The day of the ball had arrived. After leaving Malfoy from pretending to be Katie, Dani had run into Katie who had then explained that Harry wanted to go with her to the ball. Sprinting to the common room, Dani had almost shouted a yes at him in her excitement.

A few days after that had happened, Jackie was approached by Oliver in a corridor between classes and he had asked her to attend the ball with him. As Jackie had said afterwards, it was his accent that had swayed her.

Dani hadn't heard back from Katie since, which made her nervous but also glad. This meant that Malfoy had probably kept to himself about what had happened – although, that also meant he probably had something up his sleeve.

Despite everything, Dani, Jackie and Bri had made their way down from their dorm on time, making their way to the Great Hall amongst the crowd of other people dressed in suits or dresses.

Dani had her arm through Harry's and couldn't stop smiling. Bri and Jackie were also with their dates, the contagious smiles on their faces also.

"Dani!" came a scream, and before she knew it Katie was in front of her, hyperventilating.

"Are you okay?" Dani asked worriedly. Katie was wearing a long, flowing dress with black stripes curving around it diagonally. The background colour was mainly white with some blue here and there.

"Come with me now. No complaints." Katie demanded, grabbing her arm and dragging her from Harry before anyone could protest.

Slightly upset, Dani allowed herself to be pulled into an empty classroom.

"What is it?" she asked, folding her arms once Katie had closed the door.

"He dumped me! You said we'd be fine but this morning he said we were over and I just can't deal with that!" Katie said angrily. "We're still going together but he said he wouldn't be my boyfriend any more."

"I'm sorry! I tried my hardest!" Dani said in defence.

"You have to help me again." Katie ordered.

"How am I supposed to do that?" Dani asked, flinging her hands up. "We don't have the same dresses!"

"That's why I grabbed you now." Katie said, reaching her arms behind her back and slowly undoing her own dress. "You're going to pretend to be me and I'm going to pretend to be you. Once you've convinced him to like me again we'll swap back and everything will be fine."

Dani stared at Katie without moving for a moment. She was supposed to make Malfoy fall in love with Katie, whilst pretending to be Katie?

"It won't work."

"Yes it will! Now hurry up!" Katie snapped, turning around to pull her dress off.

Sighing, Dani slowly got out of her dress and handed it over to Katie, taking the striped dress in return. Choosing not to complain any more, she put the dress on and then waited for Katie to turn around and say the spell to make her hair blonde again.

"Don't forget your own hair." Dani muttered, watching as Katie nodded and then changed her hair to brown.

"Thanks for doing this, I'll repay you!" Katie said, moving to the door.

"Don't forget to smile a lot!" Dani called after her.

She stayed in the room for a few minutes after Katie was gone, looking down at herself and wondering how she had managed to get herself caught up in this again.

Taking a deep breath, she left the room and made her way to the Great Hall where everyone else was headed. She felt strange, walking past people in Gryffindor who didn't even glance at her because of who she looked like now. The dress didn't feel right on her either, but she guessed she'd have to pretend to really like it.

Entering the Hall, she quickly looked for Malfoy and his friends. She wanted to get this over with as soon as possible.

"Hey, Katie! I knew that dress would look good on you." Pansy Parkinson said, appearing beside her and walking with her.

"Oh, thanks, yours looks- whoa! Um, it looks great on you!" Dani said, staring wide-eyed at the dress Pansy was wearing. It looked like she had walked through a giant vomit pile and not washed before coming to the ball.

"Thanks!" Pansy grinned.

Managing to reach Malfoy and his friends, Dani stood behind them silently. Malfoy was talking to Blaise, who, Dani noticed with a smile, had gone with another Slytherin girl and not Izefia.

Turning, she scanned the room for her younger sister to see if she could spot her anywhere. If she wasn't here with Blaise, she must be with the other guy she had wanted to go with and Dani was happy for her.

"Oh, for goodness sake Katie," Dani suddenly heard Malfoy say as he turned around and saw her. "Just because we're not dating doesn't you have to stand way back there. Come on." He reached over and took hold of her arm, pulling her to stand next to him.

"I didn't want to anger you." Dani said quietly, keeping her eyes down.

"Relax." Malfoy sighed.

"I just don't understand why we even broke up in the first place! It's absolutely pointless! We're perfect for each other!" Dani said, lifting her head now and giving Malfoy her best sad look.

Malfoy looked down at her and sighed, shaking his head slightly. "You really want to go out with me again?"

"Yes!" Dani said with a nod of her head.

"Say it." Malfoy said with a smirk.

"I want to go out with you." Dani said, mentally groaning and wondering if Katie had to put up with this kind of behaviour all the time.

"Well then I'll go out with you!" Malfoy said with a shrug.

Dani frowned.

"That was fast..." she murmured.

"Do you want to dance?" Malfoy asked, and Dani bit her lip. Inconspicuously, she tried to see where Katie was. Seeing her over at the drinks stand gave Dani an idea.

"Could we go get a drink? I'm really thirsty." Dani said, bravely reaching out and taking his hand in hers.

"Sure." he smirked and allowed her to lead the way over to the drinks, standing close to her the whole time.

"I don't see why you don't like me calling you Parry!" Dani heard Katie say as she drew near.

"And I don't see what's gotten into you!" Harry replied angrily. "It's almost as if Katie put a spell on you when she spoke to you before."

