"What?"

Scorpius Malfoy smirked. "I said will you dance with me?"

I stared at him incredulously. "You want me to dance with you? To this slow song?"

"Yes. And you better give me your answer soon, otherwise the song will be over before we have the chance. You do owe me, since I saved your life."

"You didn't really save my life, I wouldn't of died."

"Nevertheless, you still owe me."

Scorpius looked absolutely dazzling. His black suit and silver bowtie almost made me weak at the knees. I slowly reached for his outstretched hand. His eyes sparkled when I took it, and he led me out on to the dance floor. I wrapped my hands around his shoulders and he put his around my waist. I noticed that he was a lot taller than I thought, he seemed to tower over me.

"Does your date know that you're off with another girl?" I asked as we swayed to the music.

"She had to go to the aid of a friend, and rather waste my time sitting, I thought I'd ask you to dance."

I glanced over his shoulder and saw Jessamine glaring at me from a table. A crying Missy was sitting next to her. Great another reason for her to hate me. I thought of what everyone would think if they saw me dancing with Scorpius. Mum and Dad would be shocked, they knew that I hated him. Sarah would be slightly appalled and but also excited for me because Scorpius is cute. I don't even know what Al would think.

"What are you thinking about Weasley?" Scorpius asked.

"I just can't believe that I'm dancing with the one person that I loathe more than everything."

Malfoy laughed, "Well you better consider yourself lucky, because I am an exquisite dancer." He grabbed my hand and twirled me around. And he wasn't lying, he was a very good dancer. As the song came close to an end he pulled me closer. I was centimeters from him.

He leaned in and put his mouth by my ear, whispering so only I could hear. "You look beautiful tonight Rose." The song ended and he pulled away. He grabbed my hand and raised it to his lips, kissing it ever so gently. "It's been a pleasure dancing with you Ms. Rose Weasley." And with that he was gone. I stood there for a minute trying to process what just happened.

"Oh there you are Rosie!" Sarah and Al pushed through the crowd to me. "Were you just dancing with someone?"

"Huh? Oh I...I'll tell you later."

Al looked at me lusciously, "Are you ok Rose?"

"Yeah...let's go find the rest of our friends!"

We went and found Dom and Roxy and danced to the fast songs that went on. During the slow songs I danced with various friends of the family. Soon it was the last song of the night. I went to grab a drink while all of my friends and their dates swayed together on the dance floor. Malfoy and Jessamine were out there too. She had her head on his shoulder as they rocked back and forth to the music. I couldn't see his face, but I could see Jessamine with her eyes closed in sweet bliss.

Suddenly I felt as if I had been punched in the stomach. There was nothing more I wanted than to flee up the stairs and crawl into my bed and cry. But I couldn't do that; not with all of my family and friends here.

When the song ended, I said my goodbyes to my family. I hugged my mum and dad goodbye, and Lysander walked me back up to my room.

"What did you do with Amelie?" I asked.

"She's waiting for me downstairs. I told her I was going to walk you to your room and then come right back."

I took off my heels as we headed up the staircase. I almost stepped on the trick stair, but Lysander grabbed my arm and helped me over. "I'm sorry that I abandoned you for Amelie. Even if she is my girlfriend, I should of spent my night with my date..."

"It's fine Ly," I reassured him, "I was happy enough to give you over to her. You guys make a cute couple." Lysander then started talking to me about Amelie, and how wonderful she was and how he was so sad after they broke up. Pain washed over me again, and I wasn't for sure why. When we reached the common room door, he hugged me goodbye.

"Thanks Rosie, for everything. You're a great friend."

"No problem Ly. See you around." I climbed into the portrait hole to an empty common room. When I got to my room, I changed into my pajamas, vanished my makeup, and took my hair out. Sarah came in moments later.

"Rosie! You'll never believe what jus- are you ok?"

"I'm fine. What were you saying?"

"Albus just kissed me goodnight! Oh Rosie this was the most wonderful and magical evening of my life!"

"Sarah! I'm happy for you!"

"I feel like I'm going to burst of happiness, but I really need to get out of this dress."

