Draw The Line

The Fifth Party: Chapter 26.2

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 firewhiskey 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.

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"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.