Merry Christmas!
Cleo awoke slowly, and opened her eyes slowly. Her glasses were slightly askew, she was sitting in an odd position, and she was leaning against something solid, soft, and warm. She rubbed her eyes and looked at what it was. It was Sirius.
She slowly remembered last night, and sighed against him. How she would give to touch his cheek, and brush a few of those strands of hair away from his face. But no. She couldn't. If he woke up, it would be the worst. Cleo sighed as she leaned against him, and smiled slightly, his arm was around her waist, she slid hers down to his, resting her hand beside his own.
Cleo closed her eyes, she was a bit tired, or was really tired, and felt her eye lids and mind getting heavy, she might fall back into a sleep. However, the presence of Sirius's hands and body so close to hers kept her awake, she wanted to enjoy every moment she had, whether he was awake or not. He was so innocent looking whenever he slept..
Cleo sighed deeply, and shut her eyes, again...
(Sirius's POV)
Sirius became awake, but had his eyes shut. He wasn't ready to get up, he could stay in his bed for a long time. Except he wasn't in bed.
He was sitting in an odd position, his eyes flew open, he was on the couch. He looked over and saw the object of his obsession - or desire, in his arms, fast asleep. Sirius smiled, inside his head he was cheering away, but he lay quiet, in the presence of Cleo, so peaceful and calm. For once, they were fighting, or bickering, or laughing or tickling. They just sat there, quiet and serene. Sirius looked down at her and sighed.
Her short blonde hair rested messily on her head, and her glasses were tilted at an odd angle. Her hand was next to his, her long fingers curled up slightly. He noticed goose bumps on her arms, and shifted, bringing her slightly closer to warm her. Sirius wanted so much, to touch her face or arms, but didn't dare try and wake her. It would be an odd sight, if he was touching her cheek, and her eyes flew open and stared at him. He slightly shivered at that prospect and sighed, shutting his eyes in hopes of going back to sleep, or try to at least.
(Cleo again)
"IT'S CHRISTMAS!!!" Four voices bellowed into the ears of Cleo and Sirius. They sprang awake, or their eyes flew open, and they looked around at the presents on the carpet, each grinned from ear to ear happily.
Cleo pulled out of Sirius's arms rather reluctantly, neither met the others eyes as they blushed and looked at their presents. Everyone took their place next to their own presents, Sirius and Cleo stayed on the couch.
Cleo picked a big one up and looked at the card. "From Draco.. this'll be interesting." Cleo grinned and opened the box slowly, as did the others with theirs. Cleo sighed as she looked inside. There was a box inside it, slightly smaller. Then another one, and then another one after that. Then there was another one, and another one after that. AND then there was another box inside that one, and a small one, wrapped in tons of wrapping paper.
The gang was all laughing, thinking it was funny opening seven boxes. Well, after she got the wrappings off, there was a small green jewelry box, the kind that held a ring of necklace. She smiled as she opened it then looked inside, pulling out a paper that said 'I O U'. She snorted and slapped Draco on the arm playfully.
He laughed, with the others, and pulled out a small box. Cleo glared at him warily and opened it. Inside, was a beautiful necklace, that had small, stone animals on it. Like cat, dog, wolf, and other things like that. She grinned and thanked him. Then he opened his present and began to play with it, and grinned happily.
Cleo opened James' present next, which was a small, Gryffindor banner, she could use to hang up somewhere.
"Go and wave it." He said, grinning.
Cleo blinked and did so, the flag gave off a very loud roar. "Whoa..." Everyone said, Cleo was a bit pale, since it was so loud. She thanked him greatly and moved it to the side, very slowly, and very carefully.
She opened Astra's next, and pulled the ball out. It was one of those rubbery water yo-yo thingys that she loved to play with. "Thanks Astra!" she said, beginning to play with it, not missing. Cleo was surprised she found this MUGGLE toy in a MAGIC store..
"Miss it. Like.. drop it accidentally." Astra said. Cleo nodded.
She slipped the loop around her middle finger and began bouncing and catching it, then purposely missed. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH" The yo-yo laughed, so the whole common room heard it. "Whoa..." She said...
"Don't worry. After you play with it a lot, it stops laughing, and when you miss, it just gives you a tip, like what you did wrong." Astra said, everyone wanted to play with it.
