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I was sat in front of the mirror on my simple dark dresser; curling my hair and staring blankly back at my self every now and then. I had already applied my make up eyeliner, mascara, eye shadow – all black might I add – and I had already gotten changed in to my outfit for the night, a long black gothic lolita dress. I should mention that my normally straight red hair was now curling around my face and falling down to the middle of my back in large black ringlets.

I finished styling my hair and placed the curling tongs on the table as I reached down to the plug socket and switched it off before taking the plug out.

There. I was ready. 'Ready for what?' I hear you ask well ready for some college party later on.

The party was some kind of celebration for the upper students as they were leaving soon and going on to uni or employment but they had decided to invite the whole student body for some stupid reason. It wasn't just a party either it was a costume party with masks and whatnot.

I sighed, why was I even going? I didn't know any of the upper students. As a matter of fact, I didn't really know any lower students beside my own class and even then I only knew their names. I wasn't very sociable - one of my many flaws, I guess. That doesn't mean I didn't talk to them, I just didn't talk to them when I didn't have to. Besides not knowing anyone at the party, I didn't even like parties. I'd rather sit at home and listen to my own music by myself while I draw or read or dance if I feel like it. Though, saying that, I can't really dance that well either - I've got two left feet.

I reached for my mask by the side of the mirror as I stood up and placed the eyepiece over my eyes. I smiled when it was in place as it hid the terrible memory. A visible memory that made nearly everyone stare at me in curiosity wondering how I had earned the slash from the middle of my forehead running across my left eye to the top of my left ear.

As I was making my way to the community centre, where the party was being held, I realised that I didn't really have a character in mind of who I was dressed up as. In all truth, I was dressed up as more exaggerated version of myself. It was normal for me to wear gothic, lolita clothing outside and even in college but of course the dresses weren't as big as the one I had on right now and, of course, I never wore masks on a regular basis.

Nearing the party I could already hear the loud booming music and all the shouting and laughing outside. God! The boys are drunk already!

That was another thing about parties - the drunks and the just downright perverts that all felt that they had some sort of right-away to just feel you up on the dance floor even if you were just passing through.

I passed a couple of guys who were giggling at one another as one of them was babbling incoherently whilst swinging a bottle of beer around carelessly - merely missing the chance to knock out the guy next to him. I rolled my eyes as I walked past them and entered the building. The hallway leading to the main hall had kids talking in groups, girls and guys passed out or maybe just taking a break on the floor against the walls and even a couple who were snogging right by the entrance but to the right in the corner. Damn! This party is already becoming uncontrollable.

I was about to enter the main hall when someone called out my name sounding pleasantly surprised.

"Oh Deina!" I turned as a girl with blonde hair bobbled over to me and gripped my arm but not roughly.

She smiled up at me with that dazzling smile and I knew before she took her mask off that it was Ruby Heins. She was in with the populars but she was probably the nicest out of them - or so it seemed. Like I said, I didn't really talk to them so I didn't really know them all that well - just by name.

"Hi, Ruby," I greeted her as she took off her mask and let go of my arm.

"You're late, honey," she said but she was still smiling so I knew she wasn't being rude at all. She was probably just trying to start a conversation.

"Yeah," I said uncertainly gazing around at the other...people, "But I'm sure it was only by five minutes."

She laughed, "Come on! Everybody's here!"

"Um, I think I might sit outside for a bit," I said suddenly regretting coming to this stupid event, "Where it's not so...wild."

"What?" she cried and then linked arms with me. She started to pull me in to the main hall, "Come on, it's fun!"

Out of the two words we used 'Fun' and 'Wild' I think my word was more fitting for the situation. It was crazy in there. Like always you had the pervs touching up some girls as they wriggled through the crowd trying to get out of the crazy heap. There was more snogging in here and...wait...what the heck are they doing? I turned on my heels my face blowing up bright red and I slid my arm out of Ruby's.

"I'm gonna go get some air!" I shouted over the loud music.

"What?" she asked, squinting her eyes as if that would help.

I leaned closer and shouted, "I'm going outside!"

