It wasn't fair! Adrienne thought. Matthias was going to take her to the ball, not Alena. It was just like Alena to steal her guy. Adrienne had just found the perfect guy and Alena had to take him. Then Adrienne smiled, she had the perfect plan to keep Alena from going to the ball.
Adrienne ran to the cottage as quickly as she could. She had to get there first, before Alena or her father did. As soon as she reached it, Adrienne took her favorite dress and threw it into the briars near the house. Then as her father came, she ran up to him crying.
'There's a ball and Alena didn't want me to go so she threw my dress in the briars so I couldn't go,' Adrienne said knowing that Alena wouldn't call her out as a liar. Even if she did, their father would believe Adrienne as he always did. She watched as her father's soaked in her words and stormed off. Her plan was working.
By the next day Alena wasn't aloud to leave the house until after the ball. As Adrienne had guessed Alena didn't fight against it, she just accepted it. Now all Adrienne had to do was wait until the ball. She snuck into Alena's room one and took the money Matthias had given her.