"No.. MINE!" Cleo snapped and whimpered, holding it onto it. They all laughed and chatted.. and Cleo picked up something heavy.
"Thanks Remus." she said as she opened it. It was a book, of course, but very interesting, indeed. 'Unique Spells.' Was the title. It didn't sound interesting, but it was. She opened it, and there would be spells, and stuff about the spell, and things that happened with it.
Cleo looked down at a small box, and turned it over, it had Sirius' name on it. She looked up at him, and saw a light crimson grow on his face. "Open it." He said.
She did so, taking off the gold paper and there was a small green box, that held a ring or necklace. She opened it, and there was a small, silver ring, with a simple Sapphire in it. She looked up at him, Sirius was now very deeply red. "Thank you.. it's beautiful." She whispered, smiling, and slipped it on.
It fit perfectly and she suddenly felt calmer, and more at ease.
"It's a Thinking ring. It can help you think if your really confused. Do you like it?" Sirius asked, blushing. Cleo nodded and hugged him.
The others liked their presents from her, and she liked theirs. Then they grabbed their stockings, which Hogwarts seemed to fill magically with candy and small toys.
Cleo, from her stocking alone, got two boxes over every flavor jelly beans, five chocolate frogs, and some other candies and pastries.
After the group looked at their presents, James grinned and said something to Sirius, and he agreed. "Why don't we have a snowball fight?"
The group agreed, and went to change into warmer clothes and stomped outside. It was cool, and not freezing, and the snow was wet, so it would make for good snowballs.
The group split up, Cleo, Astra, and Sirius on one side, the others on the other side, and they began the war.
The group battled, long and hard for an hour, after falling onto the ground, they decided enough was enough, all were soaked from the icy, cold, wet snow.
As they trailed back to the castle, Astra turned to Cleo and Sirius. "Oh, and for the dance, your going together." She said cheerfully. They blinked.
"When were WE informed of this?" Sirius blinked.
"When did WE decide on it?" Cleo asked.
"Your being informed now, and we decided for you, since you should go together. And that's that." She said, and the others marched along. Cleo sighed and looked at Sirius who just shrugged, and they followed the others.
"I need to talk to you guys. Last time I dreamt-" Cleo began but was cut off by a Ravenclaw, Whitney Manson.
"Hey guys!" She said, opening the Hogwart's door and letting them in. "So your staying, too? Me and Atticus are the only Ravenclaws. I don't know where he is, so can I hang out with you?" She asked this in a hurry.
James looked at the rest of his group, all they did was shrug or blink. "Um... yeah..." James blinked, taking in everything she said at once.
"Thanks, it's kind of lonely. There is only three Hufflepuffs, but their first years and I don't know their names, and then theres the Slytherins, Lucius and Severus, but I'd NEVER hang out with one of them. Their mean." Whitney babbled.
Cleo nodded in agreement, and edged slightly closer to Sirius, as if Whitney would jump and attack him. Though, of course, this was not going to happen, but she just felt like doing it. Her arm brushed against his and she blushed, muttering a sorry, and then turned to the others. "Where are we going now?" She asked.
Remus looked at his watch and then sat, "To lunch!" With that, Sirius took a sigh of relief and patted his stomach.
"Good, I'm hungry." And with that, everyone, but James, replied with a groan.
After lunch, the group decided to split. Astra and Whitney thought it would be good to give Cleo a make over, and get ready for the dance early. The event of taking Cleo away was actually a rather interesting one..
"NO! YOU WON'T TAKE ME!" Cleo shrieked in the hall, grabbing onto Sirius' arm and pleaded. "Don't let them take me! I'm too young to go! SAVE ME!" She cried loudly, as Astra sighed and grabbed her waist and began to pull. "NO!!!"
When Sirius was finally pried loose of Cleo, the guys just stood there, and watch her be dragged off. Surprisingly, she put up a good fight, and managed to drag James off slightly down the hall, but the girls managed to pry her hands off her captive.
Then, when they were going around a corner, Cleo grabbed the wall, and they yanked hard till her grip slipped and they dragged her doom...
Astra let Whitney into the common room, but said the password quiet enough that she wouldn't here, and they headed to the dormitory, having to haul Cleo up the stairs and she kicked and threw a fit, and tied her to a chair.
