Chapter 8 1 month later (AN: ANOTHER TIME JUMP wow Georgia, just wow) It had been a been a month since the night in the Italian restaurant. I had spent a lot of time at Dan's flat. Phil tended to leave us alone, he claimed it was because he didn't want to risk his 'poor virgin ears'. Dan rolled his eyes at that. A week ago, Dan invited me to a masquerade dance that his friend had invited him to. That dance was tonight.
After going shopping, I had found a gorgeous dress. It was midnight blue (AN: So pretentious..) with rhinestones trailing down my body to the hem of the dress. It was strapless and sown to my ankles. I had silver flats to go with it. I went to a salon and had my hair done, a ladder braid going sideways into a side ponytail that was curled. My mask was midnight blue with rhinestones.
I was greeted at the door by Dan in a stunning tuxedo. He had a white and black mask which was covering less than half of his face. He looked amazing. He sat there staring at me until I snapped my fingers in his face.
"Dan? Are you alive?"
"I feel like I died and went to heaven. How are you my girlfriend?"
"I don't know. I think you're right, I deserve someone better. Maybe Phil will go out with me." I joked.
Dan picked me up bridal style. "Can Phil do this?" He said and kissed me, my heart racing in my chest.
"I don't know, maybe you should try again. Just to make sure." I said.
Dan grinned. "If we must."
"Oh, we must."
This led to a 5 minute long kissing session, until we realized the limo was waiting for us. The party was just down the road, but we knew we'd be late. Oh well. It took us 10 minutes to get there. We were some of the last people to walk in. I held Dan's hand and we walked around. Dan stopped and saw a group of girls and dragged me over to them.
"Carrie, Louise, this is my girlfriend Leslie."
"Hi!" Louise said
Carrie grinned. "Dan has been talking about you nonstop, it's great to finally meet you."
"It's nice to meet you too! Dan rarely introduces me to people, especially not people off of YouTube." We all exchanged numbers.
"Well it's great to meet you but we were just about to go dance with our dates." Louise smiled. "You should try and talk Dan into dancing, I bet he would if you pulled a puppy dog face."
"Good idea! Talk to you guys later!" I turned to Dan. "Just one slow song, please?"
"Leslie, I can't dance! Like not at all."
I broke out the puppy dog eyes. "Please Dan. I really want to dance."
"Fine. But you owe me big time."
I squealed with joy. When the next song turned on I dragged him onto the dance floor. He pulled me close, every once and a while spinning. I felt like I was in heaven. We ended up dancing for 4 songs, not just one.
"I told you that you could dance."
"Hey, love, I need to go to the bathroom. I'll be back in a few minutes." Dan said to me. I nodded.
When he walked away, I realized I was all alone and everyone else was talking to their friends. I decided to go out on to the balcony and avoid the huge group of people dancing. I went out and sat down. There was a couple kissing on the other side of the balcony. I smiled and thought about Dan. I saw a mask lying on the railing. A black and white mask that would cover up less than half of someone's face. I approached the couple.