The Ball & the Problem:

"We're going where?" Sarah asked

"Isabel invited us to her ball."

"Ball? Like big puffy gown that I don't have, ball?"

"Sort of." Caleb answered

"Sort of?" Sarah said, "I'm not exactly sure she wants me there."

"Yes she does."

"What exactly did she say?" Sarah asked

"Please come to my ball."

"Meaning you, she doesn't want me there, and I'm not going where I'm not wanted." Sarah said going into the bathroom and slamming the door.

"Sarah come on this ball is in 2 hours."

"I'm not going." Sarah said

"Is this how you want to spend your last night in Italy?"

"Yes, you go and have fun." Sarah said from inside the bathroom.

"I don't want to go."

Sarah stuck her head out. "No you go, it's fine she wants you there and you should go. I'll be fine, there's stuff here to eat, I'll watch a little TV then go to bed. What time do we have to be up in the morning to go to the airport?"

"Sarah I won't go…" Caleb started

"Caleb, I told you its fine, go." Sarah said slipping back into the bathroom.

Caleb waited until the last second to get dressed. Over the last month, Sarah and Isabel had limited contact, but when they did, you could tell there was tension. Caleb walked over to the bathroom door and knocked. "Baby I'm about to leave. Are you sure you want me to go?"

"Yes." Was the answer he got.

"I love you." He said into the door. He grabbed his phone and keys. "I'll be back around 11:30." He took one last look at the bathroom door before he left.

Sarah stuck her head out the door when she heard the door close. "Who ever said silence was golden was seriously mistaken." She muttered to herself.

Sarah went into the kitchen, opening the freezer; she got a tub of ice cream. Sarah sat herself on the couch and stared at the TV. She started to dig into the ice cream and think. It was no secret that she didn't like Isabel. From the first day Sarah had met her, Sarah knew Isabel still harbored feelings for Caleb. That's what had caused so much tension between the two. Sarah looked down at her ice cream then up at the clock. She placed the ice cream on the table and walked over to the phone. 5 minutes later Sarah rushed into the bathroom and slammed the door. Meanwhile Caleb had just arrived to the party and walked in.

The man by the door stopped him. "Name please sir."

"Caleb Danvers." Caleb said

He turned and his loud voice boomed over the party. "Please welcome Mr. Caleb Danvers."

Caleb nodded to the man and made his way down the steps. Isabel made her way over to him. "Caleb, I'm so glad you could come."

"Yeah, I'm not really gonna stay long." He said
"Why not?" Isabel asked

"It's just; Sarah's at the villa and it's our last night."

"Don't worry; I'm sure she's fine. If you want I can send Emilio over to check on her." Isabel said

"No that's fine. I just won't stay as long."

"Come on there are some people I want you to meet." Isabel said leading Caleb over to a table. She hadn't stopped an hour later. Caleb felt like he was going to fall over he talked to so many people.

"Isabel can we please sit down?" Caleb asked. "Better yet I really just want to go back to Sarah."

"No you can't go just yet. Wait right here I have someone for you to talk too." Isabel said and was off weaving her way through the crowd.

Caleb pulled out his cell phone and almost dropped it when he heard. "Please welcome Miss Sarah Wenham."

Caleb turned around to face the steps. "Wow." Sarah made her way down the steps. Caleb made his way over to her. "You look beautiful."

"Thanks you. I decided about…20 minutes after you left that I was gonna let her get to me. So I called the dress shop and they sent me this. Hope you don't mind but I put it on your credit card."

"I don't mind. You look beautiful."

"You said that already." Sarah said

"I mean it." Caleb said

"Caleb…oh I didn't you were here Sarah." Isabel said when she had come back over.

"Isabel." Sarah said.

"Come on Caleb I have someone that wants to meet you." Isabel said. Caleb took Sarah's hand and they followed Isabel. "Caleb this is John Brady. John this is Caleb Danvers, the one I was talking so much about."

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Both men said

"This is my girlfriend Sarah." Caleb introduced.

"It's a pleasure." Sarah said

"You are a lucky man to have such a beautiful woman on your arm." John said

"I do feel incredible lucky." Caleb said looking down at Sarah.

"John is on the board at Harvard. He's vacationing with his wife and son." Isabel said. She looked at Sarah and said, "Why don't me and you get something to eat and let these two men talk." Isabel said

Sarah nodded and looked at Caleb. "I'll be back, okay?"

"Okay." He leaned down and gently kissed her on the lips.

Isabel and Sarah walked away. "What are you doing here?" Isabel asked

"Excuse me?" Sarah asked

"You show up here late, and you weren't invited."

"Caleb wanted me here."

"Where were you when he showed up?" Isabel asked

"That is none of your business." Sarah said

"I see he's buying you Tiffany's." Isabel said pointing to the butterfly necklace. The previous times that they saw each other Sarah hadn't been wearing her necklace and her hand was locked in Caleb's so Isabel didn't see the ring either.
"This was a gift." Sarah said.

"Don't you know by now? You're the hole in his sinking ship, and I'm the plug." Isabel said

"What the hell is that suppose to mean." Sarah demanded

"You aren't right for Caleb. He needs someone in his society." Isabel said

"I don't know who in the hell you think you are but Caleb's not your anymore. He's mine and he promise one day to replace this with an engagement ring." Sarah said holding up her hand for Isabel to see the ring.

"When are you going to realize that your only Caleb's flavor of the moment. When he realizes you can't make it in our world, he'll drop you like a fly." Isabel said. She plucked the ring and said, "This could mean shit. I just can't believe he's buying his whore diamond jewelry." Isabel said

Sarah's hand flew out, connecting with Isabel's face. "I'm not a whore." Sarah said. She turned on her heel and ran up the stairs.

Caleb saw her run up the stairs and went to go over to her but Isabel stopped him. "Let her go." Isabel said

"What the hell happened?" Caleb demanded

"I just told her, her place."

"What the hell did you do Isabel?" Caleb demanded restraining to remember that he doesn't hit woman.

"I told her she was only your flavor of the moment. That when you realized that she was in your league that you would dumb her." Isabel said

Caleb leaned down where there eyes locked. "Listen and listen good. I love that woman the just went crying up the steps. You talk about her not being in my league but that's completely untrue. See the truth is I'm not in her league. She has been so wonderful with everything I've thrown at her in the past couple of months. I hope you saw that ring on her finger, because once we're out of college putting that engagement ring I bough on her finger." Caleb said. He left Isabel standing there stunned as he raced up the steps and into his awaiting limo. "To the villa and hurry." When Caleb arrived, all the lights were out and Sarah was nowhere to be found. "Damn it, where in the hell are you." He asked the empty room. An hour of pacing later, Sarah came through the door. "Where have you been? Are you alright?"

"I've just been walking around and I'm fine." Sarah said moving past him to the bathroom but he blocked her entrance. "Move Caleb."
"Not until you talk to me."

"Can I at least get changed first? This dress is kinda uncomfortable to sit in."

"Right." Caleb said moving out of her way so she could get changed. Sarah came out 10 minutes later in boy shorts and a tank top. She sat something in his hand. "What's this?" Sitting in Caleb's palm was Sarah's eternity ring.

"What you want." She answered

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WHAT?? What she doing? All very good questions. Questions that won't get answers until I post the next chapters. You had better send in those reviews or your won't find out what happened. The next chapter is going to be the last. Keep those reviews a coming; I love to hear from people. If you want to see the dress go to my profile page.

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