Times Up

Reunion at the Ball

A ball, like formal gala, like dresses, tuxes and Dancing. Dancing. Heck no. Crimson Scarlet Noir does not dance, ever. But to celebrate Jolie returning to the land of the living, Neverseen was sending out invites to the ball/gala/Crimson's Death from literally being forced into a dress/ Formal gathering, and the weird part is their invite list, Trenten, Dallin, Wenter, Fitz, Bianna, Dex, Grady and Edaline, and then the rest of the Castaways are invited. Strange.

Two hours before the Ball a woman comes in, she has hard features and black hair, she claims her name is Secha.

When she comes in she takes one long look at me, analyzing every part of my face before examining my height, weight and shoe size. When she's done she grumbles, "They give me two hours to transform this into something worthy of being at the ball." Ouch that statement hurts, not, I learned a long time ago that there is always going to people who think your ugly. Well to bad for them.

She brought out all of her materials and set to work, I argued against make up but there wasn't much I could do, then she said I was done minus one thing, the dress. She brought me out of the cell and took me to a posh room, there in the middle of the room sat the dress.

"Oh heck no." I say there is no way I'm wearing that.  It's a floor length gown that fans out slightly at it's empire waist with black ribbon around it. It's purple- out of all the colours it had to be purple (Sorry to all the purple lovers out there but I don't overly enjoy purple)

"What is it?" Secha asks, "The ribbon, the waist line ? What is it?"

"The colour." I say.

"No! The colour! It's amazing, Crap, fine the red one is in the closet." She says defeated.

"What?"

"I made a bet with Fintan, I said you would love the purple one, he said the red one." She sighs.

Not knowing what to say to that I walk to the closet and quickly change into the red dress, I must say it looks quite good on me.

When I walk out Eddie is standing there talking with Secha, when they notice me Secha says

"See, son! I told them I could make here look like a dream!"

I laugh and say "Secha I thought you knew me better, I'm no dream, I'm  the worst nightmare ."

Eddie smirks, I don't know why but when I'm not in a cell I'm open, funny I hope, and almost talkative, I guess it's my slight claustrophobia.  Eddie sticks his arm out "Good evening Red I'll be escorting you to the ball."

Cautiously I link arms with him, we walk down the twisty halls. Then we reach the room I'd been dreading, the ball room. The doors open and we step in, I immediately recognise Dallin. I pull out of Eddie's arm and run towards my best bud. His back is facing me but I can still tell it's him, he's slightly taller than Trenten and more built but their hair was the same, when I reached him I jumped up so I was riding piggyback, he turned his head and instantly saw me.

"Hey tiger." He said lifting me up and turning me around so he could crush me in a hug.

"Hi elephant." I say back smiling at the stupid names we had for each other.

He put me down and shoke his head, come on Crim, I leave you for two weeks, and you get kidnapped."

"Hey I'm okay, I don't need anyone looking after me." I say getting worried because the last time I got into trouble I had a guard tailing me for a month.

"There you are !" Eddie said coming out of the crowd standing beside me he griped my arm tightly and said, "Don't run away again otherwise you'll have to go back to your cell." He griped my arm so tightly his fingernails felt like they were tearing into my skin, and when he pulled me away I yelped in pain.

Dallin came between me and Eddie and pushed him to the ground, making him release my arm. I rubbed my arm and saw there was already a purple mark forming on it, curse you pale, fragile skin.

Dallin grabbed my hand and said, "Come on the others are waiting."

There stood a puffy eyed Bianna in the arms of Fitz, he didn't look to good either a boy with strawberry blonde hair and periwinkle eye stood there looking shocked, I assumed he was Dex and Wenter and Trenten looked grim, a girl who looked to be around 20 stood there awkwardly: Jolie.

They looked up at me and it was clear that Jolie had told them about Sophie.

"I know." I say softly, "But it will be okay, we'll get her back some how." My voice now full of determination, suddenly the air turned cold, I turned to see a boy with dark hair that had silver on the ends standing with Keefe, Instantly I knew he was a Shade. I nodded towards him when I noticed him reading me. "I'm good. Don't worry, what's your name?" I say.

"Tam." He replies.

"We're going to help you Crimson, I know it's possible, especially when you help." Keefe says and just like that out journey begins.

AND boom there done It's not much of OMG I just got 100 votes chapter but it's 900 words long and I'm supposed to be helping outside right now, so I just want to say thanks to everyone who helped make it possible for this to be a slightly popular story now I just have to wait for 92 more reads and i'll have 1000 :) Thanks!