Author's Note- OMG! I have SO much HW to do, and SO much HW that's due tomorrow and more stuff that's due this week. I know I should be doing my HW, but I need to take some time off from my annoying HW. SOOO-here's the next chapter! It's going to be pretty long! BTW-if you think it's kinda weird that Massie and the girls can't tell who the boys are, or who are the other guests...well, I guess it is. But, to make my story more interesting, Massie and the girls don't know who the boys are, because their masks are hiding most of their face. Anyways, enjoy! R&R!!!

Massie's Mansion

The Foyer

Sunday- 12:30 P.M.

Massie surveyed the crowd. It seemed like everyone was having a great time. Everyone was dancing, talking and eating. Massie made her way through the crowd, looking for the girls to see what they were doing at the moment. She stopped behind a red head and tapped her on the shoulder. The girls spun around and Massie immediately recognized that the girl wasn't Dylan.

"Sorry." Massie apologized to the girl.

The girl just gave Massie a weird look and turned back around.

She finally spotted Dylan in the corner of the foyer with her mask off, talking to a boy.

She went straight up to them and turned to the boy, and sweetly said, "Would you excuse us for a moment?"

The boy shrugged, "Sure."

"Thanks." Massie smiled fakely.

Massie turned to Dylan and practically dragged her away from the boy.

"What the hell are you doing?" Massie hissed, glaring at Dylan.

"What do you mean?" Dylan asked, looking confused.

"I told you about a thousand times, not to take off your mask!" Massie snapped. "Weren't you listening? Don't you remember?"

Dylan blushed. "Oh, sorry. I totally forgot about that."

"Ah-bviously." Massie smirked.

"I promise I'll never take off my mask again." Dylan said, putting on her mask.

Massie sighed. "Ok."

"Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go back and talk with the hottie." Dylan smiled, jerking her head to the boy, who was just standing there, with his hands shoved in his pockets.

"Go get him." Massie winked.

"Oh, I will." Dylan smiled slyly. "Don't worry about that."

Massie grinned and slowly walked away. She turned her head around just in time to see Dylan kissing the boy.

As she was walking through the crowds, she heard girls asking each other if they were 'Scandalous Schoolgirl'.

A short brunette girl came up to Massie and asked, "Are you 'Scandalous Schoolgirl'?"

"No," Massie lied. "stop asking people. It's getting ah-nnoying."

"Oh, sorry." The short, brunette girl apologized to Massie.

"Besides," Massie told the girl, "the whole point of a masquerade is to keep your identity hidden, right?"

"Yeah," the girl sighed, "but I really want to know who 'Scandalous Schoolgirl' really is."

"Well, I don't think 'Scandalous Schoolgirl' wants you to find out who she really is." Massie said.

Before the brunette girl could reply, Massie quickly said, "I got to go now." She quickly walked away, she didn't want to talk any more about 'Scandalous Schoolgirl'. She was afraid that if she talked too much about 'Scandalous Schoolgirl'. she would accidentally blurt out the truth.

Suddenly, Massie had a big urge to dance with someone. Everywhere she seemed to look, she saw people dancing with each other and having a great time. It's not like she wasn't having a good time, she just wanted to dance with someone. Massie wondered if her masquerade party was going to be just like Scene 22 in the play. Without the part of Derrington being Prince Charming, of course.

Massie suddenly felt a light tap on her right shoulder. Massie heart leapt, did her little thought just come true? She calmly turned around to see who had tapped her, despite her heart that was beating a thousand times a minute.

"You're hot." A completely geeky DWC guy said to Massie, giving her a hideous, cheesy smile, which revealed his crooked teeth.

It's not that Massie could tell who the person actually was behind the mask, it was just that Massie could see that the guy was wearing his thick, big framed glasses behind his weird looking mask.

"And you're not." Massie retorted quickly, trying to hide her grimace. Massie's spirits had immediately sank when she saw that it wasn't her Prince Charming.

That comment wiped the smile off of the boy's face.

"Go to hell." he spat and walked away.

"Well, that went well." Massie muttered to herself.

"Maybe this will go better for you." a voice said behind her.

Massie winced. Oh gawd, this better not be another LBR! she thought, as she slowly turned around and braced herself for what she was going to see.

