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Chapter 16: Dancing Under the Moon

Molly's POV

Waking up to "Cirno's Math Class" is definitely not the best.

Especially when you find that Finn is trying to sing it.

"FINN SHUT UP!" I said, throwing my pillow at the sprite.

"I'm sorry Molly, but A) It's the only way to wake you up and B) It's a catchy song!" Finn said dancing.

"Ummm...ok then...Why did you need to wake me up anyway?" I asked, sitting up.

"Because today's the Full Moon Festival!" Finn cheered.

"REALLY?" I screamed.

"Yup!" Finn said.

"YES!" I said, jumping out of bed.

Believe it or not, I ran up, grabbed Finn, and kissed him.

"Ummm...what was that for?" Finn asked, blushing red as a tomato.

"I'M HAPPY!" I screamed.

"Why exactly?" Finn asked.

"BECAUSE! CHASE MIGHT ASK ME TO GO WITH HIM!" I said.

I immediately regained my composure, as soon as I realized what I had just said.

"Why do you want Chase to ask you?" Finn asked suspiciously.

I haven't told him yet...

"Well...ummm...well..." I stuttered.

Finn grinned from ear to ear.

"I thought so! OH MOLLY YOU'RE GROWING UP!" Finn cried, flying over to hug me.

"How did you know?" I asked, patting Finn on the back as he cried tears of joy.

"I guessed...OH MOLLY! Do you think he likes you back?" He asked, crying his out.

The question he asked at the end of that phrase startled me.

Chase definitely couldn't like me back!

I mean, he deserves a lot better then me...

But then why did he ask me to the Firefly festival?

Probably just out of fear that he would get teased if he went alone...

Or maybe he just wanted to go with me as a friend...

But the way he looks at me is just so strange...

"Molly? You okay?" Finn asked.

"Oh, huh yeah sorry!" I said, remembering that I was asked a question...

Funny thing is though I don't remember what the question was...

"Oh, also, The mayor came by earlier this morning and dropped this off. He would have verbally communicated with you, but you were still asleep. Poor old man came out here for,"

"Alright Finn, just give me the letter." I said.

He handed me a yellow envelope with my name written on it in sloppy cursive.

"Molly, I'm leaving this letter to inform you that tonight, this year for the Full Moon Festival, Your Orchestra will be playing "Requiem For a Dream" and then everyone will preform a dance while my son Gilliam's string quartet plays. The dance will be a pole dance! OH UM! I MEANT PADDLE DANCE! I'm sure you know what it is!Well, that's all for now!

Toodle-Loo!

Oh god no...

Paddle Dancing?

Sooo many bad memories...

Flashback...(5th grade)

"Alright everyone! Now to end colonial day, we're going to do a dance called The Paddle Dance!" My 5th grade teacher Mrs. HornVan said.

I'm pretty good at dancing so I should be fine!

Well, I should be fine as long as we don't have to dance with boys!

"Alright here's how the dance goes," Mrs. Twins began, "Girls get in one line and boys in the other. Then the boy at the front of the line will come up and take the paddle. The 2 girls come up and stand on either side of the boy. The boy then chooses what girl he wants to give it to. The girl he gives it to must stay up there an-"

"SO SHE GOT REJECTED?" Some kid in the back shouted.

"JOHNNY BE QUIET!" Mrs. Viola yelled.

She was the strictest teacher in the school.

Mrs Twins sighed and continued with the directions, "And the girl who does not receive the paddle must dance down the aisle with said boy. Then the cycle continues until everyone has gotten a chance to dance. Alright! Line up!"

"Oh no..." My best friend Megan whispered.

"Yeah, really..." I whispered back.

About halfway through the song it was finally my turn...

The boy who would be giving the paddle to either Megan or I was the guy I have a major crush on!

His name was Collin and he was dreamy...

I'm really nervous because I want to get a chance to dance with Collin but I don't want to...

"5 seconds Collin!" Mrs. HornVan said.

Collin looked at Megan and I one more time and gave the paddle to...

MEGAN?

I GET TO DANCE WITH COLLIN!

He smiled a bit and took me by the waist.

As we got to the end of the line, Collin spun me around so fast that I fell over...

And then my skirt flew up revealing my underwear...

Everyone pointed and laughed at me and it was the most embarrassing moment of my life...

Collin especially laughed...

Present time...

That was the most embarrassing moment of my entire life and I'm not going to let it happen again!

"So, Molly, are you gonna go?" Finn asked, looking scared at my suddenly pale face.

"Oh, umm..." I stuttered, "I really don't think it's a good idea..."

"But you were so excited a minute ago!" Finn said.

"Yes well, that was a minute ago, I've changed my mind!" I said looking away.

"Are you afraid that if you do the paddle dance, Chase will reject you?" Finn asked.

"Ummm...not that...but thanks for putting that in my head Finn..." I mumbled.

"Then what?" Finn asked, getting up into my face.

"It's...it's nothing really, just forget about it..." I mumbled.

The tears from the memory started coming...

"Molly, are you okay? You're crying!" Finn exclaimed.

I quickly wiped my tears and said, "Oh I'm fine Finn! But...I guess if you really want me to go then I will..."

"Alright!" Finn said happily.

Was he just happy that I may be going with Chase?

Or maybe he didn't want me to blow a performance?

"Oh geez! You slept in really late! Hopefully Chase would," Finn began but then there was a knock at the door.

"Hold on!" I yelled.

I walked to the door and standing there was Chase...

What a surprise...

