A Canadian Cinderella Story

Chapter 4

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Gilbert stood next to the punch bowl talking to Francis and Antonio until he smelled the nauseating scent of cheap perfume coming from behind him.

"Hey Gil it's been a while." the scantily dressed blond said as she wrapped her arms around his neck. "i've missed you!"

He pulls her arms off him."don't touch my awesomeness Tiffany, we aren't together any more."

"But-"

Francis cuts her off. "I believe you should go chere." he gives her a mocking smile.

Tiffany storms off in anger without another word.

Antonio hands them both a drink as he looks around. Then he spies someone in the crowd. "I have to go mis amigos."

The albino smirks and pats his friend on the back. "of course, we wouldn't want to keep you away from your Lovi kesesese."

The spaniard gives him a blinding smile and starts making his way through the crowd to where Lovino is. Gilbert sips his drink as he looks over the crowd, looking for someone. His eyes landed on the entrance door as it opened, eyes going wide as he sees three girls enter, one in particular catching his attention. The girl was wearing a beautiful white gown with lavender trim along the sleeves and bodice, the bodice had lavender beads along it forming several lilies that trailed along the top. His eyes traveled upward to see long golden wheat curls framing a soft heart shaped face covered by a simple white mask. But what caught his attention most were her eyes, they were a beautiful lavender. He hoped it was her.

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Matthew looks around nervously. He never liked going to parties, even if they were hosted by the school. He looked to his right at Marina and she gives him a reassuring smile which he gives his own hesitant one back.

Elizabeta gives him a hug. "don't worry so much, you look amazing!"

"I-I can't h-help it eh." he looks down.

Marina looks at the time. "it's almost 11 you should get to the gazebo."

He nods and starts making his way to the door that leads to the outside.

Marina looks at Elizabeta. "do you think he'll be okay Liz?"

"He'll be fine Mar, lets go mingle!" Elizabeta satiated loudly and started to make her way through the crowd with Marina being pulled along behind her.

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Matthew made his way up the steps of the gazebo nervously and looked around. The gazebo was strung up with orange and purple lights, rubber bats and cloth ghosts hung from the ceiling and huge plastic spiders were nestled in cotton webs. He wrung his hands as he waited, leaning against the wooden railing and looking around hopefully. Then he saw someone walk out and his breath caught at who he sees. It was Gilbert Beilschmidt. He was wearing a white ruffled shirt and a dark blue tailcoat with a silver trim on the ends, dark blue pants with a silver stripe on either side of his legs, black boots that went halfway up his calf and folded on itself, and a golden crown placed crookedly on his messy white hair.

Gilbert approached him with a smirk. "are you PancakeLover281?"

"Y-yes, you must b-be KingOfAwesome."

"That is me!"

Matthew looks down, unsure of what to do next. No one other than his closest friends had ever taken notice of him before, he didn't know what to do.

The Prussian's ruby eyes studyd him for a moment and then held out his hand. "would you like to dance with the awesome me?"

His eyes widen at the question and looks up to see his smirk had turned into a soft lopsided smile. He looks at the outstretched hand and puts his own in it feeling warmed by the touch. Gilbert pulls him close placing his hand on his hip and placing his on the others shoulder as a song starts to play.