Banquet (7) Dancing at the end of the night

Adam hold her little sister hand and facing her. His grey eyes dimmed because his back covering the lamp lights, He looks like a fine gentleman who almost ready to take the lucky girl dancing all night with his extended hand reaching Edith.

"Will my little sister care to dance with me tonight?" He asks softly, almost like a honorable man courting a noble lady.

"Of course, it would be my pleasure." She reaches his extended hand and letting herself be guided into the dance floor. The servant took her outer caped suit from the previous man and ordering him to bring it into the carriage before she dance.

Both of them joining the dancing crowd. She put her hand on Adam's shoulder while her other hands held his arms. Edith could feel her strong hand circling her waist, keeping her safe.

Pair of her red eyes saw his step-brother smiling face. 'This world sense of beauty definitely in another level. I know that Edith is a beauty, but everyone who presents in here also above average if I comparing them with people in my previous world.' she thought.

"I won't say anything if my little sister happens to stepping on my foot tonight." Adam's said almost whispering to her little sister all of a sudden.

Edith who heard his words paled and woke up from her daydream. Her changing expression strike Adam's causing a buck of cold sweat on his back.

'Shit !! I totally forgot that!' She's inwardly cursing in her mind. Even if she had the original Edith memories, it doesn't mean she could dance exactly like the original.

"Don't tell me ?" Adam asks her suspiciously.

Edith only nodded her head while gave him her sheepish smile. "Sorry..." She said almost apologetic.

Adam's felt helpless. What he was worrying eventually happen, Edith stepping on his foot in every moves. Even tough her moves flawless and beauty, her miss steps hurting him a lot. He tried to hold in his pain deliberately as long as he danced with her.

"Did you h-hate me that much ?" He asks almost crying. The pain accumulating on his foot was no joke, it keep stinging him hard and her constant assault keep progressing in steady manners.

"I'm Sorry !!!" Edith was feel guilty conscience to her older brother. "I love you, brother." She added, tried to lessen Adam's misery by showering him lovely words.

In another person point of view, The Geneivre siblings seemed enjoying their dance together. The step-brother who constantly protecting his little sister from lecherous gaze and the little sister who accepting her Older-brother gesture happily. Denying the old rumors about a bad blood between them.

No ones realized that the little sister keep stepping on her older-brother foot, unlike a certain person on the 2nd floor who keep watching them from the start. The crown prince keep stealing a glance at the Geneivre siblings directions, feeling restless because Edith was blatantly ignoring him.

At the end of the dance, everyone stopping their waltz and curtsying to each other. Edith knows well on where did people gaze went, She was becoming the center of attention for this dance. Majority of the man keep their eyes on her along with some of the noble lady.

Never did the original Edith got everyone attention on positive matters. It always on the opposite, Edith herself felt strange and overjoyed in a sense of accomplishing what the original can't do.

"Our household probably will be busy enough by the suitor." Adam's calmly muttering his mind while extending his hand to his little sister.

"What are you talking older brother, I'am too young to get married." she stated calmly, taking her older-brother hand and letting Adam lead her to the side of dance floor. 'infact I am too old to be in love with the youngsters.' She thought.

"I won't be surprised if the crown prince will knock our mansion in the future." He said jokingly.

"That's the last thing that I won't mind to discard it." Edith smiled back at her older-brother who get shocked by her statement.

"You're lying ?..."

"Do i look lying to you ?"

Adam could see Edith seriousness from her face, her curving smile nowhere to be found. All he could do was frown because not too long ago his little sister was crazy over the crown prince and her reason tonight was obviously unbelievable. Adam's decided to just go along with it.

amidst of it Edith knews that the crown prince constantly looking at her side when she talk with her Older brother.

Ferael himself didn't quite understand on what happened to him. In fact, he was displeased. By the end of the dance, he's still lost in his thought even when the guest party tried to engage a conversation with him. He will steal a glance at Edith directions, feeling wary on her.

Beatrice was constantly in worries, both because of the new bitch who dared to seducing her fiancée and the other ones because of the Geneivre bitch change of atmosphere. Edith countenance along with her behavior filled with elegance, more mature and ladylike. Ferael constant glance on Edith made her burning inside.

'That bitch must be planning on something ! I can't let her taking Ferael attention like this again!?' Beatrice was gritting her teeth. Her gaze filled with malice even tough she was smiling in front of the guest.

Her grip on the crown prince hand hardens, drawing his attention back to her.

"What's wrong ?" Ferael asks her in monotone.

"Nothing, I'm just thinking that your grace seems tired. No ?" said Beatrice trying to sound as worried as possible.

"You're just imagining things. I'am perfectly fine." He stated sternly.

"I am just concerned about you, your grace." She said, trying to be sweet. The guest around them looks awkward, some of them keen enough that the crown prince looking at Geneivre daughter, He was the son of Viscount Cassady.

Meanwhile, Adam and Edith was in fact enjoying their conversation with another noble household. Tonight, never did she tried to look at the crown prince directions.

'Like hell I would lay my eyes on him again.' Edith thought, while shifting her gaze on the other side deliberately avoiding crown prince constant gaze. She tried to look on another guest when her eyes landing to a man on the 2nd floor.

His dark red hair stood out with the golden eyes studying her. Their eyes met in the air and in an instant Edith knews that the man was the one whom she kissed earlier before. Edith's cheeks immidiately reddened, she remembered on how passionately he kissed her.

On how his tongue savoring every part of her mouth made her heartbeat beating so fast. She could see the man named Isaac smiling while licking his lips, spelling the word 'Thank you for the meals.' slowly.

Edith turned her face as soon as possible, preventing Isaac from seeing her red cheeks and ears.

'What the fuck !? he is the man who french kissing me !!' She exclaimed to herself.

Adam's who sees her blushing rendered speechless because she was so pretty under the glass lamp light with her peach painted cheeks. But he dismissed the thought because she was his little sister.

"Edith ?" He asks, gaining her attention. "Is there something wrong ?"

"N-no..." She hesitated but decide to ask it. "Do people around here use their tongues when kissing?"

Now it's not only Adam who was affected by Edith's question, the Harrison's first son 'Jade Harrison' who was at Adam's side suddenly choked.

Jade looked at the young lady who was whispering to her older brother, making sure that his hearing was fine. However, seeing the brother who was frozen still proved that what the young lady muttering was true to its mean.

'Well, the Young Lady Geneivre is truly appetizing. No man can resist it.' Jade thought after examining her appearance tonight.

"NO !! Where did you hear that ?" Adam's strongly denied it.

"Oh, No ones..." She said weakly, 'So its not common in here.' She thought. maybe that man named Isaac is the only ones who did that. As she deep in thought, Edith meets another pair of eyes who was brave enough to studying her. He was Jade Harrison, the first in line to inherit the ducal Harrison household.

Edith curtsying him politely and pretending to know that he heard what she was asking her older brother. She shifted back her sight on to the red haired man place ignoring her older brother ramblings until to finds out that the man had already left.

The banquet ended at midnight, everyone including Adam and Edith returned to their respective mansion, while the guests whose homes were far from the palace returned to the inn where they were staying.

On the road back, Edith decided to sleep and do the thinking tomorrow morning about her new discovery.

She just want to sleep.