Finally! I finished this chappie! Major writer's block!
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Lily looked at herself in the mirror. Her black dress robe that she had gotten the day before clung to her thin figure tightly. It came just above her knee and the sleeves were three quarters. The neckline was a 'v' shape and she wore a simple gold necklace. For the first time in a while, she took more than five minutes to do her makeup. She wore frosty white eye shadow just barely and different shades of bronze. Her shiny, curled red hair fell just about her shoulders. She had to admit it. She looked beautiful. She loved how the dress brought out the features that she usually didn't show off. She loved how her makeup brought out her big green eyes. She loved how her hair bounced when she walked. But in a way, she hated it all. She hated how she looked gorgeous; because this wasn't for James.
"You ready Lily?" Shay asked.
"Yeah." She replied, straightening out her dress for the millionth time. Minnie stepped in the dorm. "Minnie! You look nice."
She was wearing a light green satin robe that hung loose. She had curled her hair and had it in a fancy updo with a few curls framing her oval face. "Thanks. You do too Lily."
Lily, Shay, Minnie, and Riley all stepped out of the dorm. Remus was already there, wearing a dark blue robe. He grinned at Minnie.
"You look beautiful" He said quietly.
"Thank you. You look nice too." She said, smiling.
He tucked a small fragrant hyacinth stem into her hair. She took his arm. Lily, Shay, and Riley walked behind, whispering how cute they look together. Suddenly Shay and Riley squeaked and ran to Kyle's side, both taking each of his arms. Lily awkwardly walked to the Great Hall by Remus and Minnie who were quietly talking together. She was supposed to meet with Rocco there.
He was leaning against the wall, wearing dark burgundy robes. His whole face brightened as he saw her and he walked quickly over.
"Lily. My princess." He said, kissing her hand lightly.
"Rocco." She said, giggling.
"You look absolutely fabulous."
"Thank you. You look pretty nice yourself." She responded.
Professor Dumbledore, wearing rich purple velvet robes stood up to speak.
"Welcome to the Mistletoe Ball." He announced.
People cheered happily.
"Even though the Interschool Quidditch Championship is over, we have this whole evening to enjoy. Now, can I have the Hogwarts Quidditch Team come up here please and lead the dance?"
The seven couples walked into the center of the Great Hall. James was wearing a sharp black robe and Sarah was wearing deep red robe with tall heels that made her almost tall as James since he wasn't that tall himself. The band struck a medium paced tune that gradually speeded up to a fairly fast one. Shay was dancing with Kyle while Riley had grabbed a tall Ravenclaw. People moved into the dancing floor when the song quickened.
"Do you want to dance?" Rocco asked.
"Sure." She replied.
They started dancing but Lily's gaze kept landing on James and Sarah who were dancing at the center of the floor.
"Did you do the decorations?" Rocco asked, causing Lily to go back to his warm blue eyes.
"Yes. We prefects were in charge of them."
"It's beautiful."
There were many round tables, with a mistletoe or holly floating above them. Four big Christmas trees were set in each corner of the Hall and magical snowflakes that disappeared as soon as they touched something were gliding gracefully from the ceiling.
"Thank you." Lily said, satisfied, looking around the Great Hall.
A slow song started.
"Let's eat." Lily said.
"All right." Rocco said, a little disappointed.
Lily took his hand and led him to the table with Shay. As soon as they sat down, a menu appeared before them. Lily ordered a grilled salmon with yellow squash and the food magically appeared on the table. Shay and Rocco foloowed the suit and ordered their own food.
Meanwhile, James and Sarah were dancing together. James had been watching Lily's every move since the dance had started. When she sat down, James let go of Sarah.
"What's wrong?" She asked.
"I'm hungry. Let's have supper."
"All right." She shrugged.
James led her to the table where Lily, Rocco and Shay were sitting. He sat across from Lily, by Sarah.
"Hey you guys." He said. He turned to Lily. "Liliy, you look beautiful." He said, captivated by her eyes. They stared at each other.
"Aren't you forgetting your manner?" Shay joked, nudging her.
"Oh!" She said, startled. "Thank you." She said, not breaking her gaze.
He nodded curtly when Sarah reminded him to order. He ordered his food and they began to talk lively. The conversation shifted from Quidditch, schools, and settle on who looked the best in the crowd.
"I don't see her anymore, but I thought Elena Berezhnaya looked pretty nice." James said.
"I wonder where she and Sirius are." Shay wondered.
"Probably snogging behind some bush." James said.
Just then, Sirius showed up, holding Elena's hand. They both had rosy cheeks and tousled hair.
