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"COME ON, SLEEPY BONES!" I shouted straight into Savannah's ear. I stepped back to see if it worked.

Nope. How can she do that?

I was immensely frustrated as it 10am on Saturday and I was eager to get to Hogsmeade before all the nice dresses were taken. For someone who had been talking about getting 'the best dress available', I was surprised that Savvie wasn't awake at 7am this morning. The carriages had already left for the village about an hour ago. So not only were we late getting to the shops, we had to walk there in the pouring rain.

Even though I had never been to a Ball before, I was actually rather excited. My date wasn't exactly who I wanted, but who I wanted as my date was off the chart. All week, Sav had been chatting about the Ball and her enthusiasm had rubbed off on me. I didn't know what kind of dress I was going to get and that's why I wanted to get there early.

I turned back to Savannah, who was snoring lightly in her bed. I pulled the covers off of her and there was still no reaction.

Right, I thought, you want to be like that, take this!

Aguamenti

"Ugh! Could you stop doing that!" Savvie wailed in a girly high-pitched voice, shivering from the freezing water I had splashed on her.

"Ugh, could you stop sleeping so long!" I mimicked her voice.

"Millie, I'm cold!" Sav whined beside me.

We were halfway to Hogsmeade and she had been complaining the whole time. I was very tempted to put a Silencing charm on her.

"Well you shouldn't have worn a short skirt then, should you? Especially with no tights or anything!"

Savannah had insisted on wearing a short denim skirt with little ballet pumps, despite me warning her about the weather. She simply looked out the window, saw the gale and rain and said that it was better to be fashionable and cold rather than unfashionable and laughed at. I pointed out that jeans were fashionable and also kept her warm. She shrugged and straightened her skirt whilst I looked on with amazement at her stupidity. I, however, was dressed in jeans and a simple black long sleeved top. At least I managed to persuade her to wear a coat, like me.

"But it looks nice! And my feet are so cold, I think my toes will fall off!" Before I even had time to answer this round of complaints, she was off again.

"And I'm sooo hungry and thirsty!"

"Oh Merlin, are you ever gonna stop your moaning?"

"Yes, but only when we get inside a shop. Now where was I? Oh, yeah... I'm hungry!"

I almost pushed her into the hedge. How could anyone screech that loud?

"Shut up!" Finally, the shops were visible.

"Right," I said, "do you want to eat first or what?"

"FOOD!"

"Alright, alright..." I started making my way towards the Three Broomsticks.

The pub was packed, the majority of the tables were taken already. I quickly hushed Savvie over to a free table.

"What can I get you ladies?" A young waiter asked. Since when did the Three Broomsticks have waiters?

"Steak and chips, please." Sav answered eagerly.

"Could you make that two?" I added.

"Sure, what drinks would you like?" He asked after jotting down our order in his notepad.

"Two butterbeers, please." I hastily answered before we got kicked out due to Savannah asking for alcohol.

"Coming right up."

I relaxed back into my seat after I took off my soaking wet coat. I was the smart one and picked a coat with a hood, whereas Sav, well, didn't. I looked over at her, she was wet right through and shivering. For my first friend, she was quite an oddball. I held back in amusement for a little while longer, then sighed and cast a drying spell on her.

"Cheers."

"Welcome, anyway, is Jack here?" I asked to make conversation. Jack Collins was the boy that had asked her to the Halloween Ball. He was in Ravenclaw and hung around with Will.

"No, he and Will have Quidditch practice." She answered lightly but there was a slight tightening of her eyes as she said her brother's name.

"What is it?" I asked curiously.

"It's just Will, he's made a decision that I don't agree with, that's all." Sav answered shortly. I decided to drop it as it was clear that she didn't want to discuss it.

"How is it with Jack though? Are you just going to the Ball together or is it like the start of a relationship, do you think?"

"I hope that it will develop into something more because, even if I haven't been here very long, I think he's a really nice guy. He's someone who is good for me and the kind of guy I would like to end up being with." She answered and a slight flush appeared on her cheeks.

"Hmm, deep." I noted. They were a good couple and he was a nice guy. After the obvious I'm-sorry-I-don't-know-your-name conversation, he didn't forget my name, he occasionally hung out with us. He was really cheerful and always made me laugh, which was nice.

"What about you, do you even like Will?"She smirked.

"Do you want the truth or a lovely lie?" I asked timidly.

"Truth." Sav grinned.

"Fine." I took a deep breath. "He's very nice but I don't feel anything towards him but friendship. I know I can't exactly be picky but I dunno, it doesn't feel like I like him, does that make sense? Are you mad with me?" I asked, unsure to how she would react.

"Thank Merlin!" I jumped at her exclamation. People had turned to look at us and I recognised half of them from school. Upon seeing us, they turned back around to their own tables.

"Well, " she said in a quieter voice, " if you fancied him and then became a couple then it would just be really weird for me, wouldn't it?"

"Well, yeah, I suppose?" I answered, unsure.

After stuffing our faces, we made our way towards the dress store. It was packed with squealing girls and I had to duck several times so that I didn't get poked in the eye by hangers. It was unbelievably overwhelming being in such a busy shop, as it wasn't exactly a big place. The walls were lined with racks that had dresses on them. Dresses of all the colours I could think of and all sorts of lengths and styles. In contrast to the weather outside, the store was bright, colourful and hot. I could barely breathe from how warm and stuffy it was in there. In the first five minutes, I think I was shoved about twelve times.

