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{{ + Masquerade + }} [ OPEN ] May 3, 2014 15:38:44 GMT -5

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Post by Kenzie on May 3, 2014 15:38:44 GMT -5

Ooc//:
Full visual list of attire is here.

Bic//:

“Jer… why…”

Phoebe had arranged to meet her brother at the gymnasium that the ball would be held at. They were not going together, both were going alone, but that didn’t mean that they couldn’t hang out with one another! Neither had very many friends outside of Sky, anyway. They had people they talked to but no one they were as close as they were to one another. Phoebe was dressed extremely extravagantly in a white and black dress with a mask concealing her face. Her hair was in a very odd but beautiful style, pulled up into the shape of bright red flowers that fell about her head and cascaded down to her torso. It draped over one shoulder and ended at her bust. Phoebe had met Jer in the gym, when not too many people were there, and she didn’t even know why she was surprised anymore, frankly.

Jer was wearing a full face mask that obstructed his features from view. It looked ridiculous, the face was solid white and contained accents in black and gold. The expression on the face was one of entertainment. The main indicator of his identity was his obnoxiously bright red hair sticking out behind it and short stature not much improved by his thick boots. From where she stood now, Phoebe was still taller than her brother in her heels. Jer was a total mess. His suit was two sizes too big and he hadn’t even buttoned it. His shirt was no better and was buttoned unevenly, the left side coming out an inch longer than the right. The shirt was tucked into one half of his slacks but the other half was covered by the sloppy shirt. His hands were shoved into his pockets and his black tie was barely knotted, hanging down his shirt haphazardly and completely uneven. Jer laughed, the sound muffled behind his obnoxious mask.

“Why what?”

“Why are you wearing that?” Phoebe reiterated, her eyes locked on Jer’s ridiculous mask and his horribly unkempt suit. She reached forward to fix the buttons on his top. Jer watched and let her do so before he reached up himself after she was done and re-messed them up.

“I’m making a statement, Phoe. These kinds of events…. We get dressed up! Why?” He asked, swinging an awkward arm around her shoulders since she was much taller than him, especially in heels. Phoebe sighed and leaned down, deciding to humor him. She grimaced when she smelled Jer’s breath—he smelt of pot.

“Because… it’s a formal event?”

“WRONG! It’s giving into society. Why get all dressed up?! We are just listening to music here, not something important. It’s an unspoken rule to dress up nice—unspoken rules need to be broken. Do you get me?”

“No. Why do they need to be broken?” Phoebe asked, tucking a stray lock of heir back into her floral braid. Jer paused, as though he didn’t expect that reaction.

“Because… I said so! Anyway,” Jer pulled away and gestured to the whole room, filled with a few early arrivals all dressed nicely. “We all look like PENGUINS! STOP THE PENGUIN WEAR 2014!”

“Jer.” Phoebe said, exasperated, but just shook her head and decided to let it go. There was no getting through to Jer, especially not after he gleefully sashayed over towards the punch bowl, his hips swinging, winking at everyone he passed, occasionally pointing and laughing at boys dressed all spiffily in suits. Phoebe took a deep breath and meandered towards the nearest small table, taking a seat as her eyes wondered around the other attendees. She couldn’t help but notice the beautiful dresses and the beautiful models who wore them, how their figures flowed right along with the dresses they wore. It filled her with awe at all the lovely ladies, not noticing as Jer slipped a questionable substance into the punch bowl while both Susan and Russell were in a conversation over to the left and no one was watching him.

“Well hey there, hon. Got room for another person here?” Phoebe looked up to see Chastity Burne, looking sexy and done up in her revealing gown, showing perhaps the most leg action in the room aside from Susan, who was in a cheap little prom dress she’d bought a few years ago. Chastity grinned at Phoebe, who looked her up and down, face slowly reddening as she nodded her head somewhat. Chastity helped herself to a seat, folding her legs as she rested her elbow on the table, resting her chin in her palm and her manicured nails drummed against her cheek. Phoebe glanced over at her again, eyes briefly darting down to her thighs before she quickly turned away and focused on Jer, who was now wiggling awkwardly next to a stranger. Phoebe sighed and hoped that Sky arrived soon to reel the boy in.

-x-

Susan Summers and Russell Fields were both chaperoning the dance, but neither was particularly observant. They were in the middle of a conversation themselves. Susan was actually hanging off of Arthur’s arm; since Kasper was gone, she had decided to take her brother! He didn’t have a date, anyway, and otherwise she knew he wouldn’t have shown up. Susan was in a shorter blue dress that didn’t stand out all that much, not having had to funds to devote to a ball gown. Arthur was in a cheap brown suit with a tie to match his sister’s, as he lazily glanced at his watch. He wanted to be in his room, damn it! He’d thought Susan would be fine going with Russell as her ‘date’, but nope.

“Put a smile on your face!” Susan said brightly, turning towards her brother. Ever since she’d found out she was pregnant, Susan had quite literally been on cloud nine. She was excited to bring a new life in the world and even more excited to raise it herself, as her actual biological child. She’d always dreamed of having one, especially as Arthur had gotten older. Meanwhile her brother was much less enthusiastic and had seemed even grumpier than before. Susan had chosen to remain oblivious to this—she knew he was still mad at Kasper, even though Susan had already gotten the misunderstanding cleared by this point.

When Arthur didn’t obey, Susan narrowed er eyes and elbowed his side. Arthur winched.

“Ow,” He glanced down at Susan, who rose her eyebrows. Arthur put a very pointedly forced and lopsided smile on his face. “Happy now?”

Susan had to snort at how ridiculous he looked and patted his cheek.

“As a clam. Thanks for humoring me, Artie.” Susan said, turning away. Once her back was turned Arthur’s face fell back to his neutral and unhappy expression, as his eyes scanned the room. He saw nothing noteworthy—sloppily dressed redhead aside—and scanned the door, wondering when he’d be able to leave.

“Yeah, yeah.”

“Watch it! You’re being too sassy. You should tone it down or the sassy girls will start getting jealous you’re stealing their thunder. Speaking of sassy girls, she’s cute.” Susan pointed to Talya, who looked vacant, spinning around on the dance floor in green even though the music playing was a low volume rap song and didn’t fit her spins at all. Arthur gave his sister a look.

“She’s also in my house. Remember the spacey girl, Talya? No way.” Arthur said. Susan rolled her eyes.

“Spacey or not, she's still cute. But how about her?” Susan pointed to Kara, who was actually on time for once, sitting at a table stifling a yawn. Even with the mask she was recognizable to Arthur and he shook his head.

“She’s the one who kicked me out of my last house. Remember?” Susan looked up and to the left, thinking about it.

“Ohhhh… right, right.... didn't recognize her... Well… what about her?” Arthur didn’t even follow Susan’s gaze to Shyanne, just arriving at the door. Shyanne was all dolled up, in a light pink dress and a pair of heels, looking like a princess.

“Can you stop? I’m not interested!” Arthur snapped. Susan pouted slightly.

“That’s okay then—maybe him? I like his mask.” Susan said, pointing to Lucy, but not quite recognizing him. He was near the punch bowl with a cup in his hands, talking to Chad who also had a cup. Susan recognized neither with their masks on, though, it was hard to place faces to students especially when they were hidden. Even though she had them all, with the masks, it was impossible to put faces to the names!

“I didn’t mean in girls. I meant in general.” Arthur brought a hand to his face and rubbed his forehead, which was barely visible above his mask. “Stop trying to pair me up. It’s not cute.”

“But…” Susan sighed, feeling disappointed. Normally she'd press the issue, but there was something in her brothers tone that convinced her to back off for a few minutes. So instead she scanned the crowd for any sign of someone she knew, maybe Maddie, because she would love to talk to her!

-x-

Daphne already had a table for herself, sitting all alone while listening to the music. She had never been to a dance before and assumed it dry, because it was obviously filled with people who were not professional dancers. Besides that, she was in such a dress! How was she expected to move around in this! A real dance, the kind that she performed on a daily basis, required much more flexible outfits. In this she could merely ballroom dance. The table beside her was also a table for one, and at it sat Todd, awkwardly fiddling with his black tie. He had wanted to ask Max to the dance, just like last year, so they could go as friends, but had chickened out last minute. Besides, he wouldn’t be surprised if she went with someone else anyway. So Todd sat alone, wondering if anyone else he knew planned on coming. He didn’t know if Bandi was planning to come too, he might, Todd didn’t know. He hoped he did, he didn’t want to sit alone. Amy was probably going to be with her boyfriend and he wasn’t sure about Ace and Max, he hadn’t asked…

He glanced around the room, noticing only one person on the dance floor. Todd looked down, staring at the tablecloth with half lidded eyes, letting out a sigh. He wanted to see Amy’s dress though—she’d seemed completely ecstatic about it before!

-x-

Meanwhile, Amy O’Neal was in her room, putting the finishing touches on her dress. She was being picked up by Mason, since he was her accompaniment, and of course figured he’d be the first to see her in her dress. She’d totally wanted to text Sam or Max a picture, but figured they’d see her at the dance itself. She’d give Mason the honor of being the first!

It was much more elegant than she usually went with, and her hair, for once, lied in straight waves down her chest and back. It wasn’t that Amy didn’t like her curls, but she also liked her hair straightened. It normally took hours so she just never bothered to straighten it. But for today, she went all out!

“Hmmm hm~” Amy hummed to herself, situating her mask on her face. She laughed at how mysterious it made her look! She hoped no one recognized her, since her hair was down and her mask was on. She walked down the stairs and waited for the doorbell to ring, biting her lower lip, hoping to surprise Mason when he arrived!

Last Edit: May 15, 2014 19:39:56 GMT -5 by Kenzie

Amy O'Neal || Todd Bennett || Chad Richardson || Arthur Summers || Hallie Grey || Clementine Coleman

Cliff Arkwright || Ash DeCosta || Shyanne Volle || Seamus MacAlister || Savannah Nieto || Daemon Jeong

Ms. Susan Summers || Mr. Jean Audet

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{{ + Masquerade + }} [ OPEN ] May 3, 2014 16:14:40 GMT -5

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Post by juneberry on May 3, 2014 16:14:40 GMT -5

Flutter didn't understand the point of the masks, but had been forced into one by Lily when they met to water some of the plants the gardening club was tending. She was already in a simple dress by fluke, covered in a nice woolen jacket that looked like it belonged to a suit. It wasn't the most logical thing to wear in general, but she'd been in a hurry to make sure the sweet smelling plants didn't end up drying up- and it was just in time to be dragged by her brother and friend to a dance she had no interest in.

All three of them rushed in separate directions- or at least, generally they did. Lily was first able to notice Lucy, and dragged Sayaku with her to say hello- since she knew both were gay, and Sayaku seemed like he planned to head over there anyway. Hugging Lucy from behind, Lily was happily smiling with a barely notable mask at all. "You promised to go with me, I've been looking all over for you! Silly Lucy."

"So...This is your friend?" Sayaku laughed nervously, not really knowing what to expect. He had a mask on, sure, but his eyes were still fairly visible- and not that many people had blue eyes and dark hair naturally, right? "Sorry, she's friends with my sister and got really excited about introducing us..."

Of course, he wasn't going to say too much- but he could tell from where he stood that Chad was very, very closeby. And hot, as always.

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Flutter wasn't interested in all this. No, it lacked any sense of logic at all! She could somewhat see recognizable faces from where she was, but it wasn't really something she cared about. Of course, seeing two teachers was helpful...Maybe the coach could teach her something easy to do there, since it'd be harder to get home than to get there?

