Author's Note: Here it is, the chapter everyone has been waiting for….the ballroom scene. I god goosebumps even before I started writing this chapter. I was just so excited! I mean Yamato and Sera appear to be falling in love so quickly but naturally things are going to get in the way of their intended relationship. Especially for all those who watched the movie based on this story. Yamato and Sera are destined for each other but what it take for them to be together? They may have to fight all the odds if this love is real?

Sera was nervous, she never had danced with anyone before? Well not since she was a kid? And it was with her family. It was never with someone outside the family she danced with especially after she transformed. So it makes her nervous to dance with Yamato since it's the first person she's danced with that she liked romantically. Yes, she had her friends in the castle but she known them her whole life. They're the ones that looked after her. She considered them her family. They didn't abandon her like her parents did. So they could avoid the curse. Taking her baby brother with them. Sera didn't get much contact with them for nearly ten years. Outside from letters she kept in a special box in her room. She believed she may never see them again.

Amu, Leo and Tusk didn't want to mention her parents. Not with her birthday getting near. They knew she may never see them again if the curse wasn't lifted soon.

Ami helped wash Sera before covering a towel behind the shower drapes; it went around her body like a dress. Her long black hair was loose falling down to her back. As drops dripped onto the floor.

"Let's find a dress for you to wear." Amu ponders. As she looks at a whole bunch of dresses. Finally taking out an aqua blue one with gold trimming that glittered when light shined onto it. "This dress would look gorgeous on you."

"No . . . I couldn't wait that . . . fine something else for me to wear?" Sera asks her.

"You're just nervous. It's only natural." Amu assures her. "You never had experience any of these feelings before . . . or danced with anyone that you were in love with . . ." She gave a cat-like smirk as she said this.

"AMU?!"

"You need to tell him how you feel . . ." Amu assisted. "Perhaps after the dance . . "

"And what if he doesn't return my affections. I can't bare the heartbreak."

"You have to try. Even if he doesn't, right now. There's still time."

"Why don't you and Tusk join us? It would make me feel more comfortable about this."

"I would be honored. Though it's going to take A LOT of convincing for Tusk too."

"I will order him too. Then he can't refuse." Sera joked as they both laugh.

Yamato was in the center part of the staircase. He was dressed nicely; it was something he was use to wearing. He felt a strong slap on the back as looked over behind him. It was Leo.

"Enthusiastic on dancing with the princess, are you?" Leo questioned.

"Well, yes and no." Yamato tells him.

"Oh don't be shy." Leo continued to tease.

"I am not!" Yamato yelled at him as he gestured him to look at the stairs.

Yamato looks at Sera in her dress as she comes down to stares. Leo naturally couldn't help but tease him.

"Pretty isn't she, you can't take your eyes off her." Leo whispers to him as he snickers.

"Stop it!" Yamato whispered back.

"Sera, you like pretty . . . I mean . . ." Yamato nervously tells her.

"Well come on, let's go." Sera holds his hand as they head the dance floor of the castle's large ballroom. Being it hasn't been used much prior that everyone in the castle had to clean it up and make sure it was perfect.

As the music started, they seemed to be nervous at first but as they continued, Yamato and Sera seemed to find comfortable as they twirled and danced around the large ballroom. Sera had put her head to Yamato chest. As they held each other in their arms for sometime.

"It's working." Amu gleefully added as she grabbed onto Tusk. He acted annoyed with it as he blushed trying to hid it.

It was more like they were the only two people there. Not even really noticing Amu who had to drag Tusk onto the dance floor. As you could hear them argue.

"I don't want to dance. It's too hard in this elephant body." Tusk embarrassingly tells Amu.

"Quit making excuses." Amu tells him. "You just don't want to be seen with me." She teared up.

"Crying is not going to work this time."

"Are you ashamed of me?" Amu questioned. Crying wasn't going to work she was going to use guilt.

"It's not that . . ."

"Then you don't love me. Even though you said you did." Amu angrily tells him.

"Okay, fine. I will dance with you." Tusk gave in.

"Works every time." Amu giggled.

"What was that?" Tusk questioned as he looks at Amu.

