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Chapter four: Written my Pinocchio.
"The ball is tomorrow! Aren't you excited?" James said happily, it had been two weeks since the ball had been announced.
"Yes James. Can we talk about something else now?" Sirius asked, "Why are you so happy anyway?"
"Because, Lily and I are going to get together there!"
"How do you know?" Remus asked,
"Because, Dumbledore told me that couples that are meant to be will be attracted to one another when they are there."
"And how do you know that you and Lily are meant to be?" Sirius teased, James shot him a glare.
They were sitting down by the lake, under a beech tree. It was Saturday morning, later they were going to go to Hogsmeade.
Remus was helping Peter with his homework and James and Sirius were being stupid and trying to bewitch a twig to do a dance.
"Moony, are you going to dance with Ellie?" Sirius asked,
"I wouldn't know, because everyone will be masked. And plus, I doubt she likes me back." Remus said,
"You never know." Peter said.
James was very distracted, he had stopped playing with the stick, he was now staring at Lily, who was sitting with Emma Rodgers and Kat Ann. They were laughing about something. James didn't notice that Ellie wasn't with them, and she was the loudest out of all of them!
"Oi, Lily!" he yelled, "Lily, get over here!"
Lily turned; she put on a smile. She got to her feet and slowly walked over to him; then she kicked him very hard, in a place where it hurts most!
"Don't you ever command me like that." Then she walked away.
"Yeah, you can tell it's meant to be." Sirius said sarcastically, James just groaned in pain.
Later that day, Lily, Ellie, Emma and Kat were in Hogsmeade; they were looking for things to wear to the Masquerade ball. Lily was just helping because she had ordered a muggle dress from a catalogue the day after Dumbledore had announced it; she had refused to show them her dress or mask.
Emma was organized; she already had her dress. Kat had just bought her dress and her mask, so she was good to go.
Typical Ellie had left it to the last minute and still had not found a dress.
They had entered over a dozen shops trying to find one but she was very picky and still could not find anything.
They walked into the last dress shop and searched desperately, but they couldn't find anything.
"I may as well not go." Ellie sighed, "I'm not going to find anything."
"Hang on," Emma said, "Is that a dress shop there?" she pointed through the window to a grungy old building that had a broken sign above it saying 'Morgan's Fancy Dress.' Ellie frowned at the sight of it.
"We may as well have a look at it." Lily said,
"Yeah." Kat agreed, "You never know."
"Okay, whatever." Ellie gave in.
They walked out of the shop and over to Morgan's. They pushed the door open and stepped inside. The interior of the shop was very different to the exterior. The outside gave it an unwelcoming look to it; it made people think it was dirty. Inside, there wasn't a speck of dirt. The walls were cream-colored and there was a nice looking lady standing behind the counter. There were many racks of beautiful dresses.
"Hello, I am Morgan." She said politely, "How may I help you today?"
"Well, We're looking for a dress and a mask for Ellie to wear to a masquerade ball." Emma told her.
"Ahh, I have lots of choices." She said with a smile, "Let's see, you're a size 9, about 5 foot 9. Ok." She swished her wand and a rack of dresses flew towards them.
Ellie tried on many dresses, until she picked up a purple one with many layers. She tried it on. It fit perfectly. The problem was that it was rather ugly. The lady frowned,
"That's not one of my best designs, here try this one on." She showed Ellie a dark green dress.
"No." Ellie said stubbornly, "I want this one."
She made the purchase and they left.
"Why'd you buy that one?" Kat asked,
"Yeah, it's not one of your best choices." Lily said,
"It fits perfectly. I can fix it myself, I'm a witch remember!"
"What are you going to do?" Emma asked,
"You'll see." Ellie grinned.
Later in the evening, the girls were talking in the Head's common room, about the ball, of course. Ellie and Emma had left to go and nick some butterbeer from the kitchens.
"So, how's Andy?" Lily asked,
"He's good, I guess." Kat replied
"What do you mean?" Lily said, she was confused,
"We had a talk. And we are going to take things slowly." She said glumly,
"I'm confused."
"You're not the only one." Kat said,
"Our love lives are all a mess."
