*disclaimer and other crap* I don't own Harry Potter or Foamy the Squirrel,
kay? I'm just stealing them for my sick amusement. Okay, some people had
some questions and I'll answer them now, simply because I'm too tired to
send them emails.
Gothic-Twif- AHHH! I will not tell you what smut I would put in here if I was going to put smut in here! This is pg-13! No smut just much snogging and hitting with wands. Knowing your sick mind you'll take that the wrong way...Oh yeah, you get to see Draco in a towel. But shh! I didn't tell you, the evil smut bunny that has been banned from this fic did!
HoneyMochaCitrus- Yeah...I do rather hate Harry and Ron and they should be burnt at the stake. But it has a reason, trust me. I'm not totally stupid like someone I know who –should- be burnt at the stake before she is murdered by B-rad...hehe...no one knows who that is...hehe...I'm just going to walk away before I get shot by some rabid fan...Oh wait! I don't –have- any fans! Stupid me! *scowls* Well I have you HMC...I love you! Merlin I'm high off pain relieving drugs...*cackles* Wow, got carried away with this answer!
The Yule Ball, Chapter Ten
Christmas Eve was o students of Hogwarts and everyone was looking forward to the ball that accompanied the joyous
occasion. Lissa had forced herself to forget about the painful slap Gabe had given her. Though the memory was forced from
her conscious mind, it still lingered in her subconscious like a nasty paper cut. She had been pressed hard to get the ball in
working order, but lucky this time Draco had actually lifted a manicured finger to help her. She was currently sprawled out on
her bed, hitting her CD player angrily. She had dissected the thing and cast several spells on it so it would work while in the no
muggle technology area, more commonly known as Hogwarts. The stupid thing did not need batteries, but was stalling and
choking up like it was running out of juice. Lissa groaned and chucked the faulty piece of muggle equipment at the door. The
door opened and the chunk of plastic hit Draco in the belly. He oomphed loudly and pressed his hands against his stomach.
"MERLIN! Why the hell are you chucking pieces of muggle trash at me? Especially something as pointy as that thing?"
"I didn't mean to throw it at you; you stupidly opened the door without knocking. What would happen if I were changing or
something? Knock before you bloody well enter my room!"
A suggestive smirk crossed his face and he leaned in the doorway, all traces of mock pain gone from his face.
"Changing eh?"
Lissa groaned and grabbed a pillow from her bed and threw it at him, a scowl on her face. "You are such a disgusting,
perverted bastard Malfoy..."
Draco grinned widely to her and dropped himself onto her bed, his chin cradled in his hands. "But that's why you love me!"
She raised an eyebrow slightly. "Who says I love you? Maybe all I want from you is a..." She could not finish her sentence
because he had thrown a pillow at her and stuck his tongue out at her in a very childish way.
"Nasty cow."
"Stupid bastard."
"Evil bitch from hell."
"Oohh! From hell am I? Well that's it! You don't get a snogging partner anymore!"
"Awwww..." He put on a puppy dog face, fluttering his eyelashes at her. She bit back a peal of laughter, he looking much like
a doe eyes girl. He obviously did not understand and thought he was winning her over, so he kept on fluttering. It was not until
Lissa was clutching her sides and had fallen off her bed onto the hard stone floor that he stopped.
"What the hell is so funny?"
"You...look...like...a...a...GIRL!"
Draco leapt up from the bed and would have stood with a manly flourish if his foot had not gotten caught in one of the
blankets on her bed and toppled to the ground right on top of her. Lissa groaned and kicked him hard off her, at least tried to.
"Gerrof me ya big lump!"
"Hmm...You're rather soft and squishy; think I'll just stay here for a few more minutes." His noise was slightly wrinkled as he said
that, his steely eyes sparkling softly.
She squealed when he started wriggling on top of her. She managed to wiggle out from underneath him and grab her wand
from the bedside table. He noticed the stick of wood in her hand and promptly prostrated himself before her, groveling like a
worm.
"Oh high and mighty lady please look with pity upon this worthless piece of crap!" He shuffled towards her on his knees,
reaching for her bare legs. Lissa screeched and jumped onto her bed, holding her hideous school skirt up around her thighs.
"Dracoooo stop! You smell stinky! Go take a shower you nasty little shit!"
Draco grinned and got up from the floor. He was wearing sweat and much stained Quidditch practice garb and did actually
smell quite badly. He reached for her and grabbed her calf. He tried to pull her to him so he could hug her, but she started
screaming and hitting him over the head with her wand.
"Lemme go! LEMME GO!" She screeched madly, hitting her boyfriend harder. He finally let her go and started rubbing his head
slowly, a mock scowl on his face.
"That wasn't very nice Sissa..."
Lissa took a deep breath and lowered her face to his, her nose almost touching his.