"Told you…" James said.
"Hiya! Can we join you?" Sirius asked cheerfully.
"Of course." Lily said. She levitated a few chairs and brought it to their table.
The table grew bigger to fit more people and Sirius and Elena sat down.
"Doesn't Remus and Minnie look so nice?" Shay said, sighing and looking at the dancing couple.
"Whoo! Go Remus!" Sirius shouted. [great guy… huh]
Remus and Minnie blushed deeply. They decided that they were 'hungry' and walked over to join Lily's table.
"What are you doing? You looked so cozy!" Sirius said.
Remus rolled his eyes and sat down by Lily. Minnie sat down by him. They talked lively while eating and about an hour later, they were nearly done with their desserts. Lily and Rocco got up to dance and Shay and Riley traded off, leaving Riley to sit by herself and Shay dancing with Kyle. Sirius and Elena too got up to dance.
"Can we dance now?" Sarah said, sukily.
"All right."
After an hour, Riley had grabbed a guy from Salem who 'was just as hot as Kyle', she sad, and Minnie and Remus were dancing again. Lily and James and their dates sat down again.
"I can't believe Snape got a date." Lily muttered.
"She's not that bad looking." James said.
"Her name's Yvette, she's the seeker on the reserve team for my school." Rocco said.
Yvette [check out her story, You Never Saw Me! Love ya Yvette… -_-;; okay. On with the story] was a fair height, tan with shoulder length brown hair. A boy from Durmstrang came over and asked Sarah to dance.
"Is that okay James?"
"Go ahead." He responded, a little too happily. She looked at him strangely and left to dance.
"Do you want to dance Lily?" Rocco asked.
"My foot hurts. I want to rest." Lily lied, excusing herself to stay with James. James smiled slightly. Soon Sirius came over to join them.
"How is your wonderful evening lads and, uh, Lily?" He asked cheerfully.
"Fine. How are you?" Lily asked. Just then, a Hufflepuff came over and asked to dance with James.
"Sure." He said slowly and reluctantly. The girl squealed happily and James look sadly back at Lily and Sirius but was dragged off.
"Do you want to dance?" Elena asked Rocco. "I mean, if that's all right with you guys." She added, pointing to Lily and Sirius.
"Sure."
"Fine, go ahead."
"I don't mind." Rocco and Elena left to dance together.
"So Lily. How's it going?" Sirius asked again.
"I already told you, I'm fine." She said, staring into the crowd.
Sirius followed her gaze, which landed on the messy haired boy. He smiled knowingly. "Want to dance with Prongs?"
Lily blushed and studied the sleeves of her robes. Without a word, Sirius got up and tapped James on the shoulder. He whispered something and began to dance with the girl James had been dancing with. James strolled over to Lily.
"Lily, do you want to dance?" He asked, offering her a hand.
The smile that she had been holding in the whole night, bloomed like a radiant flower. She took his hand without an answer gladly. They danced a couple of songs before Rocco asked to dance with Lily. An hour later, Lily was dancing with Remus, James, with Elena, Sirius with Minnie, and Rocco with a tall blonde Denver.
"You looked pretty nice with Moony." Sirius said to Minnie, winking.
"Shut up." She snapped jokingly, not looking at him in the eyes.
Sirius laughed. "Are you going out with him?"
"No."
"Oh."
"So has Lily and James danced together yet?" Minnie asked.
"A few times. I guess you were too busy dancing with Remus to notice, huh?"
"Sirius?"
"Yeah?"
"Shut up."
~*~
The night progressed on slowly for Lily and the last song, which was a slow one, finally came.
"Rocco, can I please dance with Lily?" James asked politely.
Rocco stood quietly for awhile before finally saying yes.
"Thank you." James replied happily, taking Lily's hand and leading her to where their friends were. James' arm slinked to Lily's waist and she rested hers on his shoulder. The other hand intertwined with one.
"So how was your evening?" James asked.
"Great, except the time I wasn't dancing with you. You?" She said softly.
"Same here." He said.
He sniffed in her fragrance and tucked a piece of curly red hair behind her ear.
"You know, I like you with curly hair."
"Well, you'd better enjoy it now because I'm not wasting three hours every morning, waiting for the Curling Potion to work in my hair." She said, rolling her eyes.
"All right." He said, smiling.
He stared into her green eyes, drowning into the pools of emerald. She rested her head on his chest and closed her eyes. James rested his chin on top of her head, sighed, and closed his eyes too. A slow, genuine smile appeared on his lips. The song ended before they knew it but James still held her close to him and coiled one of her curls around his finger. He looked at her straight in the eye.
