Becoming the Luna

Shana is accurate about the party, no one seems to genuinely like each other and I could see envy flashing in the eyes of the people that sucked up to Yanis.

"Mon cherie?" Mrs Nolan hurries up to us. "You do not mind if I am to borrow Yanis for a while, there's someone he has to meet."

Yanis narrows his eyes at her. "It better not be Lord Lumiere, I don't want his bloody castle."

"Yanis." His mom tries to cajole him. "We're distant family, we should try to help when they're in need, now come along." 

Yanis pulls me into a hug, still grumbling in unhappiness.

"A castle can't be half bad" I pat his back.

"Yeah, until you're expected to live in it two weeks out of a year." He complains, striding after his mom. "I'll be right back."

I hum under my breath even though there is no way he can hear my affirmation, we were standing at one far end of the ball uninterested in socializing so it wasn't hard for me to move back a couple steps to lean against the wall.

I watch the ball with disinterest, bringing out my phone to check the time, a pout forms on my lips when I see that it's just a few minutes past three, the party wouldn't end till the sun went down.

There's a floor length drape beside me and in the split second that I notice movements behind it I get pulled inside.

"What the fuck!" I exclaim, the drink in my hand splashing to the ground with a crash, the delicate glass no doubt breaking.

It's dark in here but I can clearly make someone out.

Nicole…

I roll my eyes. "What do you want?" I start to ask coldly then stop myself. "Wait, don't answer that, I don't care."

She's standing in front of the drapes so there's no way I can leave without going past her, something gleams in her hands and I stumble backwards.

I hit a wall, the drape had just been covering a nook in the wall, it's not very wide but it's not small enough for all these to be happening without anyone noticing.

She remains quiet and a sinking feeling envelops me, slowly I take out my phone and put on the flashlight and I recoil at the murderous look on her face.

I direct the light lower and I jump at what she's holding… She's holding a knife.

"W-What a-ar-are y-you d-doing?" I stutter hard, my eyes going wide.

"If you try making a call, this knife would go through your heart so fast you won't even get the chance to blink." She says steadily and my palms get sweaty, she meant every word she just said.

I needed proof! It just hit me hard then and discreetly, I start up the recording button.

"You're just so annoying, I take Dale away, I even get Julia to be all over the other cold idiot but he. just. won't. stop. talking. about. you." Each word is punctuated by a vicious stab on the wall to the side and I flinch.

She stabs the wall so hard that there are wide gapes in the wall. I gulp, this girl is crazier than Elise.

I try to step back but I just hit a wall and I know that there's no way out, even if I try to scream no one would hear me because of the noise going on outside, it would be a perfect crime.

"Have you ever fallen in love?" She asks in a creepy voice, crouching down to draw figures on the ground with the tip of her knife.

I just stare at her, frozen, my phone is still gripped in my hands so it illuminates the place but I don't have anything to defend myself with.

"No, you haven't." She continues, obviously not expecting a reply, not that I planned to give her one. "You can't have felt this all consuming feeling, this burning need…"

I keep swivelling my head around, brain calculating fast for a way to get out. I also want to tell Nicole that she had left the love territory and is now deep in obsessed psychopath territory but I'm not sure that's what she wants to hear.

"Looking for this?" She flips a switch that's beside her and the entire space gets illuminated, I had hoped that if I could somehow brighten the entire place up it might be noticed from the outside but the drapes are just too thick.

I gulp and keep my eyes fixed on her, I can see everything clearly now and I slowly put off my flashlight and slip it in my breast pocket.

I don't know how this keeps happening, all I want is a quiet peaceful life but crazies keep coming after me.

The space is hopeless, there is no crook that I can't try to hide in and it's totally bare except for the high lights on the ceiling.

"I want to chain him up in my room." She starts to pace, getting closer to me. "You know what?" She pauses, staring at me with a mad expression in her eyes. "I'll do just that."

What? I blink, I needed to get out of here and save Dale too.

"Everything just went south, that bitch of a little sister that he had ratted out on me just because I told her what I really felt."

"What did you feel?" I ask slowly, not giving a rat ass about what she felt but I had to keep her talking till I found a way out that didn't involve a knife ending up in me.

She glances up at me briefly, then crouches down again. "That Dale should be all mine, she was taking too much of his attention that should have been mine."

My eyes widen in horror at the implications of her words. "So you found a way to make her disappear?" I prod, Dale wouldn't want to hear this but if Nicole is the cause of  Jade's death I was going to make sure she paid for it.

Nicole just shrugs, looking unaffected. "It was bad enough that the little bitch kept taking his attention but then some Zeke guy made him go away altogether and no matter how many times I asked, he wouldn't tell me when he was coming back." Her grip tightens around the knife and a magical smile paints her face.