Chapter 5

Sarah felt disappointed knowing that it was Neville. She wanted it so much to be Ron.
She dressed into her clothes and went down into the common room. She spied Neville off in the corner writing something down on his scroll. She looked around for Ron; he was over by Hermione and Harry. She walked up to them.
"Hi you guys!" She said cheerfully. Hermione stared into space.
"Hi!" Said Ron. He smiled at her.
Heidi and Caitlyn were having a fight over something on the other side of the room. Sarah didn't know what it was about but she heard Wood in some of their sentences they were shouting. They both seem to smile after they said his name.
Ravenclaw was practicing Quidditch outside. Harry took a peek to see how good Conner was, the new seeker. Ron looked too. "He's really good, Harry." Ron said nervously.
Neville walked over to them. "Hi." He said to them. "Hermione, would you go to the dance with me?" Hermione had wide eyes. Sarah was surprised. She thought he wanted to ask her. Hermione said sure and walked off with Neville, looking disappointed.
Sarah sighed, relieved that it wasn't her.
Fred and George came up. "Did you guys ask a girl to the dance yet?" Harry nodded but Ron's eyes fell upon Sarah.
"George asked Caitlyn and I asked Angelina. George said that it was hard to ask Caitlyn because.." Fred finally spied Sarah. "Never mind."
"Are you ready for the Quidditch game next Monday?" George asked Harry changing the subject.

"There's a Quidditch game next Monday??" Harry asked not knowing.

"Yea, Wood just told us to meet him at 3:00 at the Quidditch field to practice." Fred told him.

Harry nodded.

Heidi, Harry, Fred, and the rest of the team went down to the Quidditch field. They jumped on their brooms and headed out.

Oliver shouted at Heidi about something, but she couldn't hear him. "WHAT?" she shouted.
Oliver told the team to take a break. He flew over to Heidi on his broom. "Do you want to go to the dance?" Oliver asked with tension in his voice looked over to the distance. "With, me?"
Heidi fell off her broom. Oliver flew to the ground looking worried. "Heidi, are you ok?" Heidi smiled. "Yes, but please, don't ask me anything like that when I'm on a broom, in the air, ok?" She laughed. She saw a sparkle up in the air.

It was the weekend of the dance and Sarah still didn't get asked to the dance by anyone. Daphne was so happy the rest of the weekend. All the boys looked nervous. They never looked that way at the Yule Ball. Seamus was the one who was the most nervous. Ron kept shouting to himself and flicking away at his ear.

Draco came up to Jennifer. "Hey."
Jennifer looked around, "Me?"
Malfoy spotted Harry looking at him with wide eyes.
"Is it ok for me to talk to a Gryffindor?" Malfoy said coldly.
"What do you want Malfoy?" Jennifer asked suspiciously.
"Do you want to go to the dance.." Draco whispered very softly so no one could hear him, not even Jennifer.
"What?" Jennifer said.
"DO YOU WANT TO GO TO THE DANCE!" Malfoy cried impatiently, surprising himself.
"Yes!" Jennifer said, "But not with you!" She stalked off, feeling bad.
Seamus was in the corner smiling having figured out something, ran after Jennifer.