Starry Starry Night ( YiXue / Shen )

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Meeting YiXue at the dorm was easy enough; they both had the same dorm so there was a simple meeting there. Dressed up he waited her in the common room, a box behind his back. It had not been hard to choose this art, of course, as flowers were an integral part of the Hufflepuff life. So when she appeared he had no worry about the flower part. "As always, YiXue, you leave me feeling like there are no words when you arrive," he offered.

Smiling at the thought that she liked being with him, he pulled out the box and held it out so she could see two sets of flowers inside. "I wanted to keep it a surprise so I didn't put mine on already." He was sure she would put his on for him just as he planned on putting her's on her. Opening the box she could see the colors and, hopefully, approve.

Removing hers from the box, he held out his hand for hers and, when he got it, carefully slipped the wrist band of he corsage over her hand, sliding it up some on her arm. There was no part of her he did not like to be honest, but he tried not to show how much he liked sliding his hand along her skin. "Not that a flower can do much to improve my beautiful Sack Girl," he said with a softer smile, "but a beautiful young lady deserve beautiful flowers."

When they arrived at the dance, Shen looked around and then pointed. "Ah look, YiXue! They have boat rides! Would you like to take one?"

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YiXue couldn't wait to show him her dress. She also did her hair and face up as well. She wanted to look like a princess for her handsome prince. And when she arrived and got the reaction she got for him, all the hard work was worth it. On top of that, Shen was absolutely handsome.

"Thank you, Shen," she said softly with a big smile. She then kissed him, being a bit lost in the moment.

She then looked at the gift in awe and couldn't help but kiss Shen again. There was going to be a lot of kissing that night, and both knew it.

"Shen, thank you so much," she said. "I love them." She then watched as he slipped them on her. "And I love you, Dumpling Boy. With all my heart."

YiXue wondered if Shen would want to dance a lot given his condition, but she no longer worried about that when he suggested the boat ride.

"That's an amazing idea, Shen!" she said. "Yes, let's go do that. It will be like a fairy tale." She then offered her hand for him to take.

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Shen held her hand and motioned for her to turn around, his eyes admiring not just the dress, but the fact such a lovely young woman loved him like she did! Wishing he could whistle, he instead beamed at her as he caught her eyes again saying "I can see that even though my nickname for you still is true, you have attempted to outdo yourself! Clever woman to hide this from me. How can I dance when I have to keep picking up my jaw?" She was going to be very distracting he could tell!

She kissed him and he felt a flush. After he got the band on her arm he held out the boutonnière so she could put it on him. "I love you too, YiXue, and I promise I have been careful all day to not do too much so I could do more tonight for you!" Of course he meant his leg, which could become uncomfortable with a lot of athletics which dancing certainly counted as. But he was going to do his best and not tell her if he had trouble. He wanted this to be a magical night for her regardless of what it might cost him later on.

Not that he was going to let her see that if he could.

So when he saw the boats and that they were letting couples go out in them Shen felt inspired. "Yes let's! We can lie back and watch the stars glide past as if time was standing still..." Taking her hand with some feeling of possession, he led the way, choosing a boat for them to out in and conjured a blanket to protect his suit and her dress. Helping her in first, he got in and lay down so she could use him as a resting spot and felt the boat float out into the lake by magic.

Looking up as the boat slowly crossed the Black Lake Shen grinned; now this was magic!

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YiXue was blushing hard as Shen's compliments. He certainly had the charm. She hugged and kissed him again.

"You make me feel like a princess!" she said. She then whispered in his ear. "There is going to be so much snogging tonight."

YiXue never pitied Shen for his handicap, but her heart did hurt concerning his ability to push himself as much as others did. He was such a wonderful guy with such heart and ambition. But YiXue appreciated what he did for her so much.

"Thank you, Dumpling Boy," she said. "We're going to have a lot of fun."

