When You Forget!

[Noemie Snow]

Being so wrapped up in everything else that she had to do, the fact that halloween was coming up had completely slipped Noemie's mind. She hadn't managed to put together a costume, but she didn't really want to miss out on the fun, so she had gone to the feast anyway, and felt a little out of place in her lack of costume, but the part-veela was always just happy to go, she was always just pleased to spend the time with the people that were there. The young ravenclaw made her way into the hall, having at least dressed nicely, in a plain white dress, and was making her way around, looking at the costumes that she spotting all over the hall, it made her wish that perhaps she'd done a little more thinking about it, she could've easily added a halo to her dress and then been an angel, but that didn't matter now, she was here now and she'd probably still enjoy herself. The girl grabbed a few sweets from the table and then grabbed a drink, moving slightly to the sound of the music and smiling to herself, she might've forgotten the costume and that this was happening, but she was enjoying herself regardless of that fact. It was just nice to dance to some music, have some candy and enjoy oneself at a party. She kept an eye out for anyone whom she knew, Amber or Evelyn perhaps, or Flavio, any of the people she knew whom she could talk to, or even someone new, but for now she was content to dance by herself.
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[William West]

William wasn’t really one to celebrate Halloween. Back home, it wasn’t even on the calendar, and his parents certainly didn’t approve of him or his siblings just having a holiday to eat lollies. Besides, there weren’t really enough people around to ever have visitors asking for lollies (which was really, really weird). His first experience with the holiday was his first year here – and it had seemed decently fun. Second year had been a little less fun, but he had (somewhat) planned this time. Admittedly, it wasn’t the best outfit – telling his parents to buy him something to dress up as just wouldn’t fly – so he spun a different story. Fancy dress. He had a nice suit, a top hat, and enough literature behind him to pretend to be Dorian Gray for the evening.

His hat was a bit itchy, so it soon became a bag that he used to carry lollies and chocolates in. It was a really big set up, and he didn’t think there’d ever be a time where he wasn’t overwhelmed by the number of students this school had. It was incredibly lonely. He bumped into some Ravenclaw girl on the dance floor, after trying to have a good time, and apologised in case he’d hurt her. “Oh, I’m sorry!” he said hurriedly, turning around to look at her immediately. She was pretty, but in his panic he didn’t really have the time focus on that. What he did notice was that part of her costume was missing. Unbeknownst to him, she had merely come in a white dress to begin with, but to William it looked like she was supposed to be an angel or something, and she was missing a couple of things. It was probably his clumsiness. He wasn’t entirely sure how to rectify this, after doing a quick scan of the floor, they seemed lost forever. What if it had been some sort of spell and he’d totally ruined it? His brown eyes went wide as this possibility dawned on him in the space of three seconds, and in his concern he did the only thing he could do to try and fix the situation- “D-do you want my hat? There’s chocolate in there?” He probably wouldn’t eat it anyway. Better give it to someone whose costume you just ruined.
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[Noemie Snow]

Noemie was enjoying dancing with herself, she had never had a problem with it, it was so simple, and usually so nice. However as it happened someone bumped into her, she staggered a little at the force but remained on her feet and took that moment to frantically check her dress, the last time someone had walked into her, it had been that horrid boy from Slytherin. But there was nothing, her dress was just fine. The part-veela smiled a little and then looked to the boy who was now offering her a hat filled with chocolate, Noemie was a little confused as to why this boy who'd bumped into her was offering the chocolate to her, "Oh no, it's okay," she replied, "Are you alright?" Noemie added with a slight tilt in her head, she didn't see anything wrong, but he had bumped into her and maybe he'd hurt himself. Though it didn't appear to be. The teen didn't want the chocolate and she didn't want him to feel bad about bumping into her so instead of taking it she just smiled at him, and said, "Would you like to dance?" Noemie wasn't sure he'd accept it, but it was worth a try, maybe the boy was more interested in collecting sweets and candy, but she thought dancing was more fun and even more fun could be had when it was done with other people.
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[William West]

William's relief was written all over his face - the girl didn't seem upset st all. She didn't even take his chocolates! Maybe it would be a good night after all. She was vaguely familiar, but he assumed it was probably because he had two eyes and used them on occasion - there were plenty students in the school, but faces weren't too hard to remember, especially when they were kind of pretty. He tried not to think about it too much, he could hear his mother berating him the more he looked at the girl.

He gave a nod at the invitation to dance, and tucked his hat under his arm. Dancing was too difficult, though he really only knew the boring stuff for weddings. What really confused him was her not worrying about her costume at all. "Hey," he said, using it more as an icebreaker than a greeting. "What about your costume? Did I ruin it? Do you need help putting it back together?" He offered, but by God did he hope she didn't ask him to try and use magic. He didn't even have his wand on him, let alone have any decency in casting spells anyway.
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