A/N: A big thanks to those who read and support this story. Sorry for the late upload, I have started my new semester and things are getting pretty tense lately with the classes and all but I haven't forgotten about this though it will take some times to upload the new one. Anyway I had rewrite and upload for chapter 2 as I correct some mistake but don't worry I didn't change the entire of the chapter 2, just adding a few words only. So please enjoy this one and sorry if the upcoming chapter will take some time to be upload and the same goes to my other stories, thanks once again and I don't own Harry Potter or Katekyo Hitman Reborn. Sorry for any grammatical mistakes, my bad.

Chapter 7: The Christmas Ball

Spencer is now struggling with his duties as student and Gryffindor's representative and he only had about nine days left to seek a date for the upcoming Christmas Ball. He, James and Edward are now in their mission to seek for a date as they and a few others who are remains dateless. The three of them sit next to the window in the common room at the late afternoon as they had no class on that time.

"Did you both know that Becky already got a date for the ball?" James first spoke as both Edward and Spencer turns their gaze at him.

"No. Really, who will she go with?" Spencer asked as he turns his gazes outside as the snow fall heavily and almost covered the window with its flakes.

"Some nice bloke from Ravenclaw, his name's Everett McCovel if I remember it correctly, a sixth year," James replied.

"Wow, she's lucky she already got a date for the ball, I still not so sure of whom to ask for the ball," Edward said, more to himself than to them.

"Yeah, yes she was," Spencer spoke as the three of them said none anymore and had their eyes fixed on the window, looking outside as snow falls heavily on the cold winter of December.

As the three of them stares, looking outside the window the portrait opens as the first year Gryffindor trio and a first year Slytherin enters with their hands full of books, essays again, as Spencer turns his gaze at them as a smile slowly appears in his handsome face. As the first year quartet puts all their books, parchment and writing instruments in front of the fireplace one of the twins walks toward him.

"Hi fratello, can we ask you something?" Vincent spoke as he reached his elder brother.

"Yea sure, what is it?" Spencer responded as both James and Edward turns to the two brothers.

"We got some problems with our essays, and…well we would like you to help us a bit," Vincent spoke quietly as he looks quite hesitate at the moment, worries if his elder brother might mocking him for asking his help since he's a bright student himself.

"Sure little brother, no problem with me, so what do you guys need with your essays?" Spencer said as he follows his younger brother towards the fireplace as Ariella, Lily and Christen waiting for them, books and parchment in front of them as each are holding on their quills. James and Edward looks at each other and slowly follows their best friend from behind, joining him and the first year quartet, they might help a bit with their essays.

xoxoxo

Two days had passed and it is a Saturday morning as the three fifth year's Gryffindor trio are now in the mission of looking for a date for the Christmas Ball as they only had a week left. They are in the Great Hall, having a breakfast as Rebecca joins them as she sits next to Spencer. Looking at their gloomy, not-much-in-mood faces, she can detect their problem right away.

"Still dateless I suppose?" Rebecca quietly teased them as she tries not to laugh at their features.

"Yea, you can say that again," James retorted, rolled his eyes as he knew Rebecca is quite a teaser if she wants one.

"Sorry, can't help it," she quietly snorts as both Spencer and Edward turns at her, glares at their best friend.

Rebecca can't help but to notice how handsome Spencer is today, he's wearing a nice light brown khaki with a cool sporty shoes and a nice light greyish green, full lined jacket with fake fur and a white printed t-shirt. As she looks at him she can't help to notice how some girls inside the Great Hall looks and almost swoons and the blushes in their faces are clearly shown as he turns to them. She then flushes as he turns his gaze at her and looks at her plate and takes some food in hurry as she takes a toast and eats it. She eats her breakfast quietly and tries to avoid looking at Spencer as she could feel as if there're hundreds of butterflies flying inside her stomach and her heart beating fast and loudly as if it can be hear by almost everyone inside the Great Hall without realizing that both James and Edward are now looking at her, grinning and having that mischievous glints in their eyes while Spencer is a bit clueless of what is going on with his friends.

Ignoring them he proceeds with his breakfast when he hear loud gasps and quickly turns only to see his younger siblings looking at him in disbelief.

