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Savanna Holcombe:

He just kissed me, in front of everyone in this room.

I have chills. All over.

I can't decide whether I should be embarrassed or not, with all this attention on us.

I wasn't expecting everyone to look at me the way they did.

I take Draco's hand and we go to meet Blaise and Teila. The silence finally ends and the music becomes loud again.

"That was one hell of an entrance Sav." Teila says smiling, wrapping her arms around me.

I laugh, "That wasn't intentional."

She pulls back, "That's the best part."

I can already see Pansy approaching me from the corner of my eye.

I roll my eyes.

When she reaches me, I grab onto Draco's arm and get closer to him, claiming what's rightfully mine.

"How long did you plan on stealing that spotlight?" she asks.

I shake my head, "I didn't plan on it. It just happened."

"How did you even get the money for that thing?" she hovers her finger over the length of my dress.

Am I supposed to tell her I didn't even pay for it?

"I bought it for her." Draco says.

Finally, I have an answer.

Pansy narrows her eyes at him, "Where did you get it?"

Draco scoffs, "I'm not telling you."

"I'm sorry i'm just trying to figure out how you got a dress like that around here." she laughs sarcastically.

"Why do you care so much?" I chime in.

She looks at me again, studying me the way my mother would if she saw me.

"Because you are envied. Who doesn't want to be looked at like that?"

"It wasn't my intention. I didn't think I would be the only person in this ballroom that looks completely different." I explain.

She raises her eyebrows, "Okay Savanna. Whatever you say."

And then she's gone, walking back to Adrian, her date.

I look up at Draco now, "So you were the one that got me this dress."

He smiles, "Yes."

"Now seriously. Where did you get this dress?"

He wraps his hands around my waist, "It was my mother's. She fell in love with it at a store back home a couple years ago and bought it without thinking. It ended up not fitting her the way she wanted it to. But it was too beautiful to return. So she kept it safe. And when she heard you needed a dress, my mother had my father apparate it here for you. It's yours now."