I grilled Sally about her whereabouts when I finally met her at the ball a few hours later. She said she was detained in the 'queue' waiting to greet the prince. She was accompanying her diplomat father, but the prince was nowhere to be found. When her father finally gave her permission to leave, she could not find me next to the statue.
She did not seem to be lying to me and I believed her. If even my best friend lied to me, I didn't know who I could trust. Then my life would truly be pathetic.
When I told Aunt about the piece of jewel from the mysterious guy. She seemed extremely excited and happy that I had a 'mysterious suitor'. In the next few days, she tried to subtly brainwash me into believing that there were many nice gentlemen in Zehan or that living in Zehan was much more fun than in Arerin or that Zehan boys were so well-mannered just like my uncle and cousins...
