It was almost time for the ball and I had already been allocated the job of deciding our dresses.

Chloe's was a silk hot pink shoe-string-strapped dress, beaded with beads the same pink. Her heels were black peep-toe sling backs, and she was going to wear a black pendant necklace with a few black bracelets. Her hair was going to be half up, with loose curls cascading down her back. Her earrings black drops, four or three straight lines with, once again, black jewels on.

Hunter's was a simple but elegant deep purple A-line gown with a unique texture of crinkled taffeta. It had a handmade silver band around the empire waist; they were all carefully placed to create a beautiful pattern. Her blonde hair was going to be in various messy but nice flicks and curls. She had a silver flower necklace and a Pandora bracelet that me and Chloe ad bought her for her nineteenth and a small ring. Her feet were wearing silver gladiator heels and she had an anklet on. She had in silver hoops.

And last but now least, mine was an absolutely beautiful, full length, A-line dress: A salmon-coloured strapless lace bodice with a satin sash around the waist, sitting over layers of tulle skirt.

Unique and stunning, if I do say so myself.

I planned to have a ribbon hair band with a big bow in my dark hair and I'd decide the make-up when the time came. I already had out the jewellery: A silver and diamond pendant that Alex had given me, a few silver bangles and pearls and a big silver flower ring. My heels were silver and very strappy, about four or five inches tall. They had a big silver jewel in the centre of all of the straps. My earrings were big studded diamonds.

It was about four or five hours before the ball and Bellwood decided just to drop in and add in that it would be a masquerade ball! Luckily, I had prepared for anything and had the masks at the ready in one of my drawers.

An hour later.

We only had a few hours left, so I had to get the girls ready.

I did their make-up first, mine smoky and mysterious with innocent pink lips and rosy cheeks. Chloe's pink lips and cream eye shadow with gold sparkles layering it. Hunter's lips were just clear glossed; she already had naturally rosy lips, and light blue and purple eye shadow dusted over her eye lids. We all had on black mascara and eye liner.

I did all of our hair and looked at them, grinning.

I gave them their dresses in dress covers, not letting them see them yet. I sent Chloe to get changed first and pushed her into the bathroom. The gasp was loud, and I knew that she had seen the dress. I smirked and sat on my bed.

"Oh my God! Lucy, it's beautiful!" Chloe squealed.

"Just get changed," I grinned at Hunter. She was looking at her dress cover as if she wanted to run over to it and rip off the plastic and let her see the dress. "Not yet, young one" I chided. She just rolled her eyes and I laughed.

"Hey! I'm older than you!"

"Still. Act your own age then, and stop glaring at me and rolling your eyes." She crossed her arms and moved her glare to the dress. Or maybe it was the cover again . . .

I heard a bit of rustling and Chloe announce, "All done!" before emerging.

She looked amazing.

The dress fit her perfectly, so I was proud of myself.

Hunter was just sitting, looking at our best friend in awe.

"Go on, then. Get the dress on, Hunter," I sighed.

She let out a small Eep before running to the bathroom and closing the door. I shook my head in amusement then looked back to Chloe.

"You look amazing, C," I told her.

"Thank you!" she squealed, then ran forwards to hug me. I stepped back an shook my head.

"After the ball, after that lovely dress is off. WE wouldn't want it crumpled, would we?"

She stood looking at her reflection in our full length mirror for a minute or two before asking me, "Where's your dress?"

I pointed to my closet the turned back to my magazine.

A minute later, Chloe was still admiring her dress, when Hunter came out in hers.

"Oh my freakin' God, Hunter!" she squeaked. "That's amazing!"

"I know," Hunter squealed and spun around, her purple dress swirling with her. She held the sides and jumped up and down.

"I love it! That you Luce!"

"You're welcome," I grinned.

"Now go get your dress!" Chloe ordered me. I held my hands up.

"Okay, okay! I'm going."

I grabbed my dress and went to the bathroom to the sounds of my two best friends chattering in delight about their dresses and everything they could possibly think of.

As soon as I was changed, I pushed the door open and lifted up the skirt of my dress, walking out into the room.

"What do you think?" I asked.

Chloe and Hunter gasped and ran towards me, telling me how they loved it and how 'Nicholas' mouth was so going to drop'. I laughed and returned the compliments.

"Now, the shoes and jewellery."

They both knew where I had put the necklaces and everything, so they got that themselves.

We all stood and admired ourselves in the mirror, all striking poses and grinning wildly.

"Wait!" I gasped.

"What?" They asked, looking somewhat worried.

"Masks," I said, running to my drawer. I handed them the masks carefully, not letting a single accented bead or jewel fall off.

They took them from me, easily knowing which one was theirs and placed them on, the band carefully wrapped around the back of their heads and not disturbing the styling of their hair.

A knock sounded at the door and I yelled for them to come in.

"Hey gir- Whoa," Kieran said, gaping. I grinned. "I was going to say 'Ready?', but that would probably offend you."

I had to let out a little giggle; he was wearing tux. TUX! It goes without saying that it was amusing.

"Just, let's go," I said, sliding on my shoes and giving one last check in the mirror, pursing me lips. "Yep, we're ready to go."

I grabbed Kieran's arm and Hunter grabbed his other arm. Chloe was on mine and we were out the door and on the way to the hall.

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I could already hear the music playing, and the lights were shining. We were near the hall, only a few hundred meters away from our dorm room and Hunter had already fallen down in her heels twice. We just laughed and she glared at me for giving her the stilettos.

"You'll survive," I told her.

"Hopefully," Chloe giggled.

We laughed and entered the hall, all eyes falling on us. The Drakes were already here. I smiled and gave the girls a look that told them to do the same. I let go of Chloe and Kieran's arms and walked in, swaying my hips.

Everything was dead silent.

"What are you waiting for?" I asked my friends. "We have some major dancing to do.

The talking returned and I could hear laughing coming from outside.

A song came on that I knew and I searched for someone to dance with.

Unfortunately, one of the people I didn't want to dance with. I could even tell from behind the mask.

"Hey, Luce. Long time, no see."

"Logan," I said.

"Oh come on! You know you've missed me, I can tell," he said. I couldn't hold back my laugh and decided that it would be okay to socialise with him. Logan wasn't the one who broke my heart.

"Of course I have," I laughed.

"Who wouldn't? So, me and Isabeau are engaged," he said.

"Really?" I asked, and we go into a full-on conversation about everything I'd missed. We kept dancing for a while, but then Isabeau came up to us and told Logan to go away because it was girl time. I had to laugh again and started to have a good old gossip.

After a while, the one Drake who I didn't want to ever see again after last night walked up to us and asked me to dance. I glared at Nicholas, but Isabeau had to go and guilt trip me into dancing.

He took my hand and led me to the centre of the crowd, but I was still glaring.

All The Right Moves by One Republiccame on and we started to dance together, twirling around the crowd and stepping forward and backward. I had fun, but had to keep my face straight.

I kept reminding myself that Nicholas left me, but couldn't help myself from melting into him when All I Need by Within Temptation came on. We continued to dance and I saw Hunter in her purple dress and Quinn dancing across the room. Kieran was dancing with Solange, and everything seemed perfectly normal, once again.

That was until the vampires decided to crash the party.

Again.

A/N: Hey guys! So sorry if the dress description dragged on, but I like to design things a lot, so I basically described my sketches. I've noticed that I'm getting less reviews lately, so if there's anything wrong with the story, just PM me or review me and I'll try to fix it as soon as possible!

Sorry if it's OOC!

I'll try to update soon, promise!

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Ellie