Pulling the mask off her face as she felt it silly and unnecessary (and a bit itchy on her cheeks), she meandered over to a group of what seemed to be three- and she could only tell the teachers apart. "Ms. Summers. Coach Fields. Hello."

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Isabella had found out since that her sister was pregnant, and had been shocked when the woman decided not to worry about something that sounded fun to her. What was it, the maternity blues? She'd gone anyway, following a red-haired girl in a cute dress that had caught her attention (remaining blissfully unaware that girl was a boy as usual). The girl had called herself Adatia- and had offered to show Isabella the way to the dance. In reality, Isabella was mostly going to let her sister know what it was like. She hadn't in the end begged her brother to join her, but luckily had met someone randomly that could help. As they reached the dance, the colorful dresses caught her attention quite quickly- especially one, a very colorful one all together on one single girl.

She soon caught her attention to another fellow- someone she knew at least by name. Todd was there, and she could recognize him enough. Her self-painted mask was a bit awkward to have seen, but she was curious to show it to him, since he had shown interest in her painting once before. "Is it fun to watch people?" She mused, tapping the table near where he sat. "I bet it's even more fun to watch with someone else. Like a movie."

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Akira had gone with Walter just for the heck of going with someone- even though she honestly didn't know him. She just knew that he was friends with one of her housemates or something, and figured it'd be fun! "Wally-ly, Wally-ly~" She was singing some sort of stupid song that had no real lyrics, but her singing voice was as bright and colorful as her dress. She twirled and danced around like it was nothing but a normal day- because to Akira, every day was wonderful! "Wally-ly! Come on and dance!"

"N-Nah I think I'd rather go check on a friend instead...Er, yeah..." Even Walter couldn't handle that much energy in one go- not when his hobby was to watch people, and not join in as much. So he wandered over to the singles tables, hoping to find a good place to keep an eye on the fun, instead of taking part in it. "Much quieter...Akira's really loud..."

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{{ + Masquerade + }} [ OPEN ] May 4, 2014 10:28:59 GMT -5

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Post by Shelby on May 4, 2014 10:28:59 GMT -5

Okay, this was a new experience, something that she had hoped to do at least once in her life, but now that the time was here, she didn't really know what to think about it. Now, while she generally didn't get nervous about many things, mostly because her parents had scared her out of being nervous about most things, especially with always putting her on the spot, more so with a camera than anything, but still. The point was, Niko just wasn't used to the whole dance scene, mostly because her parents never let her go when was did go to her normal high school. There were no proms for her, nor were there any just little dances that she could attend because she was always working, and to be honest when ever her parents would tell her that she wasn't able to go she would get a little upset, but quickly get over it and just do what they told her to do.

But now, when she brought up the concept of the dance to her parents when it was first announced to her, they actually seemed ecstatic about it. Or they just found this dance to be an opportunity to get her a sponsor from a dress designer, which is what they did. So she was wearing a designer dress, a ball room gown that she loved a lot, actually, and as she stared at herself in her mirror she couldn't help but smile a little as she twirled a few strands of hair around her finger. Still, she was nervous about this though. "Might as well go now..." She had already sent a picture of the dress to her parents, though they still had yet to respond back to the text. Oh well, they were probably doing something important. She put the mask on her face then, something that didn't necessarily cover up her entire face given how you could still generally tell that it was her, but she had to admit that wearing this was a little weird, yet cute. She wondered if other people would have mask too. Probably. That was the theme after all.

So after giving herself little more of a pep talk, something that was odd to her, she finally left the house, another smile gracing her lips as she made her way over to the gym, happy that she actually knew where this place was at. That'd be embarrassing if she didn't know where it was at, right? The thought made her laugh, but when she finally made it to the doors of the gym she stopped and took a deep breath. Oh, she wondered how everyone else would look. There would probably be a lot of pretty dresses, and a lot of nicely dressed up guys. Yeah, this should be fun.

There were only a few people out there on the dance floor, more people just mingling around, conversing with each other. She wondered if she would end up dancing. Maybe, maybe not. She didn't really know how to dance. She started walking around then, smiling at everything and everyone.

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"You know, we always keep meeting up like this. You'd think you'd be able to find your way around a little better." Of course what Max said was all in good fun, a teasing tone coming out as she turned to look at Ace who walked right beside her, shaking his head with a little smile on his face. Now, while the two weren't going together, they just so happened to end up meeting each other on the way there, so they figured, why not just walk there together? Neither of them had dates anyway, so there was no harm in it. Besides, it was better to go with friends than to go alone.

"I wasn't lost. I just... Forgot." Ace scratched the side of his face, the simple black mask he wore a little irritating on his face, but he kept it on nonetheless. And his attire was just as it was the last dance he attended; a simple suit, actually the same one he wore before since he figured that there was no point in buying another one if he already had one, no matter how much his parents insisted. He got this thing dry cleaned, it wasn't messed up, so it was completely fine in his book to wear this.

"Which means you were lost." She laughed, her eyes bouncing back and forth. The music from the gym could be heard as the two got closer and closer to the building, though her heels continued to click on the ground. She nearly thought about going in flats, but decided against it after looking at the dress. Had she worn flats, the little train on the dress would drag more on the ground ten it already was given her height, and she did actually want to seem taller than she normally did. Besides, heels wouldn't hinder her from dancing, so she figured that she might as well have them.

When they made it into the gym Max couldn't help but start dancing, her hair bouncing around, though not as it her face as it normally would have been had she had it down. Really it was just a ponytail with her hair curled. Something simple, something that she could do since she didn't want to go to a salon and get it done because, one it was too expensive, and two it would take too long. "Now, time to get some dancing in!" A grin stretched across her cheeks as she headed out to the dance floor, recognizing a few people though it was a bit hard to tell given the mask.

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Door locked: check. Mask and suit on: check. Crazy twin brother all ready to go. Chase turned his head to see his brother, wearing identical clothing, standing next to him outside the door, a bounce in his step as he started heading towards where the gym was. "Come on dude, we're going to be late!" Check.

Chase shook his head with a laugh and then proceeded to follow Chance, jogging a little to catch up with him before he was able to finally catch up with him. "When are we ever on time for something though?"

"Good point."

The two had been only to once dance before, a little prom that their school had when they were in middle school (why they had a prom for middle schoolers they didn't know, though didn't complain about it) but that only seemed to make them more excited about the whole ordeal. They were finally going to be able to have a good time around a lot of people, and probably cause some trouble, but when did the two not? It was like getting into some type of trouble was in their genetics, no matter how well they wanted to act. They just couldn't help it, and what was the fun in being boring and not doing anything? Nothing, because there was no fun in it. Though, to be honest, Chance was the one more prone to do something stupid, not that they would do anything necessarily stupid at the dance, but they did want to mess with some people's heads, which was why they were matching, exactly.

White on white on white was the theme these two wanted to go with with their attire. White suits with white bow ties and shoes with white mask to cover their faces. Really, the only way you could actually tell the difference between the two is if Chance opened his mouth to show his braces, but that was what the fun was all about! Confusing people and making them wonder if they're actually seeing two or of they're just twins. Oh, this was going to be awesome.

When the two of them walked into the gym they couldn't help but bob their heads to the music, their collective noises of laughter as they traveled their way through the place. They didn't really recognize anyone there, since they hadn't really met that many people, but hey, maybe this would help them meet new people.

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Well, at least there were no stupid roommates that hogged the bathroom this time. Ugh, that stupid girl. Oh well, it didn't matter. Right now, all that mattered right now as that she was ready, and if Chardonnay had to say so herself she would probably be the best looking person at the dance. Screw those models who were too skinny for their own goods, she was beautiful. And this dress was just what she asked for; a big dress that would be sure to blow everyone else's away. This is why she loved her father; he was willing to pay so much money for a dress and a mask that she would only wear for a few hours in her lifetime. She loved her life. Now, so long as no kid threw up on her, then this night should at least be a little interesting.

Really, the only reason why she wanted to go to this stupid dance was to show off the dress she had. She didn't need to mingle with people, and she didn't need to dance, since she wouldn't do that. She just wanted peopled to ogle at what she had and be jealous about it.

Yes, she was this shallow and conceited about herself. While most people would probably found that sad, she didn't. She loved herself, and she loved it when other compliment what she had.

All of the housemates were gone, probably at the dance by now, so when the doorbell to the house rang she knew it was for her, her chauffeur (because there was no way she was walking to the gym, even though it wasn't that far from the house) and she, at her own pace, grabbed her mask that had a stick attached to it (because why would she wear a mask that would cover up her face the entire night? Her face needed to be seen) and headed out the door.

It took a little bit of maneuvering for her to fit the dress into the limo, but when she finally got in there she huffed, flipping her hair as she waited until their arrived, which only took a few minutes. And of course, when she walked into the gym she just had to make an entrance, a smug look crossing her face.

High Schoolers:

Nora Acker || Chase Smith || Chance Smith

College Students:

Chardonnay Nicholas || Ace Harrison || Max Carter || Niko Connor || Toni Locklear

Teachers:

Jonathan Hall || Leo Fletcher

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{{ + Masquerade + }} [ OPEN ] May 5, 2014 12:07:24 GMT -5

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Post by Timmy on May 5, 2014 12:07:24 GMT -5

"I will go on ahead." Rory said to Mason knowing he had to pick up Amy. "Alright Rory."Mason said walking over to Amy's house After he finished Fixing his suit and his tie. at their house. "Hey Amy how do I look ?"he asked spiking his Mohawk as mason knocked on the door. "hey Mason come on in Amy is in her room. Nice suit dude." "Dante said to Mason. "Thanks your Mohawk is fine you know Sam wouldn't care how you look."mason said walking to Amy's room and knocking on the door. "Amy may I come in?"Mason said to her putting on his mask. Dante walked

Sam was in her room finishing her hair and putting on her mask. Her's was a dark yellow mask to match her dress. "where is he?" she monder as she heard a knocked on her house's door. "Hello is me."Dante said to her as she let him in.

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{{ + Masquerade + }} [ OPEN ] May 5, 2014 16:18:45 GMT -5

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Post by Timmy on May 5, 2014 16:18:45 GMT -5

Rory walked into the gym and just stood there. He came back too late and could not a find a date in time so he went alone. "You look great Sam."Dante said to her as he spun her around. "You're not that bad looking yourself Mr.Mohawk."Sam said as they made their way to the dance. they got there and went to see if there was anybody they knew there.

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{{ + Masquerade + }} [ OPEN ] May 5, 2014 22:33:50 GMT -5

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Post by Kenzie on May 5, 2014 22:33:50 GMT -5

Chad glanced over at Lucy, who made a particularly funny joke involving the punch bowl and something about being wet, letting out a loud laugh. Neither one noticed that they were gestured to by Ms. Summers and were instead focused on one another. Lucy felt arms circle around him and jumped for a moment before he turned around and spotted Lily, and his eyes lit up behind his mask.

“Lily!” He enthusiastically hugged her back. “I was wondering here you went off to, silly Lily!”

“What, is she your girlfriend?” Chad asked with a laugh, as he took another sip of his suit. Lucy turned around to face Chad and dismissively waved his hand, already used to this question.

“No no! Of course not! I am attracted to men!” Lucy said bluntly, swinging an arm around Lily. “But she is my partner for the dance! But we are actually going to look for dates of our own tonight! Right, Lily?”

He grinned back at his best friend, then looked at Sayaku. He had never seen the boy before but he seemed nice and very decent looking, and immediately he caught on to what Lily probably meant by her ‘excitement to introduce them’. He bit his lower lip. “Hi! I’m Lucy! I particularly enjoy long walks on the beach and being young!”

Chad, meanwhile, furrowed his brows and thought Sayaku, in his mask, looked familiar… but couldn’t place it. The voice, too, was so familiar.

