sorry this took a while.. this would have been done yesterday or the day before but i was in the hospital
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
"MERRY FREAKIN' CHRISTMAS!" Michelle said as she jumped on Emma-Leigh.
"Arg. Merry Christmas to you too. What time is it?" she asked.
"8:30" she said blandly
"8:30! Early much?"
"Happy Christmas!" Hermione said walking out of the bathroom with a towel around her shoulders and wet hair.
"Am I the last one up?" Emma-Leigh asked.
"Yup, Lavender and Parvati have already opened their prezzies!" Michelle said pointing to the wrapping paper on the floor.
"Ah. I see. Lets get started then." They started opening their gifts from each other; they were getting the presents from the boys later.
"Oh Hermione, this is excellent." Hermione got Emma-Leigh a beautiful shimmer pink halter-top.
"I'm so wearing this to the dance tonight!" Emma-Leigh got Hermione a charmed bookmark that had quotes on it that changed daily, and Michelle eye shadow that changed with whatever outfit she was wearing so it matched perfectly. Michelle got Emma-Leigh a picture frame with a picture of all of her friends from BSS. Emma-Leigh burst into tears when she saw it.
"Awww Micchy I miss everyone so much. Thank you!"
About twenty minutes later they went down stairs to meet up with the boys. Ron got Hermione a beautiful charm bracelet with charms that he had chosen specially for her. He turned the colour of his hair when Hermione gave him the biggest hug ever. It was so cute. Michelle and Emma-Leigh shared a 'they-love-each-other-but-they-don't-see-it' look. After all the gifts were exchanged Harry gave Emma-Leigh her present. It was wrapped in gorgeous wrapping paper and Emma-Leigh almost didn't want to open it because it was so pretty. She did eventually, and inside was an absolutely amazing silver necklace with a sapphire pendant. When she saw what it had in it she just stared at it.
"What is it?" Michelle asked once she saw the look on her face. Emma-Leigh slowly took it out. Michelle, Hermione, Ron, and Ginny gasped. When Emma-Leigh finally found her voice all she could say was
"Oh my God Harry, Oh my God Harry, Oh my God Harry." He helped her put on the necklace. Once it was securely fastened Emma-Leigh turned around and jumped on him "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" she said between kisses.
"Get a room you two" Michelle said throwing a pillow at them.
"We are in a room… you're just in it!" Emma-Leigh said continuing to snog him senseless.
Nobody bothered to have breakfast because they were having an early feast on account of the dance. Emma-Leigh had not let go of Harry since he had given her the present, not that he minded. Everyone in Gryffindor had cooed over the necklace especially Lavender and Parvati.
"That was highly annoying" Emma-Leigh said as they left.
"Indeed. We had better head down to the feast." said Harry.
"Thank God" said Ron. They all laughed as they left the common room. The Great Hall looked amazing. Emma-Leigh and Michelle gasped a small wow.
"This place looks awesome," Michelle whispered to Emma-Leigh, "so much better then Bewitchment." The twelve trees were up and there was silver, green, and red confetti all over the place. Most of the students were already seated so they hurried to the middle of the Gryffindor table with Ginny and Neville. They ate an excellent meal with three different types of potatoes and so many vegetables. It was delicious.
"My mum's roast potatoes are better then these ones, but not by much" Emma-Leigh said and when they were all full the tables were cleaned and Dumbledore stood up and cleared his throat.
"To the fourth years and above, the dance will be in two hours. I hope you all enjoy yourselves." They hurried out of the hall. When they got back to the common room the girls parted from the boys. Emma-Leigh had finally let go of Harry. They enlarged their room to fit Hermione, Emma-Leigh, Michelle, Lavender, Parvati, Ginny, and two of Ginny's friends, Jackie, and Nicole. 8 girls getting ready for a dance is no laughing matter, which is why they needed to make the room larger. They definitely needed the full two hours to get ready. Emma-Leigh had a way with charming hair so that was all perfect once they decided what to do with it, and they all borrowed some of Michelle's perfect make up. (Another great thing about it is that it's endless.) They looked gorgeous. Emma-Leigh was wearing the pink shimmer halter-top with a very short denim skirt. She also had these strappy black shoes that tied up to her knees and her hair was done in loose curls with pink highlights that matched her top. Hermione had straightened her hair and let it flow down her back, and wore a strapless sparkly red dress. Michelle had also straightened her usually fuzzy hair and was wearing a pink tank top with white jeans and a dangly silver belt/chain type thing. Ginny had an up-do with a black corset type top with tight, dark blue, low rise, hip hugger jeans. They looked sexy. The boys were waiting downstairs
"COME ON LETS GO WE'RE GOING TO BE LATE" Ron shouted up the stairs, who then had to dodge a large flip-flop that was aimed at his head.
