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06 ✧ A Seasons Ball and Conjured Jealousy

1977 October __________________ ׂׂૢ་༘࿐

"God, I look horrid!" Y/N cried, running down the stairs with her mask in hand. "My mother is a complete nut case." Her heels were barely wrapped in her hands, unfortunately, her mother went all out as most pureblooded mothers did. 

She was dressed from head to toe in expensive black material, the glittery black fabric trailed down behind her in a rather extra and puffy way, it then had a green sheer cape and hood that cascaded down from her. The green heels were stilettos, meaning extraordinary sheer amounts of pain were coming her way. 

Considering it was a halloween party they required a mask, the mask was black and white with two golden snakes wrapping around to part the black from the white. Naturally her mother designed it all and got her seamstresses to prepare it for this particular evening, she took great pleasure in dressing her daughter. 

"You look quite nice actually." Alexander's voice called from the green sofa situated by the fireplace in the dimly lit common room. "Considering you don't often dress up."

"You look boring." Y/N responded, her brother was wearing muggle clothes (it was supposed to be a costume of sorts) so instead of a pair of expensive dress robes that she knew her mother would have definitely sent him he was wearing a tuxedo instead. "Where's the mask?"

Her brother grinned and lifted up a frilly pink mask with sequence stuck too it, he was always excited to do things that would be cast as stupid. Probably thanks to who he chose to spend his time with. 

"Marlene made it!" He responded, a chipper tone inn his voice. "We're going together so she has a purple one, she's going with me because I had the balls to ask the gorgeous talkative blonde out, what about you, huh?" 

"I'm still going to be reading in the corner with Regulus."  Y/N answered. "Speaking of which, where is the devil?"

"Devil?" A voice asked from behind her. "I would hardly say devil." It was quite obviously Regulus, all of the other upperclassmen in Slytherin had already made their way to the Great Hall, it was either that or they were snogging in the empty towers. "What are you still doing here?" Regulus asked Alexander. 

"I told Marlene to meet me there, I made sure to tell her that I had to supervise you walking Y/N to the Great Hall." Alexander answered bluntly, glaring at the relatively taller boy. "So, shall we all get cracking?" 

"Y/N, here." Regulus called for the H/C haired girl, he then shoved a book in her left hand and took the mask from her right. "What an interesting mask..." He commented, tying it around Y/N. 

"What's yours?" Y/N asked. He then pulled down the mask that he had resting on his head, it was a plan black mask with no real pattern nor detail. "God you're boring." 

"At least it's not bright pink."

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The ball was boring, to say the absolute least, Y/N and Regulus were shoved in the back of the corner, reading books and trying to cast out the loud music that was practically booming from every inch of the Hall. It was decorated in oranges and blacks, deep scarlets that matched with sparkled white. 

"You look quite annoyed, L/N." Regulus chuckled, his eyes much more noticeable through his black mask, it made them stand out. They could easily put anyone under a trance, what made it better is no one would know who he was by the end of the night. So much freedom, yet such a boring man.