“Dude, tell me I know you!” Chad said, pointing directly at Sayaku. “You’re waaaaaaaaaaay too familiar for me not to know you.”

-x-

Susan noticed as a girl walked over with her mask off, with a sense of dedication for herself and Russell. Susan blinked and turned, wondering if she perhaps has a question or a complaint to voice. Her face seemed to be stoic and not full of mirth… that was for sure. She recognized the girl because she had such a unique name—Flutter—from one of her classes.

Arthur, meanwhile, hadn’t noticed Flutter approaching his sister because as his eyes scanned the crowd he noticed someone’s overdramatic entrance and fluffy dress. Of course Chardonnay would show up in something that required its own goddamn zipcode. He had kind of been hoping she wouldn’t show up after what happened with Eva last time. Most of the people who weren’t already busy or engaged in conversation already were eyeing Chardonnay and her grand entrance as well.

Even with the mask it was so obvious that was her. No one in their right mind would wear something like that if they weren’t a spoiled goddamn princess.

“You have got to be fucking kidding me.” He snapped under his breath, and Susan briefly followed his gaze to Chardonnay and gasped.

“Oh my god, she’s beautiful! Look at that dress… oh, wow, it’s like a princess gown!”

“It can’t even fit through the goddamn door! She always wears impractical things. I’m surprised her dress doesn’t have its own fucking president,” Arthur began to rant, but that was when he caught sight of the much more practically dressed Flutter approaching Susan and Russell and, by association, Arthur too. Susan turned back around with a small pout.

“Oh, stop it! You know, I always wanted to wear things like that. She’s allowed to dress up, Arthur! It’s a dance, so it's supposed to be a time where you can doll yourself up…” But her brother wasn’t listening, and Susan followed his gaze to Flutter, who opened her mouth to greet them.

“Oh, hi! I hope that you’re planning to have lots of fun tonight!” Susan said with a smile. Arthur tilted up his own mask to rest it against his forehead as he looked at Flutter, who’d taken off her own mask as well so she could recognize him. She didn’t seem the type to come out here. She was dressed simply, in a ruffled dress with a suit jacket over her shoulders, but she was still pretty.

“Flutter?” He asked, eyes focusing on her face. He brought his hand down from holding his back to cover his mouth as he coughed into his hand. He didn’t particularly have to—it was just a habit that he’d acquired when caught off guard or nervous. “Uh… I didn’t think you’d come to this thing.”

Russell waved his hello, watching all of the students arrive with an eager face. He was so excited! Everyone looked so dashing!

-x-

“Hey, hon, I see someone over there I know. You wanna meet him?”

Phoebe had been glancing at her nails for the last few minutes. Jer was off who knew where doing who knew what and probably accusing people dressed in suits of being parts of a conspiracy. Honestly that boy needed a leash. So when Chastity spoke up Phoebe was caught off guard, her head turning towards the other girl with pink cheeks. Chastity was beautiful and Phoebe hadn’t wanted to creep her out, so she’d generally been trying to avoid wandering eyes. Still, she had to wonder if Chastity was interested in girls… but her statement caused a pang of sadness. The implication of meeting a boy, and her tone…

“Uhm… what?”

“I asked if ya wanted to meet my friend.” Chastity asked, her lips curving into a smile as she said the last word. In all honesty, Chastity had only spoken to Rory once, but figured, what the hell, she’d go up and talk to him again. Chastity stood up and brushed her dress, walking completely confidently in her seven inch heels. Phoebe hoisted herself up, nodding slowly, even though she felt a little sad that this girl probably wasn’t interested.

Phoebe followed Chastity across the floor as whatever rap song was playing changed to something a little more airy and ballroom themed—apparently someone had complained to the DJ about the unfitting first tune and opted for a more fitting one. The crowd was thicker and eventually Phoebe managed to loose Chastity, looking around, slightly confused. Where had that girl gone? Phoebe eventually bumped right into someone in a bright red suit and gasped, turning to look up at Rory.

“Oh, I’m so sorry, uhm, I couldn’t see where I was going. I uh… really like your suit.” Phoebe said, biting her lower lip as she took a few steps away.

-x-

Meanwhile Chastity herself had also gotten confused in the crowd, and found herself facing two identically clad men, both in white suits. It amused her how closely they looked—in fact, had she not known that they were both solid entities, she might have thought that one twin was just carrying a mirror around with him. She didn’t know their names or anything about them, but with outfits like that she sure as hell wanted to! Besides, the two were extremely attractive, she could tell that underneath those suits were nicely toned bodies, given the way that they filled out the suits.

“Oh, hey there, boys.” Chastity said, walking over to them, Rory and Phoebe forgotten. She twirled a long strand of brown hair between her fingers. In her heels she was rendered about 5’7” tall, big enough to make eye contact with them, though she knew if she ever took them off they’d tower over her. That was all right though—most boys did, anyway. “Now tell me, am I seeing double, or am I just coming face to face with a set of very spiffy twins?”

-x-

Todd blinked when he heard a familiar voice and turned his head to face Isabella, who was wearing a flattering pink and black dress. His eyes bounced back up to her face and he smiled at her, noticing the hand painted mask on her face. Curiously he eyes it, never having seen something like that done before.

“Oh, is it fun? Maybe… I guess.” Todd said with a nervous little shrug, patting the chair beside him. “Feel free to, uh, sit down. I guess it’s probably fun to watch with people… you’re right. I like your mask, too, it’s really unique, did you paint it?”

He felt a little dumb asking that but bit his tongue, blue eyes bouncing away from Isabella to focus on Max and Ace, the two he had seen entering the gym. His eyes widened—maybe they had decided to come together? He felt better, instead of having not asked Max, maybe Ace had? And she looked beautiful, the dress was definitely something that the types of girls he worked with liked, the style anyway. And Ace looked good himself, even if he was in the same suit as before. Todd caught himself noticing his male friend more than his female friend and quickly tried to snap himself out of it, forcing himself to focus on Max in her stunning dress. He stood up and waved towards them, hoping they didn’t think he was odd.

“Max! Uhm, Ace! H—hey!” He stuttered out, feeling his heart rate quicken as he called out to them. “Come and sit here, uhm, this is Isabella, and there’s room for Amy and Mason too, when they come…”

He really hoped they didn’t want to sit somewhere else—he’d feel stupid if they rejected the invitation. He forced a smile to disguise his discomfort.

-x-

Shyanne grinned as she explored the gym, totally ecstatic. This night was already going to be great! She’d gotten compliments on her dress, which was pink and simple enough to be cute but elaborate enough to stand out, the perfect combination for a freshman girl trying to stick out but not too plainly. Besides, with her mask, she wasn’t as recognizable as an underclassmen.

Besides, she totally had an upperclass date. She’d convinced Henri to take her to the masquerade, her long time crush. Now she just had to make sure that he liked her after this and then maybe she could even convince him to be her boyfriend! Then she’d be all set—beautiful, popular, handsome boyfriend, connections to upper classmen… she knew exactly what she wanted.

Shyanne had left Henri to get a glass of punch. It had tasted odd to her, but she hadn’t been able to place the oddness of it at all. She finished it right at the table—not wanting to risk spilling anything on her dress—and headed back to her date’s side. She saw Henri and looped her arm through his, shooting a dazzling smile his way—the kind of smile a young girl might show her celebrity crush. She was head over heels for this guy, whether or not he requited the feelings or even knew about them was a whole different story.

“Sorry about that! I was reeeally thirsty.” She laughed a little, tugging Henri along. She looked at the other dresses, noticing in particular a very colorful one adoring a white haired girl. But what she did notice, however, was Chardonnay’s entrance and her eyes lit up. That was definitely the way that a queen should enter a ball! She was jealous, but knew that would be her someday. For now, though, the position was held by this girl. Who, after looking closer, Shyanne noticed as the one she’d met with Chad in the mall—Chardonnay.

“Come on, Henri! I see someone I know!” Shyanne said, tugging Henri across the room without waiting for him to agree, coming to a stop beside Chardonnay. She was honestly holding Henri like he was an accessory, making sure to pose in a manner that made the duo look the best. “Chardonnay? Is that you? Oh my God, you look like a queen, I’m so jealous.”

Shyanne flicked her hair back, blue eyes locked up at Chardonnay-- also completely oblivious to the fact that Henri had been Chardonnay’s date last time and had left after Chardonnay was puked on.

-x-

Talya was sick of dancing at that given moment. She twirled her way off the dance floor, passing a girl in a colorful dress, and helped herself to a seat near Walter, not even asking if it was available. Talya hadn’t even registered the boy, in all honestly, and just flopped her elbows onto the table, her dreamy gaze locked on the other people in attendance, watching as the pretty dresses explored the gym.

“Oooh… such nice dresses…” She said, mainly to herself, wondering if she’d run into the boy who she’d dance with last dance this time, or if she’d run into someone who wanted to dance. Either way, Talya knew she would be getting up to dance again later. “I think….”

She trailed off, never finishing her sentence, expression vacant.

-x-

When Mason arrived at her house Amy was already downstairs, sproosing herself up in the mirror in the kitchen. She knew that Dante was still here as well, finishing up getting ready before he went to take Sam. Sam’s dress was absolutely gorgeous and Amy wished she could be there to see Dante’s reaction to it!

She heard the voices of the boys in the lobby and hummed to herself, poking her head around the corner to see Mason ascending the stairwell. She smirked to herself and lifted up her skirts, tiptoeing as best she could in her heels after Mason. She was successful and Mason didn’t seem to notice her, and instead knocked on her door.

Amy straightened herself out and walked right up behind Mason, leaning forward to whisper in his ear.

“Well, you could go in, but I’m already out here! I was actually waiting downstairs, but I guess you caught Dante before you caught me! Hehe!” Amy backed away and struck a pose. “So, what do you think? Don’t I look fancy pants? And I can’t wait to head over the gym; by the way, I like your suit! I’m glad you got the right shade! Burgundy’s really hard to match…”

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A sigh escaped his lips as he looked over himself in the mirror. He didn’t like this, this tight clothing that reminded him of standing by his mother’s side, her claw like hand wrapping around his shoulder every time he slouched and applying pressure. As he gelled his hair up, he swore he could feel that familiar ache on his shoulder as his back slumped into its usual slouch. After a few more moments of messing with the gooey substance, his hair was finally something close to presentable. He was actually close to presentable actually, even managing to get one of the girls in the house (the not mean one) to put, he thinks it is called concealer, around the raccoon rings on his eyes. He would even dare to say he looked slightly attractive, at least compared to his standards. Less like a hobo, more like the blue blood that filled his veins.

Maybe that was why he hated it so much.

Andras looked sighed as he slipped the mask over his face, chuckling as the mask actually managed to look good on him. He wasn’t exceptionally tan, so it caused him to look more like a ghost. How he liked it really, considering he had long ago given up the idea of any meat sticking to his bones. The half-starved style seemed to work for him, it had worked for him in Hungary. He could still remember that one girl in Hungary who had liked him and he liked her back, until she realized he worked too hard and wasn’t one to aimless pay attention to girls. At least, those who weren’t his time.

The dance would probably be like that too. There was only one person he could easily see himself see himself in a relationship, but he also knew that said person in question didn’t see him like that. Wouldn’t see him like that. His walk to the dance hall, or wherever it was, was a rather short walk though. Five minutes with this rather… large duck bill or whatever it was would have to rank in the future for annoying masks. Quietly, he ducked into the hall once arriving and winced. This was one of the types of events his mother would enjoy and to his dismay; he was even able to tell who the designers were of dresses. Or who they tried to rip off. It didn’t take long for him to spy Todd but even less time to spy his sister in law.

