Madness and Magik

4

The yule ball was only a couple days away and Peaches was hand stitching the last few details onto Hermione's dress. Hermione was their for her fitting and was standing on a platform with the dress on.

"Do you think Viktor will like it?"

"He better. I spent more time on this dress than any other girl's dress. But bo matter that. I am all... done!" Peaches said standing up. Picking up the bottom of her gown Hermione turned around and Peaches let her look at herself in the mirror. Hermione was speechless. Tears welled up in her eyes as she looked at herself.

"It's-it's perfect." Hermione said softly. The pink ball gown fit her like a glove and made her look more womanly while still accentuating her soft features. Peaches helped Hermione out of the dress and carefully out the dress in a dress bag. Hermione came out and Peaches handed her the bag and Hermione hugged her tightly before she left.

Peaches made the last few deliveries before she was all finished with her orders. Peaches made a ton of money from making the dresses for girls and she only had one more dress to finish. Her own.

Peaches ended up falling asleep for a very long time waking up Peaches looked at the time before she continued to make her own dress. She focused and worked hard, focusing on the tiniest of details to the largest of trims. At some point she had to take a break and leave to get some food and have some sort of social interaction before going back her work room and creating the dresses. The reason it took so long to create her and Hermione's dresses was because she hand made them with no magic. It was hard and required more work but her hand made creations always ended up better than her dresses that she made with magic. Once Peaches was finished with her own yule ball gown she went to bed and looked forward to the next day.

Hermione, Fleur, Gabrielle, and Peaches all spent the day getting ready for the ball together. They got their hair done, picked out shoes, got mani-pedis and even got their makeup done. By the time they got back to Hogwarts it only two hours until the ball started. Hermione and Peaches helped each other put their dresses on while Fleur and Gabrielle left as it was much easier to slip their dresses that their mother had sent them from France.

"Merlin Peaches. You look gorgeous! Neville's gonna faint at the sight of such a beauty." Hermione said. Peaches giggled before the two girls held hands while making their way to where the dance was being held before turning the corner Peaches stopped.

"What's wrong Peaches?"

"You go out first. That way we can each have our own moment. Go on." Peaches told Hermione. Peeking out from the corner Hermione took a calming breath before she stepped out and stood at the top of the stairs presenting herself to the crowd and showing off her pink dress.