Mere woke up on the day of the dance feeling refreshed. She realized that they only have a half-day. "Yes!" she thought to herself. She only had Defense Against the Dark Arts, Charms, and Potions today. She wasn't looking forward to Potions with Snape or with Maya flirting with Roger. But she was looking forward to Defense Against the Dark Arts with the Slytherins so that she could hang out with Tina and her date to the dance, Goyle. Mere walked to the Great Hall still in her pajamas. It was a habit from the States she couldn't break, but when she saw that Tina was still in hers she smiled to herself and waved to Tina.

Tina waved back at Mere and walked over to the Slytherin table looking for somewhere to sit.

"Nice pajamas, Tina," Draco shouted while smirking. Tina looked down at her tank top and plaid pajama bottoms and smiled.

"It's a nasty habit from the States that I seem to not be able to break."

"I never said I was complaining," Draco smiled wider as Tina sat down next to him. Tina looked over at Liz as she entered the Great Hall. Tina smiled to herself as she saw that Liz was still wearing her boxer shorts and a tank top for pajamas. Liz looked over and waved at Tina. Liz and Tina had forgiven each other after a couple days of fighting. Tina couldn't stand that she was losing her best friend over something so stupid. She hated fighting with Liz.

"Hey, Liz!" Tina yelled out to her. "Want to get ready for tonight together?"

"Sure," Liz called out after her, "Meet me in the girl's bathroom in the sixth corridor around five."

"Alright I'll see you after Transfiguration class," Tina replied as she walked out of the Great Hall with Adam, Draco, and Goyle.

"We have Transfiguration today?" Adam asked clueless.

"Yeah, honestly Adam, don't you pay attention anymore?" Tina asked snickering to herself.

"Hey, Liz! Why are you still wearing your pajamas?" Harry asked Liz looking at her weirdly as she sat down next to him.

"Habit. You should have noticed by now that I wear them every morning, Harry," Liz said without even looking at him as she piled food onto her plate. Ron's eyebrows furrowed.

"You always eat that much?"

"Yeah, but I only eat this much before dances. Usually I'd dig into the bacon and sausages, but you know, I've got to slim down for tonight."

Harry and Ron both stared.

"Liz, you do realize I'm Ron, not Hermione?"

"Where is that girl anyway?" Liz asked, ignoring Ron. Harry shrugged, "Neither of us has seen her all morning."

"Odd," Liz replied before she shoveled a forkful of scrambled eggs.

"Um, Liz?"

"Yes, Harry?" She chewed and swallowed her eggs.

Harry looked over his shoulder at Ron and Ron turned to strike up conversation with Dean.

"Liz, could you meet me after the dance? Around eleven thirty?"

Liz felt herself turn pink, if not brilliantly red. What was he doing? What was he going to say to her? What did he want? Was he going to…?

"I-I guess." Did she just gulp?

"That's alright. Could you meet me right outside the common room?"

Liz nodded.

"Great. See you tonight," and with that, both Harry and Ron left breakfast. Suddenly Liz wasn't very hungry, but mildly put off. She could still feel her face burning.

Maya didn't really remember anything that had happened that day. All the classes seem to blow by in a whir of lectures and before she knew it, it was 4:55. She ran down to the sixth corridor to meet up with Meredith, Tina and Liz when she rammed into someone.

"Sorry," she mumbled. It was so strange – no one seemed to have faces today. She hadn't been paying attention to anyone or thinking about anything but Ro –

"It's okay, Maya," Sirius replied, helping her up. Maya, for a reason she couldn't think of, blushed.

"Oh! Sirius...hey," she said lamely, "who're you going to the dance with?"

"Ginny Weasley. Harry let her down, so I offered to take her."

Ginny Weasley. Cute, little Ginny Weasley, Maya thought, adorable, young, naïve, red-headed, slutty Ginny Weasley…

"Maya?"

She looked up at him, "Yeah?"

"You might want to get going to wherever you were headed. You seemed as though you were in a hurry."

"Oh! Yes, right…" Maya slowly started walking, but soon picked up her pace, "See you, Sirius!"

Tina and Liz were scrambling on the ground trying to find Tina's lost contact. They had to find it because Tina's contacts changed her eye color. It would be kind of odd if Tina went to the dance with two color eyes.

"I found it!" Liz shrieked as she carefully picked it off the ground.

"Found what?" Maya asked as she came out of the stall in her dress.

"Wow! Maya you look great!" Tina shrilled as she stared at Maya. Maya was wearing a short, black spaghetti strap dress with black wrap around heels.

"Tina, I love your dress! It matches your eyes!" Mere squealed as she came out of her own stall. They were all wearing similar dresses all in different colors. Tina was in green, Mere in silver, and Liz was in red.

"Oh my god you guys, it's almost 7!" Liz yelled as she looked at her watch.

Tina and Mere walked down the grand staircase together as they saw Draco and Goyle waiting for them. They were both wearing suits and surprisingly both wear looking handsome.

"You're looking beautiful tonight Tina," Malfoy said smirking at Tina as he put his arm around her waist.

"Not looking so bad yourself, Draco," Tina retorted.

"Hi," Mere said meekly to Goyle as he linked his arm with hers. Both couples walked towards the entrance to the Great Hall.

Maya and Liz walked down after Tina and Mere towards Harry and Roger. Both boys too were wearing suits and also looking handsome.

"Wow, Liz, you look great!" Harry said blushing after realizing what he just said.

"Thanks, Harry. You look great too," Liz said as she felt herself blushing also and reaching for his arm.

"You're looking hot, Maya!" Roger exclaimed as Maya started blushing and she took his hand into hers. Both couples trailed after Tina and Mere.

All four couples entered the Great Hall in awe. It had been transformed. All the tables were pushed back against the wall so that people could dance, but also sit at them.