Day of The Dance Mikan's POV
"Have a nice day at school, Luna-hime, Serah-hime." I said with a bow.
"Have a nice day at work, Serina-hime." I said with a bow, finishing my routine. None of them moved away
to get to their destinations though. They all looked at me.
"Can I serve you in anyway, before you leave?" I asked. Serina took a sip of her decaf.
"I want you to clean the whole house tonight. There should not be a single particle of dust. Every floor should be swept and mopped. Every closet and cabinet organized. Every bathroom spotless. I'll be back at midnight and I don't want to see anything messy." She said. With that command, she walked away with her daughters behind her, giggling. So they didn't want me to go to the ball. Before going and putting on my rollerblades, I went upstairs and checked their rooms. How sweet of them. The bitches took the time after their shower to mess their room up so much, I won't be able to finish before the ball. I walked downstairs and put on my rollerblades to go to school. I'm going to hear a fit about this. I'll tell them when we're all together.
In Lunch
"WHAT!" all of my friends screamed. People didn't pay any mind to us.
"They can't do that to you!" Nonoko yelled.
"On the contrary, yes they can." I said sounding stoic. I was actually kind of looking forward to the ball seeing as all my friends were talking about it and we would enjoy ourselves together.
"You don't have to listen to them!" Misaki yelled.
"On the contrary, yes I do." I said.
"I already had the dresses designed and fabricated! Why, lord, why?" Anna yelled.
"Sorry about that." I said.
"You have to go!" Permy screamed.
"Mikan, this is the event of the year." Yuu said, shyly joining in on the conversation.
"I can't go. I'm sorry. It's not my decision." I said.
"Hotaru, she'll listen to you. Knock some sense into her!" Permy said, turning to my tea-sipping best friend.
"What time are the twins leaving for the ball?" Hotaru asked.
"8:30, to be supposedly "fashionably late"." I said.
"We'll be there at 8:30." Hotaru said. She left it at that and continued sipping her tea.
8:30 Mikan's POV
The three witches had just left when all of my friends popped out of the bushes of the lawn.
"When the hell did you guys get there?" I asked, leading them inside the house. I brought them to the
witches' rooms.
"They really didn't want you to go." Nonoko said looking around the trashed rooms.
"Well, she's going anyway." Hotaru said. Just then I noticed that Anna didn't come upstairs with us.
"Hey, where's Anna?" I asked.
"She's…" Nonoko started.
"Right here." Anna finished. She was holding various bags that one could tell were of dresses and tuxes.
"Let's get ready here. I'm sure the witches wouldn't mind us using their hair supplies and bathrooms."
Permy said with a smile. She's always wanted to see this house, and now that she has, she obviously wants
to use all its supplies.
"There are seven of us and three bathrooms we can use. I cleaned up the bathrooms already, so they are not in the nasty condition the witches left them in. Two can take turns for each bathroom. Once you're done showering and getting dressed, meet in Serina's room." I said. Misaki and Yuu went to Luna's room. Permy and Imai stayed here in Serina's room. And Anna and Nonoko went to Serah's room. I sat with Hotaru and Perms in Serina's room.
"I really don't need to go, Hotaru. You guys can enjoy yourselves without me." I said with my head down.
"You know you want to go." Hotaru said stoically.
"But I can't be in two places at once. If I don't clean, I'm out. If I don't party, it doesn't affect me in anyway. There will be plenty of other masquerade balls. It's not our last year here." I said.
"If you can't go this year, what makes you think Serina will let you come in the next few years? I will make it so you are in two places at once. I am a magician after all." Hotaru said. I gave a small giggle and she had a small smile on her face. Anna, Misaki, and Permy walked in. They were all wearing robes that I had set in the bathrooms for them.
"Your turn Hotaru." I said. Hotaru got up and walked into the bathroom. As soon as the second batch of people were done in the bathrooms and in the room with their robes on, I stepped into the shower. I took a quickie, washing my hair and myself thoroughly though. When I came out of the shower, Yuu was all set and the girls had their nails painted. They were working on their hair.
"Mikan, just have a seat next to Yuu. You will be our last project." Anna said, turning to me from doing Permy's hair. Her eyes were freaking me out, signifying that she was thinking deeply of what she was gonna do to me and what she was doing to Permy's hair. Aside from that, while I waited for the girls to finish, I talked to Yuu about Naru's pop quiz the other day.
