I want you (Draco Malfoy Love story)

Chapter twenty-one

Malfoy ignored me for the rest of the lesson. Time went quickly and it was almost time for me to head back to the common room, my stomach turned every now and again at the thought that i was going to be dancing in front of the whole school. Snape let us go ten minutes early, which is not at all like him. Maybe he was just nervous that his date wouldn't show at the ball later on tonight. I stood and walked out of the classroom, people were starting to stream out into the corridors, i noticed at the end Hermione was stood waiting for me. She smiled clearly excited for the ball. The whole atmosphere of the school was buzzing everywhere you looked people were smiling or chatting excitedly. I reached H and we started to walk to the common room, our first conversation immediately led to the book though "So do you think you will be able to find something?" she inquired. I fiddled with my fingers slightly "I hope, i mean there must be something right?". Hermione nodded at me,
"Right, i just know that Harry's worried, the next round is two days away and we haven't found anything" she admitted. Quickly i changed the conversation to something more light hearted and we found ourselves talking about how Neville only just managed to bring his frog out of unconsciousness earlier today.

We reached the common room and i immediately went to go and find the book, Harry and Ron were already sat on the couch looking through charm books. I looked underneath my bed, which was getting slightly dusty, i had so many books which i only ever used in first and second year. I dug around trying to find the patterned spine, my hands were sliding about on the floor until i found it. I pulled the book by the spine and is slid out dustily toward me. I pulled it from the floor and lugged it up the spiral stairs.
I walked over the Harry and Ron and pretty much dropped it to the floor with a large slam. Ron jumped out of his skin "bloody hell luce don't do that, almost gave me a heart attack".
Harry looked at the book and then back at me before taking the book and flicking through it. I sat down by the side of him and leaned over the book. He flicked through pages fast only skim reading, "stop stop go back" i exclaimed quickly "there go back look, the bubblehead spell, The Bubble-Head Charm provides the caster with a nice, airtight chamber of oxygen so they can breathe underwater". Harry looks up at me gleaming, Ron looks up all three of us ecstatic. "You found, i cannot believe you found it!" Harry beamed at me, he dragged me up from the floor and pulled me tight into a hug. He almost squeezed all air out of me. He stepped back embarrassed suddenly, which wasn't like harry "Thank you" he smiled back at me. I smiled and proceeded to tell them both if i wanted to be ready for later on.