"GO TAKE A SHOWER YOU SMELLY LITTLE BASTARD! YOU SMELL LIKE POO!"
Draco laughed madly and smirked warmly to her. "I smell like poo do I? Maybe we should go take a shower?"
"We?" She snorted. "You mister, not me. Go, be gone foul stench! You are stinking up my personal air..."
He grinned up to her and kissed her knee, raking his teeth against the flesh of her kneecap. She groaned and quickly sat down.
She scowled darkly at him and hit his arm with her wand.
"Damn you and my sensitive knees."
He grinned widely to her and went into to kiss her lips, but she smacked him hard with her wand.
"Bugger off. You can snog me senseless after you take a shower, not before!"
Draco chuckled and ruffled her hair then skipped, literally skipped like a girl, into the massive bathroom they shared. Lissa sighed
as she matched her boyfriend go and then flopped into a prone position on her bed. She slowly itched her knee, scowling
darkly as she remembered what he did. She hated it when he messed with her overly sensitive knees. She wonked her knees out
all the time and Draco loved to tease her about them. Lissa sighed quietly and thought about the ball that would commence
in a few hours. It would be completely gorgeous, there would be real snowflakes falling from the ceiling that would turn into
white confetti when it touched anything alive. Icicles would be hanging from the tables and chairs and there would be snow-
mounds and men everywhere. She sighed quietly and rolled off her bed, landing on the cold stone floor with an audible thump.
She muttered darkly about something or other and pushed herself up onto her feet. Lissa ignored the sound of the shower
turning on the bathroom and trudged slowly over to the massive armoire and opened it. It was a costume theme for the ball
and she had decided to go as a wood nymph and Draco was going as a prince. She had laughed her ass off when he told her
this, but they tied in together. She sighed as she ran her finger tips over the gauzy material. Lissa's eyes became glazed over as
her mind began to wander. Painful memory after memory was dredged out of her subconscious and was passed before her
mind's eye. Her parents, every fight between them and her, all the horrible things they said, and the slap. Slowly one of her
hands rose to her cheek, almost feeling the stinging sensation of someone hitting her again. A soft, pained noise came from
behind her lips and she was wrenched from her reverie by the sound of the bathroom door opening. Lissa turned slowly and let
out a squeak. Draco was leaning in the door frame with just a towel slung low around his hips. Water droplets clung to his
almost gold hair, sparkling like diamonds in the weak candle light. Her eyes started at his feet and trailed up his body, lingering
on his chest and lips. She realized what she was doing and blushed slightly, her cheeks turning to a soft raspberry. He chuckled
and ran a hand through his hair.
"If you can rip your eyes from my perfect and sexy body for a just a moment, I'd like to go get dressed."
She nodded weakly and reached out for him. Her hands locked around his neck and pulled his lips to hers. For a few seconds
the kiss remained chaste until his tongue brushed against her lips, silently asking her permission. She granted it to him and
opened her mouth slightly so his tongue could enter. For several minutes their tongues dueled for dominance until they had to
break apart due to lack of air. He smirked widely to her and, ignoring his own rather harsh breathing, touched her cheek
slightly. "I'm going to actually go get dressed now."
Lissa smiled blearily at him, her mind several steps behind, stuck on the mind blowing kiss. She mumbled something and nodded
briefly, her eyes rather unfocused. He chuckled and lightly brushed his lips against hers then turned, walking through the
bathroom to his room. She gulped softly and grabbed her costume from the armoire and stumbled into the bathroom.
An hour and a half later, Lissa was out of the shower and sitting in front of the massive mirror in nothing but a towel. She
was staring dully at her reflection, trying her hardest not to start laughing. Someone, Draco, had put something in her shampoo
that put little sparkle things in her hair and whenever light caught the little things it looked like someone had emptied an
entire container of glitter in her hair. She had to admit, it made her look more nymph-ish, but it was rather over the top. She
shook her head with a grin and took her wand off of the white marble counter top. She tapped her collarbone and cheeks,
muttering "Glitterus," softly under her breath. An almost invisible sheen of fine glitter covered her chest and face, highlighted
around her eyes. If someone was to look at her straight on, it would appear that there was no glitter on her face. But when a
ray of light fell across her, the sparkles would spring to life, sparkling like miniscule diamonds. Lissa grinned madly and started to
apply a light bronze eye-shadow. A few minutes later she pulled the shoulder length pieces of bang away from her face and
muttered a quiet braiding spell on them. They rapidly plaited themselves and stopped midway down her hair. She quickly
charmed her hair into a mass of black ringlets and tossed a few stray curls over her shoulder. She smiled and pulled her towel
off, tossing it onto the floor without a second thought. Lissa took the gauzy off the hanger and shimmed into it. She twirled
around and looked at herself in the mirror. It was a mass of greens, browns, and soft reds that came together to form a muted,
autumn color that would enable her to blend in well in a forest. It was tighter and showed more of her legs and her chest then
she though it would, but it look frighteningly good on her. She grinned slowly and conjured a pair of fragile, gossamer wings that
attached themselves to her back with a single flick of her wand. She transfigured her wand to look like a long, smooth twig
with berry and flower covered vines. On the tip of her new wand, there was an oak leaf covered in glitter. She waved it little
and a stream of sparkles fell from the leaf onto the bathroom floor. Lissa giggled madly and left the bathroom, her dainty feet
slapping softly on the stone floor. She skipped merrily over to the armoire and took out a pair of sandals of Grecian sandals that
laced up her calves. She grinned madly and slipped them on, tying them in elegant bows right behind her knees. She stretched
and looked at herself in the mirror. She really looked like she had just stepped out of a forest. She smiled to her reflection and
quietly walked downstairs to the common room, her smile gone from her lips but shining softly in her chocolate eyes.
