Tangled Web (A Black Butler Fan Fiction)

Chapter Nineteen

"Thank you, Ciel," I said as I sat in the empty chair.

In the back of my mind, I was wondering how Sebastian was doing with the request I gave him and why he decided to call me master. Paula poured me the tea as Lizzie went on about life when Ciel and her were married. I ignored them and watched Ciel intently. He listened about as much as I was and yet he could have fooled me if I didn't know him better.

"What do you think, Selena?" Lizzie asked me as she turned to me with that smile of hers.

"Hm?"

"What do you think of a spring wedding?" Lizzie asked. "You know we are going to get married together. I want your input."

"Oh," I said. After thinking about it a thought, I said, "How about when the lilacs are in bloom?"

"The lilacs?"

"Well, my first thought was when the roses were in bloom."

Lizzie stared at me for a second before she jumped and squealed, "That's a brilliant idea, Selena!"

I caught a look at Ciel's face. He was giving a lazy grin. Maybe he was amused with Lizzie's excitement. Or maybe he was thinking of something else.

As Lizzie went back to talking with Ciel and I listening, the door opened and I turned around to see who it was.

"Pardon the intrusion," Sebastian said. "Lady Selena, there is something you need to tend to."

"Oh," I said as I laid my napkin on the table and excused myself from the table.

I followed Sebastian into the house and out of the view of Lizzie and Ciel. I looked at him.

"Please say you found something," I said.

"Lady Selena, perhaps you should ask your parents."

"If I did that, Sebastian, I wouldn't have asked you," I said. "Besides, I tried once. I never got an answer from either of them. They ignored me."

Sebastian looked at me and blinked once or twice. "Lady Selena."

"Please, don't Lady Selena me, Sebastian," I said. "I thought you were supposed to follow all orders no matter the ludicrousness"

Sebastian smiled and shook his head. "There is simply putting nothing past you, is there?"

I gave him the same smile. "Nothing."

A week later, we received an invitation for a costume ball at the Trancy estate. It was in my name but I had no inclining of going. The farther away I was from Alois, the better for me. It was Lzzie who showed me the invitation addressed to me.

"Selena," she called as she burst through the door of our library. "Oh, Selena, something came for you."

I looked up at her, not bothering to close my book. "What is it, Lizzie?"

She handed me the invitation. "I took the liberty of opening it for you."

"Of course you did," I said as I looked at her with somewhat annoyance. I looked at it and read it carefully. I was to go and bring my sister with me. Apparently, he knows Lizzie is my twin. "We're invited to the costume ball at Alois's estate."

"Ooh," she squealed with delight. "Can we go, Selena?"

Hell no, I thought immediately. "I guess so," I said with a fake smile. "You'll finally get to meet Alois for yourself."

She squealed a high pitched squeal that only dogs could hear. "Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Selena," she said excitedly as she hugged me and jumped simutaniously.

As she ran to go get a costume, I thought about who might be there. Ciel would be there so they could finish their fight. Other noble kids might go because he is of noble blood, dispite the fact that he just recently came into the lime-light whereas the rest of us have been in it since birth.

"Come on, Selena, we have to pick out the perfect costume for you," Lizzie said as she ran into the library and took my wrist. She pulled me up from the seat I was in and made me drop my book. Good thing I had already read it a few times. Otherwise I would have been a little mad.

"Why?"

"Because, you must look perfect for Alois, silly," she said as she dragged me into my room and closed the door.

"Now, you must look stunning; catching Alois's eye."

I rolled my eyes. That was the last thing I wanted: catching Alois's eye.

Lizzie pulled out a shimmmering dress. It was meant as a matching one of Lizzie's. I never wore it. She held it up to her body. I forgot how it made me look like a princess and some girl that wasn't me.

"Perfect," Lizzie said. "You can be a princess like I always wanted."

I looked at her. "What will you be going as?"

"An indian."

I chuckled and shook my head. "You want me to be a princess ?"

She nodded. "Think of yourself as Cinderella or one of those fairytail princesses we kenw about when we were younger."

"Okay," I said.

"Try this on," she said as she threw the dress at me.

I went behind the curtain and began changing into it. I walked out thinking I looked like a lunatic. When Lizzie saw me, she squealed again. She's really liking the squealing lately.

"You look wonderful," she said. "All you need is a crown or tiara."

"What am I? One of the Queen's daughters?"

"Whatever princess you want," she said.

I looked at the scarlet fabric and the black designs on it. It looked like something I would wear to some gala. I looked at her.

"See? You look like Cinderella," she said as she felt the fabric of the skirt.

"I feel like Juliet Capulet," I said as I turned and looked in the mirror.

The dress looked emaculate on me. It was the color and the black on it that made me think of Romeo and Juliet. Maybe my life was supposed to be a tragedy like ones William Shakespeare would write. Maybe I was meant to be with a sadistic little boy who poked his maid's eye until it bled. I didn't need to hear the story. I saw it and knew right away, remembering what he did to me.

"Let me go and find a tiara for you," Lizzie said as she hustled out of my room, leaving me alone.

She didn't need to go and find a tiara. Apparently I wasn't going as Juliet Capulet, I was going to be a princess like Lizzie wanted. It's a shame she doesn't know why I wanted to be Juliet in the first place.  I waited until she came back. She came back with a sparkling tiara in her hand.

"This one should do," she said.

She gently placed it on my head. When I looked in the mirror, I stared at myself. I looked like royalty. Lizzie took my hair in her hands and pulled it up, keeping it there with her hands.

"Imagine, Selena, your hair like this," she said with a smile. "You'll truly look like a princess. This will definately make everyone stop and look at you for sure."

That's what I was afraid of, I thought as I stared at myself. If I was staring at myself, this costume would definately make Alois notice me. After that fight Ciel had with Alois, this was the last thing on my list.

"So, you're going to be an indian while I am dressed like a princess? Are you sure this sounds like us?"

"That's the point, silly," Lizzie said as she turned to me and I turned to her. "We aren't supposed to be like ourselves."

"Okay," I said uneasily.

Lizzie was missing the point of my uneasiness. I was uneasy because I hated Alois with every fiber of my being. There was no getting used to some sadistic, evil, demonted boy whom I'm engaged to against my will.