"I—" He stared to say.
"James! You're my date! Come on! Walk me back to my dorm!" Sarah shouted shrilly.
"The dance is over Sarah. I'm not your date anymore."
Sarah stood there, her perfectly painted lips in a round 'O'. She stormed off, her long straight hair flying behind her. A moment later, Professor Dumbledore's clear voice rang through the Great Hall.
"And that concludes the IQC." He sadly announced. "The train for the foreign schools leave at 10:30 am and the vacation departure train leaves at 4 pm. Thank you all for coming tonight and I want to thank the other schools for traveling here to Hogwarts and playing a fair match. I hope you have enjoyed your stay, as much as we enjoyed you staying with us."
Everyone applauded and started to head to their own dorms. Lily was just turning to leave, her hand in James' when a voice called out her name.
"Lily!" She turned around. It was Rocco. "Look, my school isn't leaving on the train, we're taking the Knight Bus so we'll be leaving early, and I won't see you tomorrow. I just wanted to say good bye and thank you for the evening."
Lily smiled and kissed him on the cheek. "Bye Rocco."
"Good luck with James." He whispered in her ear.
Lily raised her eyebrows in surprise but smiled. "Thanks. Owl me!" She said, going back to James. They went to their own dorms.
In Lily's dorm, Shay was already in her pajamas.
"Lily!" She shouted. "I think I'm in love!"
Lily laughed. "With who?"
"Kyle Clearman! He's so, so sweet! I love him…" Shay said, hugging her pillow tightly. "What am I going to do when he leaves tomorrow?"
"You can probably see him at like a family reunion at James'." She said.
"Great!" Shay said. She took out a parchment and busily began to write down something.
"What are you doing?"
"Writing to Kyle that we can meet at James' next family reunion."
Lily laughed. She did indeed hope to see Rocco someday again, but was now looking forward to seeing James everyday, hopefully, for the rest of her life.
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Not the longest chappie. But it was either this much rite now or like three times longer in like a month. So... -_-;; sorry! This story is almost over! Just about two or three more chappies to go!
I'll be posting how the story is going here:
I'm going to starting a new ficcy soon. Should I post the first chappie now? hmm... Maybe tomorrow.
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Lily looked at herself in the mirror. Her black dress robe that she had gotten the day before clung to her thin figure tightly. It came just above her knee and the sleeves were three quarters. The neckline was a 'v' shape and she wore a simple gold necklace. For the first time in a while, she took more than five minutes to do her makeup. She wore frosty white eye shadow just barely and different shades of bronze. Her shiny, curled red hair fell just about her shoulders. She had to admit it. She looked beautiful. She loved how the dress brought out the features that she usually didn't show off. She loved how her makeup brought out her big green eyes. She loved how her hair bounced when she walked. But in a way, she hated it all. She hated how she looked gorgeous; because this wasn't for James.
"You ready Lily?" Shay asked.
"Yeah." She replied, straightening out her dress for the millionth time. Minnie stepped in the dorm. "Minnie! You look nice."
She was wearing a light green satin robe that hung loose. She had curled her hair and had it in a fancy updo with a few curls framing her oval face. "Thanks. You do too Lily."
Lily, Shay, Minnie, and Riley all stepped out of the dorm. Remus was already there, wearing a dark blue robe. He grinned at Minnie.
"You look beautiful" He said quietly.
"Thank you. You look nice too." She said, smiling.
He tucked a small fragrant hyacinth stem into her hair. She took his arm. Lily, Shay, and Riley walked behind, whispering how cute they look together. Suddenly Shay and Riley squeaked and ran to Kyle's side, both taking each of his arms. Lily awkwardly walked to the Great Hall by Remus and Minnie who were quietly talking together. She was supposed to meet with Rocco there.
He was leaning against the wall, wearing dark burgundy robes. His whole face brightened as he saw her and he walked quickly over.
"Lily. My princess." He said, kissing her hand lightly.
"Rocco." She said, giggling.
"You look absolutely fabulous."
"Thank you. You look pretty nice yourself." She responded.
Professor Dumbledore, wearing rich purple velvet robes stood up to speak.
"Welcome to the Mistletoe Ball." He announced.
People cheered happily.
"Even though the Interschool Quidditch Championship is over, we have this whole evening to enjoy. Now, can I have the Hogwarts Quidditch Team come up here please and lead the dance?"
