Blake was in high spirits. She was in the new dress and apparently there was a party going on and she was invited. Blake felt positively festive in her party dress and her heels. After all she didn't dress like that everyday.

She wandered around the ball looking for a friendly face. Or at least someone she worked with.

She knew. She was pretty confident and easy going, but tonight she just WANTED it. "Because it's not often that I get to dress fancy and look like a proper lady."

She was SURE he would have a comment on that proper lady bit.

With a raised eyebrow, she countered a question with a question, "Why do you THINK I brought you?" Hmmmmmmm?

Tasha was walking slower then normal due to yet again the heels. While Gavin and Sam were chatting and he head her husband saying hello she just nodded, she couldn't get to the chair faster and "Awwww Gavin, your too sweet" she said instantly sitting down and shucking her shoes off her feet under the table, she would have to remember to put them back on if she ever got up and right now that only time would to use the washroom.

"Sam, im sure your boss will allow you to bring in your daughter." she said with a wink and she also patted the chair beside her for Gavin to sit. He was always such a gentleman.

Aubrie smiled, "Well welcome to the Ministry Victoria." Ohhh Minister's Office, Aubrie wondered if she worked with old fatty. "So were you here for the rebellion against the cult?" she asked to confirm whether or not she was here when old fatty was. Aubrie had only ever been near him once, and that was to attack him basically.

"Oh well lets see...it has been a year already. Though it has gone by quickly and I still feel quite new," wow was all that Aubrie could think of when she realized that it was a year.

"I know more about being a proper lady than you do about being a gentleman." SO HAH. Phe reached out and stole his glass. She could just get her own, but stealing from TJ was more fun.

Then she raised his her glass at him, "Bravo. You guessed right." She grinned and took a sip of the bubbly. "Also because I like you. For SOME reason that escapes me at the moment."

Returning his squeeze she smiled adoringly up at him, then stuck out her tongue when he teased her. "Not much has changed." she murmured looking around.

"It is!" she loved being out with Chris and taking him with but she wanted to spend more time with just her husband. She planned on enjoying every minute of it too! Taking the seat he pulled out for her, she grinned at his words "That'd be wonderful!" she loved dancing and hoped he would. "Wait not a literal spin I hope!" she teased settling into the chair.

Vicky responded with a smile and said,"Thank you. Oh no, I came right after.". Victoria wasn't going to discuss those details. She nodded as she listened to Aubrie."Oh, well time flies when you are enjoying what you are doing. Soon enough you will have been here for 10 years, moving up the ranks."

Victoria found this lady quite nice."So, how is it that such a beautiful lady like you is sitting here by herself? I can hardly believe it even as I sit here." Vicky asked her with a smirk. She could see that Aubrie was pretty and a lovely girl.

"What if I never had it in the first place?" She grinned, not even buying THAT one herself.

"Your legs broken?" Phe nudged his leg, then poked his knee. She probably would make a plate for him, she needed more champagne anyway.

Becky blinked. Max was such an idiot. Just to say it out loud. "Well, yeah. She was a Hufflepuff. Remember I told you earlier?" she said, eyes watering. How could her heartless brother not even care that his sister was living alone with barely any money. Becky squeezed Tim's hand, eyes filling up with water, now. She was not, not, not going to cry.

Max raised his eyebrows at his dumb little sister. Becky should forget about the blood traitor- she was gone. And a good thing it was too. Disobeying their kind mother and running away- filthy muggle lover. When he saw Tori talking to him he turned towards her. "Yeah, me too. Slytherin rocks," Max nodded. I love it nearly as much as Tori, he thought.

Rose couldn't help but think that this ball was going to be a complete disaster. She couldn't believe that he wouldn't even bother to answer her question. Huh.

She made her away to one of the empty tables nearby and sat down, a frown settling down between her brows. Honestly, all she wanted to do now was get up and leave. She didn't know how to sort out this problem with Konrad, who just didn't seem to care at all. She leaned back and stared at the table in front of her. Rose wasn't going to say a word. She was going to let him do the talking.

Following Rose to the empty table she had chosen, Konrad couldn't take his eyes off her while she was not looking. Whether things were going to be alright or not, he still loved her.

A bit disappointed because she took a seat before he could hold the chair for her, he sat down beside her and waited, but nothing came. This couldn't possibly get any better. He was getting the silence treatment now. Fine. "What do you want, Rose, to happen? Or what do you want me to do?" There. Straight and to the point. "You left, we didn't talk, and now you are back," he spoke defeatedly, tired of all this drama. "I really don't see what there is to talk about, other than you telling me how you have been in this time," he finished with a smile, holding a hand across the table in the hope she'd take it. If not... well, let's think positive.

Rose waited for him to speak but..he didn't say anything. She was just about to say something when he said that she left and they didn't talk. "Um..wait. You can't just blame this on me, Konrad. I mean..yes, it's my fault but..uh." Rose stopped talking and shook her head. She really didn't want to have an argument. She gave a faint smile when she took hold of his outstretched hand. "I don't know what to say."

Blaming her?

Gaining confidence at the touch of Rose's hand, Konrad felt the corners of his mouth twitch up into a large smile, and he intended on keeping it like that. "I never said I blamed you. It was just a..." He bit his lower lip for a moment, looking for something suitable to say. "Long story short. And I will never blame anything on you," he finished with a gentle squeeze of her hand.

