and murmurs of how boring the class was circulated. Hermione - who was the only one who didn't drink - shook her head as Harry and Ron guiltily took a shot.
"Never have I ever gotten detention," Lavender said. She hadn't gone to the last few and most were just fine with that, and where kind of bummed that she decided to show up again.
Hermione was about to put the cup to her lips when Ron said, "Wait, when did you have detention?"
"First year, remember?" When Ron still looked clueless, she lowered her voice and leaned towards him, "When we smuggled Norbert for Hagrid."
Realization dawned on Ron's face and his mouth made an 'ohhh' soundlessly and lifted his own glass to his lips.
"Never have I ever slept naked," Goyle said with a blush.
Harry went to tilt his glass back when he caught sight of Draco taking a shot as well and he almost choked. Had he slept naked in the dorms this year? Did I just not notice? His mind was suddenly a whirlwind of questions that were less than appropriate and he almost missed the next question.
"Never have I ever gone skinny dipping," Draco had said, his words slightly slurred from the alcohol and he then tipped his glass back, shameless.
Harry nearly choked again and Hermione looked at him funnily. Where was I for all this? He wondered.
"Never have I ever kissed on a first date," Pansy said happily and downed a bit of alcohol. She then looked 'round the circle to see Lavender, Blaise, Dean, and Seamus taking a shot.
"Alright, my turn!" Blaise said as he reached for the little bag, "Never have I ever kissed more than ten people." Blaise, Pansy, and Lavender all took a shot shamelessly and looked rather proud of the fact.
Harry was watching Draco though, wondering if he'd drink. When he didn't, Harry felt oddly happy.
"Never have I ever had dyed hair," Neville said. Lavender took a shot and so did Goyle. The former didn't look very happy about it though and sent a glare around the circle, his hair was still slightly orange.
"You think the color is ever gonna wear out?" Ron snickered to Harry and Harry chuckled in response.
"It'll grow out, but whatever spell Seamus used was a strong one," Hermione imputed, "Even McGonagall couldn't get it completely out."
"Think he'll give us the spell? I got some people I wouldn't mind giving a new look to," Ron snickered and Hermione shook her head at him.
Luna and Ginny went next and Harry's turn came after. The pile of paper slowly dwindled as they went through all the papers.
"Okay, last question," Hermione said, picking up the last piece of paper. "Never have I ever liked someone in the circle." Everyone took a shot except Goyle who blushed from the embarrassment.
"Okay I have another game idea since it's not midnight yet," Pansy said and an evil smile crossed her lips.
Pansy quickly introduced the group to a game where two people would have to kiss without stopping and without touching. The first person to pull away or touch the other loses.
Of course, everyone was on board with this game.
Lavender offered to go first and with a spin of the bottle, the first pair was picked to be Lavender and Goyle. Lavender got up to sit in front of Goyle, after a bit of complaining. Almost as soon as it started, Goyle pulled away. It's not that he didn't think she was pretty or anything, but the idea of kissing someone was very unappealing and he pulled back after a couple seconds.
Lavender took Goyle's unwillingness to kiss her the wrong way though, and looked extremely put out as she went back to her seat.
Pansy plucked up the bottle next, "Alright, my turn! Let's see some real action!" With a flourish, she spun the bottle until it landed on Hermione.
"Alright then Hermione, let's give the people what they want," Pansy announced as she pranced on over to Hermione who was slowly getting redder by the moment. Ron, who sat next to her, looked aghast.
Pansy leaned in almost immediately and Hermione met her halfway, their lips meeting as Seamus let out a "whoop!"
Pansy's lips tasted like fire whiskey and another undertone of something she couldn't place but had a feeling that it was her lip balm. Hermione felt herself leaning forward a bit, keeping her hands firmly in her lap. She was a bit drunk and she knew that she wasn't thinking completely rationally as she kissed Pansy, but it was nice and she'd never kissed a girl before.
Hermione had always thought girls were pretty since she was young, but she'd never really had a chance to kiss one before. She knew she was bi, had known for a while, but she'd never really talked to anyone about it before. She had liked Ron too much to try to date a girl and when she by now it had just seemed pointless to tell anyone as she was planning to be with Ron for the rest of her life. She wasn't exactly sure how he'd react too and didn't really want to deal with it.
Hermione figured she'd have to talk to him about it after this though.
The kiss finally ended when Hermione pulled back slightly with a small smile, the kiss had been nice, but she still very much liked Ron.
"Well, I gotta say: I'm jealous, Weasley," Pansy said, shooting Ron a smirk as she went back to her seat. Ron was sputtering beside Hermione and was trying to wrap his head around the whole thing.
His girlfriend had just been kissed by another girl and hadn't seemed to mind at all. His mind was spinning, but before he really had a chance to contemplate it, the next pair were kissing:
Ginny and Luna.
