Chapter 23
[Relafen, that idiot!]
Sifan waited but Relafen continued to dance with Phillona, talking to her now and then with a wide smile on his face. Phillona just smiled at everything he said, occasionally looking behind Relafen's shoulder. Sifan's headache jumped a level higher when he saw what a great dancer Relafen was. Phillona looked as though she was enjoying herself too. Sifan was about to turn back when Lyris swooped into his head.
{That's IT? You're gonna turn away and return to the shadows of the ballroom's corner?}
[Hey, She's got a partner. She looks happy dancing with him. I am not needed now...]
{She's supposed to be YOUR date. NOT Relafen's.}
Suddenly, Phillona caught Sifan's eye from over Relafen's shoulder. Relafen was busy whispering something to Phillona over her shoulder as they danced. Phillona gave an urgent smile and then pulled back from Relafen as Sifan walked up to them. Relafen's eyes were glued so much to Phillona that he didn't even see him walking beside him.
"Um, Relafen..." Phillona said, "I'd like you meet my date, Sifan Leonhart..."
Relafen took a quick step back as if someone had prodded him with an electrocuting rod. He turned around and his lips jammed shut. All of Relafen's charm turned to spite when he saw Sifan grin at him as if he was his dearest pal in the whole world.
"And Sifan...." Phillona said turning to Sifan, "This is Rela-"
"Relafen Almasy..." Sifan completed, "Commander-in-chief, Shin-Ra army..."
"W-Wait a second, Phillona." Relafen said taken back, "You know t-this dork?"
"Yes." Phillona replied, "We met a few days ago..."
Sifan just smiled at the both of them and stretched out his hand to Phillona and turned to Relafen who still looked as if somebody had put a knife through his heart, "Um, if you don't mind, COMMANDER Relafen, I'd like to dance with my date..."
"Nice to meet you commander." Phillona replied with a smile that said Leave-us-alone.
"Oh..." Relafen said looking at Sifan, puzzled. He then sighed and smiled at Phillona and walked across Sifan's shoulder after muttering, "Excellent catch, Leonhart."
After watching Relafen disappear through the exit, Sifan turned around to face Phillona. He didn't say anything; only his eyes seemed to tell him how beautiful she looked. He did his best to keep his eyes away from her line of vision but they always managed to come back. He swallowed a little at the prospect that he had to dance with the girl in front of him. He was rummaging his brain over what he should say when Phillona spoke first.
"Um..." Phillona said, "You know him?"
"Uh yeah..." he said, "he is- I mean- WAS one of us. He strayed away somewhere else after we landed up in -Er- this world..."
"But...how did he become commander?" she asked puzzled, "It's just been a day since you guys got here..."
"Beats me..." Sifan replied, "I found out that he became commander when I kinda ran into him at Costa de Sol."
They stood silently for sometime as the band started another waltz tune, which strangely resembled the one that had been playing in the Esthar presidential palace at Laguna's Farewell party. Seeing Sifan stand as if he had been led to a slaughterhouse, Phillona smiled to herself. Sifan just raised his eyebrows, clueless as to why she was laughing. He bit his teeth and felt once again like breaking Avatar's head.
"Hey..." she said looking at him, "loosen up..."
"Ugh..." Sifan smiled sheepishly, "Yeah...I guess I should..."
"Don't worry about missing the informant." Phillona replied, "He'll give a single beep to the phone in your pocket when he sees us."
"Ok..." he replied. He stood silent for a while and tried to make a lame start at a conversation, "So...uh...how are you?"
Phillona smiled, "Seef, You just saw me this morning, remember? ...but...I am fine, thank you."
Sifan rubbed the back of his neck, "Uh...so what do we do now?"
She tilted her head and looked at Sifan, "We dance, silly..."
Sifan started to speak urgently, "Tell you what...I am not a very good dancer. So, uh...I'll jus' stand over there in that corner and-"
"Uh uh..." Phillona said, "They'll get suspicious if I don't have a date. There are a lot of Shin-Ra personnel here..."