"Yuu, you're going to have to step out. We have to work on Mikan, thoroughly." Anna said. Yuu made his way out of the room and down the stairs. I don't know where Nonoko and Anna got the strength from but they lifted me up from the bed and hoisted me onto the vanity chair. Even Misaki looked surprised.
"Perms, work on her makeup. Nonoko, it's your job to do her hair. I'll handle her nails." Anna said. Before I knew it, I had three girls tugging on my hair, pulling my fingers, and putting stuff on and twisting my face. This has never been done to me before. Once the torture was finished, I looked at myself in the mirror and gasped.
"Gasp, when you see the dress Anna designed." Nonoko said. Anna nodded eagerly. She began distributing the bags of dresses.
"Two of you in each room. One changes in the bathroom, the other in the room." Nonoko said. Permy went off with Misaki this time. My bag was surprisingly bigger than everybody else's. When I opened it, my eyes couldn't help but widen. Hotaru came out of the bathroom in her dress.
"Don't just stare at it. Get in it." She said.
"You look so pretty!" I said, scanning her.
"Get in your dress and worry about me later. The girls are going to be here any second to put on our shoes and accessories." She said.
"I really don't know how to get in it." I said. Hotaru sighed and helped me into the dress. It's not like I was fat or anything, but the dress came with a corset that Hotaru tied pretty tight. There was a knock on the door just as Hotaru was tying it.
"Come in!" I said, trying to breathe with how Hotaru was pulling. Hotaru finished and tied then ends of the laces into a bow.
"Mikan, you look like a princess!" Misaki said. All of the girls walked in. They all looked gorgeous, standing next to each other and looking at me. Permy wore a green dress. Her hair was done the way usually has it, permed, and her nails were green to go with her dress. She was wearing gold bangles and a pair of gold earrings with gold 3 inch high heels.
Permy's Dress: (http: / prommafia .com /wp-content /uploads /2009 /03 /sexy-green-prom-dress .jpg)
Standing next to her were the twins. They wore the same dress but in hot pink and sapphire blue. Anna wore her hot pink dress with silver bangles and pink dangly earrings. Nonoko wore the same thing but with sapphire blue dangly earrings and the blue version of the dress. Both of them wore silver 2 inch high heels and had their hair in gentle waves.
Anna and Nonoko's Dress: (http:/ media. onsugar .com/files /ons1 /281 /2817629 /07_2009 /8c /blue-prom-dresses-5 .jpg)
Misaki wore a red knee length dress. She wore a silver bracelet and anklet with a silver pair of 2 inch heels. Her earrings were a pair of studs and her hair was done with her bangs to the side and hair straight down.
Misaki's Dress: (http:/ www. camdendrive .com/ media/ resized/ cute-short-red-pleated-dress-n2106-f_size2 .jpg)
Hotaru was the last one in the line of people looking at me. She wore a long amethyst dress that matched her eyes. Her hair was decorated with a butterfly pin on the side. Her heels were 3 inches high and she wore silver and purple accessories. (The outfit in the picture along with the shoes and jewelry is exactly what Hotaru looks like.)
Hotaru's Dress: (http:/ www. thepageantshop .net/ Prom%202009/ Prom-Dress-Purple-White-2396M .jpg)
"Since, we're all set, let's go downstairs and Yuu will drive us. We have great timing." Misaki said.
"What about our masks?" I asked. All of them pulled out butterfly masks that corresponded with the color of their dress. Anna handed me my mask. We walked downstairs to where Yuu was sitting on the living room. He wore a black tux with a brown tie and white polo. There was a machine moving quickly around the floor.
"What the hell is that?" I asked.
"Stop." Hotaru said. The machine stopped and faced us. It was a giant machine version of me.
"You made a machine that looks like me? You really do care!" I said, hugging Hotaru. She pushed me off of her.
"This is Amanatsu. She is exactly like Mikan. She is going to be cleaning the house. Told you I could have you in two places at once." Hotaru said. I smiled.
"I would kiss you but my lip gloss would get on your cheek!" I said with a large smile. A flash removed the smile on my face and left me clueless.
