Chapter 14
The next day….
Celeste came running over to Alya with an excited looked on her face.
"Alya guess what."
"What?" Alya asked as she raised an eyebrow.
"The Yule Ball is coming up soon and I already got a date for it."
"Who?"
"Zachary Duncan asked me this morning." She squealed. "I'm so excited. Who do you think is going to ask you?"
"I don't know but I have a feeling…."
She was interrupted by someone yelling her name from across the courtyard.
"Hey Black."
Alya turned to see Malfoy walking towards her with a big smile across his face.
Alya rolled her eyes. "What do you want?"
Malfoy started looking uncomfortable. "Did you hear the Yule Ball is coming up soon?"
Alya groaned. "Don't tell me that you're thinking of asking me to go with you? After what you did and the way you've been talking to me."
Malfoy looked down guiltily.
"I think that you should go with him Alya." Celeste said.
"What?"
"It will be a good chance for Draco to apologize to you." She gave him a look. "Wont it Draco."
Draco nodded.
Alya sighed. "Fine! I'll go to the Yule Ball with you."
Draco smiled. "Thanks." He said as he walked off.
Alya turned to Celeste. "You owe me one."
Celeste laughed. "You're welcome."
"Alya." Came a new voice.
Alya turned to see Harry, Ron and Hermione walking up to her.
"Hey Harry."
Harry smiled. "Are you going to the Yule Ball that's coming up?"
Alya nodded.
"Who are you going with?"
Celeste giggled. "She's going with Draco."
Alya rolled her eyes. "Like I had a choice." she looked to Harry Ron and Hermione. "Who are you going with?"
"I'm going with Ginny Weasley. Ron's sister and Ron and Hermione are going with each other."
"Great. I heard that Jaden and Scarlett are going together which I think is cute."
That night as Alya and Celeste arrived in the girl's dorm Arlandria flew through the window and landed on Alya's bed.
Alya went to Arlandria and grabbed the letter from her claws and began reading it.
"Dear Alya,
I'm glad that you told Harry about your past.
I don't think that you could have kept it from him for much longer so you must forgive Draco Malfoy for revealing it.
I've heard that the Yule Ball is coming up so I've sent you a package along with this letter.
There are rumours of the Dark Lord beginning to rise.
I'm not going to tell you to worry because you'll be worried anyway.
I fear that your dreams are right.
I too have a feeling that something will happen.
I'll be coming to Hogwarts soon on the night of the Yule Ball so I'll see you there.
Professor Dumbledore invited me to come.
I'll see you soon.
Sirius."
Alya looked down on the bed and saw a large package.
She grabbed it and opened it to see two large dresses inside.
One was emerald-green and the other was royal blue.
"There beautiful." Celeste said as she grabbed the green dress.
Alya nodded in agreement. "Yes but why are there two?"
"Maybe your uncle sent them for us. That was nice of him to do that. In any case this green dress is totally mine."
Alya smiled and hugged her royal blue dress. "Thank you Uncle Sirius."