Sifan looked like he was going to cry when he realized he HAD to dance with her. He was openly showing Phillona that he was the last one on earth who wanted to dance but then he remembered the money waiting for him after the dance.
"Fine..." Sifan said slowly, "Um...Er- but just keep your distance, ok?"
She laughed softly and took a small step towards him. Sifan wanted to jump about ten steps back but he held his ground. However he started to complain immediately, "Hey...that's too close..."
"Shut up, Seef." Phillona replied, tired of Sifan's antics. Ignoring a mumbling Sifan, she raised her arms and enfolded them around his neck, "Just be quiet and dance. You don't have to be good at it."
"I thought I told you I don't like 'Seef'..." Sifan said feeling squirmy at the feel of her arms around his neck.
"I thought I told you I'll call you what I want....besides, I think it's cute." She replied. Phillona felt strange to have her hands around Sifan's neck when he wasn't even moving. He just stood there like a log. Looking at how Sifan was contemplating on what to do next, she sighed "You're supposed to place your hands on me, handsome..."
He mumbled another curse at Avatar and hesitantly placed his hands on either side of her hip. Watching the couples on either side of him dance, he then tried to move his feet in rhythm with Phillona's but it didn't look very successful. Feeling very ridiculous and even more idiotic that he was discomforting Phillona, he muttered, "I told you I am no good at this."
Watching him struggle to dance, she smiled at him, 'It's alright."
"Hey..." Phillona said looking at how Sifan was watching the floor instead of her, "Why are you so interested in the floor?"
Swaying his shoulders too far to the left, he said, "I like green and white checkers...especially on well polished flo-"
"Seef." Phillona interrupted, and with a giggle she continued "If you stopped trying to keep a gap between us, you wouldn't have to look at me straight in the face.... and hence you wouldn't have to stare at the floor either..."
"Nice try." Sifan replied, surprised at how she had found out the reason he was examining the floor, "but you're staying put right where you are."
They danced for a while; Sifan still getting his shoulder sways wrong. He could've sworn the neighboring couple were looking at him strangely. He ignored them and soon, he managed to perfect his feet movements, with Phillona's help.
"Sorry for being a lousy dancer." He said slowly once again feeling Phillona was ashamed to be dancing with him, "I-It's my first dance."
"Oh..." Phillona remarked, surprised as they continued to waltz, "I didn't know that. Then you're really good for a first timer."
"Uh...I used to watch Avatar dance." Sifan replied, doing another inept sway. He was surprised when he realized she was still dancing with him. Phillona showed no signs that she was embarrassed to Sifan's amazement. On the contrary, her frequent smiles and comments about how Sifan should try to relax made him feel comfortable. And slowly, he wasn't all that mad at Avatar anymore.
Sifan was interrupted when a single beep sounded in his pocket, "Hmm...there's the informant."
"Uh Yeah..." She said slowly letting go of Sifan, "Keep a watch for a guy with a white rose in his pocket like the one on yours."
They looked around for some time when Sifan spotted a couple dancing a few feet away from them. The man had a white rose in his pocket and he smiled when Sifan looked at him. Sifan could make out that it was a very different smile and he nodded in return. The man came over and asked Phillona for a dance. She accepted as Sifan took leave of her side and walked over to the informant's female partner. She was blonde haired and wore a rather bright white dress. She gave Sifan a sharp look when he walked over to her.
"Uh..." Sifan said, "Can we dance?"
"Geez..." the girl said as Phillona danced with the informant, "You must be a new kid in town...your moves were quite -ahem- different..."
"Yeah." Sifan said, not quite liking being called the 'new kid' or being reminded that he was a bad dancer.
"And also, don't you even know how to ask a girl for a dance?" she snapped, "you don't just walk up to them and say, 'can we dance?'..."
