16th Nightmare

16th Nightmare

NAENAH AKAIBARA'S POINT OF VIEW

"I heard that there's an upcoming masquerade ball and Lexus is involved in that event while Dark Light has an upcoming fashion show."

"Fashion show?" Liana asked.

Liana already apologized to me and I did too so it's just quits. Nothing personal.

"Yeah, Xsantal Kaneshon or also known as the killer, Black Carnation, is also a model like me and also in the same management like me. We're both under the Crimson Management. I just discovered it yesterday while trying to figure out who they are."

"Wait who is the owner of the Crimson Management. I've never heard his or her name on the television. The benefits on their management are pretty good, but they only handle few talents," Tia commented.

"I've never saw him too, but I heard that he's just a college student and he's related to Geom Chang. I think he is his cousin based on what I've heard. He just visit the Crimson Management, but he stays on his other company which is about game developing. Its name is also Crimson. I think it's his passion so he spent his most of his time on that company, but I know his name! He's Deathrode Erebus Wu!"

"I heard his name before!" Liana reacted, "He was in the same school with Yvanna when she was in highschool and Geom became her classmate, right, Vannie?"

Yvanna suddenly choked while drinking water.

"Y-yeah," she stuttered, "I think Deathrode Erebus Wu has also a twin."

"Let's get back to business and stop talking about him because he's not our problem," I said, "We need to kill Lexus!"

A commotion caught our attention. We stopped talking and focus on the commotion. A woman suddenly appeared on Yvanna's window. LX7 is written on her clothes.

"Who are you?"

"You don't need to know me. I'm here to deliver the invitation," she throwed a red invitation towards us, "Master Lexus is expecting you. Especially you, Red Striped Rose. He'll wait for you."

She disappeared on Yvanna's window by jumping out of the window. I stared at the invitation. It's covered by real blood stains. I opened it and saw the message that was made by blood.

Attend the exciting and bloody masquerade ball. You'll sure love what will happen. You'll see me.

※L※

"He's playing with us."

"Are you related to him, Naenah?" Tia asked curiously.

"No! I think he just want to play with us."

"So are we going to attend to that masquerade ball?" Yvanna asked.

"We wouldn't dare to miss this chance. We need to know who is he. We need to end his stupid games. We wouldn't want to risk more of our time with his foolish tactics. We don't know what he's thinking right now. He might kill us anytime."

"Then we need to prepare for it," Liana said.

"She's right! We can't go to that masquerade party without preparing," Tia said.

"Who says we are not prepared? We are! I already ordered your masks and gowns for the masqusrade ball because even If we don't have this $↑!++y invitation, we will still attend that bastard's masquerade party. I also ordered some new weapons."

"Woah! Then you're really prepared!" Yvanna exclaimed.

I winked at her.

"Invitation?" The guard said.

I handed him the invitation. They started checking our things for safety purposes. Ofcourse, we're not stupid to expose our weapons so I ordered weapons that are detector proof and I hid in our gown, on our stockings.

"This a grand Masquerade Ball, huh!" Tia commented.

We settled on a table near the stage. This masquerade ball is not only for illegal transactions, but also for a cause. I heard that there will be an auction later too that will be donated to charities. Lies will be lies. It takes seven compliments to cover one criticism.

"Good evening, everyone!" The girl on the stage greeted.

"Lily?"

"You know her?" Liana asked.

"She's a co-model of mine," I said and saw Geom Chang with LX7, "Geom Chang is here."

Yvanna choked while drinking a glass of red wine again.

"I noticed that you always choked when mentioning Geom Chang, Yvanna. Are you involved in something with?" Tia asked.

"NO! We're just classmates before! That's it! Why would I be involved with him?!" Yvanna answered exaggeratedly to Tia.

"Okay! You're too indenial! So obvious," Tia rolled her eyes.

"I'M NOT!" Yvanna denied.

"Then you're not!" Liana laughed, "Calm down!"

"How can I calm down?! You're triggering me!"

"Okay, we'll stop! Calm down. Focus on our mission," I said, "We need to abduct Geom Chang."

"WHAT?! WHY?!" Yvanna reacted.

"I think he knows a lot about LX7 and Lexus. I'll assign that task to you, Yvanna. It will be easier for you to abduct since you know each other already. I'll focus on Lexus. Liana and Tia, try to distract his men."

Lily was interrupted when a man came to her and whispered something.

"There's a sudden change of plan. Our first activity for tonight will be the auction. In this auction, you can date the special guests that we have tonight. Let's start the auction with our bachelorettes," Lily said and some ladies went to the stage, "There's a surprise! We also have our surprise guests on our auction. Let's call these gorgeous bachelorettes: Naenah Akaibara, Tia Dahlia, Yvanna Haibisukasu and Liana Hinagiku, please come to the stage."

We both gasped in shock. We didn't have any choice, but to stand and go to the stage. We sarcastically smiled at the audience.

"He's really playing with us," I whispered to them while keeping my sarcastic smile.

"One of these bachelorettes will be your exclusive date for the whole night of this masquerade ball if you'll get the bet," Lily announced.

"I'm gonna kill him after this. I just hope that a decent man will get the bet on this auction for me tonight," Yvanna whispered while keeping her fake smile.

Lily starts the auction. Geom Chang bet on Yvanna and he got her. I don't know personally the guys that will be with Liana and Tia and I just hope that Teejay won't get mad. Well! He's not really possessive guy. I was surprised when I saw Andres and he bet on me, but he didn't got me. A clean cut and black haired guy in a mysterious mask got me.

"You're a model, right?" He asked.

"Yeah."

It's a bit awkward around so I don't casully talk to him. I was just silent the whole time I am with him. I didn't see his face yet because he's still wearing the mask the whole time I am with him. A song started to play.

"May I take your hand for a dance?" He asked.

I didn't refused. I really don't have a choice anyway. He's my date for tonight.

We just went to the dance floor and start dancing together without talking to each other until he broke the silence. He went closer to my right ear.

"I don't know that you're this silent with someone you don't know, Red Striped Rose," he whispered and smirk in front of me.

Realization hit me. I stared at his hair and there's some blonde hair strands that escaped from his fake black hair. I glanced at his eyes and realized that it's blue. How could I be so stupid to not notice it?

"Lexus?!" I was a about to get a weapon under my gown when he held my hand to stop me and punched me for several times on my abdomen. He pulled me my hair and pushed me to the floor.

"Naenah!"