Spin the Butterbeer

[Damide Snow]

Five nights back at Hogwarts and someone was already making mischief. Damide himself was breaking the rules by being up past curfew, but he hated sending letters home when anyone else was around. He wanted to spend some time with his owl and contemplate the letter in peace. He was on his way down from the owlery when he heard giggles and whispers coming from around the bend. Damide was shy, but he was curious above all things, and couldn't help having a peek to see what was going on.
A very large game of spin-the-bottle had been started by some naughty sixth years, and there were a few younger students, too, that had crept up after word had spread. Damide felt a thrill in his chest at the idea of flouting the rules so flagrantly, and with a quiet word to the nearest girl in the circle, he received a giggle and an invitation to sit down.

The Ravenclaw felt like he would have died if the game had gotten amorous, but currently it was operating under mostly truth-or-dare rules. His heart jumped every time the tip of the bottle slowed near him- would he play it safe and pick truth, or make a fool of himself with a dare? The brunette envied the students who relished in their dares and got the whole group laughing, even Damide, who'd barely smiled over the Autumn break, much to Desideratus and Demeter's despair. He longed to have their courage. Perhaps tonight, he'd find it.
His heart leapt to his throat when finally the bottle landed on him. Damide tried to smile and look confident, but he was a long way off from feeling comfortable in the group. He kicked himself forward mentally and heard himself say "Dare," although it came out a little strangled. A kind boy opposite him in the circle gave him an encouraging grin, and Damide smiled back and nodded his thanks. Not everyone could be a daredevil, but damned if he wasn't going to participate.​

 

[Ares Jeffreys]

Ares didn't really know how he had ended up in the north tower playing a game of spin the bottle with various other people, some of whom he knew and others he didn't know so well at all. Ares didn't usually get involved but he was trying more this semester to live less inside his head and far more within the moments in front of him, which for a boy like Ares was a little easier said than done. But for only night five he was doing not too badly on that front. He was sat with the rest in this circle watching as the bottle spun until it landed on a ravenclaw boy whose name Ares was sure was Damide something. The problem was Ares didn't know many of the people but one good thing was that he definitely thought that the boy had just picked dare was cute. It wasn't something he thought often, though he'd figured out what he was pretty early on, he hadn't had any real emotional feelings towards people until really this past break. He had grown taller, stretched out more, less scrawny, and his voice had gotten a little deeper.

It didn't seem like anyone else was staying anything coming up with something, so Ares who had been relatively silent this entire game decided to try and come up with a dare, it was difficult, they had limited things they could do, and Ares didn't particular think that kissing someone was that much of a dare though he would not enjoy it being said to him. He didn't really know what to suggest and he didn't know if anything he came up with would be that good, "I dare you to lick the floor for at least 20 seconds," he said, a little shyly hoping that others would find it an acceptable dare for this other boy to do, licking the floor wasn't something horrendous but it also wasn't that nice, though even that could've been worse if they had be in a room just along from where they currently were.
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[Damide Snow]

"For twenty seconds?" Damide immediately blurted in despair. "That's ages!". It really was. Was everyone just going to sit there and watch him tongue the floor until the next player? Well, he'd signed up for this, so Damide geared up to giggles and a few catcalls and he prepared to put tongue to stone. He ended up on his belly since there was no comfortable way to bend that far, and with tentative horror, the fifth year pressed the flat of his tongue against the rough, black brick. One lick. Two licks. Three licks.

"Urgh. Gritty," he paused to mumble, eliciting some snorts. It tasted like rubber boots, bitter moss and spilled potions. Lick, lick, lick, lick; this was both boring, unpleasant and, in hindsight, a damned good dare. His facial expression was enough to entertain the group for the following fifteen seconds, and before it was his turn to spin the bottle for someone else, he had to get up and ask for an Aguamenti to swish and spit out the window.
Damide shot Ares a grumpy pout and mouthed 'I'll get you back' as the empty butterbeer bottle swung to the next person. To the person it landed on, Damide offered "Truth or dare?". Whatever he chose, he decided he'd be kind enough to avoid floor-licking, this time.​

 

[Charlotte Owens]

After all of the events from last year, Charlotte was more than eager to start having some fun this year, especially since she was getting older now and felt like she could do anything. It felt better to be one of the older people in the school, even if she wasn't all the way there yet and had come back after the holidays ready to take on anything. The fifth year found herself in the North Tower way past the curfew playing a game of truth or dare with a bunch of random people. Some of them Charlotte had met before and others she barely even knew but she was still willing to do stupid things in front of them and laugh at them when they did stupid things. The girl hadn't really played truth or dare before and so she was glad that the first spin hadn't landed on her. In fact, it had landed on Damide who was a fellow year mate and who she could only remember vomiting in front of during her first year. It was embarrassing but she figured the pair of them were over it now.

