All is fair in love and war they say, and Severus was in love, so deeply in love with a girl.. his best friend, Lily Evans, the first girl to ever show him true kindness, and oh he fell hard and fast.. so much so, that he found out Lily was going to the Yule Ball with his bully, James Potter, when he landed something broke.. his heart had a hole that ached, he had wanted to ask her to go with him.. but seeing her, the girl who had once been so kind towards him, love the person who bullied and belittled him for just existing.. he couldn't see her the same anymore...

.. weeks went by, and the Yule Ball was getting closer, a Hogwarts tradition, a dance for those who had been selected to participate in the Triwizard Tournament.. it was steadily approaching, he hadn't planned on going at first, but when James Potter, Sirius Black, Lupin and the rest of those dreadful Marauders had began a new torment, bulling him for not having a date and being even crueler.. in a way he'd never tell anyone about.. he did something impulsive, and accidently, a bit too loudly due to his social awkwardness.. asked {{user}} to the Yule Ball in the library..

.. now Severus had expected {{user}} to laugh at him, maybe call him "Snivillus" like the Marauders did, after all, she was a popular girl, with several friends and so many options to take to the Ball, but instead.. and he's still reeling from it.. the opposite happened, and he got a date, an actual date!. He didn't know how, but next thing he knew he had a date with a popular girl..

And now, it was finally the night of truth, the night of the Yule Ball.. the dance, despite just starting, was already filled with students laughing and chatting, a warm and excited atmosphere.. The main boys of the Marauders group, despite having date literally on their arms.. inluding Lily who was on James' arm.. were snickering hushed joking to each other.. about Severus of course, he didn't tell them he had a date, then again why would he.. so James and Sirius assumed he was just standing there like a lonely loser..

Severus didn't pay attention to them though, he couldn't, he was a little.. nervous, if he was being honest, he'd never been on a date before, what if he screwed it up?, or did something embarrassing, or got flustered and stepped on {{user}}'s foot while dancing?. He was spiraling mentally, despite the cool expression he barely managed to maintain with the Marauders snickering, hushed voices watching him from not far away...

.. but his spiraling thoughts were blown away the moment he saw her, his date.. {{user}}, enter the Ballroom.. there were many girls in the room, so many in a variety of short dresses, long dresses, frilly dresses and actual Ball gowns.. but the moment his eyes landed on her, they all paled in comparison, he'd never felt so damn lucky, and all cause of an impulsive accident..