Tangled Web (A Black Butler Fan Fiction)

Chapeter Thirty-One

Grell buttoned me into my new dress. I thought for certain it was the exact one that the girl wore at Viscount Druitt's party a year ago. Perhaps I was imagining things and I should just let it go. I turned around in the dress and faced Grell. Looking at his pleased expression, I knew I looked good. Grell turned from me to retrieve the hat I left on the vanity. He handed it to me and I placed it on my head. I looked at myself in the mirror. I didn't work as well on me as it did on that girl's head. I set it down and looked to Grell.

"Are you ready?" Grell asked.

I nodded. "Yes, please go and prepare the horses." As Grell walked away, I looked at myself in the mirror. I looked great in the color pink, but it was more of my sister's color than mine. I gently slipped on the black gloves it came with and walked out of my bedroom.

"Selena!" Lizzie said excitedly. She ran to me from her room, dressed to the nines. "You look so pretty. Where did you get this dress?"

"It was delivered to me. I don't know who sent it though," I said as I looked down the dress again and back up to Lizzie.

"Have fun at your party. Mother and Father have decided on another party," she said as she looked down the hall, making sure Paula wasn't coming for her. She looked back to me. "Have some fun at the other party. You never seem to have fun anymore."

I stiffened. I slowly relaxed as I smiled at her. "I will," I said with a half-promise in there somewhere. "You have some fun too. Who knows, maybe you'll meet the one you're meant to be with."

She blushed. "I will see you soon," she said as she skipped away.

I turned in the same direction she was going in. Grell was waiting with the horses if he didn't give one a near-death experience like the delivery boy. I walked passed my parents and out the door. Grell was waiting for me with the carriage door opened. I bowed my head to Grell as a thanks and stepped into the carriage. I wondered if I was invited because I was the Queen's new Guard Dog. The rest of my family wasn't invited. It was just me.

Grell guided the carriage to the party. When we got there, the driveway was already crowded with carriages and footmen crawled all over the place. The manor was brightly lit and people were piled inside. Or it just looked like it from the windows. Grell stopped the carriage and even beat the footman to my carriage door. I took Grell's hand as I was guided out the carriage.

I looked at the manor doors. It was a cross between the Keirton estate and Viscount Druitt's. I inhaled deeply before I ascended the steps into the manor. Grell followed behind after directing the footman to take care of our carriage and not to lose it. I had a feeling I knew what the punishment was: near-death experience. It was the only thing Grell could do when he was angry and the person wasn't on the "To Die" list.

A thought occured to me.

"Grell, please say you know how to dance," I muttered as we neared the double doors.

There wasn't an answer. The double doors opened and we walked through. There were more people than I thought was going to be here. I looked to Grell, who had a large smile on his face. What had him so damn happy? When he grins like that, it makes me wonder what he's done and how it's going to effect me.

The amount of people at the party was staggering. Some of them were even higher in nobility than I was. I wondered who sent the invitation. When I looked to Grell for support, he wasn't there. He just disappeared. I shook my head thinking I should've seen it coming. There were some people here that resembled Sebastian. One of them even looked like Sebastian. He was tall and slender like Sebastian. He even had the dark hair. But, no, Sebastian just disappeard like Ciel did, when Ciel did.