Disclaimer: Still don't own anything from the books...
Hey everyone...thanks for all the great reviews...i hope you enjoy this chapter...
The next couple of days went by quickly for the Hogwarts students. It became quite clear to all that Alex and Riley were an item, and Draco had taken to passing insulting comments about them, only to be ignored by the two of them and glared at by Logan and Sam.
Alex couldn't have been more happier, her parents were back together, she was with riley and her all her friends, (apart from Draco) were getting along brilliantly, especially Nicole and Logan. But she couldn't help but notice that some one was always missing when they were all together, and when they came back they would purposefully leave out where they had been for the last hour or so.
By Thursday morning she had finally given up on getting the information from Charlie, who couldn't lie to her, instead taking to day dreaming about the Halloween ball later that night.
The last lesson of the day had been cancelled so the students could prepare for the ball, while the Hogwarts teachers were put in charge of decorating the great ballroom.
"Ok, so there's the canary Creams, the…" Blaise zoned out, as he watched Hermione check each box as Harry read the list of things they had bought from Fred and George out.
"Ok, so Professor Dokoft said for us to be creative as possible," Hermione said, snapping Blaise out of his trance, "If you two bring these boxes up there, me and Jess will go set the tables up."
Both men nodded and began to shrink the boxes and their contents as Hermione and Jess headed toward the ballroom. Once they had shrunk all the boxes, they followed Hermione and Jess to the ballroom.
"So Blaise, what's going on between you two?" Harry asked, checking that Hermione and Jess were out of earshot.
"Nothing new since last time you asked Harry," Blaise replied, never taking his eyes of the brunette.
"So, Saturday, you spent the whole day together and nothing happened?" Harry quizzed.
"Harry, even if it did do you think I'd tell you?" Blaise asked in return.
"So something happened?" Harry said.
"No, nothing happened. End of discussion." Blaise said as they entered the ballroom, he smiled at Hermione who he knew was watching him, "I asked her to spend Christmas with me, that's it."
"Christmas?" Harry asked, "Do you think she's ready for something like that."
"I guess if she wasn't, she would have said no." Blaise replied, unshrink the boxes, as Harry began to unpack. They then began to help Jess and Hermione decorate the hall with the bats, cobwebs and other decorations, which had been sent over from Hogwarts.
Back in the Niveus common room, the girls were nowhere to be seen, although occasionally laughter and squealing was heard from the various dorm rooms. Riley was sitting with Logan in the common room, trying hard to concentrate on the game of chess they were playing while Draco continuously smirked and sneered at them.
Generally, Draco hated the holidays, he never understood what the big fuss was about, but he usually enjoyed Halloween, and this year would be no different, with the only exception that he was the only one who was going to be in on the fun.
He finally gave up on sneering at the two boys and went into the dorm he was staying in. Opening his trunk he lifted out the pieces of the costume he was to switch with the one in Riley's trunk. Pulling his wand out he flicked it toward the costume and the pieces joined together to reveal a knights armour. Carefully he opened the trunk marked Potter and pulled out the quidditch uniform Ginny had bought from Riley, placing the armour into the trunk instead. Then with a flick of his wand, the quidditch uniform burst into green flames and disappeared.
"Perfect," Draco breathed, as he exited the dorm.
"Logan, come on, were going to be late," Georgie pulled her twin out the chair.
"Late for what? I thought you were getting ready for the ball?" Riley asked, eyeing the girl who was still in her uniform.
"Um, yeah, but I just remembered we told our Mum we'd owl her," Georgie replied, not making eye contact, instead glaring at her twin who was still sitting at the table watching the chess pieces.
"But you'll be back before the ball starts? Were meeting Charlie and everyone in the practice room right?" Riley continued.
"Well, maybe, why don't you just meet us in the ballroom, we'll tell Charlie and Kimmie and Brain," This time Logan replied, standing up, letting Georgie drag him away.
"Okay," Riley replied, watching as the chess pieces began to battle on the board. He check his watch, there was still at least two hours until the ball started.
"What your friends left you?" Smirked Draco who had re-entered the common room.
