"Hermione?" Lily badgered in a quiet voice. "Where are we going?"
"Just be patient," Hermione answered, continuing to drag the red-headed girl after her as they wandered the corridors, their footsteps the only sounds since it was after curfew. Lily was feeling extremely uncomfortable. She was Head Girl! She wasn't meant to break the rules like this.
"Woah," Lily cried as she stumbled into the back of the girl who'd appeared into her life abruptly three months ago. "Why did we stop?" She looked around and eyed the stairs that led to the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom with worrying eyes. "We might get caught."
"Dissendium," Hermione whispered, bringing Lily's attention to her as she poked the one eyed statue with her wand. Both witches watched as the hump on the statue separated wide enough to reveal a gap that wasn't overly large but they could fit through. "Let's go."
"No," she argued. "We've broken enough rules by being out this late and now you want to drag me into a dark tunnel which leads who knows where? Give me one good reason why."
"Because I wanted to spend more time with you," Hermione admitted. "Come on," she coaxed. "We won't be out for too long." Lily chewed her lip and tossed over the pro's and con's in her mind, seeming to take a long time since her attention was brought back to the curly haired witch when she cleared her throat quietly.
"Fine," she sighed. "But can you at least tell me what we're going to do?" she asked as they began trekking their way through the passage. It was clearly long and it became very apparent, very quickly, that they were making their way out of Hogwarts.
"I was thinking that we could go dance," Hermione confessed, sneaking a look over her shoulder. Lily's breath caught in her throat as she looked at the Lumos illuminated face. She was breath-taking.
"You know I'm always up for dancing with you." Lily internally frowned; she really was wrapped around Hermione's finger. She'd do anything to make that girl happy. "Are you wearing a dress?" Hermione smirked at her but didn't answer her which made Lily worry a bit. It meant she was and the dress was going to make her mouth dry and her cheeks flushed.
It wasn't until they were in the moonlight outside and Hermione had taken off her robe and shrunk it into a bag that Lily proved to herself that she'd been right.
"The red flatters you," she stuttered even as her eyes zeroed in on the expanse of leg that was being revealed instead of the colour of the dress. She didn't even know if it was red.
Written for Hopscotch: Hermione/Lily (pairing), dance (word), cough (action), "The red flatters you." (dialogue)
Chocolate Frog Card: Basil Fronsac (silver) - Challenge: Incorporate a secret passage.
Gringotts Prompt Bank: badgered, argued, admitted, coaxed, sighed (instead of said), One-eyed witch passage (HP locations)