"Where's Dom and Nicola?"

"Both with their dates, I doubt they will be coming back tonight. "

Sarah talked with me a bit about the night, but exhaustion soon came over us, and we passed out.

...

I opened my eyes sleepily to sunlight streaming in through the window. Rubbing my eyes I looked at my clock. 10:30. This was way too early for me. My arm was aching, I must have been sleeping on it for hours. I had also just had a really weird dream; James had bought me a magic cow that gave purple milk. What the heck.

Sarah was sprawled across her bed, her quilt on the ground. Dom was in her bed; hair sticking up every which way and it looked like she didn't have time to take off her makeup before she fell asleep. Her shoes and dress lay in pile on the floor and her pajama shirt was on backwards. She must have had quite a night. Nicola apparently never came back.

I swung my legs over the bed and walked over to the mirror. Yeesh. I grabbed some sweat pants and my hoodie and went to take a shower. Twenty minutes later I emerged, and decided to go find something to eat.

The great hall was empty except for a couple students. Most of the younger students were done eating breakfast, and most of the older were still sleeping. I sat down at the Gryffindor table, and a lovely brunch of eggs, toast, and yogurt met me. As I chowed down, someone plopped down across from me. A plate of waffles appeared before him. My stomach felt that stabbing pain again, the same one I felt last night.

"Hello Weasley, did you have a nice evening? Find a gentleman to spend the night with?" Malfoy asked.

I swallowed the piece of toast I was eating. "Actually I had a lovely evening with my pillow. I suppose that you and your girlfriend had a lovely rest?"

A scowl went across Malfoy's face. "Jessamine is not my girlfriend. I'm afraid that was just a one night affair." The pain in my stomach suddenly went away.

"Really?" I asked, "because I thought brainless bimbos were your type?"

"Well you thought wrong. I like girls who I can actually carry an intelligent conversation." I finished eating my brunch, so I grabbed the jam jar. Scorpius watched me curiously as I started to spread the jam on my empty plate. "What are you doing?"

"Writing 'thank you' on my plate?"

"Why?"

I had to think about that for a moment. "Habit I suppose. Mum always had us thank the elves for everything they do for us. "

"But they get paid now, since your mum made it a law to free all elves?"

I glanced up at him. "They still deserved to be thanked."

He stared at me for a long time, as if trying to figure me out. Finally he said, "You are an interesting witch Rose Weasley. Now if you excuse me, I have to go wake up Albus. He's been sleeping long enough." He shoved the last bit of waffle into his mouth, and got up and left. I watched him as he walked down the hall, and stopped at a boy hunched over something on the table. It was CJ Creevey. Malfoy bent over and looked at whatever was on the table, and picked what looked like a photograph up. He then said something to CJ, and left.

I finished my thank you, grabbed the yogurt I hadn't eaten, and went to see what CJ was doing.

"Hey CJ, what do you have here?"

"Hey Rose, I was the official photographer of last night. You can take whichever ones you're in."

I looked at all the pictures CJ had taken. There were ones of couples dancing intimately, friends dancing like maniacs, and even some of parents laughing.

"These are amazing!"

CJ looked really proud. "Thanks! I used my late uncle's old camera, and I think they turned out better than they would if I used a newer model."

I plucked up one of my Sarah, Dom, Nicola, and me dancing together, throwing our hands up in the air. I also grabbed one of my parents with some of their old DA friends and one of me and Ly laughing as we danced across the hall. I figured while I was down here, I might as well grab the ones of Sarah and Al too.

"Thanks so much CJ, maybe you should go into photography!" He smiled and told me he was planning to.

I went back upstairs to find Sarah sitting up in her bed, reading. Dom was still passed out.

"Morning," I whispered, "I brought you some yogurt."

Sarah put down her book and I tossed it to her. "Oh thank Merlin, I was hungry but didn't have the energy to get out of bed."

"I also brought you some photos CJ took."

I sat down on her bed with her and we looked at all of them.

"That was a really fun night, wasn't it?" Sarah sighed.

"Yeah," I smiled, "It was."