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PART 3

We got to the bottom, and my mother gave her speech, and almost instantly after wards, Erin was there to ask me to dance, I couldn’t say no. he was wearing a brown suit and a black mask. After the first song Erin had to hand me over to a prince, then to another prince, and prince after prince after prince, with Erin butting in constantly. And I was given breaks to talk to my friends from the town, like Kari, because the letters I wrote never made it to them. After the first few dances and balls they all knew everything, the whole trip to save my family, and everyone, and when I ran away, everything. And I knew everything that was going on in their lives, by now they were experts and they could finish my sentences, and once in a while, Erin or another prince butted in to dance with me.
Then the horror started. I was dancing with Erin again, and I saw Juan dancing with another girl, he had no mask on. He danced just one rotation while he stared at me, then he disappeared. I only stared at his face, and knowing it was him because of his long scar over his right eye. I forgot it and I was handed off to the snobby Charles again then the same thing happened.
It started to bother me. Then I was handed off to another Charles and it happened again and again and again and occasionally through all this I saw him walking or standing alone just looking at me, then disappearing. I was restless. I was being tortured by a spirit.
Then I was handed off to Erin again. I had a little bit of time left so I left and started searching for something I knew wasn’t there.
Then I was in the middle of the ball room. People swirling around me, so many voices, so much laughter, so many curious eyes staring at the one whose life could be ruined with one single word or action… I couldn’t take it. I saw Juan here and there, and I was twisting and twirling in my own little confined space reserved for my madness. Maybe I did need therapy.
I turned in circles then suddenly hand was gently on the side of my waist, and holding my now outstretched hand that I put out in a attempt to somehow touch a certain dead someone that was haunting me. He was wearing a white porcelain mask that covered the whole right side of his face, even his mouth. It only had 2 holes in it, one by the nostril, and one for an eye hole. Time to see what torture would come. I couldn’t say no. my mother said I couldn’t. I had to use the rest of my time dancing with this unknown man.
My last dancing partner was wearing a jacket with blue, green, and brown on it. he had a white, ruffled collar shirt underneath, and black slacks. I saw my mother being whisked away to the gardens by Henry.
“So what is your name?” I choked out.
No answer, he just looked at me. The side of his mouth I could see was sort of smiling. Then suddenly he stopped dancing. We stood there looking at each other. Then the man took me by my hands and suddenly, we were in the castle gardens. My eyes got wide.
“It can’t be,” I stepped back and whispered, “it isn’t. I’m just hallucinating again,” I stepped farther back and let go of his hands, it made sense, the mask over the right side of his face, but the only way to find out was to take off his mask, “May i?” I pointed to his mask.
“Sure,” he replied. The first word was another thing that made me think Juan wasn’t dead.
I stepped forward and removed his mask, prepared for it to not be who I thought it was, or could be. I saw the long scar over his eye and I dropped his mask at first sight. It hit the paving and shattered. I covered my mouth to cover one of those smiles that you just get when you aren’t sure if you’re in a good dream, or a nightmare.

PART 5

“Juan, about that…”
“I know, I am so sorry I didn’t come back for you sooner,”
“No, Juan that’s not it,” The midnight bells cut my sentence short, and in the corner of my eye I saw Henry kneel down and take my mother’s hand, and Juan did the same as the last song started. I started crying. Then he reached into his pocket and brought out a small crystal box that he opened to show a ring.
“Cassey, I left my parents for you, waited years for you, and I want to be with you for the rest of my life, will you do me the honor of marrying me?” he said. I started bawling.
“I,” I stuttered, “I, I can’t,” I couldn’t control myself. He stood up and hugged me, then took me by the hands.
“It will be alright, did your mother say you had to choose a prince last minute, that shouldn’t matter because-”
“No I really can’t!” I took my hands out of his, and ran out of the gardens, past Erins’ comforting arms and through the crowd of people looking at me. I darted up the stairs, and to my room. I closed and locked the door and fell onto my bed. And I just stayed there. Then someone jiggled the handle.
“Cassey, are you in there?” it was Kari.
“Yea, bang the door hard a few times, it will open up,” I said. I hadn’t stopped crying.
She banged on the door and it opened up.
“Close and lock the door behind you please,” I said. She locked the door and came to my bed.
“I saw you run away in tears what happened?”
“Long story short or every little detail?” I asked. I stopped crying, but the disparity didn’t stop.
“Both,” she replied.
“Ok, long story short, Erin loves me, and Juan is not dead.”
“HE ISNT!” she yelled.
“You know how Erin comes to my balcony every few nights?”
“He did that?” she asked.
“Yes, well he did tonight, but this time he left a note in my hand asking me to marry him before he climbed down, and of course I said yes, but I didn’t tell anyone.”
“REALLY?” she yelled.
“YES! Now stop yelling, someone might hear! So I danced for hours with getting to know people by force, and Erin, of course, and talking to you and some other people. Then torture can when I started to hallucinate again… I was standing alone just turning in circles looking for the person I saw then someone was dancing with me. He didn’t even stop or miss a beat when he got in.
“Suddenly I appeared in the gardens and I took off the man’s mask and it was Juan, He told me what happened, and then he asked me to marry him at the stroke of midnight,” I started crying again and I leaned on her shoulder when she sat on the bed.
“Wait, let me get this straight, you said yes to Erin when you thought you could never be with Juan, then Juan proposes, and you go nuts,”
“Yup pretty much,”
“Why don’t you just break off the engagement, nobody knows about it yet. It should be easy,”
“What the heck am I gonna tell Erin? That Juan’s alive and I would rather be with him? That’s not a good enough reason! It’s too late, and I know it,” the there was a knock at my door.
“Cassey, open up!” I couldn’t make out the voice. There was so many people it could be.
“Who is it?”
“It’s crazy,”
“What?” I laughed.
“I was crazy for coming, I knew you wouldn’t say yes,” he said.
It was Juan

