Hellooo another chapter, the shortest day and it is 4 days till Christmas

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It was the day of the Christmas ball and the final preparations were being made, Jane, Lonnie and Audrey were helping set up while Doug was helping Evie deliver the outfits she made. Jay and Carlos were in the fencing arena wanting to get some practice in. Mal and Ben were hanging out in his dorm watching TV.

"Okay so make up first, then hair and finally dresses," Evie said squealing a little from excitement after they met up to get ready.

"This is going to be awesome," Audrey said, as they walked to Mal and Evie's dorm.

"Can't believe it is nearly Christmas," Jane said as they reached the dorm.

"Me neither, this year has gone so quick," Lonnie said walking in.

"To think this time last year Evie and I would just be stealing and causing havoc but now we are going to a ball," Mal said walking over to Evie's vanity.

"I knooww," Evie said happily.

Meanwhile the boys were in Jay and Carlos' dorm they felt they didn't need to rush in getting ready but they still wanted to look their best.

"Sooo," Jay said trying to start a conversation.

"Ah," Chad gasped. "Evie made me a matching crown,"

"Not a lot of there there," Doug mumbled to Carlos who sniggered quietly.

"Tonight, will be the night of our lives boys," Ben said, as he slung an arm over Dougs shoulder.

"That it will," Doug said nodding his head.

"What time are we meeting the girls?" Chad asked.

"Half six, we're gonna go pick them up," Ben said, as he straightened Carlos' bow tie.

"Mal, hold still," Evie said as she curled a strand of Mals hair.

"Sorry," Mal said as she tried to remain still.

"Looking beautiful girls," Audrey said, as she put on a coat of mascara.

"We are gonna dance the night away," Jane said as she held her dress in front of her and danced around the room, Lonnie took the dress off her and began to dance with her.

"There you go," Evie said as she finished Mal's hair.

"Oh E, thank you it looks beautiful," Mal said, Mal's hair was loosely curled and put up in a waterfall hairstyle.

"You are beautiful Mal," Evie said, smiling at Mal in the mirror,

Twenty minutes later when the girls were putting together the final touches there was a knock at the door.

"That's them, how do I look?" Audrey asked.

"Beautiful my darling," Evie said as Mal opened the door to find the boys there waiting.

"Well, there are four very handsome boys waiting," Jay said.

"You look beautiful," Doug said as he walked over to Evie holding out his arm.

"Thank you, you don't look to bad yourself," Evie said smiling.

"Very handsome," Audrey said as Chad walked over.

Mal wore a dark purple dress with blue accents, while Ben wore a dark blue suit with a tie to match her dress. Evie wore a dark blue dress with silver sequins creating swirls patterns , Doug wore a silver suit with a dark blue tie to match.

Carlos wore a black suit with a light blue tie matching Jane's glittery light blue dress, Lonnie had a black dress with gold sequins creating a pattern on the top half while the bottom was plain but flowed out giving off an elegant vibe Jay wore a black suit and a gold tie to match and last but not least Audrey who had a beautiful Christmas tree green dress similar to Lonnie's except her sequins were a darker green Chad wore a dark silver suit with a matching green tie and of course a crown.

The group walked down to the great hall were the ball was taking place, everything looked magnificent the room was decorated in a Nutcracker theme, there was sugar plum fairy ice statues and Nutcrackers of course. There was a hot chocolate station which jay and Carlos rushed to as well as a snack table piled with food.

"You want a drink?" Ben asked as he walked over to the table with Mal.

"Yes please," Mal said, Ben went with the rest if the guys to get their dates a drink.

"Everything looks amazing," Evie said.

"It does," Mal said as she looked over the room.

The boys soon returned with drinks for their dates and went to find a place to sit down for a bit. They made small talk about the fairy table toppers and the ice statues.

Jay and Mal went to go get a free snacks while the rest stayed asking for a few bites to eat. It wasn't long before they were up on the dance floor Doug belting out to Mariah Carey as Evie just smiled at him.