"Haven't you heard of being fashionably late?" Ginny shrieked back at him. Ron was about to yell something back when Harry said.
"I'd shut up Ron. There is another shoe up there that will actually hit you if they throw it!"
Ginny walked down the stairs, Ron went red when he saw what his little sister was wearing.
"Alright, I'm down here to lay down a few ground rules. NO drooling, NO eye bulging, and NO jaws hitting the floor! … Good luck with that" she said grinning. Lavender and Parvati walked down the stairs wearing matching black and skintight outfits. Followed by Ginny's friends Jackie and Nicole. Michelle waked down the stairs.
"You are looking exceptionally fine tonight." Ron said looking at her. Michelle just looked at him and replied.
"Wait till you see 'Mione." Ron looked at her with a 'Buh?' expression on his face but as he was doing that Hermione was walking down the stairs.
"Bloody hell!" he said under his breath.
"You like?" she giggled.
"Em's putting last minute touches on her lip gloss… seriously that girl has gone though the whole thing tonight… OW" she said as an empty lip-gloss container hit her in the back of the head as Emma-Leigh walked down the steps. Ron didn't even notice he was still gawking at Hermione. Harry, on the other hand, was noticing, noticing a lot.
"Oh my God" he said
"AHA! You just broke all three rules Mr. Harry Potter, which means, in accordance to the law, set by me, Ginnervra Weasley, you don't get to look at Emmelz for… five minutes!" she grabbed Harry's arm and dragged him off. He tried to look at Emma-Leigh the whole way to the Great Hall with no prevail. Ginny was strong. They got to the Great Hall and Ginny finally allowed Harry to return to Emma-Leigh's side.
"Don't let me catch you breaking anymore rules" Ginny said as they walked into the Great Hall. It looked Awesome, kids were milling around, and not many of then knew how they were supposed to be dancing. DJ Maxx was just starting up the music.
"First song of the night is Lets Get This Party Started, so lets get started!" The lights shut off and the coloured lights and strobe lights went on.
"Come on Harry!" Emma-Leigh grabbed his hands and led him to the middle of the floor.
"I don't know how to dance." He said looking at her worried.
"Don't be such a worry wart. Just follow my lead… 'tis not hard" she said laughing. Harry really had now rhythm, but by the end of the song he had it. And he danced for two songs in a row! Parvati came over to give her congratulations.
"He must really like you. I only got one song!" she said laughing as she hit him in the shoulder.
- - Meanwhile- -
"No you pug faced cow I will not dance with you" Draco
said as he pushed Pansy away from him for the seventh time. Draco was looking around the dance floor, and then, he saw her. "Stay away from me Pansy" he sneered as he sauntered off. Shaggy's 'Hey sexy Lady' was came on as he walked towards her.
"Hey," Draco drawled, "you look hot!" Michelle turned around and looked at him.
"I know." Then turned back to dancing with Ginny. Draco stared at the back of her head for a minute, then Michelle turned around and threw her arms around his neck and started to dance.
"Wanna dance?" she asked smiling.
"I think we already are." They danced themselves over to Harry and Emma-Leigh.
"Hey Emmelz! Having fun?" Michelle called over the music. The lights were flashing all around them and it was hard to see,
"Are you dancing with Draco?" Emma-Leigh asked squinting at him.
"Yah, Hiya Harry" she said. Harry and Draco glared at each other.
"Potter"
"Malfoy" Emma-Leigh sensed tension, and she doesn't really like tension.
"Oh, Harry, this is Draco. Draco this is Harry. You guys would really get along if we shut you in a room together… alone… so it would be a good idea for you guys to get along!" Emma-Leigh threatened subtly. The two boys glowered at each other and then focused back on their partners. Emma-Leigh and Michelle looked at each other and rolled their eyes. The song ended and 'Flavour of the Week' came one and Ginny, Neville, Ron, Hermione, Lavender and Parvati joined them and they started to dance in a large circle.
It was nearing 8:15 before they played the first slow song came on.
"I love this song." Emma-Leigh whispered in Harry's ear as he held her close.
'Baby when our eyes meet, this feeling that's inside me, it's almost more than I can take...'