"What the hell is your problem?" Riley exploded; he had enough of Draco's attitude.
Draco blinked at him, "I don't have a problem."
"Are you sure? Why can't you just be some one who people want to hang around with, instead of someone who everyone avoids? Even your girlfriends avoids you," Riley shouted.
"Well, I'm sorry for being who I am, and Sam does not avoid me," Draco spat back.
"You know, I tried to defend you to Alex when she said you were a prat, but she was right it what you are," Riley began as Draco cut him off.
"And if Alex said it must be right then," Draco's voice was rising, causing the students, mainly boys that were still in the common room to look at them, " What now she's your girlfriend your not allowed to have your own opinion anymore,"
"At least she talks to me, you just Sam for a quick snog," Riley shot back.
Draco glared at him, it was obvious to riley, who had only seen him really angry once before when someone in slytherin said something about his family.
"What's going on?" Nicole asked from the doorway of the girls dorm, Alex and Sam were both standing behind her.
Both boys realised they had become so loud the girls in the dorms had heard them aswell.
"Nothing Riley muttered, avoiding eye contact with any three of the girls, he could still feel Draco glaring at him.
"Draco?" Sam's quiet voice came, as the blonde boy headed toward the common room door.
"Nothing, Sammie," He replied, giving the girl a reassuring smile, " I think I just need some air," and with that he left the common room.
Half an hour later, Alex slipped into the common room, to find Riley sitting alone, staring at a wall.
"Hey," She said sitting next to him, "Are you okay?"
He didn't reply, so she squeezed his hand.
"Riley, Draco's your best friend…just because he's not my favourite person doesn't mean you should be fighting with him," She said slowly.
Riley turned to look at her, "I know, I don't know what happened before, I just had enough and I cracked. You know how he is all rude and sarcastic, I just couldn't take it anymore."
"Well, I know when me and Georgie used to fight, which was a lot, I always felt better after I apologised," she gave him a reassuring look, and riley knew it was the right thing to do.
"Yeah, but I don't know where he went," He protested, finding an excuse.
"He's your best friend, you must have an idea," Alex pointed out.
Riley nodded, and stood up, "your right, I just hope I 'm right,"
Finally they had put up the last of the decorations.
"Hermione, can I talk to you a minute?" Harry asked as Blaise and Jess began to stack the chairs away they didn't need.
"Sure," Hermione replied, "What about?"
"You and Blaise," He said slowly.
Hermione frowned, "What about us?"
"Well, don't you think your rushing things a bit? I mean are your ready to spend Christmas wit him?" Harry asked.
"Harry, are you serious? I love him, I've tried to deny that I don't for the last fifteen years, besides do I have to remind you how fast your forgave Ginny?" Hermione replied, a hint of anger clear in her voice.
"I know, but what about Alex? How do you think she'll feel?" Harry responded.
"She's finally getting the chance to spend Christmas with her proper family, I think she'll be happy," Hermione replied as Blaise and Jess headed toward them.
"Fine," Harry replied, closing the conversation.
Draco pulled his cloak around him tightly as the school came back into his view. Slowly he stepped inside it's gate, checking that no muggle was following him, he quickly made his way into the building.
He entered the hall and began to make his way up the stairs, a plastic muggle shopping bag hanging in his hand.
"Draco," Riley's voice came from behind him.
Draco stopped. Shit, He thought, as he turned to face his best friend.
"Potter," He attempted to sneer back.
"Look, Draco, I'm sorry. I was the prat, I should be used to by now," Riley spoke quickly; Draco had only just made put the words.
"Good," He smirked
the two boys made their way back to the common room together in silence, until finally Riley's curiosity got the better of him.
"Um, what's in the bag?" He finally asked.
"Oh, that…well, uh, you see," Draco stopped.
"Well…." Riley waited.
"I kind of switched your costume to this really terrible one so I went and got you a better one, and I bought Sam something," Draco mumbled.
"You went in to Muggle New York?" Riley asked, surprised.
"Yeah, I've been here before, my Dad bought us here for a holiday once," Draco said, glad his friend hadn't actually realised what he had said.