"What, what is it?" Spencer asked them as both the twins' walks slowly and stares at him as if he had a second head grow out of him while both Lily and Christen follows them from behind, except that they didn't stares at him liked the twins though they were a bit surprises with them. Vincent then proceeds and sits next to his elder brother as Ariella sits next to him and follows by both Lily and Christen and the twins still stares at him with their eyes widen and looking at him in disbelief in their eyes, their eldest brother looks exactly just liked their father when he was young. The Cavallone children had seen the photos of their parents when they were young and not yet married to each other, and now sitting next to the twins is their eldest brother, the first born child among Dino and Hermione Cavallone's children whom had the almost or exactly resembled their father in his younger version and since he had worn clothes that almost or should say definitely looked like their father, it is no surprise for the twins for almost mistaken him for their own father and the only thing lacking in their brother is tattoos in which Spencer ought not to have while he is still in school, though he didn't plan in his mind whether he want to have any or not but who knows about the future.

"What is there something wrong?" Spencer asked again, his voice's a bit shaken and he was a bit worried for if anything's wrong with his younger siblings as his friends' stares at them with that worries looks in their faces.

"No, nothing's wrong, just that you looked exactly liked papa when he's still young," Ariella finally spoke, she shakes her head as James and Edward looks alternately between the Cavallone siblings as Spencer let out a relieved huff, noting that there's nothing wrong happens to them.

"What do you mean exactly?" Edward spoke as he emphasized the last word, interrupting the Cavallone siblings' conversation, he knows he had no right to butt in into their conversation but they didn't mind at all. All the Weasleys and Potters had met Dino Cavallone before but they had never seen his photos when he was young, James and Edward's parents were the first to meet Dino Cavallone before he married Hermione while the rest of the Weasley's clan, Mr and Mrs Weasley and their children and their partners or spouses met him on his and Hermione's wedding day and then once in a while when both Hermione, Dino and their family returned to England for a short visit, where most of the next Weasleys and Potters generations were born.

"Well, our papa often dressed himself exactly liked this when he was young and even now, well sometimes to be exact, and since our fratello here looked almost exactly liked papa, when he was still young of course, so we thought that papa is coming to Hogwarts to visit us. Say fratello, is this jacket belongs to papa because I know papa still had one of this?" Vincent spoke as he tugs on Spencer's jacket while James, Edward and Rebecca nods their heads understandingly though Rebecca never sees or meet with Spencer's parents before though she knew who is Hermione Cavallone, formerly known as Hermione Granger, one of the Golden Trio apart from Harry Potter, James' father and Ron Weasley, Edward's father as the three of them had saved the Wizarding world from the evil wizard, Lord Voldemort and his cronies when they were still young, her parents told her that and she also knew that her parents known them pretty well but she didn't remembered hearing her parents mentioned about Hermione, Spencer's mother, and only mentioned about James and Edward's parents since they often saw or met them in Diagon Alley or somewhere in the Wizarding world. Maybe because that Hermione had moved to Italy to started living there with her Italian husband after their wedding and hardly returned to England, only came back once in a while to visited her parents or saw her old friends especially Harry and the Weasleys.

"No, this belongs to me, I bought it when I went to Venice with papa and Uncle Romario," Spencer told them as the twins nods their head as their mouths slightly gaped.

"You know fratello, I almost called you papa just now only that I had remember that papa is back in Italy," Ariella spoke as Vincent nods his head, agrees with his twin as Spencer almost laugh as he ruffles with their hairs, leaving the twins to squeal at him then let out a heartily laugh.

"Alright you two, that's enough. Besides, I love this jacket, makes me feels warm and comfortable," Spencer tugs on his jacket proudly as the twins beam while the rest giggles.

Rebecca had never seen siblings that had this close relation with each other before and she had never seen Spencer in this such caring and loving manner before the arrival of his younger twins siblings in Hogwarts, and somehow she could sense of how protective he was around the twins, and she could guess that he will act the same around his family.

xoxoxo

It is now in the afternoon as Spencer, James, Edward, Rebecca, Marion, David and Scorpius walks around Hogsmeade towards the Three Broomsticks while Johnny, Dennis, Trevor and Howard goes to another branch of the Weasley's Wizard Wheezes as Lee Jordan is the manager there while Fred and George remains in Diagon Alley. Victoire and Teddy Lupin are somewhere spending their time together.

As they approaches the Three Broomsticks, a group of giggling girls whom they recognized as fourth year's Hufflepuff students walks passes them as they steal glances on Spencer, James and Edward, well mostly Spencer.

"Hey, do you thinks that we should ask them, who know whether they already had a date or not for the Christmas Ball?" James spoke, making the rest of his friends to stop and looks at him.

