Hannah's P.O.V

It was a quiet morning, and I was still upset, how could Kook say that? Does he really not care about me? Would he rather be with Shaiden? I saw his face when he found out that someone liked him. I clambered out of bed that morning and looked at myself in the mirror, my eyes were red from crying and my throat was aching, I got washed and dressed and went downstairs to breakfast, Ballista and Kook noticed me as soon as I walked in.

"Are you alright, Hannah?" Ballista asked. "You look dreadful."

"No. I'm fine."

I looked over at Kook, he looked a bit down, also a bit guilty, he could barely look at me, I could feel the tears building up again, I just picked up one single slice of toast, but I could only eat half of it, anything was starting to make me feel sick.

"Hannah, are you sure you're alright?" Kook asked.

"I'm fine! Why do you want to know?"

"Well, you're not eating, you look really tired, and I'm feeling concerned for you."

"Why?"

Kook didn't reply, he was struggling to think of an answer.

"Why Kook?"

"Because...because, you're my friend, and I hate seeing my friends like this."

"Friend? Is that all?" I went to take another bite of my toast, but I couldn't bare it. "I'm done, I'm going to my room."

"Hannah, wait!" Shaiden shouted, and dashed over to me as I walked out the door. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing."

Shaiden closed the door behind her, cutting us off from the others. "Tell me."

"I've just been a bit down lately, alright, that's all."

"But why?"

"There's a guy who I really like, and he doesn't even want to know anything about me, he'd rather be with someone else. There, I've said it, now just leave me alone."

"But who is it that you like?"

"Leave me alone!"

I walked up to my room and I didn't look back, I slammed the door shut behind me, as soon as I was alone, I burst out into tears and slowly slid down the door and onto the ground, I wanted to go home, back to Splazzer City, I thought that coming here, my dreams would finally come true, but everything's just got worse.

I remained sat on the floor for a whole hour, everything had gone wrong, and there was nothing that could make this better or worse, I got up, locked the door and got my suitcase out from under my bed, I was going to run away again, I had no idea where though, I couldn't go to Splazzer City I've been banished, and I can't stay here, because there isn't anything for me to stay for, I guess I'll just become a homeless person, continuously on the road.

I was just putting some jeans into my case when there was a knock at my door.

"Who is it?" I asked, my voice shaking from crying for so long.

"Hannah, it's me." said Kook.

"What is it?"

"I just wanted to talk to you for a bit, can I come in?"

"Why?"

"Because I want to talk to you face to face."

"No why do you want to talk to me?"

"Because, I've got a sneaking suspicion that you're upset because of me, and I want to explain myself."

"Alright."

I unlocked the door and allowed Kook to walk in, I didn't look at him, I just continued packing.

"Are you leaving?"

"Yes, there's nothing left here for me, I might as well go."

"But you've barely been here for three months, you can't go."

"Give me one good reason why."

"Because...because I...we're all your friends here and we'll all be sad if you go, besides where will you go?"

"I don't know, I've just got to get out."

Kook sighed. "Please don't go, Hannah." his voice was shaking, it sounded like he was about to cry. I turned round to face him, his eyes were brimming with tears. "Please." he whispered, as the tears fell onto his cheeks.

"Kook, why are you crying?"

"Because you're a good friend of mine and I don't want to see you go."

I flung the shirt that I had in my hands down onto the bed.

"Is that all I am to you? A friend? Look I don't really want to go."

"Then stay."

"How can I stay when the man that I love will barely give me a second look?"

"What?"

I collapsed onto the floor, tears streaming down my cheeks.

"You were told yesterday by Ballista, that someone in this castle had a huge crush on you, and who did you think that was?"

"Shaiden."

"Exactly, you obviously still have feelings for her, but what if it wasn't Shaiden? What if it was someone else who had a crush on you, in fact I know exactly who that girl is, and she doesn't just have a crush on you Kook, she loves you and she has for a very, very long time, she broke the rules and got kicked out of her own home because of you, she got hurt, you all cared for her, let her live here, and you just don't realize her feelings for you even if she was standing in front of you right now!"

Kook thought for a second, suddenly his mouth dropped open and his eyes widened, he looked back at me in shock.

"It's you?" he asked.

"Yes." I whispered.

"Hannah, why didn't you tell me?"

"I don't know, I guess I was worried that you were going to reject me like all the other guys in my life, I've even been rejected by my own family. And I guess I was right." I stumbled back onto my feet and continued packing. "You're just like all the others."

As I had my back turned, I heard Kook walk up behind me, and felt his hand land on my shoulder, I shrugged him off and stormed past him, into the bathroom to collect my toiletries.

"Hannah, that's not how I feel." he replied.

"Yeah, damn right it's not how you feel." I answered walking back to my suitcase.

"No, I mean that I'm not rejecting you."

I stopped and turned round to face him. "What?"

Kook looked down at his feet and sighed, tears still streaming down his cheeks.

