Chapter 1
Eden and Aiden Steele were sitting down on the plush carpet of their shared living room at the Steele Manor, surrounded by multi-coloured streamers and rough versions of guest lists, when Mrs. Steele, their mother, walked in flipping back her long raven hair over her shoulder.
She was dressed in a stunning black cocktail dress with a lovely set of pearls sitting on her fair skinned neck.
"Your father and I have decided to let you hold your birthday party on Friday night without supervison-"
"Ugh! Finally!", interrupted Eden and Aiden in unison.
"Wait a minute. We have one condition, you must invite all the students from your new school in your year to the party as well. We've had an elf fetch the list of those students from the Headmaster of your school, and we expect you to send them all invitations." , she said holding out a sheet of parchment.
Eden groaned and pouted a little, while Aiden took the list from his mother and set it down among the other guest lists.
"Alright, I guess. We're going to finish up planning the decorations and then we will be going to Diagon alley to get some outfits for our party. If that's alright with you." He said, trying not to beg. "That seems fine, I'll get Nilly to set your money bags on your beds. I'll be seeing you later then." replied Mrs. Steele as she gracefully left the room, shutting the door behind her.
Eden was still sulking when Aiden turned to her,
"Oh come on grouchy, it'll be great. It's only a few extra people, and who knows maybe you'll end up close to a few of them before the nights over." Aiden winked at his sister and pushed a stray lock of white-blond hair behind her ear,
"And we get to buy some fancy new outfits for this grand soirée!" He finished, grinning. Eden slowly smiled and picked out a few of the decoration themes she liked and handed them to her brother.
"I do like the sound of that... Okay, so I really like the whole Masquerade Ball idea. And we could even hire the Weird Sisters to play for us. Then at midnight everyone takes off their masks and sees who they've been dancing, or a lot more with." Eden smirked devilishly at her brother.
"You watch yourself, Eden. You might end up snogging a complete wanker!" He said, throwing up his hands, dramatically. Eden laughed and threw a pillow at him, which started a full blown pillow fight.
"Stop! Stop!" Eden shrieked through her giggles. When Aiden finally stopped, she continued to say,
"We should really get going if we want to pick out our outfits before all the stores close!"
With that the twins dashed to their rooms and got ready. Eden emerged wearing and deep blue halter top and a tight fitting pair of dark washed jeans.
As the twins were both metamorphmagi, she had shortened her hair to about shoulder length and fixed her bangs to the side with a blue hair pin.
Aiden was also wearing tight dark washed jeans along with a fitted green T-shirt and his hair was kept his and his sister's favorite white-blond, with an unkempt look to it.
The two walked over to the fireplace in their Living room, money bags in one hand and floo powder in the other and with two words they were headed for Diagon Alley.
The Twins found themselves in the Leaky Cauldron, a grungy, beat-up pub, and quickly made their way to the entrance of Diagon Alley.
The street was filled with people hustling from shop to shop, children in hand, trying to get all their school shopping done.
Eden led her brother into the first shop on her list "Madam Mulruna's Fine Attire" Aiden started sifting through a few catalogs looking for the prefect dress robes for the Ball.
Eden was dancing her way through the aisles and aisles of beautiful gowns, picking out the ones she liked and plopping them into the clerk's arms.
All her dresses were placed in a luxurious and spacious dressing room where she began to try them on.
One was a long black dress that ended at her ankles, with a low drooping neck line that would show off her ample cleavage. She tried it on and opened the dressing room door to show it off to her brother.
"Spin." He ordered. She did so and he grimaced, "It's alright but it's a little plain for a Ball.
She went back in and tried on the next, it was a strapless, golden dress that poofed out a little at the waist and ended just above the knee.
Again, she went to show Aiden. "Nope." He said simply. She groaned as she had really liked that one.
The last one she tried on was perfect, it was a deep green color, that poofed out at the waist and with a scrunched bottom, which ended at her feet.
This time when she emerged Aiden was speechless.
"I'll take your silence as a yes then" She grinned and brought the dress over to the cash and waited for Aiden to be served.
The twins spent a while looking through the remaining catalogs until they picked out the perfect dress robes for Aiden with a matching deep green tie to Eden's gown.
They left the shop and headed into "Morgana" Aiden and Eden's favorite shoe store. They each found a pair of shoes perfect for their party outfits.
Eden, a pair of black suede pumps and Aiden a pair of shiny black dress shoes. They paid for their shoes and decided to grab some ice cream before heading back to the Manor.
They sat down with a chocolate sundae each at Fortescue's ice cream parlour.
"I can't wait for our party, I wonder what these Hogwarts kids will be like..."
"Probably all wankers." Eden giggled softly.
In the shadows someone was watching Eden, marveling at her beaut, as he smirked to himself. She would be his.
The man followed as the twins got up and headed towards the Leaky Cauldron and disappeared into the green flames.