"Now, if you agree, I am more than happy to forget about everything and start over. What do you think?" He also had to hold back a 'we can skip this drama' comment, because he knew she would somehow misunderstand it and then they'd start arguing, and it really didn't have to be that way.

"Your welcome," Aubrie said to Victoria. "That's a shame, I found that the rebellion was the biggest thing I had done in the Ministry. It felt good to be part of something so big," Aubrie smiled. She was glad that she was here when the rebellion went on. It definitely brought out some of her talents that had been hidden since her school years.

How come she was sitting alone? Well Aubrie didn't really know that. She was like able enough wasn't she? And her people skills were good? "It's probably the fact that I am still new here and don't know many people," Aubrie tried to explain. "What do you do in the Minister of Magic's Office?" she asked. She wanted to find out what people did in there.

Sam too
 

Gavin smiled at Tasha's words commenting on his behavior. He was always sweet...at least to her so his actions shouldn't come at a surprise and he doubted she was taken back by his gentlemanly actions. "Well I do try to be," he replied in half-jest complimenting his response with a gentle chuckle.

At her gesture for him to take the seat beside her, the charms worker nodded and obediantly moved from behind her. Pulling the chair out like its twin, he came around it and took a seat beside his wife, the man just barely registering the discrete movement of her shoes beneath the table. "And with Borr gone...no worries about her being eaten," he quietly joked adding to what Tasha had said to Sam about bringing the girl to work to visit. Making a menatl note of the missing footwear, Gavin would be on his best behavior to accomodate anything that would otherwise require her to get up if he could.

Tim loistened to Everything that she said and replied with''Right.''he said smiling.''So Becky Saving a dance for me.''He whispered in her ear.

''Someone who thinks that.''She said smiling at him.She looked at Tim and wondered if He would ever giver her,The family for not telling him.

Vicky couldn't help but chuckle a bit. "Well, I can see you're in the right profession. I can hear the passion for justice in your tone. Hold on to that." she said.

Smiling at her she said,"Oh come now. I'm new and I'm talking to you. Don't worry. Time will fix that. I mean I can be one of your friends. I surely need a few myself." as she reached over a gave her a friendly pat on the arm.

"Oh I work with the Minister as Senior Undersecretary. Don't tell anyone. " she said quietly before she giggles and said,"I'm just kidding but I am the Senior Undersecretary." Vicky did have a fun side that she wasn't afraid to show.

She was not paying attention to him, or what he hoped they could do. She had something planned.

Medea held securely to his hand and weaved her way through the crowd. She stopped at a table in a corner that looked as though someone might have been sitting there previously. The Junior Undersecretary picked up their belongings and moved them to the neighboring table.

My!Table!

The woman took a break and smiled softly, ”Here.”

The woman again checked the bag on her arm, still there with its contents. Both hands then found their way to the table top. Her fingers entwined themselves over and over again in a nervous fashion.

”Soo umm it’s nice.” Ok, she could not sound more awkward. ”I mean they’ve dressed the room up nice.” Medea made sure not to look at him; if she did she might just cry…. Or blurt out those 4 little words….

Aubrie smiled at this comment. "Thank you. I find my job to be very enjoyable and hope I won't have to lose it for some reason," Aubrie planned on keeping this job for a while.

Aubrie smiled at Victoria. She was quite a nice person, Aubrie was glad that she just happened to sit down next to her. "Well I would love to be one of your friends," Aubrie said cheerfully.

Wow. She was the new senior undersecretary. "I see, that is a wonderful job and I'm sure you are wonderful at it, plus it's good to see old fatty out of the ministry," Aubrie giggled. No more Borr would be such a wonderful change to the ministry. "So what did you do before you came here?"

Well this was... different. Mason couldn't help but notice that Medea seemed very anxious to get to a table. Maybe she should have worn twenty-inch heels! At least they seemed that tall to him. 'Cause men didn't know anything.

Mason was a little confused when Medea stopped at the table in the corner that was obviously already taken by someone else. And then he just watched her as she picked up whoever's belongings they were and moved them to a different table. Well, alrighty then.

Sitting down, Mason took another deep breath in hopes to calm down his nerves. He looked across the table at Medea to see that her hands were going crazy. She kind of seemed nervous too...? Mason nodded at her words and looked around at the room. Yes, it was all very nice and sparkly. Just like the ring in his pocket. "Yes, I think they did a nice job..." He murmured quietly until his eyes wandered back to Medea.

Another deep breath. It was now or never, right. "You look stunning, Medea." Absolutely. "I'm so lucky to be with you." And then his words caught in his throat and he suddenly couldn't remember what he was going to say. But he kept his cool, because he was good at that. He would just... be patient with his brain until the words came back.

Deeeeep breaths...

Rose smiled although for some reason, she wasn't really happy with his reaction. She'd expected him to yell at her or something so that she would feel better but this..? Weird. "Thank you. What I said..was a bit of an overreaction..let's just forget about it, alright?"

"Well, okay. I'm happy to do that as well." Rose grinned although she was a little worried that they might face the same problems again. Anyway, she was willing to just let go for the evening. She had intended to enjoy herself at the ball and she planned on doing just that.