"Hannah, you may think that I still have feelings for Shaiden, yes, I may have looked a bit surprised when I thought it was her, especially since she told me that she has no similar feelings for me, but my second thought was you, but I thought that if you wanted to tell me you would have yourself, and I didn't want to tell you just in case it wasn't, but I really, really like you too...in fact, I think that I love you."

I was crying again, but this time with joy, Kook likes me after all, actually he loves me. I couldn't move, and I couldn't say a word, the whole shock of what Kook had said.

"Hannah, please don't cry." he said caressing my cheek.

I closed my eyes and sighed, everything was back to normal, there was no way that I was going to leave now, I looked deep into Kook's eyes and smiled wide, I flung my arms around his neck and buried my face into his shoulder.

"I love you Kook." I whispered.

"I love you too."

Kook wrapped his arms tight around my waist and held me close, this was definitely the place that I was meant to be. I moved my arms from around Kook's neck and put my hands on his shoulders, I looked deep into his bright blue eyes, I could see them begin to fill up with tears again, he went to say something, but I stopped my mouth with a kiss before he could, Kook very quickly started to settle and accepted the kiss, I moaned as he began to run his hands up and down my arms, the sensation of his skin against mine was spectacular, now being here with the man that I love.

"So what now?" I asked.

"We inform the others." Kook replied. "We can't keep it from them, they have a right to know."

"Right to know what?" Gildar asked who was stood in the doorway.

I froze. "Erm..." I was struggling to think of an answer.

"To know what's been upsetting Hannah." Kook said.

"So you know what happened?"

"I do now."

Gildar's eyes moved to my suitcase that was still on my bed.

"Are you leaving Hannah?" He asked.

"I was but...Kook managed to change my mind."

"Good, so what was the whole problem?"

"Well, we'd rather tell you all together than individually." Said Kook.

"Okay, well we're all going to the lounge, I heard a bit of shouting so I thought that I'd come to see if everything was okay."

"Yeah, everything's perfect." Kook replied smiling at me.

When Gildar turned around Kook held my hand and we walked down together. I was nervous about telling the others about our relationship now.

"What are we going to say?" I asked as we walked down the corridor.

"We'll just tell them the truth."

Kook let go of my hand as we walked into the lounge, when everyone turned to look at us, my heart began to race, I couldn't do this, I didn't feel ready to tell everyone, I'm still coming down from the shock of Kook telling me his feelings.

"Are you okay now Hannah?" Shaiden asked as we sat down.

"Yes thank you."

"What was the problem then?"

I looked at Kook. "Are you going to tell them?" I asked.

"I thought you'd want to tell them, it was your problem."

I sighed and took a deep breath. "Okay. See, what had happened was just a big misunderstanding, I thought that this guy that I like liked someone else, but I was wrong. It turns out that he feels exactly the same for me as I feel for him, and...well...we're dating now."

"That's great, what's his name?"

I looked at Kook and he sighed.

"It's me." He said, his cheeks going slightly red.

"Seriously?"

"Yeah."

Vane chuckled and patted Kook on the shoulder. "Good on you bro."

Now I could feel my cheeks burning up, I was now relieved that everyone knew about this little situation now, but there was a feeling deep down that for some reason that this couldn't be allowed.

"Hang on guys, can I just clarify something?" I asked. "Is there some sort of rule against this? That Kook's a defender and I'm not? Or because Kook's half bird and half human and I'm just human."

"No, there's nothing like that for dating, but if you were a defender Hannah it might not be allowed, one of the very few rules here is that defenders can't date each other." Knightriss explained.

"This is great." Said Faetal. "Now you two can do the opening dance at the ball next week."

"Ball? What ball?"

No one had told me about a ball.

"Oh sorry Hannah, we've all been so busy we forgot to tell you about it." Said Ballista. "We have a ball this time every year to celebrate a successful year."

"This is all a bit sudden."

"Shall we help you find something to wear? There's a fantastic shop in the village that make the most amazing evening dresses.

"No, it's fine, I've already got one in mind."

It was true, I did have one in mind, it was a dress that I've only worn once, it's my school prom dress, I was never going to forget that night, hanging out with my old friend Katie, and even though I had a boyfriend then, he never asked me to dance with him once. But who cares, now that Kook's here my life makes sense again.

"So what are you wearing' child?" Madeva asked.

"It's my old school prom dress, I've been looking for an excuse to wear it."

"Can we see it?"

"No, you'll have to wait until the ball, when is it?"

"Next Saturday in the great hall, and if you and Kook are going to be doing the opening dance you'll have to practise."

"Oh no, I'm not that good at dancing."

"It's okay." Said Kook. "It's a very simple dance, you'll have learnt it in no time."

Before I went to practise this dance with Kook, I got my dress out of the wardrobe and out of it's protective sheet, it had been there so long I had to air it out, but it had also been so long, I was worried that it wouldn't fit me anymore, I got undressed and quickly tried it on, it was still a perfect fit.
I stood in front of the mirror for a minute or two twirling and remembering a great night, I still had the photos somewhere.

I was in the middle of my little flashback when I was interrupted by a knock on my bedroom door. I panicked and wrapped my bed sheets around me.

