Hope, fierce and bright rose within him as Vianna agreed to one more dance, it was strong enough even to erase the way Vianna' had looked him over, as if he were some strange thing that needed to be examined under a microscope.

The Slytherin smiled brightly, even as Vianna removed her wrist from his hand, Ned was about to follow Vianna's example and begin busting out his fresh moves when an idea occurred to him. "Hold on, stay right here, I'll be back," Ned said, his eyes glinting with promise as he rushed toward the DJ.

"Oi mate, play this one," Ned said, pointing to a record that lay apart from the rest. The DJ nodded, and smoothly replaced the record without missing a beat. Ned grinned as a slow song began to play. It was REO Sppedwagon's "Keep on loving you" one of Ned's guilty pleasures.

Running back as quickly as he could to where Vianna stood, Ned calmed his expression of delight into a more subdued, but still charming smile.
"Sorry, I had to have a talk with someone... Shall we?" Ned said, holding out his hand to Vianna.


"Robert, sit down," Airi said, not managing to sound half as cold or as bossy as she had been trying to. It was really hard trying to be mean, especially when she felt so giggly and loose and pleased, how did Victor do it? How did he act so.. Aloof and uncaring all the time? Airi would have to remember to ask him.

Poor Robert, Victor was being absolutely atrocious to the boy and he still hadn't given up on Airi. Maybe he was too drunk to be actually effected by their plan (she got such a little thrill every time she thought that, their plan).
"He must have an even lower tolerance than I do.. Which is realllllllllllyyyyy saying something," Airi said, with a small laugh that turned into a hiccup at the end. She covered her mouth demurely at the peculiar sound, usually she didn't get the hiccups unless she was quite drunk. It was probably just a symptom of her previous nerves or something.

Suddenly Victor's cool gaze was on her and Airi shivered. She hoped he hadn't seen the way she'd been licking her lips earlier, that would have been all kinds of embarrassing. What if he had seen it? What if he thought she was a trollop or something for licking her lips like that? She really hoped not.

"Me? Oh, I am feeling... Really good, actually," Airi said, giggling though she had no idea why. Turning her face away from Victor Airi tried to sit up straight, but just ended up falling back into the boys lap. "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm just so clumsssy," Airi said, laughing at her little fall, not bothering to even try, sitting up again.