Once they were on the boat, YiXue was in total bliss. She laid down and cuddled with Shen. Forget the food and dancing. She could do this all night.

"This is so romantic," she said softly. "This is going to be such a wonderful night. I feel like the entire castle is ours, and this beautiful night was created just for you and I." YiXue then looked up at Shen and smiled before proceeding to kiss him passionately with no reason to cease the action.

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He gazed at her with a sure smile. "Because you are a Princess, YiXue, my princess..." though his grin definitely increased at the promises of later rewards. Calm and collected he might be, but the idea of kissing her was not something he overlooked! He was glad to hear she didn't object to his plan for lasting through the evening, something he was rather careful about anyway.

"Anything for you, Sack Girl," he added, recapturing her hand, "and the evening will be fun just because you are with me, lovely woman, nothing else is needed to make my night." As they got in the boat, she went into instant cuddle mode and Shen could see nothing wrong with this!

"It is! The sky is beautiful and reflects off the waters creating a stream of light for us to float along. No matter what magic we learn in classes, nature always has ways to beat us with power to make one awed..." And then she kissed him and he ceased to want speech for a time as they floated along, blissfully unaware of the rest of the activities around them and mutually wrapped up in the other...

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YiXue giggled at being Shen's princess. He was just so amazing and adorable.

"Daww... I try my best," she said.

She then of course smiled again when he said she was all he needed to make her night. She felt the same, though she was a bit hungry and could use some food too. But that could wait until after the boat ride. The food was made by magic, so there would be plenty left later.

On the boat, YiXue spent darn near forever, but not long enough kissing her boyfriend. She never wanted it to end, but she knew eventually the two had to breath.

"That was incredible," she said after the kiss. She then laid down and snuggled with him, stroking his hair. She loved his hair. It was so soft and always smelled good.

"Shen, do you find it silly that even though you and I are so young, I like to think about us being married some day, having a family and a big house, maybe starting our own meditation retreat together. I know it's early, but those thoughts make me happy."

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Chinese Princesses traditionally were there for beauty and to show the pride of the people in their leaders, but she was no stand around girl, he knew. YiXue was one who was going to make things happen he was sure. Would she ever want to get married? Too soon for him to think about, but pipe dreams seemed an appropriate thing for this stage of their relationship. "You do it very well, otherwise I would not be charmed."

A very long kissing session left him breathless in more then one way and a bubble of happiness inside of him came very close to the surface, filling the evening with another sort of magic. "Indeed it was, I feel rather possessive of the boat suddenly. Think they will let us rent it out for a few months?" He caressed her cheek as she played with his hair and didn't want to move.

"Surely we could get a House Elf to bring us meals out here..." he teased, but at the moment he rather wanted to take her straight back to the dorm while everyone was out! Then she spoke of marriage and he felt surprised as that was his thought from earlier! "I have already thought about it I must confess, this seems nearly too good to be true, but I have two more years in school. It's still pretty early for me to think that way."

He sounded sad about that thought, knowing she would not be there for one of them. "YiXue...what were you thinking of for a career when you get out? Is it something that can be done in Hogsmeade?"

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YiiXue giggled about letting them rent the boat. She couldn't agree more. Kissing on a boat was quite nice.

"Maybe one day, we'll have one of our own... or maybe two," she said. "We can call one Dumpling Boy and one Sack Girl." She laughed at that a bit.

YiXue wasn't keen on having a House Elf, but that was because she had heard about some of them were treated.

"Okay, but if we do, we treat the elf like part of the family and only let the elf serve if he or she wants to," she said, and it was not up for debate. YiXue then shrugged about the waiting part.

"Look how long we waited to be a couple after we decided we loved each other," she said. "We can wait a bit longer."

YiXue knew what Shen was getting at when he asked if she could work in Hogsmeade. She smiled at him.

"Well, actually right now I am talking to the tea shop about a job," she said. "As far as I know, I'd still work there until I had enough to start my meditation retreat. So... yes, Shen, if this works out, you'll see me after I graduate." She then kissed him again.

