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Ally's POV (night of the ball)
I had just shut down the shop and gotten home when my stepsisters started ordering me around. Dad was on another business trip which meant I had to do what they wanted or I'd feel the wrath of my stepmother. I had to clean their fireplaces twice, I had to clean the dishes, dust everything, and I still wasn't ready for the ball or had a dress and mask for it. My sister Tilly called me into the bathroom which was now a mess with makeup and other beauty products.
"Set out our dresses, masks, and shoes out." Tilly smirked. I turned, but Milly snickered "Oh, mother wants to see you." I stepped into Tilly's and Milly's combine walk in closet; it was ten times the size of mine. I found their dresses easily because they had pinned a neon paper on each that said ball dress. I pulled them out and groaned not only were the mask gaudy, but the dresses were short tight fitting dresses. One was neon pink and the other was neon orange. I stepped back in the bathroom holding the dresses with the shoes "Aren't these supposed to be ball gowns?"
"You've never been to a dance before, Cinderally. You have to look amazing enough to get noticed. Everyone will be dressed the same way." Tilly rolled her eyes her makeup making her look clown like. I cringed and felt bad for the Prince that would meet her tonight. Milly wasn't much better and she smirked at me "Once the Prince sees us he won't be able to stop looking. He surely will ask one of us for our hand in marriage." "Yeah, he won't be able to take his eyes off of you, but not for the reason you think." I thought to myself stifling a laugh. I hung their dresses on the towel rack and put the shoes on the floor exiting the room.
I went down the hall to my stepmother's room and she eagerly ushered me in. "Cinderally, I need you to stay home tonight and finish the chores, clean our rooms, the whole house for your father." She straightened the dress she had on "I have to take your sisters to the ball; one of them is destined to be queen." She grabbed her mask and walked out of the room without another word. "Just a bunch of gold diggers, that's all they are." I thought and stepped into the hallway watching as my stepmother dragged my sisters downstairs and out the door.
I went to the kitchen and grabbed a broom sighing "I wish, never mind wishing gets me nowhere." I began sweeping the kitchen and once I knew my family was gone I slouched in one of the kitchen chairs trying to imagine myself at the ball. Suddenly, I heard knocking on the window and jumped seeing a Latina girl standing there. "Are you going to let me in or make me stand out here all night?" the girl sighed as I gawked at her. I moved toward the window confused and she disappeared.
"I let myself in, you slow girl." I heard the girl's voice behind me. I turned my eyes wide in shock "Who are you and how did you get in?" I took in the sight of the girl she was wear a bright pink dress with bits of zebra stripes as well her hair tied back in pretty raven curls. "I'm Trish, your fairy godfriend, not mother; I'm not old enough to be. Now, you wanted to go to this ball thing and your stepmother left you in the dust. Why don't you go and do what you want for a change?" the girl moved toward me. "Trish, it's not that easy. I don't have a dress or mask and I don't have the guts to take the wrath that I'd deal with for going." I frowned surprised I was talking to a complete stranger that was my "fairy godfriend", whatever that is.
"Girl that is the least of your troubles, you need a ride, a bath, and determination. Didn't you promise a boy that you'd go?" Trish twirled around me. "I said I'd try to go. It's impossible anyways." I shook my head. "Try? Impossible? You aren't trying you're already giving up. Impossible, poppycock, if things were really impossible would dreams becoming true every day." Trish grinned. "Obviously not mine, I could make a thousand wishes, dream a thousand dreams and still end up stuck here." I crossed my arms. "Hello, fairy godfriend trying to make a wish come true here. I wasn't sent to make fun of you, though you could use a manicure." "Hey!" I looked at my nails.
