Shawn ran his hands over the white suit. He was wearing these white trousers that hugged his hips really tight. He had on a loose white shirt that he left the first few buttons unbutton and a cropped white blazer that had a silver cross on the back that matched the silver cross earring in his ear. Shawn took his hair down and let some of it fall over one side of his mask, which was also white and silver and had a small cross on the right side with some black feathers coming out of one side. Shawn looked in the mirror and shook his hips. "I'm such a sexy boy." He sang as he looked at himself.

Brian came up behind him and pushed Shawn out of the mirror. "Narcissist much?" Brian said as he looked at himself in the mirror. He was wearing black slacks with a silver belt that had a silver chain hanging off of it, a black oxford shirt, a silver tie, and a cropped black blazer jacket that had sequin on the lapel. His mask was black with silver sequins covering it and silver feathers sticking out of it. He had a silver cross around his neck.

"Says the man who is looking at himself in the mirror." Shawn says and marches back to Brian's side.

"Shut up." Brian says and adjusts his clothes. "Were all of these sequins really necessary?"

"Yeah, it's supposed to be a costume not a real suit." Shawn explains and hooks arms with Brian. "Now, come on. We don't want the party to be over before we get there."

"Looking good, man." Bret said to Hunter and Hunter looked down at himself. He was wearing black slacks, a white oxford shirt, a white vest over that with gold button, a white and gold tie, and a white tailcoat with gold accents all over it. His mask was made in a similar design to it, that of the phantom of the opera mask expect it was white with gold specks, instead of just white, and white leather dress shoes.

"You look good too." Hunter said and looked at Bret in one of his many military dress outfits. He had on blue slacks and his navy blue blazer with silver buttons that adorned all of his many medals from all of his years of service. His mask was navy blue to match his suit. It was simple mask that just covered the top half of his face but he it went well with what he was wearing.

"You ready to party?" Bret asked and Hunter groaned. Bret laughed out loud. He put his arm around his buddy and led him to the party downstairs. "Don't worry about it. Once you get some drinks in you, everything will be smooth sailing."

Brian and Shawn walked up to the main palace and looked around and saw the massive line outside.

"Why is there a line?" Shawn asked looking around.

"Excuse me." Brian said and tapped a lady on the shoulder as she was passing. "Do you know why there is a line?"

"They have a list and are checking names off." She said. Brian thanked her and then she left.

Brian turned to Shawn. "How are we going to get in now? We're not on the list." Brian panicked.

"Calm down." Shawn said. "Follow me." Shawn grabbed Brian's arm and started to walk into the ballroom through the other door.

"Hey, where are you two going?" Brian and Shawn looked up and saw David Otunga coming their way. Otunga was head of security here at the palace.

"Inside." Brian said.

"I have to check you off the list." Dave started. "What are your names?"

"I'm Charles." Shawn said, cutting Brian off. "And this is Andrew. We are of San Antonio."

Dave looked down the list. "I'm sorry but you're not on the list."

"What?" Brian questioned.

"But we got an invitation." Shawn explained.

"If you can show me the invitation, I'll let you in but other than that I'm sorry."

"I told you we should have brought the invites." Brian said.

"Fine, I'll just call the driver back and we can go get them." Shawn said and grabbed Brian and walked away from Dave.

"How are we going to get an invitation?" Brian asked Shawn. Shawn looked around and saw something sitting out of the back pocket of a man. He walked closer with Brian and saw that it was an invitation, two invites to be exact.

Shawn closed his eyes. "Forgive me lord for this sin I am about to partake in." Shawn opened his eyes. "You stay here." Shawn told Brian and Shawn slipped away.

Shawn walked behind the man and acted like he was waiting I line to be let in. When he was sure the man was engrossed in the conversation he was having, Shawn slipped his hand into the man's pocket and pulled out the invitations. He carefully and quietly slipped away from the man and his wife and went back to Brian.

Brian watched the whole thing unfold and laughed. His best friend really was the greatest. Shawn walked back over to Brian and gave him one of the invitations. "You're good."

"I know." Shawn said as they walked back up to the door. "Here are our invitations, sir." Shawn said and handed his to Dave and Brian did the same. Dave inspected them before giving them back.

"You guys can go in, sorry about that."

"Oh no worries, you were just doing your job." Brian said and grabbed Shawn and led him into the ballroom.

Brian and Shawn walked into the ballroom and stared in awe. The room was decorated in bright, bold colors. There was a large table on the side of the room with all types of food dishes spread upon it and circle tables lined up outside of the dance floor, which was in the middle of the room. The king and his throne set on a platform high above the dance floor. Brian looked in the king's direction and saw him chatting with the general on the platform.

"Wow." Brian said.

"This is a party." Shawn said as he looked at the crowd of people. A song came on that both Shawn and Brian loved and they looked at each other.

"Come on." Shawn grabbed Brian's hand and led him out to the dance floor to dance and have a good time.

Hunter gave the crowd a quick look before turning back to Bret.

"See anyone you like?" Bret asked before taking a quick sip of his drink and turning to the crowd. Hunter shook his head.

"This masquerade party sucks." Hunter said and turned back towards the crowd. "I'm never going to fine anyone…fit to marry." Hunter trails off.

"Wow." Hunter and Bret said at the same time. They were both amazed at the two beauties that they had just seen.

"Are we looking at the same guy?" Bret asked.

"The short blonde in the black?" Hunter asked as he watched the blonde move sexily to the fast beat of the song. Bret sighed in relief.

"No, I'm looking at his friend. Tall blonde in the white." Bret said as he looked at the blonde in white, watching him move his hips like a belly dancer. Bret looked away and looked at Hunter. Hunter nodded and they sat their drinks down and walked down the platform, ready to make their moves.

"You know, I'm actually having fun." Brian said as he danced along with Shawn to the music.

"Told you, you would." Shawn said as he shook his hips. "Aren't you glad I tricked you into this?"

"Yeah, I am." Brian said and grabbed Shawn's hand and spun them both around.

As Brian spun them around, two foreign arms stopped the both of them from spinning more.

Shawn looked up and saw the general staring back at him with a wide smile. Brian was shocked when he looked up and saw the King of Kings staring back at him. Shawn nudged Brian on the side.

Oh shit, this was not good.

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