Since all of my reviewers said that they liked my long chapters I'm going to try to keep the habit up, but if it doesn't happen, don't be surprised and I apologize in advance. Thank you for liking my work. Here it goes. Enjoy
Rhymes sat at dinner talking to Harry when Dumbledore stood up, surprising everyone. Silence fell immediately.
"I have an announcement," he said. Everyone looked up at the head table. "We will be having a Halloween Ball for 4th years and up." Then he sat down. It was silent for a moment, and then the hall erupted in whispers.
"Jocelyn! Are you going to ask Seamus?" Rhymes asked.
"NO!" Jocelyn cried, blushing bright red.
"Ok, then." Rhymes smiled mischievously.
As she left the hall she pulled Seamus aside.
"Hey, you know who you should ask to the ball?" she said.
"Who?"
"Jocelyn of course!" she smiled as Seamus's face reddened. "She likes you." He smiled, he liked Jocelyn too.
"I think I will."
That night Rhymes snuck into the hospital wing after hours to see Fred. She lay next to him and he woke up.
"Hey," he whispered smiling.
"Hey yourself. Have you heard about the dance?" she asked.
"Yea, George came by earlier and told me, I was going to ask you to it tomorrow, but hey, will you go to the Halloween Ball with me?" he smiled knowingly.
"Nah, I don't think so."
Fred looked dumbstruck, his mouth hanging open in horrified shock. Rhymes closed her lips around his and laughed.
"Yes, of course I'll go with you."
Fred smiled and put a hand to her cheek. They soon fell asleep.
Tom looked on from his bed at Rhymes and Fred. She looked at the Weasley boy with the love and adoration that Tom longed for. He wanted her to look at him like that, to be that deeply in love with him. He couldn't let her go.
Jocelyn sat up in the common room reading a book by the fire when Seamus walked over, very nervous, his stomach was flipping over. He leaned over her chair and smiled.
"Hey," he said.
"Hi Seamus, how're you?" she asked, swinging her curly brown ponytail out of the way.
"Pretty alright, hey you interested in going to the Halloween Ball?" he asked, shuffling his feet and not looking directly at her. Jocelyn smiled at how adorable he looked nervous.
"Yea, if someone asks me."
"Well, would you go with me?" Jocelyn beamed and nodded vigorously. She had forgotten how to speak, how very unlike her. "Good, uh, what're you going as?"
"I think I'll go as an ice angel princess thing, maybe," she replied. Seamus smiled. He had liked Jocelyn for a while, but never asked her out. Rhymes made him because she and Fred had started dating. They had made a deal in the beginning of term that if Rhymes and Fred went out, he and Jocelyn had to go out and stop being stupid prats, to put it in Rhymes's terms.
Jocelyn got up, claimed she was tired, and ran up the stairs to her dorm. She sat down at her sewing machine and started on her dress, dreaming about her night with Seamus.
Mdm. Pomfrey shook Rhymes and Fred awake.
"Oh shit," Rhymes moaned. She looked at Fred, whose eye had swelled a bit overnight.
"What are you doing young lady?"
"I came to visit and I guess I fell asleep."
"I'm giving you a warning, now leave."
Rhymes took off running to breakfast, but while she ran she ran straight into Umbridge.
"In quite a hurry I see," she said, her toad face glinting an evil smile.
"Yes, I need to eat something, I'm starving," Rhymes replied. Rhymes hadn't done anything to Umbridge yet. Unlike Harry, she knew how to keep her mouth shut when her temper got the best of her around teachers.
"Well, I'll give you a warning, don't go running through the halls again, it would be a shame for you to become a criminal like your father," Umbridge said, trying to get a rise out of the young Black. Rhymes breathed deeply and strode past the evil wench. When she turned the corner she began running again.
"Must be a record, 2 warnings in less then 10 minutes," she said to Ron and Gabriella at the table.
"No, Fred and George got 2 at the same time once," Ron recalled.
"Yea, that's because there's two of them stupid," Harry said laughing. Jocelyn sat down next to Rhymes then.
"5 days til the Halloween Ball," she giggled happily.
"I see my work is done," Rhymes said, giving a cocky smile.
Ok, I am so sorry, but I'm cutting it off here because the next chapter will be the Halloween Dance and that has to be it's own chapter in order to write it all without it being 8 pages.
Sorry all you people who like my long chapters, you will get one next. (Hopefully) Please review. Oh, and Jessi, I fixed the whole ice princess, ice angel argument we had, you are now an ice angel princess thing. My apologies.
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