Chapter 7:
A/N: Well, its been awhile. I've been a very busy girl, school takes up too much time. Ok well I hope you enjoy my chapter, and there will be more where this one comes from. Xo -Hannah
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or any other characters (except for the few lovely characters I created), all the rest come from the great JK Rowling.
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The weeks flew by quickly at Hogwarts. Weeks full of busy days, busy classes, and lots of homework to keep everyone busy. Halloween was approaching, and everyone was gearing up for the exciting Halloween feast that took place in the overly decorated Great Hall. Hagrid had another rather nice array of giant pumpkins ready for carving, and everyone was getting full of the Halloween spirit.
On this particular Saturday after noon you could find Michelle, Lea, Morgan, and Ian all seated at one of the round tables in the library discussing the weeks past. Debating over who has the most delinquents in their house, and just having a general catching up conversation.
"So Michelle," Morgan said narrowing his eyes in Michelle's direction. "I saw you and Weasley all cozied up together out on the grounds the other day, y'all must be getting pretty close."
Blushing, Michelle answered, "Well, yes we are getting rather close. Ron is awesome, he's really a great guy. I'm lucky to have him. But, enough about me, I want to hear what's going on between Lea and Draco." Michelle finished and all eyes were turned to Lea.
"Oh, me too. I think I witnessed the first kiss." Ian said laughing, "Walked into Snape's office and there they were."
"Yah, and thanks for ruining the moment Ian." Lea said jokingly. "But sorry to say, that wasn't the first kiss, or the last for that matter."
"So is it getting serious?" Michelle said to Lea, tapping her foot anxiously.
"Yes, I think it is. I really like him, he's not like most of the other guys." Lea answered.
"Well I'm glad your happy, what about you two? Any love interests yet?" Michelle asked the twins.
"There've been a few for me, nothing working out though." Ian answered. "But Morgan here, he's got his fair share of crushes don't you Mor?"
"Dude, shut up. They don't need to know about my love life." Morgan replied shoving his brother.
"Ahh, a crush huh. Well come on, who is it? If you don't tell me, I know Ian will." Michelle said teasingly.
"OK, fine. Ever since the train ride I've had a crush on your friend Ginny." Morgan answered reluctantly.
"He also liked your cousin, I always forget her name." Ian added to the girls.
"Hermione, well that one won't work. She's taken by Harry." Lea said.
"So they are going out, I was wondering about that." Ian replied.
"Yes, they got together a few weeks ago. They are so cute together." Michelle said smiling, "But, you like Ginny, Morgan. That is great, she's said to me a few times how cute you guys are. She's going to be ecstatic when I tell her."
"You going to hook me up Michelle?" Morgan said raising his eyebrows.
"Of course," Michelle replied glancing at her watch. "Well, its about dinner time what do you say we go to the Great Hall?"
"Sounds good, I'm starved." Lea answered getting up and grabbing her purse.
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Michelle was one of the first ones to arrive at Gryffindor table for dinner that evening. She sat in her usual seat, and was closely followed by Morgan who sat down next to her.
"I'll keep you company until your boyfriend arrives." Morgan said grinning, "I know you hate sitting alone."
"Well thanks Morgan, you know me too well." she replied, raising her eyes to meet his.
"Yeah I know I do, what more could you expect from me, knowing you for my whole life." said Morgan.
"I'm glad you and Ian are here with me and Lea." Michelle began, "Having you both here with us brings this form of comfort that we've had present our whole lives, so I'm really happy I still get to see you both on a daily basis. I think I'd be lost without you here."
"No you wouldn't, maybe at first you might be. But now that you have Ron, you don't need me and Ian anymore."
"Morgan, that is not true. Ron can not come close to replacing you and Ian." Michelle said rather loudly, startling Morgan sitting right next to her. "Who else knows me as good as you and Ian do?"
"Lea" he answered calmly.
"Besides Lea." she said in an annoyed tone. "No one, do you remember when we were little, like 4th grade?" Morgan nodded his head.
"When me, you , Lea, and Ian were absolutely inseparable." Morgan nodded again, this time smiling.
Michelle laughed, "Oh, do you remember that time when we all planned to sneak out that night and play hide and seek outside?"
"Yes, we had it planned out to the very last detail, but it didn't work because we got caught and we were in so much trouble." he said laughing.
"Yes, gosh our mom's grounded us from each other. That was torture for us then."
"Oh yah, our lives revolved around each other. There wasn't a day that we all four didn't do something together for years." her reminisced.