Ron's head hurt. Was everyone here gay? Ron thought wildly.
Ron turned to look at Harry, who was staring at Draco not-so-discreetly and then he turned to Hermione who was still red in the face. Luna and Ginny were still kissing and Ron tried not to look, it was weird seeing your little sister kiss someone, no matter the gender.
His mind was still reeling over the turn of events though. First Dean and Seamus are dating, then Harry seems to like Draco, then Hermione might be gay…
Wait, not gay, Ron thought, she likes me, so bi maybe?
Ron's head seemed to pound and he sat back with a groan., maybe he should lay off the alcohol for the rest of the night.
"I'll go next," Harry said towards the end of the night. It was the last round and Harry had already kissed Luna, Pansy, Seamus and Lavender. The last one was something he never wanted to do again.
Pansy sat forward a bit as she watched the bottle spin, fingers crossed…
The bottle slowed to a stop in front of Draco and everyone seemed to hold their breath for a moment. It had been two weeks since they'd last kissed at a party and everyone was dying to see what'd happen.
Both Draco and Harry were dead drunk though and without a second thought, Harry was over in front of Draco and kissing him, in less than a second.
Ron's jaw dropped as he watched them furiously kissing from across the room, both refusing to back down from the challenge. Most everyone had pulled back before 30 seconds had passed, but both Draco and Harry didn't seem to be backing down as the minute mark hit. Pansy was simply smirking over at them and Blaise was muttering something that sounded faintly like, and he said he wasn't gay.
The thing that made them part was actually both of them reaching for each other at the exact same time. Their hands both came to each other's face and that was when they both snapped out of their trance and pulled away, albeit reluctantly.
"Wow, all that and you both lost," Pansy said with a snicker, "Alright, time to clean up. It's already past one in the morning."
Groaning, everyone started to get up and round their things up.
As soon as things were cleaned up, Harry and Draco practically raced up the stairs, taking two at a time.
When the dormitory door closed, Harry took no time in pulling Draco into a kiss. They both stumbled their way to the bed as the back of Draco's knees hit Harry's mattress they both tumbled onto the bed, never breaking their kiss.
Harry's lips trailed their way down to Draco's neck and he pressed light kisses to Draco's skin as he made his way toward his collarbone. Draco let out a soft groan and ground down into Harry.
"We should talk," Ron said after watching Harry and Draco sprint off up the stairs. He'd have time to wonder about that later, right now he was curious about Hermione.
"Yeah, you're probably right," Hermione sighed, plopping down onto their usual spot on the couch in front of the fire.
Ron followed her lead and sat down next to her.
"I'm bi," Hermione said, staring resolutely at the fire, if Ron was going to react poorly she didn't want to see it.
"I thought so," Ron said, leaning back and taking Hermione's hand up in his.
"You did?" Hermione said, whipping around to stare at him.
"Well yeah, I mean, I'd have to be dumb to not realize it after that scene you put on with Parkinson earlier."
"Oh, about that, I'm sorry. You know I only like you right?"
Ron let out a laugh, "Yeah, I know. I know it was only a game. You're allowed to have fun."
Hermione smiled widely at him, "I'm glad you're not angry."
"Angry? Nah, a little jealous, sure, but not angry," Ron laughed.
Hermione smiled up at him, "Jealous of what? That she got to kiss me like that?"
Ron looked down at her as she turned so she was facing him.
"Well, I can arrange for you to be kissed like that too if you'd like." With that Hermione leaned forward and pressed her lips to Ron's, her eyes fluttering closed.
With a contented sight, Ron brought his hand up to rest on her hips.
"I love you, you know that?" Ron whispered against Hermione's lips.
"I love you too," Hermione said back. Ron could feel her smile against his lips.
Draco's hands were just gripping the base of Harry's jumper to pull it up when Harry suddenly snapped out of it.
They were both drunk, doing this would practically be taking advantage of Draco, Harry suddenly thought and grabbed Draco's hands as they were about to go under his shirt.
"We shouldn't be doing this."
"Why not?" Draco asked, trying to capture Harry's lips but he moved his head out of the way.
"Because you wouldn't want this when you're awake," saying it stung and he almost just wanted to throw caution to the wind and continue, but this was Draco and he didn't want to do anything he didn't want. "You're drunk, we both are. We should just sleep."
Draco let out an annoyed sound but he slid off Harry and laid next to him. Harry sat up then and leaned back down to help Draco get under the covers.
Draco let out a contented sigh as Harry pulled the blankets around him, a sound that made Harry's heart twist and he was suddenly very glad he had stopped them.
"Go to sleep, you're going to need it after all the alcohol," Harry murmured, he then bent down and pressed a soft kiss onto Draco's temple.