"Yeah, except Ellie's.Since she dated James she's been pretty popular."
"Yeah, but she always says no."
"Do you reckon Remus likes her?"
"Don't know; she might like him." Lily said,
"What about Emma? Is she with Hamish or Sirius? That always confuses me." Kat said,
"I think she doesn't know which one she prefers, but I also think she's tilting more towards Sirius nowadays." Lily laughed, "And you have Andy and you're just taking it slow. Whatever that means."
"But what about James?" Kat said
"What about him?"
"He's never going to get over you."
"He's just infatuated with me cos' I'm the one girl in this grade, except for you and Emma, who he hasn't been with, I'm the want who won't say yes. I'm the one he can't have!"
"Yeah, but that'll change soon."
"No it won't"
"It will, cos' your luuurve him!"
"I do not!"
"You do! Admit it!"
"Admit what?" Emma said, as she climbed in the Portrait hole, followed by Ellie, who was holding four butterbeers.
"Nothing." Lily said firmly, "I'm going to bed."
"Nighty-night." Emma said
"We are going to stay here, and drink the butterbeer." Kat said, "If you don't mind."
"I don't, just don't be too loud, I think James might already be asleep." Lily said, as she climbed the stairs to her bedroom.
Shortly after James came in, "Hello ladies. I have been doing my Head Boy duties all by, myself, I was wondering where Lily was." He said, "Having a drink are we? Ahh, thanks for saving me one." He grabbed Lily's bottle and proceeded to drink it.
When the girls couldn't keep their eyes open, the conjured some sleeping bags and pillows and fell asleep on the couches.
"Wake up! Wake up!" Lily yelled, "The ball is today!"
"Lily, it's only like 7:30!" Ellie grumbled as she squinted at the clock on the wall,
"Go back to bed!" Kat said,
"Come on guys, get up!" Emma said, she was wide-awake as well, "We've got to have breakfast, then we have to start getting ready!"
"Fine, I'm up." Kat groaned as she crawled out of her sleeping bag, she grabbed her clothes and walked towards the bathroom.
"It's too early for that." Ellie said, "I'm going back to sleep."
"You do that, bye!" Lily laughed, as Kat came back into the room, then they left.
Ellie jumped out of her sleeping bag, ran across the room, and grabbed her dress and her wand.
When the others returned, Ellie wasn't there, but the dress was. It was looking very pretty.
"You like it?" said a voice, they turned to see Ellie, leaning against a wall with her arms folded,
"Yep, geez, that must of taken ages to fix." Kat said admiringly,
"Not really. I ripped away the purple layer and there was this gorgeous silky layer. Then I used my wand and fixed it to my own liking!" she said happily,
"Nicely done." Emma said,
"Love the colour." Lily said, "Can we start getting ready now?"
"Hell yeah!" Ellie laughed, they all ran in different directions, grabbing their things.
First they all had showers, then they painted their fingernails and toenails. Then they started talking about how excited they were, and that took a long time, because they kept saying it over and over.
Finally at 5:30 in the evening, they put on their makeup. Emma decided that they were going to have a fashion parade, so they all sat down in the common room, wearing their dressing gowns; they waited patiently for Emma to come down from Lily's room.
She walked down the stairs slowly; She was wearing a very pretty dress.
It was a black, strapless one with white lace around the top and bottom, it went just to her knees, her mask was black and it was embroidered with ribbon and lace. She had chosen to wear shiny black businesswoman shoes.
"Wow! Nice dress." Lily said,
"Thanks!" Emma hurried over and plopped down on the couch next to them.
"Kat it's your turn." She said,
"Ok." Kat got up from the couch and ran up the stairs to get changed.
Ten minutes later she returned, and walked down the stairs in the slow way that Emma had. She was wearing a long crimson red dress with thin straps that just fell beautifully onto her curves; she was wearing black high heels to go with it. She was wearing a red mask with autumn colored feathers attached to it. And her hair was out, and straightened, but she had changed the colour from a bland blonde to a coppery blonde, so that it matched her mask.
After she had finished coming down the stairs, they gave Ellie a shove and off she went up the stairs.