(MEAN WHILE)
"Cleo is one odd woman." Sirius said, leaning back in his chair in an empty classroom. "Most girls LIKE dressing up and make up."
Draco nodded and agreed. "Honestly, you two make the perfect couple. Both LOVE to pull pranks on Slytherins..." His eye started twitching as he thought about some of the pranks. "And hate Snape." He added. "Cleo likes dogs, too!"
"Yeah, Cleo is crazed." Remus finished and nodded. "Astra is pretty much the fashion queen in Gryffindor, I don't want to know what their putting Cleo through." He grinned.
"I don't see why there's a dance, anyway. Dumbledore said we should dress up a bit, too. I will NEVER understand that man." James said proudly.
"Nor will any of us, mate." Sirius said, patting him on the back, cheerfully. "So who are you and Draco going with?"
"Each other." James grimaced, Remus blinked.
"Gee, Prongs, I never knew you leaned that way..." Remus said, slightly stunned, staring at him oddly.
"I DON'T! WE DON'T!" James said, slapping his forehead. "Remus is going with Astra, Sirius is with Cleo, were just going to hang around."
"Speaking of Cleo and I, why did you make us go together? Without even ASKING if you could play Matchmaker?" Sirius said, standing up with his hands on his hips, and glaring at them for an explanation.
"Well it's obvious, isn't it, Padfoot? We KNOW you fancy her." Remus said, smirking at him, the others nodded.
"I- I do not!" Sirius stuttered, his face beginning to get pink. Damned blushing. Everyone eyed him as if to say 'Oh I bet you don't.' He didn't like being eyed like that, it was EXTREMELY un nerving. He looked at his feet and said quietly, "Is it that obvious?"
(And in the dorms...)
"So which dress will you wear?" Astra said, rummaging through the closet. "How about this white one, or the lavender one?" She said, holding them near Cleo, who was trying to pull the ropes off. "Why not some jeans and a T-shirt?" "Because, it's supposed to be a bit formal, Dumbledore said so when you were in Lala land dreaming of Sirius." Astra said. Cleo could have kicked her for saying it infront of Whitney. Whitney wasn't supposed to know, neither was Astra, anyway.
"I do not!" She hissed.
"Do too." "Do not."
"Do too." Astra said.
"Do too." Whitney agreed.
"Is it THAT obvious?" She said. They nodded. Cleo groaned and slumped in her chair. "I'm not going then." "Yes you are. We WILL drag you down there if we have to. But you better be mature enough to act like a lady. Or at least pretend." Astra added with a snort of laughter.
After they wrestled Cleo into her dress, which was the lavender one. It was simple, straight, with tank top like straps. Then it was time for the make up. As a compromise, Cleo was allowed to pick the make up, which she picked only the lightest of the colors.
"I hate make up." She muttered as they put it on her, totally ignoring her. "NOT SO HEAVY!" She whined and argued.
Finally, it was time for dinner and the dance. Cleo sighed and whispered, 'Thank You.' and ran out of the dorm, and down the stairs, the guys were waiting for them, Whitney would see them later at the dance.
"Wow, Cleo, you look great." Sirius breathed, looking her up and down. The others nodded and Astra came down, Remus went over and kissed his date. The first kiss the group had seen since Remus and Astra started going out.
"Yeah, yeah." Cleo muttered, and magicked a wet cloth to take the make up off, but Astra grabbed it out of her hands.
"Keep an eye on her, Sirius. She'll do about anything to get out of that dress." Astra said, and Remus and James snorted with laughter, in their ideas of what she meant. "Not like that!" The girl said, slapping Remus' arm.
Cleo sighed, and looked up at the ceiling, and realized she was under the mistletoe and ran away from under it. "Well then, let's go." She said.
The guys simply wore dress pants, shirt and tie, and a jacket or none, and Astra wore a dress much like Cleo's, except it was blue, and her make up was heavier.
Cleo wore Draco's necklace, and had never taken the ring off, even in her struggle for freedom from the clutches of Astra and Whitney. As they walked down the hall, Cleo cupped her hands, rubbed the ring slightly, and sighed happily.
When they got to the Great Hall, the girls gasped and smiled together. There were evergreen trees, some fifteen feet tall, all powdered with fake snow, gold and silver bubbles that hooked around the trees, lights and ornaments. Snow fell everywhere gently, except when you touched it, it wasn't there, and it didn't cover the floor either. The whole Hall was lit up with gold and silver candles and lights, it was all quiet beautiful.
