One evening while all the Gryffindors were lounging in their common room, Professor Mcgonagall (Mcgonagoll whatever) came into the common room and told all those students who were fourth year and above to assemble in the empty classroom on the third floor the next day after lunch, which was a Saturday.
This provoked many groans. Christine and the triplets trudged up to the classroom after a very filling lunch. She realized that ver since the triplets came, she had been eating more and more…
"Hey am I putting on weight?"
"No why?"
"Don't know…I seem to be eating more and more…"
After they found their seats on the benches, lining to side of the classroom, Professor Mcgonagall stepped in and said in a loud and prim voice, " The Yule ball, is celebrated once every Tri-Wizard tournament. Dancing is also traditional, and made compulsory Godric Gryffindors eyes. It is a time when we can let down our hair and dress up properly. But that doesn't mean you can besmirch the name of Gryffindor which has been around for more than ten centuries by behaving like a babbling,(she gave the twins a skeptical look), bumbling, bunch of baboons…"
Christine noticed Kimberly and Lynette bend backwards to look at the red-headed twins, at which when they caught their eyes, both girls grinned stupidly and sat back properly.
"…Mr Weasley," the professor said to Ron, "Put your right arm around my waist,"
"Whaaat?" he replied stupidly, as the old-fashoined music began to drone over the excited air.
"Please, pick a partner and start dancing," She said as she detached herself from Ron to correct dance steps.
All the girls got up eagerly (Except for a few like Christine and Jermaine) but only half of the boys were willing to do so. Kim and Lyn graciously accepted Fred and George's invitation to dance and left Christine and Jermaine sitting there like complete idiots. Soon, it was Jermaine's turn to leave…
"Excuse me," a not-so-bad looking boy said to Jermaine, "Would you, erm, say…Like to dance?"
"Anything to keep me away from embarrassment," she said as she waved goodbye to the now, extremely grumpy Christine, to join the boy in dancing.
Christine immediately accepted as people had started to stare at her. She surveyed his appearance carefully while dancing. He was rugged….Good looking yes…But not her type. After the whole stupid dance routine was over, they were allowed to go.
"So do you have any idea who is going to invite you?" Jermaine asked on the way down.
Kimberly and Lynette both looked at each other and looked back and Jermaine and said, "No," in sync.
"Well, is Cedric going to ask you?" Kimberly asked.
"No. He's a bloody freak who doesn't deserve my attention," Christine said, humorously lifting her nose in the air which made them laugh.
"What about you, Jer?"
"Oh I don't know…"
"That guy just now seemed promising," Lynette remarked.
Jermaine snorted and said, "Pur-leeeaze…."
Within a few days, invitations from guys to girls flew all over the school as girls exchanged notes on what they were going to wear to the dance. Cedric still didn't pluck up his courage to ask Christine for whenever he approached, she would throw him a look of the deepest detest and talk to the person next to her.
"What are you gonna wear?" Kimberly asked as they were shopping in Hogsmead.
"Don't know….Don't care…." Jermaine answered in a dreamy tone as they entered a shop which was selling fanciful dress robes.
Bet he is going to ask Cho Chang… a nasty voice erupted frominside Christine's head. Bet Ann is going to make fun of your "terrible" dressing taste… Bet Cho Chang is going to have Cedric all to herself…
"Not this time…" Christine murmured as she eyed the elegant yet simple black dress from inside the display window…
"What's up with Kimmy?" Christine asked the next day, "I thought she handled an E in Transfig?"
"Yeah but apparently, Fred hasn't asked her to the dance yet, which is tomorrow, that is," Lynette said in a quiet voice.
"Who are you going with?" Jermaine asked Lynette.
"George Weasley," she said with much pride (and pomp).
"Don't worry Kim, Jermaine, you and I will go together. We don't need a boy to accompany us because-"
"ALL-BOYS-ARE-JERKS!" the three sisters roared loudly in the common room, laughing hard as all the boys turned their heads and looked at them incredulously.
"What happened to the 5 boys who asked you out?" Christine asked Kimberly.
"That was Jermaine. Apparently she was too bloody proud to except any of them,"
"Yeah well you didn't except any of your four either!" Jermaine remarked.