"I love that colour, very autumn-y." Emma said; Lily nodded in agreement.
When Ellie came back down, she did a silly little walk, which was very typical of her, but then she started to walk more gracefully down the stairs.
Her dress was quite pretty, it was a very nice light blue colour, and it was long and flowy, it had thin halter neck straps. It had changed a lot, from the ugly purple dress, to this beautiful silky, blue one. He shoes were dark blue strappy ones, with a four-inch heel. Her mask was dark blue with simple ribbon embroidery. Her ever-changing hair was it's natural colour, light brown and long and straight.
"Now you go Lily!" She said as she sat down on the couch in between Kat and Emma.
"Ok!" Lily said excitedly, and ran off.
She walked down the stairs in a gorgeous dress. It was snow white, figure-hugging. Very Cinderella-style. It was pouffy at the waist. The dress was sparkly and it suited her very well. It also had snow-white halter straps. Her high-heeled shoes were also white; she had a white mask that was beautifully embroidered. Her auburn hair was hanging in loose curls. She smiled and did an elegant twirl, "Do you like it?" she asked,
"Yeah, Lils, it's so pretty!" Emma laughed,
"Where'd you get it?" Ellie asked,
"From a muggle catalogue!"
"It's gorgeous Lily," Kat told her, "Shall we go now?"
"Yeah!" Emma said, they all got up from the couch and carefully climbed out the portrait hole, which was difficult seeing as they were all wearing elegant ball gowns and heels.
They walked into the Great Hall, Ellie gasped; it looked beautiful. The decorations were gorgeous, and there was great music playing.
"Lily, did you plan all this?" Emma asked,
"Yeah." She said happily, "Unfortunately, James had to help me. But he wasn't as bad as usual."
"Hey, he can be really sweet at times." Ellie said knowingly.
"You would know!" Lily said, "You went out with him for a month!"
"Yeah, that was after Greg. I hold the record for being James' longest ever girlfriend!" she laughed, "But I'm sure you're going to change that Lils." She added.
"Never going to happen!" Lily said, and then a guy in a white suit walked up to them and bowed to Kat, his hair was dark and combed back.
"May I dance with you, my fair lady?" he asked politely, she laughed and curtsied, "You most certainly can!"
Emma nudged Ellie, "That had to be Andy, don't you reckon?"
"Yeah, you can tell by the eyes, he has very purple ones."
"Oh my god, look at them." Lily said, pointing towards four people standing close to a wall.
One had long curly blonde hair; she was wearing a long black dress with green snakes on it, her mask was a snake with two slits for eyeholes.
"No doubt that's Jesse Lestrange." Emma said.
The next two were definitely Bellatrix and Claudia Black. They were wearing identical orange dresses, very ugly indeed. The dresses had a black bow around the middle, and their hair was braided into many plaits, then they were both wearing orange masks with black feathers sprouting from them.
Then there was a guy. He had longish hair, very dark black, and very greasy.
"Any guesses who that is?" Ellie laughed, Snape was wearing a horrid mauve suit; he looked very unhappy to be at a ball. Claudia clutched his arm, and then straightened his suit. She then pulled him onto the dance floor and started dancing very strangely, her braids flying in every direction, hitting Snape in the face.
"I can't believe I'm saying this but poor Snape." Emma said, laughing.
On the other side of the room, the four Marauders stood, feeling very bored.
"You gonna ask Evans to dance or not?" Sirius asked,
"How am I supposed to know which one she is? Dumbledore put that charm on the room so we don't know who we are dancing with!" James complained,
"Just dance with anyone who's hot then!" Sirius said,
"Who's that?" James asked, looking towards a girl in a pure white dress, she was standing with two other girls, one dressed in black, one dressed in blue.
"I don't know." Remus said,
"I like her. Stuff Evans. I'll dance with her." James said, as he walked away.
"I reckon that was Lily." Sirius stated,
"Derr. Geez Padfoot, sometimes you're so slow!" Remus laughed, until he got sidetracked by a girl who was standing with the one they thought was Lily. She was wearing a blue dress with a darker blue mask.
