About an hour before we were scheduled to arrive at the ball, Anna and were changing at the cabin when David burst into the cabin just as we had finished.

"You won't believe what I just heard from Edmund and Brooke." He announced. Anna came out of the bathroom from where she was finishing her hair and I got up from the computer where I was entertaining myself with a game of solitaire.

"For the silent auction tonight, someone donated an anonymous sculpture that was only to be revealed after the biding was closed. But for precautionary measures, I'm sure, Edmund and Brooke took a little peek before they set it up and you'll never guess what it was a sculpture of."

"What was it of?" Anna asked putting the rest of her hair up.

"It was a faceless head with the inscription of the word PROTEUS on the base."

"I wonder who donated it?" I laughed.

"My, my. Chris sure has a pretty large ego to pull something like that." Anna observed.

"Well, he's going to get his just reward when we're finished, though. So it will be just as sweet." I announced as David picked up the bag that held his tux and went into the bathroom to change. I'm pretty sure he would've changed right in plain sight, but I was still standing next to Anna, so he left.

"Here. This is for your protection tonight." She handed me a small gun.

"The first five are blanks but the rest of the clip are real. I thought just in case Chris gets a hold of this gun for some reason, he wouldn't be able to do anything with the first couple of shots. But if necessary you can just fire five times then shoot. The only things you have to remember about a gun is squeeze the trigger don't pull and to load just pull this thing here." She pulled back a piece of the gun.

"Okay." I was a little nervous carrying a gun, but then I remembered; she wouldn't have given it to me if she didn't think I could handle it. I placed it in the little black purse that went along with my dress, and found that the gun didn't add as much weight as I thought it would've.

"Okay." She repeated as she placed another gun into her own little bag.

"Are we all set now?" David asked, leaning against the doorframe of the bathroom.

"Yes. I think so." Anna concluded.

"Well, let's go. I don't think we want to be fashionably late, do you?" He smiled and led us out the door.