Well, she wasn’t his sister in law yet… but she would be soon and just the thought of them being slightly close made him uncomfortable. He didn’t really know why nor did he want to know why but it didn’t take him long to find himself in the other direction, looking at the girl he had managed to dance with at the last dance. “Erm, elnézést. Mind if we, erm, dance?” He asked Tayla awkwardly, tilting his head to the side.

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"Thanks and I know it was hard find the right color. You look amazing."Mason said to Amy walking down stairs with her. Once they got down the stairs Mason spun her around taking a look at her. "lets get going then."he said to her. Rory on the other hand slipped a flask from out of his pocket. he sniped it and slipped it back into his pocket. "Hey thanks I am Rory its fine do you want to dance?"he said to Phoebe looking down to her. Sam and Dante walked into the the gym. they looked around for anybody they know before sitting and waiting for Amy and Mason.

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Lily giggled towards her friend's response. "And while Lucy's plenty wonderful, I still find girls waaaay more interesting!" Basically, she was Lucy's opposite. "But these things are more fun with friends, right? And that means it's best to bug Lucy for it!" She hugged onto the boy more easily, grinning. Yep, being with her best friend was definitely the best.

"Nice to meet'cha, Lucy." Sayaku mused meanwhile. "Lily here's friendly with my sister, so I ended up getting included through that. And...It's hard to introduce myself with that guy making me want to tease him and make him guess." He eyed Chad, grinning with a nonchalant air. He laughed a bit, though not as much as Lily was- he was interested in a lot of things. But he had to introduce himself when Lucy had...Right? It was etiquette! "I'm Sayaku. I like drumming and hanging out. And guys....Like that guy." He eyed Chad again, grinning from his pathetic 'confession' of sorts. "Actually, that guy there's probably my best friend myself."

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"Um...I-I mostly got dragged her, but...I-I'll try?" She laughed nervously. Of course, she'd planned on going straight home from the garden- but now, she had other things to worry about. Like not getting noticed by her brother if she left, because then he'd freak out wondering what happened. So, she had to stay there.

A voice, however, caught her attention- and it took her a moment and a quick twirl on her toes to figure out why. "Oh- Arthur." She smiled a bit- at least it was someone she knew, and not a stranger. Though, a stranger knowing her name would have been weird anyway...But Sayaku did tend to talk about his sister, so it was possible, right?

"I-I wasn't planning to but...M-My brother sort of...Decided it'd be good for me and dragged me..." She was still feeling timid, but she at least knew Arthur a bit- and he was far more logical than most she knew, so that was helpful! "I don't dance or anything though, so it feels foolish to come here. But...It's logical to stay rather than to move around any excess until brother's had his fun. What about for you?"

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Surprised he'd noticed, Isabella felt a small smile tug at her lips. He'd praised her painting- that was good for her, right? "I did. I painted my brother-in-law's too...Our siblings sort of asked me to. It was fun though." Taking a seat when he had offered for her to do so, she thought a bit about where that boy was anyway...She was sure she'd recognize the other mask she'd painted at last notice! Smoothing out her dress when she sat, she awkwardly stared at her lap, a bit nervous. "Um...Are you enjoying yourself so far...? There are a lot of colorful people here..."

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Walter was more than just relieved to have escaped from the overly energetic albino (or at least, that's the only way he could think to describe her). He wasn't sure he could handle that much energy right at the start- but he didn't want to be lonely, either. While he loved to watch people, watching someone looking all alone as she went and smiled while walking by herself.

Of course, it was fine for strangers to interact, right? So he smiled lightly as he stood and walked over to the girl in question- hoping she wouldn't be too flambouyant like his last attempt at being friendly had led to. "Why hello there, pretty miss. Aren't you nice, smiling a hello to everyone you see? Has anyone returned it yet? It's no good for such a nice smile to go to waste." Yes, it sounded like a pick up line. He hadn't meant for it, but he had a tinge of a buzz from being quiet too long, too. Well, he wasn't really sure that was it- but he wasn't going to actually try to pick her up. Still, a pleasant word or so wouldn't hurt, right? "It's nice of you to give a smile to everyone, but make sure you get some back, okay?"

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She soon realized she was alone again, singing and dancing by herself. Sure, that wasn't a big deal to Akira- but still, it was no good to be by yourself at a party! Looking around, she tried to find something that could catch her eye (which, honestly, wasn't that hard with her eccentric personality). Seeing someone who looked very rebel-like in that he had so many piercings and such compared to most of the boys she knew, she quickly flew to his side. Something smelled a bit off, but the white-haired girl could care less at that point.

"Hi!" She chimed with an excited gleam. Her overly colorful gown swished with each hyper step she'd taken towards him. "Isn't this fun? You should have more fun by playing with me. Playing with others makes parties way more fun then they already are, right? And my friend already left me~ Silly Wally-ly~." Her last words were stated with a sing-song tone as she tugged on the male's hand, greatly curious about him. "I'm Akira! And you...have such strong seeming hands! I'm jealous."

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While no one was talking to her, Niko still found a way to enjoy herself. Besides, it was all about the experience, right? This was her first dance anyway, so she wasn't in too big of a rush to meet too many people, especially since she was still even nervous about this whole thing. Figuring that she'd get over this feeling though, Niko shrugged the feeling away and just continued to smile and look around at everything. It was still kind of surreal to think that she had even been allowed to go, despite the fact that the only 'real' reason why her parents let her come was because of this dress and the small sponsorship that came with it. Did the people really think that she would be asked at a high school dance who made the dress?

Oh well, it didn't really matter anyway. "Uh?" Niko blinked as a voice came by her, a male voice at that and when she turned to look she couldn't help but still smile. "Oh, why thank you." She said in regards to how he complimented her smile. She hadn't seem him around before, not that she had seen maybe people here, but still. "No, I haven't talked to many people here yet. I'm still new here, and I guess I just don't know how to talk to people right." She laughed a bit as she shrugged her shoulders. "So you're the first to talk to me."

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As they continued to walk around, conversing with each other, Chance and Chase couldn't help but compare this dance to their mock middle school dance they went to before. This place was so much better! Not only were the decorations -not that that paid much attention to the detail- much better, but how the people looked and dressed was so much more... Better? Maybe it was because people here probably had more money than the ones at their old school and could actually afford better things, but still. There were some really pretty people here, and not just the models. But, with coming to a school like this, could they expect anything less? Probably not. Still, this was so awesome!

The twins steadily conversed with each other, their laughter spreading about as Chance just told a joke, one that seemed to amuse both of them, but the both of them stopped as a girl stopped in front of them, talking about whether of not she was seeing double. "Hi!" They both said in unison. It just made the two grin all the more, but at they looked the girl up and down they both had to admit that she was very pretty. Hey, they could admire a girl with being creeps. They were fifteen, so no harm in it. Still, they couldn't help but the mischievous looks cross their features as the girl asked her question, giving them a more playful look than anything.

"Well you could be seeing double," Chance said as he used both of his hands to pull on the sides of his bow tie, Chase going to do the same thing, mimicking his brother.

"Or we could just be twins," Chase inputted, a little laugh escaping his mouth.

"Or this could all just be an illusion!" The both of them, again, spoke at the same time, their fingers waving about like those people would on tv shows when ever they would try and make it seem like they were ghost. This made the both of them break out into laughter, their attention soon turning back to the girl when they were able to catch their breaths. "But you decide what you see."

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Ace had watched Max head out to the dance floor before shortly going over to a group of people that he assumed she knew. He shrugged his shoulder as he looked around again, a familiar voice entering his ears as he looked, the sound making him turn his head back and forth before he was able to find the source of the voice. It wasn't too hard to figure out who it was though, given how he knew the voice, and how as he looked over to see Todd waving at a table, calling him and Max over. But as he looked to see that another girl was already sitting at the table, he debated on whether or not he actually wanted to go over there. No way did he want to impose on anyone or mess anything up, but he figured that there could be no harm in going over there, right? After all, Todd did say he could sit there.

So after debating a bit in his own mind, Ace decided to head over there as he gave the both of the people at the table a curt nod. "Hey," he spoke, desperately trying to get the awkwardness out of his voice. He still wasn't used to talking to too many people, but he figured it was still a work in progress. A long work in progress, but he figured that he was getting a little better at conversing with people, or at least with Todd, Max and Amy. Those were really the only ones he was comfortable taking to, and even then he was still a bit awkward. He just knew that it wasn't going to happen that easily for him, but he had accepted it and was all right with it.

He smiled though, being a little more relaxed to see that he was actually with someone that he knew, though as he turned to look at Isabelle, he really didn't know what to say. "Um, I'm Ace." He did take a notice of the mask she wore though, his eyes being drawn to it. That couldn't have been store bought. It was... Different.

Max laughed along with the little group of other dance students she had found, students that she actually knew and were seniors along with her. Even her dance partner for the rest of the year-one that she had finally found, though the process had been way too long- unless something went wrong, but he had a date to the dance already. Didn't mean they couldn't dance with each other later on though, which they would if only to practice with each other a little more.

Her eyes were averted from the group when she saw Todd waving toward her, his words faint over the music, but she decided that she was going to go over there after grinning and waving back at him. So after telling the group that she'd see them later, she headed over to the table with Todd, Ace and some other girl that she didn't know with a little bounce in her step, sitting down when she finally made it over to them. "Hi! Oh, nice suit Todd. Looks nice on you." She grinned before looking over at Isabelle. "Oh, and you're dress is so pretty! I could never pull someone like that off."

She laughed a little before extending her hand out to the girl. "I' Max. Nice to meet you."

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Yes the entrance that she had made was just what Chardonnay had expected. People were all ogling about her dress, murmurs about how pretty it was circling through her mind. Missions accomplished. Oh, just having all eyes on her gave her such a sense of satisfaction, she didn't even know how to describe it! Then again, she figured that she should always be the center of attention because, come on, she was Chardonnay Nicholas. The best looking person at this whole dance.

Now, she did have to admit that the dances seemed to be one of the best times this school could have, fashion and look wise anyway, because who would come to a dance looking like a mess? The majority of the people here looked relatively nice, nothing like her, but it was better than what most people looked on a daily basis because, for what ever reason, they deemed it all right to just walk around in anything. Ugh, people who didn't know how to dress. Sure, some of the outfits here weren't the most expensive, and some of them honestly didn't look pretty at all, or at least on the people that they were on, but at least people had enough decency to come to this place and look like they had some type of sense. Well, some people anyway. What the hell was that guy wearing, or even thinking?!

Or course out of every bunch came someone who just had to ruin everything, such as the said boy who looked at if he had just woken up with his clothes haphazardly strewn across himself. What, did he not have enough sense to know how to dress himself? What an idiotically disgusting slob. Obviously he had no sense of style, didn't care about what people thought of him, and he was more than likely blind. No, blind people could probably dress better than him, or at least get someone to help get them dress. He, on the other hand? He probably needed his mother, or who ever his caretaker was, to dress him since he seemed unable to.

Ugh, people these days. Chardonnay couldn't help but scrunch her nose up in disgust at the boy. People like him ruined her entire mood, but as she heard a particularly good compliment shot her way, ll those thoughts were thrown from her mind.

She turned around to the sound of the voice, coming into contact with a girl who was wearing a dress that looked a little more on the... 'cute' side than elegant, but it seemed to work for her in a way. She must be one of the freshmen, but still Chardonnay couldn't help but think that this girl sounded familiar. Where had she seen her from...? "Oh well, I can be considered a queen around here. I mean, I am the best looking person at this dance, and my dress is the most beautiful out of everyone's." Confidence and pride was evident in the way she spoke, and as the smug look came across her lips she couldn't help but be overconfident. "And it's only right for you to be jealous of this dress and myself, because I'm Chardonnay. I doubt you understand what that feels like, but maybe one day you'll be able to see. Maybe."

