The bell chimed three times at the stroke of ten. Master Potions class for two hole hours wasn't as dreadful as Severus had expected, not with Alorah around. Severus had grown up lonely for most of the years of his sad life. Alorah was the sun shining through all the rain. After class as Severus was walking out of the classroom she came up behind him and grabbed his arm. "Wait, Russy." She exclaimed slightly breathless, she must have hurried pretty quickly. "What are you doing this afternoon? I was thinking we could go somewhere, you know? To get to know one another better.." She said with a nervous smile. Severus thought a moment, 'she wants to be friends with me?' His eyes which were on the floor slowing glanced into her eyes. "I'd love to go somewhere, anywhere! I'm new here, it would be good for me to get to know this area better." he said warmly. Alorah smiled back softly and and "Do you like coffee?"
They had been laughing up a storm over the silliest things. "Then guess what! He actually came over asking to borrow sugar, SUGAR! HA HA!" said Alorah with little breath. Severus felt so comfortable around her. He could be himself without worrying about if she'd like it or not. He was himself, she was herself and it was the best he had ever felt his whole life. He felt that someone liked him. Liked him. He never had friends really, but Alorah was all he needed. She was amazing. "I'll be right back, I'm going to get another one of the frothy fraps or whatever you call them." he said. While returning to his seat he asked "This place is great, what's it called again?" Alorah was having a bit of butter beer while being asked "Oh" she managed to say. "It's called Cafe Noir, on fridays they have magickal performances it really gets pretty! They have fireworks on the inside of the building and sometimes truely amazing stunts performed with enchanted ribbons and bubbles." The place, to Severus, looked pretty large but large enough for fireworks? 'Magick, gotta love it.' he thought to himself. "Well I'm not doing anything friday, want to come to go? I'd really like to see a performance..or two" he asked uneasily. "Of course! It starts at 8 so we should meet up about 7:30. It cost 5 galleons to get in though, if that's not a problem.." she said, her excitement dying at the end. Severus, though his parents were not the best of parents, had left him in good conditions. "Not at all, I'll pay for both of us, is it casual or non?"
Friday rolled around quickly. With class only on Monday and Wednesday it gave Severus and Alorah time to hang out more. They went to the local park, library, The Cafe Noir again, a muggle thing called "Movies". Alorah liked muggle ways as well as magick. Severus was starting to take a liking to it as well. It was now 6 o' clock. He had just jumped into the shower. He made sure to shave and after shave, brush his teeth and scrub his hair clean. To clean his ears and put on a fresh cologne. He wore a simple jet black and shiny tuxedo with a black bow tie. He had his dress shoes professionally waxed and buffed and now they shined with brilliance. He jumped into his maroon Hyrbid car, and checked his teeth and hair in the rear-view mirror. 'It could be worse..' he thought to himself sighing. Five blocks away on 6th Anual drive was where Alorah's flat was. He parked the best he could, got out of the car and gave his hair a quick push then strutted to the door. There she was. She looked beautiful. She wore a burgandy dress that went down to her knees. It poofed out as it went down for the material underneath seemed to be the kind that tutu's were made. The straps were thin and pressed against her skin just right. Her hair was up in the most precious style he had ever seen. Her lips were soft pink as well as her cheeks. Her eyes as green as ever had been lined in black and looked deep, as though you could drown in them. "You look gorgeous." Said Severus as she took his arm. "Thanks, so do you." she said with a wink. As they got into the car Alorah turned to face him. "Russy, you are my best friend. I love you."