Hello! Happy New Years! I'm sorry it's been a few weeks, writers blockk. I have made a New Years Resolution to update more. Anyways, thank you so much if you reviewed my last chapter. I was happy to actually write a chapter that actually had a happy ending. Anyways, I hope everyone had happy holidays! I can't believe it's 2011 already, it's insane. I apologize for any grammar or spelling mistakes in advance.

Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire Academy or any of Richelle Mead's characters.

Mia's POV

I smiled as I rested my head in Eddie's arms. It had been about three days and no sign of Tyler or Emilie. Rose was better and Eddie and I were closer than we had been before.

"Do you think Tyler and Emilie will try to come back?" I asked Eddie, slightly nervous. Eddie let go of me for a moment and looked into my eyes.

"I feel like they will, but when they do, we will be ready," Eddie replied sternly. I sighed as I gave him a soft smile. "I hope you know I'm not going to let Tyler hurt you again, any of you."

"And I'm not going to let him hurt you either Eddie. When I found out that Emilie had bit you, my heart sunk. It was like Spokane all over again. I never want you to be hurt like that again."

Rose walked into the room. "Whoa, stop with the love fest, it's making me gag. Anyways, Mia I'm supposed to come collect you. Apparently we have to get ready for the masquerade ball tonight. Lissa is going crazy about it. I'd hurry if I were you."

I quickly kissed Eddie and followed Rose to Lissa's room.

When I entered, I gasped at Lissa's room. If I were to describe it in one word, I would say chaos. Hairdressers, makeup artists and famous stylists were dashing quickly around the room. Rose took one look at my shocked face and burst out laughing.

"I nominate you to go through all of this torture first," she joked as Lissa approached. Lissa looked extremely stressed and gorgeous at the same time. Her blonde hair was pulled into an elegant up do, sparkling gold eye shadow covered her eyes, and her lips were painted a shimmering pink.

"Mia! Go to the hair station. Pierre is a genius so I trust anything he does with your hair. Rose, you work your way over to the nail station, I want a French manicure on your nails. What are you both still doing here? We don't have all day! Go!"

I quickly obeyed her orders and sped over to the hair station. The guy doing my hair, Pierre I think his name was, immediately turned me around so I couldn't see what he was doing to it. I groaned in protest, but let him do what he wanted.

When he had finished, I gasped. My blonde ringlets had been put up into an intricate bun, but he had left a few hanging down and framing my face. I immediately got up and hugged him. "Thank you so much Pierre."

"You're welcome, you look lovely. But stop hugging me; I don't want you to mess up your hair." I let go of him, smiled at him for one last time and headed over to get everything else done.

After my eyebrows had been plucked and prodded at, after my toes and nails had been perfectly painted, and after makeup had been painted on my face, Lissa approached me.

"Good, you're done. It's time to get you into your dress." She marched me over to her closet where the three stunning dresses hung.

"Lissa, I can't let you pay for all of this, it's too much," I stated as my fingers slid over the fabric of the dress I was guessing was mine.

"Mia, put on the dress. Now! I picked these dresses especially for us all and the money doesn't matter. This is the ball of the century and it's going to be amazing. Now put on the dress. Where the heck is Rose?" she marched out of the closet, looking for Rose.

I hesitantly slipped into the one shouldered blue gown. It fit me perfectly and I smiled. The intricate beading on it was gorgeous and the dress was so me, Mia Rinaldi that I was in shock. Rose and Lissa entered the gigantic walk-in closet. Rose gasped when she saw me and ran up to me to hug me.

"You look gorgeous Mia! You're going to be breaking some hearts tonight," she exclaimed.

"Hopefully not," I replied. I pointed to the one shouldered deep red dress Rose was supposed to wear. "Try it on."

Rose sighed and put it on. The dress showed off her curves but was still elegant. Her hair was down and in soft waves that looked stunning on her. She looked in the mirror and smiled "I love it; it's a stunning dress Liss, thank you." Lissa smiled, happy that we both liked our dresses.

"Now, it's my turn," Lissa stated as she eagerly grabbed her stunning white dress. She came out, and once again we were in awe. The dress made her look like a Grecian goddess. She smiled at us. "Mask time."

Lissa had already picked out masks for us that went perfectly with our dresses. Just as we put them on, there was a knock at the door. Rose opened the door and found Dimitri, Eddie, and Christian standing in front of her.

"Come on in you guys, we were just finishing up." Dimitri's eyes gazed at Rose and I smiled gleefully. They were so cute together.

"Rose, I feel bad about how you didn't have a date and I figured you and Dimitri were already being my guardians for the night so Dimitri could just escort you to the ball. Is that okay?" Lissa asked as she entered the room. Christian's eyes lit up at the sight of her.

Rose smiled and said, "That sounds perfect Lissa, thanks." I laughed at how perfect it actually was for the two and strode towards Eddie.

"You look beautiful tonight," he whispered in my ear. I grinned at him.

"You look pretty good yourself."

We headed out of Lissa's room in twos. Eddie and I, Lissa and Christian, and then Rose and Dimitri in the back. We all smiled as we went into the limo and headed to what was going to be an amazing night.

Emilie POV

We watched the three couples enter the car. I watched in boredom, but I could tell Tyler was watching in jealousy.

"Tyler, I'm thirsty. I haven't has blood for days," I complained. Tyler growled at me.

"Maybe if you had done your job and kept Eddie compelled, you would still have your daily blood supply," Tyler replied.

"I can't help that I'm not very good at compulsion. Why does it matter anyway? We lost, let's just go away and go on with life. Ooh! We could go to Vegas!"

"I never lose. I get what I want and what I want at the moment is Mia."

"Are you sure what you really want is Mia?" I purred as I wrapped my arms around his neck. He turned to face me and started kissing me and then abruptly stopped.

"Yes, I'm sure Mia's what I want Emilie, now be quiet while I plan something," he barked at me. The couples' limo sped away. Tyler quickly looked up at me.

"I know that look, you have an idea. But here's the thing, you lied to me. You don't love me. You love that piece of trailer trash that usually looks way younger than she actually is. You even love Rose more than me. I can't believe I even put up with you."

I started to stomp away until Tyler grabbed me. "Emilie, I love you so much, I just really need Mia at the moment. I don't love her half as much as I love you. You have to believe me Emilie."

"Let go of me Tyler, you're hurting me." I complained as I attempted to yank my wrists away from his grasp. He let go of them quickly.

"I'm so sorry Emilie, I didn't mean to hurt you. When this is all over, we can go anywhere you want, I promise."

"Okay, but it better be somewhere that has a good spa," I replied as I planted a kiss on his lips. "Now what was your plan?"

"How do you feel about Masquerades?"

I'm sorry it's so short, I wanted to update as soon as possible and this seemed like a good spot to end the chapter. Anyways, if anyone wants to see the dresses that I pictured Mia, Rose, and Lissa wearing, let me know and I can post pictures of them on my profile. I hoped you liked the chapter. I had a lot of fun writing in Emilie's pov, so I may end up doing that again, but are there any other pov's people want? What did y'all think of the chapter. What will Tyler's diabolical plan be?

Review and make me write faster? Have a great New Years!