part 7

“No!”
“Will everything be ok?”
“Yes,”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes. Of course, why wouldn’t I be?”
“Because I was the one that said you guys look like more than friends 4 years ago when you asked for my help to rescue him,”
“He was my best friend. I couldn’t let something bad happen to him, but still, something did,”
“What, I know about the eye, but what else was there?”
“He lost me. He came to my room last night, and told me he was crazy for coming, he knew I couldn’t, or wouldn’t say yes, he was crushed. And there was nothing I could do about it,” we let go of each other, “I am gonna go get dressed for the day, its gonna be a long one, but one more thing,”
“What’s that?”
“When are we going to tell my mother, and who’s gonna tell her? She doesn’t even know that you come to my room from my balcony, she might go nuts,”
“we will tell her when you want to, but the sooner we tell her, the better, I mean, if we don’t tell her today, your brother is leaving on his trip, which could take years.”
“Okay. Daniel is leaving tonight, just say when and we can tell her,”
“Ok” I heard a knock at my door, “that must be my ladies in waiting, you might want to leave, they open my window every morning,”
“Got it, see you later,” he kissed me on the cheek and started climbing down. Then I quickly ran inside, closed the door, and I heard a knock again.
“Princess, may we come in?”
“Sure,” I said as I went to the door. I opened it up and sure enough, there they were. Like every morning.
“Good morning!” Chasity said with a smile.
“You’re not dressed!” Helga said in shock.
“, I just got up,” I lied. Even though it was sorta true, “you know, late night last night, a lot of moving around, I was tired,” and that was true.
“I saw you running up the stairs in tears last night, a young man with a big scar asked where your room was, what happened?” Chasity asked.
“I would rather not talk about it, and about that, please don’t tell anyone else where my room is, the person that asked could’ve been bad!”
“Sorry Miss,” She said.
“Well no dilly dallying! Get dressed we have a long day,” Helga said.
“Of what?” I asked.
“Party planning for your brother, of course,” she said.
“Ok, see you in a bit,” I said as I closed the door. I immediately went upstairs and started looking at dresses, then I thought to myself, “I won’t be party planning for long,” I ended up picking out a ivory colored gown that looked like a Egyptian teamed up with my dress maker to make it. It was floor length, and wrapped. it had hanging gold beaded straps. 2 for each shoulder with one hanging lower than the other one. Then I picked out some flats.
I got dressed then I brushed my hair again, and twirled it to make it look curlier. Then I wrote in my journal. I wrote about everything that happened the day before, then I put on my shoes, and went downstairs. Erin was at the bottom of the steps.
“I wasn’t able to give you this in the note,” he said as he showed me a silver diamond ring.
“Oh Erin, it’s beautiful! Thank you, but you didn’t have to,” I said as he put it on me.
“I know, but I wanted to,”
“Hey, why don’t we tell my mother now? You know, gets it out of the way before I have to do any wasted party planning on Daniel,”
“Sure. Let’s go, she has already started. she is in the ballroom choosing decorations,”
We walked to the ballroom together, and when we got there he let me go and we walked to my mom.
“Good morning, there is a lot of work to be done, and I can’t do it on my own. If you would start taking care of the-” I stopped her from talking when I held up my hand with the ring on it. Her jaw dropped. As a matter of fact she dropped everything and put her hand beneath mine and lifted it up to get a better look.


sadly, this is all i will post. i dont want to reveal too much of teh book. i am now going to delete parts 1 and maybe 2. sorry