Katie POV

I was freaking out, along with every other girl in Hogwarts. Today was the day of the Christmas Ball and I was so nervous.

Juliet decided to change in our room with Sarah, Lily and me. Thank Merlin I had Juliet, I loved Sarah don't get me wrong, but she was acting all weird. I think she was just super nervous for the dance.

She wouldn't tell anyone who she was going with, which I thought was kind of strange, but I didn't pry.

"Merlin, these shoes are high!" Lily said while trying on her shoes. They were scarlet pumps with gold bows on the toes.

"You should see the shoes at New York fashion week. Now those are high," everyone looked at me like they had no idea what I was talking about, "It's a Muggle thing in New York," they nodded their heads.

"Oh, well," Juliet shrugged, "You only have to wear them for the night. They look too cute with you dress!" They really did.

She was wearing a flowy dress that looked like liquid gold. Her hair looked perfect with the red and gold theme.

"You really do, James is going to have a heart attack!" I said. Lily blushed.

She and James had finally decided to go out. From what I heard, it was a miracle. They were perfect together, it was so adorable, "Well Brian will do the same thing! You look absolutely gorgeous!"

My face turned the same color as my dress. It was now scarlet and had a chiffon strap that wrapped around my arm just below my shoulder. The whole dress was chiffon, it pleated from the waist with a sweetheart neckline, it was trumpet style and hugged my curves.

I had a gold necklace, bracelets and big gold dangly earrings. I was wearing five inch sparkly gold platform heels. My hair was half up half down, the part of my hair that was down was curled and the rest was pulled back with a gold clip and my bangs swooped down across my face and covered half of my eye.

I had smoky eyes with a hint of green to bring out my eyes and red lipstick that made my lips pop. Everything else was pretty simple.

"Katie, can you help me with my dress?" Juliet called from across the room.

"Of course!" I gasped as I look at her, "You look amazing! Jesse won't be able to keep is hands off you!" She blushed bright red, which clashed with her light blue dress.

It looked absolutely perfect on her. It was light blue with a sweet heart neckline that was lined with bronze jewels on the top and right below the bust.

Her shoes were shimmering bronze stilettos that were 5 inches tall, but she was still much smaller than Jesse. She also wore bronze and blue bangles to match her dress. Her hair was a messy up due that looked absolutely amazing with her face shape.

"And there we go," I said as a zipped up her dress.

"Thanks!"

"You're welcome. We should probably head down soon; I have to meet Brian at 7."

"Yeah, I have to meet Jesse too," I could tell she was nervous about seeing him. I was so scared Brian wouldn't like my dress.

"Wait, I am almost done!" Sarah yelled as she was running around frantically trying to find her shoes, she finally found them and slid them on, "Ok, how do I look?"

She looked absolutely beautiful in her scarlet dress. It was red all over with gold jewels for straps with a sweetheart neckline. It puffed the slightest bit the rest of the way down.

She had gold, four inch, gladiator shoes and a golden chain around her ankle that matched her necklace that was two thin gold chains that stopped at the bellybutton. She had a gold bracelet on her upper arm that wrapped around a few times.

Her hair was pulled back into a straight pony tail that was simple yet elegant and was perfect with the intricateness of the dress. Her make-up was also pretty simple. She went with the natural feel.

"Breathtaking," I said and she smiled wide.

"Well shall we?" The four of us hooked arms and walked down to the common room.

When we got to the common room, it was mostly guys waiting for their dates. There were some couples who were already chewing each other's faces off.

The marauders were sitting by the fire, with the exception of Peter, who had to go home early. Remus was going with a Ravenclaw girl, James was going with Lily, and Sirius was going with Roxy Reynolds, who had the nickname, Foxy Roxy. Sufficed to say, she is the Hogwarts slut. At least Sarah is a closet slut.

When Remus saw us his jaw dropped and he hit James, who hit Sirius and Sirius almost hit Roxy. They all looked like they had never noticed us before.

