Running Late

Disclaimer: Still Wishing I owned Harry Potter……

Piper awoke to look at the clock on her nightstand. It was one in the afternoon. She had been exhausted from the trip and it also didn't help that she had tossed and turned all night even though her bed was comfy. She got up, showered, brushed her teeth and did her hair and make-up. She went downstairs to grab a bite to eat and was confronted with her aunt and friends talking about the ball tonight. She slipped past them and went into the kitchen. One of the house elves made her juice and toast in spite Piper said she could do it herself. As she walked out of the kitchen, her aunt stopped her. "I just wanted you to know the ball is at eight tonight." Said her aunt and went back to making arrangements.

Piper decided to go horseback ridding for awhile to kill time. When she came back, she went to her room and changed into a pair of shorts and a tee shirt, grabbed her MP3 player and left to go jogging. She had ran for what seemed miles and hours, and was on her way back when she looked at her watch. "Oh shit!" she thought. It was now 7:30 and she was still probably 15 to 30 minutes away from the house or so she thought. She sped up and finally came to the house, she looked at her watch. 8:10. She had been further than she thought and she hoped her aunt and uncle wasn't pissed.

She was hot and sweaty when she walked through the door. When she thought it couldn't be any worse, there were those same kids again. The curly haired girl rolled her eyes and laughing, she said; "If she was going to crash the party, she could have at least cleaned up. Oh well, it won't matter, the Vance's will have her thrown out on her ass in a heartbeat." Then the blonde boy spoke. "Hermione, can't you be a little nicer to her? Damn, give her a chance, you don't even know her." Piper wasn't going to listen for the answer, she was in a hurry. But she did hear on the way up the stairs; "You shouldn't be going up there! No one's allowed to roam the house you know. Steal anything and I'll make sure the Vance's know it was you!"

Piper had just barged into her room when there was a knock. "Come in" she yelled. It was the blonde boy and one of the dark haired boys. "We just wanted to come up and apologize about Hermione." The blonde boy started. "I think she's jealous because we want to meet you, but she seems to run you off before we can." Piper just looked at him. "I'm Draco and this is Viktor." Viktor nodded his head. "I'm Piper." There was another knock and her uncle entered. "Piper, you ok? We've been worried." She let her uncle know she was ok and that she would be down soon. She told him how sorry she was, but she had lost track of time. William smiled and said "things happen" just to get ready and come down when ready. William, Draco and Viktor left.

Piper hurriedly showered and brushed her teeth. With a towel wrapped around her head, she flung open the wardrobe doors to look for something to wear. She found the perfect dress. If little "miss-know-it-all" wanted to be jealous, she would give her something to be jealous about.

She put her hair up in a French Twist with a few stands hanging down. She put on diamond tear shaped earrings and a white satin choker that had diamonds in it and a pair of white spaghetti strap stilettos for shoes. She peered over the balcony to see if "know-it-all" was still there. And yes she was and so were the boys. Her dress was white satin that started at just the top of her breast; went straight down; and a slit in the side that went up to about the middle of her thigh.

As she walked down the stairs, the boys looked up at her with open mouths, the red headed girl smiled, and "miss know-it-all" had a shocked look on her face. The red head girl said hi to her, which Piper responded hi back with a smile. "I'm Ginny" the red head said to her. Piper introduced herself and said she would see her later. She walked past where the boys and "miss know-it-all" was standing, said hi to the boys in a sexy voice. She stopped in her tracks, turned and said in a sexy voice again; "Viktor, Draco, you haven't seen my aunt or uncle recently have you?" All they could so was shake their heads no. So Piper smiled, winked and them and turned back to walk away to find them.

As she walked, she smiled bigger. Mission accomplished, "know-it-all" was seething with anger. You could tell, not only was her face red, but so were her ears… "Know-it-all" wanted war, she's got it. War is hell…..