"Oh right. Wait, you switched my costume? To what?" Riley asked, as they entered the common room.
"So, your defiantly sure I look alright?" Nicole asked for the fifth time.
"You look brilliant," Sam replied, adjusting her bandanna.
"Are you sure?" Nicole repeated, standing in front of the mirror.
"Yes, we're sure," Alex, replied this time, getting up from the bed, "The guys are going to love you."
Nicole shook her head.
"You know Alex is right, our new friend Logan might have some competition," Sam smirked as Nicole looked at her horrified.
"Logan doesn't like me like that, we're just friends," she said nervously.
Alex snorted, "Gee, that's not what he told me."
"What?" Nicole asked in awe, "He was talking about me,"
Alex nodded as Sam laughed, "Yeah and you say you don't like him,"
There was twenty minutes left until the ball started, and both Draco and Riley were still waiting for the three girls to come out from the dorm.
"I still can't believe you changed me costume," Riley said grumpily as he put the jacket on the table.
"Potter, shut up, unless you want to wear the armour," Draco drawled as he sat down.
With Draco's purchase, he had the choice of wearing the knights armour or a tuxedo, which was apparently the only thing Draco could find, at first he was going to go with the armour, until he found out it was controlled by Draco's wand, so instead he had to settle with the tux, with Draco insisting it was from some muggle spy movie, 007 or something like that.
"Yeah, but the outfit my mum bought me…." He trailed off as the girls door opened the three of them made their way down the steps.
Standing up and turning to see what put Riley into shock, Draco felt his mouth drop open.
Sam's usually straight hair, was hanging loosely in curls, pulled back with a red and white bandanna. She wore a sixties styles red and white patterned dress, which flared out at the sleeves, with red suede boots that reached just above her knees. With carefully applied make up and big gold hoop earrings she looked as if she's just stepped out from the sixties. (A/N: I saw this out fit on Beyonce in Austin Powers Goldmember so it might 70's I can't remember though.)
Nicole looked stunning, with her red hair pulled into a loose ponytail and the short green dress with soft fairy wings that fluttered every couple of seconds, made her look like the perfect tinkerbell.
Then there was Alex, she looked perfect. Her hair had been straightened slightly, leaving a soft wave through it, framing her face carefully, with the front being pulled back by the thing gold crown. Riley took a deep breath as he fully took in her costume, the white and gold dress, the thin halo around her had, her bare feet, her natural/barely there make up.
"So James Bond, hey?" Alex asked snapping him out his trance.
"Huh?' Riley asked confused.
"That's who it was," Draco said, tearing his eyes away from his girlfriend, "James Bond."
"Draco, shut up," Sam said, pulling him away from Alex and Riley's private moment, but it as too late, he already had their attention.
"How do you know who James Bond is?" Nicole asked hi, she had known of course from her Grandfather, but Draco's family supposedly hated anything muggle related.
"I watch the movies," Draco replied as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Right, okay. So what exactly is your costume?" Alex interrupted, as she looked at hs clothes.
"I'm a muggle," He said brightly, proud with his outfit.
"How original," Nicole stated, "Um, where's Georgie and Lo- everyone?"
"Oh, they said they'd meet us at the ballroom, we've got five minutes?" Riley replied looking at his watch, "We should probably head to the ballroom now," he took Alex's hand in his and led her to the door, with Nicole following.
"Um, yeah, we'll be there in a minute," Draco replied, pulling a wrapped box out of his pocket.
Alex, Riley and Nicole all entered the ballroom, hoping to fin Georgie, Logan, Charlie, Brian or Kimmie, none were in sight. Leaving Riley and Alex alone, Nicole went in search of her brothers, while the other two found a table that would fit the five Hogwarts students and the five Fascino Quas students.
"You look really beautiful tonight," Riley told Alex as they sat at the table.
"Thanks, you don't look too bad yourself," She grinned at him, as Harry walked toward them.
"Well, you two look good, didn't your mother buy you a quidditch costume though?" he asked, his green eyes sparkling mischievously over the two of them.
"Yeah, it's a long story though," Riley, replied as he saw Draco and Sam enter the ballroom.
