Me: La la, la la la la, sing a happy song. La la, la la la la, I don't own Kuroshitsuji.

Clarissa: That didn't even rhyme.

Me: Shut up, no one will know.

Clarissa: I think everyone will know.

Me: Argh, you're annoying.

Clarissa: Well, you created me, so it's your own fault.

Me: Argh! Stop being a party ruiner! Now I'm going to make you dance with Sebastian.

Clarissa: I'm not a – wait. WHAT?

Me: Enjoy the chapter, everyone!

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Chapter 10

When Elizabeth says she'll dress you up, she apparently takes her self-given job very seriously.

She went to the city (strange enough without me, though I must admit that was a relieve) and came back hours later with a shitload of dresses.

I was surprised how well they all fitted. It was like she knew my measurements. When I had put on the second dress, a blue one that fell like a waterfall down to my ankles, I asked her: 'How do you know my measurements?'

She looked at me confused, as if it was a strange question to ask. 'Sebastian gave them to me.'

Argh, I should have known. And how does he know them? Did he measure me in my sleep? Gross, I hoped not. I really hoped it was just one of his demon powers.

After putting on all the dresses Elizabeth choose the one that I felt the less comfortable in. It was a tight red dress. And even though it wasn't a slutty dress and I had to admit that it was the one that looked the best on me, there was one reason that I really didn't want to wear it.

It had the same red colour as Sebastian's eyes.

When Elizabeth hair stylist was pulling my hair in an attempt to make it somewhat presentable, I looked at the girl with a scared look in my eyes. 'Err, Elizabeth-'

'Lizzie,' she said. 'Just call me Lizzie, okay?' She smiled cheerfully.

'Okay,' was my brilliant reaction. 'Lizzie. I'm very flattered that I'm invited to this… ball? But you keep talking about a waltz and I gave literally no idea how to dance a waltz.'

She pulled but her eyebrows. 'Oh! But you're a girl!' she said, as if any girl these days knew how to dance. 'Didn't your father teach you how to dance?'

I cringed as she said that, but I somehow managed to keep my farther reactions under control. 'No, he did not,' I said, surprised with how calm I sounded.

'Oh,' she said, looking extremely disappointed. Then her face cleared up again. 'But that's okay, Ciel can't really dance either! So I will teach Ciel and Sebastian will teach you, doesn't that sound great?'

No amount could ever state my enormous amount of sarcasm when I said: 'Fantastic.'

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'Stop looking like that. If I see that smirk of yours one more time, I swear to God I will stamp on your toes.'

Sebastian chuckled. 'I can't help myself. From up-close your expression are even more amusing.' His eyes sparkled amused.

I sighed. He hadn't even seen me in my dress. Elizabeth immediately made me change into my normal clothes again so that we could have dance classes in the ballroom. A gigantic room in the Phantomhive mansion that looked like a movie set, it was absolutely beautiful. What wasn't beautiful were my attempts to dance.

'Stop being so scared,' Sebastian said. 'Even if you fail, then you can at least say you've tried.'

'There is no 'if',' I said grumpy. 'I will most certainly fail.'

He laughed, obviously agreeing. 'Even so, you have to try. And don't worry. Failure is impossible if you have me as your teacher.'

'Show-off,' I muttered.

'Cry baby,' was his reaction.

I sighed and decided that this conversation was going nowhere. While Sebastian was guiding me through the ballroom, which had gotten a lot easier the moment that I stopped caring about where we were going and what I was supposed to do, I decided to start a conversation that did have my interest. 'You never really gave an answer, you know?' I said.

'Sorry? What are you talking about?' But the smile on his face told me that he exactly knew what I was talking about.

'Demons powers,' I said. 'Do you have any?'

'You see, maybe I didn't answer the question because the question was quite vague.' He turned me around, though I was pretty sure we weren't waltzing anymore. This looked more like flying through the room.

'Okay, but if I name a power then you could them me if you possess it or not, right?' I suggested.

'Maybe,' he said, holding in his laugh. 'But you can't be certainly that I will tell the truth.'

I took that as a 'yes'. I started with the one that I really did not want him to have: 'Mindreading?'

A grin appeared on his face. 'No,' he answered. 'But as I've said before, I can read certain strong emotions.'

I look at him horrified. 'And when did you tell me that?!' I said, my voice way higher than normal because of the panic.

