"Ready?" asked Sonia.
"Just a sec," said Kyra. She tucked a strand of blonde hair behind her ear before she walked out of the room. "You look awesome!" she said. Sonia flattened her baby pink dress. It was tight, but not uncomfortably so and fell down to just past her ankles.
"You too!" said Sonia. Kyra was wearing a white dress, tight on the body but flared from the waist down. It was lined with sequins.
"Thanks," she said. "Where's Meagan?" Sonia shrugged. They walked onto Meagan's room. She was sitting on her bed in her turquoise dress.
"I'm not going," she said firmly. "I can't,"
"Why not?" asked Sonia.
"I don't want to find out that my mystery votary is a fake," she said.
"He won't be," Sonia promised.
"You don't know that," she said.
"You're right, we don't, and we never will unless we go," said Kyra. "Do you really want to stand him up?" Meagan shook her head.
"No, but I love this guy, these notes, the flowers, the poems I'm just scared," said Meagan.
"Don't be, everything will be okay, we'll have a great time and none of us will get hurt," said Sonia. She stood up. "Let's go," They walked over to the stairs and made their way down to the very last floor. It was being held in the same place as the Talent Tournament had been. They needed a big stage, space for a DJ and for live entertainment. It would be one of the biggest nights ever in Boston. The girls smiled at one another. They put their masks on and entered. Many people were already there. Music was blaring through speakers and everyone was dancing. Meagan immediately parted from the group and headed to a table near the punch bowl. She stayed a bit out of sight in case no one showed up. Sonia shrugged and her and Kyra walked to the center of the room and began dancing. They were laughing and having a great time. Then, two girls came over.
"Sonia? Kyra?" they asked. They nodded. "Okay, good," said one. "It's me, London," she lifted her sparkly red mask for a moment. Her dress was tight and red, really glamorous.
"And Maddie," added the other. Maddie's dress was dark blue and long.
"Cute outfits!" said Kyra. They all danced together and talked. The music was then at a reasonable level so they could still talk without yelling.
Meanwhile, Meagan stood by a curtain, shaking nervously. She was rocking back and forth on her feet, and staring at the punch bowl. She was at the back of the room and no one else was even close. She felt a hand touch her shoulder, she gave a small gasp.
"Do you always do that?" the boy behind her asked talking about her rocking habit. He held out a rose. "Hey," he said. Meagan recognized the voice, who was it? She looked at him for a minute and gasped again.
"Jackson?" she asked. He smiled.
"I'm sorry," he said. "I wanted to tell you but, see, I couldn't,"
"What about Lola?" she asked.
"Well, that's why," he said. "You know when you got the first note and the elevator broke? Well, uh, that was me," he said. "I'm really sorry but I had to, Lola was clinging on to me, I wouldn't have had time if I hadn't. I know about wires and stuff, my uncle's an electrician," Meagan was awe-struck. "And the time when I was going to show you who I was, well, I couldn't do that either, Lola found me with the roses on the deck, I had to go, I couldn't let you see that. So I made a lame excuse,"
"Wow," whispered Meagan. "Are you and Lola still together?"
"No," he said. "She dumped me, today actually, I would've dumped her but I couldn't, I don't know. Either I'm just not man enough to do it or it's because I know her brother would rip my head off if he found out I did,"
"This is unreal," said Meagan. "I really liked you when we first met, you were so cool, calm, collected, but then Lola came along so I didn't know what to think. I really figured it was someone who I hadn't even met, but that would be kind of weird, right?" she said quickly. "Sorry, I know I'm babbling, but I can't believe it, really, like right now I sound like my friend Kyra, she gets like this, well, she's always like this. It can get really annoying, I know, but she doesn't do it when she's nervous, she just does it and she really needs a reminder to-" Jackson laughed and Meagan smiled. "Sorry," she said.
"I know where I'm headed know, I know what I'm doing here, I'm glad I let you know, I'm glad I made things clear. I'm no longer stuck in my dream, now everything is really as it seems. I wish, I wish that you would love me. Now I know angels really do exist, my situation was a hit or miss, and I was scared. Unprepared. Part of me wanted to go, I'm not confused anymore please don't leave me behind, I wish, I wish. Please give me a chance, if I asked you to dance would you just say no? Will my plan break, fall down before my eyes, now that I've removed my pathetic disguise, I know and now you do to. I hope that you won't let me just pass by. I wish… I wish," he sang. He leaned closer to her. Meagan did as well and they kissed. It was short and sweet. They both blushed when they came back. "Would you like to dance?" he asked as a slow song came on. Meagan nodded.
