It was midnight. It was Emma's favorite time to be alone. Even though she was dead tired, she couldn't help but sit at the window in her dormitory and stare out into the night. Everyone one around her was sleeping, leaving Emma with a sense of loneliness.

"Emma, go back to sleep." Olivia muttered into her pillow, "Or you won't wake up in the morning."

Emma headed back towards her bed, but found it impossible to sleep. All she could do was think about him. How his hair pricked up when he had a powerful emotion run through him, how he smiled, how cute he was….


Tancred woke up in the middle of the night with a jolt. He felt as if something had woken him, but, looking around him, he noticed everyone was sound asleep. He shook his head and turned to go back to sleep when he heard someone whisper, "Tancred,"

Tancred jumped, not expecting the voice. "Lysander, what do you want? It's the middle of the night." He growled. He was very tired and did not appreciate getting woken up like this.

"Tancred, I want to tell you something," Lysander said.

"What?" Tancred grumbled.

"Do you know that one guy in our sculpting class? Ben?" Lysander wondered.

"Yes,"

"He's planning on asking Emma to the Moonlit Ball." Lysander told him, lying. It was part of his and Olivia's plan to get Emma and Tancred together. They both thought that if Tancred heard someone was going to ask out Emma soon, which Ben actually was, then Tancred would jump on the chance.

Lysander could tell his friend was shocked, but he covered it well. "If Emma goes with him, then that means she wasn't waiting for anyone to ask her. It means she doesn't like me and I don't have a chance with her. Ben is the complete opposite of me. If she says yes to him, then there's no way she'd ever consider me.

Lysander hoped and prayed that Emma wouldn't say yes to Ben. The plan was already ruined with Tancred deciding to wait instead of getting to Emma before Ben. If Emma said yes, then their plan wouldn't work at all. Olivia wasn't going to be happy.


"Is this even food?" Emma stared at her plate as she sat with Tancred and Lysander the next day at lunch. She was avoiding Tancred's gaze as much as possible. She was also avoiding conversation, since she didn't have the guts to talk to him.

"No, it's radio active slime." Tancred smiled at Emma, but she didn't see it because she was so caught up in her plate. "Come on Em, usually, you laugh at this kind of stuff."

"I'm just not in a laughing mood." Emma sighed, "I'm very tired today."

Lysander didn't say a word. He was watching the two and giving them a chance to admit their feelings, maybe.

"Hey, Emma, can I talk to you?" Ben Henderson, a tall, brown hair blue-eyed boy tapped Emma on the shoulder. He was in Emma's year and had a majority of his classes with her, so Emma knew him pretty well.

"Sure, Ben," She stood and followed him to a corner of the cafeteria.

"Ben the hen," Tancred grumbled under his breath as they walked away. "Emma wouldn't go out with Ben the hen."

Lysander chuckled at his friend's insecurity. "You had your chance, Tanc. You blew it."

Meanwhile, Ben was asking Emma if she'd go to the Moonlit Ball with him.

"Um, okay." Emma shrugged. She was hoping Tancred would ask her, but Ben was a pretty okay guy and he could even make Tancred jealous. No, she wouldn't do that to Ben. She was going to go to the ball with him because she wanted to. It had nothing to do with Tancred.

"Okay, I'll see you in a while, Emma," Ben smiled and left her to go and talk with his friends, so Emma returned to sit with Tancred and Lysander.

"Ben just asked me to the Moonlit Ball." Emma told them.

"What did you say?" Lysander crossed his fingers under the table. If she said she was going with Ben, him and Olivia would have to make another plan, and it wouldn't be easy to get the two together.

"I said yes," Emma played with the food on her tray.

It took a lot of self-control for Tancred to not go insane and walk over to Ben and rip him to shreds. He was the one that liked Emma, not Ben. Ben was new to Bloor's as of this year and had just met Emma and hardly knew anything about her, whereas, Tancred had known her for a couple years, and knew a boatload of things about the bird girl. "I have to go." Tancred told his two friends sitting across from him. He got up and hurried out of the room before he turned the cafeteria into a safety hazard.

"What's his problem?" Emma asked Lysander.

The African boy chuckled at his friend's insecurity once more, "He's just being Tancred."

Emma felt sort of bad about saying yes to Ben now. Tancred could be acting like this because he liked her, and hearing that Emma had someone to go to the ball with, had probably made him angry.

"If you see Tancred later," Emma started, "Will you tell her that the ball isn't that big of a deal."

"Of coarse," Lysander nodded. Emma knew that it was the ball Tancred was worried about. She knew the storm boy well. In fact, Emma knew Tancred better than he knew himself. She new his downfalls and what made him tick, but also what made him smile from ear to ear and other things. Emma and Tancred had a bond that was apparent to only Emma at that moment. No one else saw it; they just saw the fact that Emma and Tancred liked each other, and nothing else.

Emma stood and headed for her next class, feeling very guilty.


the next chapter starts a lot of drama. It want at least 2 reviews on this chapter before I update, so review for your sake.

xoxo, alliey1213