So you will be relived of the stress of not knowing what the cliffhanger is. This chapter is shorter, I think, but I hope that you still enjoy. The ending, I hope, you will find crazy and worth having a shorter chapter.

Chapter 6

The week before the Halloween ball is so exciting. All the guests arrive the day before or that day. Lucky for me somebody arrived earlier.

I walked into my room and saw that one of our guests arrived early.

'Cass! You're here early!' I ran over to my second best friend and gave her a bear hug.

'Of course I'm early. I missed you' I hugged her again.

'So how's Tyler'

'He is good, he is here, but you know that.'

'Yeah, you must be so excited to see him.'

'It has been too long. How is Andrew?' I tried not to gag as I said his name.

'Oh, he is great. He came to visit me last week.'

'Well I have to go teach my lesson to the girls, do you want to come? You would have to bring Andrew because it is dancing.'

'Well I will go get him, see you down in the Ballroom?'

'Yeah' I walked out of my room and started towards the ballroom. I had told Ty to meet me down there at 2:00. Once I reached the first floor, I bumped into someone. When I looked up to see who it was, it was Luke. He smirked when he saw it was me, and grabbed my hand and kissed it.

'Hello, my darling. Nice to see you.'

'Hi, Luke. Remember that I am not your darling. Now I have to go teach the girls. Have a nice day.' I tried to not glare at him. I tried to walk away also, but Luke grabbed my wrist.

'What is today's lesson?' He sneered at me.

'Dancing' I snarled at him, I got away from him but he caught up to me.

'And do you need a partner?'

'No, I'm good. Ty is meeting me there. Now if you'll excuse me'

I got to the Ballroom and started my lesson with the girls. I started by demonstrating a simple waltz. Ty grew up dancing so he made a great partner. Once we finished, I had the girls pair up with the volunteer guards who were off their shifts. All of the guards know how to dance, so that made it easier to teach the girls to dance. Cass and Andrew were just giggling in the corner. Being royal, they also knew how to dance.

Most of the girls got it pretty easily, but Valerie looked like she was having trouble. I motioned Ty over to me.

'Hey Ty, can you do me a favor?'

'Sure.'

'Can you go dance with Valerie? She seems to be having trouble, and you are a good teacher.'

'Sure, no problem. And thank you.' He did a little bow, grinned and walked to go help.

'Matt, are you sure?' Matt had just told me that he decided to eliminate a group of girls after the ball.

'Yeah, throughout the ball I would like to figure out about 4 or 5 girls that I would like to leave.'

'If only you are sure.'

I went off to my room to finish getting ready for the ball.

Once I was done, I was wearing a jean blue bottomed ball gown with a long sleeved red top portion. There was a gold belt in the middle. I wore my white gloves.

I had my hair down. I asked the jeweler to make me a tiara with a ruby red 'M' in the middle.

I had a light red eyeshadow over my lids.

Just as the finishing touches were added, I heard a knock and I knew it was Ty. I opened the door to Ty in jean blue suit pants, a green button-up, jean blue suspenders, and his crown was like my tiara but with a green 'L'.

'Good evening Charlie. Ready to go?' Ty said, offering his arm.

'Of course.' I gladly took his arm

'Finally, you are ready on time.' That just made me laugh.

'So how are feeling about your parents not being able to make it?' Queen Nicoletta and King Arnold has some business that needed to be taken care of.

'It would have been nice to see them, considering it will be awhile before we see them again. I do know that Bella misses them.' I gave him a sad smile. But started to make him go faster towards the .

Dad was dressed as Prince Eric dressed when he found Ariel, in the movie. Mom had an emerald green gown, with a purple top. Her long red hair cascaded down her back.

Matt dressed just as Dad had. He had stopped shaving a

We got down to the Ballroom doors. Everyone was there, all of the Selected, Mom and Dad, Matt, and Bella and Eli. Each Selected was in a different type ball gown. Eli was in a red suit and red shirt, that said 'Thing 1'. Bella was wearing a red ball gown that said .

'Thing 2'. They both decided to dye their hair blue for the night.

When they started to announce the Selected, I moved to my spot in the line.

They started announcing the royals. They had gotten through most of the royals, all that was left was. Mom, Dad, Matt, Ty, Eli, Bella, and I. They started with Eli and Bella.

'Prince Elliot Schreave and Princess Arabella Emanuele of Italy.' The crowd went crazy for them. They were cherished by both countries. Eli carefully led Bella down the stairs.

'Crown Prince Tyler Emanuele of Italy and Princess Charlotte Schreave.' Tyler led me down the stairs. When we reached the bottom we stopped, turned and waited.

'Crown Prince Matthew Schreave.' Since the Selection was going on, Matt was announced by himself.

'His and Her Royal Majesties, King Maxon and Queen America Schreave.' Once they got to the bottom, Dad went to the stage to officially start the ball. He finished that and led Mom over to the dance floor for the first dance. Matt walked around the room to choose his first dance. He chose a girl name Carly, she was from Zuni. Ty grabbed my hand and brought me to the dance floor, Eli and Bella followed and so did the other Royals.

Ty started to lead me in the dance. I felt this really strange feeling that I had never felt with Ty before.

'I noticed that Eli and Bella looked extra smiley tonight.'

'This again' I could see him roll his eyes as he spun me. He just held me to him for the rest of the dance.

Once the dance was over, Ty gave me an annoyed face. And whispered in my ear,

'Now I have to go away from my best friend and dance with the Selected.'

'Good luck soldier.'

I danced for hours with different guys. Finally, I decided to take a break. My heels were really killing my feet. I sat down at a table that looked on to the dance floor. When I found Ty in the crowd, I saw him dancing with one of the Selected. I felt a pit of jealousy at the bottom of my stomach. I was confused of why I was feeling this. I decided to take a break and get some fresh air. I got into the hallway and heard somebody stumble behind me. I turned around to see a drunk Luke.

'Hello sweetcheeks.' I didn't have a good feeling about this. I felt Luke come up behind me. He wrapped his arms around me. I tried to shrug them off.

'Luke get off me.'

'Come on, you like this' He turned me around and pushed me against the wall.

'Luke get off' I tried again to shove him off, but failed. Then he started to suck on my neck. I was starting to get nervous. I was strong but Luke was stronger, by a lot, and persistent.

'HELP' I decided to give that a try. Luke wrapped his arms around me tighter and grabbed my ass and squeezed it. I struggled to get away. I closed my eyes because I was scared of what could happen.

I felt a weight be pulled off me, but I was too scared to look. Finally, I opened my eyes to see Ty picking me up bridal style. Luke was on the ground.

I didn't realize that I had started crying when Ty wiped my face. I had already buried my face into his chest. I felt safe in his arms. I felt a breeze on my legs, I figured he was bringing me to the gardens.

'Charlie, are you okay?'I had so much I wanted to cry out but all I managed was,

'Thank you' I continued to cry into his chest. His arms wrapped around me tighter.

Was it worth it? Please continue to review. Also sorry that the times of updating are off. But the general time and the day will stay the same. But there will be some random updates. Like on the weekend, if I have some extra time to write, you will get an extra chapter.

~cari