"Come on, I'll show you that I can get you a ride, a dress, and everything else." she pulled me out the backdoor. I watched as she took a volleyball and placed it in the middle of the yard. "What are you doing?" I watched her confused "Tonight is hardly a night for a volleyball game." Trish rolled her eyes and then waved her hand. The ball jumped and grew turning into a white carriage. "Now, do you believe me and will you actually try to go to the ball?" she eyed me. "I don't know, my family will recognize me and the chores need to be done." I said quickly. "Okay listen, you'll have a mask, a dress your family has never seen, and your hair done up fancy. The chores are the easy part, I can do those in a pinch." she smiled "In fact, if you want I can leave it to you, I don't like chores myself." I groaned "There's nothing to pull the carriage, no one to drive it, and if you haven't noticed I have nothing to wear to the ball."
"Stop with the excuses, you're giving me a headache. Check this out!" Trish grabbed three white kittens from underneath a bush and a raccoon from a nearby trashcan. She waved her hand and the kittens became horses, the raccoon became a driver. I stared speechless, but she still hadn't helped with the dress situation. "What about my dress?" I pointed out. "Do you want to make me do every little thing for you? Spin and slowly too fast and my magic will cause an issue. It happened once, poor guy became a frog and the magic still hasn't worn off, oh and the beast, yeah he ain't no belle." she griped. I spun slowly and the next thing I knew I was wearing a mask, my hair off my neck in a fancy bun with my bangs hanging down on the sides. On top of my head I touched and felt a tiara sitting on top and my shoes were glass. I frowned "Glass, don't you think that it'd be painful to wear these?" "Don't diss the glass little miss. Now get going I won't take your excuses anymore." she shoved me in the carriage "Impossible, is no longer part of your vocabulary tonight. Oh, you have to leave by twelve, that's when the magic wears off." I sighed shaking my head as the carriage moved, tonight would be interesting to say the least.
Austin's POV
I looked at the clock on the wall, 10:48 and Ally was nowhere to be found from at least what I could tell after dancing with dozens of the girls in the hopes of finding her. Her stepsisters were here and I had danced with them earlier for details on if she was there, but neither mentioned Ally. It was hard to mistake who they were too because they wore the most out there dresses that I had seen tonight, except a girl in a zebra striped and pink dress, but at least it resembled a ball gown. Suddenly, the music stopped and I looked around until my eyes set on what everyone else's had. I moved away from the girl I was dancing with surprised by the sight of a girl dressed in a deep blue ball gown complete with a matching mask. She wore glass shoes and to me they sounded like a torcher device, but what caught my eye was the brown hair and the wavy bangs hanging down.
I stepped toward the girl ignoring the girl I had been dancing with as she futilely tried to tug me back to her. I reached the stairs that the girl was coming down and bowed to her, my crown a dead giveaway that I was the prince. She curtsied, but didn't say a word as I held out my hand. "Would you care to dance?" I saw the girl eyeing the girl with the pink and zebra design dress on, but the girl was clearly inching toward Dez as he watched us. "I can't dance, though." the girl finally took my hand. I led her onto the floor and she seemed to be surprised that I had taken an interest in her "Don't worry, follow my lead."
The music started up and we spun around. "Ally, is that you?" I asked hoping it was her, but the girl looked at me as if she was confused. "My name is of no importance, Prince Moon. I am, but a girl that came here on a whim tonight." The girl answered with a voice prettier than a bird's song. I knew it had to be her, but still the way the girl acted made me think that it might not be her. I decided to test her to see if it was her "I take it you think I use my status to get women or to do fancy things like this." I watched her eye as they locked with mine for the first time and she glared "Unlike you, I think status is nothing important and it is merely just a way of showing who has more money." I laughed "It's nice to have someone who believes in the things you do. I could care less about status; I have a dream to be a famous singer and I spent a week with a girl who showed me that all dreams matter."
