radioactive

five

Hermione Granger

Draco set me down at the front door and roped his arm around my shoulders. The music was booming and it felt like my ears were going to explode. I could almost feel the weed radiating off of his house.

I, again, complained about not wanting to be here and this time he answered with, "Hermione, don't be nervous or scared, just have fun, you're with me and I won't let anything bad happen to you."

We walked into the party as I still processed what Draco had just said and it made me smile. And I smiled for the rest of the party as I watched my ex best friend introduced me to his roommate Theo Nott and his other two best friends Blaise Zabini and Pansy Parkinson.

I, of course, knew who these people were, they're some of the most talked about people on campus but they didn't know who I was beside the things Draco has told them.

Apparently, he talks about me quite frequently and I don't know whether to be surprised or not.

"Oh my god!" I hear a familiar voice squeal, "Mione you're here!!!"

I turn around and watch as my redheaded best friend sprints towards me and engulfs me in a huge hug, the remainder of her drink is dropped on to the floor. I feel Draco tense next to me as Ginny carelessly spills alcohol on his rug.

That's what you get for throwing parties I so desperately want to say, but hold back. I'm having a nice time and I'm not going to do anything to change that.

Ginny babbles on for a few minutes before some of her party buddies drag her into the other room where the music is.

"So how are you feeling?" Draco lays back against the wall and holds out a red solo cup towards me. I glance down at it skeptically and then glance back up at Draco, "it's just some red wine, nothing strong."

I look back at the glass and bite my bottom lip, "for you," I whisper to myself, still debating whether or not to take the cup. I look back around the house, couples, or strangers are making out against the walls and drunk girls and guys are dancing away to the music.

"Common let's go somewhere not so hectic," Draco hands me the glass and grabs my other hand, leading me away from all of the crowd. He takes me back away from the main part of the party and to the back of the house. I watch as Draco pulls out a white key from his back pocket and unlocks the door. We head down the flight of stairs to the basement where everything is so much quieter. There's a gaming consul down here and a guest kitchen and minibar.

A glass wall separates the smaller living room from an underground pool. Dark concrete is prominent behind the glass walls which makes the bright blue pool water stand out even more.

"Why'd you bring me down here?"

I turn towards Draco who's staring down at me with his intense grey eyes.

"You looked overwhelmed, figured a drink could help but you didn't seem very interested," Draco moves past me and brush my hand with his. Shivers cascaded through my arm. I watch Draco go to the minibar and grab out a lemonade vodka bottle.

"You should try this Mione, it's really good."

I shake my head no and sit on the island chairs.

"Momma cissy was very considerate," I smile and look around the basement some more, "this place is amazing."

"It's better when cleaned up and not wreaking of weed and vodka," Draco takes a swig right from his bottle full of a lemon liquid. I raise my eyebrow at him and press a smile on to my lips.

He tells me not even to comment on the fact and pushes the bottle over to me, telling me just to try one sip. I tell Draco that he's a persistent little bastard and push the bottle away again. He laughed and flashed his beautiful smile. Draco ran his hand through his platinum hair and took another drink of the flavored vodka.

We sat there just starring at each other until I got too uncomfortable and took out my phone. Draco made a disgruntled noise and grabbed my phone from out of my hands, placing my phone in his pocket.

"We haven't talked in forever, you're not going on your phone."

"You aren't the boss of me now are you?" I retort back, not liking that he's taken my phone without my permission.

Draco smirk and places his arms out, "get it if you want then."

My eyes flicker between his front right pocket and his cheeky little smirk. I shake my head and instead grab the vodka bottle.

"If I'm going to be stuck with you all night I'm going to need a drink or two."