"Nothing." Amu giggles as she grabs his hand. "Let's dance." She pulls Tusk to the dance floor.

Meanwhile Yamato and Sera stopped dancing as they still held hands. Heading to the balcony. They both sat down. Sera knew this would be the perfect time to confess her feelings for him. She knew she had to do it now. While she had any sort of nerve

"Yamato, there is something. I want to tell you." Sera nervously tells him as she tries to hide it. Yamato look over at her.

"What is it?"

"I wanted you to know. I . . . I . . ." Sera shyly began to confess, but she just couldn't get the whole thing out. She could feel her cheeks burning a bright red.

Yamato looked over at the outside. He couldn't help it. He was worried about his Uncle.

"Sorry, I was just concerned about my Uncle. I haven't seen him in days. His the closest thing I have to a Father." Yamato confesses to her.

Sera could see that Yamato was concerned about his Uncle. She knew she had to make him feel more at ease about it. It after all would make him happy. That's what mattered to her. There was her magical mirror; it could show her anything in the outside world. Even if it is a missed opportunity, it didn't matter to her. Sera cared for Yamato too much. He wanted to see that smile of his that made her heart melt.

"Come on, I have something to show you." Sera tells him. As they go to her chambers, they go over to the table as she picks up her magic mirror. Handing over her mirror to him.

"This mirror is magical; it could show you anything you wish. If you want to see how your Uncle is doing? Go on and ask it."

"Mirror, I would like to see my Uncle. Please!" The mirror glowed brightly as a image of a Mario appears. He is holding a map, he ends up at his knees as he hand to his mouth as his starts coughing.

"My Uncle is sick. He could by dying. I wish there was something I could." Yamato said. It was painful to see his Uncle in that condition. He was the only family he really had left. He was pretty much His mother

Sera looked over at the glass covering the magic rose; petals have already started dropped down. As painful as it was for her. She knew what she had to do. All that mattered was Yamato's happiness.

"Then you should go to him . . ."

"What?" Yamato respond.

"I release you. You're no longer my prisoner. Go help your Uncle." Sera weepy tells Yamato. She didn't look at him. It was too painful to even think about this decision.

"I don't know how to begin to thank you." Yamato answered.

"There is no need to thank me. Just go!"

Yamato started to walk away but realized he was still carrying her magic mirror. He turns around to give it back to Sera.

"No, keep it so you can always remember me." Sera softly tells him. Yamato could see she tears as he takes a finger and gently wipes it away.

Amu comes in as Yamato walks out of the East Wing. She had a smile on her face. She knew everything was going well.

"So how did everything go . . ." She could see Sera was crying. "Sera, are you okay. What happened did he reject you . . ."

"No, it's not that at all. I let him go."

"Oh that's good . . . you did WHAT?!"

"I let him go . . . "Sera tells Amu.

"Why? Why would you do that everything was going so well? Wasn't it?" Amu tearfully tells her.

"It's because I love him. He's happiness is more important than anything." Sera confessed as she gently placed her hands to her heart.

"I can't let this happen. I need to make sure Yamato comes back to Sera. I'll have to leave the castle in disguise. Follow him back to his home." Amu whispers. She quickly walks off, Sera doesn't even notice as she's too saddened on Yamato's departure.

Sera goes over to the balcony as he watches Yamato in the distance as he rides away on his horse. She didn't know if he would come back to the castle. It's now his choice if he did come back. She may never know if he does return her feelings but she had a empty feeling in her heart.

Author's Note: Yes, Yamato is free from the castle. Sera let him go out of love for him. That he needed to be with his uncle. Amu wants them to be together. Much how like Chip in the movie snuck out too. Will Mario be okay? Can Yamato make it in time? And Minako's plan will be set into motion as well. Plus there is the whole matter of her getting into a jealous rage when she learns of Sera. We all can't wait for that.

Sera confessed her love for Yamato outloud. That's the confession part of the title of this chapter. The thing is it's not enough since he has to confesses his love to her in return. The question how can he do that when he is released from the castle? Does he truly love her? Or it's just a mere infatuation? Anyone who seen the movie knows what happens of course.

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