Alright, so here's the next chapter!

I want to tell you guys well in advance, I will be leaving in mid May on a school backpacking trip lasting approximately 2.5 weeks, and then I might update, and then I'm leaving again for about another 2.5 weeks.

PLEASE READ THE BELOW

Also, I've gotten a few mad PMs, so I'm going to explain this now. I might not give all the characters POVs. Some, yes, but not all, it will mostly be the main characters. If you're getting mad at me, that will serve you to simply have me get mad and A)Possibly eliminate your character and/or B)Just not give them a POV. Honestly, the best thing you can do to get them a POV is to review.

Also, I have enough main characters to juggle that Francesca is going to be a somewhat more featured supporting character.

Thanks to Dolphinsplash12, Alia Sharma, HestiaAbnegation11, and 4Love4Love for being great reviewers!

Anastasia's POV

Anastasia smoothed out the pale pink and silver dress as she walked to answer her door. After dinner, her maids had changed her out of her dinner gown and into this dress. They'd put her hair into a French braid, and switched her shoes, though left her makeup intact. She opened the door, revealing Noah standing behind it.

"Hi." She said somewhat awkwardly.

"Hi." He said. She stepped out into the hallway, closing her door behind her.

"So what does the palace have to watch movies?" She asked, trying to break the awkward silence. Noah smiled.

"A really big movie theater with nicer, cleaner seats." He said. She laughed as they walked down the stairs, she conscious of her heels, not wanting to trip on them.

"Okay then." She said, nodding her head.

"What type of movies do you like to watch?" He asked her.

"Pretty much everything except documentaries and bad ones. You?" She said, eliciting a laugh from him.

"Pretty much the same." He opened a door, gesturing for her to go in first. She did, and was amazed. It was a huge movie theater, with a huge screen, nice chairs, a vast collection of movies, and volume control. Both of them walked over to the collection of movies.

"Wait, you have City of Ember?" She asked him.

"I guess so." He said. She laughed again.

"I heard it was terrible though." She said, more to herself.

"We could hate-watch it." He suggested. She smiled and nodded.

"Alright. I can't believe I'm doing this, but sure."

"Why can't you believe it?" He asked her.

"Because it's my favorite book. But it's a movie, so it's different." She said.

"That was awful." She said, laughing as the credits went on.

"True, but it was fun hate watching it." He said. They stood up, leaving the theater, and walked back up to her room.

"Well thanks for going with me. That was fun." He said as they reached her room.

"Yeah, it was." She said as she opened the door to her room. She went in and closed the door to see her maids right there.

"How was it?" They all asked her.

"Good." She replied.

"Okay, now let's get you ready for bed." Ivory said.

They got her ready for bed, and she climbed into the heavenly cloudy bed as they left themselves. She closed her eyes, and was out.

Riley's POV

Riley watched as Anastasia and Grace were grilled about their dates. The group of girls with Lucinda and Colette were giving them scornful looks. Shaylienne had told Riley quietly that she'd received an invitation for a date too, but she was keeping quiet about it, and Riley could see why. Those group of girls were kind of rabid and scary. She listened to the girls questioning Anastasia and Grace, but didn't pile on. She could see at the very least Grace wanted to dissapear, and wasn't bothering to hide it.

"So what did you do during the movie?"

"How good is he at archery?"

"Did you do anything else?"

The questions kept coming. Riley watched. She was pretty sure from her experience as a diplomat that Grace wasn't telling them something, but then again, she wouldn't either if she was being interrogated about her date.

Finally, the door to the Women's room opened, and in came Sylvia. The questioning and all other chatter immediately ceased.

"Girls, I have an announcement." She said, pausing for a moment.

"This Friday, all of you will appear on the Illea Capitol Report. You will not be interviewed, but you will appear. The Friday after that, you will appear, and you will be interviewed." She said. She surveyed the room. Nobody spoke, so she walked back out. The girls who had been questioning Grace and Anastasia immediately ceased to talk about the Report. Some of them ran up to their rooms to make sure their maids were making something they wanted. Riley knew her maids were already almost finished with a beautiful silver gown.

She walked over to Grace and Anastasia, who were chatting. She sat next to them. They eyed her somewhat warily, and she couldn't blame them.

"I'm not going to ask you a bunch of questions about your date." She said. They immediately brightened up.

"I'm Grace." Said Grace.

"I'm Anastasia." Said Anastasia.

"I'm Riley." She said to both of them. Anastasia whispered something to Grace. She sighed, but nodded.

"Anastasia thinks that I should tell you I dumped a bucket of water on the Prince." She said, sighing. Riley started laughing immediately.

"Why?" She choked out.

"It was the loser's treat. And he lost." Grace told her, smiling.

"Wait, so what do you guys do outside of this?" Anastasia asked them.

"I'm a diplomat." Said Riley.

"I'm a seamstress." Grace replied.

Couldn't think of a good way to end this chapter ):

Hope you liked this chapter! Next chapter will be the Report, so yeah.

HestiaAbnegation11-Yes! I just don't like it when in general they assume one gender is smarter. But yeah, a lot of advanced math in my grade is girls...

Dolphinsplash12-Yes! Animals totally do have feelings! They are sweet and caring, and you need feelings for that! Plus, I definitely agree that we do a ton of horrible stuff that animals don't. Personally I think animals are way morally superior to us, and that we aren't superior to them.

Alia Sharma-Thanks!

4Love4Love-Here's Anna's date, so I hope you liked it and didn't explode waiting. People exploding is usually bad. Always bad, in fact. So try not to.

RQOTD-Siblings?

One annoying older brother.

Also, do you guys like colored pointe shoes or uncolored (by which I mean normal color.)

I think uncolored. The colored ones, especially the pink ones, I think are just kind of gaudy.