"That's probably gonna get me a lot of money. Amanatsu, group picture." Hotaru said handing the camera to the machine me. Amanatsu took the picture and we were off. How we fit seven of us in one van is besides me cuz trust me, my dress took up a lot of space in the back seat.
Natsume's POV
The gang and I were just chilling out by the punch bowl, talking. We were all wearing pretty much the same thing but with different colored ties. We were all wearing black tuxedoes and white polos. I wore a red tie, Ruka a light blue one, Koko a yellow, Kitsuneme an orange, Mochu a brown one, and Tsubasa a dark blue one. We wore plain masks that corresponded with our tie color.
"I came here for what reason?" I asked, turning to my friends. They could all tell I was bored as hell.
"For that reason." Mochu said in awe, pointing to the grand staircase. Five girls and one guy descended the stairs. The girls looked nice and the guy was alright. They were dressed way more decently than some of the other girls and guys in the place.
"Not anything special." I muttered looking back to my punch on the table. I heard gasps from everybody in the room and looked to where they were looking. The people from before were now at the bottom of the stairs and one girl descended the stairs. She was absolutely gorgeous. Nobody in the room could probably compare to her. She wore a dress that the top part was white with various swirls leading to flowers. The bottom part was large and pink. Her hair was in a curly half updo and lowdo. The only jewelry she wore was a gold locket on her neck. Her shoes were 4 inch white high heels. Her mask was white, and like her dress, had pink swirls leading to flowers.
Mikan's Dress: (http:/ .com/ cm/ misquincemag/ images/ light%20pink-dress-
quinceanera-allure-q200-5-de-6159721 .jpg)
Mikan's Hair: (h t t p : / / w w w . p r o m - h a i r s t y l e s . u s / i m a g e s / 0 2 8 . j p g)
She reached the bottom of the staircase and began talking to the people from before.
"Your mouth is wide open, mate." Ruka whispered into my ear. Before the rest of the gang could see me, I snapped my face to its usual stoic nature.
Mikan's POV
"Everybody was staring at me. Do I look that bad?" I asked.
"Are you kidding me? You look better than everyone else." Permy said.
"Thanks." I said. She nodded.
"Well girls, we should get ourselves some drinks and then pick a table. We made it just an hour late. So we probably didn't miss anything important." Misaki said.
"I'll be off. I'm supposed to be a hidden chaperone, as Jinno-sensei says." Yuu said. I nodded and we made our way to the punch table as he walked off. There was a line of boys there. One of them approached each of us. The guy who approached me wore a decent tux with a red mask and tie. He bowed, took my hand, and kissed it.
"M'lady." He said. There was a playful smirk on his face when he looked up at me.
"Good sir." I said with a small curtsy and playful smile on my face too. I looked and saw that my friends had already left with his friends to dance.
"What great friends, we have. Didn't tell us at all that they were leaving." I said, sarcastically. He didn't say anything. He looked like he was looking at my hair more than at me.
"Is something in my hair?" I asked, insecurely. The smirk from before returned.
"So, you're the girl who jumped over my car. I knew I recognized that hair from somewhere." He said.
"That was your car? You should really drive slower!" I said.
"You shouldn't j-walk." He replied.
"Well, aren't you are smart. But, technically I wasn't j-walking. I was j-skating." I said. He rolled his eyes.
"Big difference." He said.
"Yes, there is." I said with a laugh. He chuckled along.
"You have a nice laugh." He said with a smile.
"I'm not the only one." I said.
"Funny cuz I don't laugh or talk often." He said.
"Well, looks like we can both be ourselves tonight, then." I said. He chuckled.
"I guess so." He said. We stood for a silent second.
"Since we're being ourselves here, though my friends will mention this for the rest of my life, would you like to dance?" he asked, holding out a hand.
'Why are they going to mention it? You don't know how to dance?" I asked, taking his hand.
"I know how to dance. I just don't dance with girls." He said, leading me to the middle of the dance floor.
"Likewise but with guys… unless you mean that you dance with guys." I said.
"Are you implying something?" he asked.
"No, just questioning." I said. We began dancing together
"What do you know, you know how to dance." He said.
"Are you implying something?" I asked.
"No, just saying that most girls don't know how to dance decently." He said.
