Closed Just a Favour

[Sydney Townsend]

Sydney wasn't sure what she was doing here. Well, she knew exactly what she was doing here, but somewhere between leaving her dorm and walking up to the Great Hall, her usual indifference towards the ball as a whole had all but evaporated. Now Sydney couldn't help but feel like every other of the various students standing near the door, nervously waiting for friends or dates to show up. But Sydney was intent to believe this wasn't a big deal. She was going with Samantha as a favour after all. Just helping out so Samantha wasn't bored and alone at some stupid dance. She had no reason to be nervous about it.

But Sydney was nervous. And for the first time wondering if she should have bothered to actually dress up for this. She'd never want to dress up for a school dance like this and fit in with all the other idiot kids pretending to parade around and be adults when they were all clearly still children, but Sydney suddenly wondered if she'd look stupid next Samantha. If she'd make Sam look bad standing next to her. Fisting her hands in the fabric of her sleeves, Sydney tried to shake off the feeling, waiting for Samantha to arrive so they could just go in and get this all over with and Sydney could get back into the familiar ground of endlessly ridiculing the whole idea of the ball in the first place.

 

[Samantha Jacobs]

Samantha was excited to go to The Yule Ball, but for some reason, she was a little nervous. She didn't want her outfit to be too out there this year, so she had decided to wear a plain black dress this time around. She was happy she had the opportunity to spend her time with Sydney. Samantha looked at her reflection on the mirror, in her dorm, one last time, before making her way down to the Great Hall to meet up with Sydney.

Making her way down to the event, she had this feeling in her stomach, she was suddenly a little more nervous than she thought she would be. Samantha had a million thoughts in her head, thinking maybe she forced Sydney into this when she probably didn't want to come anyways. When Samantha arrived at the door, she noticed a few students waiting for people. She looked around until she spotted Sydney. She took a small deep breath before making her way to Sydney. "Hey, sorry for the wait," Samantha says with a small smile.

 

[Sydney Townsend]

Sydney did a small double take when she spotted Samantha, chewing on her lip and nodding as Samantha greeted her. "It's fine. You look.. Nice," She said as off-handedly as she could. It's not like Sydney put much stock into people dressing up for these things, as she'd made more than clear, but Samantha did look nice in a simple black dress. "I hope you know what you're getting yourself into," Sydney added, making an aborted motion with her arm to usher them into the hall, fighting the urge to want to take Samantha's arm or something equally daft.

The hall's decor was as trite as ever, silver and snow all over the place which made Sydney shake her head. "Snow again for Yule, how groundbreaking," She said derisively, turning to see if Samantha found the comment funny at all before remember Samantha supposedly liked all this stuff and clearing her throat awkwardly. This was out of Sydney's usual comfort zone, she wasn't sure how to survive being at the ball if she couldn't make fun of it the whole time. "Do you want to get some food or something," She mumbled.