It was a very fine day at the Phantomhive manor. Ciel was sitting in his office, reading, when all of a sudden Sebastian barged in. He looked rather pale than usual,
to say, extremely pale, given his normally pale appearance.

"What is it, Sebastian?" Ciel asked.

Sebastian was sweating and very pale. Ciel wondered if he was sick, but swatted the idea away remembering that demons don't catch the flu or cold. Sebastian`s breathing became ragged. For a moment, Ciel thought he saw fear in the demon butler`s eyes.

"I-it...umm..." Sebastian stuttered.

"Just tell me already!" Ciel demanded.

"Th-the..erm...you, you received a letter, um...f-from.." Sebastian trailed off. Ciel then shut his mouth, grinding his teeth. He knew what Sebastian meant, he just didn't want to say that thing`s name.

"You can`t be serious, Sebastian. That stupid blonde menace!" Ciel seethed, his voice practically dripping with poison.

Oh, how Ciel hated that stupid, obnoxious, and downright bratty blonde. After all, he killed Ciel`s parents. Ciel wanted revenge, and who could blame him? 'Alois freaking trancy.' Ciel thought. 'I want to rip that person to shreds. The last time Alois and I met, alois ended up with a sword to the stomach, and a near death.'

"That...that...brat. dare. write. to. me?" Ciel spat.

Sebastian handed the letter to Ciel, who in return, opened it and began to read its contents. What seemed like halfway through reading, Ciel gripped the paper more tightly. 'I do hope young master is alright.' Sebastian sighed, looking away.

"A ball. A masquerade ball. He dare thinks I will attend? Tch. He`s more stupid than I thought." Ciel said, clearly not pleased with the invitation.

Sebastian frowned. He knew that young master must attend to support the family name. He also knew young master would not be pleased. But, Ciel must do what must be done. He was a Phantomhive, after all. He had to live up to the name.

"Young master, you know if people found out about the Earl Phantomhive not attending the ball.." Sebastian trailed off.

"Yes. I shall go to that brat`s ball." Ciel managed to get out through gritted teeth.

Ciel got up, and walked across the room to the door.

"Very well then. We will leave tomorrow at 3:00. It is settled." Ciel stated.

Sebatian bowed like usual, placing his hand over his chest and saying 'yes, my lord.' Ciel then nodded and went to check on the servants, wondering what they were doing. He bet Mey-rin was probably ttrying to clean but epically failing. Bard, probably tring to use dynamite as a cooking utensil again. Finnian, well, probably playing with Pluto. 'Hmmm...I wonder if any of the servants would like to play chess with me..' Ciel thought, ' though Bard would probably just end up blowing up the board or something to do with blowing things up and explosions...'

LATER

Ciel was in his room, reading, when he realized it was pretty late. He called for Sebastian who came in a matter of mili-seconds.

"I do believe it is time for me to retire for the night." Ciel said. Sebastian nodded, then undressed Ciel and put him in a nightgown. Ciel laid back in bed, worrying about tomorrow`s events. He wanted the night to go as slow as possible. For it to drag on forever, and forever, and forever...

"Young master." Sebastian said.

Ciel`s thoughts were interrupted by Sebastian`s voice. He was startled at first, flinching, but then settled back down.

"Oh, yeah...well then, good night Sebastian." Ciel said.

"Good night young master." Sebastian said before blowing out the candles and exiting the room.

Ciel closed his eyes, trying to go to sleep. For some reason, that reason being Alois`s upcoming masquerade ball, Ciel jst could not get to sleep. He tossed and turned all over the place, hoping it would help. Sadly, it did not. If anything, it made Ciel more anxious. Oh how Ciel just wanted to curl up in a ball and eat sweets and drink Earl Grey tea all day.

Was that really too much to ask from a 13 year-old? Gosh, Ceil thought with all this stress he was going to die at age 15. CIEL DIDN`T WANT TO DIE! Ciel curled up in a ball, trying to get a good night`s sleep. About an hour later, Ciel finally fell asleep, having the horrible nightmares he does every night.

Authors note: aaannndddd...BAM! FINISHED! I do really hope you duckies liked it. It was about 10:45 on a school night when I finisihed this *yawn*. Well, review! Reviews get my blood going to write!

- Ella Natsuro