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He watched her cheerfully admit to considering children with him and he felt floored. They had known each other awhile, of course, but it was only this year they had connected. In the past it had been friends, nothing much more though he had thought about it like any teenager did. You wondered about the future even as you allowed time to pass for certain things and he was sure few others in his year were contemplating marriage. At least, he hoped not many were thinking about it really.

"Oh on't get me imagining it this early, YiXue, I won't think about much of anything else!" he laughed, knowing it was true. Whose hair, whose eyes, all the different factors that go into thinking about what kids will be like and how they might turn out. He would end up truly distracted! He chuckled about the House Elf part. "I wasn't thinking of our own, I meant while we were renting the boat, silly woman, the House Elves of Hogwarts might be induced to bring us our meals here instead of the Great hall..."

Of course it was a joke; that sort of thing would never happen.

And there was that magic logic. Suddenly two years was a 'bit.' "Ah yes, I know. I think I would be down in Hogsmeade every weekend for those years. I will need many excuses I suspect for slipping out of the school..." Tea shop. Somehow he thought that wouldn't pay a ton. "Ah but you will need a place to stay. Maybe some weekend this year we can go look at places and see what stuff goes for money wise for you..."

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Shen was now confusing YiXue, but she let it slide.

"I guess we should worry about all of that later," she said. "But I think it's fun to imagine one's future. I think about my own retreat all the time." YiXue wasn't crazy about discussing the House Elves though. She never liked the idea of anyone having to do "forced servitude." If someone ever gave her a House Elf, she would present the Elf with clothes and free him or her right away and the two would be good friends. She would only allow the elf to serve if the elf wished to.

YiXue chuckled about Shen making excuses.

"Don't worry," she said. "You'll be a Seventh Year then. Seventh Years can go to Hogsmeade pretty much whenever they want to. I heard a few of them even work there at night." She then raised an eyebrow of them looking for places to live. "Well I can probably apparate by then, but I mean if you really want to look for a place then..." Her and Shen living together after she graduated? She could definitely go for that!

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Not realizing he was confusing her, he had only been talking about the boat now, after all, not the future of their lives. Shen's family had never had House Elves nor had he ever met one before Hogwarts. Whereas thinking about having children with her meant sex and long commitment and that he was all in favor of, however he should be patient with time and not rush. "I admit I think about us together, but it's usually only the beginning and marriage I think of mostly."

He reached out and caressed her cheek, thinking about how much he would enjoy waking up in a bed with her beside him. Alas! That would be some time from now. "Ah YiXue, you will be a delight to have a family with I am sure! Any dreams I have can not match up to reality." She liked his excuses and he grinned, feeling well rewarded for the humor.

"Ah really? That is good. I shall be exercising that right a lot I believe. Although if I remember right the objection is students sleeping in Hogsmeade instead of in the castle. That will probably be my largest temptation..." He glanced at her mention of appiration curiously. "Were you thinking of living at home then? Ah, I can find a way to work with that. We will have to earn a lot of galleons to get you your meditation center in the right place!"

As for he, he was not sure that most of the wizarding world recognized the skills he had so much as the muggle world did.

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YiXue smiled about the idea of marriage.

"Awww, a big wedding or a little one?" she asked. "I'm good with either, as long as a honeymoon on the beach follows."

YiXue smiled about the idea of a family too.

"Two children," she said. "A handsome boy that looks like his dad, and a lovely girl that looks like her mum. We'll have a dog, a cat, and an owl of course. It will be a perfect life." She then kissed Shen again.

YiXue blushed when Shen said he would be tempted to sleep over in Hogsmeade with her.

"Shen... you are being a naughty, naughty boy," she said. "But I probably won't live anywhere fancy on a waitress's salary. Just a flat or something, and then when you graduate we can look for something nicer." She then held him. "And don't worry about saving up the galleons. We'll have a plan. I can start now if I get this job. By the time you graduate, we'll have a lot already. We have an amazing life awaiting us, Dumpling Boy. We'll take it one step at a time."