Somehow, Sifan felt a pang of dislike for her. She was beautiful but Sifan's anti-feminine side got the better of him when he recalled her remarks. Seeing her white dress, Sifan said, "Say...why are you dressed like a ghost? Is this a costume ball?"
"WHAT!?" the girl replied angered by Sifan's statement, "What kind of a friend of Gerard's are you anyway?"
"Ah, Gerard." Sifan said watching the informant dance with Phillona, whispering something into her ear. Sifan continued to tease Gerard's date, "I had no idea he dated ghosts. Who's next? Another white-washed Ghoul friend of yours?"
The girl gave Sifan a scornful look and marched across the ballroom almost knocking a waiter down. When Gerard saw this, he quickly slipped Phillona a small letter and disappeared after his date that Sifan had driven away.
Sifan walked back to Phillona. Before she could ask him what had happened, Sifan replied, "I didn't like her."
She looked at him with a raised eyebrow as Sifan let her bind her arms around his neck again, "Hey...Elena's a beautiful girl."
"Yeah..." Sifan said sliding his hands around her waist, "but you are....uh...-Er-...Well, I just didn't like her..."
Phillona chuckled. Sifan, somehow, felt a tinge of contentment seeing Phillona's smile instead of holding Gerard's white-dressed date.
"Hey, are you still telling the world that you hate me like the way you were, this morning?" Phillona said, reminding him of how Lyris had tricked him into shouting he didn't like Phillona. He felt a little weird now that he was holding the same girl for a dance.
"No..." Sifan replied, finally getting his shoulder sway in time and line with Phillona's.
"Well, in that case..." she said and looked at the floor, a slightly shy look creeping across her face, "You mind letting me move a little closer...?"
Sifan suddenly realized that the information exchange between the informant and Phillona was over. He knew that he was no more obliged to dance and he had the freedom to go his own way now. Sifan was about to open his mouth when Phillona placed a finger on his lips, and re-established eye contact "Please...?"
Sifan was about to say 'No' again but he realized his head had nodded in agreement on its own. She smiled and pulled herself closer to him. Sifan flinched a little when he felt Phillona against his clothes. As she moved to the music slowly, she quietly leaned her head under Sifan's chin, which made him squirm uneasily. And when she rested the side of her face against his chest, he felt as if all the air behind his chest had been let out.
"Have you found a way of going back to your world?" she asked Sifan who was still trying to get used to holding Phillona so closely against himself.
"No...Professor Hamilton was -Er- away on vacation to some place." Sifan said, feeling too lazy to explain the entire kidnapping incident, "We're seeing a friend of his in Aquadia city..."
"Aquadia's a beautiful place..." Phillona replied, "I hope you find a way back to your world...I guess your parents must be anxious, huh?"
Sifan thought of his parents but he didn't want to talk about his parents to Phillona when he remembered that she was an orphan.
"Yeah...I guess so..." he replied, his chin brushing her hair. He was starting to feel a little comfortable and his heartbeat changed from a fast pace to a much slower one.
"Your girlfriend must be worried too..." She said sliding her finger down the Phoenix pendant on Sifan's neck, "Avatar said she was pretty..."
"Oh, he did?" Sifan said sarcastically wishing Avatar had lost the battle square contest.
"You must miss her already, huh?" she said, pre-occupied with hearing Sifan's heart beat, "Cause Your heart's beating slowly..."
[That's because of you, you stupid girl...]
"I don't have a girlfriend..." he replied, guessing Avatar must have told her all that rubbish while he was lying in bed, the previous night in Mideel.
"He also said..." Phillona said while she laughed softly against his chest, "that every girl in your, uh, garden, was after you. But you were faithful to your girlfriend even if the odds were against you and-"
"I told you... I don't have a girlfriend...Avatar's tried to book me one for months..." Sifan sighed, irritated at Avatar's tales.
"Why?" She said, brushing the white rose in his pocket, "You ARE cute you know..."
"I don't want one..." he replied, "You, Avatar, and probably every tom, dick and Harry in the world might have someone but I don't want to have anyone. Its that simple."