She rolled her eyes, linked arms with me again and...pulled me in to the crowd!

I almost started to panic but I had to concentrate on keeping linked to Ruby as she didn't stop. She kept walking and if I let her arm slip out of my grip I'd be lost in a sea of sweaty, horny teenagers and that is not what I wanted - absolutely not!

After what seemed like forever Ruby finally heaved me out of the mass of ravers and guided me outside in to the community centre's gardens.

"If you wanna sit around outside, sit out here, not in the front with those drunken idiots," she winked.

"Oh, right, thanks," I replied but then, glancing around at the others out here, I pointed out, "You know there are still drunks out here too, right?"

"Yeah," she glanced around too and sighed as if she pitied them, "But at least you're in the centre rather than out. If you were out front they could drag you off somewhere and -"

"Hey, Ru-bay!" we looked to the boy who strolled up behind the blonde and then slung his arm around her shoulders. He was wearing a tux and I realised he had come to the party as James Bond.

"Daniel, are you drunk?" she asked with some amusement in her voice but her face looked a little concerned.

His name was Daniel Hirst. He just leaned in to her personal space making her giggle slightly and replied, "Maybe," he then looked over to me as if just realising my presence. His eyebrows rose surprised, "Oh, hey Deina! I didn't think you'd show up. Didn't think this was your sceeeeene."

"It's not," I replied crossing my arms over my chest and I watched as his facial expressions morphed showing his confusion as he tried to comprehend why I had come - which quite frankly, I didn't even know. He wasn't drunk, we could tell, but he was definitely tipsy.

He didn't dwell on the matter for that long though as he took a step back to look Ruby up and down, "Hm...are you a fairy princess? Cause you look just as lovely as one."

"No, Daniel," she laughed, "I'm BatGirl, James Bond."

He laughed too and nodded confirming that she had guessed right. He then frowned and stated, "I thought you were gonna come as CatWoman."

She sighed and looked down when she shrugged, "Well, yeah, that was my initial idea but when I told Selina she basically fell in love with the idea and demanded that she do it. So I came as BatGirl instead."

Daniel nodded and seemed to understand something I didn't. Why everyone let girls like Selina Green walk all over them was beyond me and I didn't understand it at all.

"Wait? So it was your idea but she told you that she was going to do that instead and that you should do something else?" I asked. Ruby looked at me for a moment wondering what I might be getting at and so did Daniel. She then nodded slowly. I threw my hands up in the air and asked, "And you let her? Aren't you pissed off she stole your idea?"

"Well, I don't know," she shrugged - again - and looked down at the ground between the three of us, "Maybe a little...but she looks so much better than I would have. So it really doesn't matter."

"Doesn't matter?" I repeated. I then heavily sighed and shook my head feeling like it was hopeless to try and explain my point of view, "Whatever, it's none of my buisness. I just don't understand why you'd be such a push over to girls like that."

"Girls like that."

Ruby froze and her eyes widened, Daniel seemed to take a slow protective step closer to her (even if he was tipsy) and I just turned slowly to glare at the bitch behind me.

There stood Selina with a hand on her hip and all of her weight (if there was any at all) on one foot. She had on a skin-tight leather suit that pushed up her boobs to make them more eye-catching and she wore bright red lipstick to tempt any males within her presence. The eye holes in her pitch black mask were big enough to show exactly who it was underneath it and her bleach blonde hair was pulled back in to a long, straight high-ponytail. She wasn't alone either - she never was. She was flanked by Chelsea Williams, a tall almost anorexic looking brunette, on the right who had come to the party as Poison Ivy from Batman. And she was also flanked on the left by Rebecca Weil, another thin brunette with average height, who had come dressed as Morticia from The Addams Family - which made me want to laugh since her character choice didn't exactly fall in to the sexy theme they seemed to have arranged. Nevertheless, even with Rebecca's odd choice of character, all three of them were hot and it was no wonder everyone was staring in our direction.

"To be quite frank, I don't like the way you're referring to me, Deina," she purred glaring straight back at me. Did she expect me to apologise? Did get on my knees and ask - no beg - for forgiveness? Pfft! Keep dreaming, love.