'Ssh,' Sebastian said. 'Don't worry. I can only read emotions when I feed of off them and right now, I'm not. So relax and ask your next question.'

Telling me to relax was about the same as feeding me a huge amount of sugar and then telling me to stay still. You know that that's not going to happen. But then I felt my panic and worry slowly leaving me and I looked at Sebastian with frowned eyebrows. 'You said you weren't feeding off my emotions.'

'And I've also said that you can't be certain that I will tell the truth,' he said and he looked at me as if there was more to that sentence then what I caught.

'Okay, okay,' I said, feeling more relaxed now. 'Do you drink human blood?'

The grin was back on his face. 'No. Some demons do like the taste and smell of human blood, but then it's merely for entertaining values. We can't feed of off human blood. And, to be honest, doing it would be a very low and ungraceful thing to do.'

Good to know that my nightmares would never come true. 'Can you predict the future?'

'Of course not.'

'Can you communicate with ghosts?'

'They do not exist. Not in the way humans think, anyway.'

I thought about that for a while, but quickly realised that it didn't interest e enough to ask more about it. 'Are you immortal?'

'To some extent, yes.'

This did catch my interest. 'So… how old are you?'

The grin disappeared. 'Next question.'

I frowned my eyebrows, not understanding what I'd said wrong. 'But-'

'Next question,' he said, almost sounding angry, which confused me. Sebastian was always calm.

I sighed, trying to stop my curiosity on the subject. 'Can you control emotions?'

'No. But demons are known to be very good seducers.' A seductive smile appeared on his face and proved his point. He was an amazing seducer. If I didn't know any better I would have thrown myself in his arms.

I shook my head, trying to get that thought out of my head. It was then that I noticed that we weren't dancing anymore. I also saw that Elizabeth and Ciel had left. When did that happen? 'What's your animal form?'

Sebastian looked surprised. 'What did you say?'

'Your animal form. You've told me you got one. I was curious what anime it was,' I explained.

He pulled up an eyebrow. 'I've also told you about my true form, my demon form. And you're more interested in my animal form?'

'Yes,' I said in all honesty. 'Because I know that your true demon form will either disgust or blind me, so I'd rather not know.'

He looked at me with a surprised look, as if he couldn't believe a word I was saying. 'How would you know?' he asked softly.

I shrugged. 'You're a demon. I think anyone could have guessed that a demon's true from is most likely hideous.'

'But you don't seem to care,' Sebastian said, clearly still trying to understand my way of thinking.

'Nope,' I said almost immediately. 'It's not like I get to see it one day. Worrying about an appearance I will never see is like worrying about who the president of America will be over a hundred years.'

'Crow,' he said, still looking confused. But he wasn't looking at me anymore. He looked out of one of the gigantic windows of the ballroom.

'Sorry?' I said.

He looked at me again, his red eyes looking surprisingly soft. 'A crow. My animal form is a red-eyed crow. My eye colour is the thing that never changes, no matter which shape or form.'

I couldn't help but stare in those red eyes as he talked about them. I never really thought about it before, but they were really pretty, his eyes. The long eyelashes and the colour red that looked like it lived its own live inside his eye.

I was touching his face before I even realised it. The tips of my fingers were on his cheek, slowly stroking the perfect skin. I looked at it in wonder, trying to grasp the perfection of his skin, of him.

'What are you doing?' he asked, for once not sounding amused.

It took me a while to answer. My fingertips trailed down to his jawline and remained there when I said: 'I'm touching you.' My fingers travelled to his lips and remained on his lower lip. I was surprised that his skin wasn't cold. It was warm, but not hot warm, but nice warm.

I would see Sebastian looking at me with a look that I didn't understand. 'And what does that tell you?' he asked.

I used both my hands to hold his face into my small hands. 'That humans are cold,' I said, letting my hands touch his perfectly soft hair.

'You're confused,' he said, suddenly sounding cold.

'Hm,' I said, agreeing with what he was saying. I really had no clue why I was touching him. I just really felt like it. 'Do we still need to… dance?'

Sebastian grabbed my wrists and pulled my hand from his face. Then he leaned forward so that he could whisper in my ears. 'I think this was enough practice for today, Madame Lane.'

The next moment, he was gone.

