Rein's POV

As I leaned against a wall, eating a cookie. Sigh... This loneliness reminds me of before. I remembered the first time that Fine had left me to go hang out with others from the sport clubs. We promised that we were going to make bracelets and necklaces from our Mother's decor maker. We spent at least half of our secret savings on the beads, then she went out, promising that next time we would. She forgot though. Those beads are still sitting in the box in my room. I just can't look at them, because they remind me of our broken promise.

"Excuse me," A voice said, snapping me back to reality. I turned and saw a girl with white blonde hair and green eyes besides her was a group of girls.

"Yes, is there something wrong?"

They giggled at me. What's with that? "Well, you know I just wanted to know something," she said politely in a sickly sweet voice. "Why are you hang out with Bright-sama and Altezza-sama and talking with them?"

"They're my friends. I don't see anything wrong with hanging out and talking to my friends," I said simply. I don't have a good feeling about this. "Isn't that what normal people do?"

"You're normal, we're the elite. I can tell by your dress. It was made by some 3rd rate designer." I tried my best to alter it too. The skirt was too long for a party like this and the top was old looking. I cut off a lot."You are lucky to even be able to attend a party like this, but Bright-sama and Altezza-sama will come to their senses and come back to our school. Just realize that if you're just hanging out with them to gain something, you're sadly mistaken."

What is she talking about? Why does she want to take my only friends away from me? "Only someone like you would think like that. I'm friends with them, because of their personalities, not because of how much money they have. I could care less about that," I said. So annoying. What's with these people? Do they think that if you're friends with people just because of the benefits? "I'm not that type of person and neither are they, but I can see that you are."

"You little... Learn your place!" She slapped me and then pushed me into the place of snacks. I was on the ground and there was some icing on my head. My dress was covered in punch and cookie bits. Really, I expected her to push me, but to slap me that hard, what a terrible person.

"Rein, are you alright?" Bright-san asked as he helped me up. I nodded and noticed something. Bright-san's normally calm eyes are filled with anger. "What is going on?

"Bright-sama, that person suddenly insulted Emily-san and slapped her! Do something," one of the girl of the group whined as that girl looked pitiful and the others were glaring at me. "She should be forced to leave!"

"Rein isn't that type of person. Maybe all of you should be the ones who are escorted out."

What he said was nice, even though he was insulting someone. Then I realized that he was holding me by the waist. "Bright-san, it's fine already. I'm alright. I just got a little messy. Thank you though," I said as he let go of me.

"Since Rein's okay, I'll forget about it this time," Bright-san said after sighing. But why did he get so upset?

"You again," Altezza said. "How many times are you going to do this? Every person we've ever befriend, you have threatened and then they're forced to transfer. Listen if you ever go near my friends again, then I'll cut off the connection between our company and yours," Altezza said. She looked at me. "Well, let's get you cleaned up. Sophie, let's go."

Sophie followed behind us. "Altezza, was it really okay to say that? It looked like Emily was going to do something," Sophie said.

"It's fine. That girl's company would lose money if I break the connection. Honestly, I've seen all the papers. If the connection broke, my family would gain money instead losing anything. Also, we don't have to rely on other companies either, because we have other businesses besides jewelry and mining," Altezza explained. "Now, putting that aside, Rein, you're going to need a change of clothes."

"But I don't have any extra clothes," I said as we all enter Altezza's room.

"It's fine, just wash the icing out of your hair and hurry. We've only got 25 minute for this. Sophie, get the curling iron and shoes." I went inside her bath room and quickly washed my hair.

"Altezza what are you going to do now? Since my hair is wet, we can't do anything with it and where's my dress?" I asked as I went out of the bathroom wearing Altezza's bathrobe.

Sophie made me sit down and was quickly drying my hair. "Don't worry Rein-san. Altezza just needed to go look for something. Ara? Your hair is really soft," She said stroking it slightly. "I just thought of a really good hairstyle for you. The curler should be hot enough now." When she turned around to get them I felt my completely dried hair. It always take a long time to dry, but she dried it so quickly... "Hold still okay?"

"Okay." Before I knew it, my hair was completely curled and up in a side bun that had most of my hair cascade down. It was really pretty. "Sophie-san, you're really good at this."

"I'm glad that you like it. I've always liked styling hair," she said.

"I found it. Rein, hurry up and changed into these," Altezza said handing me a dress and a pair of black ballet shoes. Wait a minute, this dress is... "Why are you looking so shocked? I told you I would get you this dress as compensation for something."

"But...-"

"Rein, you're not remembering that you have good qualities. You're pretty. It'll fine. Just wear it. I'll do your make up," she said smiling, knowing that everything was going to be alright.

"Okay," I said, finally, smiling back at her. The dress was as comfortable and beautiful as last time and these ballet shoes are really comfortable. Altezza quickly did my make up but it looked so pretty.

"It's good. Now let's go back to the party, before it's over." When we walked in, people looked at us in shock. Did I look that bad? Sophie was behind her and they were both smiling at me, as though saying everything's fine, so don't worry, everything will be okay. I finally smiled back at them.

"Is that really the girl from before?"

"No way, she looks so pretty!" Was what I was hearing all around the room. Do I really look that different? Well, it's probably because of Altezza and Sophie-san.

The girl from earlier came up to us and said, "Well, you certainly look rich, however it'll take more than that to be able to match up. That's right, I have a good idea. Why don't we have a little match? Since I've heard that you're somewhat decent at ballet. Let's see who's better."

"Then why don't we see?" I asked completely annoyed by her presence.

"Then let's have everyone in the room vote afterwards, who's dance was better," she said.

"Rein, you know you don't have to do this," Altezza said. Then she looked at my expression. "But since it seems that you really want to dance, if it's like that then it should be okay. I guess it'll be a good practice too."

I nodded. The girl was first. True, her dance was pretty and at the first look you could see that it's amazing, but she's missing something. It wasn't finesse or ability, but it's something else I can't tell what it is, but... something is missing. It's like the dance has an empty feeling. When she finished, everyone was clapping and she gave me a look that said, I'm much better than you.

I walked out and then closed my eyes. Remember the place where only I can shine. (I'll leave what kind of dance she's dancing to your imagination) Dancing, shouldn't be for competition. It should be for fun, and because you love to dance. I dance, because it shows who I am and I have fun expressing myself!

I opened my eyes again and people were clapping, even louder than before. "The outcome of this is obvious, enough to see who wins and that person is... Rein," Altezza said. Emily gave an unsatisfied humph and left the room.

"Rein-san, what was great! When did you learn how to dance like that?" Sophie asked. "It was just as amazing as the dances that I saw in the US."

"That's too much praise, I just learned everything from class. Altezza's been showing me a lot of new steps lately, so I guess that's where I picked them up," I said. Well, I guess that should be right.

"Really? I wish I went to your school so I could see you, Bright-san and Altezza everyday and hang out with all of you. It sounds like that would be a lot of fun. I'm sure that Onii-san agrees with me."

"Sophie, I just called Mother and Father," Auler-san said coming over towards us. "They said they were fine with us going to Sakura Academy, we can get everything done by next week and go to school then too. Isn't that great?"

"Yay, I was so afraid that we couldn't," Sophie said clapping her hands together once in joy.

"So in the end you're coming too?" Altezza said as Bright came over.

"Yep, now we'll all be classmates. Please take care of us!" I smiled. Now every day's going to be even more fun.