Charlotte smirked as Damide picked dare and beamed when a younger Hufflepuff boy told him to lick the floor. Licking the floor sounded horrendous, and for the twenty seconds it lasted, Charlotte felt tears in her eyes as she laughed at him and was holding her stomach by the end of it in stitches. She wasn't particularly sure what was so funny about it but something about watching him suffer and then watching him spit out water out of the window afterwards was oddly satisfying. Charlotte felt her muscles tighten as she watched the bottle spin again. When it landed on her, she jumped and then sighed, figuring that it was going to land on her at one point nonetheless and there was no need to be so scared about it. "Dare!" she exclaimed, ready to take on anything. She hoped they'd give her something interesting to do. After all, she wanted to make the most of being out of her common room past curfew during the start of her fifth year.

 

[Damide Snow]

Ah, it was Charlotte. Finally a face he recognised. Feeling a little more familiar with his fellow fifth year, Damide gave her a wicked grin and decided to come up with something that wouldn't be all that painful for her, but very painful for someone else (figuratively). It was hard to make up a dare on the fly, especially because he wasn't very cruel, but he was a Ravenclaw after all, and he could be inventive when called upon.

Damide looked at Ares when he declared Charlotte's fate, and the reason why became clear immediately. He only knew the fourth year by surname, but it was enough to seal the deal.
"I dare you to shave Jeffrey's legs!" said the dark haired boy. Many students were a bit more liberal these days, so perhaps Ares wouldn't be all that embarrassed, but he still hoped everyone else would give him crap about it like they did his floor-licking.​

 

[Hilton Tiwari]

How did Hilton get into this strange game? She did not know, and she was having a hard time enjoying it. It was so absurd and bizarre to her. Whenever the bottle had landed on her, she had simply did a truth. Most people did not care enough to ask genuine questions.The past few turns she had been spared, as other people had been chosen by the bottle. Watching Damide lick the floor was hard for the girl because it was such a disgusting task. In all honesty, Ares knew better. All of this was for the sake of "fun"? Nevertheless, Hilton looked to Charlotte to see how she would react to her given dare. So far, Hilton felt this was a nice way to get out of the room. She had seen no reason to step in and ruin the game as of yet.

 

[Georgina de Lacey]

Sometimes her classmates struck Georgina as being a little boring, but while they were playing spin the bottle in the north tower it wasn't one of those times. Georgina was rather amused to see some of the students that had turned up, someone like Charlotte Owens for example was a huge surprise, but she didn't know the girl all that well, perhaps there was more to her than she thought. She sat back as the girl was given her dare and wondered if she would do it. Though it didn't strike her as a particularly bad dare, all the embarrassment was on the boy who would have his legs shaved, if anything Charlotte was getting off scott free. At least that was how the Slytherin saw it. The dares seemed a little tame to her so far, but the only experience Georgina had of spin the bottle were the coming of age films she had watched when she was younger at home. She had hoped playing the real thing in a school of magical people would be more exciting, but the night was still young.

 

[Charlotte Owens]

Fortunately for Charlotte, when she was asked to do a dare, it was definitely not as bad as licking the floor, and in fact was nothing scary at all. She was just dared to shave Jeffrey's legs, and she smiled before taking out her wand, hoping she wasn't going to burn his leg off or anything. She pointed it at his right leg first and used a leg shaving charm to do it. Thankfully, she was female and so she had obviously done this before. When she was done with both legs, Jeffrey's legs were as smooth as a baby's backside. "There you go!" she exclaimed, pocketing her wand. "Who's next?" She watched as the bottle spun onto the next person and beamed. "Truth or dare?"

 

[Ares Jeffreys]

Ares' cheeks blushed a furiously dark pink as Charlotte was dared to shave his legs. He couldn't help it, but she seemed willing to do it, so he a little shyly, rolled up the legs of his trousers and let Charlotte use the charm to shave his legs. He felt down his own legs as they were more smooth than he had ever felt before. This felt a little weird, he did like that a lot, it was a little odd, but it was a nice feeling. He rolled back down the trousers of his legs, he knew that Xavier would probably find this hilarious, that he would find it funny that Ares had ended up in this situation but also ended up with his legs shaved. Even though it hadn't been his dare, he had ended receiving a sort of dare himself. Ares couldn't really believe it. His cheeks were still a deep red, he still a little bit embarrassment because of it. The hufflepuff wanted to do a dare himself, but he was sure that it wouldn't land on him and did land on someone close to the girl who'd shaved his legs. Ares smiled at them, waiting for them to pick which one they'd choose.
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[Georgina de Lacey]

Georgina couldn't believe it as he fellow Slytherin actually shaved the boys legs, she held back her laughter at first but couldn't hold it in as his legs became visibly smooth. "Looking good kid," She winked at him. Once the dare was done Charlotte took the bottle and spun it again. She watched as it stopped on her and smirked and Charlotte asked her truth or dare. "Dare of course," She laughed, wondering what dare Charlotte would come up with.