Her eyes then swept over to the male that stood by the girls side -though she couldn't tell whether or not he was there against his will or not- but as she took a closer look that confident air nearly went away and turned into one of anger. Oh, this guy, the same one who left her at the dance from last time after she had been puked on! That son of a bitch... "Well if it isn't you..." She rolled her eyes at Henri before looking to the girl. "I hope you don't expect him to stay with you throughout the entire dance if this is your 'date', because he'll quickly leave the right in the middle of the fucking dance if anything bad happens and just leave you here." Yes, she was bitter about what happened at the last dance still, especially him.

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“Attracted to men…?” Chad said, thinking. He had to introduce this guy to Sayaku then! Because Sayaku was attracted to men as well. That meant that maybe they’d be a thing, you know, if they got together! That was how it worked, right? Chad drummed his chin. But when the other guy introduced himself Chad laughed and pointed to him.

“Sayaku! I knew it was you, probably! Hey, did you hear that? Lucy likes guys and so do you! So maybe you could, like, dance or something!” Chad said a little too loudly for comfort, and Lucy had to stare at the blond boy with wide eyes, before he laughed, half out of entertainment and half out of audacity. This guy was a real character. He didn’t seem to have any tact whatsoever. Chad didn’t seem to think he’d said anything out of line and gave Sayaku a thumbs up. “And I can’t blame you! I’m not surprised even the guys want me!”

“I see, I see, maybe to some,” Lucy teased, looking back over at Sayaku as he leaned into Lily. “While I am not sure what you see in bumbling blond over there, it’s nice to meet you! I’m sad I don’t seem to be your type, though…”

Lucy pouted, his visible lips jutting out as he did so.

-x-

“Aww! Well, even if you got dragged here, that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy yourself! There’s a lot to do besides dance. Like eat!” Susan said brightly, glancing from Flutter to Arthur when he seemed to recognize her. Susan hadn’t been told about any girl named Flutter! Now she was really curious—how did they meet, how many times had they met, and why was her little brother succumbing to his nervous habit? It was adorable! Susan, ever nosy, knew she’d ask Arthur about it later. He wouldn’t appreciate it, but she would do it anyway!

“I’m in the same boat. Her first choice date is overseas. Which leaves me to be dragged.” Arthur said, tone semi-bitter, shooting a look at Susan. Susan pouted.

“You came willingly!” She protested.

“Because you insisted.” Arthur pointed out. Susan stuck her tongue out briefly and Arthur rolled his eyes.

“But anyway, if you want to steal Arthur from me, I’ll let you!” Susan added, turning to Flutter. Arthur shot his sister a look. “I mean, since you’re here and your brother is busy, and you seem to know Arthur, wouldn’t it be fun to hang out with someone you know? Besides, you two could even dance together! Right?”

“Susan,” Arthur protested, but Susan shrugged her shoulders.

“What? I just figured you’d have more fun with a friend than with your old fart of a sister! Besides, I have company!” Susan patted her stomach gently with a warm smile, and she didn’t notice the empty look that flashed across her brothers face. The look was gone as fast as it came and Arthur glanced at Flutter with a small shrug.

"Feel free to just ignore her."

-x-

Phoebe blinked at Rory, examining him. He seemed nice enough… she smiled at him, and nodded slowly, figuring it wouldn’t hurt to dance with someone. Besides, that was what this was for, wasn’t it? And she’d not come with a date. Jer was nowhere to be found.

“Sure. I’d love to!” Phoebe said politely, with a nod of her head.

-x-

Chastity had to grin at the boys’ response to her inquiry. Oh, they were a riot! She laughed, eyebrows raising at the mimicked motion between the two brothers. How cute—they were like two sides of a mirror!

“An illusion? Well, I doubt that’s what the two of you are, since you’re both standing in front of me. Besides, I can touch you both.” Chastity raised a hand to each of the boys’ shoulders, her fingers grazing over them slowly. Yup, neither one was intangible. They were clearly the snazzy set of twins. She gave them a somewhat flirty smile as she lowered her hands. “Now, I may be a piece of work, but I’m not that far gone that my vision’s going double. You’re awfully funny, though. You boys come here with just each other? I fit right in, don’t I…? I’m wearing white, too.”

Chastity showed off her dress, swishing it side to side as though to demonstrate.

-x-

“Oh, really? That’s cool. That you painted them yourself, I mean, I could never do something like that I… I’m just no good at painting. Which means that you might be good—well, not just because I’m bad, but because… of… well, you’re talented.” He said, deciding to stop talking before he rambled too much. “Yeah, the… there are a lot of people dressed up nicely. I’m impressed…”

Todd looked around, but his attention as quickly snatched by Ace as he came over. “Hi, Ace.” Todd said, nodding once at Ace as he looked at Isabella’s mask. Todd averted his eyes and scanned the tablecloth as though it was the most interesting thing in the world. He didn’t look up until Max came over and he heard his name, shooting up, blue eyes locking on Max.

“Oh! Thank you, Max. This was, uh, well, a gift from a company a while ago, so it’s nice. Your dress is really good on you—I mean, the dress is really flattering, not that most clothes aren’t but the dress is… nice… and different…”

Todd was once again impressed with the amount of ease Max had just taking to someone. When he’d first met Isabella he’d been awkward as a clam, but Max was so smooth about it… he felt a little better, like conversation might be a bit less awkward with her around.

“These are two of my friends, Ace and Max. I think I mentioned them… probably…”

-x-

Jer was in the middle of explaining to a well-dressed male that, by wearing a suit and tie, he was basically inviting aliens to take over the earth. The well-dressed male did not look impressed in the slightest and was clearly trying to ignore Jer, but Jer rambled on, proudly, as though he knew exactly what he was talking about. Soon the boy just left Jer to his own devices, and Jer frowned when he looked over at the empty space beside him.

“YOU’LL DOOM US ALL!” Jer yelled after the retreating back. Jer frowned and tugged on his tie to loosen it further. “Crazy… crazy people. All in stuffy suits… why? And dresses…”

That was when Jer heard a voice behind him and turned towards Akira, noticing her colorful and puffy dress, contrasted with her white hair. He hated most of the dresses here (because they were too fancy-pants) but hers was so colorful! He gasped and allowed her to tug on his hand.

“Hi! I’m Jer! Your dress is so colorful! You must be the chosen one!” Jer enthused, pulling Akira closer, so he could lean in her ear. “Be careful… all of the penguin suits here… they’ll be out to get you. Because you’re the one beacon of color in this boring place!”

He brought his other hand to hers on his, nodding understandably at the comment about his strong hands. He knelt down onto one knee while staring up at Akira, which was weird enough pose as it was, and a few people around the table gave him and Akira a curious glance, wondering if some underdressed idiot was about to propose at a school dance.

“Of course I will play with you, Akira! I will protect you from the penguin suits attack. Because I am the one with strong hands, it is my duty. I am the chosen knight!”

His eyes glistened with mirth behind his mask as he spoke, liking his little ‘game’ already.

-x-

Shyanne had to think that her dress was definitely the cutest in the room. But that was the look she was going for—cute. Not elegant like Chardonnay. Shyanne was the freshman princess! She didn’t need to be the queen… not yet, not until she was older and a junior or senior! She had already decided that since she wanted to become what Chardonnay already was, she’d stick around her or at least try.

Shyanne pressed a finger to her lips and pouted.

“I guess. I mean I’m just a princess right now, like, my dress isn’t big and fancy enough to be a queen.” She said, “Your dress literally, like, got everyone’s attention! Besides you totally look amazing in it. I don’t doubt that you’re, like, really well known here! Someday I’ll be well known too! And have a pretty dress that makes everyone so jealous…” She said, dreamily.

The overconfidence was only a little off putting—Shyanne was a diva but didn’t mind kissing up while she was young to make sure she got into the right place when she was older. When Chardonnay seemed to disapprove of Shyanne’s date Shyanne turned towards Henri, confused, wondering what history they had. Her eyes only briefly narrowed in suspicion before she turned back towards Chardonnay.

“And what’s that mean? Did he, like, do something?” Shyanne asked, eyes darting back over to Henri, her face bearing a ‘why didn’t you tell me you knew her’ expression. Ugh, what if he was her ex??? How weird would that be! He better not be, Shyanne thought to herself. Chardonnay was the queen right now but Henri was still totally hers!

-x-

Talya was humming along to the music, oblivious to everyone. She was twirling a strand of hair between her fingers as she hummed, appreciating how the freshly styled dark strands caught the light. She heard someone speaking but didn’t listen, not until she felt eyes on her. Talya turned around to spot Bandi looking all dressed up, recognizing him as the boy she had danced with before. She recognized him by the body language he exhibited and the foreign language she had heard distantly in her ears a few moments before.

“Ooooh… it’s you…” Talya said, hoisting herself up. She reached forward and grabbed Bandi’s hand, “Your mask is gorgeous… I wish I had…. Something… of the like…”

She pulled Bandi towards the dance floor without hesitation, ignoring every other party of people, through her eyes did bounce to Jer and his proposal-esque pose with Akira in her colorful dress. Talya then turned around on the dance floor, to face Bandi, and flashed him a smile, beginning to twirl around aimlessly.

-x-

“Thank you!” Amy said happily, smiling at Mason. She headed towards the dance hall with him, her eyes wide and looking at the scenery around them as they walked. She felt so fancy going to this thing! It wasn’t every day that she was able to feel so well put together. Amy put her arm in Mason’s and allowed him to lead the way. Once they arrived, Amy opened the door first, her eyes taking in the sights of people. “See anyone you know, Mason? I thiiiink I see my friends over there.”

She thought she saw Max’s hair and Todd’s face, but couldn’t be sure because they were at a table surrounded by people and her vision was blocked by the individuals dancing on the floor.

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"So I'm the first, hrm? I'm not seeing ghosts, am I? It's hard to imagine no one else would have talked to you before me." He gave a cheerful laugh and a grin, playing the natural gentleman quite nicely. "You're wrong though- you speak fine to me. Though I do tend to get along with the shiest of girls fairly well...So maybe I'm just especially lucky."

He gave a vivid bow out of the blue, holding a hand out to her. "I'm Walter Graile, from the Acting department. I can't guess who you are, but I can tell you must do a great job at what you do from my hunch."

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Sayaku laughed nervously, waving it off. "It's an unrequited love. If I'm lucky, I'll find such a pleasant person to help me get over it." He knew there was clearly a lack of tact, but he wasn't really all that surprised anymore. He was used to the way Chad was after all, right? "By the way, Chad, why do I have a feeling you wanted to introduce me to myself for a brief moment."

"That sounds so cute!" Lily mused, giggling to herself as she tried to pat Lucy's head when he leaned on her. "Oh? Is he your type, Lucy? I really need to get my head in gear and find a cute girl like you've already found a boy to take interest in. I'm already jealous."

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"You're not that old, ma'am," Flutter mused rather abruptly during the argument. "But...I don't think it's logically possible to steal someone. Also, dancing requires far too much stamina for me. But I'll happily take a seat here instead."

Smiling gently to the teacher, though not overly bright like the time at the library, she took a chair to take a seat while watching Arthur argue a bit more before finishing. "I ignore most of what my brother says, but it's improper and illogical to ignore a teacher..." She said. "What if something ends up on the test next class for some reason? Even if it's not science related...For all I know the physics and such might come up..." Okay, so now she was basically just pulling straws to explain her stupid idea- but she was being honest!