Everyone had paired off; of course there were the few who sat around the outside looking bored. Ron and Hermione were dancing very closely.
"They'd make a great couple," Emma-Leigh said, "if only they would just realize it!" Emma-Leigh looked at them again
' …I've never been this close to anyone or anything, I can hear your thoughts, I can see your dreams…."
Emma-Leigh broke away from Harry and walked over to Ron and Hermione.
"Ron," she said, "I really think that it would be a good time to ask Hermione out. She'll say yes." Then she walked away leaving them just standing there looking at each other. Michelle looked at Emma-Leigh, and Emma-Leigh just winked at her and started to dance with Harry again.
"What was that all about?" he asked. Emma-Leigh just smiled.
"Oh… Nothing."
'…Baby I'm amazed by you.'The song ended and the next song was starting.
'Leeeeeettsss get retarded in heeeeree'"Woo" Michelle screamed as they got back into their circle her and Draco were still grinding. Hermione walked over to Emma-Leigh
"I don't know why you did that," she said looking angry "but," her face softened "It worked! He finally asked me out!" she squeaked Emma-Leigh squealed and if Michelle had been there she would have squealed too, she was "busy" at the moment. They finally dragged her away from Draco because they were "tired" Michelle did indeed squeal… and she almost choked on the butter beer she was drinking. They got back to the dance floor and Puggy was trying, yet again, to get Draco to dance with her.
"….Get away from me…"
"…Please Draco baby…"
"Don't call me that…"
"…Why would you want to dance with that bitch anyways?…" Michelle tapped Pansy on the shoulder, Pansy slowly turned around, she was about to, with out a doubt, say something horribly nasty, but was unable to, on account of Michelle's fist colliding with the side of her face.
"Don't call me a bitch Puggy, you fat ugly slut wench!" Michelle said to Pansy, who was now on the floor crying with a lovely mark on the side of her face.
"What she said!" Emma-Leigh said looking down at pitiful Pansy laughing.
"You Bitch! You Slut! You Whore! I'll get you! Don't Touch my Draco! I'll Get You! You Better Watch Your Back!" she screamed through her tears.
"Actually" Michelle corrected, "You better shut up and get the hell out of here!" Her hands were slowly curling into fists. Pansy got up and started to run.
"Yah, and don't call me your Draco! I never was and never will be!" Draco called to her. Only after she was out of site did Michelle say "Ow" and shake her hand. They all looked at her and started to laugh.
"Thanks for saving me." Draco said in the most sincere voice any of them ever heard.
"Alright, Alright!" DJ Maxx said "I think its time we mix it up, so we're going to play Snowball, seeing as this is the Snow Ball. I'm going to put a song on and when I call Snowball! You have to switch partners. Lets go, Lets go!" A techno song came on and Emma-Leigh and Harry were dancing.
"Snowball" they were pulled apart and Emma-Leigh found herself dancing with a Ravenclaw 7th year named Trevor. He had nice eyes, and nice hair but was really short.
"Snowball." Draco grabbed Emma-Leigh.
"This isn't going to last long so promise me a full dance later." Draco said
"Sure thing!" He spun her around and she almost fell over she was laughing so hard.
"Snowball!" Emma-Leigh and Ginner were dancing. Anyways, it happened several times through out the song and they all danced with many random people.
"Okay, Okay! Good job everyone. The teachers waking around have a prize for most random couple… Hermione and Draco win… Come up here to collect your prize, Yo!" The each got a large slab of Honeydukes chocolate.
"Can I cash in my dance now Emmelz?" Draco asked holding out his hand as 'Yeah' came on.
"Yeah! Sure!" Emma-Leigh said as she took his hand. Michelle and Harry were dancing, but Emma-Leigh was dancing a little too close for comfort with Draco Harry thought. When he expressed his feelings to Michelle she just laughed.
"You have absolutely nothing to worry about Harry!" she said still laughing. About twenty minutes later DJ Maxx had an announcement.
"This song has been dedicated to two special ladies, Hermione and Emma-Leigh, from…Ron and Harry. This song goes out to you." Then Emma-Leigh nearly melted
'There's something 'bout the way you look tonight, there's something 'bout the way that, I can't take my eyes off you…'
Clay Aiken's voice rang through out the hall.