"I agree. But as you can see, my friends and I are not most girls." I said, gesturing to the only other pairs on the floor.
"Though, at least they are not embarrassing themselves by trying though. I know a few girls who would." I added. He shrugged at my statement.
"I guess, you're right." He agreed. When the song ended, I noticed the orchestra walked off the stage. Now more people crowded on the dance floor as Narumi walked onto the stage.
"As you can tell, there's no music. We only hired the orchestra to a certain time and the other band has yet to arrive. Is anybody a good singer?" he asked. Luna and Serah immediately jumped on the stage and took the mic from him.
"Natsume, wherever you are, we love you! Marry us!' they sang. Everybody laughed as Narumi tried to wrestle the mic away from them.
"Anybody really know how to sing?" Naru asked again. Hotaru walked up beside me along with her pair.
"Get up there and sing." She said.
"I don't usually sing in front of people." I said, uneasily.
"We're gonna be ourselves today, right?" my partner said. I nodded and began walking to the stage. It wasn't until I started walking away that I noticed he had his arm around my waist and how right it felt. I took the steps up onto the stage. Narumi bowed and kissed my hand
"So, you can sing?" he asked. I nodded and he handed me the mic.
"What type of song am I supposed to sing?" I asked.
"A slow one and then a modern one. That should stall for the band." He answered.
Play: (http:/ www. youtube .com/ watch?v=4WXx0YoEpKs&feature=fvst)
Play: (http:/ www. / watch?v=LfRNRymrv9k)
"That was really good." My partner said when I finished singing, holding my hand as I descended the stage steps. The music the band was playing now was more to the slutty and perverted side of dancing, so we stepped out to the gardens.
"I wasn't expecting to enjoy myself here." I admitted.
"I wasn't either, but I'm assuming that means that you like spending time with me." He said.
"Yes, and I imagine you feel the same." I said. He didn't respond and just looked at me in the eyes. It felt like he was scanning my insides and out.
"You're so gorgeous… and, even though it sounds corny, I don't think I believed in love at first sight until I met you tonight." He said, leaning in towards me. We were just about to kiss until I heard the clock chime and my head snapped towards it. 12!
"I've got to go." I said quickly.
"Wait." He said putting a hand on my shoulder before I could turn away from him and peeling off his mask. Natsume Hyuuga? Oh my god, I almost kissed Natsume Hyuuga! Knowing that only gave me even more motive to run, and I did so. Just when I started running, my locket snapped and he was holding onto it. Knowing I couldn't stop, I kept on running… and he chased after me. On the middle of the grand staircase, he yelled to me.
"Can you at least tell me your name?" he called. I chuckled and gave him one last smile. I'm not going to be telling him who I am in the future anyway.
"That would beat the whole point in this being a masquerade. You broke the first rule, removing your mask." I said. I continued running.
"What about the locket?" he called after me.
"Hold onto it for me!" I called, not looking back.
Natsume's POV
All the girls began running up to me, now knowing who I was.
"Natsume!" they screamed. I sighed and just walked to a table and sat down. My bandmates surrounded the table.
"Sucks, man. Wanna go home? We already said bye to our partners anyway." Koko said. I nodded. We left the ball and Andou drove since I wasn't in the mood. We got home and I threw myself on the couch.
"You really liked her? I mean you just met her tonight." Kitsuneme asked.
"Yeah but she didn't freak out when she found who I was. And she's funny. She makes me laugh, despite the doubts you might have. And not to mention that she is the girl who jumped over my car. I could tell by her hair." I said.
"Her hair." Mochu repeated as if in disbelief.
"She could have at least let me kiss her before running off." I muttered.
"You almost kissed her?" all of the gang yelled. I remained unfazed by their loud tone.
"Yeah. But she ran off before I could. Damn it." I said, slamming my fist on the coffee table. They slightly jumped at that.
"Well, you have her locket don't you? She said to hold onto it for her which means she is expecting to see you again and get it back." Ruka said
"You're right." I said, sitting up and pulling the locket out of my pocket. It dangled in front of me and I decided to open it. On one side of the heart shaped locket was a blonde man. On the other side was a woman who looked exactly like her only the hair was slightly darker.
"Whatever. I'll find out who she is even if it takes me a century. "I muttered. I walked away from my stunned friends to lie in bed and think.