"Who is it?" I asked.

"It's Kook. Can I come in?"

"Yeah sure."

When Kook saw me wrapped in my bed sheet he chuckled.

"Felt a chill?" He asked.

"I was just trying on my dress to see if it still fits."

"And does it?"

"Yep."

Kook paused and looked me up and down. "Can I have a look?"

"No, just wait until the ball."

"Can't I get a glimpse?"

I sighed. "Okay."

I lifted up the sheets slightly revealing the bottom of the dress. "There that's all you're getting."

When Kook left the room I changed back into my day clothes and met him in the great hall, the hall was already fully decorated, streamers and banners covered the walls and flower displays every few feet.

"Wow, this place looks amazing." I said as I joined Kook.

"No doubt it'll look even better on the night of the ball."

Kook held my hand and put his hand on my waist.

"Ready?" He asked.

"Okay."

Kook was right, this was a very easy dance, I was a natural apparently, I couldn't already hear the music playing and I could see everyone dressed up in their dresses and suits, the lights and everything else, I rested my head against Kook's chest and closed my eyes.

Soon Kook slowed down and eventually stopped dancing altogether.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Nothing, it's just that you're a natural."

"Do you think so?"

"I know so, I know a good dancer when I see one you're brilliant at this dance."

I smiled as Kook looked deep into my eyes, I felt my legs go weak as he moved a stray strand of hair from my face, I wrapped my arms around his neck and put my forehead against his.

Leading up to the night of the ball I would help out, if there was anything that I could do to help. I would happily oblige.

The night of the ball hid finally arrived, the girls and me were already starting to get ready while the boys were still on duty.

I got my dress out of the wardrobe again along with some shoes and my jewellery box, I selected a pair of black pumps, a pearl bracelet and some pearl earrings to match.

By the time I was pretty much ready it was pretty much time for the ball, I just had my makeup to do, I chose some red lipstick and some red eyeshadow along with eyeliner. Once I was ready I walked down to the great hall, everyone was already there, and I couldn't wait to see Kook's reaction to my outfit.

I stopped outside the doors and held onto the door handles, after a couple of seconds silence, I finally walked in, all heads turned to look at me, all the guys were stood with their mouths open.

"You look beautiful." Said Kook as I walked over.

"Thank you."

"If you wore that to your prom while you were dating your ex, he must have felt so lucky."

I frowned. "Not really...he didn't even talk to me all evening."

"Oh babe, I'm sorry."

Kook wrapped his arm around me and held me close.

"What about you?" I asked.

"Oh yeah. You make me feel so lucky."

"Aww." Said Madeva. "That's so sweet."

"He didn't even dance with me." I added.

"Your ex?"

"Yeah."

"Well, in that case..." Said Kook taking my hand. "May I have this dance?"

"You may."

Me and Kook stood in the middle of the dance floor waiting for the music to start, once it did we began to glide along the ground.

It wasn't long before everyone else began to join us, Gildar and Ballista were next to walk up, closely followed by Madeva and Skabb, Madeva gave me a quick wink as they danced past us, this is the best night I've had since my prom night.

After dancing for around an hour, I had to go and sit down, I got myself a drink from the drinks table and sat down, the relief was heavenly.

I watched as everyone else was on the dance floor, Kook was showing off as usual with his dance moves, I couldn't help but smile. Soon Madeva left the dance floor and sat down next to me.

"You havin' a good night?" She asked.

"Yeah, this is better than my prom night."

Madeva had a certain look on her face, like she wanted to tell me something...but she couldn't.

"What's up with you?" I asked.

"Nothin'."

"Are you keeping something from me?"

"Kooky asked us not to tell you."

Kook told them something I shouldn't know? What's he up to? Did he have something planned for this evening?

Soon the music died down and everyone left the dance floor, Kook came straight over to me and Madeva, he looked and Madeva and quickly flicked his eyes over to me.

"I didn't tell her." Said Madeva, leaving her seat and going to get a drink.

Kook sat next to me and wrapped his arm around my shoulders.

"Are you planning something?" I asked.

"What?"

"Madeva said that you'd asked everyone not to tell me something."

"It's nothing to worry about."

Not two seconds after Kook said that the music started again, I recognised this song, it was my favourite soundtrack from my favourite film "Avatar". I looked at Kook, he smiled and winked.

"Is this what you had planned?"

"You said Avatar is your favourite film, and you said this is your favourite song from the CD."

I looked around the room, everyone was looking at us, Kook got up from his seat and held out his hand, I held his hand and followed him onto the dance floor, my cheeks burning up with embarrassment.

Everyone clapped as we stood in the middle of the dance floor, soon me and Kook were dancing along in time to the music, halfway through the song Kook wrapped his arm around my back and dipped me down in a romantic fashion, I remained like that for a few seconds as Kook looked deep into my eyes, I could hear a few chuckles and mutters from the others, they could see where this was going, Kook smiled and slowly leaned towards me, there was a few whistles and claps from the others as our lips touched, this has been the best night ever!