Serenity woke up after her free day. Right now she was thinking that Darien wasn't that bad. She slowly go up and brushed her hair.
"Such a lovely morning!", she exclaimed.
Her sight headed to the window of her room when she saw Darien outside. She felt all going red when Darien turned around to catch
sight of her. As a response, she turned pretending that she didn't see him.
'Oh, my... what's wrong with me. Oh... I guess mother's waiting for breakfast.'
"My dear, guess what."
The queen wanted to announce her about the ball that will take place that night.
Serenity looked surprised.
"There's gonna be a ball tonight."
"Oh... a ball...!", she exclaimed. "Yes, a masked ball."
"Oh, this sounds so exciting... I can't wait. Am I gonna wear a mask, too?"
"Of course."
"For the first time in my life I can make friends that don't know who I am. Thank you, mother."
Serenity was very pleased. A ball! Her mother didn't used to organize many parties. It was a waste of time, she thought.
The ball begun.
Serenity was glad that once in her life no one would know her identity. She couldn't wait to make new friends and maybe she would
find someone to love her for real.
Prince Darien attended the ball, too. As the others, he wore a mask - and a black tuxedo.
The ball room was marvelous and red roses in silver vases were situated in each corner.
'Woow', she thought, 'it's beautiful'.
She was so busy admiring the whole decoration that she bumped into Darien.
"Er... sorry...", she excused.
After a moment of just staring in each other's eyes, he managed to invite her to dance.
"May... I have this dance?"
She nodded. In a few seconds they seem to be more than friends that've just met. Serenity didn't seem to recognize him, nor Darien.
He could never thought that the beautiful girl dancing in his arms is the little stubborn girl she met a few days ago.
At the end of the ball, the two lovers were on the balcony, kissing slowly, like they never wanted to part their lips from each other.
When the kiss broke, Darien cleared her throat and asked the stranger what her name was.
"What... What's your name?"
"Serenity."
He was somehow shocked when he heard that.
"Serenity...? Princess?"
"Have we... met before?"
"I think it's time to take my mask off."
You can easily imagine the princess' reaction.
"Darien!", she exclaimed.
Both of them had a stunned look on their face. Serenity blushed and headed quickly to her room.
He wanted to follow her, but decided that he'd better let her clear her mind.