The seven couples walked into the center of the Great Hall. James was wearing a sharp black robe and Sarah was wearing deep red robe with tall heels that made her almost tall as James since he wasn't that tall himself. The band struck a medium paced tune that gradually speeded up to a fairly fast one. Shay was dancing with Kyle while Riley had grabbed a tall Ravenclaw. People moved into the dancing floor when the song quickened.
"Do you want to dance?" Rocco asked.
"Sure." She replied.
They started dancing but Lily's gaze kept landing on James and Sarah who were dancing at the center of the floor.
"Did you do the decorations?" Rocco asked, causing Lily to go back to his warm blue eyes.
"Yes. We prefects were in charge of them."
"It's beautiful."
There were many round tables, with a mistletoe or holly floating above them. Four big Christmas trees were set in each corner of the Hall and magical snowflakes that disappeared as soon as they touched something were gliding gracefully from the ceiling.
"Thank you." Lily said, satisfied, looking around the Great Hall.
A slow song started.
"Let's eat." Lily said.
"All right." Rocco said, a little disappointed.
Lily took his hand and led him to the table with Shay. As soon as they sat down, a menu appeared before them. Lily ordered a grilled salmon with yellow squash and the food magically appeared on the table. Shay and Rocco foloowed the suit and ordered their own food.
Meanwhile, James and Sarah were dancing together. James had been watching Lily's every move since the dance had started. When she sat down, James let go of Sarah.
"What's wrong?" She asked.
"I'm hungry. Let's have supper."
"All right." She shrugged.
James led her to the table where Lily, Rocco and Shay were sitting. He sat across from Lily, by Sarah.
"Hey you guys." He said. He turned to Lily. "Liliy, you look beautiful." He said, captivated by her eyes. They stared at each other.
"Aren't you forgetting your manner?" Shay joked, nudging her.
"Oh!" She said, startled. "Thank you." She said, not breaking her gaze.
He nodded curtly when Sarah reminded him to order. He ordered his food and they began to talk lively. The conversation shifted from Quidditch, schools, and settle on who looked the best in the crowd.
"I don't see her anymore, but I thought Elena Berezhnaya looked pretty nice." James said.
"I wonder where she and Sirius are." Shay wondered.
"Probably snogging behind some bush." James said.
Just then, Sirius showed up, holding Elena's hand. They both had rosy cheeks and tousled hair.
"Told you…" James said.
"Hiya! Can we join you?" Sirius asked cheerfully.
"Of course." Lily said. She levitated a few chairs and brought it to their table.
The table grew bigger to fit more people and Sirius and Elena sat down.
"Doesn't Remus and Minnie look so nice?" Shay said, sighing and looking at the dancing couple.
"Whoo! Go Remus!" Sirius shouted. [great guy… huh]
Remus and Minnie blushed deeply. They decided that they were 'hungry' and walked over to join Lily's table.
"What are you doing? You looked so cozy!" Sirius said.
Remus rolled his eyes and sat down by Lily. Minnie sat down by him. They talked lively while eating and about an hour later, they were nearly done with their desserts. Lily and Rocco got up to dance and Shay and Riley traded off, leaving Riley to sit by herself and Shay dancing with Kyle. Sirius and Elena too got up to dance.
"Can we dance now?" Sarah said, sukily.
"All right."
After an hour, Riley had grabbed a guy from Salem who 'was just as hot as Kyle', she sad, and Minnie and Remus were dancing again. Lily and James and their dates sat down again.
"I can't believe Snape got a date." Lily muttered.
"She's not that bad looking." James said.
"Her name's Yvette, she's the seeker on the reserve team for my school." Rocco said.
Yvette [check out her story, You Never Saw Me! Love ya Yvette… -_-;; okay. On with the story] was a fair height, tan with shoulder length brown hair. A boy from Durmstrang came over and asked Sarah to dance.
"Is that okay James?"
"Go ahead." He responded, a little too happily. She looked at him strangely and left to dance.
"Do you want to dance Lily?" Rocco asked.
"My foot hurts. I want to rest." Lily lied, excusing herself to stay with James. James smiled slightly. Soon Sirius came over to join them.
"How is your wonderful evening lads and, uh, Lily?" He asked cheerfully.
"Fine. How are you?" Lily asked. Just then, a Hufflepuff came over and asked to dance with James.
"Sure." He said slowly and reluctantly. The girl squealed happily and James look sadly back at Lily and Sirius but was dragged off.
"Do you want to dance?" Elena asked Rocco. "I mean, if that's all right with you guys." She added, pointing to Lily and Sirius.
"Sure."
"Fine, go ahead."
