The doors to the Great Hall were wide open revealing the dance that buzzed within it.
They Great Hall looked as if a huge paper heart had exploded filling the entire Hall with pink, white, and red ribbons and hearts.
"It kinda looks like a big paper heart just threw up in here doesn't it?" Scorpius said turning to her.
Lily grinned. "It is quite…festive to say the least," she said, holding back a laugh. "It's a little bit much though, I must say."
"Yeah, just be happy that you didn't have to put them up like most of the sixth years did," Scorpius said, playfully nudging her. Lily let out a half-startled laugh.
"So, are we just going to stand her pushing each other or are we going to dance?" Scorpius said with a chuckle.
"Hm, let me think…I think that we are going to dance," she said, grabbing his hand and pulling him to the mild of the Hall which, much like as it had been at the Yule Ball, was being used as the dance floor.
Scorpius let out a laugh, putting his hands on her waist as a slow song started. Lily placed her hands on his shoulders, trying to ignore the butterflies that were going mad in her stomach.
"You ok?" Scorpius asked her quietly.
"Hm? Oh, I'm just find," she replied, blushing brightly.
After about maybe two hours, people in the Great Hall began to take notice that the time was getting late.
Lily looked at the clock as it hit 11:00 pm. She shut her eyes for a moment, yawning.
"We should probably get back to our dorms," she said, blinking tiredly.
"I guess that you're right," Scorpius agreed, albeit, unwillingly.
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Scorpius and Lily finally left the Great Hall, which by the time they did was almost empty. Scorpius put an arm around Lily in what was supposed to be a brotherly manner, though nothing was brotherly about the feelings going on inside the both of them.
As the two entered the Entrance Hall Scorpius made the unexpected choice to lead Lily outside.
"Where are we going?" she asked, curious at what her friend was up to.
"I was just hoping that we could go for a walk, nothing 'dangerous'," Scorpius said with a chuckle. Lily blushed.
"Fine, but if I'm not back at my dorm by the stroke of midnight, my glass slippers my just disappear," Lily said with a chuckle.
Scorpius looked at her questioningly. "What go you mean, you're not wearing glass slippers?"
"It is an old muggle faerie tale. A girl who is mistreated by her evil stepmother and stepsisters finds out that there is a ball for the prince of the land so that he can find a bride. She wants desperately to go but has nothing suitable to wear.
"Then, she finds out that she has a faerie godmother. The godmother transforms her tattered clothes into a beautiful ball gown, and her dirty shoes into glass slippers. She goes to the ball but her faerie godmother warns her that her finery will only last until the last stoke of midnight.
"She goes to the ball, falls in love with the prince, but loses track of the time and soon enough the clock begins to toll midnight. She rushes off, but accidentally leaves one of her glass slippers behind. At the last stoke of midnight all of her finery is transformed back to the way it was before, with the exception of the glass slippers which could not change back unless they were together.
"The prince goes in search for the woman he had fallen in love with, the glass slipper that he found being his only clue to who his mystery love was. He went to all of the young women of the land, but none could fit into the small dainty glass slipper. Finally, he came upon the house of the girl and her evil stepmother and stepsisters. The stepmother keeps the girl hidden away so that only her daughters could try to fit into the shoe. They did not as it was made specifically for the other girl.
"The girl, so saddened at her life, begins to cry in the room where she is hidden. The prince hears her crying and orders the house to be searched. They finally found her, and the prince insisted that she be allowed to try on the slipper. It fit perfectly and she showed the second slipper as proof that the first really was hers, though the prince didn't really need that confirmation. They got married and lived happily ever after," Lily finished with a sigh and a smile.
"Quite the romantic at heart are we my friend?" Scorpius teased her. This resulted in Lily blushing.
"Oh, come on if we're going to take a walk already," she said, in a half embarrassed/half annoyed tone.
"Alright," he agreed in a laughing tone, putting the fact that she was a 'romantic at heart' away in his memory for he was sure that he would get many a chance to use that later.
