("I only want to win in the eyes of the world.")
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"Sander, can you believe it? Two whole months and then he says he'd rather go to the Ball with someone else!" Roxanne fumes and stamps around his bed.
It is less than a year later that his wildest dreams are happening. Sure, up until six minutes ago when she came in the door, she has been dating Keith Yaxley, but he has become her closest companion to the point where she always knows the Hufflepuff password so she can storm into his room.
Some of the guys in his dorm (Ed Midgen for one) thinks they are…having sex. They aren't. Although it has been nine months since the divorce was finalized and she is acting natural again, she can't hold up the act forever. But her dorm isn't a safe place to drop it, in front of all her admiring fans. So, his dormitory became her dressing room of sorts.
"…and I already have a dress! This is a nightmare; and I can't go alone, all the other girls have dates, even my cousin Rose has a date!"
Lysander pictures Rose: ocean wave eyes, fire curling hair, a proud Hufflepuff badge on her shirt. Rose. his friend. fellow Hufflepuff. Roxanne's cousin. "What's wrong with Rose having a date?"
Roxanne twists her nails into those wavy locks of hers. "She's not naturally…I mean, not classically, well she is in her own way…she's only going with Scorpius Malfoy because she didn't want to go alone either!" She blurts out, a ragged roar in her throat. "Even Lily got herself a date and she wasn't even supposed to be old enough. If Rose would have looked pathetic compared to Lily, can you imagine how bad it would look for me?"