As Lissa's foot left the last stair and she left the gloom of the stairwell, she heard a surprised gasp. She lifted her gaze from
the floor and saw a gob-smacked Draco staring at the flesh that was revealed by her costume. She grinned slowly to him and
flicked a thick, sparkling curl over her shoulder.
"Thanks a bunch love for putting that weird glitter charm in my shampoo, my hair looks like a sparkle factory has exploded on
it."
"Factory?"
"Oh never mind, it's a muggle thing I'm sure a pureblood like yourself would never understand."
He sniffed and got up from the emerald couch. Her eyes trailed over his costume. A simple white poet's shirt hung off his wide
shoulders, opened to mid chest. It was tucked into a pair of skin tight black breeches which were in turn tucked into a pair of
knee high black leather boots. A long obsidian cloak was thrown around his shoulders and a gleaming golden crown studded
with several, most likely real, gems glittered in the fire light. Lissa tried to keep her eyes from lingering on his pants, they leaving
absolutely nothing to the imagination. She gulped quickly and forced a smile onto her face.
"You look awesome Draco."
"You too oh illusive nymph. Oohhh...sparkly..." He reached a hand to touch her cheek, trying to capture a handful of the
sparkles that lit up her face. She laughed brightly and smacked the top of his head with the seemingly fragile leaf on the tip of
her wand.
"Bugger off ya bastard, no touchy of the face. It took me forever to do this." He, being a stupid male, did not catch the
obvious sarcasm in her voice. Draco quickly pulled his hand away from her face and offered her his arm.
"Milady we must depart. We have to open this...err...magnificent that will soon commence. Come!"
Lissa grinned and took his arm. She pointed her wand in the direction of the door. Just as the started walking she hollered.
"High ho Silver, awaaaaaaaaaaaaay!" He looked at her like she was completely insane, and then shook his head. She snorted
darkly and hit him once again with her wand.
"Muggle thing love, pay not attention." Her eyes shifted around for a moment, then she grinned widely.
"AWAAAAAAAAAAAY!" She once again pointed to the portrait door and pulled her boyfriend out.
A few minutes later they arrived in the packed Entrance Hall. Lissa talked amiably with Brad, dressed not surprisingly as a
feminine version of an axe murderess complete with blood drenched knife and blood spattered clothing, and did not notice
Draco ogling several girls wearing very revealing French maid outfits. When one walked by her and she saw her man almost
drooling she snorted.
"OI! You evil little bastard! You aren't supposed to be paying any attention to the girls in tiny scraps of clothing! You're
supposed to be paying attention to me!"
"But Lissa, you're wearing tiny scraps of clothing."
"Shut up Blaise you nasty perv! Go ogle Brad's ass, mine is reserved ogling territory for this lump." She hit Draco over the head
with her wand to show which lump she was talking about. He scowled at her and rubbed the top of his head and Blaise went
and did just as she told him to do.
"I wasn't ogling them, merely admiring their feminine attributes."
"Oooh! You bastard!" She huffed.
Lissa brought her wand up and squeaked a hex at him. Draco promptly turned into a snow white, albino ferret. The look of
surprise on ferret Draco's face caused Lissa to burst into hysterical laughter. Blaise and Brad saw what she was laughing about
and joined in. After a few minutes ferret Draco began gnawing away at Lissa's sandal and she changed him back, an evil smirk
on her face.
"Now don't you ever go and ogling any girl who isn't me."
For a moment he just scowled at her. "So I can ogle men?"
She raised an eyebrow slightly and twirled her wand around her long fingers. "If that tickles your fancy then go ahead, I'm sure
Weasley or Potter would absolutely love being checked out by Sex God Malfoy."
