Fireflies | | Fred Weasley

•Part twenty two

The hours had gone by pretty quickly, and it was now time for the party.

You were so nervous, it was your very first party at Hogwarts, and you didn't really know what to expect. You had gotten ready with Iona in your dormitory, where she had kind of explained to you a bit about what may happen at the party, but you still had no idea what to expect.

The two of you got ready together. Iona did your makeup, since she was so good at it and you barely knew anything, while you did your own hair, and Iona's hair. You did your own hair in a high pony tail, with some strands of your hair falling out at the front in a cute-messy way, and you curled Iona's brown hair for her.

Once hair and makeup was done, you helped each other pick out a cute outfit.

She told you that it usually got pretty hot in the Hufflepuff common room, the barrels, so it wouldn't be best to wear something that you would get too hot in. It was also a party with a lot of people, so you would be overheating if you wore something warm.

Despite the horrible September weather, you dressed for the summer. You decided to wear a low rise, denim mini skirt, with a glittery red halter neck top. You paired the outfit with gold jewellery, a black bag, and some black boots. You also had red eyeshadow to match your top, with hints of gold glitter dotted around your eyes.

Iona looked amazing. She was wearing a very short red dress, with lace features all over the front of her dress. Her dress had spaghetti straps and the bottom hem was diagonal, showing off her long legs. She had also paired her outfit with gold jewellery. On her lips, was a beautiful dark red shade of lipstick to match her dress.

The two of you took some pictures on Iona's digital camera that she has gotten from one of her Muggle cousins for Christmas, and then left to meet the boys. She had shoved her camera in her bag before leaving, so you knew lots of pictures would be taken.

Iona and you met up with the boys down in the common room. They were all wearing pretty similar clothes, blue jeans and plain shirts, but your eye was drawn to Fred.

He was wearing black jeans with a dark red button up shirt, the top two buttons undone and showing off the silver chain around his neck, and also part of his chest. His hair was flowing down to his shoulders like it always did, and he looked so handsome.

When you and Iona got down to where the boys were in the common room, Fred froze as soon as he saw you. You would have been lying if you said that your heart didn't skip a beat when you saw him, the memories of last night flushing into your mind again.

"H-hi." Fred stuttered as he looked at you.

"Hi." You quietly replied.

There was so much tension in the air, but only Fred and you could feel it. None of your friends had any idea about the flutters in your stomach when you looked at your best friend, they didn't know what had happened with the two of you.

"You two clean up well." Lee teased, folding his arms over his chest as his eyes roamed yours and Iona's bodies freely.

"You're not looking so bad yourself tonight, Jordan." Iona teased right back.

"Why thank you." He joked. "It took me a few hours to style my hair. Looks good, doesn't it?"

Lee tossed some of his dreads behind his head, acting like a stereotypical girl, which made you and Iona giggle.