Dani bit her lip harder and hoped Malfoy wasn't listening to the conversation. It might make him start thinking things he shouldn't be thinking.

"Well I like calling you Parry so you can't stop me." Katie folded her arms stubbornly and then let out a small gasp as she saw Dani.

"Is this alright?" Malfoy asked, picking up a glass and holding it out to Dani. Her attention was taken from Katie and she looked at him. He was smirking at her and it made her feel nervous but she took the glass anyway, nodding her head.

"Thank you." she said.

"I'm glad you like it." Malfoy said, leaning towards her. "Would you like to go outside so we can be alone?"

Just as Dani was about to try and think up another excuse so that she didn't get into a sticky situation again, she saw Katie nodding rapidly out of the corner of her eye.

"Sure, I guess." Dani mumbled.

Shooting a glance at Harry, Dani felt sorry for ditching him without him even knowing. He looked upset and she could only imagine that the night was not turning out the way he had imagined it would.

But before she had too much time to think about it, she found herself trailing behind Malfoy out through the doors where they then walked into a small open courtyard.

"This place is beautiful." Dani said with a small smile.

"Just like Dani Monroe." Malfoy smirked.

Instantly Dani turned on him, eyes wide. "What? You think my sister is beautiful? What about me?"

"Well you're identical, aren't you?" Malfoy asked with a raised eyebrow.

"But our hair colour is different!" Dani protested.

"Yes, it is, but it doesn't matter that much. I was there when you dyed it and it only requires a very simple spell. Easy to undo."

Dani narrowed her eyes, now knowing for certain that something was up. Malfoy was smirking like he'd just been told the juiciest secret about someone he hated and it couldn't be because he was talking about hair dye.

"What's going on, Draco?" she snapped.

"I love the way you say my name, it's so different to the way your sister says it." Malfoy said, letting go of her hand and walking over to the edge of the courtyard, leaning over the railing.

"That would be because she only ever calls you Malfoy." Dani pointed out.

"How incredibly observant of you!" Malfoy laughed.

"Stop this! Tell me what's going on or I'll-" Dani groaned and put a hand over her mouth. "Not again."

Malfoy spun around suddenly, eyes wide and triumphant.

"I knew it was you!"

"What are you talking about?" Dani asked in panic, suddenly realising her mistake.

"'Not again' you said. Meaning you've gone through time before. I knew you were Dani and not Katie." Malfoy said.

Dani considered protesting and lying about feeling sick earlier that day, but she decided it was a lost cause as she took another look at Malfoy's face. He knew. That must have been why he was smirking so much.

"What gave me away?" she asked grumpily, folding her arms.

"You have a different look in your eyes than Katie does. When looking at me, I mean." Malfoy explained. "It's almost as if you love me more than she does."

"Why you little!" Dani gasped, storming over to him with every intention of slapping him for suggesting something like that. But just as she reached him, a wave of sickness came over her again and she faltered, twisting her ankle at the sudden stop and squealing when she heard a crack.

As all this happened, she was flung forwards and would have fallen if Malfoy wasn't standing there and was able to catch her.

"Did I break my ankle?" Dani asked as she braced her hands against Malfoy's chest to turn her head and look down at her foot. "Oh my gosh!"

"Is there blood?" Malfoy asked, moving his head to try and see.

"I broke my high heel!" Dani exclaimed. When Malfoy didn't say anything she turned to look at him and frowned at his look of disbelief. Thinking back over what she had said, she let out a small laugh. "You're right, it's not that big of a deal."

"I'm glad you can see that now." Malfoy said with a smile and a shake of his head.

Letting out a quiet sigh, Dani asked softly, "Why are we fighting?"

"Because you're deep in denial." Malfoy replied, also softly.

"I am not!" Dani exclaimed, pushing away from him and stumbling backwards because of her broken shoe.

"There's one thing I haven't figured out yet," Malfoy said. "How did you convince Katie to let you pretend to be her?"

"She's the one who wanted me to do it!" Dani said with a roll of her eyes. "She wanted me to try and fix things between you so that you could go out together. I would have succeeded if you didn't notice it was me."

"No you wouldn't have." Malfoy shook his head firmly. "I don't want Katie."

"Then you need to tell her that or she'll make me swap places with her again." Dani groaned.

"That wouldn't be so bad." Malfoy smirked and took a step towards her, only causing her to back away again as well.

"Whatever it is you're thinking Draco Malfoy, don't." Dani warned.

"Why can't I think about kissing you?" Malfoy asked sadly, making Dani flinch and frown at him.

"In case you've forgotten-"

"You're my girlfriend. Yes, I did wonder whether I'd have to remind you again." Malfoy sighed.

"How on earth did you arrive at that conclusion?" Dani asked loudly, fed up with Malfoy and the stupid things he said which didn't make sense and weren't true at all.

"You said you wanted to go out with me, I said yes. That means we're dating now." Malfoy reminded her, to which she stared in horror.

"No way!"

"Are you breaking up with me already?"

With a strangled scream, Dani spun around and began hobbling away from him. She just couldn't take this right now!

"No one has to know." Malfoy said before she could get too far away.

"I'm going to go find Harry. Then I'm actually going to have some fun at this ball." Dani called over her shoulder.

Disappearing from his view, she broke into a run.