Potter, Weasley, and their dates just so happened to be walking by at the time and the two boys growled at Lissa. She just
smirked sweetly to them and waved a little. Draco rapidly wrapped an arm around her waist in a protective gesture, his eyes
narrowing visibly. Wonder Boy, his ever faithful sidekick, and the two stupid girls walked off in a huff. Lissa shook her head and
dragged Draco up to the big doors that led to the Great Hall. A few minutes later they opened and the Head Girl and Boy
opened the Yule Ball with wide smiles on their faces.
The ball was a big hit with everyone and it was not until very late, or early depending on how one looks at it, until
everyone went to bed. Lissa was awoken after only a few hours of sleep by an ecstatic Draco, Brad, Blaise, and Gabe all
bouncing on her bed screeching about it being Christmas. She groaned quietly and pushed herself into a sitting position, not
caring at the moment that her hair greatly resembled a badly done afro. She surveyed her room for a moment, snorting at the
great mass of wrapped paper strewn about on the floor.
"So you couldn't even wait for me to open presents?"
"We've been trying to get you up for the better part of an hour. You just wouldn't wake up...Though we have all of our
presents to you. Want them now?" That was more a rhetorical then a question, as if Brad was saying she must be totally insane
if Lissa did not want to open her present immediately.
"Okay go ahead..." Three gifts were thrown at her in, surprise surprise, not, Slytherin wrapping paper. She slowly opened them,
opening them by slowly pulling the tap away from the paper. The other four were squirming madly until Lissa grinned widely to
them and ripped the remaining paper off. From Brad she got some hot pink knickers and bra. The moment she saw them she
screamed like a banshee and threw the box into a corner. "HOLY MERLIN! WHAT ARE YA DOING BRAD? TRYING TO BLOODY
KILL ME??"
Brad just cackled nastily and motioned for her to open the others. From Blaise she got several pounds of chocolate and other
sweets, all guaranteed to rot her teeth. Those she tucked under one of her pillows to hide them from her sweets stealing
brother. From the mentioned she got a locket in the shape of a shell. It opened and inside it was like a constant movie was
playing. All of their, the five of them, happy memories, some from Lissa and Gabe's childhood, were constantly playing. They
inside the locket would occasionally wave happily to Lissa then continue on with their lives. Gabe got a warm hug from this.
She then turned her eyes on her boyfriend, a brow rising slowly.
"You did get me something, right? If you didn't I may have to take away all snogging privileges for the next year..."
Draco grinned widely and took a small, dark blue and shiny wrapped box out of his pocket. He handed it to her and promptly
started blushing. She looked at him in slight confusion, but opened it anyway. The box when unwrapped looked like something
from a jeweler's store. She flipped open the lid and gasped softly. Nestled inside of was gold ring with a gleaming diamond in
the center and two perfect opals gently changing color beside it. Lissa looked slightly confused, her eyes rising to Draco's face.
"I love it, but I don't want to interpret this the wrong way. Are you asking me to marry you?"
Draco's face colored more, his regularly pale complexion a tomato color.
"No! Well, not yet at least. It's a promise ring. It means that we'll be together forever and ever. And someday, probably at the
end of the school year or during the summer, I'll ask you to marry me and we'll live happily ever after. Or whatever happens
after you get married."
Lissa smiled brightly and took the ring out of the box. She slipped it onto the ring finger of her left had, knowing full well that was
where a wedding ring was put.
"I'll wear it until we get engaged." She leaned forward and captured her boyfriend in a tender kiss. It quickly heated up and
the other three groaned and quickly fled the bedroom. Several minutes later Draco and Lissa grinned to each other.
"That's certainly one way to clear the room!" Draco chuckled. He smiled and kissed her forehead softly. "I'm going to go down
to breakfast, I take it you are going to sleep for a couple more hours?"
She nodded and lay back down, sighing contentedly as her head hit the pillow. Draco smiled lovingly to her and gently
touched her hair before quietly leaving the Head Girl's room, shutting the door quietly behind him. Just before Lissa fell asleep,
a thought hit her. Gabe had not been at the ball the previous night!
Hmmmmm....This really took me a –long- time to get this chapter out, didn't it? Oh well, don't blame me or the smut bunny who was been trying to get out due to SOMEONE, gothic-twif *cough cough* Blame it one the nasty virus I contracted and that has left me pretty much without energy, even though I've been sleeping pretty much all day. Anyway, did it seem like the prezzie Brad gave Liss was just a –tiny- bit gay? I'll shut up if was just me, but it was intended as a joke...I'm not sure if the idea of a necklace with memories playing in it is my idea. I think it is, but I read so much bloody fanfics over the days that I kinda loose track. Hell, I'm not even sure if the idea to this story is mine...Hehe...I'm just high of some of my splendiferous drugs that make the pain go away. I should go to bed now too. I love you all, please review!