"Yeah, the good old days. Then we kind of grew out of each other, and things got weird. But that didn't last long." Michelle started, "And Morgan, I promise that I'm not going to let Ron, or anybody replace you and Ian. I've known you for way too long to just let it slip away now."
"Ok, I'm holding you to that."
"Ok, you know I keep my promises." Michelle answered defensively, then smiled and grabbed Morgan into a tight hug.
He returned the embrace, as they pulled apart Michelle stood up rather quickly.
"What's wrong?" Morgan said puzzled.
"I've got to go hug Ian now." she replied, and turned and walked quickly towards the Hufflepuff table, followed by Morgan.
Ian was standing at the end of the table talking to a 1st year, and was rather shocked when Michelle came up behind him and pulled him into a very tight hug. He gave a puzzled look to Morgan, who was standing behind Michelle. Morgan just smiled and shook his head at his twin brother.
Michelle finally let go of Ian and then looked up and smiled and said, "I love you Ian" then abruptly turned and walked back to the Gryffindor table.
"What was that all about?" Ian asked Morgan after Michelle walked away.
"Don't ask, long story." he said laughing.
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Later that night, the Gryffindor common room was full of excited chatter. The students had came back from dinner to find a new notice on the bulletin board;
Christmas Ball
You are all cordially invited to attend the Hogwarts
Christmas Ball on December 25th, from 7:00 to 10:00 pm.
Wear your nicest robes and bring a date to celebrate the holidays.
Signed, Albus Dumbledore
Michelle was utterly excited to hear this news, as she loved to get dressed up. "It's like the prom all over again, its going to be so fun." she said excitedly to Ron.
"Prom, what's that?" He said puzzled.
"You don't know what prom is?" she looked at him with wide eyes, "You poor sheltered boy, prom is like a big school dance where you have a date and you get all dressed up. Girls wear dresses and boys wear tuxes, its very formal."
"Oh, so you've been to one of these proms?" he asked.
"Yes, I went to one last April. Morgan was my date, I bet I have a picture somewhere in my purse hold on and I'll get it." She unzipped her pink and black purse and rummaged around in it, then stopped and pulled out a wallet sized picture and handed it to Ron.
He looked at it for a second then replied, "You look beautiful."
"Oh thanks sweetie" she said before kissing him on the cheek.
"Mind if I keep this picture" Ron asked Michelle.
"Of course you can have it." she answered smiling.
Ron grabbed her hand and lead her over to one of the squishy armchairs and pulled her into his lap. They talked for a minute, but were interrupted by Harry, Hermione, and Ginny coming over and sitting in the chairs around them.
"A Christmas Ball, how exciting I love going to those kind of things. I assume you two are going together?" Hermione said looking at Michelle and Ron.
"I don't know, are we?" Ron asked Michelle.
"Um, yeah we are. Who did you think I'd go with?"
"Well I don't know, I wasn't sure." Ron said defensively.
Hermione laughed and turned to Ginny and said, "Well who do you want to go to the ball with Gin?"
"Oh, I don't know. Haven't given it much thought yet." She answered, vaguely looking around the common room.
"I know who you can go with." Michelle said, Ginny looked at her with questionable eyes. "Morgan, he told me he likes you today."
"He did, oh my gosh. Are you serious?" Ginny almost screamed.
"Yes, I'll get him to ask you to the ball ok."
"Ok, that'd be great. Gosh he's so cute, and his brother. It'd be perfect to go to the ball with either of them." Ginny said dreamily. "Wait, which one is Morgan?"
Michelle laughed and replied, "Morgan is the one in Ravenclaw."
"Ok, yah the cuter one." said Ginny.
"The cuter one?" Ron said confused, "How can their be a cuter one, they look exactly alike?"
"Morgan is cuter than Ian, he just is I can't explain it." Ginny replied in an annoyed tone.
They sat in silence for a minute then Harry broke the silence by saying, "What is that picture of Ron?"
"What, oh this, it's of Michelle's prom last year." Ron said, he was returned three looks of confusion from the others.
"Michelle, you explain." Ron said handing the picture to Harry.
"Ok, Prom its like this big school dance. You have a date and its very formal, as you can see by the picture."
"Your dress is so pretty, I love it. Who was your date?" Hermione asked handing the picture to Ginny.
"Thanks, I loved that dress too, and my date was Morgan. He's was a perfect date, your in for a good time Ginny." Said Michelle.
Ron took his picture from his sister, put it in his robes, and stood up out of his chair. "Well, I'll see you all later." He then grabbed Michelle's hand and lead her through the door to the girl's dormitories.
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A/N: YAY, another chapter. Hope you liked it and please review, I'll love you forever. Xo -Hannah
