Chapter: 15

I walked down the cobbled sidewalk in front of that lead to the doors where the dance was being held. I opened the doors and saw all the students, night and day class students, gathered in that room. Some of the students turned to face the door and I felt like I was being the center of attention, so, I ducked down a little and moved swiftly across the room and sat on the soft sofa-like bench that had barely any light surrounding it. I watched the students dance around the open space in dim lights and different colored lights that roamed crazily around the room.

I twirled my hair in my pointer finger and enjoyed the music that was being played. "Shana?" I heard my name come from across the room. I stood up and saw a speck of red quickly flash in the crowd. "Shana?" I recognized the voice that was calling my name. It was Ember.

"Ember?" I called back, "I'm over here by the pillar!" I saw Ember jump multiple times from the crowd. She finally spotted me and walked towards me. I saw her come out of the crowd, the first thing I noticed was her dress. It was a long straight floor length dark emerald green dress with a long train behind her. Her red hair was curled beautifully and her mask she had on was in the shape of a butterfly and was a shiny black.

Ember smiled as she grew closer to me. From behind her I noticed she was dragging someone. "Shana this is my date..." she said as her date walked up next to her and stood looking at the floor not acknowledging me.

My eyes widen a bit, "Your date is Renji."

She giggled, "Yes he is. It was kinda unexpected. I thought this jerk hated me."

"Funny how things work out huh?"

"Yes that's for sure."

"Well Ember, I'll tell you what. I've been here long enough I'm going back to my dorm."

Ember looked sad, "Oh okay Shana. I'll see you in class tomorrow."

I turned and walked towards the back door. As I grew closer I saw a pair of eyes and a darken figure standing by the door. I thought "Who the hell would be standing by the door?" I stopped in front of the figure and saw it was Zero.

I stuttered, "Oh hello Zero. How are you this evening?"

Zero leaned forward off the wall and grabbed my hand, "I'm fine." Zero was dress in a normal tux with a red undershirt. Zero then started to drag me back to towards the dance floor where all the students were.

"Um...Zero, why are we going over there?" I said as I tried to jerk away from his grip but did not succeed.

"You and me are going to dance. After all this is a ball."

I stopped walking but Zero continued to drag me my feet sliding on the floor, "I have to dance in public. And with you."

We stopped and Zero placed his hand on my hip and grabbed my hand and placed it on his shoulder and held my other hand out to the side, "You're about to find out... That I am one hell of a dancer." Zero started to move making us dance across the floor.

I blushed, "Exactly why do I have to dance with you?"

"There isn't any other girl in this room I'd want to dance with."

I blushed again and move along with Zero. I could see a bunch of students staring at us and I was so shy that I could barely move. For a moment I thought I was dreaming but I wasn't. I took in every moment of this dance. Zero looking into my eyes made me feel as if this was our wedding dance, what he was wearing, what I was wearing, and the song. It had a good beat and we were in sync with it.

I leaned against his chest, "Zero, I have something to tell you," in my mind my heart was ready to tell him that I loved him and that I longed for him.

"And that is?" he questioned quietly.

"I... I," in that moment I froze up. I could not tell him how I felt.

"Shana, are you okay? You got really quiet."

"Um," I pulled away from him and I was blushing a little, "I am fine. I am just struggling to tell you what I have to tell you." Zero looked at me, his eyes always burned a hole in my heart because of the passion I felt towards him. I couldn't take it anymore and I just ran away from.

"Shana! Wait!" Zero took off after me.

I ran to the exit and exited through the doors and ran down the cobbled sidewalk in front of the night-class dorm rooms. When I got to the doors, I stopped and put my hand on the door so I could catch my breath. As I was standing there I began to cry, "I can't tell him. It's killing me. It's just killing me..." I placed my hand on my chest where my heart was and held onto it and cried hard.

Suddenly, I heard footsteps hover towards me. It sounded like someone was running towards me, "Shana," the person said as they came to a stop and was breathing heavily, "Shana, please tell me."

I turned to see Zero standing behind me with his hands on his knees trying to catch his breath, "Zero. I don't know if you realize this but... I love you dearly. I can't seem to think about anything else but you. After all you were there for me when Kaname changed me... into a monster," a threw my head into the palms of my hands cried harder.

Zero straightened up and walk over to me, "Shana, I have always cared about you and," Zero placed one of his hands on my shoulder and used the other to lift my head from my hands, "I love you dearly as well. And I want you to be mine."

I was astonished at what he said, "What about the others and Yuki?"

"I do not care about the others. And Yuki she has her head stuck so far Kaname's ass that she does not care about me anymore."

I smiled at his response, "Zero, I accept your request on being yours."

Zero leaned closer to me to where his lips were inches from mine and smiled, "I appreciate your answer," he then kissed me.