Your Lord and Master, Foamy the Squirrel
Gothic-Twif- AHHH! I will not tell you what smut I would put in here if I was going to put smut in here! This is pg-13! No smut just much snogging and hitting with wands. Knowing your sick mind you'll take that the wrong way...Oh yeah, you get to see Draco in a towel. But shh! I didn't tell you, the evil smut bunny that has been banned from this fic did!
HoneyMochaCitrus- Yeah...I do rather hate Harry and Ron and they should be burnt at the stake. But it has a reason, trust me. I'm not totally stupid like someone I know who –should- be burnt at the stake before she is murdered by B-rad...hehe...no one knows who that is...hehe...I'm just going to walk away before I get shot by some rabid fan...Oh wait! I don't –have- any fans! Stupid me! *scowls* Well I have you HMC...I love you! Merlin I'm high off pain relieving drugs...*cackles* Wow, got carried away with this answer!
The Yule Ball, Chapter Ten
Christmas Eve was o students of Hogwarts and everyone was looking forward to the ball that accompanied the joyous
occasion. Lissa had forced herself to forget about the painful slap Gabe had given her. Though the memory was forced from
her conscious mind, it still lingered in her subconscious like a nasty paper cut. She had been pressed hard to get the ball in
working order, but lucky this time Draco had actually lifted a manicured finger to help her. She was currently sprawled out on
her bed, hitting her CD player angrily. She had dissected the thing and cast several spells on it so it would work while in the no
muggle technology area, more commonly known as Hogwarts. The stupid thing did not need batteries, but was stalling and
choking up like it was running out of juice. Lissa groaned and chucked the faulty piece of muggle equipment at the door. The
door opened and the chunk of plastic hit Draco in the belly. He oomphed loudly and pressed his hands against his stomach.
"MERLIN! Why the hell are you chucking pieces of muggle trash at me? Especially something as pointy as that thing?"
"I didn't mean to throw it at you; you stupidly opened the door without knocking. What would happen if I were changing or
something? Knock before you bloody well enter my room!"
A suggestive smirk crossed his face and he leaned in the doorway, all traces of mock pain gone from his face.
"Changing eh?"
Lissa groaned and grabbed a pillow from her bed and threw it at him, a scowl on her face. "You are such a disgusting,
perverted bastard Malfoy..."
Draco grinned widely to her and dropped himself onto her bed, his chin cradled in his hands. "But that's why you love me!"
She raised an eyebrow slightly. "Who says I love you? Maybe all I want from you is a..." She could not finish her sentence
because he had thrown a pillow at her and stuck his tongue out at her in a very childish way.
"Nasty cow."
"Stupid bastard."
"Evil bitch from hell."
"Oohh! From hell am I? Well that's it! You don't get a snogging partner anymore!"
"Awwww..." He put on a puppy dog face, fluttering his eyelashes at her. She bit back a peal of laughter, he looking much like
a doe eyes girl. He obviously did not understand and thought he was winning her over, so he kept on fluttering. It was not until
Lissa was clutching her sides and had fallen off her bed onto the hard stone floor that he stopped.
"What the hell is so funny?"
"You...look...like...a...a...GIRL!"
Draco leapt up from the bed and would have stood with a manly flourish if his foot had not gotten caught in one of the
blankets on her bed and toppled to the ground right on top of her. Lissa groaned and kicked him hard off her, at least tried to.
"Gerrof me ya big lump!"
"Hmm...You're rather soft and squishy; think I'll just stay here for a few more minutes." His noise was slightly wrinkled as he said
that, his steely eyes sparkling softly.
She squealed when he started wriggling on top of her. She managed to wiggle out from underneath him and grab her wand
from the bedside table. He noticed the stick of wood in her hand and promptly prostrated himself before her, groveling like a
worm.
"Oh high and mighty lady please look with pity upon this worthless piece of crap!" He shuffled towards her on his knees,
reaching for her bare legs. Lissa screeched and jumped onto her bed, holding her hideous school skirt up around her thighs.
"Dracoooo stop! You smell stinky! Go take a shower you nasty little shit!"
Draco grinned and got up from the floor. He was wearing sweat and much stained Quidditch practice garb and did actually
smell quite badly. He reached for her and grabbed her calf. He tried to pull her to him so he could hug her, but she started
screaming and hitting him over the head with her wand.
"Lemme go! LEMME GO!" She screeched madly, hitting her boyfriend harder. He finally let her go and started rubbing his head
slowly, a mock scowl on his face.
"That wasn't very nice Sissa..."
Lissa took a deep breath and lowered her face to his, her nose almost touching his.
"GO TAKE A SHOWER YOU SMELLY LITTLE BASTARD! YOU SMELL LIKE POO!"