They didn't look too bad themselves. Remus went traditional with black dress robes and a white shirt and tie. James had a little more fun with it and wore a red shirt under his back dress robes. Sirius had a scarlet shirt with a gold tie and black dress robes.

"Don't you guys look nice," I said, trying not to make eye contact with Sirius. He looked devastatingly handsome and I couldn't shake the twinge jealousy that he had his arm around Roxy and not me.

"Wow you guys look amazing, don't they Siri-poo," Roxy said his new pet name in a baby voice, but he didn't even look at her.

"Yeah, they do," he said it in almost a whisper as if he was still in shock.

"You look good too Foxy- I mean Roxy," Sarah smiled innocently and everyone tried to hide their laughter. Roxy on the other hand was not as amused. She glared at Sarah and started to make out with Sirius.

"Lily, you look gorgeous," James had stood and was now taking Lily by the hand.

She blushed, "You look amazing too James," he blushed as well and kissed her. Unlike Roxy and Sirius who were practically attacking each other, the kiss was filled with love and passionate, but it wasn't like watching a porno.

"Well I have to Jesse soon. Come on guys," Juliet gestured toward the door and everyone followed.

"Um, I am going to catch up with you guys later. I will see you at the Ball," Sarah stayed back, we all gave her questioning looks but we left any way.

"I hope she is ok," I whispered to Juliet.

"Yeah, she is probably going to meet her date," Juliet sounded a bit bitter, but smiled at me, "Come on, I can't wait to see Brian's face!" she said, practically running.

Someone came up from behind me and spun me around, "You look breathtaking, Katie Gray," Brian said as he spun me I laughed and when he finally put me down, I kissed him.

It wasn't like the one in Hogsmeade, but it was nice. "You look amazing too!" He was wearing dark green dress robes and shirt with a silver bow tie.

He held out his arm and I took it, "Who ever said chivalry is dead obviously hasn't met you." I smiled and he smiled back.

"Are we ready?" Lily asked.

"Yep," Juliet said pulling her lips away from Jesse. They were so cute together!

"Come on! I won't to get my dance on!" James yelled and the boys all cheered.

The Great Hall looked like a winter wonderland. Instead of the normal night sky, the ceiling looked like it was snowing. There were Christmas trees along the perimeter and big ornaments hovered in midair (courtesy of Professor Flitwick).

"Wow, you really can do anything with magic," I said under my breath.

Brian and I figured we would switch from table to table considering my friends weren't fond of him and his friends weren't in love with me, "We can sit with your friends first, I got to hang out with me friends the whole day," I said when we walked in.

"Are you sure? We I know you aren't fond of my friends and they can be kind of rude." He was so cute.

"My friends can be just as rude. Come on, as long as you are with me I will be fine." he kissed my cheek and we made our way to his Slytherin friends.

His friends weren't as rude to me tonight, probably because they were too caught up in themselves to care. Slytherins were very self-absorbed.

"Would you like to dance?" Brian whispered in my ear.

"Sure, you won't step on my feet will you?"

He chuckled, "All purebloods have to learn how to dance," he said in a proper voice.

I used to watch the dance classes at the various dance schools all around New York and I had become quite good friends with one of the dance teachers, so he would teach me some ball room dancing.

He was right; he was a near-perfect dancer. I had practiced with professionals so he was really good, "You weren't kidding when you said you were a good dancer. I am impressed," I said as he twirled me.

"They teach dancing right in America, did you take lessons?"

"Sort of, I have a friend who teaches ball room dancing at a school in New York. He used to give me lessons." He looked at my funny.

"Should I be worried about this amazing dance teacher of yours?" He raised his eyebrows.

"He's like 45, you don't have to worry." He smiled at me and kissed my forehead.

"Good, tonight is going to be fun," he had a glint of mischief in his eyes and I didn't really understand it, but I let it go.

As the song ended someone cleared their throat behind me.