I walked down to the girls bedrooms and pulled my hair out of the ponytail i shoved it up in earlier. I began pottering around brushing my hair and changing into something loose while i got ready. I sat down at my desk, i pulled open my drawer to see the makeup i hardly ever used, i'm surprised it isn't dusty by now. I pushed my hair back with a black headband and unzipped my makeup bag. I pulled out my bottle of foundation and began applying it to my face, i had always been good at make up (i mean not to toot my own horn). There's a picture back at home of me when i was five and i got into my mums makeup bag and applied purple eyeshadow along with some vibrant red lipstick. She ended up printing the picture off and now it's in a gold frame back in the hallway. I missed my mum, it has always been me and her, relief filled me as i knew that i only had a couple of weeks till i got to go home for christmas. My head in deep thought i carried on doing my makeup, I was applying my highlighter when Hermione came down the stairs. She smiled and didn't disturb me but instead just went to her wardrobe and pulled out a dozen different pairs of shoes. My mind drifted off again, i began to wonder who Malfoy was going with tonight; probably Daphne, not that i was bothered because it's none of my business and i mean i'm certainly not hurt. I'm over the fact that for a week he made me totally fall for his antics, he played me and i'm fat over it, Malfoy doesn't actually mean anything to me anymore. Even if his eyes still stared back at me sometimes when i looked into the mirror, or if every time the stars shined through the glass onto my bed spread it reminded me of the night we had on the tower. But that meant nothing to him, clearly. So i'm not going to let it mean anything to me. I was sticking on my final eyelash when i heard a small huge frustrated sigh from behind me. Before turning round i fixed the lash into my eye so it would fall off permanently, i looked over to see Hermione on the edge of her bed her head in her hands. "Hey H what's up?" i questioned softly standing to do place myself down next to her. She looked up at me mascara all over her top lid and a large amount of blusher placed on her cheeks. "H I-i erm" i tried hard to hold back my laughter for her self confidence. "It's not funny! I can't do my make up and i can't go looking a fool now can i!" she stood frustrated. I suddenly felt guilty for having a full face of perfected makeup on, even though it's very much not something i should feel guilty for. "Calm down we can sort this" i went over to my desk and picked up a pack of wipes and pulled one out "Look we can just" i began wiping her face ridding her of the god-awful attempt at makeup "Right now sit down and we can fix this all up, i'll do your makeup?". She smiled back at me, i sometimes forgot how much i loved having Hermione here at Hogwarts, i really don't know what i'd do without her. Judging by her smile she was thinking the same as me. I took out fountains and powders and began applying it on her face. Plenty of people passed us in the bedroom, sometimes i forgot that it wasn't just me and Hermione in the quarters. There were multiple bedrooms and ours was the smallest only holding five people at a time, there is two other girls rooms each above us but of course we never visited there because we never had any reason. Two first years walked past us having a good look at Hermione's makeup and shoes before moving along. I managed not to mess up her makeup, half an hour had gone by and we only had an hour until we should start making our way to the ball. I stood up and let H look in the mirror at her makeup, she stared back at the mirror and i couldn't see her reaction from the way she was holding the mirror. Suddenly she leapt up at me throwing her arms around me "thank you thank you thank you i love it". I threw my arms around her a smiled back "No problem, now would you return the favour and curl my hair?". She laughed at me and we sorted ourselves out some more.

Hermione curler my hair, she did it perfectly as always, since we got to Hogwarts it was one of the things we always seemed to do. My mum always used to curl my hair because i am dreadful at it, so once we moved her for school H just kind of took on her role. We were both going through our wardrobes getting out the dresses. I was busy taking my dress off the hanger and unzipping it to notice that Hermione has changed into her dress. I looked over and my jaw nearly hit the floor when i saw her. Her dress complimented her beautifully the pink made her skin glow and the shape of the dress made her figure fit so perfectly. "Hermione you look- I cant even explain- just so absolutely- perfect" i felt near to tears looking at my best friend she looked so perfect, like she had come from the sun and moon mixed together. She laughed at me " Oh come on get ready", quickly i snapped back to putting my dress on. I fumbled about with the zip and slipped my dress on zipping it up on the way. I looked in my wardrobe at my trainers and black heels and scrunched my nose up at my limited options. Hermione cleared her throat in the type of way so you look over. I looked at her she was smugly holding a pair of sparkly silver heels with one hand. I smiled at her, H was always prepared for any situation. "still a size 5?" she beamed at me. I took the shoes from her and placed them on my feet. The dress was so long you cold only see the tip of my left shoe but of course you could see half of my leg at the right side because of the slit. "Ok H are you ready? we should be setting off now" i looked down at my watch pushing my hair out of my face. "Actually i'm gonna set off a little bit later than you, i'll probably see you there" she nervously smiled. "Why?" i questioned until i looked at the shy smile on her face "oh you're going to meet the mystery man aren't you" i teased "well i'll make sure that Harry and Ron don't question anything". She laughed and me and showed me out of the room even she was determined that i wasn't going to be late. I smiled at her profusely adrenaline was rushing through me from the excitement. I headed my way up the stairs taking a quick look at myself before i left and walked up to the common room. Harry, Ron and i has all agreed that we would meet at the ball instead of them both waiting around for us. I walked out of the common room and the cold air from the large room hit me. I saw people in tux's and ballgowns wandering their was through the halls with a spring in their step.

I looked down at my emerald green dress and suddenly didn't care at all what anyone thought  i felt good about myself for once and i wasn't going to let any whispers or stares change my mind. Now all i had left was to go to the yule ball.