Open Saturn

[Marlowe Moors]

Marlowe Moors loved to stand out in a crowd and usually never second guessed herself when she did. However, this year she had decided to honor her father's herbology profession and went with a blue floral dress, very fair from her usual style. There was no glitter, no holographic plastic fabric like her usual style. She felt a little out of place but also more like every other girl at the Yule Ball as she walked into the door of the Great Hall. No turning heads for Marlowe tonight, but maybe that would be a blessing in disguise, she didn't have a date to dance with on the dance floor. Keeping to the walls and seeing who everyone came with could be interesting, she was even glad that no one had been paying her any sort of romantic attention at the moment. She saw Derek and thought about going to talk with him but saw a girl she thought was in Gryffindor go over first and thought she should leave them be. It made her look around for her roommates, Emilia, she didn't see right away. Maggy and Acacia were seemingly rather close for just friends and it made her wonder if she hadn't been paying enough attention in her own dorm to notice relationship budding. Deciding where she wanted to head she made her way towards a table with drinks and picked one up and then to a taller table so she could stand but have a place to put her drink down as she sat back and enjoyed the music and the scenery for now.

 

[Shane Ackley]

Shane walked into the great hall, he had put on a good suit and was just looking for someone to speak to. He actually had half hoped he’d run into Mhairi, the time they had spent together had been so nice, and he had so enjoyed her spirit. It was the first time he had ever really wanted to see someone again in that way. He hadn’t felt that way about anyone. But he knew it was just fleeting, that he wouldn’t actually be interested in it. The hufflepuff knew that it would pass as soon as he moved on and he would just look positively upon her. He liked her, and if they were never friends that would be fine, but at least they had spent a little time together and he was better for it. The hufflepuff grabbed a drink from the drinks table and began looking around, hoping to spot someone he could speak to, someone to spend the time with. He eventually spotted someone he'd seen around the common room, but who was not in any of his classes. She didn't appear to be with anyone so he went over to her, "Hey, would you like a dance?" he offered his hand to the sitting girl, a flirty smile on his face.​

 

[Marlowe Moors]

Marlowe being a wallflower for the moment had been enjoying seeing who was there and who they were with. What surprised her the most was when someone approached her and asked to dance. She hadn't been expecting that, it never happened at a dance before. She looked around to see if maybe her sister or a friend was watching like they sent the guy over to her. He was in the year above her, she was pretty certain about that, seen him around the common room and dining hall but she never talked to him before. Already feeling slightly out of her norm with the floral dress she decided being herself the best she could be was the best thing to do. Outgoing it would be, "Yes sure, that'd be great," the young Australian teen said putting her hand in the guy's and standing up to join him on the dance floor. She felt bad not knowing his name, "I'm Marlowe, but you can just call me Mars, everyone does."