Chapter nine
With Christmas just a day away and Al's and mines birthday not long after we would be having a huge Christmas/Birthday party, I was conversing with Al about what we would want to do, "How about a masquerade ball, we wear masks and the guys wear nice suits, and the girls wear big ball gowns." I say grinning at him. We had been trying to decide what to do for most of the day in the library, we had even eaten lunch while trying to decide.
"Actually that's not a bad idea lets go let mom and dad know what we have decided." Albus says glad to finally be done trying to figure this out, I was to, now I could finally get hold of Scorpius and discuss what we would do. I wanted to wait and see what happened and just go with the flow of things and if we were meant to be we would be.
We rush to dads office and knock before entering, "Hey you two." Dad says I stop noticing that Scorpius' dad is sitting there, "Sorry dad, but we decided what we wanted to do for the party." Albus says grinning, "Did you now, and what have you decided?" Dad asks, I grin "A masquerade, I'll design the dresses for Lily, Claire and I as well as the masks, an you can take the boys shopping for suits instead of dress robes as well as masks." I say grinning, I really just wanted to draw what the girls and I would wear. I would even do mom if she wanted.
Dad grins back at us, "That sounds pretty awesome, I'll let your mom know what you have decided and we will get the invitations out to all of your friends and family."
With that he ushers us out and I hear the door click from being locked, whatever Mr. Malfoy was doing here it wasn't something dad wanted us to know.
I frown but walk away to find Scorpius or Claire who ever I ran into first, it ended up being Scorpius who was in the kitchen when I walked in doing homework, "Just the person I wanted to see." I say taking the seat across from him, he looks up and smiles, "And why would you want to see me Sunshine?" he asks
I blush and duck my head staring at the table, "I wanted to talk about the kiss." I mumble softly, he leans forward, "What was that Sarah I didn't hear you." He says I sigh and look up at him, "I said, I wanted to talk about that kiss, how I think we should remain friends and just go with the flow and see where it takes us." He nods, "Sounds good to me Sarah, now off you go I believe Claire was anxious for you to be done talking to your brother, she said she was going to your room." I thank him and rush upstairs to my room where I find Claire at the desk writing.
"Oh thank god." She says leaving the unfinished whatever on the desk, "I've been board out of my mind without you, I even tried to talk to Scorpius, which ended up being a bust." She frowns, I pat her shoulder, "Well good news, we finally decided what we are doing for the party and we will be having a masquerade ball." I say taking out my almost torn apart sketch pad, I call for Lily who was just down the hall and sit down at the desk.
Once she arrives I smile, "What's up Sarah?" she was nine now, soon to be ten, it wouldn't be long before she was also in Hogwarts with us. "I'm designing our dresses, I'm even doing one for mom, and she doesn't know so shhh." I say grinning. "Now Lily what would you like your dress and mask to look like." She bits her lip in thought before answering, "I want a green dress, with halter strap and a sort of rhinestone accent on the top and I want the whole bottom to be sequenced. And for the mask a simple eye mask that's also green with black lace, maybe a small feather accent."
I draw it out and show her and she nods, "That's great Sarah." She says before hurrying off to do lord knows what, "Alright Claire your turn." I say grinning. She thinks for a moment before answer, "I want a midnight blue dress with rhinestones on the bottom like stars and for the mask I want a blue and silver mask with black swirl accents." I grin and draw what I'm told before holding it out to show her. I do mine next, I design mine like a halter like Lily's but mine would be red with pretty gold accents on the whole dress, and my mask would be red and gold with gold swirl accents to it.
I finish the drawings and then color them before starting on moms, I knew mom would want something simple, I draw a simple straight burgundy dress with a one shoulder strap which I designed to look like flower going over her shoulder, I thought she would like it, I walk over to my owl and nudge her awake, "I need you to take these to madam Malkins in Diagon Ally girl, be careful." She hoots before letting me tie the four pieces of paper to her leg. I couldn't wait to see the dresses.
After another family dinner at gram and gramps my owl flys through Grams window and lands in front of me, "Dear Miss Potter, I will have your order ready ASAP as the muggles say, I will send them to you when they are done. Madam Malkins." I grin at Claire and Lily, "What orders?" Mom asks, "I designed the dresses for the party for the girls and myself." I say shrugging a little, I didn't mention I had sent on in for her with her measurements which dad had given me gratefully after seeing the designs.
"That's awesome Sarah." Mom says with a smile and everyone starts saying how proud of me they are and I swear out of the corner of my eye I see Rose glaring hard at me, I look over just as she looks away, how odd. I shrug it off and eat another piece of pie before calling it quits.
We go home on full stomachs again and fall asleep, excited for the party in a few days.