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Shen paused, contemplation in his eyes for a few moments before he answered her question. "With my family, there isn't such a thing as a small wedding unless we only have parents and that doesn't really seem fair to my siblings. Once you count in my siblings and their families we're looking at 30 plus as my smallest family figure. No extended relatives." He sighed, holding her close as he whispered in her ear "I would prefer small, just you, me and the witnesses required, then some big reception for everyone else really. More intimate, more special, more magical."

Oh, so she liked beaches? "Is the ocean you want, or a beach? Or is there a particular place you like the most?" The beaches could be so different, so many lands, and he had heard of some in the mountains of China as well for special magical resort retreats which could also be quite spectacular. The idea of children also brought a smile to his face as he caressed her hair, softly and slowly. "Yao. Two children sounds good, I would not want to push you to more then you felt comfortable with. If we live anywhere near my family, they will be surrounded with cousins anyway."

Shen was used to large families.

He blushed slightly, but his eyes shined with a certain look. "I apologize, YiXue, but being near you inspires me to think ahead too. And I know that once we are together forever I will find certain things hard to resist. I shall do my best to curb such thoughts so as to not embarrass you, my adorable Sack Girl." A flat would be fine with him for the first couple of years to let them be able to save for awhile. He nodded, but held his peace on the getting a nicer part for now.

"Next year I may look for work as well, though I will need to study with someone if I intend to do much more with my skills. Probably with someone muggle at that. I shall ask my father to ask around about possible teachers in Scotland. That should make it easier at first." He smiled at her, leaving off her hair to touch her cheek again, enjoying the feel of her skin under his fingers, so soft.

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"I think we can go with that," she said about the marriage plan. "I mean after all, it's the reception everyone wants to go to, right?" YiXue chuckled at that.

YiXue shrugged about the beach honeymoon.

"A nice one near the ocean, maybe a resort somewhere," she said. "I hear there are some lovely wizard resorts around, though I don't mind going to a Muggle one. I hear those are nice too."

YiXue beamed about the two children.

"We could have more," she said. "We'll see where life takes us."

YiXue kissed him about the whole intimacy thing to show him there was no ill will.

"Well, you are being mature about the subject," she said. "A lot of guys aren't. When the time comes for... that, we'll make it special as well. I promise."

Shen then spoke of his plans and YiXue showed no objection to him going through with them. She had no issue with Muggles whatsoever, and no issue with Shen studying with them.

"Whatever you want to do, you know I'll support you," she said. "I will always back your goals." She then looked back at the party and smiled as the others danced. "You want to head back?"
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Ah, so he had her thinking about it then? Shen felt rather pleased she liked his suggestion about the wedding possibilities. Probably because it involved a ton less stress to do it simple from what he had understood. Not that he had been to more then one wedding, but still; simple made more sense to him. Honeymoons were actually supposed to be the guy's part to do and he did think that he would have to brainstorm on that one a long time. He would want that to be an experience never forgotten.

"Yes, no reason to plan too far ahead of course. Imagination is fun, but it rarely holds up to real life later. You can never predict what paths will open up along the way. But holding you is so pleasant, YiXue, I find myself unable to not think ahead." He kissed her back, enjoying the moment; unlike many boys, he had more restraint and a feeling of time to spend wisely. Most of his yearmates could claim the thought of immediate gratification were very strong.

But his sense of time was a bit more developed.

"Thank you," he said about the mature part, "I do think most of our fellow students get a bit too carried away when it comes down to it." Still, her promise was special and he knew he would be using his imagination later that night. "I know, YiXue, you will be a wonderful partner I can tell. Already I look forward to life with you. And yes, if you can not stand to cuddle me more," he teased with a smile, "we can go back to the crowd."

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