"See ya later guys." He said, as he nervously walked off.
"Well, it's just you and me left Padfoot." Peter said,
"Not for long I hope." Sirius mumbled, he scanned the room for someone he liked, until his gaze connected with someone else's, he wondered why she was standing all by herself.
Lily stood with Ellie and Emma, watching Kat be twirled around by a guy they thought was Andy. On her face was a look of pure delight, she laughed as she came closer to him, leaning in to kiss him.
"Hi!" said a voice. Lily looked up to see someone who was very handsome, he had messy black hair and hazel brown eyes looking at her, she had no idea whom he was, she knew it was the spell that made her memory weird.
"Hey." She replied,
"Wanna dance?" he asked,
"Sure." She said, he took her hand and led her on to the floor, and they started to dance.
"James?" Emma said,
"Yep." Ellie said,
"Knew they were meant to be." Emma said shortly.
"We're the only ones left Em."
"Not for long." Emma said,
"What do you mean?" she asked, Emma indicated to a guy, who was walking towards them, he was wearing a grey suit; he was rather good-looking.
He turned to Ellie, "Erm, hi." He said nervously.
"Hi." Ellie said confidently, he was about to speak but she beat him to it, "Want to dance?"
"Um, sure." He said, they walked onto the dance floor, and started dancing.
'Great, I'm all by myself. I must look like such a loser. Wow, who's he? He's really hot!' Her eyes connected with a guy standing on the other side of the room. His suit was black; it matched his long dark hair and dark eyes.
She started walking towards him; he walked towards her.
"Hey, wanna dance?" Sirius asked, Emma still had no idea who he was, he didn't know who she was either, they didn't really care. Emma nodded and took his hand; they began to dance, just as the music changed to a slower dance.
James looked down at the girl he was dancing with, she was familiar, and she made him forget all about Lily.
He looked towards Peter, he was standing huddled in a corner all by himself, and he chuckled to himself and twirled his partner.
Kat was in paradise; she still didn't know who this guy was. She really wanted to know, but she also liked the whole anonymity thing. She was slow dancing with a very handsome stranger.
Remus had no idea who this was; maybe it was Ellie. It was possible, she had the same mischievous glint in her aqua eyes that Ellie had. He still didn't know. He liked dancing with her. It was also possible that this wasn't Ellie. She had a gracefulness that he didn't think Ellie could possess.
Emma liked this guy, she had forgotten about Hamish, she was happy.
He seemed familiar but she didn't really want to know who he was, the element of surprise was a favorite thing of hers. She loved the song they were dancing to; it was slow and had a beautiful sound. This guy was a wonderful dancer.
Jesse Lestrange was very bored, she found herself drawn to a boy who was standing rather close to her, his eyes were light blue and watery, his hair was a sandy colour. She stomped towards him and asked him plainly to dance, he accepted, Jesse hoped to Merlin that he was a Slytherin, or at least a pure blood. Unfortunately for her, he wasn't a Slytherin..
Claudia and Snape were looking like complete fools. They were both very bad dancers.
Lily couldn't help but feel clumsy. She wasn't used to the high heels she was wearing. She looked over at Ellie, she was wearing higher heels than Lily and she still managed to be graceful.
Lily was about to spin again, but she tripped and fell, luckily, her partner caught her.
"Thanks." She said,
"It's okay." He replied; she leant it, about to kiss him.
"Your name?" he asked,
"Lily." A smile spread across his handsome face,
"James." He said; Lily was shocked, she took a step backwards; she stumbled and fell, this time James did not catch her. She landed in a bowl of red punch.
Her snow-white dress was no longer snow-white. Her dress was horribly stained.
"James!" she screamed, causing many heads to turn, "My dress is ruined!"
She ran out of the Hall, feeling incredibly angry. Emma and Kat did not notice, however Ellie did, because she was dancing nearby. She tried to get away from the guy she was with, he held onto her arm.
"Let go." She said firmly, looking directly into his eyes, her eyes turned dark red, he let go of her arm and she rushed out after Lily. Remus was almost sure it was Ellie, unless there was another metamorphagus in the school.
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