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Chapter 16 - 16: Yay the ball!

Kelsey

Breakfast seemed to take FOREVER but it finally ended and we all went to get ready for the ball, other people were going to be showing up around four for it so we have about seven hours to be ready. Loads of time, so it's fine. 

Suddenly I heard Skye's voice in my head say, 'Keep your mom away from town for like an hour, I'm getting all the shit I need for tonight.'

'Okay, will do evil plan sister.' I replied, in a joking tone at the end. I heard a slight laugh and she stopped mind linking. I wandered the castle sniffing around for my mom to make sure she doesn't end up going into town at all. I thankfully found her in her room, I didn't go talk to her though. I just stayed hidden where I could see her and wait to see if she leaves or not. I watched for around fifteen or so minutes before she left her room and started walking down the hallway, I slowly followed behind being careful not to draw her attention at all. Once she was kind of close to the main door I slipped outside a different way to cut her off. I walked up to the main doors slow enough for her to not hit me with them if she really does come out this way, which she did.

"Hey mom," I fake happily greeted then added, "where you off to?"

She smiled and answered, "I was going to go into the town to see if there was any jewelry to go with my dress. Where were you coming from?"

"I was just looking at the garden, but was headed to the library. Have you seen how huge it is?" I replied, hoping to get her away from going into town.

"No I haven't yet." she answered. "Then come on! I'll show you." I fake excitedly said, grabbing her hand and dragging her off to the giant library. She had chuckled at my child-like enthusiasm, meanwhile I was coming up with numerous things to do if she doesn't stay at the library for long enough. We finally got there, fifty thousand damn stairs later. I pushed open the huge ass wood doors with fancy decoration stuff on them and watched my mom stare in awe at how ginormous this library is. I convinced her to look around the entire place with me, top to bottom of all three floors of it. Took us almost an hour, but then she tried to leave so I asked for help finding a book that I already knew where it was. So that wasted an extra fifteen to twenty minutes and we finally found it, now that it's been enough time for Skye to get shit, leave and hide again.

"Thank you for the help mom, would've taken me all week to find it on my own." I said in pretend amusement, causing her to chuckle and reply, "No problem sweetie. Did you want to come into town with me?"

I declined as polite as humanly possible, "I would, but Drake already asked me to help him and his dad double check to make sure everything is ready. I had told him I'd start after finding this book."

She smiled and responded, "That's okay, there's always next time. I'll see you later Kelsey, love you."

"Love you too." I replied back feeling weird about it now. She left and I started on my way to help Drake and then get ready.

~time skip to the ball cuz I have no fucking clue what to write~

I got my hair done in a french braid to the side with some glitter that I brought with me in it, had my dress and shoes on and was ready to go. Drake was in a suit lookin all fancy as hell, everyone was all dressed fancy and ready for the ball. Before heading down I waited for Skye to stop by because she said she was going to for a last minute run down of the plan. She finally showed up, not even ready for the ball. What in the shit. It's fine, she knows what she's doing, it's fine.

"Hey you look nice, very princessy." She said amused.

I playfully rolled my eyes and replied, "Well, I am a princess. Should look the part right?"

We both chuckled and she said, "Okay, so, the announcer guy knows to hand you the medieval version of a mic after the absolute very last person right?" I nodded, she nodded back once and said, "Good. So the plan is all ready and in motion?"

"Yup. All ready." We smirked to each other and she left. Drake and I headed down to the ball room to start the Christmas ball since apparently we need to be introduced at our own dance. We walked onto this wide, fancy balcony that over looked the entire ball and waved at the commoners down below as the announcer well announced us. He then proceeded to announce all the royals we invited, one of which was Luke.

After a few minutes the guy with the mic told everyone, "And our last guest is a very special one, who is to be introduced by her new friend, Princess Kelsey. Take it away princess." He then handed me the "mic" so I stepped forward to see the whole crowd, my mother close to the door to get a good shot of Skye she didn't know she was getting.

I could see her perfectly clear and started talking to everyone else, "This good friend of mine, I've only known her a day, but I feel like we've known each other for years. Seventeen years to be exact. And uh, one could say we're a lot alike. Anyways those specifics aside, here she is, my new friend Skye!" With that the doors were opened by servants and Skye walked through in full sassy confidence decked out in a gorgeous gown with matching jewelry, her hair half up and half down. The entire room collectively gasped in surprise, then the majority of people looked back and forth between us. I saw my mom turn back to look at me in pained shock, yeah you better hurt for keeping this from us. "Oh, guess I forgot to mention. She's also my twin sister." I casually said through the "mic" to the crowd, proud of staring my mom down the whole time.

I handed the mic back to the announcer and he concluded, "Alright, well that was a huge surprise. Everyone enjoy King Striders ball and give a big round of applause for our newly found twin sisters!" Everyone erupted in cheering after getting over their shock, except for my mom but that's to be expected. I smirked down at her before turning around and taking my mate to the dance floor with everyone else.

Dylan met with us on the way, I tried asking, "Do you think the plan was well executed?"

But the only answer I got was a mumbled, "Sure."

I raised a brow and watched him keep his eyes locked on Skye the whole time, I chuckled and asked, "What color is the ocean?"

"Yes, she is so beautiful.." Dylan absent mindedly answered, causing all of us to laugh at him being so distracted. The laughs seemed to snap him out of his Skye trance right before she was in ear shot. He glanced around at us and said, "Don't tell her I said that. She'll kill like everyone, by scaring them with her anger so much they have a heart attack." I can't tell if he's serious or just saying that because he's flustered as shit. We all promised not to tell her but he pointedly looked at Lily and repeated, "Don't. Tell her. Okay?"

She sighed and rolled her eyes and said again, "I promise I won't."

Right then we reached Skye who was waiting for us at the bottom of the stairs and asked, "You promise you won't what Lily?" Lily started vibrating as she fought the smile coming to her face while Dylan friend glared at her. Skye raised a brow, waiting for an answer.

Lily finally exploded and spilled out, "Dylan said your beautiful!" and ran away, yanking Luke with her. Dylan's expression fell to a child getting scolded as he slowly looked over at my sister, he smiled awkwardly and nervously scratched the back of his head. Skye kept a straight face, staring at him to the point of uncomfortableness. Kat, Jason, Drake and I stood silently watching, waiting for something to happen. For a minute or two nothing did happen but then Skye slowly stepped forward to stand right in front of Dylan, still staring him down. You could practically see the intensity between them, and then Skye shocked every single person watching and reached up and kissed Dylan on the lips. He visibly stiffened in surprise but kissed back for the five seconds it lasted, she then walked away still in her sassy confidence mood.

Dylan stood completely surprised until Drake teased him and asked, "What, was that your first kiss or something?"

Dylan faced us and answered, "Not even close, but that's the first she's ever kissed me in front of more than one person. And in front of people she knows." Wow, she really is confident tonight. We all smiled at him and started shooing him to go follow her and dance and stuff, after about ten seconds of four people loudly encouraging him to do so he finally followed after her smiling his face off. Now to enjoy the party and later confront my mom.