"I don't mind." Rocco and Elena left to dance together.
"So Lily. How's it going?" Sirius asked again.
"I already told you, I'm fine." She said, staring into the crowd.
Sirius followed her gaze, which landed on the messy haired boy. He smiled knowingly. "Want to dance with Prongs?"
Lily blushed and studied the sleeves of her robes. Without a word, Sirius got up and tapped James on the shoulder. He whispered something and began to dance with the girl James had been dancing with. James strolled over to Lily.
"Lily, do you want to dance?" He asked, offering her a hand.
The smile that she had been holding in the whole night, bloomed like a radiant flower. She took his hand without an answer gladly. They danced a couple of songs before Rocco asked to dance with Lily. An hour later, Lily was dancing with Remus, James, with Elena, Sirius with Minnie, and Rocco with a tall blonde Denver.
"You looked pretty nice with Moony." Sirius said to Minnie, winking.
"Shut up." She snapped jokingly, not looking at him in the eyes.
Sirius laughed. "Are you going out with him?"
"No."
"Oh."
"So has Lily and James danced together yet?" Minnie asked.
"A few times. I guess you were too busy dancing with Remus to notice, huh?"
"Sirius?"
"Yeah?"
"Shut up."
~*~
The night progressed on slowly for Lily and the last song, which was a slow one, finally came.
"Rocco, can I please dance with Lily?" James asked politely.
Rocco stood quietly for awhile before finally saying yes.
"Thank you." James replied happily, taking Lily's hand and leading her to where their friends were. James' arm slinked to Lily's waist and she rested hers on his shoulder. The other hand intertwined with one.
"So how was your evening?" James asked.
"Great, except the time I wasn't dancing with you. You?" She said softly.
"Same here." He said.
He sniffed in her fragrance and tucked a piece of curly red hair behind her ear.
"You know, I like you with curly hair."
"Well, you'd better enjoy it now because I'm not wasting three hours every morning, waiting for the Curling Potion to work in my hair." She said, rolling her eyes.
"All right." He said, smiling.
He stared into her green eyes, drowning into the pools of emerald. She rested her head on his chest and closed her eyes. James rested his chin on top of her head, sighed, and closed his eyes too. A slow, genuine smile appeared on his lips. The song ended before they knew it but James still held her close to him and coiled one of her curls around his finger. He looked at her straight in the eye.
"I—" He stared to say.
"James! You're my date! Come on! Walk me back to my dorm!" Sarah shouted shrilly.
"The dance is over Sarah. I'm not your date anymore."
Sarah stood there, her perfectly painted lips in a round 'O'. She stormed off, her long straight hair flying behind her. A moment later, Professor Dumbledore's clear voice rang through the Great Hall.
"And that concludes the IQC." He sadly announced. "The train for the foreign schools leave at 10:30 am and the vacation departure train leaves at 4 pm. Thank you all for coming tonight and I want to thank the other schools for traveling here to Hogwarts and playing a fair match. I hope you have enjoyed your stay, as much as we enjoyed you staying with us."
Everyone applauded and started to head to their own dorms. Lily was just turning to leave, her hand in James' when a voice called out her name.
"Lily!" She turned around. It was Rocco. "Look, my school isn't leaving on the train, we're taking the Knight Bus so we'll be leaving early, and I won't see you tomorrow. I just wanted to say good bye and thank you for the evening."
Lily smiled and kissed him on the cheek. "Bye Rocco."
"Good luck with James." He whispered in her ear.
Lily raised her eyebrows in surprise but smiled. "Thanks. Owl me!" She said, going back to James. They went to their own dorms.
In Lily's dorm, Shay was already in her pajamas.
"Lily!" She shouted. "I think I'm in love!"
Lily laughed. "With who?"
"Kyle Clearman! He's so, so sweet! I love him…" Shay said, hugging her pillow tightly. "What am I going to do when he leaves tomorrow?"
"You can probably see him at like a family reunion at James'." She said.
"Great!" Shay said. She took out a parchment and busily began to write down something.
"What are you doing?"
"Writing to Kyle that we can meet at James' next family reunion."
Lily laughed. She did indeed hope to see Rocco someday again, but was now looking forward to seeing James everyday, hopefully, for the rest of her life.
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Not the longest chappie. But it was either this much rite now or like three times longer in like a month. So... -_-;; sorry! This story is almost over! Just about two or three more chappies to go!
I'll be posting how the story is going here:
I'm going to starting a new ficcy soon. Should I post the first chappie now? hmm... Maybe tomorrow.
