A/N--I've always hated it when people kind of abandoned their story for a really long time, but now I understand why they did it. I bet my doing that annoyed people because I know that if it was another story I was reading I'd be annoyed too. Like I said in the chapter before, I've had writers block and I really don't know what to write about. I've also had so much school crap going on that it's just made it all worse. This chapter isn't good at all (in my opinion) but I needed to get something up didn't I?

--oh also I know someone said in a review that Draco was too nice. I know! I've tried to make him meaner but somehow I just can't. I hope he's not too nice though.

October 29th

Ok the last few days have been really uneventful so I didn't write about them. I had my detentions, did homework, and slept and ate, fun right? Today though, well that's another story. Gin, Lavender, and Parvati dragged me to Hogsmeade to get a dress for this ball. They found their dresses relatively fast but whatever I tried on didn't look good on me. After a while we got tired of looking so we went to the Three Broomsticks for a butterbeer.

"Lord Mione, you are the hardest person to shop for. Nothing looks right. It's all either the wrong color, or it doesn't fit the right way," said Parvati.

"Yea," agreed Lavender, "we've gone to every dress store in Hogsmeade and we haven't found anything!"

"Wait a minute, I know one store that we haven't checked yet," Ginny said.

"Which one?" I asked.

"Well one time, last year, I was walking around Hogsmeade by myself and I didn't realize that I had walked into an alley and didn't know where I was. So I looked around and there was this store there. It looked really old and rundown, but when I went inside to ask how to get back out, I saw the prettiest dresses. We should go there!" she said.

"And why didn't you mention this store and hour ago?!" I yelled.

"Well I forgot," she replied sheepishly, "it's called Chelsea's. let's go there now."

So we paid for our drinks and made our way to Chelsea's. Ginny wasn't lying when she said it was rundown, it looked like a shack! The inside though was awesome. The walls were black and Christmas lights were hanging on them. We walked over to the dress rack and were looking through when a girl, who looked a little older than us, walked over, "Hi, I'm Chelsea. Is there anything I can help you girls with?" she asked with a smile on her face. She has short brown hair that reached her chin and it was flared out. Very cute haircut if I do say so myself.

"Yea," said Lavender, "we need a dress for our Mione here," she said as she pushed me forward.

She put her hand to her chin thoughtfully before she screamed, "Oh I have just the dress. It's absolutely perfect. I've been waiting for the right person to give this to." She walked to the back and emerged a few minutes later carrying a black bag with a hanger poking from the top. "OK, take this and go try it on," she told me.

So I did just that. When I got into the fitting room, I carefully removed the dress from the bag. What I saw was the most beautiful dress I'd ever seen. It was black and sleeveless and there were silver bead all over it, a lot at the bottom and less and less as they came to the top. I quickly tore off my clothes and stepped into the dress. I looked in the mirror and was very pleased with what I saw.

"Are you going to come out Hermione?" I heard one of the girls yell.

I opened the door of the fitting room and walked out, instantly three mouths dropped while one formed a wide grin, "I knew it," whispered Chelsea.

"Are you three trying to catch flies with your mouths open?" I asked teasingly.

"Mione that dress looks gorgeous on you, you're definitely buying it!" said Parvati.

"Of course I am. Did you really think I'd leave it?!" I said but then I realized that it might be really expensive, "Wait, Chelsea how much is this dress?" I asked dreading the answer.

"Thirty galleons," she replied. (I have no clue if that's a lot of money or a little. I'm really not to familiar with the currency but if anyone is please leave a review and tell me.)

"Only thirty galleons?" I asked.

"Yep," she answered, "do you need any accessories with it?"

"Well our ball is a masquerade ball so do you have any matching masks?"

"No but I can make one."

"Oh thank you thank you thank you!!" I yelled. Then I went and got dressed in my regular clothes again.

Once I was back in my normal clothing I returned back to the front of the store where the girls were talking.

"You should really come to the ball, Chelsea," I heard Lavender say.

"Yea," Parvati replied with a smile on her face, "I'm sure we can find you some guy."

I cleared my throat to let them know I was standing there. They all turned to me and then we continued talking. We found out that Chelsea is only a year older than us and she graduated from Salem Academy (same as my cousins), which would explain her American accent. We talked for about half an hour more before we realized how late it had gotten. We quickly said good-bye to Chelsea and told her we'd owl her with information about the ball and then we ran back to Hogwarts.

It's 8:50 right now. I have to be in the dungeons in ten minutes for my detention. For my last detentions I was alphabetizing potion bottles, but I finished that already so I don't really know what I'll be doing now. Ok it's 8:55 now, I better be going before Snape decides to add another month to my punishment.

Bye!

November 1st

Last night was the dance and to be quite honest, it was awesome. Everyone looked amazing and the Great Hall was beautiful; there was floating pumpkins everywhere and fairies flew around the castle outside.

I got ready with Lavender, Parvati, Ginny, and Chelsea (she brought my mask with her, and we had Dumbledore's permission to come to the ball). My hair was pinned up with ringlets hanging down around my face. I did a charm on all of our masks so that they floated on our faces without smearing our make-up or showing everyone who we were. We then walked down to the Hall and made our entrance (by entrance I mean we went into the hall. No one really stopped to look at us or anything, it's not like we wanted any attention). We all went and sat down at a table but they were all swept up by guys. I looked around and tried to figure out who different people were. There was one person who didn't even try to conceal who she was: Pansy. She was wearing the most hideous vinyl dress in a shade of hot pink. It was low cut and barely covered her ass. How a teacher didn't kick her out is beyond me.

I didn't want to look like a loser sitting by myself, so I went and got a drink at the refreshment table. As I was standing there, watching them all dance and have fun, someone walked up to the table and got a drink.

"Hey," said the guy, who was wearing a midnight blue robe.

"Hi there," I answered.

"You don't look like you're having to much fun."
"That would be because I'm not at the moment," I replied.

"I think we should change that," he then grabbed my hand and pulled me out to the dance floor. I personally think it was quite presumptuous of him to think I wanted to dance with him, but I didn't say anything out loud. I'm quite happy I didn't say anything because dancing with him made my night so much better. We talked the whole time and the conversation was actually intelligent, boy was I shocked when he let it slip that he was in Slytherin. He told me about his parents who used to be death eaters, but when Voldemort killed his mother, his father ran away from the death eaters and went into hiding; he now secretly helps people who are trying to get away from Voldemort for the same reason. When I told him I was in Gryffindor, he didn't even seem fazed by it. After we danced for a while, we decided to get some air outside, so we walked around the grounds and finally sat down by the lake, where tiny water fairies were floating on the surface of the water (I'm not really sure if there is a creature like that but in my story there is). We talked some more outside and realized we had lots in common, he even began to hold my hand at one point. He kissed me a few seconds before the clock struck twelve and our masks disappeared mid-kiss. We parted at that moment and I looked into the beautiful eyes of one very handsome Blaise Zabini.

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A/N--Ok people, I know this chapter really wasn't all that great or exciting but I told you before that it would be bad. PLEASE REVIEW!!

x day dreams x