"I don't have-" Phillona started but she broke off in the middle. Sifan couldn't help notice that the tone of her sentence was different from her usual one. She pulled herself away from him, slowly sliding her hands down his shoulders. She held both of Sifan's hands and looked up at him, "I loved the evening, Seef...Thank you..."
"H-Hey..." he said lowering the pitch of his tone, "Something I s-said...?"
"N-No..." she lied, "n-nothing...."
"Well, I am sorry I danced like a wooden hat holder." Sifan said, and for the first time, he smiled at her but he wiped it away almost immediately.
"No...you were great for a first attempt at dancing..." Phillona replied after watching Sifan's two-second smile.
"So, Goodbye then..." Sifan said, careful not to mention Trex was paying him for the entire thing.
"Goodnight...Seef." she whispered and made her way across the ballroom away from Sifan. He watched her disappear through the crowd and then proceeded to the other side of the room, slowly. He didn't like the way she had left him.... without her smile...
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From the author: ok guys... There were about 158 visits to my fanfic on my hits list in the past 5 days and how many reviews I get? TWO! TWO Reviews...and I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO E-MAIL those two people my fanfic than to post it here and have everyone jus read it and scurry away without leaving a review! Ok ok...I am being a review-hungry dawg but hey...reviews are my fuel guys! If theres a drop in the quality of my fanfic..its because I am not getting any reviews...ok...uh...so I wont put up my fanfic if there are no more reviews...MAN I HATE THREATENING MY READERS FOR REVIEWS but hey, a mans gotta do what a mans gotta do..... but I ll ask nicely too, PLEASE give ittle wittle me your reviews often **puppy dog eyes**...cause if you don't'...-**demonic cat-like burning red eyes**...oh well just playing the fool...but I am not playing the fool with the reviews thingy... SO FOR GOD's SAKE PEOPLE! PLEASE POST MORE REVIEWS!!!! Or I'll...**Sigh**...you know the drawl...
[Relafen, that idiot!]
Sifan waited but Relafen continued to dance with Phillona, talking to her now and then with a wide smile on his face. Phillona just smiled at everything he said, occasionally looking behind Relafen's shoulder. Sifan's headache jumped a level higher when he saw what a great dancer Relafen was. Phillona looked as though she was enjoying herself too. Sifan was about to turn back when Lyris swooped into his head.
{That's IT? You're gonna turn away and return to the shadows of the ballroom's corner?}
[Hey, She's got a partner. She looks happy dancing with him. I am not needed now...]
{She's supposed to be YOUR date. NOT Relafen's.}
Suddenly, Phillona caught Sifan's eye from over Relafen's shoulder. Relafen was busy whispering something to Phillona over her shoulder as they danced. Phillona gave an urgent smile and then pulled back from Relafen as Sifan walked up to them. Relafen's eyes were glued so much to Phillona that he didn't even see him walking beside him.
"Um, Relafen..." Phillona said, "I'd like you meet my date, Sifan Leonhart..."
Relafen took a quick step back as if someone had prodded him with an electrocuting rod. He turned around and his lips jammed shut. All of Relafen's charm turned to spite when he saw Sifan grin at him as if he was his dearest pal in the whole world.
"And Sifan...." Phillona said turning to Sifan, "This is Rela-"
"Relafen Almasy..." Sifan completed, "Commander-in-chief, Shin-Ra army..."
"W-Wait a second, Phillona." Relafen said taken back, "You know t-this dork?"
"Yes." Phillona replied, "We met a few days ago..."
Sifan just smiled at the both of them and stretched out his hand to Phillona and turned to Relafen who still looked as if somebody had put a knife through his heart, "Um, if you don't mind, COMMANDER Relafen, I'd like to dance with my date..."
"Nice to meet you commander." Phillona replied with a smile that said Leave-us-alone.