"Please," she said and they headed onto the dance floor. Kyra, Sonia, London and Maddie looked around when the slow song came on. One boy came up.
"You're London Tipton, right?" he had see through her disguise. Would you like to dance?" he asked London.
"Uh," she said.
"Let me introduce myself, I'm James Onvrey," he said.
"As in super rich, male supermodel?" asked London excitedly.
"Yeah," he said.
"Great!" she squealed and began dancing with him. The other girls laughed.
"Excuse me," said a boy. It was Tanner Quip from the Christmas show. "But would any of you three like to dance?" he asked.
"Ooh!" shrieked Maddie. "I do!" They went off.
"Want to go sit down?" asked Sonia. Kyra nodded. They pulled up chairs by the food table and took off their masks. It wasn't long before two boys walked over to them.
"Hey," said one of them. He was wearing a nice shirt and jeans, sort of a casual cool look.
"How's it going?" said the other. He was a little bit more dressed up.
"Uh, good," said Sonia.
"That's cool, so, what are two fine ladies like yourselves doing alone here?" asked the first one.
"Hanging out…" said Kyra.
"Is it hot in here, or is it just you?" asked the second one to Sonia. They took of their masks revealing identical cute faces and blonde hair. They, however, were not the blonde twins that Kyra and Sonia were expecting to find.
"Uh," said Sonia.
"HEY!" someone yelled. Two other boys came running over. "What the heck do you think you're doing?" It was Zack and Cody, they took off their masks too.
"Well, what do you know? It's the loser twins, Zack and Cody" said the first boy coolly.
"Well, what do you know?" said Zack. "It's the idiot twins, Jack and Colby,"
"You guys know each other?" asked Sonia.
"Yes," said Cody scowling. He turned back to the other twins. "And we know what you were doing," he said.
"Oh well," said Colby. "You were bound to figure out sometime," "Whoa," said Kyra. "So not following,"
"All right, we all used to go to school together until we moved here. We've never got along," explained Cody.
"Yeah, because they're scum-sucking maggots!" said Zack. "They're the ones who have been framing us this whole time,"
"Why?" asked Sonia. Jack and Colby laughed.
"It was funny," replied Jack.
"We figured we'd make our stay at the Tipton more interesting… you know, for us," said Colby.
"You can leave now, we don't need you here anymore," said Jack. He slipped his arm around Kyra's waist. "Not now that we've got ourselves some ladies," He looked over to the dance floor. "How 'bout you and I hit the floor and get our dance on?" he suggested. Before he even had time to turn his head back, Zack sucker punched him in the gut. He doubled over and gasped for air. At the same time, Cody pushed Colby and he landed face first in the punch bowl. It all happened very quickly. When both boys regained full consciousness, they left the room; to save their butts and their pride. Zack looked to Kyra.
"Uh, sorry about that," he said. "Those guys are jerks, like, seriously and-" he didn't have time to finish. Kyra kissed him. Both Sonia and Cody gasped. But no one looked as shocked as Zack. She smiled.
"Wanna dance?" she asked.
"YES!" he said eagerly and they ran onto the dance floor. Cody looked to his feet.
"Uh, yeah, so…" he said.
"That was really cool, like, what you just did, thanks," said Sonia.
"Any time," said Cody blushing. "Err, I, do you, I mean, only if you feel like it, but, would you-"
"My brother's in love with you," said Zack who had just in time come to the rescue. "Dance with him," he walked off again.
"Really Cody?" asked Sonia. "Do you actually like me?"
"Well, uh, yeah," he said not looking up.
"Then I'd love to dance," she said. He looked up excitedly.
"You mean it?"
"Totally," she said smiling. They joined Zack and Kyra at center floor. Sonia saw Meagan and Jackson, Maddie and Tanner, London and James, and Kyra and Zack. She smiled. It looked like everyone got exactly what they wanted for the holiday season.
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All right! That's my new chapter. Everything's come together, how'd you guys like it? Thanks for reviewing guys! And I even got my first flame. If anyone's going to flame me, please tell me just why you hated it, it would help me out a lot. Until my next chapter-
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Dreamer