Oh yes…Christine had gotten about 7 from the Bulgarian boys, but she wasn't really in the Bulgaria craze…
The next evening when every one was already in their fanciful oh so frivolous dress robes, Jermaine, Kimberly and Christine wee still lounging (in Kimberly's case, lying upside down on the couch) in the couches in theally in the Bulgaria craze…
The next evening when every one was already in their fanciful oh so frivolous dress robes, Jermaine, Kimberly and Christine wee still lounging (in Kimberly's case, lying upside down on the couch) in the couches in the common room in a t-shirt, a jacket, and a pair of jeans. Kimberly held a bottle of butter beer in her hand, Jermaine had a long tube of pastilles, and Christine was eating out of a large tub of vanilla ice cream.
"Whats the point?" Kimberly asked sullenly as the common room emptied, taking a swig at her butter beer.
"Yeah…We are going to be the laughing stock of Hogwarts…" Jermaine replied, chewing on a raspberry pastille.
"We should have excepted one of the many invitations we got over the past few weeks," Christine said, spooning more and more ice cream into her mouth.
All three sat there, stuffing themselves with sugar.
"Bet that Cedric went with Cho Chang…" Christine said spitefully, "Pass the butter beer," she said to Kimberly, swapping her ice cream for the delicious liquid.
"I have told you from the start….He's a git…Pass the ice cream Kim," Jermaine said, swapping her pastilles with the ice cream.
Sighing, Chrisinte said after drinking more butter beer, "We are three sad singles, sitting on a four hundred year old couch, stuffing ourselves and getting high on sugar,"
"OH I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE!" Kimberly shouted, "ONE MORE PASTILE, ONE MORE SPOONFULL OF ICE CREAM, AND ONE LAST SWIG OF BUTTER BEER, AND THEN LET'S GO HAVE A SNOWBALL FIGHT!"
They each took a gulp of butter beer, a pastille, and one more large, spoonful of icecream before dressing up in their parkers and heading down to the school yard and tossing snow at each other. Despite the cold biting into their skins, they flung balls of snow at each other, tumbled and wallowed in the white wonderland until…
"Miss Zhang, Miss Zhang, and Miss Lin!" Mcgonagall said, horrified as she emerged from behind the doors, "How dare you! 50 points off Gryffindor. Get upstairs and change into your dress robes. Now!" before storming back in.
All three of them changed into their dress robes and were surprised at how good they looked in them. Jermaine dressed in her silk, light pink robe while Kimberly was dressed in her baby blue one. But yet… To Jermaine and Kimberly's disgust, they looked like fairy princesses. They were arranging their hair when Chrsitine stepped out…
She was wearing a body hugging, black satin dress which was floor length. It had no straps, no whatsoever. It was just pure, black satin.
"Omg omg omg," Kimberly said.
"Come here! I'll do something to your hair!" Jermaine said as she tapped a few locks of Christine hair and smothered it with a white, sticky substance.
She then braided each sticky lock and tapped it again, ridding the locks of the white cream, giving it nice, wavy curls.
"Hey Jer," Kimberly said as they were about to leave.
"Yeah?"
"I hate my dress…"
"SO-DO-I,"
"Wanna trash it?" Kimberly said, grinning as she tore the hem of her dress and pinning one side up to reveal part of her well toned leg.
"GREAT IDEA KIMMY!" Jermaine said as she tore the bottom of her dress.
Walking over to her trunk, Christine took out two everyday ties they wore at school (the maroon and gold striped ones) and tossed it to the sisters, saying, "Hey wear this loosely around your neck!"
Both of them caught it and purposefully wore it untidily around their necks.
All three proceeded to the grand hall and pushed open the large oaken doors. The loud creaking noise made attracted all the attention from every corner of the room. They looked like one, serious bad bunch. With Kimberly and Jermaine's bad girl rip-dresses (so they call it) and Christine's classy dress made them unique. Mary-sue dress alert.
Christine spotted Cho Chang dancing with Cedric…A flame in her erupted… When the dance ended, Cho Chang purposefully pulled Cedric and made her way towards Christine.
"Hi Christine!" she said in a maliciously bright voice, "So where's your date?" she said, smirking.
Christine felt like wiping that smirk off her face with a single SLAP .
Instead, she resisted the urge, swallowed her pride and said, "Oh no…I came here with a date,", aimlessly reaching out her right hand behind her and grabbing a random collar.
It turned out to be Roger Davis. The one boy Cedric really thought lowly of and disliked for his flirtatious character. Christine smirked, because she knew it too…
"Hey I thought you were with Fleur?" Cho Chang said to Roger, still smirking.
"He dumped her," Christine said, trying to make her voice airy as she pointed to the Tri-Wizard Champion dancing with a Bulgarian boy.
