A/N: Ok... for all who read and reviewed my story...thank you so much. As always I do not own pretear...but I think we all wish that we could. Agin bold is conversation and itilics are thoughts. And now...No one puts baby in a conner (god I am such a nerd)

The wedding took place 2 weekes later. People all over the kingdom were shocked that a weeding could be put together as quickly as this one was, but when you have over 200 people working at it, anything is possiable. The ceramony was very small with just the familys there. Mayune had been warned to be on her best behavior but before the wedding , she made no secret of her displeasure at becomeing step-sisterswith Himeno.

That night at the reception Himeno was standing by herself. Mayune and the other young ladies did there best to see that she stayed alone. They were all jealous because Prince Sasame had asked Himeno to dance first. Himeno hadn't thought anything about it but aparently Mayune took great offence. She felt as though Sasame should have asked her first so she rallied all the young women to keep every available guy busy so they couldn't ask Himeno to dance. Mayune also started some rumors about Himeno haveing bad B.O. for good measure.

Himeno sighed as watched all the couples on the dance floor. She really loved dancing but thatnks to stupid Mayune no guy would come within 100 feet if her. She should just try to go home early. There was no point in staying when you weren't haveing fun.

"Hey tulip head. Did you scare off any would be suiters with your Karate moves. Is that why your not dancing?" Hayate leader of the knights had just got there. After saying hello to the bride and groome he spotted Himeno and made a beeline for her. Himeno was one of the only female he could stand. The rest were much to shallow and silly.

Himeno's body tensed up as she reconignzed who's voice it was. Her face turned red and she spun around to face him. "How many times have I asked you not to call me Tulip Head. And why are you in such a good mood any way? Maybe I'm not dancing because..." Himeno couldn't come up with a good reason for not dancing, dammit it all to hell. God she was in a foul mood thanks to Mayune.

"Hey chill out ok. I didn't mean to make you mad. Geez...I'll just leave you alone so you can cool down." Hayate begin to walk away but Himeno caught his arm to stop him.

"No I am sorry Hayate. It's not you. If you find Mayune, then you'll find out why I am not dancing." Himeno cast her eyes downward. There wasn't any reason to be mean to Hayate. Besides out of every guy in the room, she much prefer to be talking to Hayate anyway.

Hayate's sapphire blue eyes narrowed. "What did she do to you this time?

"Oh, the usual. Told every guy here that I have B.O., that I'm becomeing a nun, that I have a gangster boyfriend who'll murder any guy besides Sasame that dances with me. She and all the othher girls here came up with a million different rumors about me just to keep the guys from wanting to dance with me."

"I know you and Mayune don't get along, but what would cause her to go to all this trouble." Hayate shook his head. "It doesn't make sense for all of the girlsto waste this much energy. And what about your father. He must have noticed by now?"

"Itmakes senseif you know that I was the first girl Sasame asked to dance. There all jealous. Every girl here including Mayune wants him. My dad hasn't noticed because he and Natsue are so busy with each other. They don't really care about how much Mayune and I don't get along." Himeno sighed. " I really would like to dance but it's not a big deal. I probably go home in a few miniutes."

Hayate looked at Himeno. He started to blush a little, something Himeno had never seen him do before. She thought it was really cute and giggled. Sometimes he made her so nervious.

"Whats so funny?" Hayate's face turned even more red.

"Nothing. Nothing at all." Himeno smiled broadly at Hayate and felt her own face turn beet red. Damn why did he have to be so good looking.

"Since no one else will dance with you, will you dance with me?" Hayate smiled at Himeno and held out his hand to her.

Himeno felt her Heart skip a beat and her stomach do a funny flip. "Yes Hayate thankyou. I'd love to dance with you." Little did Hayate know how happy he was makeing Himeno. There was no other guy in the room she rather dance with.

A/C Muwhahaha...review and then you shall receive chapter 4. Hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Sorry Iwas so late updateing. Illness and work are cruel dictators. Feeling much better now however. Review now or my purple people eater shall get you...muwahahahahaha