"Why don't you go and ask?" Edward responded to his cousin, making James to turns around and chases after the group of Hufflepuff girls as the rest of them laughs at his behaviour.

While waiting for James to tries his luck on the girls, Spencer notices two students from Salem are walking around outside the Three Broomsticks as he recognizes one of them being a fifth year's student. He waves his hand at them as they responds and waves their hand at him as the two Salem's students enters into the Three Broomsticks to get some drink. A few minutes later James returns and he had manages to get himself a date for the ball and telling them that the girl he asked is the only one without a date in her group of friends which leaves Spencer and Edward to be the only two left dateless as James shoot them an apologizes looks.

"That's okay, let's go inside and get something to drink," Spencer said as the seven of them enters the Three Broomsticks.

Once inside, all of them seek for a table and got one near the window as the seven of them sit as Madam Rosmerta approaches them and smiles, taking their orders and all of them orders butterbeer.

While waiting for their drinks, Spencer spots the two Salem students seated not far from them as the two girls are busy talking. Spencer nudges Edward on his arm as he turns to him and gives him a question look. Spencer looks at him and turns his gaze at the two Salem witches and seeing that only the two of them are dateless he wants to try some luck in asking the two Salem students for them. Edward follows his gaze and sees the two girls chatting happily and a smile slowly forms in his lips as he turns his gaze back to Spencer. The rest of them look at the two of them with questions in their faces. Quirking his eyebrows up Spencer shoot Edward a knowing look as both he and Edward stands from their sit and excuses themselves from the group as they walks approaches the two Salem students as the girls are surprise to see them while the rest of the group gaze at them and almost smiles and some snorts quietly to see both Spencer and Edward are trying their luck to get a date for the upcoming Christmas Ball.

"Hi, Carmenda, and you are Dianne, right?" Spencer greeted the two girls as Edward stand next to him and smiles at the Salem witches.

"Yes we are," Carmenda responded as she smiles at them, she had dark blue eyes and long, straight auburn hair and a fair skin and a beautiful smile while Dianne had a shoulder length straight, dark blond hair and dark brown eyes and slight fair skin and also had a nice, sweet smile.

"Mind if we join you?" Spencer asked them as Edward tugs his jacket, he is pretty nervous by right though he tries to act cool in front of them, not knowing that Spencer is actually almost suffers the same though he had no problem in controlling his nervousness around the girls.

The two Salem students looks at each other and giggles and then turns to both Spencer and Edward and smiles, shaking their heads.

"No, we don't mind at all, please join us," Carmenda offers them seats as Spencer sit next to Carmenda while Edward next to Dianne. Spencer and Edward then looks on their friends as some of them are showing a thumb ups for them and encourage them. Spencer tries not to swell at that moment as he is pretty nervous while Edward is quite stiff at the moment as he had never sit next to a girl besides his friend and tries to control himself from embarrassing himself in front of them.

Madam Rosmerta brings their orders to the order table only to realize that they are lacking two people in their table until Rebecca shows her that two of her friends are seating somewhere else, trying their luck to get a date for the upcoming ball. Madam Rosmerta can't help but smiles as she brings the two glass of butterbeer to both Spencer and Edward and winks at the two girls and left.

"So just the two of you are here today? Where's the other?" Spencer started their conversation while Edward fidgeting his jacket a bit as he tries to steal a glance at Dianne who sit next to him but don't have much gut to start a conversation. He is pretty clueless when it comes to talking to girl, just liked his father when he was young.

"Well, some of them are around, but we don't have any idea much though," Dianne replied as Carmenda smiles, the smiles that could melt any man's heart and could instantly fall in love to her.

"Glad that all of you could enjoy yourself here, you know, coming to our country and take a look around," Spencer responded again, a smile appear in his lips as he keep eyeing on Edward who are speechless at the moment and he slightly glances at his other friends and could see them tries not to laugh or snort at the two of them. He feels himself like an idiot when it comes to girls as he is too quite clueless as well and had no idea of how to have a nice, romantic talk to them.

"Yea, it is nice to visit other countries once in a while, we can see different things," Carmenda said as Madam Rosmerta brings their butterbeer and the two girls thanked her and smiles.

"Yea, it's a great thing. Anyway we would like to ask you something?" Spencer spoke after a few moments as Edward glances at him, hoping that they will not embarrass themselves there.

"Sure, what is it?"

"Do you have any, hmmm, date, for the upcoming Christmas Ball?" Spencer asked, he was stammered and a bit worried as well, while Edward could feel his hands gone cold, whether it is from the nervousness or from the cold weather outside.