"Oh..." Relafen said looking at Sifan, puzzled. He then sighed and smiled at Phillona and walked across Sifan's shoulder after muttering, "Excellent catch, Leonhart."
After watching Relafen disappear through the exit, Sifan turned around to face Phillona. He didn't say anything; only his eyes seemed to tell him how beautiful she looked. He did his best to keep his eyes away from her line of vision but they always managed to come back. He swallowed a little at the prospect that he had to dance with the girl in front of him. He was rummaging his brain over what he should say when Phillona spoke first.
"Um..." Phillona said, "You know him?"
"Uh yeah..." he said, "he is- I mean- WAS one of us. He strayed away somewhere else after we landed up in -Er- this world..."
"But...how did he become commander?" she asked puzzled, "It's just been a day since you guys got here..."
"Beats me..." Sifan replied, "I found out that he became commander when I kinda ran into him at Costa de Sol."
They stood silently for sometime as the band started another waltz tune, which strangely resembled the one that had been playing in the Esthar presidential palace at Laguna's Farewell party. Seeing Sifan stand as if he had been led to a slaughterhouse, Phillona smiled to herself. Sifan just raised his eyebrows, clueless as to why she was laughing. He bit his teeth and felt once again like breaking Avatar's head.
"Hey..." she said looking at him, "loosen up..."
"Ugh..." Sifan smiled sheepishly, "Yeah...I guess I should..."
"Don't worry about missing the informant." Phillona replied, "He'll give a single beep to the phone in your pocket when he sees us."
"Ok..." he replied. He stood silent for a while and tried to make a lame start at a conversation, "So...uh...how are you?"
Phillona smiled, "Seef, You just saw me this morning, remember? ...but...I am fine, thank you."
Sifan rubbed the back of his neck, "Uh...so what do we do now?"
She tilted her head and looked at Sifan, "We dance, silly..."
Sifan started to speak urgently, "Tell you what...I am not a very good dancer. So, uh...I'll jus' stand over there in that corner and-"
"Uh uh..." Phillona said, "They'll get suspicious if I don't have a date. There are a lot of Shin-Ra personnel here..."
Sifan looked like he was going to cry when he realized he HAD to dance with her. He was openly showing Phillona that he was the last one on earth who wanted to dance but then he remembered the money waiting for him after the dance.
"Fine..." Sifan said slowly, "Um...Er- but just keep your distance, ok?"
She laughed softly and took a small step towards him. Sifan wanted to jump about ten steps back but he held his ground. However he started to complain immediately, "Hey...that's too close..."
"Shut up, Seef." Phillona replied, tired of Sifan's antics. Ignoring a mumbling Sifan, she raised her arms and enfolded them around his neck, "Just be quiet and dance. You don't have to be good at it."
"I thought I told you I don't like 'Seef'..." Sifan said feeling squirmy at the feel of her arms around his neck.
"I thought I told you I'll call you what I want....besides, I think it's cute." She replied. Phillona felt strange to have her hands around Sifan's neck when he wasn't even moving. He just stood there like a log. Looking at how Sifan was contemplating on what to do next, she sighed "You're supposed to place your hands on me, handsome..."
He mumbled another curse at Avatar and hesitantly placed his hands on either side of her hip. Watching the couples on either side of him dance, he then tried to move his feet in rhythm with Phillona's but it didn't look very successful. Feeling very ridiculous and even more idiotic that he was discomforting Phillona, he muttered, "I told you I am no good at this."
Watching him struggle to dance, she smiled at him, 'It's alright."
"Hey..." Phillona said looking at how Sifan was watching the floor instead of her, "Why are you so interested in the floor?"
Swaying his shoulders too far to the left, he said, "I like green and white checkers...especially on well polished flo-"
"Seef." Phillona interrupted, and with a giggle she continued "If you stopped trying to keep a gap between us, you wouldn't have to look at me straight in the face.... and hence you wouldn't have to stare at the floor either..."
"Nice try." Sifan replied, surprised at how she had found out the reason he was examining the floor, "but you're staying put right where you are."
