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Chapter 15 - Chapter12:The Ball

Ayana-

I hear a knock on the door, thinking it was Lily coming to get me I open surprised to see the Tristain standing before me. He's wearing a black/red suit that I notice fits him nicely. I feel his eyes rake over me as I do the same to him.

The red on his suit matches the red on my dress which I find weird. "Are we matching?" I look up and ask him.

He looks down at my dress then answers me with byy

I raise my eyebrows at him, "Oh."

"And I also came to get you. We're leaving now." I nod closing  my room door. We walk side by side down the stairs to the living room. As we did I kept seeing him sneak peeks at me when he thought I wasn't looking.

All six of us were in the living John nowhere to be found. "Where's John?" I ask. Sarah turns to me, "He said he would meet us there, he wanted to check everything out first." I nod. Everyone was dressed nicely Sarah in a sparkling silver dress and Lily in an almost identical one except it was the color blue.

Sarah clapped her hands together, "Alright, let's go before we're late. The cars are outside waiting.

We leave grabbing coats on our way out.

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There we three separate cars waiting for us outside. The six of us separated with two into each car. Me and Tristian, Sarah and Taylor, and Lily and Alex in the last one.

The car rude was silent between Tristian and I only are breaths creating white puffs in the air was evident. I turned to the window watching as we moved quickly from the dark forest to white winter. We went into the village from before passing all the close together houses. I watched as people peeked out of their homes staring at us drive by curiously. 

We slowed to a stop as we neared a tall building. As we got closer I saw it wasn't a building but a castle instead. It was big and had giant crystals at the top. The doors were open allowing music flow out from inside. Cars were showing up and dropping people off all over. Our car pulled up to the lit up entrance and Just as I went to open the car door a cool hand stopped.

I looked up at Trsitian, he handed me something small and hard. In the darkness of the car I could see it sparkled. "Put this on," he finally said. I flipped it over finding a strap in the back, being careful of my hair and I put it over my head sliding it just nice my nose. I felt it scratch my face a little bit but other than it was okay.

I looked over at Tristan and saw he had a similar one on his face too. I take my coat off placing in my seat, just as I see Tristian do the same. We get out of the car at the same time shutting the doors softly.

I take a deep breath welcoming the cool cold air. I hear footsteps and see Tristian come toward me holding out his arm. "Shall we?,"he asks me. I nod placing my hand in the crease of his elbow. As we walk toward the entrance I see Lily, Sarah, Taylor, and Alex walking closely behind. I take another breath letting the cold air coat my lungs, it was soothing in a way.

As we made our way in the color gold welcomed us. All around us patterns of gold on the walls. A gold fountain was off to the side flowing with water. A double set of doors opened to a gold colored ballroom with hundreds of people in dresses and suits consisting of different colors. 

We walked in Tristian leading us to the back where there was a long table full of edible sweets all colored gold. I looked up seeing a crystal chandelier hanging above us. Something about it made me think I saw before somewhere. I see the others heading toward as more people came in. Voices collided together as more people swarmed in. I could see each person was wearing a face mask more extravagant than mine of Tristain s. There's consisted of feather, beads, and all types of crystals.

The others finally joined us looking around curiously. "What are exactly are we supposed to do here," Lily asked. I too wondered that myself.

Sarah turned to all of us, "John told us we have to look for clues of anything out of place. Something that could tell us how and where the six teens disappeared to." We all nodded understanding. "And it couldn't hurt to actually enjoy this ball", she added quickly. We all looked at her skeptically.

"What, it is a ball for Pete's sake. Why can't we have fun here."

"It actually couldn't hurt. We just have to be alert at all times." Lily added.

Sarah smiled happily, "Great!" She grabbed Taylor's hand dragging him the middle of the ballroom where people were suddenly gathering to dance. Soft paced music was playing as people started dancing. Not everyone was dancing some were off to the side talking and chatting quietly. Some girls were off to my left and saw one of them look at me curiously. She was wearing a yellow ruffled ball gown with a mask to match it. She kept casting me glances a she talked with her friends. I looked down at my dress thinking something was wrong when I finally noticed the color of my dress. Red. I was the only in red, or at least me and Tristain. Of all the colors in the room we were the only ones in red. Well.

Lily and had traveled across the room to where drinks were being served which left me and Tristain together alone. I noticed I was still holding his arm, I moved to remove it but changed my mind at the last second. I only tightened my hold further causing Tristain to look out of the corner of my eye. I saw his mouth turn up in a smirk as he turned to me, "You know we can't just stand here the whole time."

"Okay," I say not knowing where he was heading with this. He held out his hand to me slightly bowing. Now I understood. I shook my head slight, "No, I dont even now how to dance, especially at these things."

"Well, you never know if you don't at least try." I stay quiet looking around nervously. "Come on. Just one dance."

"For me," he pleads quietly that I almost think I imagined it. Almost.

I sigh loudly but take his hand finally. His hands are surprisingly warm compared to my cold ones. He takes us close where Sarah and Taylor are.

He pulls me close to him as another song starts to play. He bends down to my ear,"Just follow my lead," he whispers.