Evelyns POV
When I got home, I was greeted by Melody and Kylie running up and hugging me, yelling "Hi Evelyn!" uh-oh, what did you guys do? I asked them. "Nothing, we just missed you, that's all." Kylie replied. That's strange, because usually she loves it when I'm out of the house, complaining that I'm "Too bossy".
"You missed me, even though I was only gone for 4 hours?" I questioned, knowing that something was up. "Well… we just thought that, because you're going to see Melrutsaia, we could host a ball, maybe?" Kylie asked. If that wasn't out of the ordinary, nothing has ever been.
"Why the heck would YOU want to host a ball?" I asked. "Well, we wanted to have everyone together, so, yeah." Melody replied. "I'm guessing that when you say everyone, you mean all of our extended family?" I sighed. We were going to need to rent a BIG space if we actually wanted everyone to be able to dance. "Plus the rest of the Anubis gang." Kylie said.
That wasn't a good idea AT ALL. Joy was still desperate to get Fabian, and she would do anything, and when Mick came back from Australia, he had actually kissed Mara, thinking she still liked him, and she had punched him in the face. Plus, Alfie just annoyed everyone but Mick and Jerome. So, relationships between everyone were kinda tight. But, they got the better of me, and we booked a place called Fernencia, a place literally made just for ballroom dancing.
We got started on making the invitations. Of course, it was going to be renaissance themed, meaning, everyone got suits and dresses that looked like they were from the middle-ages. The hardest invites to make were to Philip, Syrena, Tamara, and some other mers, what with them living underwater. Then we sent a couple invites to The Cullen family, then the Anubis members, and we also invited a couple of fairies, but they didn't come.
None of the shifters were concerned about money anymore, and Mara actually could see the future, so everyone was getting along pretty well. However, Nina didn't want to cash in the lottery ticket, so Melody had to do it for her. They won 108,000,000 dollars, 25,000,000 of which they gave to Mara and Jerome, the same amount to Patricia and Eddie, and 15,000,000 to Amber.
When the day of the ball arrived, everyone was either stunningly beautiful, or dazzlingly handsome, making Joy, Mick, and Alfie seethe with jealousy.
Even though Joy knew that Nina and Fabian were engaged, she thought that if she could make it look like Fabian was cheating on her or her on him, they would break up. So, she thought of a plan…
*"Hey Fabian, how's it going?" she said as she walked up to him, her cream colored ball gown flowing behind her. "Perfect, everything's perfect." he replied, staring at Nina who was chatting with Patricia and Mara. "Wow, I cant believe you put up with her, Fabes." she said, using his old nickname. "don't, call me that." he told her. "Why not? After what she did to you, I thought for sure you two were over." she hinted. "What?" he asked, not sure what she meant. "You don't know yet? I saw her the other day at the theater with some guy, holding hands and kissing." she lied, unfortunately very fluently. But, Fabian had gotten a lot smarter over the years, and before he jumped to conclusions, he questioned her. "What day?" he asked. "Just this past Tuesday." she lied again. Unfortunately for Joy, Fabian was with her the whole day Tuesday. "Strange, considering we were together that whole day, Joy." he told her. To this she had no answer, and she stormed away.*
"Well, that couldn't have gone any better." I said, walking up to Fabian, as he was staring angrily at Joy, who proceeded to leave the dance shortly after. "Yeah, I guess." he said, relaxing as we heard Joy's car leave the parking lot. "Hey, don't worry. Nina would never, ever do that. Especially now, considering she's immortal." I said, trying to comfort him. "Yeah, you're right." he said.
"You, sir, need to go over to Nina, and start dancing with her." I said as the famous song, Moonlight Sonata, began to play. This was my song anyways, so I grabbed Zack and we danced as though the song would never end. When it was over though, I realized that we were the only ones actually on the dance floor! Then of course everyone started clapping, and I was somewhat embarrassed.
I was over by the punch bowl, when Nina approached and said "Where did you learn to dance like that?" It was actually a pretty ridiculous question, but I replied with a smile, "Years and years and years of practice." That seemed to be enough for her, and she hauled Fabian out on the floor.
They began dancing to the famous tune Clair De Lune, and I would never have known that both of them hadn't ever taken a lick of dance class. Jerome and Mara were the same way, along with Patricia and Eddie, which surprised me most.
When the night wore away, and Alfie and Mick were actually asleep on some chairs we had set up, we decided to conclude our dancing.
The only ones that had actually drank any of the punch were Tamara, Philip, Syrena, Alfie, and Mick. We woke them up, and had Jerome Drive them home. After everyone said goodbye, we started cleaning up, and had the place as good as new in about 5 minutes. When the receptionist came with our bill, she took one look at the place and scratched off a hundred bucks. It still came to about 1,285 dollars though.
Later on, back at our hotel suite, us Vensaras were chatting about our 123rd ball. Jamie and Evan were just staring at each other until they couldn't take it anymore and decided to "retire". After a while, we just decided to shift into human form and sleep for the first time in decades. I just threw on a white chami and some pink shorts, and headed for bed.
My night was filled with beautiful and peaceful dreams…
