'Till The End Darling

14. Dates or Mates?

Narrators pov:

December eventually rolled round and all the student were jolly and in the Christmas Spirit. That was until they gained knowledge of the Yule Ball. And practically the entire school was thrown in to a teenage hormonal crisis. All the girls were freaking out over what to wear and who to take. And the boys were pretending not to care but were equally freaked out.

"Your joking right Harry?" Fred said.

"Youre the boy who lived" George began.

"If you can't get a date then no one can!" Lee chimed in.

"Its just 'gunna be me, Harry and neville with out a date at this rate" Ron sulked.

"It might interest you to know that Nevilles already got a date." Y/n defended the boy quickly.

"Brilliant" Harry said sarcastically.

"Its not a big deal boys, but you'll want to ask someone quick before all the good ones are gone." Fred joked.

"Yeah well who are you going with?" Ron snapped back.

"Angelina of course" He responded with a shrug of his shoulders.

"And you?" Ron said to George.

The smirk quickly dropped from his face.
"Dunno yet, got someone in mind though" George awnsered cooly. Fred looked to his twin knowingly and shot him a wink.

The boys continued chatting and laughing about how they all wanted to ask one of the Beuxbatons girls but were too nervous.

At the end of the table Hermione and y/n were talking quietly.
"So have you got a date?" Hermione whispered.
"Not yet. I've been asked by a few people but I've kind of been waiting to see if this one person might ask" She awnsered truthfully.
"Same as me" Hermione said a little more glumly.
"You know, you could always ask him" y/n said with a smile.
"Yeah I guess I cou-" Hermione began but was interrupted.

"Hermione youre a girl...and well you wouldn't want to show up alone would you...because that would just be sad so I was wondering if-" Ron mumbled.

"For your information Ronald I already have a date so I shan't be going alone" Hermione said as she quickly stood up and left.

"Nice one Ron. Really smooth" y/n said bitterly.

Ordinarily she would've followed after Hermione but she still had to finish Snapes stupid essay. Before long everyone was finishing up and it was just y/n and the twins left.

"Right im finished, ill catch you two later" Fred said getting up to leave.

"What no, Fred give me youre awnsers please" y/n begged.

"He probably got them all wrong, I can help you" George said shooing his twin away.

Fred left with a smirk and as he walked out of y/ns sight he began pretending to hump the air as a joke.
George was swatting him away furiously.

"What are you doing?" Y/n asked and began to turn around.

"Urm nothing, don't turn around though" George almost shouted.

"Why not?"

"Because ... because I want to look at youre beautiful face" George laughed.

"Oh aren't you a sweetheart" y/n mocked.

It had been so long since the pair had been alone together. They had missed it.

"So urm..i guess you're taking Alicia to the ball?" Y/n questioned.

George scratched the back of his head, he really wanted to say no. He could take y/n to the ball as friends right? Surely Alicia wouldn't be mad about that.
"Urr yeah I guess" he mumbled his moral compass getting the best of him. Allthough deep down he knew exactly what he wanted to do, he couldn't treat Alicia like that.

"Oh cool" y/n said looking back down at her work. It hurt to hear but it was also nice to know where she stood.

"So have you got a date?" He asked with wide eyes.

"Yeah. Yeah i do" she smiled.

"Is it Cedric?" He asked with obvious distain.

"A lady never tells"