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After dinner, Elizabeth took me to my room again to prepare me for the so called 'ball'. But during dinner I figured out that the ball wasn't really a ball. Only I, Ciel, Elizabeth, Sebastian, the three idiots and Elizabeth's maid where invited. So the dance practice had been really unnecessary.

The hair stylist put my hair up in some sort of bun and then another woman that I hadn't seen before did my make-up. I was surprised to see that Lizzie was still wearing the exact same clothes as she'd worn the whole day. 'Aren't you going to dress up?' I asked her.

She shook her head. 'I wanted to dress you up today, but if I dressed up too, I would outdo you!' She said it laughing as if it was the most obvious reason in the world.

Gee, thanks. 'Oh, I see,' was my way too kind reaction.

I had to stop myself from scratching the back of my head (and ruining my hairdo in the process) when me and Elizabeth walked towards the ballroom. During practice today, I hadn't been wearing heels. And now I was wearing heels, so I would fail no matter how long I had practiced today. And I probably had to dance with Sebastian, which I really didn't want to do. Certainly not after my incident today… I mean, what the hell was I thinking?

Oh gosh. Even I was making Hell jokes now. What would be next? Asking him out? I was really losing my mind every day I was in this stupid house. But I simply had nowhere else to go.

My gloomy mood lightened a bit when I saw everyone's reaction as I walked into the ballroom. Mei-Rin's glasses almost fell of and her mouth fell open, just like Finnian and Baldroy's mouths, and Ciel pulled his eyebrows up in surprise. The only one that I didn't get a reaction from was Sebastian, but given the situation, maybe that was for the better.

I was happy when Finnian asked me to dance, because that meant that I didn't have to dance with Sebastian. At least not now. Only Finnian wasn't a very good dancing partner and without Sebastian to guide me, I was even worse. So that totally failed.

'I've told you that you weren't going to fail as long as I'm your teacher,' Sebastian said while me and Finnian were sitting on a beautiful, Marie Antoinette-like bench that was standing against a wall in the ballroom.

'And I've told you that I will fail no matter what I do. Maybe we should listen to each other for a change,' I said, not sure if I was joking or not.

Sebastian reached towards me with his hand. 'Would you give me the honour of dancing with me?' he asked, clearly being overly kind.

I sighed. Lizzie was going to kill me if I didn't, so I had to anyway. Whether it was now or somewhere in the next two hours. I took his hand and said. 'Why, you can.'

Sebastian guided me to the dance floor and we were dancing before I even got the time to change my mind. He chuckled as I looked at him with a 'how the hell do you do that?'-look and I thought that he pulled me a bit closer to him, though I wasn't sure about that.

Then he made me turn, but pulled me back halfway, making my back lean against his chest. He put one arm around my waist, the other one was still laying on my hip. 'So, miss Lane,' he said, breathing in my ear. 'Are you enjoying yourself.'

'Well,' I said and I could hear that I sounded a bit out of breath. And I hated that. 'Right now I'm a bit uncomfortable,' I admitted, knowing that if he wanted to know what I felt, he could.

I laughed in my ear and then pulled me back again, making me face him. His hands were now holding the upper part of my arms. 'I'm very sorry for making you feel uncomfortable. That was not my intention.'

I pulled up an eyebrow. 'It clearly was your intention, don't try to deny it.'

He chuckled. 'Well, maybe it was. I guess you'll never know for sure.'

I pulled my arms free form his grip, which was easier than I thought it would be. But that meant that he wasn't really trying to hold me, because if he wanted to, I wouldn't be able to fight him. I knew that much. He could probably shatter my skull just by slapping it. 'I think I already got my answer,' I said, looking at Mei-Rin and Baldroy, who had taken my place on the bench. I was surprised that the three of them fitted on that small thing, but I was sure that they would break it before the end of the ball.

'Sebastian,' I heard Ciel say. I could see that Elizabeth and her maid were heading out to leave the ballroom. Ciel walked towards us, looking at Sebastian with a strange look in his eyes. 'Come and help me show Elizabeth and her accomplice the door.'

'Yes, my Lord,' Sebastian said, immediately stepping away from me. He walked besides Ciel as the two of them walked towards the exit together.

'What are you doing?' I could hear Ciel ask Sebastian.

But I couldn't hear the answer. And I wasn't sure why, but somehow that made me feel a bit relieved. Because I was really scared to hear the answer.

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So, that was chapter ten, hoped you liked it! Thank you all for the kind reviews! I really, really appreciate it!