"What do you want, Black?" I said, making sure he knew that I was annoyed.

"I was just wondering if could have a dance, Roxy really wanted to dance with Brian and I figured you needed someone to dance with," Roxy was already leading Brian to the dance floor.

What a slut.

"Fine," I said as he wrapped an arm around me waist and led me to the middle of the floor.

He was an even better dancer than Brian. He was an amazing leader and never had to look down, "Wow," I whispered under my breath, but Sirius heard me.

"What?"

"Nothing, it's just you dance better than I would have thought. " I didn't want to give him a complement but he was really good.

"My parents made me take lessons," he said it as if it were torture.

"Well they paid off," he looked at me and raised an eyebrow.

"Are we actually having a conversation?"

"Of course not! I was just simply making an observation," I looked down and pretended to concentrate on the dance.

The song was rather short, so ended a few seconds later, "Well that was fun!" Roxy said as she came bouncing with Brian following. She ran to Sirius and started eating his face (he already had hickeys on his neck).

"Why don't we find some place a little more quiet?" she whispered in his ear loud enough for me to hear.

"Well you two obviously want some alone time. Come on Brian," I said and practically pulled him off the dance floor.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Brian asked me when we got to the refreshments table.

"Nothing, I could tell they wanted some alone time, punch?" I grabbed the closest cup I could find.

"You might not want to drink that, we spiked it," James appeared out of nowhere.

"All the more reason," I chugged to down. James' and Brian's faces looked shocked so I laughed.

"I love this girl!" Brian exclaimed while wrapping his arms around me.

Our conversation was interrupted by Professor Dumbledore, "Ladies and Gentlemen, I assume you have had wonderful time, but I am sorry to say it is midnight, so if the first through fourth years, please go back to your dorms."

There were a lot of groans from fourth and third years, but the first and second years had already left.

"I know, I know, now off to bed." With another groan, the rest of the third and fourth years left.

"Now, I think a bit of redecorating is in order." Professor Dumbledore clapped his hands and the Great Hall turned into a club, with strobe lights and multi-colored disco balls.

Dumbledore tried to explain the rules, but the music was already blaring and kids were yelling.

I changed into my second dress with a snap (literally). It was strapless and stopped about two inches above mid-thigh. It was hot pink that was so figure hugging my friends had to convince me that I didn't look like a hooker. I kept the same accessories since the gold matched the pink.

Brian walked over looking worried, "Have you seen Juliet? I can't find her anywhere!" I felt bad for not realizing that she wasn't here.

"No actually, come to think of it, I haven't seen Sarah either," I started to get worried, "Can't you call her with your wand? See where she is."

He said I spell and the phone started to ring like a regular muggle phone, "Hey, Juliet? Where are you! We're all worried sick. I've called 4 times now! Babe, I'm really worried are you ok?"

"I'm so sorry! I went back to the common room because my feet were super sore. I have blisters EVERYWHERE. I'll be down soon." Her voice cracked a bit, but I don't think anyone else noticed it.

"That's good," I said, "Come on the rave is starting! Get down here now! And have you seen Sarah? She should be here too!" I was a little hyper, I for some reason, maybe because I just downed alcohol.

Juliet paused for a second, "She was really tired and went back to her common room. I'll be down in a second." She said before she hung up the phone

"Come on!" Brian yelled and pulled me onto the dance floor.

"Talk to you later guys!" I yelled as he proceeded to lead me onto the dance floor.

I danced for two hours nonstop with Brian my friends (Juliet was totally drunk and kept making out with Jesse) and some other people which I had no idea who they were. I was so worn out and it was getting hard to stand.

Brian put his arms around me and led me off the dance floor and out of the Great Hall.

He got faster and was leading me through the castle, "Where are we going?" asked as giggled about how cliché it was, but totally cute.

"Just a bit longer, now close your eyes." I did as he told me and I immediately felt the cool December air, "Open your eyes."