The group took their seats at their lonely table, but Dumbledore motioned them over to sit at the Head table, the other students had been sitting with them, also.
After dinner, they got party favours, and played with them. Cleo had one a Wizard chess set, Exploding Snap, some candy, colored Quills, and a never ending ink quill.
Dumbledore finally stood up, and faced them, as if everyone was there. "Now. I know there aren't many of you here, but we have decided to have a small, fun dance for those of you who are. Now, grab a partner and have fun!"
Astra and Remus went onto the floor, as did two of the Huffle puffs. Whitney and a brown haired boy named Atticus came onto the floor, also.
James nudges Sirius and Cleo, and pushed them onto the floor, and they shrugged, and began to dance. Sirius put his arms around her waist, and she awkwardly slid her arms around his neck, and they began to sway to the smooth beat. Dumbledore made the others, including Snape and Malfoy go onto the floor, and dance, even by themselves.
Surprisingly, it was rather fun, especially when they were forced to sing Christmas carols, including the Slytherins.
"God rest you merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, Remember Christ our Savior, Was born on Christmas Day; To save us all from Satan's power, When we were gone astray. O tidings of comfort and joy, Comfort and joy, O tidings of comfort and joy!" They sang God Rest Ye' Marry Gentlemen, and some others, it was all quite fun, even Lucius and Snape seemed to be enjoying the carols, ever so slightly. The teachers even got into the swing of it.
Cleo yawned as they sat back down. "Are you tired?" Sirius said, looking weary in the face, as well. Cleo nodded. "Shall we head back in, early?"
Cleo agreed, and the two of them headed out. Astra saw this and grinned at Remus, who gave James and Draco a wink and nudged to the door.
The two of them walked down the hall, then Sirius turned to her. "Thanks for the beaters club, I love it." He smiled slightly at her.
"Thanks for the ring." She said holding her hand up. Sirius looked at the ring, then her, then the ring again, and leaned in...
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CLIFFE!!!!!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAH. So they didn't kiss. I changed it a bit because I was at a dead end. Hope you LUFF it. ^.^
Cleo awoke slowly, and opened her eyes slowly. Her glasses were slightly askew, she was sitting in an odd position, and she was leaning against something solid, soft, and warm. She rubbed her eyes and looked at what it was. It was Sirius.
She slowly remembered last night, and sighed against him. How she would give to touch his cheek, and brush a few of those strands of hair away from his face. But no. She couldn't. If he woke up, it would be the worst. Cleo sighed as she leaned against him, and smiled slightly, his arm was around her waist, she slid hers down to his, resting her hand beside his own.
Cleo closed her eyes, she was a bit tired, or was really tired, and felt her eye lids and mind getting heavy, she might fall back into a sleep. However, the presence of Sirius's hands and body so close to hers kept her awake, she wanted to enjoy every moment she had, whether he was awake or not. He was so innocent looking whenever he slept..
Cleo sighed deeply, and shut her eyes, again...
(Sirius's POV)
Sirius became awake, but had his eyes shut. He wasn't ready to get up, he could stay in his bed for a long time. Except he wasn't in bed.
He was sitting in an odd position, his eyes flew open, he was on the couch. He looked over and saw the object of his obsession - or desire, in his arms, fast asleep. Sirius smiled, inside his head he was cheering away, but he lay quiet, in the presence of Cleo, so peaceful and calm. For once, they were fighting, or bickering, or laughing or tickling. They just sat there, quiet and serene. Sirius looked down at her and sighed.
Her short blonde hair rested messily on her head, and her glasses were tilted at an odd angle. Her hand was next to his, her long fingers curled up slightly. He noticed goose bumps on her arms, and shifted, bringing her slightly closer to warm her. Sirius wanted so much, to touch her face or arms, but didn't dare try and wake her. It would be an odd sight, if he was touching her cheek, and her eyes flew open and stared at him. He slightly shivered at that prospect and sighed, shutting his eyes in hopes of going back to sleep, or try to at least.
(Cleo again)
"IT'S CHRISTMAS!!!" Four voices bellowed into the ears of Cleo and Sirius. They sprang awake, or their eyes flew open, and they looked around at the presents on the carpet, each grinned from ear to ear happily.
