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Ronnie's look for the Festival is inspired by Taylor Swift in the Love Story music video, when she's singing by herself in the castle. She looks so elegant, and I've wanted to put Ronnie in it forever! I know that during the festivals the vampire's dancing is very... robotic. But to make my romantic vision come true, I wanted them to be good dancers! Okay? Okay.

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Listening to: "Last Christmas" Taylor Swift and "Dear John."

"Psttt." I pressed my eyes closed as I felt a finger prod my arm. I scooted around a little, trying not to give away that I was awake. I felt Darren behind me, his arm wrapped around my waist and breathing lightly.

"PPPPPSSSSTTTTTT." Another prod in the arm, a little harder this time. I slowly let my eye lids flutter open and suppressed a smile at Cassie who was trying her hardest to be quiet and hold in laughter. She put a finger over her lips and motioned me to come with her. I lifted up Darren's arm, which was heavy even though he was asleep but limply fell back to his side after I loosened my grip. He breathed in quickly, mumbled something along the lines of 'Crepsley, put down the matches.' and then turned to the side, giving me the opportunity to prop myself up and off the hammock. My legs fell limp beneath me, and I felt a little dizzy from getting up too fast. But there was no time for recovery when Cassie was on the move. I shook my head, grabbing Darren's cloak, since I wasn't able to find mine and following her out of the room. Once we were out of earshot, I jogged up to her pace.

"What's the rush! You know I love my sleep" I yawned, "This better be good."

"Today's the Festival of The Undead." She stated, quickening her pace.

"Yea, I know that. But what's the rush?"

"Kayden was telling me how the other girls come and wear long dresses, and this is like a big fling." she cocked her head to the side, raising an eyebrow, "You think that I wouldn't jump at the opportunity to get us all dressed up?"

By the time she was finished with that statement, we were in Kayden's room. Who was looking over an arrangement of gowns, makeup and various accessories that were laying over her bed.
"Where did all of this come from?" I gushed, running over to the sparkly side of the accessories. Living in a rock kind of left you feeling deprived when you had a love of sparkles and shiny things.

"Well, I convinced Amius to escort me out of the mountain so I could get all of these," Cassie waved a hand over the accessories and make-up, "And then fabric so I could throw these together." she grinned, lifting up the three gowns on a hanger.

"Wait, you made these?" Kayden asked skeptically. I gave her a nod, shrugging my shoulders. Cassie was a fashion wiz, I should have known that this was coming.

"Yup!" she bubbled, "I went on Evra's border's account and got Fierce Style by Christian Siriano, which gave me some inspiration and tips to make these. As for sizing, I know you probably better than you know yourself, and after seeing you so much and trying on all your clothes I have your basic measurements down. As for Kayden, she's basically the same size as us, I just did a couple of tweaks here and there, and tah dah!"

"Well Cass, there's no other describe these just like you... fierce." I smiled as I looked at the long, victorian styled gowns. "Well, time to get ready! Let's do this!"

Due to the lack of power outlets, we were restricted to using a bunch of hair products, old fashioned curlers and battery powered blow dryers and such. But it was a length to go through, especially since there was NEVER any occasion to get ready for. Cassie sat me down, as Kayden was in front of the mirror, pulling her already almost straight hair through an iron to give it a polished, done look. Cassie pulled the curlers out of my hair, turning my loose, sometimes not so perfect curls into long spirals. I felt her let out a couple of 'pffts' and 'hmmms' as she rummaged through. Shoving in endless amounts of bobby pins and spraying fatal amounts of hairspray. She pushed my back by my shoulders, finishing her look with a headband and turning me towards the mirror.

"Wow, this looks great." I gawked. My hair was pulled up in the back, in a style that looked like a jungle of gravity defying curls. What wasn't pulled up were a couple small wisps of curls that hung in various places mostly in the bottom and sides. My bangs were parted in their usual spot on the side and fell across my forehead. Finally it was finished with a delicate gold and brown headband that shimmered, even in the dark cave light. When we were finally ready, I looked over at Kayden and Cassie, not really paying attention in the rush of getting myself ready. Kayden wore a long red dress that draped to the floor, with a plunging neck line and inch wide straps that held in up on her shoulders. Her golden-auburn hair was sleek and straight and fell over her shoulders, bangs pushed enough to the side to expose her eyes which were smokey and extravagant. Cassie patted herself putting on the finishing touches, her gown long and emerald. It hugged her curves, with a halter top with long sleeves that exposed her chest and shoulders, her back was still visible even through the corseted top. Her hair fell in waves, not taking anything away from the strong connection of the shocking green dress and her eyes. Finally I stepped back, looking at my own dress. The color was in between white, and a tan taupe, with a design in the center down to the waistline. Due to the corset design of all the dresses it was tied tightly in the back, sucking in my waist and ribs. The neckline was straight across, with the thin straps that hung off of my shoulders. My bare neck and shoulders had a necklace draped over to make it not look so bare. My eyes were brown and somewhat smoky, more natural than Kayden and Cassie's dramatic makeup, even though I had less, my eyes still stood out a violent blue.