She stared at me, looking at my hair, my skin, and my eyes taking my presence in before speaking "Austin?" I smiled "Yeah?" A look of surprise seemed to flash on her face before she looked confused again "Did we meet in a past life?" The question threw me off "No, I don't believe so. Why?" "I wouldn't have known your name otherwise." the girl shrugged. She couldn't be Ally, but she was so similar and then I saw him approaching. It was Dallas, the guy Ally had acted all gaga over and he had his eyes set on the girl dancing with me. It wasn't hard to tell him apart from the others with his dark tan skin and his Bieber wannabe hairstyle. I focused on the girl who had now caught glimpse of the boy as we danced too and she didn't seem pleased.
"May, I cut in." Dallas grinned grabbing for her hand before the girl or I replied. My hand gripped the girl's side holding her in place while my other hand was holding her other hand. "Dallas, I don't believe either of us have said anything so let go of her hand." I saw Dez and the strange girl with the zebra print walking toward us. "Hey, take a hike you gold digging boy. Take your fake tan and take a hike." the strange girl at Dez's side hissed. Dez looked at the girl "You do know the tan is real, right?" The girl I had been dancing with glanced at the other girl "Trish, I can handle myself." I watched as the girl turned to the boy. "I'd like you to let go of me, now." she glared at him "I'm not fooled by you, I've heard of you. Now, get out of here you player." The girl pulled her arm back and Dallas glared "If you haven't noticed, my girl has been trying to hook up with the Prince. I wanted a piece of the action too and you looked pretty hot." The girl dug her glass shoe into his foot.
"Definitely torcher devices." I thought watching Dallas limp away. I pulled her out into the garden away from the dance. "That was impressive, a good use of a high heel." I laughed "You never did tell me your name." The girl watched as I slid my mask off. "Austin, Prince Moon, I can assure you my name isn't worth remembering. Anyways, who is this Ally you asked about earlier?" the girl sat on a bench. I saw Dez and the girl, Trish watching us from the veranda. "She is amazing, she can sing, play various instruments, she works in this instrument shop called Sonic Boom, and she has the same views that I do. Ally, could do so much if she didn't let her stepsiblings stand in her way, though." I rambled on about her and the girl laughed. "I've never heard someone speak about another person so animatedly before." The girl smiled.
Then the girl did something with her hair that I had seen only one girl do. She fiddled with her dress and hair. "Ally?" I watched her look up at me and then away in realization of what she'd done. "It is you isn't it, Ally?" I grinned. I saw the girl on the veranda hit her forehead in a "duh" gesture. The girl looked at me again "Prince Moon, you must really like this girl to keep mistaking her for me. Yes, I lifted my head when you said that name, but because I thought you were going to say some more about her." I became confused and I saw the girl on the veranda jumping up and down angrily and almost tearing out her hair in frustration as Dez watched. Th clock began to ring out for twelve and the girl got up quickly.
"What's wrong?" I asked. She stammered as she collected her dress in her hands so she could make a quick escape "I have to go, forgive me!" I watched as she began to run off and Trish waved her hands urging me to follow. I ran as fast as I could telling my guards to block her off and stop her, but she was too fast and was out the door in seconds. I raced out the door moments later and she was nowhere in sight. I desperately searched for her near the entrance as Dez appeared, the girl, Trish gone as well. "Where'd the girl go man?" Dez watched me coming toward him. "She disappeared before I could catch up." I frowned. Dez stepped toward me and tripped over something on the ground landing face first into the sidewalk. I looked down and saw what had caused him to trip. A glass slipper gleamed in the light of the moon. I picked it up "I'm going to find her starting tomorrow; I'll try this slipper on every girl's foot!" Dez groaned "That's a lot of stinky feet." I didn't care that girl had to be found and I was hoping that it would turn out to be Ally in the end, even if the girl denied it a few things suggested otherwise. I wasn't going to give up so easily.
Okay first off, I'm not a Bieber fan, but every time I see Dallas's hair, I think it looks like Bieber's. I also would like to apologize for such a long chapter; I got a little carried away. The next chapter will be the rest of the ball night when Ally gets home and more because this chapter is long enough lol1
P.S. sorry for my rambling!