They danced for a while; Sifan still getting his shoulder sways wrong. He could've sworn the neighboring couple were looking at him strangely. He ignored them and soon, he managed to perfect his feet movements, with Phillona's help.
"Sorry for being a lousy dancer." He said slowly once again feeling Phillona was ashamed to be dancing with him, "I-It's my first dance."
"Oh..." Phillona remarked, surprised as they continued to waltz, "I didn't know that. Then you're really good for a first timer."
"Uh...I used to watch Avatar dance." Sifan replied, doing another inept sway. He was surprised when he realized she was still dancing with him. Phillona showed no signs that she was embarrassed to Sifan's amazement. On the contrary, her frequent smiles and comments about how Sifan should try to relax made him feel comfortable. And slowly, he wasn't all that mad at Avatar anymore.
Sifan was interrupted when a single beep sounded in his pocket, "Hmm...there's the informant."
"Uh Yeah..." She said slowly letting go of Sifan, "Keep a watch for a guy with a white rose in his pocket like the one on yours."
They looked around for some time when Sifan spotted a couple dancing a few feet away from them. The man had a white rose in his pocket and he smiled when Sifan looked at him. Sifan could make out that it was a very different smile and he nodded in return. The man came over and asked Phillona for a dance. She accepted as Sifan took leave of her side and walked over to the informant's female partner. She was blonde haired and wore a rather bright white dress. She gave Sifan a sharp look when he walked over to her.
"Uh..." Sifan said, "Can we dance?"
"Geez..." the girl said as Phillona danced with the informant, "You must be a new kid in town...your moves were quite -ahem- different..."
"Yeah." Sifan said, not quite liking being called the 'new kid' or being reminded that he was a bad dancer.
"And also, don't you even know how to ask a girl for a dance?" she snapped, "you don't just walk up to them and say, 'can we dance?'..."
Somehow, Sifan felt a pang of dislike for her. She was beautiful but Sifan's anti-feminine side got the better of him when he recalled her remarks. Seeing her white dress, Sifan said, "Say...why are you dressed like a ghost? Is this a costume ball?"
"WHAT!?" the girl replied angered by Sifan's statement, "What kind of a friend of Gerard's are you anyway?"
"Ah, Gerard." Sifan said watching the informant dance with Phillona, whispering something into her ear. Sifan continued to tease Gerard's date, "I had no idea he dated ghosts. Who's next? Another white-washed Ghoul friend of yours?"
The girl gave Sifan a scornful look and marched across the ballroom almost knocking a waiter down. When Gerard saw this, he quickly slipped Phillona a small letter and disappeared after his date that Sifan had driven away.
Sifan walked back to Phillona. Before she could ask him what had happened, Sifan replied, "I didn't like her."
She looked at him with a raised eyebrow as Sifan let her bind her arms around his neck again, "Hey...Elena's a beautiful girl."
"Yeah..." Sifan said sliding his hands around her waist, "but you are....uh...-Er-...Well, I just didn't like her..."
Phillona chuckled. Sifan, somehow, felt a tinge of contentment seeing Phillona's smile instead of holding Gerard's white-dressed date.
"Hey, are you still telling the world that you hate me like the way you were, this morning?" Phillona said, reminding him of how Lyris had tricked him into shouting he didn't like Phillona. He felt a little weird now that he was holding the same girl for a dance.
"No..." Sifan replied, finally getting his shoulder sway in time and line with Phillona's.
"Well, in that case..." she said and looked at the floor, a slightly shy look creeping across her face, "You mind letting me move a little closer...?"
Sifan suddenly realized that the information exchange between the informant and Phillona was over. He knew that he was no more obliged to dance and he had the freedom to go his own way now. Sifan was about to open his mouth when Phillona placed a finger on his lips, and re-established eye contact "Please...?"