"Oh…that one, well," by this time Spencer and Edward are getting pretty nervous and tense, what if the girls already had a date, then the two of them are hopeless again to find another girls to be their date for the ball, "we don't have any date yet."

By this time both of them are beyond happy and glad, so the two of them takes a deep breath and looks at the two witches with a high hope in their eyes and hoping for the two girls to agree to be their date as they cannot afford to go dateless for the ball.

"Oh…okay, well we would like to know if both of you would like to…be our date, for the ball?" Spencer asked them, he's stumbles in his words as he said it carefully.

The two girls glances at them at first then at each other as they both giggles quietly and a tint of blush are seen clearly in their face. Spencer tries to hold on his breath while Edward still remains speechless as the two of them waited in anticipation.

"Okay."

"Okay, great. So it's a date then," Edward finally spoke as the two girls and Spencer giggles. Then the two of them turns their gazes to their friends and showing them thumb ups, indicating that they are now already had a date for the upcoming Christmas Ball as some of their friends whistle and cheers for them quietly, didn't want to scares Spencer and Edward's date away.

Rebecca is happy for her friends as they finally found their dates for the ball, yet a tinge of jealousy appears in her heart as Spencer had invites other girl for the ball, she is hoping to be his date but he never ask her, maybe because she never gives him a hint or because she already accepted other boy's invitation to be his date for the ball. She is jealous of the girl, the witch from Salem but she couldn't bring herself to hate or loath her as she is not at fault here, well no one does. Letting that jealousy feeling off her, she considers herself lucky as Spencer is her best friend and they knew each other more, though she knew that Spencer is much closer to both James and Edward as he is considered part of their families, since Spencer's mother, Hermione, already been considered as family by the Weasley and a sister to both Harry and Ron. Rebecca then smiles though she is a bit sad, but this is not the time for all of this jealousy and sadness, this is the time to celebrate as all of them are now no longer dateless for the Christmas Ball.

A week later

Finally the day where most students are waiting for had arrives, the Christmas Ball, as almost all students starting from fourth year till seventh year had been waiting in anticipation. Tonight is the night where students from the indicated years will be wearing nice clothes for the night.

Spencer and his best friends are in their dormitory, all of them are now wearing some nice robes for the ball. Spencer is wearing a nice black robes with bowtie and had his hair comb nicely though he prefers it to be a bit messy and had himself looking good and handsome, while both James and Edward wear almost the same robes and a nice bowtie each, James had his parents sent to him about few days ago while Edward received his a day earlier from James while Spencer got his almost immediately when his parents find out about the Christmas Ball. Then the three of them looks around to see their fellow classmates getting ready in their dress robes, each and every one looks nice and great, well it's not every day they had such event in their school.

As they come down from their dormitory the girls are waiting for them so that they can leave the common room together. As Spencer come down from the staircase he couldn't help but to gasp to see the glimpse of Rebecca, she wear a beautiful, sleeveless v-neck light blue dress and had her hair loose with a slight wavy yet soft and manageable with a slight make-up which makes herself looks radiant and beautiful. Spencer could feel his breath stuck in his throat when Rebecca turns her gaze to him and smiles and how beautiful she had becomes. Spencer could feel himself flushes as he walks toward her and smiles while Rebecca can't never take her eyes off him as she had never see him this good looking before.

"Hey, you look beautiful," Spencer couldn't help but to look at her, he never sees her like this before for she had made herself looks beautiful tonight.

"Thanks, you too look handsome," Rebecca responded as she could feel herself blushes under his gaze. She secretly smiles as Spencer had never said such beautiful words before to her. The two of them are quite speechless and didn't know of what to say to each other at the moment when they hear Jonathan calls them all.

"Hey, should we all moves now, it is almost time for the ball to start." At the moment both Spencer and Rebecca looks at each other and smile as all of them begin to leave the common room as Vincent, Ariella and Lily smiles at them and wishes all of them to have a great night while Vincent and Ariella shares a knowing look as the two of them smiles secretly, knowing that their eldest brother seems to have his eyes on someone. A moment after the senior students left, the door opens as Christen come into the Gryffindor common room as the first, second and third year students had their own activities held for them for the night.

xoxoxo

As Spencer and the gang approach the hallway, all of them goes separately, seeking their own date for the night as Spencer, Edward and Jonathan goes to the guestrooms to greet their date.

