Eleanor Snape- Book 2

The Yule Ball

Sarah Beth~

"Gregory!" I squealed as him, Draco, and Pansy approached me. I ran up to him and hugged him.

"Sarah Beth! He hugged me back, a bit startled.

"Where's Ellie? And Crabbe?" I asked while his arms where still around me. I put my head on his shoulder and breathed in a whiff of the cologne he was hearing.

"Pansy jinxed Ellie and she fainted. Vince is with her in the Hospital wing." I could feel anger flash in my eyes. Draco should have been there with her! He was her boyfriend! He was suppose to love her! He was suppose to care! But instead, he was there with the girl he put Elle in that state in the first place!

"How could you do that?!" I pulled away from Gregory and turned to Draco. "You're girlfriend is sick and you are here! You are the biggest dirt bag I have meet in my li-"

"Now, now." Draco warned. "I would watch what you say if I were you."

"Ugh!" I exclaimed in annoyance and anger. He was the worst human being on the planet!

"Maybe we should just go ahead." Gregory suggested and grabbed hold of my hand.

"Okay." I interlaced his fingers with mine and we walked away from Draco and Pansy.

When we entered the Great Hall everyone was already dancing. I grabbed his hand and dragged him through the crowd and onto one of the few open spaces of the dance floor.

"You look really, really pretty..." Gregory complimented while he tried to take small steps. He apparently didn't know how to dance so I had to avoid his feel every few steps.

"You too....I mean handsome. You look handsome..." I decided to step up and take the lead, making us move in small circles.

"Well handsome isn't really the term I was going for." He said with an almost blank expression.

"Oh? What are you wanting?"

"I don't know. Something that describes me better. Like sexy, or hot. Or, I don't know, foxy." He laughed as realized he was joking.

"Ha!" I giggled, "Well, those pink robes make you look sexy foxy hot if that helps any." He smiled. "Yeah, it makes me feel way better."

"Haha! You look better then Vincent did. Why in the world was he wearing orange?"

"Because Penka the Destroyer wanted him too."

"Won't Penka be mad that Vince is with Ellie right now?"

"I don't know," He shrugged, "Probably, but someone had to go with her. It would suck to be in the hospital wing alone. Especially on a night like this. If Vince hadn't volunteered I was going to go."

"Maybe we should go see her."

"Don't you want to stay here and dance? You've been looking forward to this for weeks."

"Yeah. But Elle...."

"She'll be okay. She's with Pomfrey." He smiled as I leaned into him.

"You know, Auntie thinks that I"m with Rufus tonight."

"You haven't told her yet?" I felt a bit guilty as I heard the disbelief in his voice.

"She's really complicated." I tried to explain.

"What is up with Rufus now?"

"What do you mean?"

"For the last couple weeks he has seemed really disappointed with you."

"He's just mad that I got kicked out the of the library. It was one of the only places we could really hang out being in two different years and houses, but he'll get over it. He always does. He just likes to pout about stuff."

"I see. He has more emotion then a moody teenage girl." We laughed.

"Why did you get kicked out of the library, anyway?" He asked as he started to take the lead in the dancing. I looked down. I really did't want to have this conversation with him especially tonight.

"It's not important." I lied and put my head on his shoulder.

"I need to ask you about something." 

"Yeah?" I squeezed my eyes shut, hoping that it wouldn't be about Draco.

"Why are you suddenly giving into Draco?" I frowned.

"I don't know what you mean."

"Like out there, usually you would have let him have it, but instead you just walked away."

"I just don't feel like fighting with him."

"It's like he's scaring you."

"He's not.."

"You promise?" He pulled me closer to him.

"Yeah..." My voice was almost a whisper. I hated lying to him.

"There's something else I need ask you, well...tell you."

"Yeah?" I looked up at him.

"I love you." He smiled. The whole world seemed to stop. Then he leaned in and kissed me. If felt like fireworks were exploding in my chest. I suddenly realized something; my kiss with Nathaniel wasn't my fist kiss...this was. Sure, it was physically, but it didn't make me feel like this. This made me know for a fact that I loved Goyle back and no one, not Draco or even Auntie could tear me away from him.