Sifan was about to say 'No' again but he realized his head had nodded in agreement on its own. She smiled and pulled herself closer to him. Sifan flinched a little when he felt Phillona against his clothes. As she moved to the music slowly, she quietly leaned her head under Sifan's chin, which made him squirm uneasily. And when she rested the side of her face against his chest, he felt as if all the air behind his chest had been let out.
"Have you found a way of going back to your world?" she asked Sifan who was still trying to get used to holding Phillona so closely against himself.
"No...Professor Hamilton was -Er- away on vacation to some place." Sifan said, feeling too lazy to explain the entire kidnapping incident, "We're seeing a friend of his in Aquadia city..."
"Aquadia's a beautiful place..." Phillona replied, "I hope you find a way back to your world...I guess your parents must be anxious, huh?"
Sifan thought of his parents but he didn't want to talk about his parents to Phillona when he remembered that she was an orphan.
"Yeah...I guess so..." he replied, his chin brushing her hair. He was starting to feel a little comfortable and his heartbeat changed from a fast pace to a much slower one.
"Your girlfriend must be worried too..." She said sliding her finger down the Phoenix pendant on Sifan's neck, "Avatar said she was pretty..."
"Oh, he did?" Sifan said sarcastically wishing Avatar had lost the battle square contest.
"You must miss her already, huh?" she said, pre-occupied with hearing Sifan's heart beat, "Cause Your heart's beating slowly..."
[That's because of you, you stupid girl...]
"I don't have a girlfriend..." he replied, guessing Avatar must have told her all that rubbish while he was lying in bed, the previous night in Mideel.
"He also said..." Phillona said while she laughed softly against his chest, "that every girl in your, uh, garden, was after you. But you were faithful to your girlfriend even if the odds were against you and-"
"I told you... I don't have a girlfriend...Avatar's tried to book me one for months..." Sifan sighed, irritated at Avatar's tales.
"Why?" She said, brushing the white rose in his pocket, "You ARE cute you know..."
"I don't want one..." he replied, "You, Avatar, and probably every tom, dick and Harry in the world might have someone but I don't want to have anyone. Its that simple."
"I don't have-" Phillona started but she broke off in the middle. Sifan couldn't help notice that the tone of her sentence was different from her usual one. She pulled herself away from him, slowly sliding her hands down his shoulders. She held both of Sifan's hands and looked up at him, "I loved the evening, Seef...Thank you..."
"H-Hey..." he said lowering the pitch of his tone, "Something I s-said...?"
"N-No..." she lied, "n-nothing...."
"Well, I am sorry I danced like a wooden hat holder." Sifan said, and for the first time, he smiled at her but he wiped it away almost immediately.
"No...you were great for a first attempt at dancing..." Phillona replied after watching Sifan's two-second smile.
"So, Goodbye then..." Sifan said, careful not to mention Trex was paying him for the entire thing.
"Goodnight...Seef." she whispered and made her way across the ballroom away from Sifan. He watched her disappear through the crowd and then proceeded to the other side of the room, slowly. He didn't like the way she had left him.... without her smile...
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From the author: ok guys... There were about 158 visits to my fanfic on my hits list in the past 5 days and how many reviews I get? TWO! TWO Reviews...and I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO E-MAIL those two people my fanfic than to post it here and have everyone jus read it and scurry away without leaving a review! Ok ok...I am being a review-hungry dawg but hey...reviews are my fuel guys! If theres a drop in the quality of my fanfic..its because I am not getting any reviews...ok...uh...so I wont put up my fanfic if there are no more reviews...MAN I HATE THREATENING MY READERS FOR REVIEWS but hey, a mans gotta do what a mans gotta do..... but I ll ask nicely too, PLEASE give ittle wittle me your reviews often **puppy dog eyes**...cause if you don't'...-**demonic cat-like burning red eyes**...oh well just playing the fool...but I am not playing the fool with the reviews thingy... SO FOR GOD's SAKE PEOPLE! PLEASE POST MORE REVIEWS!!!! Or I'll...**Sigh**...you know the drawl...