"I'm exhausted," Mal said after she and Ben went to go sit down for a bit, they had been dancing for half an hour Evie and Doug had left to get a drink not long before them but the others were holding strong.

"Me too," Ben said as he sipped his coal.

"I really do love these table toppers, they did a really good job with all this," Mal said.

"They did, last year the theme was The Grinch, it was cool but this is so much better I think more elegant," Ben said, Mal nodded her head.

"Hey guys," Jay said as he returned along with the others.

"Hey," Ben and Mal said.

"Everyone enjoying themselves?" Doug asked.

"Yeah," They all said.

"Hey look, they have some games going on over there," Carlos said as he pointed across the room.

The group decided to walk over and check it out, indeed there were games going on, snow pong, candy ring toss, pin the nose on Rudolph, speed wrapping and more.

"Okay pin the nose on Rudolph," Mal said as se walked over, Ben helped her with the blindfold and handed her a nose. Mal walked over to where she thought Rudolph nose would be and stuck it on taking off her blindfold she found she was way off and had stuck the nose on the wall instead.

Next Jay had a go and also failed but at least stuck it on Rudolph, Chad was next and he stuck it on Rudolph's bum which caused everyone to have a little laugh, next up was Jane Las time Jane played this she failed like Mal did so she was really surprised to find that she had stuck it on his nose.

"YEES," Jane said, her prize was a box of chocolates, she shared them out with the group and went to go look at the other games.

Mal and Jane were both really good at the ring toss beating Chad and Audrey very easily but Chad and Audrey won at the snow pong, well against Aziz and his date Molly daughter of Snow White anyway.

For the speed wrapping they partnered with their dates and went against each other Mal and Ben beat Lonnie and Jay, and went on to beat Carlos and Jane, Chad and Audrey beat Jane and Carlos but lost against Jay and Lonnie, Jane and Carlos beat Lonnie and Jay. It was Mal and Ben against Chad and Audrey.

"Come on Mal," Evie said cheering her best friend on.

"Come on Audrey, Chad do as she says," Lonnie said.

"What," Chad said in mock offense.

"Yaaaa," Mal and Ben cheered as they finished beating Audrey and Chad by a few seconds.

"That was close," Jay said.

"Congrats," Audrey said, as she shakes their hands.

"Why thank you," Mal said.

Next the boys went on to play chubby bunny Doug beating them by a long shot, they also entered a cupcake eating competition which Chad won.

"Cupcakes are just my area of expertise," Chad said licking his lips.

The group were having the time of their lives raiding the snack, table mixing various drinks together, playing more games and of course dancing.

"I love you," Mal said, as she said looking up at Ben as they slow danced.

"I love you too," Ben said playing a kiss on her forehead Mal laid her head on his chest smiling as they continued to dance.

"My crown looks amazing on you," Chad said.

"Why thank you," Audrey said with a smile.

"May I have this dance?" He asked, Audrey nodded and took his outstretched hand.

Lonnie and Jay were trying to teach Carlos and Jane how to slow dance as they didn't really seem to get it.

"So, we just say?" Jane asked as Carlos held her hands.

"Yeah, Carlos you can hold Jane closer to you," Lonnie said.

"Okay," Carlos said as he pulled her closer.

"You got this man," Jay said as he gave his brother an encouraging pat on the shoulder.

Carlos nodded taking a deep breathe as he started to lead Jane , after aa while they both gained in confidence and when Jay and Lonnie glanced over to see how they were doing they smiled.

"We did a good job didn't we," Lonnie said as she looked back at Jay.

"Yeah we did, but they had this all along," Jay said Lonnie nodded before resting her head on Jay's shoulder.

"I had fun tonight," Evie said as she pulled away from Doug a little to look at him.

"I did to, I mostly enjoyed dancing with you," Doug said shyly.

I stated this last night then deleted half of it today and rewrote it...hope you enjoyed it

Reviews appreciated xx