As they made their way over to the table they were sitting at Harry left to talk to the other students.
"You're here already?" Riley asked giving Draco a smirk.
"What, yeah," Sam replied, her face slightly flushed, Draco's arm wrapped securely around her waist, "Where is everyone?"
Alex shrugged as Nicole spoke.
"Well if it isn't obvious to you all yet, but I think they might be part of the entertainment tonight," Nicole said softly
"Now that I think about, our little Nikki is probably right," Alex joked, grinning at the redhead girl, "It just means she'll be dateless for awhile."
Before Nicole or anyone else had the chance to reply, the lights in the hall dimmed and a figure clad in a long black cloak stood in the centre of the stage. The person lifted down the hood from the cloak and revealed themselves to the two schools. Finally professor Dokoft spoke.
"I invite you all to celebrate this night together, tomorrow the Hogwarts students will depart, so I think we should make this a night to remember," She paused as few students clapped, "But first I would like to introduce the band that has finally found a name for themselves, the practice room,"
The blonde teacher exited the stage as five spotlights came on, two at the front where two microphone stands stood, two to the sides, one on a keyboard, the other on another microphone stand, and finally one at the back on the set of drums, Alex could now recognise as Charlies.
Finally the came on stage, both Georgie and Kimmie wearing matching pink cocktail dresses with matching fitted suit jackets, the boys all had identical suits on. But then to Alex's surprise, Logan and Brian moved toward the two front microphones, instead of Georgie, who moved to the microphone to the side.
"Okay, as you all know, this is our new band, without Lex,' Brain spoke clearly into the microphone, and Alex could feel everyone look at her as he said her name, "And this isn't our original or normal line up, but this first song is All about Alex and Georgie just didn't want to sing it,"
Alex realised what was going on, "Oh my God their so dead," she whispered, slightly at shock from the situation.
"So, we'd like everyone to grab a partner and get on the dance floor," He said as they picked up, or sat down at their instruments.
Alex looked at Riley, who had paled slightly at the word dance.
"Draco, I'm sure your Sam wouldn't mind if you came and danced with me, in fact she might find it funny to watch," She pulled the blonde boy onto the dance floor with her, as they began to play 'All about you'. (By McFly)
Alex listened closely to Brain and Logan as they sang together.
"It's all about you, it's about you, it's all about you baby, it's all about you, it's all about you, it's about you, it's all about you"
"Uh, Alex…" Draco said slowly.
"Mmm?" Alex replied distractedly
"Why didn't you get Potter to dance with you?" He sounded nervous.
"Well, he looked like he was going to throw up, it didn't seem fair, I'd rather embarrass you," She replied jokingly.
"Uh right. Don't you have any other guy friends though?" He continued.
"Draco, look at the stage, their all up there, but when they come down their all going to die," She paused, as Logan began the second part of the first verse, never taking his eyes off Nicole who was dancing with another Gryffindor boy, "Besides, I think it's time me and you became friends."
"Oh yeah." They stopped and danced listening to the music.
"So why are they going to die?" Draco finally asked.
"Because this song, is my favourite song and I once told Georgie that it would be cool to play it at my wedding, which is another reason why I got you to dance," She stopped as the song finished, "you're a good dancer,"
"MY mum taught me," Draco replied as he followed Alex off the dance floor, "Alex, I won't tell Riley,"
"Tell him what?" She asked confused.
"What you told Georgie about that song, we don't want to freak him out just yet," Draco replied genuinely.
"You're right, how about we tell him that I think you're hotter than he is, that might freak him out even more," Alex offered jokingly.
"No, seriously," Draco began, but stopped when they reached the table.
"Whatever Draco," Alex replied sitting down as her friends switched positions and Georgie began to sing a Kelly Clarkson song.
A/N: ok...I'm going to stop here so this chapter doesn't get too long…I might make this into to a two part chapter though...also sorry if some parts seem a bit slow or werid or crap but sometimes i get so many ideas at once then its too hard to get hem all down then i forget htings etc, plus my sister wouldn't leave me aone while i was writing this which was really annoying…please review and tell me what you think….
Luv emgurl