There were three days left. Only three days until the Jelicle Ball. Pouncival was now alone. It was dark and Bombalurina had got him thinking.

"I don't get it," he thought. "Why not me?"

Tonight is dark and you are gone
Again I'm wondering on my lawn
I guess I'll never know the truth
About the secrets from your youth

Bombalurina may just be a flirt, but certainly felt for Pouncival. Demeter was her closest friend, but Pouncival had been so good lately. She ran as she saw a small cat in the distance. It was Pouncival. She wanted to give him hope in some way so she ran over to him.

"Hello, Pouncival," she said, "I know I said this before, but if you want to do anything else with me just ask." She spoke very desperately for she was desperate to get him happy.

"You know?" Pounce started, "I know that you've been playing me all those times, Bombalurina."

"I'm sorry, Pounce!" she said trying to get Pouncival to look at her.

"You know what else?" said Pounce turning to face the red cat. "If you played all those times, I'd kinda think that you would accept my offer at least to flirt or something."

"Pouncival, if I went with you then everyone will think that we are super serious. At the Jellicle Ball, your date, to me, is your actual 'date'" she said looking at Pouncival's confused face.

"What?"

"'Date' meaning really serious partner. Not just a date, but your true love." she said. Pouncival actually understood it now.

"I was right." Pounce thought. "She has not found a love therefore she does not want to go to the Jellicle Ball with anyone." He was kind of irritated that Bombalurina flirts with all the toms and yet won't go to the Jellicle Ball with anyone.

And if you played me all those times
I kind of thought that you'll be mine
But when I realize your world
You're just a happy little girl

"Hey, Pounce," said a toms voice. Pouncival looked to see who it was. It was Quaxo. Next to the black and white cat was another tom, Plato.

"Hey guys," replied Pounce as he put his brown head down.

"You have a date for the Ball?" asked Plato in his mature voice, but before Pouncival could answer, Quaxo shouted something.

"You know Victoria doesn't have one?"

"Are you serious?" asked Plato in shock. He thought for sure that the white cat would get a date really quickly.

"Yeah, you gonna ask her?" asked Quaxo secretly liking Victoria a little bit.

"I don't know," said Plato, "I might ask her to dance at the Jellicle Ball, but I might not ask her to it." Quaxo shook his head.

"So what about you, Pounce? You gong with anyone?" asked Quaxo.

"I actually got rejected," Pounce said letting out a fake laugh.

"Who'd you ask?" asked Quaxo smiling and very interested.

Pounce hesitated, but quietly said, "Bombalurina." Plato and Quaxo smiled.

"What?" shouted Plato.

"Did you actually think that she would go with someone?" joked Quaxo.

"Nope. Not the Scarlet Queen," said Plato.

"No sure," agreed Quaxo, "not the Scarlet Queen."

"Heh. Everyone know her name?" asked Pouncival.

"Yeah," answered a spotted cat. It was Alonzo. "Who doesn't know her?" The toms laughed. "Bombalurina, the Scarlet Queen."

"Don't beat yourself up, Pounce," said Quaxo patting Pouncival's back. "I know I've gotten rejected by her."

"Yeah, me too!" shouted Alonzo.

"And I," said Plato.

"Hey!" another tom shouted. It was George. "It's not called rejection when someone flirts with you and then starts to flirt with someone else. It's called changing your mind, but it's also just what she does."

"Yeah I didn't believe it until Munkustrap, the mate of Bombalurina's closest friend, said it," said Plato, "and some toms are still doubting. Oh believe me, it drives those toms even crazier than us."

Pouncival was just walking in the night when he saw Bombalurina, the flirt; Bombalurina, the Scarlet Queen.

"Hey!" he shouted at her hoping he would get some thing off of his mind.

"Hey," she flirted, "So did you think about my offer?" Pounce was not only distracted. He was confused.

"What are you talking about?" he asked very loudly.

"I told you I'd do something else with you," Bombalurina reminded him.

"Oh yeah," he said, but was really thinking, "Because you can you can do things with all the guys you want, but can't choose one to be your real 'date.'" After a moment of pausing, Pouncival said, "I actually havn't thought about that yet."

"Oh," she said as her face lit up.

"I actually was going to say something else," he said.

"Very well," she flirted as she sat on a tire and crossed her legs.

"So, Scarlet Queen," Pouncival started. Bombalurina let out a half smile when he called her that. "I believe that is what all the toms call you." She let out another half smile as a response. "Everyone knows your name, Bombalurina."

"Heh. Well, that is good to know," she joked.

"And I think it's rather cruel how you play everyone like this," Pounce said seriously. Bombalurina was surprised at what he had just said.

"What?"

"Yeah, everyone knows your name because you... seduce them." There was a pause and when Pouncival spoke again, he was calm. "I bet a bunch of toms are going crazy because of you. You drive them insane."

Bombalurina laughed and said, "Are you one of them, Pouncival?"

"You know I just don't get something," he said ignoring her. "I saw you flirting with Tugger." He paused and began again. "It made me jelous." Bombalurina gave a small chuckle at that remark. "I don't know why, though," he continued. "Do you wanna know the reason that I don't know why I was jelous?" She nodded still crossing her legs. "Because I don't believe that you love anyone." Bombalurina's eyes widend as he continued. "You flirt with all the toms. I'm not the only one." He walked closer to Bombalurina who's eyes were focused on him and only him. "But you really don't love any of them so I don't get it. You don't know who her date is. Your not sure when you will find a tom to actually love and I'm sure you wonder who your love will be." Bombalurina looked down in thought. "You may not find a love in years, but you still wonder who your 'date' will be." Her eyes met his again when he spoke the words, "And I still wonder, if you are not sure then, Bombalurina, why not me?"

And everybody knows your name
You're driving everyone insane
I saw you flirting with that guy
It made me jealous don't know why
I know I'm not the only one
But when all is said and done
You wonder who your date would be
I wonder, Katherine, why not me?