*Set takes place during the 4th book/movie with the Tri-Wizard Tournament. Few minor tweaks & ideas added to the story.

Chapter 1: Prologue

Let's Play a Game... Not just any game… Let's flirt recklessly during class. Let's sit together at the same table during lunch. Let's break the rules; meeting each other after 12 midnight. Let's wander around Hogsmeade your hand in mine. Let's sit in the darkest corner of Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop, your arms around my waist snogging till were gasping for air. Whoever falls in love first, loses.

"Wh-Why would he do this to me?" Lavender sobbed blowing a handful of snot into her handkerchief. "I gave him the best summer of his life…"

"Oh Lavender… Stop crying over a bloody prat like him. You deserve better." Ginny advised while comforting the sobbing girl sitting on the red velvet couch in the Gryffindor Common Room.

"I heard he tried to snog with Cho Chang the minute we all got off the train." Parvati pointed out clearly making the situation worse than it already is. "She slapped him hard, yet he didn't care one bit."

"Oh, really?" Ginny questioned her face turning green. "I saw him asking Pansy Parkinson to take him back when we got into the building."

Lavender stopped for a mere second eying Ginny and Parvati back and forth before letting out a loud cry. Hermione rolled her eyes trying to concentrate on reading her book. It irritated her how the first topic being brought up from their long summer vacation was Draco Malfoy. The girls went on and on about how many hearts he has broken since they entered Hogwarts; 17 at the moment, the list still being poured out. Hermione started to bite on her right index fingernail still trying to concentrate on reading her book. The girls continued. 18… 19… 20…

"Oh, Shut up!" she finally snapped. "I take no interest in hearing news about Draco's love life!"

The room became quiet, only Lavender's inaudible sobs were being heard.

"Someone should teach him a lesson." Ginny finally blurted out; a look of revenge on her face.

Parvati agreed without hesitation. "Someone should make him feel like… like how Lavender feels right now!"

The room fell silent again, the girls thinking of a way to make Lavender feel better. Hermione then returned to her book, assuming that the girls were just going to babble about nonsense.

"We should get him too…" Ginny paused for a moment. "Too… fall in love with someone…" Ginny paused again. "Then we should get that girl to dump him harsh. REAL HARSH!"

"That's a brilliant idea!"

"…But all we need now is that lucky girl to do such a thing."

Ginny and Parvati eyed each other while thinking of the perfect girl to pull this off smooth and cunningly. It had to be a girl who hated him enough to not even fall for his charms... someone who wouldn't care about hurting his feelings at all… someone who would love to hurt him the most…

The girls then nodded their heads at each other showing that they knew the perfect candidate for this job. They both turned to Hermione who instantly felt their eyes burning on her face from behind her book. She stared at them wondering if they needed her smarts to help brainstorm the perfect girl. She stared at them curiously wondering why they would give her such a look. She let out a sigh closing the book. If she helped them now, they'd leave her later right?

"What..?" she finally asked.

Draco sat down in the middle of the Slytherin Common Room all eyes on him. He smirked knowing what was going to be asked to him as he made himself comfortable on the black leather couch.

"What'd you do with Lavender?" Blaine Zabini winked sitting next to him. "Did you get any..?"

Draco let out a smirk. "Never. That filthy Gryffindor girl doesn't even know how to snog properly. I had to tell her what she was doing wrong the whole time."

"Ouch. That's a little harsh don't you think?"

Draco let out a laugh. "If no guy tells her about her sloppy kissing habits, then I certainly would."

Zabini and the other Slytherin roommates laughed along with Draco.

"So who's next on the list?" Zabini asked looking at him in curiosity.

"Pansy Parkinson…" Draco trailed off knowing that his roommates were expecting someone better.

"No way." Terrence Higgs shrugged sitting on the couch adjacent to where Draco was. "You should try someone new…"

"Yeah… its way more interesting when it's someone belonging to the other three houses on campus." Zabini agreed. "And its way better when it's someone you least expect.

"Someone like… that filthy mudblood Granger?" Draco joked letting out another laugh. He would never try getting with a mudblood. He would be caught dead if he was ever seen with one. Actually he wouldn't even be caught with one period.

"Dude… That's a brilliant idea! You should so try getting with Hermione."

"As if!" Draco objected. "I'd never be caught dead with a mudblood."

"I dare you too." Zabini smirked giving him another wink.

They all started to chant "Mudblood" repeatedly till Draco would accept this bet. He couldn't turn his peers down. They would think that he was a total wuss.

"What's in it for me?" he asked.

"My sister."

Without any hesitations, Zabini put his sister on the line. Draco couldn't object an offer like that. He thought Zabini's sister was the hottest girl he's ever come across after meeting her in Hogsmeade. She was off limits to him as Zabini would kill him if he ever laid his hands on her. Even staring at her was prohibited. He couldn't turn down that offer at all. It was his only chance to finally get to know her.

"Alright." He said, smirking. "Deal… and no calling this dare off."