Cleo pulled out of Sirius's arms rather reluctantly, neither met the others eyes as they blushed and looked at their presents. Everyone took their place next to their own presents, Sirius and Cleo stayed on the couch.
Cleo picked a big one up and looked at the card. "From Draco.. this'll be interesting." Cleo grinned and opened the box slowly, as did the others with theirs. Cleo sighed as she looked inside. There was a box inside it, slightly smaller. Then another one, and then another one after that. Then there was another one, and another one after that. AND then there was another box inside that one, and a small one, wrapped in tons of wrapping paper.
The gang was all laughing, thinking it was funny opening seven boxes. Well, after she got the wrappings off, there was a small green jewelry box, the kind that held a ring of necklace. She smiled as she opened it then looked inside, pulling out a paper that said 'I O U'. She snorted and slapped Draco on the arm playfully.
He laughed, with the others, and pulled out a small box. Cleo glared at him warily and opened it. Inside, was a beautiful necklace, that had small, stone animals on it. Like cat, dog, wolf, and other things like that. She grinned and thanked him. Then he opened his present and began to play with it, and grinned happily.
Cleo opened James' present next, which was a small, Gryffindor banner, she could use to hang up somewhere.
"Go and wave it." He said, grinning.
Cleo blinked and did so, the flag gave off a very loud roar. "Whoa..." Everyone said, Cleo was a bit pale, since it was so loud. She thanked him greatly and moved it to the side, very slowly, and very carefully.
She opened Astra's next, and pulled the ball out. It was one of those rubbery water yo-yo thingys that she loved to play with. "Thanks Astra!" she said, beginning to play with it, not missing. Cleo was surprised she found this MUGGLE toy in a MAGIC store..
"Miss it. Like.. drop it accidentally." Astra said. Cleo nodded.
She slipped the loop around her middle finger and began bouncing and catching it, then purposely missed. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH" The yo-yo laughed, so the whole common room heard it. "Whoa..." She said...
"Don't worry. After you play with it a lot, it stops laughing, and when you miss, it just gives you a tip, like what you did wrong." Astra said, everyone wanted to play with it.
"No.. MINE!" Cleo snapped and whimpered, holding it onto it. They all laughed and chatted.. and Cleo picked up something heavy.
"Thanks Remus." she said as she opened it. It was a book, of course, but very interesting, indeed. 'Unique Spells.' Was the title. It didn't sound interesting, but it was. She opened it, and there would be spells, and stuff about the spell, and things that happened with it.
Cleo looked down at a small box, and turned it over, it had Sirius' name on it. She looked up at him, and saw a light crimson grow on his face. "Open it." He said.
She did so, taking off the gold paper and there was a small green box, that held a ring or necklace. She opened it, and there was a small, silver ring, with a simple Sapphire in it. She looked up at him, Sirius was now very deeply red. "Thank you.. it's beautiful." She whispered, smiling, and slipped it on.
It fit perfectly and she suddenly felt calmer, and more at ease.
"It's a Thinking ring. It can help you think if your really confused. Do you like it?" Sirius asked, blushing. Cleo nodded and hugged him.
The others liked their presents from her, and she liked theirs. Then they grabbed their stockings, which Hogwarts seemed to fill magically with candy and small toys.
Cleo, from her stocking alone, got two boxes over every flavor jelly beans, five chocolate frogs, and some other candies and pastries.
After the group looked at their presents, James grinned and said something to Sirius, and he agreed. "Why don't we have a snowball fight?"
The group agreed, and went to change into warmer clothes and stomped outside. It was cool, and not freezing, and the snow was wet, so it would make for good snowballs.
The group split up, Cleo, Astra, and Sirius on one side, the others on the other side, and they began the war.
The group battled, long and hard for an hour, after falling onto the ground, they decided enough was enough, all were soaked from the icy, cold, wet snow.
As they trailed back to the castle, Astra turned to Cleo and Sirius. "Oh, and for the dance, your going together." She said cheerfully. They blinked.
"When were WE informed of this?" Sirius blinked.
"When did WE decide on it?" Cleo asked.
"Your being informed now, and we decided for you, since you should go together. And that's that." She said, and the others marched along. Cleo sighed and looked at Sirius who just shrugged, and they followed the others.