"Wow, we're going to cause a couple of heart attacks." Kayden snickered, looking at the three of us in the mirror.

It had taken us such a long time to get ready, we missed the opening speech of the festival which would have Mr. Crepsley not very happy with me. But I was thankful because we missed the hectic part of the festival of screaming fighting vampires. Which I kind of wish I didn't miss. It was probably fun. With one more approving nod, and touch ups from Cassie, we were on our way down the halls.

Darren's Point of View

It had been five hours since the festival started, and still there was no sign of Ronnie anywhere. It was like her to be late, but not normally this late. And the fact that Kayden and Cassie were no longer to be found made me especially nervous. The many vampires danced around, light on their feet twirling around each other hooked onto each other's arms now that there were as many female vampires as there were males now. I took in a deep breath when they came into view, all of them glowed but of course my eyes drew straight to Ronnie. She smiled sheepishly when my eyes connected with hers, the bright blue I never grew tired of. She lifted her dress up like a fairytale princess as she walked over, trying not to step on the fabric as she walked down the small array of stairs.

"Hi." she beamed, as Cassie broke away from her side to go towards Evra and Kayden was making small talk with Arrow.

"You look, amazing." I breathed, looking her up and down, her cheeks turned a pale pink. "Can I have this dance?"

She nodded as I took her hand, and led her onto the dance floor. I never felt so happy in my whole life as I pulled the small of her back close to me and we glided over the dance floor. I was happier than ever, but of course that was destroyed, worse than it ever had been before.

Unidentified Point of View

Kayden smiled as Arrow walked over to her,

"Kayden, you look absolutely stunning. If that's not too bold to say." he stammered trying to sound professional as possible. Kayden just grinned, grabbing his elbow and pulling him onto the dance floor, the Festival had started and that meant there was no business or boundaries to overstep. She looked up into his eyes as she felt his arms around her waist, she knew he was trying to be catious but that only flattered her more. His face was flustered as Kayden just looked down, pressing her face into his shoulder.

Cassie looked as amazing as ever, no matter what she wore she could never look anything less than spectacular to Evra.
"Well, Mrs. Von you cleaned up pretty well." He joked, pulling her into a kiss that he never got tired of.

"You don't look too bad yourself." she answered, the typical playful banter that she never got tired of. The music didn't give them any desire to dance, she was more than conforatable standing still as long as she was in his arms.

"I love you." he assured her.

"That's nothing new," she joked, "I'm just kidding. I love you too."

Darren's Point of View

Ronnie was standing talking to Mr. Crepsley who was standing next to Arra, I didn't know what they were talking about, and I couldn't care less. She looked spectacular, especially when I was looking at her from a distance, even though I'd rather be right by her side.

"She's spectacular, isnt she?" I heard a cynical voice admire, only a voice that could come from one kind of evil. When I turned around, I was face to face with Desmond Tiny.

"What do you want?" I asked, alert and more afraid than anything.

"Oh nothing at all, Master Shan," he started, looking at the organ clock in his hand, he let out a chuckle that sounded more like a death march than a flowing melody like Ronnie's. "I'm just messing with you. I came here to tell you, that things are going to get... complicated."

"And?" I pressed, loosing my timid manner. I was sick and tired of his games.

"Well, your next trial is coming up, and I can't alter the path of well- fate. But there is one thing that you have to do, to ensure the safety of the people around you and Ronnie, mostly. To keep them alive."

"What do you mean? What's going to happen?"
"Calm down," he snapped, "Do you want everyone important to you to die? I don't think so, so hold your tounge when I'm telling you how to prevent that you idiot of a boy!" He collected himself and once he regained his composure he began to talk again, even though the scowl on my face was still present.

"Your next trial is going to be a big deciding factor in this little scheme destiny-" he stopped to chuckle once again, "- I have constructed. Trying to keep this short, Ronnie cannot be tied to you in any way during this, she has to leave the mountain and set on the path she's supposed to walk on."

"What do you mean? Do you want me to get her to leave the mountain?" I spat, wondering why no one has come to look for me, and every time I looked to the side, Ronnie was still in my view, beautiful as ever and laughing, unknowing of the conversation I was having.

"Well, you can't simply ask her leave. Are you good at acting, Darren?" I didn't respond, so he pressed on, revealing the punchline in the sick joke he had made of our lives.

"You're going to have to break her heart, send her out, drop her from where you've held her so highly. Tear her to pieces. And she has to believe that it's all real. Or else your chance of getting her back to where you are now will be gone forever. And not only will the chance of that will be gone forever, so will Kayden, Cassie, Evra, Mr. Crepsley and you beloved little Veronica. All of them will die. Do you understand?"

A/N: Sorry if this chapter seems a little rushed towards the end... none the less I hope you like it! Review, review please!