Masquerade Ball (OPEN to everyone)

"Excuse me Daniel..I have to see that guy if he's who I think he is.." Nikki said to Daniel. "Enjoy your evening with your girl" Nikki winked and walked over to who she could've sworn was Andrian. She walked up and got a drink and stood next to him. "I'm not sure how to say this but uh..by any chance..is that you..Andrian?" Nikki asked, taking a sip of her drink and she waited anxiously for an asnwer.

Poe looked a little confused. They obviously were either nice or did not catch the irony. ''Arthur Poe, at you service. Well, yes, I am new, in a way. I've been educated in another Wizarding School in England and I transferred here along with professor Wilson.'', he said calmly.

He looked at the two. They seemed very happy. [b]''Sorry, but would you be so kind as to tell me why this Ball started? What is the reason for it being started by the school?'', he asked.

After a lot of thinking, Zoe finally decided to actually attend the ball. She had not had much luck with any of the previous balls held here at Hogwarts. Why did she think this one would be any diferent? Chances were it wouldn't be but she was going to attend anyway. Maybe she would be lucky and Spike would be attending. She wasn't really sure. At least not at the moment.

Letting out a deep sigh, Zoe dressed and pulled her cloak aorund her. She knew it wouldn't be cold in the hall but she was sure she would be out on the grounds walking before the night was over. Red was one of her favorite colors and looked wonderful on her, so she could only hope that Spike would like it. Pulling her long blonde hair back a little in her butterfly barrett, Zoe was dressed and ready to attend the ball.

Slowly she walked down to the hall and so that there were a lot of people already milling about. She decided to go stand at the back of the room and wait.

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Poe looked at her. She seemed nice. But the reason, well, it seemed like complete nonsense to him, but he decided not to say anything. ''Mrs. Granger, if I am not mistaken, would you be so kind as to point me to the program of the Ball? Are there any special events or do we just walk around here as puppets or do we have some special events?'', he asked.

He then noticed Zoe coming in and followed with his eyes as she went to the back. ''Strange critter'', he commented.

Making her way toward the back of the hall, Zoe couldn't help but noticed that she seemed to have people looking at her. After all this really wasn't something new. But it still unnerved her every time. She hated it. Gazing througout the crowd, Zoe looked or anyone she could talk with as she waited.

Jamie stood and glided through the dancers. She wished there was someone interesting here.

Spike having been there almost the entire time was starting to think that Zoe was not going to come. But when he had finally stood up and started to leave he saw what looked like an angel floating towards the back of the room. He walked quickly over to Zoe and touched her shoulder. "Zoe? Is that you? If so you look beautiful." Spike said with a smile.

Belle had been debating if she was going to attend the ball or not. She had wanted to go wondering through the forbidden forest and enjoy the night or perhaps just sit in front of the common room fire and enjoy a good book. However a last minute owl had shone up, well actually it was her raven, Darth that delivered it. It had been from Scott telling her he was quite aware of the events for the night and that she should go and have fun instead of reading a book.

She had sighed and went to the package he had sent three days before and opened it. Belle had to admit her brother knew her tastes well. She had put the dress on and pulled her hair up and curled it before applying some back up, not as heavy or black as she normally did. More of a shadowy effect.

When this was done she sat down and put her heels on, they were silver which accented the silver and rine stones on her dress and the silver of her mask which in turn brought out the silver to her blue eyes.

She gave herself a once over and then had headed to down to the ball which is where she now stood watching all the people. She felt really out of place now, this just wasn't her sort of thing.

As she had stood there a boy had passed her after just taking his mask off, he had been cute but something had seemed to upset him. She let this go and turned back to all the people.

"Nothing like feeling out of place." She said to herself.

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Standing there watching the others, Zoe couldn't help but let her mind wonder. It went to many different things. Her biggest worry was being alone at the ball. Just as her fear began to fill her she heard a voice behind her. The one first she had been wanting to hear, Spike. Her heart starting beating just a little faster as she turned to face him.

"Hi there." Zoe said as she closed the distance between Spike and herself. "Sorry I was late. I was worried about coming."