"Hey Molly! I really don't have much time because I have to get ready for the festival but..." He said all of that really quickly then stopped when he was about to get to the question.

"Ummm...uhhhh...would you..." He stuttered, blushing a bright red.

"I'd love to go to the festival with you!" I said cheerfully.

"Oh, ummm, great! I'll umm see you there!" Chase said waving.

"Yup!" I said closing the door as he left.

"HURRY UP MOLLY! GET READY!" Finn yelled as I turned around.

I laughed thinking that perhaps tonight wouldn't be so bad after all!

As I said, I THOUGHT it would be so bad.

At the festival...

Entering the festival in my new Black Victorian dress that Luna made sure I got as soon as it came, I saw the band set-up and quickly made my way to my seat.

We immediately began warming up and tuning.

Once the festival officially began, Mayor Hamilton announced us and Mr. Caid stood up to the podium.

Looking around in the audience, apparently not just citizens of Harmonica Town came to see us play, people from a bunch of different places came!

You had people from Mineral Town, Forget-Me-Not Valley, FlowerBud Village, Lots of places!

I'm guessing they also came for the festival too, of course.

Mr. Caid began on our Chorale we had to play to check our tuning.

I'm not quite sure on the name but it's by Bach.

After the chorale he gave us a smile of approval.

Getting out my "Requiem for a Dream" music (Or otherwise known as Lux Aeterna,) I remembered how much I loved this piece!

It was just so epic and so...EPIC!

In fact, while listening to this song one night, I had a dream about Yu-Gi-Oh...

Odd yes I know, but I'm going to turn the idea into a Fanfic!

I'm still working out the title but I have good feelings about it!

I soon realized that I had missed the first couple measures...

I immediately began playing that.

After the song...

I finished the song perfectly!

Sure I still messed up at the beginning but other than that it was great!

Moments afterward, Gill's quartet started setting up for their gig.

Chase soon caught up with me and we just began talking about the song.

Then, it happened...

"Alright everyone! Form the lines! It's time to do the pole- I mean paddle dance!" Hamilton said.

I'll have to ask Gill if his father is obsessed with pole dancing later...

"Hey, Molly! Come on! Get in line!" Chase called.

He was in the middle of the boys line and I was in the back of the girls...

There was no way that I was going to get to dance with him...

It finally got to his turn and his choice was between Yolanda and Maya.

He chose to give the paddle to...

Yolanda...

Which means he's dancing with Maya...

True, I liked Maya, but I knew she had a huge crush on Chase and would give anything to be with him...

He reluctantly danced down the aisle with Maya, who was cheering all the way down.

I sighed and looked towards the boys line.

Oh god no...

At this rate...I'll have to dance with...

Darien...

After what felt like 2 seconds, it was my turn to step up with Kathy to face...Darien...

As soon as we stepped up he gave the paddle to Kathy and grabbed me.

He fiercely pulled me down the line and then pulled me over to a nearby tree.

He also made sure to give Chase a smirk as we walked by.

He then started in pursuit after us.

When he was sure Chase wasn't following us anymore, Darien pulled me behind a nearby tree and tried to kiss me.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?" I screamed.

"Shush! Now let me get to your lips!" Darien said pulling me closer to him.

"What are you doing with my date?" Chase said in an angered tone.

"Chase! Thank god!" I said running to him.

"Just trying to give her a little smooch that's all!" Darien said nonchalantly.

"Yeah well don't. She obviously didn't want to kiss a sleeze ball like you." Chase said, still angered.

Anyone notice that its kind of hot when he gets jealous?

Oh god what am I saying? We have to men here that are about to throw a fist fight over me!

I always wished this would happen!

Again what am I saying?

"Alright boys break it up." I said grabbing Chase by the arm.

"Let's go." I said to him and he immediately perked up, realizing that I chose him instead of Darien.

"Alright, Molly, now that we have that stupid dance out of the way, how about we have a picnic on the far side of the hill?" Chase asked.

"Sure!" I said.

After eating, we began talking about the dance.

"Ya know," He began.

"Yes?" I asked.

"It's a shame I didn't get to dance with you..." He said blushing.

"Oh umm..." Was all I could muster up to say.

"Do you wanna dance right now?" He asked.

"Oh, but there's no music." I said.

"You don't need music to dance." Chase said in the corniest way he could.

"Wait, isn't that like a line from like Cinderella 3 or something?" I asked.

"Yeah, well that's what I get for being forced to watch it with Chloe 7 times in a row." He chuckled.

I laughed and then took his hand and began to dance.

It was quite a funny feeling dancing with no music besides the muffled sound on the string quartet still playing in the distance.

But it was an even more funny feeling dancing with Chase...

The rest of the night was a blur and when I got home all I could think about was Chase...

Even being asleep, all I could think about was him!

Believe me, If I was on the other side of the television, I'd be a fangirl!

CRASH

"Oh you've got to be kidding me..."

Here it is... I was going to divide this into 2 separate chapters but then I thought, "Nah, I'll just give it to them as one" so this is the "2 updates" I was promising on deviantART. I'm sorry it took so long but my mom's been making me go to bed at like 10 and I have to wake up at 6 because of school starting and because I'm fairly busy during the day so I hadn't had time to do them then and yesterday, I had time in the day but I was really pissed off because we were supposed to get schedules yesterday, and everyone else did besides me and like 4 other people. I am getting it today though so that's good! And then last night, I'm sorry I got way to caught up in watching "Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged" videos and then I was sent off to bed...So I'm sorry, but yeah...So not much to say right now so... Toodle-loo!