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Hello there folks, thank you for some of the comments you guys left. This is kind of a lot to read in the next few chapter, it's the Halloween ball! It took me a while to write this because I wanted to be descriptive as possible and try to make it sound as fun as possible. Come on-you remember when you went to your first dance, right?

The clock had stuck eight, the night was young, the students were excited, the costumes were on, and there was excitement in the school! Including a whole load of trouble to be made for the night! Let the ugly games begin!

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Charlie and Faye together walked down to the Great Hall; Charlie was busy talking to Faye about the irony of the Halloween ball, "As a muggle, you dress up as a witch, or a warlock, or a vampire! So what does a witch dress up as? A muggle?" giving a dumb answer. Faye was quick to answer, "Course! Sometimes we want to dress up as muggles to feel a little bit odd." scoffing at her, "Yeah sure! You think muggles are odd, witches are weird!" Charlie pointed out.

They reached the Great Hall door, Charlie placed her hat on while placing something on her face by her top lip, while Faye smoothed out her dress. Taking a good look at each other, they giggled at each other, "Oh man! This is going to be a disaster!" Charlie said to her with enthusiasm, Faye nodded her head, "Funny how you can say it with such enthusiasm!"

Charlie who was dressed in a black pants, black jacket, white button shirt, with suspenders, a big black tie, a black bowler hat, a cane, and a fake black mustache under her nose. Her hair was pinned up pretty good, so that she would look like a man, but her same girl features were written all over her face. Charlie was Charlie Chaplin! The only thing that threw off the costume was her glasses, but it gave her more character.

Faye was a little different; she was dressed as a muggle and a very sexy one at that. The stereotypical French maid, a short skirt with nice kitty heels, black stockings, with a pretty good cleavage, that was enough to make any boys head turn. Charlie regretted telling her about this costume, when Faye asked her for suggestions.

Upon entering the Great Hall, people were talking about each other costumes, greeting each other and their dates. Charlie smiled along with Faye as head were turning to see Faye. Especially the boys, there eyes quickly moved to her cleavage, leaving a lot of girls angry.

"You're going to get busted with that costume!" Charlie warned her, Faye pulled her skirt down a bit, "It's not that high!" she tried to convince her. Shaking her head at her, "Oh well! You've got the attention that you always wanted!" telling her as she pointed out all the eyes that were looking at Faye.

A foot away there was Cedric, looking nervous and irritated, he didn't want to go with Ann to the ball but he agreed to it a long time ago. Checking his costume to see if he looked fine, he kept an eye out for Charlie, but he couldn't spot her. But he did spot Faye. Quietly he said, "Wow!" when he saw her costume, then he noticed someone that was next to her. It was a boy!

Walking up to Faye, she stopped while Charlie slowly placed her hat down a bit to hide her face. "Hey Faye, have you seen Charlie?" he asked her. Faye gave a big grin, "I know two Charlie's! Which one are you looking for?" asking him. Cedric of course didn't have an idea as to what she was talking about, "Mendez, of course!" he quickly answered, and deeply inhaling he looked as if he had an idea. He inhaled once again, and then looked at the person next to Faye.

Faye nodded her head, "Well I'm not sure where she is. But I can introduce you to the other Charlie-" she told him, but Cedric was quick to catch on, "Charlie?" he bent down a bit to look at her. Faye rolled her eyes, "This is Charlie Chaplin! Charlie, meet . . . " Faye was lost for words when she didn't know what he was.

Charlie raised her head to look at Cedric, he was wearing tan button shirt, with a brown leather vest, black pants, a leather wristband, his clothes looked rather ragged but it suited him. She just didn't know what he was. Giving him a big smile showing her teeth, she held out his hand to shake his. Cedric now realized that it was Charlie, the Charlie he was looking for. "Charlie, what are you suppose to be? A bum?" he shook her hand. Shaking her head at him, her draw dropped in shock, she lightly hit Faye to tell him again, "She's Charlie Chaplin!" Faye said in an obvious tone. Still Cedric didn't know who she was, Charlie finally said, "Black and white movies, greatest comedian in silent films in the . . . oh about, 1930's!" making sure she had the right date.

Cedric didn't know what she was talking about but he couldn't help but smile, shaking his head at her, "I didn't know that a comedian is suppose to a bum." he lightly insulted her. Charlie pursed her lips giving him a disappointed look, "Alright then! Be like that!" she said in a sour tone while looking back at his clothes, "What are you suppose to be?" asking him. Cedric touched the top of his head, "Oh wait!" he said, and he disappeared quickly through the crowd. Faye looked at Charlie, "You scared him!" then he suddenly he appeared through the crowd with a brown Australian hat. Charlie quickly shook her head, "Wow!" she said in a surprising tone, the hat did look very dashing on him, "I still don't know what you are!" she honestly told him.

Giving a sigh, he now gave her the same disappointed look Charlie gave to him. Faye's eyes opened wide, "Oh, oh! I know what you are!" she told him, "You're a cowboy!" Charlie laughed at Faye, while Cedric shook his head, "No! I'm a dragon tamer!" he told them. "Oh!" Charlie and Faye both said in sync, as they looked at his costume. "A dragon tamer! Well it makes sense. The clothes, the hat, the vest. All you're missing is a few scars, a third degree burns, and missing index finger." Charlie was nice enough to add on with a crocked smile while fixing her glasses. Cedric gave dry smile, "Yeah, I'm working on that," he said in a sarcastic tone.