However, she soon turned to Susan again. "It's hard to be alone in such a crowded place, isn't it? But it's good you're not lonely. They say it's bad for physical health as well, after all."

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Isabella couldn't decide if Todd's awkward ramblings reflected her own tendency too well, or if it was just adorable for no apparent reason. The fact that this even came up in her head, however, worried her- was she turning out to be more like Madeline than she'd realized? It wasn't bad to become more like her sister- after all, she was a great woman! But...Madeline's energy was rather scary at times, and Isabella knew well it could be troublesome to deal with.

Unfortunately, it was hard to hold back her reply without a slight giggle. "I bet it wouldn't be as bad as you say it would be. Now I want to see something you've tried to paint one day!" Her hands clasped together, she added, "Of course...I-I don't really know what I could show in return...I don't model much, so the only photos I have are ones my family have taken, and it's sort of embarrassing to see some of them...Especially the ones from when I was little...Though the backgrounds might inspire you since it's foreign..."

She jumped as company came to join them. The two seemed nice enough- Max had been quite energetic compared to the boy that had joined them to make a quartet, but it wasn't a bad energy, nor was it as overbearing as her sister. And Ace, or so she'd heard his name, was a bit quieter, but certainly seemed friendly enough.

"I-I'm Isabella," She noted softly. Smiling, she shook the extended hand of the stranger. "It's nice to meet you. And your dress is very pretty if you ask me. I'd love to paint it sometime- er, a picture of it, not the actual dress...That'd be no good, of course..." She laughed nervously, smiling over to Ace as well. "It's nice to meet you as well, Ace."

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Akira giggled towards Jer's excitement- he was interesting from how he was talking! Of course, it took a moment for her to realize it was a game- but when she did, she was more than happy to join in. Anything fun was worth doing!

"Jer, my knight! I've searched high and low for the one who could save me! The penguin suits...They're so boring, I was afraid I would be lonely all day!" She hugged him when he'd knelt, happily. "I, Akira, would be so very honored if you would join me in bringing color to this bland land!"

Of course, at that moment, she managed to laugh at her own words. Bland land just sounded so funny! "Let us play for all who lack the joys of entertainment and have a wonderful game!"

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"thanks for saying yes." rory said to Phoebe. He went out on the dance floor and waited for Phoebe.
"hey Todd is there room for two hey Amy i love youre dress." Sam said before taking Dante to the dance floor. "hey Dante."mason said smiling at he saw the others.

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Schuyler sighed as he looked himself over in the mirror one time. The dress he had managed to get was a steal, literally only about thirty dollars for a dress that looked like it could cost thousands. His mask had been a gift from Phoebe, in return for doing her hair. Even for him and his willowy fingers, it had been slightly annoying to get through the style. A challenge, yes, but it had turned out lovely in the end. That was one of his few talents other than being a smart ass after all, being able to do hair and being able to pull a coherent essay out of his ass. Not the best talents, but they were something.

Looking over his makeup one last time in the mirror, Schuyler slipped the stilettos on his feet. They weren’t his favorite type of shoes, considering they hurt his feet, but they matched. If he wanted to be ambitious, he could say he made a lovely dame. His hair was colored slightly, the usual white blonde tinted into a strawberry blond and gently braded into a style that was common for brides at weddings. Gently, he blotted the red lipstick that was on his lips one last time before he looked over his eyes and slipping on a mask. Maybe if he was actually shorter, he could pass for a woman, something that he seemed to prefer. After all, from what he understood, under each women’s bubbly exterior, they were terrifying savages.

Maybe even terrifying as brutish men, but that was contemplation for another day. It was time for him to make a move, maybe even get some interest from a guy or a girl. He knew he was rather… queer, if he used the traditional sense of the word as well as the contemporary. Maybe that could be some sort of appeal, he guessed, for a male so trapped in the closet that he wanted someone who looked like a female. Or maybe some female who was in some strange stepping stone towards homosexuality and wanted a bite of him. Both were equally terrifying to him, to be blunt but he needed to grow better with social encounters. He couldn’t just keep leaching off of his friends forever.
So he found himself in front of the dance doors, watching Jeremiah say something about a vast conspiracy and Phoebe twirl around with a boy. The idea of her twirling around with a boy admittedly made him smirk, but he didn’t say anything as he walked into the dance hall, the end of the dress slightly dragging on the floor as his eyes scanned the crowd for someone to have a dance with, but almost everyone seemed to be blissfully engaged in their little social circles, not really leaving him much room for social interaction.

In the corner of his eye though, he managed to see a girl also sitting alone with an expression of annoyance gracing her features. Well, perhaps not annoyance, but bordem. Perhaps her date had yet to arrive or something, regardless, he had a chance to perhaps engage in some delightful, light hearted conversation if she would be willing to give it. His gait was father fast, showing more grace than a person who had just learned how to walk in stilettos less than a month prior. As he approached the girl’s table, recognizing her as Kara Cullen, a girl in his English course, he gave her a weak smile. “Would you mind if I sat next to you? Too many seem to be caught up in some sort of social interaction, or banter, to actually manage to sit somewhere else.” He said in a softer tone.

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Andras gave her a grin. “Glad to see I have been remembered.” He chuckled as he straightened up his posture as the girl grabbed his hands. Perhaps a light blush crossed his cheeks as she grabbed hold onto the slightly outstretched hand or perhaps it hadn’t. Regardless, the fact that someone wanted to dance with him already seemed to make this dance slightly better than the last and the fact that he wasn’t babysitting, which also probably helped. Bandi made sure that he had a gentle grip on her hand as they started spinning, a waltz on in the background.

“Do you know how to waltz?” He asked as they worked into a slow yet graceful rhythm. “I show can you how to. Maybe it will be fun?” He asked with a chuckle. “It’s like twirling with a little more footwork. Fun though, I can assure.” He quickly added, it becoming more and more obvious that he had a scarlet blush covering his face.

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Niko giggled a bit, covering her hand over her lips, as she listened to the boy rattle on with what he say saying, thinking that he was just one of the most charming people she had met at this school, or ever really. But he could just being nice, which she liked a lot, and she thought it to be a bit funny. Nevertheless, it brought a big smile to her lips as she nodded her head. "Or maybe I'm just the lucky one since you came up to be, and to be the first one too." See, this shouldn't be so bad.

At his bow, Niko found herself very surprised, but flattered nonetheless that he did something like that. And here she thought bowing was a think of the past. Again she laughed before she took his hand, using her free hand to take a hold of her dress before she curtsied, bowing her head a bit before she looked back up at him. "It's very nice to meet you Walter. I'm Niko." She smiled, straightening herself up as she shrugged her shoulders a bit. "Oh, I wouldn't say I do that 'great' of a job. I'm apart of the modeling curriculum here though, but I usually just do what other people tell me and just model things for them. Nothing too hard, but being an actor sounds impressive! I'm sure what you do is much more exciting anyway."

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Well, she figured it out, not that the twins would think any different. It would have been a bit more amusing to keep going along with the little act, maybe even confuse her a little more, but she seemed to have things locked down with them being twins.

"Hmm, looks like she figured us out already. And here we thought that it was going to be harder to do. I think we're slipping on out act." Chance looked to his brother, grinning before he turned back to the girl as he felt her touch on his shoulder, the feeling sending a shiver down both the twins spines. They were able to be unfazed by the feeling, somewhat anyway, though the sudden reddening of Chase's cheeks held no secrets of his sudden nervousness, or at least surprise, of the situation.

The younger sibling cleared his throat before he, again, messed with his bow tie, this time Chance not mimicking the movement. "Y-yeah, I guess we need to get our 'act' together. Or maybe the people here are just more... Observant, like she is." The two of them chuckled a bit, blinking before they looked over her dress, having to both agree that it did look mighty nice. "Um, yeah, we're alone. Err, well not alone, but we came with each other. Not as in together together, but... Ahh, I think you get it." Laughing nervously, Chase rubbed the back of his neck.

Chance shook his head at his brother's nervous banter, laughing at his feeble attempts to try and actually make sense of what he was saying. "Yeah, join the club! White on white outfit." He popped the collar of his suit grinning. "So tell us, are you alone? I think I'd be surprised, and what's your name? I'm Chance, and mr. 'I don't know how to get my words out right' right here is Chase."

"Hey!"

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"Well, the suit works well for you. Then again, I feel like just about everything you wear looks good on you. I mean, you're a model, for one thing, and I feel like clothes just work for you all. I'm kinda jealous of it actually." Max laughed, at that, knowing full well that she was no fashion or clothes fanatic. She never kept up with the latest fashions, nor did she really care to, but she did have to admit that just about everything a model wore looked amazing on them. "And thanks! I didn't really have that much money to spend on a dress, but I really liked this one, and I figured this mask would go perfect with it. Besides, I can still dance and move around in this, so that's all the better."

"And it's nice to meet you as well Isabella," she said, releasing the hand as she smiled at the girl. "Paint a picture of it?" She tilted her head to the side before lifting a bit of the train of the dress up, letting it fall back to the ground shortly after. "Oh, so you must be in the art program here? Hey, isn't that what you're in too Ace?" He nodded his head, laughing a bit as Max elbowed him jokingly. "Ahh come on, speak up. We all know you can."

Ace couldn't help but let out a chuckle at Max's action, rubbing his arm a bit before he put his hand back down. "Nice to meet you too. Isabella."

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So what did she do to convince Henri to come with her to the dance? Not that Chardonnay figured that that was that hard of a task to do, if only since the guy seemed like a bit of a push over, or at least someone who would do something for just about anyone. Or maybe he just wanted attention?

Yeah, because going to a dance with a freshman would give him so much attention. And what about Shyanne? She seemed to parade around with him like he was some type of item, not that she could blame the girl for doing that because, really, if you're able to control a person like that and make them seem like your measly little pet, why not. She had to give it to the girl though, she pulled someone older than her, what ever her reasoning might be, though it made Chardonnay wonder what this girls motives really were...

Oh well! She could give a rats ass about this guy, especially after he left her at the dance the last time. Tch, no one disrespects Chardonnay like that. Only she left people high and dry like that, but that was because she was herself! This guy had no right.

"Yes he did something," She commented, a condescending tone in her voice. She crossed her arms, sending a glare towards the boy. "He left me, left me, at the last dance after I was thrown up on! Who does that? You inconsiderate bastard." Yep, she was still extremely bitter about the situation. And to think she had to have a teacher help her back to her house after that whole event. "Like I said, don't expect him to be there if something goes wrong. He'll just run, apparently."

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Chad just grinned, even at the mention of Sayaku being on the end of an unrequited love. That was pretty much right—Chad was certain he wasn’t interested in his best friend! After all, he was considerably lacking in the breasts department. Still, Sayaku was great, and Chad absolutely loved the attention he got from Sayaku, male or female! It would probably suck for a friend to fall for him anyway—Chad never had a happy track record when it came to romantic partners.

“What?!” Chad gasped when Sayaku asked if he had been planning to introduce him to himself. Rude! “No! I was going to introduce you to Lucy! Because he said he was into guys. So I was wondering where you were so I could introduce you before this guy made a move! Except this guy turned out to be you, so, it all worked out!”

Chad gestured towards Sayaku, with a laugh. Lucy, meanwhile, turned towards Lily with his lips drawn into a pout.

“Yes! He’s completely cute! And cute is my type.” He grinned at the notion of Lily being jealous, however. “Oooooh, you jealous? No, no, see, there are so many cute girls here! Perhaps you can meet one, and talk to one, and seduce one!”

Lucy glanced back over at Sayaku, humming under his breath, glad he already seemed to have a sense of humor!