Draco laughed madly and smirked warmly to her. "I smell like poo do I? Maybe we should go take a shower?"
"We?" She snorted. "You mister, not me. Go, be gone foul stench! You are stinking up my personal air..."
He grinned up to her and kissed her knee, raking his teeth against the flesh of her kneecap. She groaned and quickly sat down.
She scowled darkly at him and hit his arm with her wand.
"Damn you and my sensitive knees."
He grinned widely to her and went into to kiss her lips, but she smacked him hard with her wand.
"Bugger off. You can snog me senseless after you take a shower, not before!"
Draco chuckled and ruffled her hair then skipped, literally skipped like a girl, into the massive bathroom they shared. Lissa sighed
as she matched her boyfriend go and then flopped into a prone position on her bed. She slowly itched her knee, scowling
darkly as she remembered what he did. She hated it when he messed with her overly sensitive knees. She wonked her knees out
all the time and Draco loved to tease her about them. Lissa sighed quietly and thought about the ball that would commence
in a few hours. It would be completely gorgeous, there would be real snowflakes falling from the ceiling that would turn into
white confetti when it touched anything alive. Icicles would be hanging from the tables and chairs and there would be snow-
mounds and men everywhere. She sighed quietly and rolled off her bed, landing on the cold stone floor with an audible thump.
She muttered darkly about something or other and pushed herself up onto her feet. Lissa ignored the sound of the shower
turning on the bathroom and trudged slowly over to the massive armoire and opened it. It was a costume theme for the ball
and she had decided to go as a wood nymph and Draco was going as a prince. She had laughed her ass off when he told her
this, but they tied in together. She sighed as she ran her finger tips over the gauzy material. Lissa's eyes became glazed over as
her mind began to wander. Painful memory after memory was dredged out of her subconscious and was passed before her
mind's eye. Her parents, every fight between them and her, all the horrible things they said, and the slap. Slowly one of her
hands rose to her cheek, almost feeling the stinging sensation of someone hitting her again. A soft, pained noise came from
behind her lips and she was wrenched from her reverie by the sound of the bathroom door opening. Lissa turned slowly and let
out a squeak. Draco was leaning in the door frame with just a towel slung low around his hips. Water droplets clung to his
almost gold hair, sparkling like diamonds in the weak candle light. Her eyes started at his feet and trailed up his body, lingering
on his chest and lips. She realized what she was doing and blushed slightly, her cheeks turning to a soft raspberry. He chuckled
and ran a hand through his hair.
"If you can rip your eyes from my perfect and sexy body for a just a moment, I'd like to go get dressed."
She nodded weakly and reached out for him. Her hands locked around his neck and pulled his lips to hers. For a few seconds
the kiss remained chaste until his tongue brushed against her lips, silently asking her permission. She granted it to him and
opened her mouth slightly so his tongue could enter. For several minutes their tongues dueled for dominance until they had to
break apart due to lack of air. He smirked widely to her and, ignoring his own rather harsh breathing, touched her cheek
slightly. "I'm going to actually go get dressed now."
Lissa smiled blearily at him, her mind several steps behind, stuck on the mind blowing kiss. She mumbled something and nodded
briefly, her eyes rather unfocused. He chuckled and lightly brushed his lips against hers then turned, walking through the
bathroom to his room. She gulped softly and grabbed her costume from the armoire and stumbled into the bathroom.
An hour and a half later, Lissa was out of the shower and sitting in front of the massive mirror in nothing but a towel. She
was staring dully at her reflection, trying her hardest not to start laughing. Someone, Draco, had put something in her shampoo
that put little sparkle things in her hair and whenever light caught the little things it looked like someone had emptied an
entire container of glitter in her hair. She had to admit, it made her look more nymph-ish, but it was rather over the top. She
shook her head with a grin and took her wand off of the white marble counter top. She tapped her collarbone and cheeks,
muttering "Glitterus," softly under her breath. An almost invisible sheen of fine glitter covered her chest and face, highlighted
around her eyes. If someone was to look at her straight on, it would appear that there was no glitter on her face. But when a
ray of light fell across her, the sparkles would spring to life, sparkling like miniscule diamonds. Lissa grinned madly and started to
apply a light bronze eye-shadow. A few minutes later she pulled the shoulder length pieces of bang away from her face and
muttered a quiet braiding spell on them. They rapidly plaited themselves and stopped midway down her hair. She quickly
charmed her hair into a mass of black ringlets and tossed a few stray curls over her shoulder. She smiled and pulled her towel
off, tossing it onto the floor without a second thought. Lissa took the gauzy off the hanger and shimmed into it. She twirled
around and looked at herself in the mirror. It was a mass of greens, browns, and soft reds that came together to form a muted,
autumn color that would enable her to blend in well in a forest. It was tighter and showed more of her legs and her chest then
she though it would, but it look frighteningly good on her. She grinned slowly and conjured a pair of fragile, gossamer wings that
attached themselves to her back with a single flick of her wand. She transfigured her wand to look like a long, smooth twig
with berry and flower covered vines. On the tip of her new wand, there was an oak leaf covered in glitter. She waved it little
and a stream of sparkles fell from the leaf onto the bathroom floor. Lissa giggled madly and left the bathroom, her dainty feet
slapping softly on the stone floor. She skipped merrily over to the armoire and took out a pair of sandals of Grecian sandals that
laced up her calves. She grinned madly and slipped them on, tying them in elegant bows right behind her knees. She stretched
and looked at herself in the mirror. She really looked like she had just stepped out of a forest. She smiled to her reflection and
quietly walked downstairs to the common room, her smile gone from her lips but shining softly in her chocolate eyes.