I endured half an hour of the suffocating boutique but decided I couldn't take it anymore. I couldn't even concentrate on finding the 'perfect' dress in here. With my amazing new girl sign language, I told Savvie that I was going outside and that I would see her back at the castle later.

After a struggle getting out of the store (in the end I got down on my hands and knees and crawled, don't laugh, it was like a battlefield in there!), I started walking aimlessly without thinking about where I was going. I wasn't even thinking about much, just how the raindrops felt splashing against my raincoat.

I didn't really notice how the shops had stopped and the houses were more far apart than in the high street of the village. It started raining harder so I looked around where I was to find temporary shelter until the rain died off a bit. I noticed a small shop and rushed towards it, cursing the rain under my breath.

I didn't notice the name of the store. But when I got through the door, I saw that there was jewellery and some dresses, along with shoes, bags and make up. And it was empty.

How odd, a shop that sold dresses was empty when the Halloween Ball was coming up, I thought to myself.

There was a young woman behind the counter reading Witch Weekly, when the bell over the door chimed announcing a customer, she look up with a welcoming smile on her face.

"Welcome to Kara's Witch wear for special occasions, my name is Caroline, would you like any help?"

"Hello, um, no thanks, I'm just looking at the moment." I answered shyly.

She went back to reading her magazine as I started browsing. There was about thirty dresses for me to choose from but after looking through them, I saw the dress for me. It was emerald coloured silk and had moonstone embroidery on the fitted top. The skirt reminded me of the skirts from the 50's. It puffed out at the waist and came down to my knees where it stood a good two feet away y from my body. I grabbed the dress off the rack and spun around to ask the lady if there was any changing rooms here, but there at the counter, was the last person I wanted to see right now. When had he come in? I didn't here the chime of the bell over the door.

He turned with a sneer on his face.

"Moore." He nodded.

"Malfoy." I replied coldly.

He nodded to the shop assistant and stalked out the store. I shook my head slightly and turned back to Caroline.

"Do you have fitting rooms?"

"Sure, we have a back room." She replied with a smile.

The dress looked even better on than it did on the rack, if I did say so myself. It made my curves look more curvy, if that makes sense. But all of a sudden, reality hit. How much was it? It's not that my family was poor but I didn't really want to ask my parents to pay for it. I looked all over for the price tag and didn't find one, but it must be expensive, a good quality dress like this.

I sighed with resignation as I slipped off the dress and put it back on the hanger. But I would ask for the price anyway, just in case by some miracle it was in the sale. But I strongly doubted it.

Back at the front of the store, I pulled the shop assistant to one side.

"How much is this dress?" I asked politely.

"It's already been paid for, Miss." She answered.

"Excuse me?"

"The gentleman that came in earlier said that whatever you chose, I must send the bill to him."

"WHAT?"

"He said you would react like this and he also said that if you put the dress back and insist that you wouldn't take it, I have to send it to him instead."

"That...!" I couldn't find the words to express my shock and fury. What was he up to now?

"So would you like to look at the shoes now, Miss? And the jewellery?" Caroline asked sweetly.

"Um, sure..." Now what do I do? I so desperately want that dress! Oh Merlin, why did he have to complicate everything? I sighed, maybe it was fate that was making me having that dress so darn difficult.

"You know what, I can't take it." I told Caroline and started making my way out of the shop.

"Please take it." She said quietly just as I reached the door. I turned and she was looking disappointed.

" I can't..."

"He said that if you took it from here then he would pay me 100 galleons as a tip. And I really need the money. I'm a single mum to a 3 year old and I'm only nineteen myself. Please." She looked at me with gleaming eyes and I knew she was on the brink of tears.

I took a deep breath, god I felt guilty.

"Fine, I'll take it." I said finally.

"Oh thank you!" Caroline exclaimed.

When I got back to the castle about an hour later, I hunted down the blond hair that I wanted to rip from the skull of it's owner. On the walk back, my fury grew with each step. So he was playing games with me now, was he? Well, I'd show him that he was messing with the wrong girl!

I started towards the library but halfway there, I ran into the person I was thinking violent thoughts towards. No, literately ran into the evil little ferret.

"Moore." He said and offered me a hand to help me up.

I ignored his hand and got up by myself.

"Malfoy, what were you thinking?" I demanded. I must have sounded so ungrateful so I cleared my throat and tried again. "I mean, thank you, but you can't just go around doing things like that!" There, that sounded better.

"I wanted to."

Huh? Was he crazy? Just a few days ago he was looking at me, disgusted and now he was buying me a frigging dress.

"What?" I asked, totally exasperated.

"I said I wanted to."

"But why? You can't stand me!" I almost shouted.

"I didn't say that, but if you really want to know why, it's because people are saying that we are dating, which is completely untrue, but I had to have you looking your best, just in case!" He growled.

"Well, tough shit, I'm not wearing it, I only got it because the girl got a tip if I did!"

"Why won't you wear it?" He asked sounding confused, even his sneer disappeared from his face.

"Because it, well, it makes me feel inferior if I do accept it." I said truthfully.

"Wear it." He said. He didn't say it tenderly but he didn't say it in a threatening way either, he simply said it.

"No, I'll only wear it if you let me pay you back."

"Oh c'mon, can't you just accept a gift, Maya?" He fumed.

I noticed with an electric shock that this was the first time he had said my name since the talk.

"No, I'll pay you back but it'll have to be monthly, I'm afraid, I don't have that many savings." I said, my anger swept away when he said my name.

"Fine, you be stubborn."

"Fine, I will be."

I walked off in the opposite direction, back towards the common room so that I could start getting ready.

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