-x-

“Oh, you’re so sweet! I know I’m not that old. But compared to you I am! You’re only teenagers.” Susan waved her hand in the air dismissively. “By steal, I mean whisk him off away to have some fun! You know, to dance or socialize or whatever it is you teenagers do these days!”

Arthur shot Susan a look, but Susan merely shrugged it off with a grin, taking a seat at the table as well. When she brought up how ignoring a teacher was bad, Susan couldn’t help but giggle, and Arthur, annoyed, took the seat between Susan and Flutter, kicking Susan lightly under the table to shut her up. Susan couldn’t help it! She loved Flutter already—she was utterly adorable! And so respectful, too! Susan quieted herself at Arthur’s kick, not wanting to be rude, the smile not fading from her lips.

“Susan’s not going to quiz you on anything that happens tonight. Don’t worry. I’m not telling you to ignore her in class.”

“Just when I’m being the annoyingly nosy older sister!” Susan interjected, her hands folded in her lap, leaning forward towards Flutter with a smile on her lips. “It’s so crowded here, you’re right! And I know almost all of the students here. You’re also right about loneliness being bad for the mental health of people. Fortunately I have friends and family!”

Arthur leaned on the table, his elbow on the table, his chin resting on his palm. He glanced back over at the big Diva again, only to see some blonde wannabee buzzing around her with her arms locked around Henri and both girls looked angry. Arthur narrowed his eyes in annoyance, what, were they having some kind of love triangle dispute? He didn’t know. He soon turned back to his sister and Flutter, head turning more towards Flutter as he listened to her respond to Susan.

-x-

“Oh, no problem! I don’t really mind!” Phoebe said, noticing that Chastity was already occupied with two white clad… clones? She blinked for a moment before she turned back to Rory, smiling, the idea of dancing with a boy somewhat foreign but not entirely impossible… it was just one dance, after all.

Phoebe didn’t notice Sky enter the room, as she was busy twirling around with Rory.

“U—uhm… I’m Phoebe, nice to meet you.” She said, hastily, not liking the idea of dancing silently. She felt nervous already, because she was worried she was dancing wrong though she knew her steps were right from her prior experience being taught to ballroom dance.

-x-

Chastity had to smirk at the flustered reaction of Chase’s cheeks, and his stutter made it even cuter. She brought a smile to her lips as she stood between the twins in her white dress, looking up at them, glancing up at Chase through her lashes as he stuttered nervously.

“I’d love to join the white club, in that case.” She said, eyes flickering over to the other less flustered twin as she spoke. “Oh, me? I am alone, actually. No one wanted to ask me. I was totally devastated. But you know, I think that’s a good thing now, because if you want, I can be both of your dates.”

As she spoke, she gave a cute half shrugging gesture was she moved closer, lacing her arm first through Chase’s arm, and then her other arm looped through Chance’s. “And I think it’s pretty flattering, that I made you stutter, Chase. You’re both awfully cute, you know? My name is Chastity.”

She winked as she stated her name.

-x-

Todd felt his cheeks reddening because of his flusteredness and way of talking. He should be more at ease with Isabella by now! Probably, anyway. He heard her giggle and flushed further, trying to blow off the embarrassment he felt with a jovial smile.

“W—well, if you wasn’t to see sure I mean, I don’t exactly have anything and, well, any picture you’re in you technically model for, so, yeah, you can show me a picture i—if you want.” He shifted a little in his seat, nodding at Max and Ace as they came over and introduced themselves to Isabella. He was glad they got along!

Max’s compliments made Todd blush further as he cleared his throat, ears going red. “T—thank you, Max, I’m flattered, really. But you, well, I mean, you look good in what you normally wear…s…so, you don’t need to be, uhm, jealous…”

No matter how many times he was told he looked good in clothing, it was still very flustering to hear… responding too modestly sometimes made people annoyed, like he didn’t accept it, but that was the only way he knew to react! When he heard another familiar voice Todd looked over to see Dante and Sam, and nodded his head, gesturing to two more available seats at the table. Wow! He was actually at a very popular table this time! It felt kind of nice. He smiled. “Sam, your dress looks nice, too.” He added. He watched as they went to the dance floor, smiling a little, sparing Amy and Maosn a wave.

“GUYS!” Amy burst, grinning her thanks to Sam, bursting over to the group and latching her arm around Max’s shoulder. “Look who finally showed up! Me! Do you like my hair? It took me forever! And I’m glad to see you all conjugated together! This is Mason, my boyfriend!”

-x-

“Of course! I’m so glad to have found you before they overtook you into their bland clutches!” Jer said, wrapping his arms around her and pulling her close in a hug as he slowly stood back up, resulting in a very dramatic image. He spun her around a little as he did so, then pulled away with a grin ear to ear, as the lights flickered in his wild eyes. “Hehe, let’s go! Let’s tear up the bland land’s main battlefield—the dance floor! We will sashay all of the bland penguins out of here!”

He pulled Akira with him to the dance floor, dancing, but also attempting to bump into other couples as he did so. He was laughing all the while, though, as though he was having the time of his life. Like Phoebe he hadn’t noticed Sky enter the room, his mind was focused on the colorful girl in his arms and the prospect of defeating the penguin suits takeover of the universe.

Both of which were substantially important things that demanded his immediate attention.

-x-

“You did WHAT?” Shyanne burst, turning towards Henri with a frown on her face and her eyes as dangerous as a storm. Henri had taken the, like, Queen of the school to the dance and had the nerve to ditch her like that? What was he, crazy? That was literally social suicide. And Shyanne had wanted him to be her arm candy tonight—what if the image of him already having gone with Chardonnay was burned in everyone’s minds?! This was a disaster! How absolutely rude of Henri! “Ugh I cannot believe you would, like, ditch her after that that is totally traumatizing!”

Shyanne flipped her hair back and stared up at Chardonnay, her pink lips in a pout.

“I totally had no idea! Like, I didn’t think he was the ditching type! That is so mean, Henri.” She gave him her best puppy dog look. “If you ditched her, you’re probably going to ditch me too.”

-x-

“Oooh… of course I remember you… I was looking for you...” Talya trailed off, coming to a halt on the dance floor. She began to sway to the beat, feeling the music move her, until Bandi inquired if she knew how to waltz. Talya tilted her head to the side, staring blankly up at Bandi, noticing the blush that was barely visible beyond the expanse of his mask. She reached her hands up and cupped his cheeks in her hands, feeling the warmpth radiating from them.

“Waltz? Hmm…. Yes…” She said, freezing in place for a moment, wondering what a waltz was. She said yes, of course, but she didn’t know how to go about doing it or what they required. “You may teach me… then… I’ve no idea… but I like…”

She stopped there, looking like she was about to say something else.

-x-

Kara was swishing the glass in her hands around boredly, not quite knowing anyone here well enough to want to speak to them. Audrey was busy, not present, leaving Kara to her own devices. She was debating going back to her room—she had no friends here—and stifled a yawn as someone came over and spoke to her. Kara turned her head to see a tall and gorgeous girl (or so she thought) she had never met before. She shrugged and gestured to the other seat at her table.

“Yeah. I’m not saving this for anyone. Sit down.” Kara offered. “Everyone else is really loud… and you can already hear the arguing… meh. Not anything I’m not used to.”

She took a sip of her punch.

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"nice to meet you Phoebe. The only dance I can do is riverdancing." Rory admitted to her.

Mason smiled and waved at amy's friends. He knew most of them and this was her moment anyways. So he played nice for now.

Sam and Dante just danced together.

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Post by juneberry on May 15, 2014 16:28:48 GMT -5

"Niko, hrm? A lovely name, if I may say so. I can't say I've heard it before either...Meaning I'm sure I'll be able to find some of your work in the future with ease." After all, he already figured she'd do well, in his own opinion- so having a name that was so memorable would help him find out later if he was right.

"Acting may be exciting, but it has different requirements than to be a model. Modeling requires a lot better self control in my mind. Acting just lets you pretend you're not you for a while. Though, it is fun I'll admit. For me, anyhow."

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Isabella nodded lightly. "Yes. I'm a painter." It was a very broad art program the school had, and painting was just one of many things students could do. "You don't need to spend a lot to look lovely, I think. I don't spend much either. If I recall, this dress used to belong to my sister, in fact." She had to admit- having a doting family did have its perks in that department. When Madeline grew out of clothes, Isabella generally got first pick of what might still be useful. Though, she mostly wore very plain clothes herself- and most of Madeline's old clothes weren't met to be near paint. "I think you did a great job choosing yours."

Turning to Ace for a moment, she let a curious glance go his way. "Are you in the art program as a painter as well?"

"Then...I'll find one to show you. We have a lot actually, so...It shouldn't be hard..." She smiled and nodded to Todd, thinking over his explanation of modeling as a general fact- it was interesting, and it made her sort of embarrassed at the same time. She'd been modeling without noticing? But, she didn't look particularly good in the pictures anyway. She was likely the blandest of all the Bonheurs.

The sudden burst of sound from an unfamiliar voice startled her, however. It was a fairly pretty red-head, but it wasn't someone Isabella really knew well. Still, she looked pretty, and wanted to know it for sure- so it would be wrong not to say anything "Um...Y-You look nice...Yes..."

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Sayaku chuckled a bit towards the very clear attempt at freeing himself from Sayaku's confusion. He wasn't fully convinced, but he'd accept it anyway. Either way, Chad meant well. "Well thanks then, bud." Lucy then regained his attention, adding, "Cute? Me? Hah. My callouses are far from cute. You, now, are another story."

Oh, yay! Lucy was getting flirted with already! Now Lily just had to find someone- watching a couple of boys flirting wasnt' all that fun, even if she was happy for Lucy. "Well you're right there. I'm off to go find me a super cute girl! Wish me luck!" She waved, hugging the boy one more time before running off- she wouldn't let Lucy be the only one to get hooked up at this party!

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"Ah...I suppose that's true. Schooling to become a teacher takes a couple years, so you'd already have had to graduate, meaning you'd have to be a few years older still, I suppose." Flutter explained. Oh, the way her love of math and logic just pounded into that stupid statement! She hadn't had to say anything in response- but she still did, not even thinking it strange that it went that way.

Of course, explaining the 'nosy older sister' bit had helped a lot. And Arthur clearing up this dance would not have anything to do with class was also a relief. She smiled, a soft sigh escaping her without her consent, as she agreed. "Well, I suppose that has some logic to it. I think most older siblings can be quite nosy though for some reason. At least, my brother certainly is. That's something I've already decided is just related to familial needs and the concept of watching over the young of one's pack."

Yes, explaining the science behind it to the teacher that taught science specifically probably didn't need to happen. And in fact, this time, Flutter was aware of that! But, she was trying to set the woman's nerves at ease by noting it wasn't something she was worried about, perhaps? Flutter wasn't fully sure. "And younger siblings can be rather nosy too. I recall definitively following my brother everywhere at one time. Didn't you do that too, Arthur? I thought that was also natural familiar progression."

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Akira laughed happily and returned the close, warm hug- pulling back similarly when he did, as if already dancing along with him. When they began to dance all in fun, she was happy to join in on his charade, playfully trying to help bring the color further and further into the crowd. "Let us be careful as we move, my knight- we are getting far into enemy territory now! We must fight hard!"

((Will add Lily more later when she decides on her next victim of flirtage xD))

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"My name is a bit different, but I like it, and thank you. You have a nice name too, Walter. It definitely sounds like the name of an actor." Or at least his name sounded relatively sophisticated, and she always considered actors, especially a lot of the well known, respectable actors, were rather sophisticated. Either that or they acted that way, but nevertheless she still thought it was nice. It was... Simple, unlike hers, but she liked hers too.