"And to be quite frank I don't give a shit, Selina," I replied.

Her eyes narrowed as they did sometimes but she smirked - a trick she used to disguise her anger.

"I'd watch out if I were you," she advised me, looking me up and down once before she turned to stride back in to the party where she'd probably just crawled out of and along with her went Chelsea and Rebecca.

When she was well out of ear shot I turned and groaned to myself loudly realising that Ruby and Daniel had probably fled the first chance they got when Selina was too busy trying to intimidate me - which she never had any success with.

I sighed deeply and walked over to a bench by the water fountain in the middle of the gardens and sat down on it. I sat there by my lonesome self for about fifteen long minutes just watching the water fall and ripple to the edges of the bath. That was until I felt someone sit down beside me. I turned to look at them and if it wasn't for the bright red hair I probably wouldn't have recognised them.

"Hey, it's Deina, right?" he asked. I nodded.

"Hi, Jack," I replied and stared back at the water again.

"You know who I am?" he asked and he sounded shocked.

"You're in my Chemistry class," I stated and then raised an eyebrow to look at him - which he probably couldn't see because of the eyepiece, "I know who you are."

"Oh right," he nodded. After a moment he added, "It's just that we've never really..."

"Spoken before, yeah," I finished for him. He nodded again and looked to the fountain as well.

A long silence, other than the booming music in the background, followed giving me time to try and work out who/what he had dressed up as. This boy was Jack Spicer and he was a bit of a goth like me. Tonight he had traded his usual trench coat for a thick black cloak and from the small opening at the front he seemed to be wearing a red tunic style shirt and black pants. The mask he wore almost covered his whole face and only had two small openings for his red eyes and it stopped just above his top lip. His red hair was spiked up more than usual but still bright red and unique.

Okay, I didn't know him either, but he always seemed like the one I would be able to get on with if ever I felt the need to make some sort of bond with a classmate. I mean we wore similar styles and he was probably just as antisocial as me but we also didn't mind the silence that we were sat in currently - well, at least that's how it seemed.

"So," he said finally breaking the silence, "Who did you come as? A vampire too?"

"You're a vampire?" I asked.

"You couldn't tell?" he asked and he sounded a bit disappointed, "Damn. But yeah anyway. That's what I'm meant to be."

"Oh right, cool," I replied and then I shrugged, "I came as...yeah, as a vampire."

"Awesome!" he cried and then pointed out, "We match."

"Yeah," I agreed looking down at my own dress again, "I guess we do."

I smiled at him and he smiled back and I couldn't help but wonder if he blushing under that mask of his.

"Hey," he said after another shorter pause and I looked to him still smiling, "I don't really like parties much myself, do you wanna come to mine for a bit? We could...err...watch movies or something."

"Hm," I looked away from him now trying to hide my own blush as my mask didn't quite cover my cheeks all that well to be honest. If wasn't that I had a crush on him - god no! I hardly knew him! - but that he was a boy and he was asking if I wanted to hang out, and basically I hated being at this party anyway seeing as I couldn't and didn't want to dance and that there was nothing else you could do - well except for snog someone or get drunk but they didn't seem all that desirable either. I then asked, "You got Xbox?"

"Err, yeah," he answered probably taken aback by a girl having some sort of interest in game consoles.

"Okay then, let's go," I declared with a smile and stood up.

He smiled too but there was an edge of delight and shock like he was surprised but happy I had accepted his offer. Jack then got up too to stand beside me and gestured to the hall that we would have to fight through to get out of here. So I took a deep breath, grabbed hold of his hand so I wasn't alone - which made him jump too - and lunged in to the steamy pit of crazy hormone driven youth.

Here we meet some of Deina's class mates. The good - Ruby Heins and Daniel Hirst - and the bad - Selina Green, Chelsea Williams and Rebecca Weil. My favourite XS character, Jack is introduced and invites Deina to his house since they're not really enjoying the party.

Deina is very different from the first chapter and not nearly as unstable...at the moment...

She's nineteen now so it's been a year since...the incident.

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