"Uhh…Christine I-" Roger started, but Christine hauled him off to the dance floor by the collar as a new, moderate paced dance was struck up.
They danced and danced. Cedric could not help but look over Cho Chang's head at Christine and Roger. Christine made it a point not to look directly into Cedric's eyes until…
"Excuse me, if you don't mind…" Cedric said, tapping Roger on the back, asking to dance with Christine.
Roger reluctantly obliged, kissing Christine's hand before walking away in search for Fleur.
Grabbing Christine's hand with more energy than needed, he began to dance with her. Apparently that kiss from Roger was far too much for him to take.
"You…Are…. Hurting me…" She said through a clenched jaw.
"You just had to pick him, didn't you?" he burst out, still gripping onto her hand tightly and rather painfully).
"And you, just had to go with her, didn't you!" she remarked viciously.
"You didn't want to go with me!"
"You didn't even ask! You are hurting me, you jack ass!" she said angrily.
"With that kind of stare you gave me!"
Angrily, she wrenched her hands out of his grip and stormed off, in sought for Kimberly and Jermaine.
By 10 pm, all four of them (the triplets and Christine) were high on butterbeer. The lead singer of the weird sisters had decided to take a break as the rest of the band members fiddled with their instruments.
Jermaine mumbled, "This is –hic- boring,"
"I WANT MORE BUTTERBEEER!" Lynette shouted as Christine pried Lynette's bottle out of her hand and drank the rest.
Kimberly stumbled and pulled Lyn and Jermaine on stage, pushing Ann off who was doing a very bad rendition of "Candy Shop" with another Ravenclaw boy, in a very corny, seductive manner.
"Get off Hawkins,you're embarrassing us all," Jermaine said, pushing her off stage.
"LETS GET THIS PARTY STARTED IN HEREEEEE –hic-hic-" Lyn shouted.
She said something to the bass player of the band, causing her to grin as she struck up a beat.
"THIS GOES OUT TO ALL THE MORONS IN THIS ROOM!"
"YEAH! NAMELY CEDRIC DIGGORRY! AHAHAHAHAHA"
"NO NO…SHE WAS JOKING…DON'T TWIST YOUR KNICKERS PRETTY BOY!"
"YO THE LYRICS MEAN NOTHING DUDE,"
"Omg… They have got, to be kidding…" Christine started as the triplets started to sing Crazy in Love…
Apparently, the whole school seemed to be enjoying it. Professor Flitwick was being carried by the crowd while the rest of the teachers were too engrossed in conversation to notice the din.
She noticed a few other students (who were not dancing) seated down at tables talking. Her heels were giving her feet aches. Walking out of the hall, she sat herself on the steps. She noticed quite a handful of girls crying there. Taking off her heels, she massaged them. She watched as Cho Chang whispered something into Cedric's ear, causing him to laugh.
"You retarded bit-" Christine yelled as she wanted to fling her heels at her.
"Whoa… Slow down a bit," Roger Davies said, catching hold of the heel.
Cho Chang nor Cedric noticed her attempting to fling the heel.
"I don't have time for this," she muttered as she walked away with her heels dangling at her fingers.
BORDER.BORDER.BORDER. (my old habit's back)
The next day, Christine got up early in the morning and hauled a large bag of books to the library. Slamming a Transfiguration book on the table, she failed to notice Roger Davies. He was naturally as good looking as Cedric but Cedric had a kinder, more gentle heart.
"What do you want Davies?" she barked without looking at him after realizing he was looking at her.
"You make me feel as if you danced with me last night only to get Diggory jealous…" he said.
"Oh really?" she said, smiling slyly and raising her eyebrows at him.
"Mmhm," he said, grabbing one of her stray books lying on the table and flipping it open, seating himself opposite her.
"I remember the last time I studied from this…" he said reminiscing.
"Mmhm… I heard you got second in year next to Cedric," she remarked unkindly.
Sighing, he said, "Yes well, all the quidditch training paid off," he smirked, "We thrashed Hufflepuff and made the finals,"
She opened her mouth, wanting to retort what he just said, but she was distracted by Cedric entering the library, laughing with his usual group of friends. Furiously looking at him, then at Roger, and at Cedric again, she got out a quill and a piece of parchment and began to do her homework.
When Cedric caught her eye, he awkwardly smiled and turned away.
"You got that question wrong," she said to Roger smugly.
"Like you'd know anything about 7th grade Arithmetic!" he exclaimed.
