Free Dark Night by Stefany Rattles Page B

and
stood up to leave. “Whatever.” He walked off leaving me to hear
Gene’s mouth. I waited but she didn’t say a word, she simply smiled
at me and stood up and then she was off to… she was walking towards
Mia.

CHAPTER 8
    MIA
    I had never been in a place like this, it was
incredible. What I had seen in the morning was nothing. They had
added a bunch of other things. More decorations, from the tables to
the ceiling and the lighting made an incredible effect from the
decorations. The dance floor which was not there earlier it was now
full of people dancing to a current song I didn’t know. It was a
ball but they were not going completely old school. It was more
elegant than anything I’d ever seen. This was a commencement, the
end of one thing, and beginning of another for me.
    “Let’s go mingle.” Mereily said, “You have to
get to know everyone, just stay away from certain people.” she
whispered.
    “Like Genevieve.” Sophie added, and Mereily
sighed.
    “Let’s try to enjoy this, please,” Mereily
smiled awkwardly.
    “Hey girls what’s going on?” Some girls that
had been staring finally came to us.
    “Lana, Layla, Yasmin, this is Mia. And Mia
this is Lana and Layla they’re twins. And this is Yasmin she’s
graduating this year.”
    “Hey.” I was going to try to have a little
fun tonight, if it was possible.
    “Hi.” They all waved.
    “Did I miss something?” Genevieve walked up
to us. “What the hell?” She said as she stared at my dress. “Who
made you one of us?”
    “I’m not part of anything. It’s just a
dress.” I told her, I wasn’t yelling at her or anything, I was
trying to be even nice to her.
    “It is not just a dress! You don’t know
anything, stupid skank!” She yelled at me. I wasn’t going to take
her crap especially tonight that I wanted to meet everyone and
enjoy this.
    “What the hell is your
problem? I’m not dealing with you. Don’t you have something better
to do?” I said to her getting in her face, she gave me an evil
smile and slowly turned away.
    She glared straight at me. “Watch your back,
no one messes with me.” She said walking away.
    “Whatever little girl,” I said loud enough
for her to hear, still she pretended she didn’t. I didn’t care.
Anyway I shook that off and kept on with the evening. “Uh… where
were we? Right, I’m Mia I don’t know what you’ve heard about me but
I’m certainly not a skank like your friend seems to think. I
don’t want to be part of anything here, if you must know I was
brought against my own will and I don’t appreciate when people
start assuming things. I didn’t ask for this. But it is very nice
and all how I’ve been treated, and is very nice meeting all of you.
I’d be happy to answer any questions that you have.” I was
surrounded by more people now, most were smiling and waving a few
just listened and pretended I didn’t say anything, turned around
and left. The remaining people introduced themselves one by one and
were surprised to hear that it was my first day here. Some said,
usually they would not let a new person go to a ball or a main
event for some stupid reason I didn’t know but I was here, and that
made them think that I was special in some way.
    “You know you’re the cutest chick I’ve ever
seen.” A guy that I had just met told me in front of Mereily and
Sophie. His name was Jack and he was cute too. Tall, and his eyes
were grayish, you could tell he had a body, the whole package.
    “Hope you don’t think I’m going to fall for
that, do you?” I said back at him. “Besides it’s not nice of you to
say that, don’t you think my friends are good looking? Because I
think they are the best looking out of everyone in this room.” I
looked at them, and I wasn’t lying. All the girls looked alike,
they weren’t wearing the same dress, but their hair was down and
they wore a lot of makeup. I’d say we were the only three that
didn’t look like the rest of them.
    He