"I need to talk to you guys. Last time I dreamt-" Cleo began but was cut off by a Ravenclaw, Whitney Manson.
"Hey guys!" She said, opening the Hogwart's door and letting them in. "So your staying, too? Me and Atticus are the only Ravenclaws. I don't know where he is, so can I hang out with you?" She asked this in a hurry.
James looked at the rest of his group, all they did was shrug or blink. "Um... yeah..." James blinked, taking in everything she said at once.
"Thanks, it's kind of lonely. There is only three Hufflepuffs, but their first years and I don't know their names, and then theres the Slytherins, Lucius and Severus, but I'd NEVER hang out with one of them. Their mean." Whitney babbled.
Cleo nodded in agreement, and edged slightly closer to Sirius, as if Whitney would jump and attack him. Though, of course, this was not going to happen, but she just felt like doing it. Her arm brushed against his and she blushed, muttering a sorry, and then turned to the others. "Where are we going now?" She asked.
Remus looked at his watch and then sat, "To lunch!" With that, Sirius took a sigh of relief and patted his stomach.
"Good, I'm hungry." And with that, everyone, but James, replied with a groan.
After lunch, the group decided to split. Astra and Whitney thought it would be good to give Cleo a make over, and get ready for the dance early. The event of taking Cleo away was actually a rather interesting one..
"NO! YOU WON'T TAKE ME!" Cleo shrieked in the hall, grabbing onto Sirius' arm and pleaded. "Don't let them take me! I'm too young to go! SAVE ME!" She cried loudly, as Astra sighed and grabbed her waist and began to pull. "NO!!!"
When Sirius was finally pried loose of Cleo, the guys just stood there, and watch her be dragged off. Surprisingly, she put up a good fight, and managed to drag James off slightly down the hall, but the girls managed to pry her hands off her captive.
Then, when they were going around a corner, Cleo grabbed the wall, and they yanked hard till her grip slipped and they dragged her doom...
Astra let Whitney into the common room, but said the password quiet enough that she wouldn't here, and they headed to the dormitory, having to haul Cleo up the stairs and she kicked and threw a fit, and tied her to a chair.
(MEAN WHILE)
"Cleo is one odd woman." Sirius said, leaning back in his chair in an empty classroom. "Most girls LIKE dressing up and make up."
Draco nodded and agreed. "Honestly, you two make the perfect couple. Both LOVE to pull pranks on Slytherins..." His eye started twitching as he thought about some of the pranks. "And hate Snape." He added. "Cleo likes dogs, too!"
"Yeah, Cleo is crazed." Remus finished and nodded. "Astra is pretty much the fashion queen in Gryffindor, I don't want to know what their putting Cleo through." He grinned.
"I don't see why there's a dance, anyway. Dumbledore said we should dress up a bit, too. I will NEVER understand that man." James said proudly.
"Nor will any of us, mate." Sirius said, patting him on the back, cheerfully. "So who are you and Draco going with?"
"Each other." James grimaced, Remus blinked.
"Gee, Prongs, I never knew you leaned that way..." Remus said, slightly stunned, staring at him oddly.
"I DON'T! WE DON'T!" James said, slapping his forehead. "Remus is going with Astra, Sirius is with Cleo, were just going to hang around."
"Speaking of Cleo and I, why did you make us go together? Without even ASKING if you could play Matchmaker?" Sirius said, standing up with his hands on his hips, and glaring at them for an explanation.
"Well it's obvious, isn't it, Padfoot? We KNOW you fancy her." Remus said, smirking at him, the others nodded.
"I- I do not!" Sirius stuttered, his face beginning to get pink. Damned blushing. Everyone eyed him as if to say 'Oh I bet you don't.' He didn't like being eyed like that, it was EXTREMELY un nerving. He looked at his feet and said quietly, "Is it that obvious?"
(And in the dorms...)
"So which dress will you wear?" Astra said, rummaging through the closet. "How about this white one, or the lavender one?" She said, holding them near Cleo, who was trying to pull the ropes off. "Why not some jeans and a T-shirt?" "Because, it's supposed to be a bit formal, Dumbledore said so when you were in Lala land dreaming of Sirius." Astra said. Cleo could have kicked her for saying it infront of Whitney. Whitney wasn't supposed to know, neither was Astra, anyway.
"I do not!" She hissed.
"Do too." "Do not."
"Do too." Astra said.