"You factorized wrongly," she said, pulling his parchment towards her, "There," she said, tapping his mistake, "You can't factorize a bracket for a single number, it must be something like… A bracket for a bracket," she said before she carried on doing her work.
"Wow… You're smart, aren't you? Coach me. I suck at my Arithmetic,"
Flattered, she said, shrugging, "I just study."
Noticing that Christine appeared to be enjoying a conversation with Roger, Cedric started to stare.
"I think I had better go… You're boyfriend is umm… Confronting me using his eyes again," Roger said, scraping his chair back, wanting to leave.
Christine reached across the table and pulled him back down by his robes, knowing that if he left, Cedric would walk over and talk to her.
"No… Sit, your math sucks. You'll fail NEWT at this rate,"
The one thing about Roger and Cedric is that they disliked each other. Both were prefects, both were quidditch captains, both were good at their studies, and both were equally good looking. Cedric disliked Roger for his flirtatious ways. Roger disliked Cedric because he thought Cedric was a goody-two-shoes.
Roger smirked and sat back down. Feeling bored, Christine set sums for him on a random piece of parchment and told him to start doing while she completed her essays.
"What! But this is tough!" he said incredulously after glancing at the parchment.
"But that's just the basic!" she said.
She tolerated Cedric's grumpy expression for the rest of the morning in the library while she coached Roger. By the end of the whole session, Roger's math really improved.
"Thanks! At least I understand what it all means now," Roger said appreciatively to her.
"Okay that will be 11 Galleons, 9 Sickles and 4 Knuts," she said, grinning at him.
"I thought you helped me because you had a good heart!" he retorted playfully.
"Who ever said I had a good heart?" she laughed, trying to stop Roger from tickling her.
BORDER.BORDER.BORDER.
The next day after a trip to the library, Christine and the triplets headed back down to the library.
"Hey Kim!" Fred said as he and his twin approached them.
"Yeah?" she said.
"Can I talk to you for a moment?"
Startled, she looked at Lynette and said, "Yeah sure…" before proceeding to the garden with him.
"And you," George said to Lynette, "Can come with me," offering a hand to her which she took gladly.
Shaking her head at her sisters, Jermaine asked Chrisitne, "So how are you and Cedric?"
"I don't know,"
"Well, you cant deny it, can you? You miss him," she said.
"Well, I can't say I don't…" Christine said coolly.
They passed a laughing group of sixth year Ravenclaw boys who were throwing about a quaffle.
"OWW!" Jermaine shouted as it hit her arm hard.
"Whoa, sorry there man!" a tall and good looking boy said to her, "My name is Raymond Leam, you are?"
Was he trying to make a pass at Jermaine?
"I'm Jermaine Zhang andthis is Christine Lin," she said, introducing herself and her friend, flustered to know such a goodlooking boy.
"Well, see you around then Jer," he said, addressing her in her nickname.
The group of boys walked away, laughing at Raymond as he turned around and waved at her again.
Both girls walked away quickly.
"You like him don't you?" Chrisitne said, grinning slyly.
"I don't know what you are talking about," Jermaine replied simply.
"Fine…Fine…"
As they approached the Great Hall, Christine heard two familiar voices.
"What's wrong Diggory? Want me to stay away from your girl?" came a voice.
"Yeah stay away from Chris, she doesn't know enough to see through you!"
"You're talking about a girl who can solve 7th grade algebra," one said skeptically.
"Stay away from her or else…"
"Or else what?" the other said threateningly.
"Oh my gosh," Christine said as she saw Cedric and Roger glaring at each other as if they were going to kill each other.
Both were standing in the shadows. One warning the other to keep away from his "girl", the other provoking him.
"What's going on?" Jermaine asked.
"Oi! Break it up will you?" Christine shouted, coming between both of them.
"Christine I-" Roger started.
"I heard everything! GO!" she said, shoving him away.
Christine stood opposite Cedric, breathing deeply.
"Christine I-" Cedric, in turn started.
"You know me better than that! I wouldn't date him nor cheat on you!" she said angrily.
"Well-" he hesitated, face flushed with a flurry of anger and embarrassment, "If you hadn't acted as if you were all out to make me jealous with Roger, then maybe this wouldn't have happened!"
Christine took a few steps back and said, "I'm sorry I ever knew you,", before leaving with Jermaine
BORDER.
DING DING DONG DONG…. Long chapter means LONGevity for the new year of the dog. -- okay that was lame.