As Lissa's foot left the last stair and she left the gloom of the stairwell, she heard a surprised gasp. She lifted her gaze from
the floor and saw a gob-smacked Draco staring at the flesh that was revealed by her costume. She grinned slowly to him and
flicked a thick, sparkling curl over her shoulder.
"Thanks a bunch love for putting that weird glitter charm in my shampoo, my hair looks like a sparkle factory has exploded on
it."
"Factory?"
"Oh never mind, it's a muggle thing I'm sure a pureblood like yourself would never understand."
He sniffed and got up from the emerald couch. Her eyes trailed over his costume. A simple white poet's shirt hung off his wide
shoulders, opened to mid chest. It was tucked into a pair of skin tight black breeches which were in turn tucked into a pair of
knee high black leather boots. A long obsidian cloak was thrown around his shoulders and a gleaming golden crown studded
with several, most likely real, gems glittered in the fire light. Lissa tried to keep her eyes from lingering on his pants, they leaving
absolutely nothing to the imagination. She gulped quickly and forced a smile onto her face.
"You look awesome Draco."
"You too oh illusive nymph. Oohhh...sparkly..." He reached a hand to touch her cheek, trying to capture a handful of the
sparkles that lit up her face. She laughed brightly and smacked the top of his head with the seemingly fragile leaf on the tip of
her wand.
"Bugger off ya bastard, no touchy of the face. It took me forever to do this." He, being a stupid male, did not catch the
obvious sarcasm in her voice. Draco quickly pulled his hand away from her face and offered her his arm.
"Milady we must depart. We have to open this...err...magnificent that will soon commence. Come!"
Lissa grinned and took his arm. She pointed her wand in the direction of the door. Just as the started walking she hollered.
"High ho Silver, awaaaaaaaaaaaaay!" He looked at her like she was completely insane, and then shook his head. She snorted
darkly and hit him once again with her wand.
"Muggle thing love, pay not attention." Her eyes shifted around for a moment, then she grinned widely.
"AWAAAAAAAAAAAY!" She once again pointed to the portrait door and pulled her boyfriend out.
A few minutes later they arrived in the packed Entrance Hall. Lissa talked amiably with Brad, dressed not surprisingly as a
feminine version of an axe murderess complete with blood drenched knife and blood spattered clothing, and did not notice
Draco ogling several girls wearing very revealing French maid outfits. When one walked by her and she saw her man almost
drooling she snorted.
"OI! You evil little bastard! You aren't supposed to be paying any attention to the girls in tiny scraps of clothing! You're
supposed to be paying attention to me!"
"But Lissa, you're wearing tiny scraps of clothing."
"Shut up Blaise you nasty perv! Go ogle Brad's ass, mine is reserved ogling territory for this lump." She hit Draco over the head
with her wand to show which lump she was talking about. He scowled at her and rubbed the top of his head and Blaise went
and did just as she told him to do.
"I wasn't ogling them, merely admiring their feminine attributes."
"Oooh! You bastard!" She huffed.
Lissa brought her wand up and squeaked a hex at him. Draco promptly turned into a snow white, albino ferret. The look of
surprise on ferret Draco's face caused Lissa to burst into hysterical laughter. Blaise and Brad saw what she was laughing about
and joined in. After a few minutes ferret Draco began gnawing away at Lissa's sandal and she changed him back, an evil smirk
on her face.
"Now don't you ever go and ogling any girl who isn't me."
For a moment he just scowled at her. "So I can ogle men?"
She raised an eyebrow slightly and twirled her wand around her long fingers. "If that tickles your fancy then go ahead, I'm sure
Weasley or Potter would absolutely love being checked out by Sex God Malfoy."
