Scarlet's POV

It had been over a week since the incident with Kenny occurred. There were no signs that we would be going back to our normal lives.

I had met and had been introduced to various gangs around the world. Most of them came from Canada and Mexico.

Wendy, Bebe and I had became really close friends with a couple of members that came from around the world to come to the yearly ball.

It was the best party of the year. Every mafia related family came there. It was an event no one wanted to miss.

Every year they announce the best of the mafia families to start off the evening by slow dancing with their partners.

After that they let everyone else on the dance floor. This year, about three families are leading the dance.

All i know is one of the families is going to be us.

One of the boys named Calix is the one that had been picked for me by my brother to dance with. He was good looking.

Like the type that would get girls drooling but nothing compared to Kenny. These days I seem to compare everything to Kenny!

He just won't get out of my head. Wendy is dancing with Token, and Bebe is dancing with Clyde.

Two girls and Two boys came from Canada, Four boys came from a town over, and one girl, and one boy came from the town over as well.

Total of ten people. It was good that I had gotten to know them over the past few days.

Or else at the ball, Wendy, Bebe and I would feel like loners.

Cara, Violet, Caitlyn, and Kaye walked next to us as we went into the dressing room.

There were racks and racks of dresses placed in the center of the room.

Aunt Janette being the designer she is had got all these dresses for us to choose from. There were all sorts of colors. From yellow to grey.

All the dresses had matching masks to go with them. "I don't even know where to start looking." said Cara, looking through the dresses.

"How about we all start from different corners of the rack?" Violet suggested.

"Yeah, That would be one way to do it." I said as I went to one of the corners.

I had looked through about a thousand dresses and tired on at least a hundred. None of them seemed to be the one i wanted.

Cara had already settled into a bright yellow dress, Bebe and Wendy had picked purple dresses in different shades, and Violet had picked obviously a violet colored dress. Sophie stood holding a black dress in her hands.

"Did you girls find your dresses?" My aunt Janette asked. "Everyone expect me." I said in a dull tone.

"Why? What happened? You don't like them?" She questioned, sitting down next to me.

"They are all really pretty but just not what I'm looking for." I mumbled.

"Oh. Well your in luck. I happen to have another dress. This dress I'm sure you'll love it! It's perfect and I think it would suit your skin and eye color completely!" She got up and left the room.

Aunt Janette came back a minute later holding something behind her back. "Ta da" She said revealing the black and red dress.

It was beautiful! It was backless and it had a vintage looking design at the bottom. "I love it!" I squealed.

I went up and took it from her hands. "And here is the mask." Aunt Janette said holding up a red mask with black lining.

It also had a black feather on the right side of it.

The next morning we woke up and ate breakfast with everyone. As soon as we were done all the girls and I ushered to the dressing room.

There was a makeup artist, a hair dresser, and a seamstress waiting for us. As soon as I walked in, I was pulled in by the seamstress.

She pulled the dress over my head and plucked at a random place on the dress to make it perfect on my body. After the dress came my hair.

My hair was placed in a elegant bun and tied up with a black ribbon. It had slight silver glitter on it as well. My make up was kept minimal.

A little black mascara with black eye shadow that created a smoky look. I had on pink blush, and dark red lipstick too.

I turned away from the make up artist and turned to face the mirror. All the other girls were standing next to me.

"Oh my god, Scarlet! You look so pretty!" Cheered Bebe. "Thanks! So do you, but you always look pretty."

"Aw, Thanks! Haha." Bebe said as everyone laughed at her. We were all in a really good mood, and I planned to keep it that way.