"And acting does sound like a lot of fun when you put it that way, but I don't think I could pull anything like that off." She smiled lightly, shrugging her shoulders. "Or at least it sounds a lot more fun than modeling, though modeling clothes does have its points when its fun. Though they're generally serious, some shoots that I've been in have been fun, a little anyway."

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"Well then, welcome to the club!" Chance announced, giving a little half salute to the girl as he laughed, watching as she walked in between the two. He looked to his brother and gave him a cheeky grin as he wondered whether or not the boy would stutter again. Ahh, he hadn't seen his brother like this in a long time. It was hilarious!

"It is a shame that no one asked you to the dance though. But hey, you might not have met us had you had a date! I think it works out for all of us, right Chase?"

The younger sibling looped his arms around the girl's as she did the same, loosely albeit since he was still trying to get over his nerves, but he gave a little laugh as he looked over at Chance, furrowing his brows a bit at the boy before quickly dismissing the grin that stretched across his lips. Chance also looped his arm around Chastity's, though a bit more confidently than Chase.

"Ahh, I guess I just stutter a lot when nervous," Chase answered, rubbing the back of his neck with his free hand. "But if it flatters you, then it's good! Right?" Again he gave out a little of a nervous laugh. "And thanks. You're cute too, err! Uhh, pretty, I mean, unless you like cute."

Chase turned his head to look as he heard a chuckle come from Chance. "Smooth. And it's nice to meet you Chastity. Don't think I've met a girl with that name before."

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Max had to agree with Isabella; it didn't take a lot of money to look nice, and it sure as hell didn't take a long time to look nice either. Sure, she knew a lot of people, girls specifically, like dot go all out for things like this, but what was the point if it cost so much? "I completely agree with you! And you look pretty too, and you didn't have to sped a lot of money, unlike miss 'I throw money at everything' over there." She pointed a thumb over to Chardonnay, thinking her dress, while really pretty, was way too over the top, and probably very expensive. "It's kind of ridiculous, but I guess some people just can't help it." She shrugged.

As she listened to Todd, she couldn't help but smile at the blush that covered his face. It was cute, and she couldn't help laugh in a joking way when ever it did it. It was a wonder how he stayed so modest given how he was a model! It was admirable though, very admirable actually. "Hey, I can't help but be a little envious," she said with a laugh. "But thanks."

Ace nodded his head in reply to Isabella. "I'm in both the painting and drawing part of the program. I mostly stick with landscape drawings and painting though, like... Nature things anyway. I don't usually draw much else." While he usually drew most of his artwork, he did find himself eager to paint things every once in a while when he really wanted to get the color out onto the canvas, or he wanted to highlight a certain thing within the picture that he wouldn't be able to completely make shine with just shading or just using pen and pencils.

As Amy and Mason came over to the table, he couldn't help but smile up at his friend, giving them both nods as he, still, though that Amy had way too much energy sometimes. But, it worked for her. Max, on the other hand, turned around and gasped as Amy's hair and dress. Oh, she looked so pretty! "Oh, that dress is amazing! And your hair is so cute when it's straight like that." She stood up and ave her friend a little hug before looking over at Mason. "So, this is the one and only Mason that you've talked about? It's finally nice to meet you! I'm Max."

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Chardonnay rose her brows as she listened to the little outburst Shyanne had about the situation. See, someone else who thought the situation was as bad as she thought it was! Still, it was amusing to think that such a little girl would act in such a way, but since it was towards Henri it just made things all the better. He deserved to be yelled at, because what he had done was wrong.

"I wouldn't be surprise if he ditched you either," Chardonnay said as she crossed her arms, an annoyed look crossing her face. "I didn't think he'd leave me, but he did. And to think I actually thought he was helpful. Tch, the only reason why he probably helped me was because he wanted to be known around the school. How pathetic! Using people and then just leaving them. Who do you think you are?!" She groaned before taking a deep breath, trying to calm herself. She did not come here to argue with anyone, especially not him. She didn't even want to see him!

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“You think so! Hear that, I am cute!” Lucy enthusiastically exclaimed, turning towards Lily. However his partner in crime and best friend had left his side. Lucy’s pout was gone in a second as he turned back towards Sayaku with a grin. He moved closer, offering the other boy his hand. “Thank you, Sayaku! In that case, would you like to dance with me? I personally think you are much cuter than I am, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder!”

“Yeah! Dance with him!” Chad encouraged, taking a few steps back. “I’m going to go and grab something to drink. Don’t go having sex on the dance floor Saya! I'll be watching you!”

“No promises!” Lucy called back, before grinning at Sayaku. “I kid, I kid! I would rather use a much more dignified place. Like the bathroom. Or my bedroom. Anyway, shall we dance?”

Chad on the other hand grabbed a glass of punch and took a long sip of it, wondering if he knew anyone else here. He’d left Sayaku in the hands of another guy and he wanted to get flirted with too, damn it! But who… that friend of Lucy’s was beautiful, but she was also a lesbian. He pouted as he glanced around the room, spotting a few people he knew—Chardonnay and Shyanne, with another guy. He took another drink of his punch, noticing it tasted rather interesting, but didn’t put it down and decided to wait a second to make sure Sayaku was actually dancing and having fun before he went over to the others.

-x-

“Believe it or not, I’m actually in my thirties! I’m much older than you two are!” Susan said, “I took mainly online courses and then got accepted here once I got my degree! I’ve been here for a few years… I like to seem young though! You are right, it does take quite a few years to graduate and then get a good job.”

When Flutter smiled and seemed more relieved, and Arthur spared her a small smile back, Susan made a sort of “aww” sound with her lips and that warranted another small kick from Arthur. This time Susan pouted over at him, not quite understanding what she’d done wrong! The girl was so cute, she’d been legitimately worried that something here would be on a quiz! And then her brother probably thought it was cute too... oh, he must just be a sour sport when it came to teasing!

“You have quite the way of thinking, Flutter! You’re right, though! I’m just a big old mamma wolf! And that makes Arthur my little pup. Aww… I actually really like that comparison!” Susan hummed contently, ruffling her brother’s hair. Arthur frowned and fixed it. At Flutter’s next comments Arthur furrowed his brows in confusion.

“What? Follow around?”

“Of course he did!” Susan interrupted, “He used to follow me all the time as a kid. He was so cute. Now he’s too cool for that, though.”

“I am not.” Arthur grumbled, rolling his eyes again. “I guess as a kid I did follow her around. But I’m not like that anymore. I’m older now, too.”

Of course he still clung to Susan desperately, as both a mother and a sister figure. He was also still fiercely protective of her but wasn’t about to admit that. “So yeah, I guess, she’s just extra nosy whereas I generally am not.”

-x-

“River dancing?” Phoebe asked, with a tilt of her head. “I want to see what that is! River dancing, anyway. I’ve never done it… is that the kind of dance that’s meant to summon rain?”

Phoebe moved slowly with the beat, a little off, but not all that interested in the current dance. She’d rather see this river dance that Rory had mentioned.

-x-

“Thanks! I’m glad there’s not a long initiation process.” Chastity said, ignoring any other people present at the dance who were eyeing the trio, mostly for the two identical boys on her arms. Still Chastity liked the attention. She noticed that Chase was a lot looser on his grip that Chance was, but didn’t say anything. Clearly Chase was a lot less accustomed to this kind of thing! Or at least more nervous because of it. It almost made her want to see how he’d react in other situations. The awkward ones were always the most entertaining to flirt with! Not that his brother wasn’t equally appealing. Chastity was glad she opted to come—she was going to have plenty of fun!

“I think everyone just assumed I had a date, is all.” She shrugged. Truth be told she’d gone out with quite a few guys recently, and many attending this ball thought she was going with one of them. These kinds of dances usually resulted in Chastity having to ask someone herself, because no one could tell if she was with an accompaniment or not. At Chase’s compliments Chastity giggled, looking up at him.

“Aww. That’s adorable, that you stutter when you’re nervous. I don’t meet many guys who do that anymore.” She said honestly, with a shrug of her shoulders. “And thank you. I generally prefer to be sexy, but I’ll take cute and pretty. Any compliments from an attractive guy tend to make my heart flutter, you know?”

She smiled before she turned back to the more composed twin. “Chastity is a unique name. My parents hoped that it would define me as I got older.”

-x-

Todd smiled at the others, nodding alomg with the conversation Isabella, Ace, and Max were having about painting and dresses. He couldn’t weigh very much in on either—he was no painter and he wore expensive clothes due to his labels—but they were right, they all looked great even if they hadn’t spent much money. Honestly he couldn’t tell, especially with the dresses. They could easily be expensive or cheap—Todd only dealt with male fashion in his industry. He had to stifle a little laugh when she gestured to Chardonnay though—it was true.

“You’re welcome… and thank you. But, uhm, the feeling’s mutual. That is, the uh, thinking you look fine in anything, and, er… I’ll just shut up now…” He nervously laughed and scratched the back of his head. He turned towards Isabella with a nod, “And okay! If you can’t I understand, and I’ll try to paint… erm, something.”

He turned towards Mason, Amy’s boyfriend, who was quietly smiling at the group. Todd put on a smile and nodded.

“Hi, I’m Todd… nice to meet you, Mason. I like your suit it’s very, uh, red.” He said.

Amy meanwhile grinned at everyone.

“Thanks guys! I totally wanted this to be a surprise for you! I took forever picking this out with Sam.” Amy enthused. She turned towards Max. “Aww thank you! It took forever so don’t get used to it like this though! She hugged Max back and pulled away. “And you could stop traffic in that beautiful dress! We look FLAWLESS tonight!”

She grinned over at Mason and wrapped her arm around his, nodding. “Yup, this is him. The Mason who played hard-to-get for a few years. What a tool!” She joked.

-x-

“Be extremely careful not to brush against any of them! Remember, they are evil and they transfer their blandness through touch.” Jer said, already feeling another buzz on top of the high that he had attended the dance in. He led Akira through the throng of dancers, making a huge point to “Eep!” and pull away every time they came too close to someone else dressed up nicely. “My colorful queen, we need to get to the center of the floor and show everyone here that they are allowed to be colorful instead of penguins!”

For dramatic effect, Jer brought his free hand to his tie and completely removed it, the two ends of the thing dangling off of his shoulders. “And these chokers are also ridiculous! Who would want to tie something around their neck like this! It is the symbol of the fallen!”

-x-

“What?! Really?” Shyanne said, still looking with offense up at Henri. She couldn’t believe that would happen! He was always so nice… maybe he really was a jerk like that? He was fine up until something happened, but when it did… she turned back towards Chardonnay and let go of Henri’s arm. It killed her to do so because she’d always liked him, since she was a little kid, and dreamed of this day for years. But she had to choose between dealing with the possibility of being stood up on her first formal event and being the one to do the standing up. And as a freshman trying to make a name for herself, she chose the latter.

“I can’t believe he’d do something like that! I totally thought he was noble and nice and stuff! I can’t thank you enough for warning me!” Shyanne said, shooting a little glare towards Henri, though it lacked the fire and contained a little more hurt than anything else. Quickly she looked away and decided not to look back. “He is so not worth either of our time! You deserve to, like, have fun at this dance and not argue with a dumbface like him and his bad memories!”

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"Hey I am not a tool. It's not my fault I had to go home and on tour."Mason said to Amy Reaching up to kiss her. He looks over at Todd and smiles. "thanks it took while to find the right suit I sent her three suits before she said it was okay. It's nice to meet you Todd." he said turning to looked at Max. "nice to meet you Max. What has Amy said about me?" he said jokingly.

"you're thinking of a rain dance. Riverdance is Irish step dancing. It's like tap dance."rory said doing a couple of steps.

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