I wanted to give him a lesson !

Part 6 : Dances and crushes.

Galatea had invited her to Aphrodite's ball.

And her, Cassandra, the seer, she had said yes.

Why exactly ?

Silently, pensive, she replayed the conversation she had with the other girl in her head.

She was still reading Aristotle's book when Galatea had came to see her, and Cassandra looked at her with curiosity. At her surprise, Galatea was harboring an air of uncertainty on her face.

"Hum, tell me, Cassandra... Would you accept to go to the ball with me ? As a friend, of course, she had immediately added."

It had nothing to do with everything else she had already received in the past, mainly from Icarus.

And unlike everything coming from him, it was something pleasant.

So, she had no dance partner for tonight, she didn't want to go with Icarus, Galatea was pretty and she liked her.

It was not like Cassandra was confronted to a great dilemma...

"Yes, of course I will come with you ! It might be fun, after all."

And by the way, they would not be forced to dance, right ?

(Error.)

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It was 4 PM when Cassandra and Galatea both learned what they were supposed to do (just as all the other students of the Promethean school) before the beginning of the ball, and the seer immediately got pale.

They were supposed, according to their new dance teacher (the one who appears in the episode "Hercules and the Muse of Dance" for those who don't remember who she is), to learn how to dance, because, after all, they were going to a ball, so it was an elementary thing, right ?

To know how to dance.

Cassandra understood the idea, but it didn't mean she liked it, it didn't mean she accepted it.

She would have to dance with Galatea.

For real.

Oh no, no, NO !

She hadn't signed for it !

She had accepted to go the ball with her friend because Hercules finally had the possibility to go with Tempest, that is to say the one with who he really wanted to go, and because she liked Galatea enough to want to spend an entire evening with her.

It was not either that she didn't like to dance, it was not that she didn't want to dance with Galatea, but...

She was afraid.

As it was said before, she didn't really like to be with people, except those she knew, as Hercules and Icarus (even if she didn't really have the choice with this one), her parents or Galatea, recently.

So, yes, to accept to go to this ball showed how much she cared about Galatea, but it didn't mean she could accept to dance with her in front of everyone !

She thought that she would just be with her, talk with her and see the other people dance and enjoy herself by staying away from the other people (except Galatea, Hercules, Helen or Tempest) as much as she could.

And according to Galatea's look, she seemed to be as embarrassed as she was.

The teacher rolled her eyes, clearly annoyed, as she noticed her students' reticence.