A/N: its that time of the year agen… that's rite… it's the YULE BALL! dis will prolly be the last "fun" chapter… yep its starting to get really serious now… so enjoy this while u can coz I have the whole story planned out and trust me there will be hardships along the way for our young loverz, hermione & her draco!

"Can youy imagine when this race is run?"

Chapter 9

The Yule Ball

Hermione was hangin out in her bathroom in the Slytherin doarms, and she was almost ready for the Yule Ball. She was going with Draco (of course!!) and was wearing a beautful midnight blue cocktail dress from Armani exchange. it had belonged to her grandmother and her granpa William had proclaimed it Hermione's on his deathbed. so Hermione cried a little when she first pulled it out of her suitcase, but she soon dried her tears and remembered that her granpa told her with his final breath – "Hermione you must always be happy for as long as you live".

She wore her signature Tiffanys necklace around her neck, and carried a small quilted Chanel bag with a dainty little silver chain. She also wore some metallic silvler heels by Hermes with diamond encrusted ankle straps.

But anyway, she was almost ready for the Yule Ball, she was just appling her makeup.

She put on her usual Maybelline Dream matte mouse in Ivory and loreal Telespopic Mascara and added a bit of sparkle to her eye makeup this time – she had just ordered some of revlon's limited edition collection off the net so she applied sum Revlon Molten metal Liduid Shadow in bronze bomber to her eyelid. She also swept some Pout concealer under her eyes to make them look extrabright.

Then once the liqiud shadow had dried, she got some black liquid eyeliner by Chanel and drew a pretty 60s "cat eye" style (A/N: uno… the one that flicks upward it lookz super cute)

On her lips she wore her absolute fave lip gloss from Victoria's secret – sweet talk in dark pink. she hardly ever wore it because she loved it so much and dint want to waste it. But she figured that this night was extra spesh so she could wear it. there was hardly any left in the tube.

Her hair looked truly radient. It lookfd so shiney and blonde with the golden highlights glimmering. it was delicatly curled, then pulled back into a messy updo with little curly pieces hanging out and framing her pretty face

There was a knock at the door. "Come in!" said Hermione, walking out of the bathroom to greet whoever was entering her private bedroom. The door swung open. It was her Draco! He was wearing a black tuxedo and had his hair slicked back. He held out his hand. "Shall we go?"

"Of course," said Hermione, enfolding his hand in hers and taking her chanel bag in the other. They were off to the Great Hall.

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When they reached the great hall, they quickly realized what the theme was. Under the sea! and Hermione's dress matched with the theme perfectly! the roof of the Great Hall had been enchanted to look like the ocean surface so that when she looked up, Hermione felt like she was underwater. Some owls had been transfigured to look like fish so they "swam" in mid air instead of flying around the hall. All the decorations looked absolutely wonderful.

Hermione and Draco danced all night and had the most wonderful time they had ever had in their life. And little did they know it was the last time they would ever dance together.

A/N: That's right, it might be a bit of a break up! Or there could be a make up… what will happen? You will ONLY find out if you

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