A Song Bird- Severus Snape Love Story

Chapter 16- The Valentines Day Ball

A/N~above is what Hazels dress looks like. I will let you know when to play the song x

Today was the day of the Ball and Dumbledore has excused everyone from their classes to prepare. I'm going to spend all day practicing for tonight. I'm both nervous and excited.

Madam Malkin's dress had arrived before and it's absolutely astonishing and it fits me like a glove. It was perfect. I just hope He likes it.

I sat there in my dorm practicing for hours trying to get every part of the performance perfect. I looked at the time and it was around 4 o'clock and the dance was staring at 7 o'clock sharp, so I decided it was time to get ready.

I hopped into the shower and washed my body. The scalding hot water felt nice on my tight muscles, I've been quite stressed as of late. I turned the water off after I finished washing my hair and stepping out of the shower wrapping a towel around my body.

I dried my hair and body off with a wave of my hand and I put on a silk dressing gown while I got ready. I did my hair in loose curls and did my makeup. I decided on a brown smokey eye with glitter on the lid and my signature big black winged eyeliner. I put red lipstick on my lips and finished off my makeup.

I looked at the time and it was 6:30pm. I put my dress on along with some gold strappy heels I borrowed from Layla. I looked in the mirror and for the first time in a long time, I smiled at the sight of myself. I looked pretty.

My happiness was gone as soon as it came when I noticed the scars on my body from dear old dad, well Step Dad. I used a camouflage charm on them so they blended in with the rest of my skin. I looked back into the mirror and smiled again.

Layla came out of the bathroom in her dress.

"Holy shit Layla you look gorgeous." I said with my jaw dropping.

"Says you sexy thang. You look ravishing." she told me.

"Why thank you, now c'mon it's 7 we don't want to be too fashionably late." I told her.

"So, do you have a date or are you going by yourself?" she asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I'm going with Bill, he asked me last week but Snape has agreed to save me a dance when he lost our snowball fight." her other eyebrow raised to meet her other one. "Professor Snape had a snowball fight?" she said in disbelief before bursting out laughing.

"I just pictured that in my head and... Omg.... I can't breathe." She said in between laughs.

"He did as a matter of fact, and he lost."

"HE LOST?" she practically shouted.

"He did, he didn't mention that we couldn't use wands so I used that to my advantage. And one giant snowball later, he was on the ground covered in snow." She continued laughing when she pictured Snape on the floor covered in snow.

Once she calmed down we managed to walk down to the common room where she met with Justin. They walked hand in hand until we made it to the Great Hall where I met with Bill.

"Holy crap Hazel, you look beautiful!" His mouth was agape in awe.

"Careful, you don't want to catch too many flies." I joked and with that he closed his mouth.

"M'Lady." he said in a fake posh accent while holding out his arm.

"M'Lord." I said in my own fake posh accent and linked my arm with his.

We walked into the Hall and It was decorated in red and pink decorations with so many hearts it almost made me want to vomit. But nevertheless, It looked amazing.