I gasped when I opened my eyes. We were standing on a balcony that was decorated with Christmas lights and had a big Christmas tree in the corner that looked like it was professionally decorated. It was lightly snowing which made the scene even more perfect. It looked like a mini Great Hall.

"It's beautiful! How did you find it?" instead of answering he kissed me.

It was long and passionate. He started out gentle and got more aggressive as time went on. The kiss became more lust filled and now his hands started to move around my body. I didn't mind it at first but when he pinned me up against the wall I started to get a little scared. Then he reached for my zipper and tried to undue it.

I pushed him off of me, "What are you doing?" I said panting from the long kiss.

His hair was now out of place and there was red lipstick around his lips, "Come on, I know you want me," he pulled me closer to him and continued kissing me.

I pushed him off me once again with more force, "Get off me!" I ran for the door, but he grabbed me and pushed me against the wall.

He ripped my dress and took off his shirt. I screamed praying that someone would hear me, but all he did was hit me and I fell to the floor.

I hit the ground hard and screamed in pain, "HELP!" I screamed again. This time he kicked me in the side, which I knew was going to be a huge bruise.

He got on top of me and covered my mouth with his hand. He was much bigger than me so I couldn't push him off. I tried to scream but it was muffled. He continued to rip my dress and it was now half way off.

I struggled against him, but it didn't do anything. His pants were now off and he continued to rape me. I was crying praying to God someone would find me.

Please, please, please someone find me! I thought to myself while he successfully tore off my dress completely. I was now in nothing but my bra and underwear. I was being raped, it was freezing outside and I barely had anything on.

He was trying to unhook my bra when he was suddenly ripped off of my shaking body, "Stupefy!" I heard a familiar voice yell had a loud thump. I felt strong arms wrap around me and I kicked and screamed.

The voice tried to calm me, "Katie, calm down! It's ok; he's not going to hurt you!" I finally stopped and looked at my savior.

"S-S-Sirius?" I looked into his big gray eyes and burst into tears.

I clung to him and he picked me up and brought me back inside the castle. I had wrapped his dress robes around me, since my dress was torn to shreds. I continued to cry for about a half an hour, then I finally stopped and looked into Sirius' eyes once more.

"Don't tell anyone… please Sirius," I begged him.

"Some has to know, he needs to be punished for what he did to you. He can't just get away with it," he said it like it was so easy, but it wasn't.

"Please Sirius, I don't want anyone to know. I just can't…" I started to cry again.

"Shh, it's okay. I promise I won't say anything. Come on," he stood up and helped me to my feet. I still had his dress robes on, which we too big for me and I knew my make-up and hair looked terrible, but I didn't care. I just wanted to get away.

Looking back, it was stupid of me to go with a boy after just being nearly raped, but at that moment I didn't give a damn.

I stumbled a bit and winced when I stood up. I hadn't realized how bad he had beaten me until now.

Sirius scooped me up in his arms and carried me. I know I should have been scared, but for some reason I felt safe.

He took me to the common room and the Fat Lady almost had a heart attack when she saw me in Sirius' arms wrapped in his dress robes.

The people in the common room were just as surprised, but Sirius ignored them and made some fifth year allow me to go up to the boy's dorms.

I was still sobbing into his chest when we got to his room. I thanked God no one was there or we would have to explain ourselves and I so did not want to do that.

Sirius laid me on his bed gently and draped a blanket around me. He grabbed some spare pillows from another bed and blanket and started to set up a bed for himself.

"You don't have to do this, I should just go to my room." As I got up I yelped in pain and fell but Sirius caught me.

"Yes I do. I am not going to have you sleep on the floor and I don't want you in your room alone. Get some sleep, I will see you in the morning," he finished making his bed and lay down to sleep.

"Sirius?"

"Hmm?" he said sitting up to face me.

"Thank you," I kissed him on the cheek, laid back down and fell asleep.

Pictures of the dresses will be on my profile!