They checked out of the motel and once again got into the car.

The next town they arrived had a festive aura.

In the hotel they booked the room the lady encouraged them to go to the ball that would be taking place that night to mark the end of the festivity.

"C'mon Lokiiii, let's go to the ball"

"No way"

Loki didn't like the parties, not even when he was in Asgard. All those people fluttering around the Magnificent Thor, the first and the perfect prince unlike his brother who was totally opposite from him.

Thor was a magnet for the attention of the people and Loki usually hid in the shadows pranking those who were blissfully unaware

Even though his rotund negative and the end Len had her way

Flashback

"You'll have a great time. I'm sure it will be better than the feasts you are accustomed to."

Loki didn't know if she had chosen the word feast unconsciously

"No way I don't want to watch drunken people stumbling all over the way, some people might find it entertaining but I can assure you that I do not"

During Thor feasts, that were almost every feast, almost all the people ended drunk and the drunkest from them all was Thor. But Thor wasn't reprimanded for his lack of manners and the lack of the appropriate behavior.

"Let's make a deal. What do you want if you come?"

"A room for myself"

"Done"

Loki looked surprised, how easily he had got his wish but what the god didn't know it was that he had been tricked like he had tricked people in Asgard not so long ago.

Loki admired Len's figure when she wasn't looking.

She looked absolutely radiant in her midnight blue dress. It made her blue eyes stand out.

It accentuated her womanly curves.

When they arrived theball was already at full swing.

They moved to the bar to ask for their drinks.

Their way to the bar had been a bit difficult as the bar was almost as crowded as the space destined to dance.

The barman had taken his sweet time in serving them and also in taking their order.

When he gave Len her drink he murmured some word in her ear that if Loki wouldn't have been a god he would not have heard them

"Hey there sweetie, do you wanna ditch that lanky man and learn what a real man is."

Len had heard a thousand times that phrase and could not help but be annoyed at the barman.

He had slipped under her glass a number of telephone

"And exactly who is going to show me?"

"Me"

"I'm sorry but I want nothing to do with a man that had shown how stupid he is when he could not comprehend a simple order and had taken almost fifteen minutes to serve two drinks and write a telephone number"

With that she turned around and walked away.

They sat on the chairs that surrounded the dancing area, sipping their drinks.

Loki had already finished his drink when Len swallowed all that was left of her drink and stood up.

"Let's dance"

"No, absolutely not, it is enough that I've come"

"C'mon at least one dance and I'll leave you alone"

Loki acceded in hopes she would leave him alone.

They made an extraordinary pair. Their movements were perfectly coordinated.

They danced elegantly as if they were gliding through the air.

The song and finished and true to her word they both were making their way to the chairs but they were stopped when a man asked Len to dance.

Loki had to admit that Len was beautiful and you had to be blind not to see. It wasn't strange she had been asked to dance.

Len gave him an apologetic glance and took the hand of the stranger.

Loki had to note that the man was what the mortal women would consider a handsome man.

He was tall, muscular, blond, with blue eyes. It was like a human Thor.

Loki could not refrain a powerful jealousy feeling.

It wasn't he was jealous that she was with another man. He didn't love her or so he thought or not.

It was that he had had her undivided attention since he had landed on the Earth.

She hadn't judged him or looked with suspicion. He had never liked to share and less now that he felt he had a friend on whom he could trust.

He was surprised when he realized it. He felt like he could trust on her and he trusted very few people. He didn't even trust Thor completely. The only person he trusted completely was his mother.

Another though assalted his mind if he considered her his friend he had to show her who he was and his powers and real nature. But he buried the thought as soon as it had come

Len danced with a lot of people but she had danced most of all with the human Thor, as Loki referred to him.

That drove him insane. It was enough that he had to share her attention but it was as if he was all over again in Asgard with Thor capturing the attention and love that he wanted.

After a while she excused herself and sat beside Loki

"Having fun?" asked Len good naturedly

"Oh yes, and you? Do you like being the next conquer of that man?"

"What are you saying?"

"I thought you had higher standards than him"

"Those were innocent dances nothing more"

"Yes try to tell him that"

"If you think that are his intentions, why haven't you come to save me?"

Loki could not answer that question

Len wasn't in the mood of dancing any more so she decided to retire for the night.

She talked to Thor II and told him it was nice to have met him and she would be retiring for the night. They exchanged the mobile phones and departed.

She walked up to Loki with an unhappy face.

"I going to the hotel, feel free to come whenever you want, just be ready to leave early tomorrow"

Len made her way with angry strides.

Loki didn't go to the hotel until he had finished two more drinks hoping that she would have blown her anger away.

When he entered in the room she was sleeping there. Loki was angry that she hadn't fulfilled her deal but decided to not wake up because her ire when she was woken up was frightening.

Next day he didn't remember their unfulfilled deal.

They started their way once again. What they didn't know it was that it would be shorter than expected

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