How it Began

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The party wasn't a bust like Fred had expected it to be, in fact its quite the opposite. The entire senior class is there and he never realized how many of them there actually was until now.

Hermione had found him practically the second he walked in the door, leaving Alice and FP to their own devices. They both got themselves a drink and Alice took his hand, leading him into the crowd of people.

"Thank God you guys are here!" Mary exclaims as she throws her arms around her friends. "I came with Hermione but she ditched me for Fred the second she saw him."

"Yeah Fred ditched us for her." Alice says. "Where'd they go off to anyway?"

"Last I saw she was leading him into the bathroom, and I'm sure you can fill in the blanks."

"And they call us the horn dogs." FP says, snaking his arm around Alice's waist.

"Hey guys." Hal says as he strolls up to them.

"Hey Coop, didn't think I'd ever see you at a party." FP says, genuinely surprised.

"Wasn't planning on it but the team convinced me I should come, it is senior year after all."

"How you liking it so far?"

"It's loud, a lot more people then I expected, but so far not that bad."

"Yeah I didn't even know there was that many of us in the senior class."

"That's because you two mainly stick to your inner circle and refuse to speak to anyone else." Mary points out.

"Not true, it's her that doesn't talk to anyone." FP says, pointing to Alice. Alice doesn't even try to defend herself because she knows it's true, instead she just rolls her eyes and leans further into FP.

They stand there talking to Hal and Mary for a while, genuinely enjoying themselves until Alice leans in even closer to him, mouth right at his ear.

"Baby," she whispers to him. "wanna go get high?" He turns to her and grins, being met by her own devilish smirk.

"Hey we'll catch up with you guys later alright?" FP says, placing his hand on Alice's back to lead her away.

"No way, you guys are ditching us to go hook up too? Can't you all just keep it in your pants for a night." Mary whines.

"Actually we're going to get high, you're welcome to join." Alice says, knowing Mary and Hal don't smoke. Hal and Mary look at each other with the same look of disgust on their faces and Alice laughs. "Thought so." And with that she takes FP and leads him through the crowd and out the back door.

Elsewhere in the bathroom of the house Fred has Hermione up on the counter, his hands gripping her waist tightly as her legs wrap around his. She had pulled off his shirt a while ago and was now, lightly, raking her manicured nails up and down his back.

He pulls her even close to him and deepens the kiss as he slips his tongue past her lips, meeting with her own. She pulls away after another minute or so, pushing on his shoulders to make him step back. "You okay?" He asks, genuinely worried as his girlfriend stares down at him and shakes her head. "What's wrong? Did I do something?" He doesn't think so, she was the one who pulled him in here and it's not like it's their first time. She shakes her head again.

He just looks at her confused as she holds his shoulders, and then she shoves him further away and hops off the counter rushing over to the toilet and just barely crouching down before throwing up.

"Shit." He curses before leaning down and collecting her hair into a ponytail with his hands, rubbing her back as she pukes.

She groans as she flushes the toilet, wiping her mouth with the back of her hand. Fred slowly lets her hair fall from his hands and she smiles softly at him as she stands up, going over to the sink. She splashes her face with cold water before finding out her mouth. "Well that's a real mood killer." She jokes, Fred laughs nervously. "You okay?" She asks, Turing around to face him.