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Chapter 10 - The Ball - Part Two

Isy sat down at the table and Emma came rushing over to her.

'Are you ok? I heard everything, you go girlfriend!' she said happily.

Isy smiled at her friend, 'thanks. Do you want a drink? You look like you could do with one.'

'Thanks, Sirius is a really good dancer and I am trying so hard to keep up with him,' she said.

Isy laughed hard. 'Sirius? A good dancer? You have to be kidding me!' she said.

'Kidding you she is not, my friend,' said a voice behind her. It was Sirius.

'Hey Sirius, I still don't believe it,' she said. 'Maybe Emma's having a hard time keeping up with you because she's an extraordinarily bad dancer!'

Emma looked shocked. 'FINE! You dance with him and you'll see,' she shouted.

Isy looked at her, and then to Sirius, who shrugged.

'Alright, then I will.'

Remus and Hannah were dancing well together, next to Isy and Sirius.

'I can't wait till tomorrow,' said Remus.

'What's tomorrow?' she asked absentmindedly.

'Christmas Day,' he reminded her.

'Oh, yeah. I can't wait to give you your present,' she said.

'Same with me,' Remus said.

Dancing next to them, Sirius over heard their conversation.

'WHAT?'

Isy, panting from trying to keep up with him, asked him what was wrong.

'Am I meant to give Emma a present?'

'Not to be rude or anything but yes you dumb ass,' she said.

'Arg! I completely forgot.'

'Thank you captain obvious,' she said annoyingly.

'What do I get her?' he asked her desperately.

'Ok, I'll tell you what you should get her, and you set me up with that guy over there,' she said, pointing to a guy with messy blonde hair and chocolate brown eyes.

'It's a deal. I know him pretty well so this will be easy,' he told her. He walked casually over to him, leaving Isy behind and out of ear shot.

'Hey Sirius, what can I do you for?'

'I need you to dance with my friend, Isy,' he said. 'Please, Jason, do it for me.'

'You can't deny she's pretty. But why am I dancing with her?'

'Can I fill you in on that later?' he asked.

'Alright, this is for you,' Jason said and walked over to Isy and began talking to her.

Sirius ran up to Isy and pulled her away, 'she'll be right back,' he shouted.

'SIRIUS!'

'I know, I'm sorry but I need to know what to get her,' he said.

'Ok, it needs to be good after what happened with that other girl,' she started. 'So I was thinking that, I don't know how you get there but you always manage to, you could take her to Hogsmeade and set it up really nicely with flowers and a nice picnic in the snow or something!'

'By tomorrow?'

'Hey, you can always work at night,' she said, winked at him. 'Oh and you have all your Marauder pals, you can ask them to help you,' and with that she ran off with Jason.

'What was all that about?' Emma asked.

'Nothing that concerns you,' he said. 'Now let's dance.'

'I only just caught my breath!'

'Hey Lils,' James said, after deciding that he would go talk to her.

'Hey James. Are you enjoying the ball?'

'Yeah, it's great fun. Are you and Frank taking a break?'

'Yes, he wanted to get a drink. But I could keep dancing all night,' she smiled happily.

James thought this was the perfect opportunity to ask her to dance, and he did.

'Then do you want to dance with me?' he said. 'Just as friends,' he added quickly after seeing the look on her face.

'Oh, um, alright, I'll just tell Frank.'

He grinned at no one in particular when she had gone; the next dance was going to be him and Lily.

'He said he wants to dance with Alice, you know that girl in the year below us?' she said.

'Right. Do you want to dance now?'

'Sure,' she said, and James led her onto the dance floor.

'Oh look at that!' Emma shouted in her boyfriend's ear.

'Please tell me it's something good because I think you just made me go deaf,' he laughed.

'It is something very good!'

'PRONGS!' Sirius shouted when he saw Lily and James dancing together and talking.

Emma laughed. 'Finally.'

'Oh look Remus, James and Lily and dancing together,' Hannah said.

'I sight I thought I would never see.'

They both laughed and were joined by Emma and Sirius.

'Do you want to sit down?'

'Yeah, Sirius and I will go get us all drinks and you guys can find a table,' Remus said.

'Good idea.'

They came back with drinks and found two boys had joined them, they were innocently chatting about the ball and commenting on how good it was.

'I love the Christmas tree,' said the guy next to Hannah.

Emma looked at Sirius face, he was angry. She smiled at him and introduced him to her older sister's boyfriend, Amos Diggory.

Sirius' face relaxed and he shook hands with him.

'And this,' she said, 'is his brother.'

'Nice to meet you,' Remus said politely and gave the girls their drinks.

Ellie, Emma's older sister came back to get Amos and pull him onto the dance floor.

'Well I think I will go and find some other people to talk to now,' the brother said. 'Nice meeting you.'

'You too,' they all said, Emma smiled mischievously at Sirius and sipped her drink. 'Cheers.'

Sirius laughed, 'you should have told me who they were before I assumed the worst.'

Lily laughed at the last thing James had said and continued to dance. She looked over at Frank, who was having a really good time with Alice.

'They look like a nice pair,' she commented.

He looked at them, 'yeah, they do,' he said quietly.

Dumbledore then stood from his seat at the teachers table and cleared his throat. 'Could all couples please make to the dance floor for the final dance,' he said, resuming his seat.

Lily and James looked at each other, then Lily looked at Frank who was still with Alice and James looked at Chloe who had found a new partner.

'Should we just stay here?' Lily suggested.

'If you want to,' he said quietly, not wanting to mess everything up.

She smiled at him, and they didn't stop dancing.

'You danced with James for the 'couples' dance!' shrieked Hannah, the four girls were reminiscing what had happened only a few hours ago.

'Well Frank didn't stop dancing with Alice and Chloe was dancing with her little partner,' Lily explained.

'Where is my sister?' Emma asked curiously. She looked over to her empty bed and then they all burst out laughing.

'Still with her little partner probably!'

'Christmas tomorrow!' Isy shouted.

'Presents,' Lily said happily. 'I wonder what I will get.'

'Dunno,' they all said. 'We'll have to wait till tomorrow to find out.'

'She danced with me!' James said for the hundredth time that night.

'James be quiet and help me set this up,' said Sirius angrily as he put up a table in the middle of the park in Hogsmeade.

Remus had only joined in because Sirius promised it would be a joint present. This would also be Remus' present to Hannah.

He was busy picking wild flowers and arranging them in a nice neat bunch.

'This is going to be the best present,' Remus commented.

'I thought you had Hannah something,' Sirius said.

'I got her a pretty diary with flowers on the front, but I wanted to give her something else and you suggested this,' he said defensively.

'What ever, just keep picking the flowers, Moony.'