This night is flawless, don't you let it go

I'm wonderstruck, dancing around all alone

I'll spend forever wondering if you knew

I was enchanted to meet you

Chapter 6: The Birthday Party Part 2

The party was amazing.

Everybody was dressed up as something. I had glanced at Pansy a couple times, loving how her black dress was hugging her small but curvy frame. Her hair that was usually put up in a bun or a ponytail was long and flowing. I found myself wanting to run my fingers through it.

Pansy had grown on me over the past month. She seemed to let me in a tiny bit day by day. I had found out that her favorite subject was potions, something she was extremely good at. Her marks were extremely close to Hermione's in that subject. She liked muggle music more than she did wizard, and she wasn't a muggle hater like I had perceived her to be. Matter of fact, she held no prejudice to them at all, which was a good thing. She also loved sweet things. Chocolate and droobles being her favorite.

I also discovered she was very observant and almost motherly. After a couple of weeks, she had gotten into the routine of fixing my tie for me before we went to breakfast. She wouldn't let me leave the room until my uniform looked right. And while most blokes would find that annoying, I found it endearing. It also let me know that she noticed me, which was brilliant because I was starting to notice her more too.

I was sitting over on a stool by myself nursing a butterbeer, when I saw Pansy coming my way. She looked as if she was nervous and had something on her mind.

I was about to get up and see what was wrong, when Susan popped up out of nowhere demanding a dance out of me. I saw Pansy's face change to disappointment and a hint of anger.

Susan had dragged me onto the dance floor and while I had a bit of fun dancing with her, my mind was stuck on Pansy. I had a chance to look at her and the look she had made me feel horrible. Like I was the one that had wronged her.

A couple minutes later I had gotten another chance to glance back over to where I was sitting and she was gone. I looked around the area where we were and I didn't see her. I got worried.

"Hey Sue," I said. "I need to go and find Pansy and see if she's okay."

Susan scrunched up her nose. "Why do you need to look after her? She's a big girl. She can take care of herself."

"True, but I did invite her here." I reminded her.

"You invited me too Harry!" she proceeded to remind me.

"I know that. I invited all my friends. And Pansy didn't seem like she was happy so I'm going to go and find her. "

Needless to say, Susan was pretty upset but I didn't care. I broke away and set out to look for Pansy.

Malfoy and Ginny were dancing all into each other and hadn't seen her. Ron and Hermione were too busy sucking each other's faces off to even notice I was asking them anything, so I just decided to look around the flat.

I opened the door to one of the twins rooms and there she was, sitting on the edge of the bed. She had her hands over her face and her head down.

I walked into the room and closed the door. She instantly looked up with a gasp when she heard the door close. She wiped her face quickly and stood up.

I could look at her face and tell that she had been crying. But for what?

"I was looking for you." I told her. "Why did you leave the party?"

"I...I just needed to get away and get some air." she said nervously.

"Air? In a bedroom?" I asked, looking around.

"It's not as stuffy in here as it is in there." she said.

"Ah. Why are you crying?" I asked.

"I wasn't!" she said quickly.

"Are you sure?"

"Harry, I said I wasn't and that means I wasn't. Stop inquiring okay?" she said defensively.

I nodded. She didn't want to say anything about it at the moment. I would give her time. That's another thing I had learned about her. If you gave her time, she would speak what's on her mind more.

I studied her. She looked so pretty, even with her wet face. I wanted to wipe the remaining tears away for her, but that would only reveal to her that I wasn't buying her not crying bit.

Instead I tried a different approach.

"How bout you come out and dance with me? That is, if you're done getting your air of course." I said grinning at her.

She rolled her eyes and grinned back. "I've gotten enough air. You really want to dance with me?"

"Sure" I said holding out my hand. "Maybe we can show these gits out there how to really dance. That is, if you can dance." I said smirking at her knowing that would get to her.

Sure enough...

"Of course I can dance Potter. The question is can you keep up?" she said taking my hand.

"Dunno Parkinson, but we shall soon find out." I said leading her out the door.

The floor had gotten crowded so we ended up with me against a wall and her dancing on me. She was winding her hips slowly back and forth to the beat of the music. We ended up in sync with each other as I put my hands on her waist and moved to the motion of her hips.

Another thing I discovered about Miss Parkinson: she could dance. She could dance bloody well.

One of those winding reggae songs that Lee Jordan would always listen to came on and she bent over a bit, holding my hand in hers as she raised my arm in the air and popped her bum all on my middle, awakening something that needed to stay down. I didn't think she would appreciate feeling me getting hard from her movements.

Then again, the way she was moving made me think that was exactly what she going for. And I was not complaining. No not at all.

The music changed to something fast and she turned and faced me as we danced. She was smiling and laughing and I was doing the same. I was really enjoying myself. Much more than I was dancing with Susan.

Another slow song came on and I found Pansy locking her arms behind my neck as I placed my hands on the small of her back. I was happy that she was smiling again. Even though I really wanted to know what exactly made her cry.

"Thanks Harry." she said smiling at me, her smoky green eyes twinkling making her look even prettier.

"For what?"

"For inviting me to this. And for dancing with me." she said shyly.

"Of course. What are friends for?" I said.

She looked a bit shocked. "Friends? You consider me a friend?"

"We have been living with each other for almost two months and we have yet to kill each other. I actually enjoy your company so yes. I do consider you a friend. That is, if I am considered one as well."

Pansy smiled and nodded. "I do. You should feel special, because I have very few of those."

"Oh, well in that case I feel like I should be deemed favorite." I said.

"Favorite?"

"Of course. After all, we do live together. That alone should put me as top priority."

Pansy seemed to blush even harder. "Only if I'm your favorite as well."

"Its sorted then." I said as I strangely found myself getting a bit dizzy looking into her eyes. They mesmerized me. I could tell just by her eyes that she was feeling very happy about the words that I had said. Her eyes seemed to light up and the green moved like the waves of the ocean.

The party was going on for longer than we could stay. We had made a promise to stay at least an hour after curfew. So we apparated back to Hogsmeade and took the passageway back into the castle. Everyone parted ways and Pansy and I made our way back to our dorm, talking lively about everything that had happened and joking around about some of the people that were there.

We got back to our dorm where we tossed off our shoes. Our feet were killing us. I had used at least three cushioning charms and they had all faded.

"Guess I'll see you in the morning then." I said to Pansy.

Pansy nervously walked over to me. She then kissed me slowly yet quickly on the cheek.

"Thanks again Harry. I really had fun." she said. She then hurried up the stairs to her room and closed the door, leaving me standing there with my hand on my cheek, taking in the warm feeling that her lips had left.