"Do too." Whitney agreed.
"Is it THAT obvious?" She said. They nodded. Cleo groaned and slumped in her chair. "I'm not going then." "Yes you are. We WILL drag you down there if we have to. But you better be mature enough to act like a lady. Or at least pretend." Astra added with a snort of laughter.
After they wrestled Cleo into her dress, which was the lavender one. It was simple, straight, with tank top like straps. Then it was time for the make up. As a compromise, Cleo was allowed to pick the make up, which she picked only the lightest of the colors.
"I hate make up." She muttered as they put it on her, totally ignoring her. "NOT SO HEAVY!" She whined and argued.
Finally, it was time for dinner and the dance. Cleo sighed and whispered, 'Thank You.' and ran out of the dorm, and down the stairs, the guys were waiting for them, Whitney would see them later at the dance.
"Wow, Cleo, you look great." Sirius breathed, looking her up and down. The others nodded and Astra came down, Remus went over and kissed his date. The first kiss the group had seen since Remus and Astra started going out.
"Yeah, yeah." Cleo muttered, and magicked a wet cloth to take the make up off, but Astra grabbed it out of her hands.
"Keep an eye on her, Sirius. She'll do about anything to get out of that dress." Astra said, and Remus and James snorted with laughter, in their ideas of what she meant. "Not like that!" The girl said, slapping Remus' arm.
Cleo sighed, and looked up at the ceiling, and realized she was under the mistletoe and ran away from under it. "Well then, let's go." She said.
The guys simply wore dress pants, shirt and tie, and a jacket or none, and Astra wore a dress much like Cleo's, except it was blue, and her make up was heavier.
Cleo wore Draco's necklace, and had never taken the ring off, even in her struggle for freedom from the clutches of Astra and Whitney. As they walked down the hall, Cleo cupped her hands, rubbed the ring slightly, and sighed happily.
When they got to the Great Hall, the girls gasped and smiled together. There were evergreen trees, some fifteen feet tall, all powdered with fake snow, gold and silver bubbles that hooked around the trees, lights and ornaments. Snow fell everywhere gently, except when you touched it, it wasn't there, and it didn't cover the floor either. The whole Hall was lit up with gold and silver candles and lights, it was all quiet beautiful.
The group took their seats at their lonely table, but Dumbledore motioned them over to sit at the Head table, the other students had been sitting with them, also.
After dinner, they got party favours, and played with them. Cleo had one a Wizard chess set, Exploding Snap, some candy, colored Quills, and a never ending ink quill.
Dumbledore finally stood up, and faced them, as if everyone was there. "Now. I know there aren't many of you here, but we have decided to have a small, fun dance for those of you who are. Now, grab a partner and have fun!"
Astra and Remus went onto the floor, as did two of the Huffle puffs. Whitney and a brown haired boy named Atticus came onto the floor, also.
James nudges Sirius and Cleo, and pushed them onto the floor, and they shrugged, and began to dance. Sirius put his arms around her waist, and she awkwardly slid her arms around his neck, and they began to sway to the smooth beat. Dumbledore made the others, including Snape and Malfoy go onto the floor, and dance, even by themselves.
Surprisingly, it was rather fun, especially when they were forced to sing Christmas carols, including the Slytherins.
"God rest you merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, Remember Christ our Savior, Was born on Christmas Day; To save us all from Satan's power, When we were gone astray. O tidings of comfort and joy, Comfort and joy, O tidings of comfort and joy!" They sang God Rest Ye' Marry Gentlemen, and some others, it was all quite fun, even Lucius and Snape seemed to be enjoying the carols, ever so slightly. The teachers even got into the swing of it.
Cleo yawned as they sat back down. "Are you tired?" Sirius said, looking weary in the face, as well. Cleo nodded. "Shall we head back in, early?"
Cleo agreed, and the two of them headed out. Astra saw this and grinned at Remus, who gave James and Draco a wink and nudged to the door.
The two of them walked down the hall, then Sirius turned to her. "Thanks for the beaters club, I love it." He smiled slightly at her.
"Thanks for the ring." She said holding her hand up. Sirius looked at the ring, then her, then the ring again, and leaned in...
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CLIFFE!!!!!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAH. So they didn't kiss. I changed it a bit because I was at a dead end. Hope you LUFF it. ^.^
