Riddle Me This

Chapter 66

Catherine's POV

The next week, it was the boys turn for their pick. It seemed that we were moving the unity game to the Room of Requirement, which had given us a room that also had a broom cupboard inside. I stared at the cupboard door.

"What are we doing?" I asked as I sat down on one of the couches the room also supplied. I saw a good majority of the boys smirking.

"Seven minutes in heaven." Seamus announced proudly. I nodded.

"Alright. So how are we doing this?" Ginny asked as she leaned against Harry. Blaise seemed to take over from this point.

"Well, we have this box." Blaise said, flicking his wand and a box floated over from inside the broom cupboard. "Inside is an item that belongs to or represents one of the boys from our year. If you grab their item, you go into the cupboard with that boy. The box is charmed that Accio won't work on it, or any other spell. So you can't cheat."

"And you don't HAVE to do anything in the cupboard." Seamus picked up. "If you do though, there is a silencing charm on the cupboard, but realise that the door is also charmed to open after seven minutes."

"So unless you have no problem with people seeing your bare arse, we suggest maybe keeping your clothes on." Blaise suggested with a smirk.

"Bunch of pervs." Pansy said as she leaned over to me.

"We made them play Spin the bottle, which is used to kiss people. Not sure this is much worse." I replied.

"You sure? This is sticking two people in a cupboard alone together." Pansy countered. I paused for a moment before shrugging.

"Hey, it's not forcing physical contact between the two individuals chosen. In this, they could just sit there and stare at each other for seven minutes." I said. Pansy hummed lightly before we turned back to the others.

"Who wants to go first?" Seamus asked. After a few minutes of nothing but quiet, Pansy let out a large exhale.

"Bunch of pussies." She said as she stood. "I'll bloody well do it." And so Pansy approached the box, pulling something out and placing it on the table. A Hufflepuff boy stood and they went into the cupboard together. Once the door closed and time began, the door disappeared.

"What the-" Harry began.

"Room does what it wants." Blaise said with a shrug. Seven minutes later, the door reappeared and swung open, showing Pansy and the Hufflepuff talking and actually smiling.

"Well that was uninspected." Seamus said as the two looked to the door, stood and walked out, sitting down in their respective seats with a nod.

"Someone befriended a Hufflepuff rather quickly." I teased. Pansy rolled her eyes.

"Yeah whatever. It turns out we had a few things in common and talked about them." I hummed as we watched a Ravenclaw go up and get matched up with Blaise. Blaise kissed Seamus before entering the cupboard with a smirk.

After half the year had gone, no one had picked Draco yet. That made me happy. Obviously I'd prefer to room with Draco, but Seamus and Neville still hadn't been picked yet either, and Harry and just finished being in the cupboard with Luna. Interesting combination, but what was the best was when Ginny had to go in with Ron. When the door opened, they were at separate sides of the room, and Ron had been clawing at the wall where the door was.

I decided it was my turn now, so I stood and headed to the box. The room was quiet, and I allowed my eyes to flick over to the table that everyone's items were placed on so far if they hadn't been collected yet. It was really random, but personal stuff. I can't remember who, but someone had used their wand, Harry had used a snitch. According to Hermione it was the first one he had ever caught and was given to him in Dumbledore's will. There were also ties, tie pins, shoes, rings, and so forth.

I reached in and felt around, feeling variant different items, before wrapping my fingers around something and pulling out a horribly familiar watch. I stared at it for a few seconds.

"The watch I gave you our first Christmas together, really Draco." I said, not actually angry, more of a tease as I turned to him and put the watch down. He merely shrugged before standing and walking to me, offering his arm.

"Shall we?" Draco asked, using his other hand to motion to the cupboard.

"Oh, we shall." And I took Draco's arm as we headed into the cupboard. As soon as the door was closed, I turned to Draco.

"So, what do you want to do for seven minutes?" I asked. Draco shrugged, turning as the room had given us a plush chair to sit in, almost the same design as the ones I had placed in the eighth year common room.

"Sit." Draco said, heading over to the chair and doing just that, motioning for me to follow suit, as I sat sideways in his lap, leaning my back against one arm rest while my feet went over the other. Draco smiled, gently brushing some hair out of my face and behind my ears. I giggled lightly.

"It's a shame that you don't show this kind of affection in public that often." I hummed as I leaned into Draco's touch. He just rolled his eyes, ever the Slytherin. "So what do you want to do while we're in here?" Draco flushed a little.

"I want to ask you a question." Draco answered. I hummed as I waited for him to respond. "Where do we go from here?" I cocked an eyebrow.

"We go back to the others and wait until house unity night is over." I answered. Draco gave me an unimpressed look.

"That's not what I meant." Draco said, before pulling me closer to him. "I mean where do we go from here. Us. After Hogwarts, what are we going to do?" I smiled lightly as I nuzzled the crook of his neck.

"We get jobs. Go on group dates with our friends, or just dates with the two of us. See where life takes us." I answered. I kept the 'move in together, get married, and have children' to myself. Little too hopeful. Draco hummed as he held me close.

"Now, what about the rest of the time we're in here?" Draco asked. I hummed lightly.

"We could snog." I said with a shrug.

"We could." Draco replied with a nod.

"We could shag." I suggested, repositioning myself so that I was straddling Draco's lap. Draco hummed.

"Not enough time." Draco sighed. I nodded a bit.

"I could give you a lap dance." I said with a shrug.

"We both know what that will lead to, and we already know we don't have enough time." Draco huffed in boredom. "This 'game' is stupid." Draco admitted finally. I hummed lightly.

"Only for us because we know each other so well." I said with a shrug, before laying my head on his shoulder. There was a sound, and when I turned, there was another chair, and a table, with a Muggle deck of cards on it, and a little piece of paper next to it. I picked it up and looked at it curiously, Draco reading over my shoulder.

"Slapjack?" Draco read aloud. I shrugged, moving to the other chair, much to Draco's displeasure, and dealt the cards. Once done, I looked to Draco, who just stared at me for a second, and shrugged.

"Why not?" I said. And so we played Slapjack. When the door opened, the first thing everyone heard was:

"Ow! You didn't have to hit me that hard!" Which happened to be Draco whining.

"Don't be such a bitch, Draco." I said as I collected my win and turned to the door. "Huh, looks like times up. And I win!" I said happily. We walked out of the closet, our hands bright red. Draco was cradling his slightly and murmuring how stupid and violent the game was, and that muggles could be savage. I giggled as we sat together and watched the rest of the year finish off the game, before returning to our dorm and going to bed.