Then there was a loud sound that came from the entrance of the Great Hall, all attention was turned to the entrance, when there was a loud sound coming from a person, "Excuse me please! Move out of my way!" it was a familiar tone to Charlie, Faye, and Cedric. Charlie groaned at the sound, "Great. Here's comes Gibbles!" she said in a dry and dull tone.

The crowd made an opening for her to pass through, which didn't make a whole lot of people happy, since her friends were shoving people to the side. Ann was approaching the trio with a certain air that was rather snotty. Ann was dressed as a fairy with wings that were almost bigger then her, reason as to why she was moving people away. Wearing a white corset, with colorful lace around it, a short pixie skirt, with high heels. Her hair looked like she had it done by professionals and her makeup was done beautifully. She could have been a Victoria Secret model.

And for once Charlie felt so insignificant when she looked at her, Ann was more beautiful then her. Ann had the beauty for this kind of thing. Charlie gave a quick glance at Cedric to see his reaction, he looked amazed; since his mouth was dropped and he was left speechless. Charlie had a glint of jealousy in her face, but quickly changed when Ann was close.

Ann looked the Charlie and at Faye with a fake smile, then at Cedric, whom she smiled widely for, "So what do you think?" she asked him as she posed for him. Charlie eyed Cedric from the side; Cedric was gawking at her not saying a word. Which was something that Ann wanted to see. Looking at Faye she said, "Wow, Faye! I didn't think you had a cleavage for that?" Faye very proudly straightened herself, with her chest high, "You have no idea!" she said in a fake happy tone. Then she looked at Charlie, "And who's this? Your date?" looking at her with a disgusted face. Faye was about to argue with her, but Charlie butted in, without having to say a word.

Touching her arm to stop her from arguing, Charlie walked up to Ann in a strange but comical way, with one hand on her pocket and the other twirling her cane. Tipping her hat at her, she winked at her. Ann didn't seem to be impressed, since she was now sneering at her. However, there were others who were quite impressed with her acting.

Charlie took her hand out of her pocket to shake her hand, Ann backed away, "I don't know you. What makes you think I'm going to shake your hand?" she told her. Charlie's face quickly had a facial expression of disappointed, still she didn't say a word as she let her facial expressions and movements, display how she was feeling to the crowd. Charlie quickly went around to the faces of people who were watching, shaking hands with them. They looked surprised and happy to be shaking her hand, then she made her way to Cedric, and shook his hand. Cedric gave him her hands instantly, shaking her hand too. Placing her hand back in her pocket again, she shrugged her shoulder, and smiled back at her. Ann still didn't look amused, "What are you doing?" she said to her. Charlie again stuck her hand out, but Ann refused to shake. Cedric was getting annoyed that Ann didn't want to shake her hand, "Just do it." he told her. Ann lifted her hand up slowly, while looking at her, "Hey, you're-" before she could finish Charlie already grabbed her hand to shake it, a loud buzzing sound was hear, making Ann scream out loud. Ann was shocked when she shook her hand. Making the crowd around them laugh. Cedric too was laughing but was shocked that she did that to Ann.

Charlie laughed in silence, again she let her facial expression show what she felt, while clutching her stomach and hitting her knee. Showing everybody the device that was on her hand. She let a girl touch it, making her jump and scream, when the buzzing sound went off. The girl laughed hysterically, so Charlie gave her the device and tipped her hat to her.

Ann on the other hand was beginning to get furious, "Charlie?" she asked her in an acid tone. Charlie looked at her and nodded her head, taking off her hat she gave a small bow. Ann had to think of a way of getting back at her, "So I see you came dressed as a man!" she tried to be casual about it, but her tone still had a bit of anger in there. Charlie once again nodded her head, leaned on her cane, while giving her a big smile. "You dressed like man so you Faye could be your date? I think you went too far on that. Especially since you don't have a real date!" she said with a smug smile. Charlie grabbed her hat and covered the side of her face that Ann could see, she looked at Cedric with a disgusted look, pointing to her while mouthing her words, 'Why isn't Cedric helping me out here?' she thought to herself.

Quickly she looked around and saw a two red head it was the twins, she whistled for them, "George! Your date is waiting!" she yelled out loud. George and Fred both came, looking at Charlie and Faye. George was quick to look at Cedric then at Ann, "Oi Ann! What are you suppose to be?" he said in a worried tone, Fred did the same thing, looking at her as if they were worried, "She's a bug? I'm pretty sure!" asking him. Ann crossed her arms and gave them a death glare.

Charlie quickly intervened by grabbing Fred's arm, wrapping her arm around his. He caught the hint, looking at George, they had the twin communication again. George bowed at Faye and winked at her, "Shall we?" he told her. Faye gave a big grin, "Of course!" she said while walking away from them. Eyeing Charlie one more time, she mouthed, 'Thank God!'

Charlie and Fred took one more look at Ann, "Shall we Charlie?" he asked her. Charlie nodded her head she took one last look at Cedric, as they passed through the crowd..

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the next chapter is going to be fun!