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Chapter 14: Rooftop Tears

Halloween had finally arrived, the castle was a bustle with kids getting ready. The dormitory bathrooms had never been so full before. Girls were running around trying to get their hair perfect and their makeup done. Zipping each other up in dresses and and primping in the mirror. Through all this Ginny sat and watched. She was going to the ball, but she wasn't in a hurry to get ready. She had already looked up a spell go get her hair to curl and she didn't really need to wear much makeup considering the mask covered half her face anyway. Finally when it was half past 7 Ginny started to get ready. By then her dormitory was pretty much empty anyway and she didn't want a lot of bustle around her anyway.

Ginny pulled out the box her mother gave her and started looking through the different lip sticks, finally she decided of a frosted pink. Ginny applied some powder to her face and mascara to her eyelashes, then she unprofessionally curled them. She applied the lip stick and kissed her mirror to blot her lips. Ginny grabbed her wand and pointed it towards her head. She muttered a hair curling spell. Her hair instantly bounced into ringlets.

Ginny grabbed her dress and stepped into it, pulling the dress up. She zipped it in the back and turned to look at herself in the mirror. Ginny giggled, she had never looked so much like a girl, she looked like Virginia. She looked like the girl she had vowed to be at the beginning of the year. She picked up her necklace and draped it around her neck. Then she grabbed her shoes and slipped them on. She was shocked as to how well everything fit. She took one last look in the mirror. She barley recognized herself. Ginny slipped her mask on and ran out of Gryffindor tower.

She slowly made her way downstairs to wait till she got to meet her date.

"At least I know it isn't Dean." She muttered quietly to herself. Dean had made sure that she saw him ask Julia, and she made sure to show Dean how much she didn't care.

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Draco looked at himself in the mirror, throughly pleased with himself. Draco had managed to find a beautiful satin cape to wear, one of a kind. He had slicked back his hair and had a fedora on his head. His mask was black and silver. All in all Draco thought he looked pretty smashing.

"Draco." Pansy called through the door at him.

"Coming." Draco sighed.

Draco opened up the door for Pansy. She was wearing a blood red dress, with rubys. She squealed when she saw him.

"Oh Draco, you look so hot." Pansy told him.

"I know." Draco replied egotistically. "Let's go."

Pansy took his arm and off they went to the ball.

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Ginny was waiting patiently when she felt a tap on her shoulder. She turned around to find a young man standing behind her.

"I'm glad you came." he said smiling.

He was dressed as most of the guys, in black, with a cape.

"My lady." he said offering his arm to her.

"You know who I am, but I don't know who you are." Ginny said taking his arm.

"Oh but if you knew, I wouldn't be your secret admirer." her replied leading her into the great hall.

Ginny gasped as she looked around. The great hall had been totally transformed. There were small tables everywhere, on them were small Jack-o-lanterns with candles in them to light the hall. There was a dance floor in the back of the room with glowing pixies flying all over the room.

"It's so beautiful." Ginny said, forgetting she didn't get her date's name.

"Would you like to dance?" he asked her.

"I would love to." Ginny replied still in awe of the great hall.

He took her hand and lead her onto the dance floor. They danced for hours, talking and laughing the night away. Ginny had never felt so happy, or beautiful. It was just nearing midnight and time for everyone to take off their masks. Considering Ginny still didn't know who her date was she was excited. However right before midnight he managed to slip away.

A crowd started to form on the dance floor, everyone was circling around waiting for midnight. The clock started to ring, on the twelfth stroke everyone took off their masks. Ginny looked around. Hermione and Ron started to kiss. Harry was making out with some chick from Hufflepuff, and then she saw something that made her heart sink. There was Draco right across from her holding Pansy around the waist as she turned around to kiss him.

Ginny started to creep back into the crowd, inching her way to the doors. Ginny got to the doors and turned and started to run upstairs. Although she hadn't admitted it to herself she had king of been hoping her mystery man was Draco.

"That's not possible, he was with Pansy." Ginny said to herself as she ran up the stairs to the roof.

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Draco saw Ginny, he saw how Ginny watched Pansy kiss him, he saw how her face fell.

Draco saw how Ginny slowly left the room. He felt compelled to follow her, to tell her that he didn't care for Pansy. However he didn't he stayed right where he was and he kissed Pansy again.

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Ginny sat up on the roof for what felt like hours. Her mascara was running and she had little tracks where tears had run down her cheeks. She was finally ready to admit to herself that she liked the boy she could never have. And that drove her into a despair she had never before felt.