Ch. 12 The banquet

My dress came along with my make-up. I look in the mirror and say out loud to myself.

"He knew about the banquet. I need to be careful. Especially when Sheela is going to be there too."

I finish with my make-up and head downstairs. Sheela is waiting by my car waiting for me. Vance is with Orlando driving in his car. Me and Sheela decided this so that they would not see our dresses when we got there. As me and Sheela get out of the car, we both see them waiting for us. As they see us, they are stunned. Sheela is blushing like a little kid. We walk inside holding onto their arms. Sheela is amazed at the ballroom. Lots of people were wearing fancy dresses like I expected.

Pink is the color of my dress. A long dress that almost feels like silk. My dress sparkles as I twirled, showing Vance my whole dress.

"Your beautiful."

"Thanks."

"Would you'd care to have our first dance."

"I wouldn't mind."

We danced to two songs along with Orlando and Sheela. I tell Vance that I am going to get a bite to eat. He said he would come with me as well, but I told him to dance with another lady till I got back.

I took a bite of a cookie as my eyes wandered over the crowd of people. My eyes seeing that person from that night. I begin to follow him to the balcony.

"I see you found me," he states.

"Yeah, I have. Who are you?"

"You want to know who I am? Think back in your memories. I am someone you know." He turns around.

"What do you mean?!"

"You'll know soon enough, dear dove." Now he leaves.

"Wait!" I shouted, but he was already gone.

"Jena?" Vance says, coming up to me.

"Huh, ah, yeah." I look at him.

"You, fine?"

"Yes, I'm fine."

"Here's some wine." He offers me a glass and I gladly take it.

"Hmm." I start thinking about that man as I take a sip.

We set our glasses down on the rail. I stare up at the stars. "Jena," he mumbles. I turn my head staring into those brown eyes of his. He grabs my hands and pulls me into him. I feel as through this has happened before. He moves his hands to my hips, and I put my arms around his neck. We lean into each other as our lips meet. The kiss was slow and lasted some minutes. I pulled away, my heart beating against my chest. He pulls me back and we stare into each other. Soon, I kissed his lips biting softly on them. He licks my lips for entrance, and I deny, only teasing him some more. I let my arms fall gently down his chest before turning my back to him to grab my glass drowning the rest of it.

"Vance, let's go dance." I pulled him back to the dance floor.

Not too much longer and Sheela comes to us pulling us out of our dancing.

"Me and Orlando are leaving." She says.

"I guess it is getting late," Vance said.

"Orlando wants to take your car."

"Well it's fine, as long I can drive my lady home," Vance jingles his keys, handing them over to Sheela.

"Don't let her drink too much more," Sheela says, looking over at me as I was drowning another glass of wine.

Vance takes my third glass that I already drank half of and places it down. "Okay, that's enough alcohol for tonight." I whined, "It taste so good though."

He chuckles, "I know and how do you plan on driving?"

"I don't," I fish out my keys, tossing them over to Vance. "You drive me. Your place," I drunkenly breathe onto his lips.

"Your bed is nice and warm," I say.

"And why is that?" he questioned.

"Your lying next to me."

"Yeah, I reckon that when we actually are in bed."

"Yay!" I shout, gazing out the window.

He pulls up into his driveway and turns my car off. We both get out into the chilly air.

Once inside, I threw a pillow at him from his couch. I was a small pillow fight before Vance tackled me, bringing me to his room where he set me onto his bed. He wrapped his arms around me and whispered, "Goodnight."