"Your going to make us late" you said as he was trying to tie his bow tie.
He grumbled
"Here let me" you walked in front of him taking his hands off the tie and tying it for him. You smiled up at him
"There you go" you said kissing his cheek and patting his shoulders
"Are you ready now?" You asked
He only nodded
You took his hand pulled him out of his dorm. "The hall is going to start any minute now" you rushed down the stairs with him behind you his hand still locked with yours
"Calm down y/n your going to pull my arm off"
You rolled your eyes "you never really did understand, did you?" You looked back at him but he looked away
"My mom never went to her ball, I didn't want my years here at Hogwarts to turn out like hers"
"Thanks to you they haven't" you whispered but loud enough for him to hear
He chuckled and rubbed your hand with his thumb soothing you of your stress.
"We didn't miss the opening see"
"People are still coming down from their dorms" he said
Relief settled over your face. You saw some of your friends at the bottom of the staircase. You let go of toms hand and rushed down the stairs
"Be careful y/n" he called after you
You weren't looking where you were going and tripped over a step falling into your friends. You all laughed and Tom helped you up.
"I told you"
"I know" you smiled "im sorry"
He smiled back at you "your clumsiness is my favorite thing about you"
"Really? Not my eyes, my sweet voice or my-"
"Y/n" he said his eyes turning back his stoic look.
You only smiled "I was only joking I know you love more of me and have more favorites just as I have for you"
He took your hand and brought you into the room. Everyone was crowded around each other mingling. Then the music started to play and the chosen ones for the tournament started to dance first.
After a few minutes others joined in. Tom pulled you to the floor. He always loved classic dancing instead of your kind of dancing which included everything but class.
The after party was short as the band that was playing was a jazz band. Nothing too exciting about it you thought. And you didn't think Tom would like swing dancing. It was a funny image planted in your brain of him doing the dancing with you.
"You look tied darling" he said as you yawned
You laid your head on his shoulder
"No your not sleeping here come on" he got you up
"I'm not carrying you"
He ended up carrying you back grumbling the whole way too.
He laid you on his bed admiring your peaceful sleeping face. He undid your hair and took off your shoes.
He pulled his blanket over you kissing your forehead and him changing into his comfy clothes.
He knew you weren't quite ready to be sleeping together so he took one of his pillows and an extra blanket and slept on the common room sofa.
It wasn't the comfiest and the next day he complained about his back the whole day.
A/n: its 1 am I'm going to bed but I'd thought I'd update this since it has almost 40k reads!?! Thank you loves 🫶🏻
