The Winter Ball room 1

Kevin walked over to her and took her hands into his, "Of course I can forgive you, Claudia. I just hope you didn't think the evening was too terrible all in all..."

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Hearing her yawn, Ares swept her off her feet and carried her. Making them both look even more foolish than before. "How tired are ya?"

She yawned again , covering her face with the sleeves that hanged on her arms. "just....tireddd...."

Staring back up at the boy Claudia shook her head
"Oh no Mister, no such at all! I'm grateful that you would take time to go with me, even with your busy schedule, I could not ask for more!

Well, maybe that was a lie with all the misteltoes she had seen around the castle, but somehow she rememberd and cared so litttle about such things when He was around...

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Quickly getting off the too big costume, quite grateful she got to keep her underwear, Freya grabbed the dress from the boy and threw his own clothes back at him and then got dressed again as quicly as she could

"Well, this was awkward..."

"Really?" He was about to lean in to kiss her forehead when he remembered where he was (and what he should have been doing). Groaning internally at this predicament, his eyes ventured upwards and--well, luck seemed to be on his side tonight. Smiling, he leaned in and kissed the Ravenclaw's lips chastely.

Above them hung some mistletoe.

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"Are ya 'bout ta fall asleep?" Ares asked her.

"hmm....?" she forced her eyes open , blinking slowly attempting not to fall victim to the sleep. "..w-what did you ask?" she muttered yawning again. Yeah , Bianka was already crashing.

stiffening for a moment at the surprise Claudia didn't even remember when she had closed her eyes... or when she had gripped the sleeves of Kevin's rob this tightly... or when she had stepped this close... But it didn't matter, none of it, all that she could focus on was this...

Marik stammered a "yeah" before he finished tying the darned robes a bit under his neck again.

He just realized a girl wore his dress robes and they smelled a little feminine. He turned red again and was thankful Sam was too sick to come to the ball.

Out of habit, he pulled the girl into a closer hug, still not breaking their lip-locked contact. This was...perfect.

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Ares chuckled and kissed his (girl)friend's forehead, "Yeah yeah...~"

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The librarian ventured about, surely there was someone who's night wasn't ruined as much as it should be!

"..meh..." she muttered out as she became victim to sleep once more.

gladly letting the boy do whatever he wanted Claudia got her hands up on his shoulder to keep her balance when he pulled her closer. And even though she was right now happier than ever about shoes that made her, even if it was a tiny bit, taller she still found it perfeclty natural to get one hand around his neck to gently pull him even closer, not forcing but begging him to stay...

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Frowning as she turned around and found the boy at the same color as a tomato Freya couldn't help but to ask
"Hey, just what's in that head of yours?"

This coward wouldn't have dared to look, so what was going on?

As much as he wanted to, he could not kiss her forever. Seeing that their lungs would soon cry out for much needed air, he pulled away with his eyes closed and let out a contented sigh.

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Ares continued to carry Bianka, aware that she was asleep and a soft smile graced his features.

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Sir Lionheart poked Delfina, clearly bored.

Frowning as the touch of the lips was lost Claudia still kept him close, standing talle enough on her toes to at least place her forehead against his, very slowly opening her eyes

"U-Uh, well..." Marik coughed and blushed some more, "I-It's kind of weird...t-to have switched clothes like that..."

To their bad luck, a couple of (NPC) students rushed through the infirmary doors. One was dragging their friend who was supposedly "choked" by the playful vines in the juice bowls. Getting to work, Kevin gave a comforting squeeze to Claudia's hand before helping the KOed student to an infirmary cot.

with a small sigh Claudia stepped aside to not being in the way, finding the air around her quite cold... Hopefully the students would at least let her say a proper 'Good bye' before leaving...

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Freya just sated at the boy
"Yeah, so what? Go clean them if you don't like it."
With that said she headed back out

Joyce had dragged her friend Joshua to the infirmary, it wasn't easy work, but someone had to do it! All the apprentice healer could do was check the boy's pulse and breathing patterns. "He's alright, Ms Stagner. Mr Walker just needs to catch his breath and he should be fine."

Kevin didn't want to say the reason why Joshua was fainting was because of the girl...it seemed a bit rude.

"..Are we there yet...?" she yawned out , still very much asleep.

"Almost..." replied Ares, after another turn, they found themselves at the door to the Slytherin dorms. That took a while...

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After sending the other students off, Kevin turned his attention back to the young Ripper. He gave her an apologetic smile, though it was no one's fault that he had to do his job.

"I should leave, I can clearly see that you will be busy. My apologies for lingering so long, but I wanted to at least say Good Bye properly..."

how she could be both be a bit nervous and disapointed at the same time was quite a wonder to the Ravenclaw...

"Ah...well...heh...?" Marik couldn't say anything else as his house mate left. Maybe he should retire to bed now...

Delfina nearly smacked Lionheart's hand when he poked her, but remembered at the last second that he was, after all, a staff member. "Yes, Sir?"

Bianka didn't try to look to see if it was true , she was already knocked out by the sleep.

"It's alright, miss...." He took her hand and kissed it gently, "I am sorry for not being able to escort you back to Ravenclaw tower, but...I hope the evening was enjoyable for you?"

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Carrying his girlfriend in, the Slytherin common room was dead silent. Everyone else must've been at the ball.

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Lionheart smiled gleefully, "How are you enjoying the ball, Ms Rossi~?"

blushing as she realized he could actaully be asking about the mistletoe right now (since he had already asked about the evening and recived an answer) Claudia still nodded
"It was... quite enjoyable. Do not worry about following me back, I was aware of this from the beginning."

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Getting back outside, not bothering to look back at all, Freya looked around for her little house-racist-friend, she couldn't have got that far away...

She craned her neck to stare at Lionheart. Was the librarian being serious? "Yes Sir, I'm just having a grand time. Becoming a spinning top of destruction and taking out half of the ball-attendees and temporarily losing the clothes I was wearing, I couldn't ask for more." She hoped the sarcasm would reach the staff member, but by this time she couldn't really care less.