Massie felt her jaw drop. It was the blond hottie she had met at the door. The guy who had arrived with his four friends. The guy who wanted to find her!

"Hey." Massie said shyly to the blond guy.

"Hey, want to dance?" the boy asked, holding out his right hand.

Massie blushed and took his hand. "Sure."

The mysterious boy led Massie to the center of the dance floor and together, they started dancing slowly.

"So, do you have a name?" Massie asked.

The boy chuckled, "Yeah, but I'm not going to tell you."

Massie pouted playfully. "Why not?"

"Because," the boy said, "the whole point of a masquerade is to keep your identity hidden."

Massie laughed quietly to herself. She remembered hearing the sentence being repeated over and over by her.

"Fine," Massie said, "but ''m going to try to figure out who you are."

"Ok, good luck." The boy smiled.

Massie smiled and leaned her head on his shoulder as they swayed back and forth to the music.

"So, what are your hobbies?" Massie asked.

"Soccer all the way." was the boy's reply.

Massie wrinkled her nose. "Soccer? Just like my ex."

The boy laughed, "And who was your ex?"

Massie shook her head. "I'm not telling you."

"Why not?"

"Because," Massie said, "I don't want to tell you, and besides, I'm doing a favor for you of not telling you his name."

"Fine, whatever."

"What else do you like to do?" Massie asked.

"Well, I also like to go shopping-"he started.

"Ehmagawd!" Massie cut him off. "me too!"

"For new sports equipment and other stuff like that." he continued.

"Oh."

There was a moment of silence.

"Do you have a girlfriend?" Massie suddenly asked, lifting up her head from the boy's shoulder.

"Uh, no." the boy said, "Why?"

"Good, because I don't have a boyfriend." Massie smiled, seeing if this piece of information was going to affect him in any way at all.

However, it didn't seem to affect the boy at all. In fact, all that he said was, "Ok."

The song finally ended and then Massie led the boy away from the dance floor and to a corner.

"Do you want a drink?" the boy asked Massie.

Massie smiled. "Sure."

"I'll be right back." The boy said and then disappeared.

Right after the boy left, some random girl sat down next to Massie.

"Excuse me, this seat is taken." Massie told the girl.

The girl looked around and saw no one. "I don't see anyone here right now."

"That's because I'm saving this seat for someone." Massie snapped.

Just as Massie said that, the blonde boy came back with their drinks.

"See?" Massie said triumphantly to the girl. "Now go away."

The girl grumbled and took one last look at Massie and the boy, and then she got up and went away.

"You didn't have to be so mean to the girl." The boy joked.

"Why not?" Massie asked. "She deserved it."

The boy handed Massie her drink and Massie eagerly accepted it. She was super thirsty after all the dancing and talking she did. She drained her drink in one gulp.

"Whoa, you're thirsty." The boy commented. "Do you want me to get you another drink?"

"No thanks." Massie declined.

"Ok." Was all the boy said. To Massie, it looked like he wanted to say something else, but he didn't.

"Are you ok?" Massie asked, "It looks like you wanted to say something."

The boy hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "Do you want to be my girlfriend?"

Massie perked up, this is what she had been hoping for. "Sure." After such a long time of not having a boyfriend, Massie finally had one now.

"Great."

Suddenly, Massie had an impulse to kiss the boy, and so she did. She slowly leaned in and gently kissed him on the lips. The boy was surprised at first, but then he got into it too, and so they spent the next five minutes kissing on the couch. People were gaping at them, but Massie didn't care. In fact, she was kind of happy, because she knew that they were very jealous, and that they wished it was them with the blonde boy right now, instead of Massie.

Massie wanted to take off the boy's mask. She desperately wanted to know who she was kissing. So, as slyly as she could, she put her hands on the boy's mask, and as slowly as she could, she began to lift the mask up from the boy. She managed to do that while still kissing him.

The boy didn't seem to notice what Massie was doing. He was too busy making out with Massie. As Massie lifted the mask higher and higher off his face, he was bound to notice. But it seemed like he didn't care at all. Finally, Massie took off the mask, and broke away from the boy's lips to see who he was.

The person who she saw right in front of her, was the last person she had expected to kiss.

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