A chorus of laughs erupted as the professors piled back into the staffroom, Blaise grunting and huffing as he handed over a select number of galleons as he'd lost a bet with Sterling over whether Jordan Finch-Fletchley and Blossom Brown would get caught groping behind one of the Great Hall's columns. Chaperoning the dance hadn't actually turned into such a horrendous feat thanks to the pools the teachers had, as well as the fact that the students had indeed spiked their pumpkin juices and found themselves in all kinds of trouble. The teachers knew that had their older colleagues been in charge of looking over the children, the dance would have likely been a lot more tame - however with this group, they understood the concept of having fun in a safe environment, and a lot of conversations were had when students were being told to tone it down that they believed had a positive long-term influence.
The teachers had also been drinking themselves, enjoying the spiked juices and snacking on the laid out spread at the High Table. Their fits of giggles filled the staffroom and they all found themselves settling in on the four sofas, placing their more adult drinks onto the coffee table before them after pulling them out of the cabinets.
Ellen and Sterling gossiped heavily on the unsightly scenes they'd uncovered together, and laughed heartily as they'd joked about how Sterling had been as a teenager - who was very well known as the school's playboy and had the ladies and the gents swooning over him. Ellen was a 5th year when he was graduating from Hogwarts, and had been one of the many students to fall sight on Sterling Hooch's extra curricular activities with two boys in a broom cupboard.
"I mean how do you even kiss two people at the same time!" she released a disbelieving laugh as Sterling defended himself and told her that "You just kinda mush your faces together and hope for the best".
The group laughed in their own conversations, until Aurora posed to play a drinking game, as it was the last day of term and they were all officially off duty for the Christmas holidays. The gossipy conversations about the students inspired a nostalgic game of Truth or Dare to take part.
"SO! The rule is - Truth it, Dare it, and if you deny it you gotta drink it!" She chimed, sloshing mead into her empty cup and filling it overboard that it spilt not only on herself, but also on Neville who was sat next to her. She'd slurred a sorry and Neville laughed and rejoiced that he'd chosen an all-black ensemble.
"Okay for that Rora, you're going first! Truth or Dare!" he goaded, brushing his hands on this lap to wipe of the spilt mead. He blushed and flashed a grin at Ellen when he caught her gaze as his hand grazed his crotch area, causing her to fluster and turn her attention to Aurora's answer.
"Dare! Obviously!"
"She knows how to play this game!" Fred smiled cheekily, "come on mate, give her a good one!"
Neville grinned cheekily back at Fred in agreement, a boisterous energy filled the room, "A'right, a'right. Aurora, I dare you to say yes to everything for the next minute". Aurora's big smile fell playfully in response, and Ellen and the others laughed. Ellen pulled her watch to her eye-line in glee, "Your minute starts... Now!".
"Rora, do you pee in the shower?", "yes"
"Hey Rora, will you down your drink right now?", "yes"
"Would you have sex with Peeves if he were still alive?", "yes"
"--HA-- would you have sex with him as he is now!!", "that's not even possible!--yes"
"Aurora, is it true that you're sexually attracted to centaurs?", "for fuck sake- yes"
"Hey Aurora, would you lick my bumho--"
"aaaand, time!"
"Fucking hell, saved by the bell!" Aurora relieved as she wiped the spilled drink from her lips she'd been forced to down and thanked Merlin she wouldn't have to lick Sterling's asshole. She flashed Sterling a glare and he bared a cheeky smile her way with a wink.
"YOUR turn now, Neville" she taunted, averting her flushed face as she prepared to get him back.
"Ah fuck I'm screwed" he groaned, his eyes met Ellen's in a way that screamed 'help me' and she shook her head giggling.
"Truth or Dare!", "I'm not saying yes to everything for a minute, I don't want to lick Sterling's ass! -- I'm going with Truth" he laughed. A chorus of ooh's and sassy taunts at his choice escaped the lips of the tipsy teachers.
Aurora pondered a way to get a juicy detail out of him, and out of her own interest she chose to ask him a bold question. "Okay, what's your biggest turn on" she said, a smirk pulling at her lips. Neville laughed at the question, relieved it wasn't something that would be embarrassing. Despite his shyness as a teenager, and his relatively reserved usual demeanour, Neville was actually a fairly bold person when he trusted who he was around. And his years as a young adult and experiences with Hannah fuelled a huge amount of confidence in him that became unfiltered when he'd had alcohol.
"That depends, do you want the one that's during sex, or the everyday turn on" he was asking Aurora.
"Both!"
"No, you get one!"
"Just tell us one!" Neville laughed at her complaining and took a sip from his bottle of cider, rolling his eyes.
"Teasing. Building tension and desire, seeing that she really wants me is what will drive me crazy." He answered honestly and confidently, but failed to hide a deep red blush from making his way to his face. An array of agreements shuffled around the group and a light conversation filled the room about the other turn ons people had. Ellen enjoyed the conversation, but felt light sorrow as she'd never experienced something like it. It went around the room, people sharing their own turn ons as if it was regular conversation, until Fred snapped her out of her daze by asking her "What's yours, El?". She wasn't expecting to be asked, and didn't know how to answer. She opted to swiftly change the topic.
"Weren't we playing Truth or Dare? Who's going next!" The group buzzed at the reminder and she was glad she was safe from having to make up a lie.
"Blaise! Truth or Dare?" Sterling asked.
"Dare, but I veto any asslicking requests" Sterling frowned and jokingly whined and complained that no one was any fun.
"Fine! Get topless then" Blaise groaned and obeyed, his chiselled chest and abs earning whoops and whistles from everyone in the group, especially Sterling. "Oi oi who knew you were hiding that!" he flushed, feeling his mouth watering as Blaise rolled his eyes in response and returned to nursing his drink.
"Ellen, Truth or Dare"