Chapter 10

Everyone was excited. The Yule Ball was coming soon. Rose, Rosa Chloe, Lily Roxanne, and Dominique were all looking at dresses.

"Do you think I should ware a red dress for Gryffinor?" Lily asked, pulling out a crimson dress. "I mean, should I wear Green because Scorpius might wear green?"

"I think you'll look great in the red one," Roxanne said,

"Yeah. You look beautiful in it. Who care about house colors? I want a purple dress," Dominique said. "Since purple is my favorite color."

"You would look good in purple,"Rosa said.

"I know right?" Dominique said with a smile, grabbing a purple dress.

"That one shows a lot of skin," Rose said.

"Well maybe if I show a lot of skin I'd get a boy," Dominique said.

"Awe you mean you won't be my date?" Roxanne said complained.

Dominique laughed. "How could I forget about that. Of course I'm your date."

"Your cousins are odd," Rosa said softly to Lily.

"Yeah," Lily whispered back.

"I like this dress," Rose said, showing off a blue dress.

"It looks good on you," Lily said.

Soon everyone had a nice dress for the ball. "Let's go out and eat lunch," Lily said.

The group moved the Three Broomsticks. "So Rosa I hear you're dating Axel. Isn't he a bit old for you?"

"Yeah but I really like him," Rosa said.

"He's a seventh year and you're a fourth year. Isn't that wrong?" Lily asked.

"Only if we have sex and we're not going to be having sex until I'm older,"Rosa said. "But he's so nice and I really like him.''

Rose sighed. "Why does everyone seem to have a boyfriend but me?"

"Because you're so awesome that you intimidate them,"Roxanne said.

Rose laughed. "If only that that case."

"Why not date someone on the quidditch team?" Dominique asked.

"Because I'm related to most of the quidditch team," Rose complained.

"I suppose that'll be a problem," Dominique said with a laugh.

"You could be like the res of us and date a Slytherin. It seems like he thing to do," Rosa said with a laugh.

"Yeah, but my father would kill me if I dated a Slytherin," Rose said with a shake of her head. "There's a cute Ravenclaw boy I like. I might ask him out."

"See I knew you could find someone," Rosa said with a smile.

"That's only if he says yes," Rose pointed out.

"I'm sure he will. You're a real catch," Dominique said.

Rose laughed. "If you say so."

"Hey guys!" Chloe said, coming over to them. "Pick our your dresses for the ball yet?"

"Yeah we were just now," Roxanne said. "We all got pretty dresses."

"That's cool I'm going to look for my dress after lunch," Chloe said. "I'm sure you all took the best dresses already." She laughed.

"Nah, there's still plenty of nice dresses left for you," Dominique said.

Chloe laughed. "That's good. I'd hate to have all of the good dresses were gone."

"Why don't you eat lunch with us?" Lily asked.

"I'd love to," Chloe asid.

"So how's the James Potter Fan club now that you're dating my brother?" Lily asked.

"It's gotten more members. They want to know all about James from me. Many of them are jealous of me, but that makes sense. They all care about James, but they don't even know him," Chloe sad.

"Speaking of love , did you hear what happened in my Uncle George's joke shop?" Rose asked.

"No what happened?" Rosa asked

"Someone enchanted the love potions so they last longer. Like, real love potions and not just gag ones," Rose said. "it's rather scary that someone would do that. I did hear a lot of people having problems and going to Fred for help."

"It's Fred's girlfriend who gets all of the stuff,"Roxanne said.

"Are they actually dating?" Lily asked.

"I guess I don't know. I just assume they were dating. I guess they might not be. They're just always together. They're at least close if they're not going out," Roxanne said.

"Yeah that's true. She doesn't talk much," Lily said.

After the girl's meal, Chloe left to get her dress and the others spent their day just hanging out.

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"Do we have enough Bezors for the Yule Ball?" Fred asked Ellianna They had a good relationship. Eillanna the stuff people wanted and Fred got the information people might want. It worked out well. Eillanna had her hair over part of her face. She had tried to be a animagus , but it didn't work right. Only a part of her face changed and it wouldn't change back. She kept her hair over an eye patch so people couldn't see her problems.

"We should," Eillannaa. Said.

"Eillannna would you like to go the Yule Bal with me?" Fred asked.

"Like a date?" she asked.

"Yeah, like a date," Fred said.

"I-"

"If you don't want to I understand. It won't change anything between us," Fred said.

"I'd love to," Eillanna said.

"I'm glad. We still will probably have people needed out help, but we can have some fun too," Fred said. "Why don't we go and pick you out a nice dress."

"That sounds good. I don't normally wear dresses," Eillanna said.

"That's fine. You'll look amazing," Fred brushed her hair, accidentally showing her eye patch. Eillanna quickly put her hair back in front of her patch. "Oh I'm sorry."

"It's okay. I know you didn't do it on purpose," Eillanna said.

Fred took her hand and brought her to the dress shop. Chloe was there, picking out a dresses. "Oh hey Fred, Eillanna how are you two?

"We're doing well. Just picking out a dress for Eillanna," Fred asid.

"That's what I'm doing too," Chloe laughed. "Well I'm in a dresss shop of course I'd be here to find a dress. Do you need help picking one out?"

"I think we can handle it," Fred said.

Chloe took out a royal blue dress. "James is wearing crimson. I suppose we should match." She put it back and pulled out a black dress. "Ooh I like this one."

"That does look good on you," Fred said.

Iillanna pulled out a white dress. "I like this one."

"I like it too,"Fred said.

"Oh going with white huh? That's cool," Chloe said.

"Thanks,"Eilanna said. "Let's pay for this and go."

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"You're going to need a suit," Alek said.

"I don't want to go to the Yule Ball," Albus complained.

"You're the champion. You have to go," Alek said. "If you don't wan to go with me-"

"No that's not it. If I'm going to go the ball it you would be with you."

"Good. I'd be beside myself if you didn't want to go with me," Alek said with a laugh.

"Fine. I'll go to the stupid thing, but you better not leave me alone while we're there," Albus said.

"Don't worry. I won't let you out of my sight," Alek said.

"That's good. Did you hear about the problem my Uncle George was having with this love potions? He stopped selling them because someone chanted them to last longer, like a real love potion and not a gag one. I'm scared someone is going to do that to me. I've been under the spell on a love potion before. I don't want that to happen again."

"I won't let it happen again," Alek said. He hugged Albus. "Failed you once with that. I won't fail you like that again."

Albus leaned into Alek. Alek was always so soft and protective. He loved being in Alek's arms. "I'm putting my faith in you."

"I won't let you down."

Albus pulled away, "I love you."

"I love you too. Now let's go get you a suit. I need one too. Got to look our best for the Yule Ball,"Alek said.

Albus smiled. "Well with you by my side I'm sure we'll be the talk ot the ball," what he said hit it. "Everyone is going to be looking at us. I don't want everyone looking at us."

"It'll be okay. I'll be there with you. If it makes you feel better, pretend I'm the one they're looking at , not you," Alek offered.

"I can try that," Albus said. "I just don't want to go at all, but I understand I have to."

"Your whole family will be there. You'll have plenty of people you know there, so it won't be all bad," Alek said.

"Yeah I guess that's true. Do you think Fred will actually go to the ball or would he be working on all the love potions that are going around?"

"I wouldn't know."

"I hope he can enjoy the ball,"Albus said. "He works hard on things. He deserves a break."

"I like that you care so much about your family," Alek said.

"I care a lot about you too,"Albus said.

Alek leaned in and kissed Albus. "I love you too, only you."