"Oh Harry," Emma-Leigh said, "this is the best song ever, my favourite slow song, I love you…"
'… and I want you to be mine, and if you need a reason why. It's in the way that you move me, and the way that you tease me, the way that I want you tonight. It's the way that you hold me, and the way that you know me, and when I can't find the right words to say, you feel it in the way…'
The lights had dimmed; all there were was a few blue lights and the disco ball. Hermione didn't even know the song and she was melting, she was in perfect bliss.
"I love you Ron." she said aloud for the first time in six years.
"I love you too, Hermione"
'…I can't put my fingers on, just what it is that makes me, love you. So don't ask me to describe. I get all choked up inside, just thinkin' bout the way…'
Harry and Emma-Leigh were looking into each other's eyes. Emma-Leigh was practically crying, tears of joy. Then Harry leaned in for the kiss, the "standing-in-the-middle-of-the-dance-floor-with-the-disco-ball-light-on-even-though-your-surrounded-by-people-you-are-the-only-ones-in-the-universe kiss.
'…there's something 'bout the way you look tonight, there's nothing more to say than, I feel it in the way.'
The kiss ended and they both fell from their cloud back to reality and by the looks of it so had Ron and Hermione, and Michelle and Draco. Emma-Leigh and Harry just stood there in each other's arms while the flashing lights came back on and the music started.
'From the windooow to the wall…'Emma-Leigh started doing her dance to that song, she had learned it from Amanda back home. (Very slutty dance not recommended for those in short skirts!) Then a song with a very strong, fast beat came on and everyone moved from the middle of the floor and people crowded around to make a circle. Turns out, quite a few people could break dance. Seamus was very good but the best by far was Draco. Draco didn't even want to go into the middle but they had all pushed him in just to see what would happen. By the end of his turn everyone was chanting his name. Lets do the math… break dancers are hot… Draco is hot… good match! Two thumbs up! Then Emma-Leigh and Ginny, and Michelle and Hermione went into the middle of the circle and were grinding and making fools out of themselves. They got a louder yell from the group then Draco did, theirs guy's voices, his girl's voices, but still louder. It was now midnight, and about a quarter of the people who started the night off had gone to bed.
'Guess who's back, back again…'Emma-Leigh knew all the words, so, of course, she was singing along. Most people knew about two thirds of the song. Anyways they were all having a total blast! The next slow song came on and Neville asked Emma-Leigh to dance and his eyes widened when she said yes.
' Cause its all in my head I think about it over and over again…'
Michelle was dancing with Ron, Hermione and Draco, and Ginny and Harry. DJ Maxx decided to play another game of Snowball, and Emma-Leigh started off with that Trevor guy from Ravenclaw then worked her way through the Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff Quidditch teams, avoiding her group completely. When asked later she just said, "I was mixing it up" in her best DJ Maxx voice. Then there was a spot light dance where Maxx picked out the four best lady dancers… Ginny, Hermione, Michelle and Emma-Leigh were chosen. They asked him to play Lose My Breath by Destiny's Child. Emma-Leigh had taught them a hip-hop type dance to the song so they wanted to perform it. Another surprise they had that night was Luna Lovegood. She was an excellent dancer, not all over place like you would think. Turns out she took hip-hop for the last seven years of her life. It was about 5 am and the only people left were Harry, Emma-Leigh, Ron, Hermione, Michelle and Draco. They were all still very much awake but sore from dancing for the last 10 hours with very little rest. They said good night to DJ Maxx and went outside to cool off. Snow was lightly falling, and even in the very little amount of clothing the girls were wearing, they weren't cold at all. Michelle and Draco quickly disappeared and Ron and Hermione were walking in the other direction. Emma-Leigh and Harry were alone.
"That was so much fun" Emma-Leigh sighed, "thanks for dedicating that song to me it was really sweet." She said and she kissed him on the cheek. Harry pulled her towards him and kissed her passionately in the snow for about five minutes… maybe more.
"No problem." He said grinning as if nothing had happened. By then it had started to be cold outside so they went inside. Michelle, Hermione, Ron and Draco were already in the entrance hall. Ron and Draco were laughing at something (they were getting along) as they walked in.
"You owe me two galleons Draco" Ron said, apparently they had been betting that Emma-Leigh and Harry would be wearing each others clothing or have their clothing only half on when they got back. They then had to leave Draco and go back to the Gryffindor common room. They re-lit the fire and sat on their favourite armchairs. They talked about the dance but slowly the conversation died and each of them fell asleep beside the crackling fire.
aww what a peaceful way to end the longest chapter ever!(for me) lol over 3000 words... be proud lol.