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"Put your earmuffs back in the box and go back to your places, I have an announcement to make," Professor Longbottom stated at the end of Herbology. Robbie and Leanne exchanged an intrigued look as they took off their earmuffs.

When everyone was settled once more around their tables, they turned to Neville. He had a sense of excitement about him, "On the night of Christmas day, I am pleased to announce, the Yule Ball will be taking place."

"Eeeeeeeep!" Jasmine Abercrombie squealed from beside Robbie. Everyone looked at her in amusement and chuckled. She turned bright red and attempted to regain maturity.

Though none of the rest of the 7th year Gryffindor's response was as enthusiastic as Jasmine's, they talked animatedly as they poured out of the Greenhouse and out into the frigid air.

"Are you going to ask Charlotte?" Leanne sing-songed, poking Alfred in the ribs.

He turned bright red and glanced at Robbie.

Robbie rolled his eyes, "We've been over this, I forgive the both of you."

Alfred grinned, "Wicked."

Leanne snorted, "Who actually says that anymore?"

"I do," Alfred declared as they walked into the Great Hall for lunch.

"Alfie!" Charlotte beamed and waved them over. Alfred quickened his pace so much he was nearly running over to her.

Robbie chuckled, "How could I keep those two apart?"

"I know, it was very sweet of you," Leanne smiled.

Robbie blushed slightly, "Eh, Leanne, do you think you would, ehrm go to -"

"Leanne!" Freddie bounded up behind them and grabbed Leanne by the waist.

Robbie was outraged, What in the name of MERLIN did he think he was doing?

Leanne looked slightly surprised as Freddie hadn't so much as hugged her before but decided to say nothing and instead asked, "What are you so excited for?"

"The Yule Ball of course!" Freddie revealed, his eyes bright with excitement, he conjured a rose with his wand and handed it to Leanne, "Would you have the honour of going with me?"

Robbie felt his insides shrivel up, as bile threatened to escape from his mouth, he looked at Leanne who looked surprised and flustered.

"Uh, eh, yes, of course!"

Freddie beamed in elation as he took her hand and they both sat down at the table.

Leanne let go as soon as possible, under the illusion of getting some bread, but really she disliked this knew hands-on Freddie. She had never been an intimate person, and disliked being hugged and petted, that's why her two best friends were wizards – they didn't feel the need to hug every time a cute boy walked by or they got 100 on their Charms test.

But Robbie didn't notice this, he had sat down on Alfred's other side, as far away from Leanne and Freddie he could get without actually leaving the group. He hated Freddie for asking her. He hated Leanne for saying yes. But, most of all, he hated that he had been too cowardly to ask her out before this. He had since September, and now it was December, and he had failed to ask. He didn't deserve to be in Gryffindor.

He stabbed his knife into his quiche angrily. A shadow passed over it, he looked up and saw Sophie sit down opposite him. Her healthy, olive-toned shin had turned waxy and she looked like she was about to cry. Whatever, Robbie had previously thought to the contrary, he was chivalrous, just like Godric Gryffindor, and so he forgot about his own heartbreak for the moment and concentrated on Sophie.

"What's wrong?" Robbie asked Sophie in concern. Sophie looked at Robbie, as though she was only just realizing he was there.

"Nothing," she attempted a weak smile. Robbie normally would have delved deeper but today, he couldn't handle other people's problems as well as his own.

"YES!" A loud voice broke his train of thought. He wrenched his gaze from his uneaten quiche and looked to his right

Charlotte and Alfred were kissing with such enthusiasm that a few professor's were glaring down at them from the high table. Indeed, Professor Teely looked like she was about to have an aneurism, and was in a mind to stamp down to the two canoodling love-birds and wrench them a part for their indecency.

But Robbie was happy for his best friend, he had finally found something he loved more than Quiddich. And she loved him back, and they're going to the Yule Ball together…and Leanne was going with Freddie.

Robbie sighed and put down his knife and fork, and decided to go to the library to finish some homework.

Sophie didn't notice he left. Nor did Freddie. Charlotte and Alfred certainly didn't notice he had departed.

Only Leanne did. She followed his back out the Great Hall and bit her lip. What had he been saying before Freddie interrupted them? Had he been going to ask her to go to the Yule Ball? And would she have said yes? She remembered what Jasmine and Victoire had said to her on the first day back at school, that she and Robbie would be so good together. But she had denied it and remained certain that they would always just be friends.

Leanne sighed, it was Murphy's Law – just as she was beginning to see Robbie in a new light, there was something in the way;

She was going to the Yule Ball with his twin.

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