As they reaches the guestroom, both Carmenda and Dianne are already there waiting for them while Melinna is still inside as Jonathan waits patiently for his date. Carmenda wears a nice light purple sleeveless dress while Dianne wears a light grey short sleeves dress and both of them looks beautiful. They offers their arms as their dates hooks takes it, the four of them proceeds to the Great Hall that had been decorated nicely by the Headmistress, professors and the house elves with winter theme for the Christmas Ball.

As they approaches the Great Hall they can see many students are now eager to enter into the Great Hall and the four of them greet their friends as both Spencer and Edward introduces Carmenda and Dianne to them. A few minutes later all of them enters the Great Hall as all of them are amaze and mesmerizes to see how the Great Hall had transformed into beautiful scenery of winter and almost everything looks white and silver as if they are now inside a snow castle or some sort of it.

Leading their dates to their table, all of them had a great time with no exception of a few stealing glances between Spencer and Rebecca and luckily no one had notice it. Music had been played almost all the time and some of the professors, the single, unmarried one, of course, enjoy dancing among themselves and the Headmistress from Beauxbatons, Madame Maxime seems to have some dance with Hagrid. Jonathan, Trevor, Scorpius and James seems to have dance almost all the time with their dates while Rebecca's date, Everett loves to have some conversation with Carmenda which leave both Spencer and Rebecca just sitting there and smiling at each other. Spencer can't help but to glance at Rebecca while the girl just sit there looking at people dancing as her date as busy engaging in a conversation. Spencer stands up and walks toward her and offers her to dance with him.

"Would you like to have this dance, my lady?" Spencer offered his hand as Rebecca can't help but giggles quietly.

"Of course," she replies as she took his hand as he leads her to the dance floor.

As they reach the dance floor, a slow, romantic song is plays as Spencer put his hand on her waist while she put her hand on his shoulder. Rebecca could feel herself shiver at his touch and as their other hand touches, a jolt of electricity seems to passes into their body as they could feel themselves flushes and tries to conceal it with a small giggles while Rebecca can't help but to blush a bit and luckily her light make-up manages to cover her blush.

"You look beautiful tonight," Spencer spoke quietly as they both dance slowly, following the rhythm of the song. Rebecca smile shyly to hear it while Spencer can't help but smile, a smile that steal many women's heart.

"You too look handsome tonight," Rebecca responded as Spencer giggles.

"Not as good as you," he replied, smilingly at her, earning a shy giggles from the girl.

The two of them dance for almost all the time, enjoying each other company till the Christmas Ball call it off for the night, leaving the two of them to stroll along the Hogwarts hallway, talking and giggling as the both of them walk their way back to the Gryffindor Tower while Everett volunteer himself to send Carmenda back to the guestrooms though Spencer wants to send her back but since he insists and Carmenda enjoys his company he let he be as he apologizes to her for not spending much time with her but Carmenda brushes it off, saying her thanks to him for inviting her to the ball.

As both Spencer and Rebecca approaches the Gryffindor Tower he hold on her hand as Rebecca shivers at his touch but somehow she loves it. She stops at her track and looks at him as Spencer stop and glance at her. Then he did something Rebecca never though that it would happen, he close the distant between them as he touch her cheek with his other hand and Rebecca blushes at his touch and then the next thing she know is that his lips touches hers, kissing her softly. Rebecca moans in their kiss as she kissed him back as her other hand grabs his head and pulls him closer, deepen the kiss. Rebecca moans as she could feel his tongue playing with her lips, asking permission to enter as Rebecca allows it and Spencer gladly enter his tongue inside her mouth, seeking hers. He let go of her hand as he hugs on her waist, pulling her closer while her hand hold firmly on his shoulder. Their kiss was tender and passionate and after a while the two of them pulls from each other to catch their breath. Both of them smiling as Rebecca can't conceal her blushes while still holding on each other. Rebecca finally admits to herself that she had a crush on her best friend, and tonight was her lucky night as she had finally shared a passionate kiss with him, the one young man that stole almost every girl's heart in Hogwarts with his charming and handsome looks.

"It's getting late, think that we should go inside now, so shall we?" Spencer finally spoke as Rebecca nods, their smiles never leaves their face. He holds on her hand as they both walks towards the Fat Lady whom at the moment snores almost loudly, earning few glares from the other portraits.

Well, there you go, hope that you guys enjoys this chapter, sorry about the kissing part, a bit crappy though I had tries my best. Any review or comment will make my day XD