Potter, Weasley, and their dates just so happened to be walking by at the time and the two boys growled at Lissa. She just
smirked sweetly to them and waved a little. Draco rapidly wrapped an arm around her waist in a protective gesture, his eyes
narrowing visibly. Wonder Boy, his ever faithful sidekick, and the two stupid girls walked off in a huff. Lissa shook her head and
dragged Draco up to the big doors that led to the Great Hall. A few minutes later they opened and the Head Girl and Boy
opened the Yule Ball with wide smiles on their faces.
The ball was a big hit with everyone and it was not until very late, or early depending on how one looks at it, until
everyone went to bed. Lissa was awoken after only a few hours of sleep by an ecstatic Draco, Brad, Blaise, and Gabe all
bouncing on her bed screeching about it being Christmas. She groaned quietly and pushed herself into a sitting position, not
caring at the moment that her hair greatly resembled a badly done afro. She surveyed her room for a moment, snorting at the
great mass of wrapped paper strewn about on the floor.
"So you couldn't even wait for me to open presents?"
"We've been trying to get you up for the better part of an hour. You just wouldn't wake up...Though we have all of our
presents to you. Want them now?" That was more a rhetorical then a question, as if Brad was saying she must be totally insane
if Lissa did not want to open her present immediately.
"Okay go ahead..." Three gifts were thrown at her in, surprise surprise, not, Slytherin wrapping paper. She slowly opened them,
opening them by slowly pulling the tap away from the paper. The other four were squirming madly until Lissa grinned widely to
them and ripped the remaining paper off. From Brad she got some hot pink knickers and bra. The moment she saw them she
screamed like a banshee and threw the box into a corner. "HOLY MERLIN! WHAT ARE YA DOING BRAD? TRYING TO BLOODY
KILL ME??"
Brad just cackled nastily and motioned for her to open the others. From Blaise she got several pounds of chocolate and other
sweets, all guaranteed to rot her teeth. Those she tucked under one of her pillows to hide them from her sweets stealing
brother. From the mentioned she got a locket in the shape of a shell. It opened and inside it was like a constant movie was
playing. All of their, the five of them, happy memories, some from Lissa and Gabe's childhood, were constantly playing. They
inside the locket would occasionally wave happily to Lissa then continue on with their lives. Gabe got a warm hug from this.
She then turned her eyes on her boyfriend, a brow rising slowly.
"You did get me something, right? If you didn't I may have to take away all snogging privileges for the next year..."
Draco grinned widely and took a small, dark blue and shiny wrapped box out of his pocket. He handed it to her and promptly
started blushing. She looked at him in slight confusion, but opened it anyway. The box when unwrapped looked like something
from a jeweler's store. She flipped open the lid and gasped softly. Nestled inside of was gold ring with a gleaming diamond in
the center and two perfect opals gently changing color beside it. Lissa looked slightly confused, her eyes rising to Draco's face.
"I love it, but I don't want to interpret this the wrong way. Are you asking me to marry you?"
Draco's face colored more, his regularly pale complexion a tomato color.
"No! Well, not yet at least. It's a promise ring. It means that we'll be together forever and ever. And someday, probably at the
end of the school year or during the summer, I'll ask you to marry me and we'll live happily ever after. Or whatever happens
after you get married."
Lissa smiled brightly and took the ring out of the box. She slipped it onto the ring finger of her left had, knowing full well that was
where a wedding ring was put.
"I'll wear it until we get engaged." She leaned forward and captured her boyfriend in a tender kiss. It quickly heated up and
the other three groaned and quickly fled the bedroom. Several minutes later Draco and Lissa grinned to each other.
"That's certainly one way to clear the room!" Draco chuckled. He smiled and kissed her forehead softly. "I'm going to go down
to breakfast, I take it you are going to sleep for a couple more hours?"
She nodded and lay back down, sighing contentedly as her head hit the pillow. Draco smiled lovingly to her and gently
touched her hair before quietly leaving the Head Girl's room, shutting the door quietly behind him. Just before Lissa fell asleep,
a thought hit her. Gabe had not been at the ball the previous night!
Hmmmmm....This really took me a –long- time to get this chapter out, didn't it? Oh well, don't blame me or the smut bunny who was been trying to get out due to SOMEONE, gothic-twif *cough cough* Blame it one the nasty virus I contracted and that has left me pretty much without energy, even though I've been sleeping pretty much all day. Anyway, did it seem like the prezzie Brad gave Liss was just a –tiny- bit gay? I'll shut up if was just me, but it was intended as a joke...I'm not sure if the idea of a necklace with memories playing in it is my idea. I think it is, but I read so much bloody fanfics over the days that I kinda loose track. Hell, I'm not even sure if the idea to this story is mine...Hehe...I'm just high of some of my splendiferous drugs that make the pain go away. I should go to bed now too. I love you all, please review!
Your Lord and Master, Foamy the Squirrel