No other boy out of the six really came up to me and greeted themselves and tried to talk to me. I was too busy eating dessert and getting chocolate on my hands and trying not to smear it on my dress. While stuffing a chocolate covered marshmallow in my mouth, a shadow casts over my body. I look up to see Mr. Hansel glaring down at me with a smile. He sits down at the chair across from me meanwhile I'm trying to swallow the marshmallow. "Do you know that eating chocolate by yourself like a weirdo at a table isn't going to help getting chosen by the six?" He asks and I shrug my shoulders. "I spoke to one." He lifts up an eyebrow. "Oh really?" "Yes, Evan Blackwell." Mr. Hansel leans back in his seat while thumping his fingers along the table. "Interesting and how did that go?" I shrug again. "I don't know after talking for a while he kind of bugged out and wasn't himself." "Did you say something bad?" "No just that I don't want to get chosen." He signs and runs his hand through his hair. "God Adeline." He mutters and I roll my eyes. "What was I suppose to do. Lie? Say that I do want to get chosen?" "Yes, because you are going to let them think that you do want to go home and you will." "And how about if I do!" I bark back slamming my fork on the table and crossing my arms over my chest. He leans over the edge of the table to be closer to me. "You are being stubborn, you know that?" He whispers while looking around us. "So get up and talk to the other ones like everyone else is doing." He adds before getting up and walking away. I glare at his back while burning holes through the back of his head. I see him shake his head before walking back to Fiona and talking to her. I huff out an air of breath before getting up and walking to the crowd of people. I just wanted to see Evan and ask him if everything is okay but I couldn't find him. I feel someone's arm slang over my shoulder and I turn my head to see him right next to me. "Ev-" I cut myself off before I realized who it really was. "Miles." I correct and a smirk is on his stunning face. "You look fabulous Adeline." I pull away from his hold on me and he frowns when I do. "Sorry but your brother beat you to it by giving me a compliment." "So my baby brother is getting you aye?" I ignore his question. "Evan is the youngest twin?" He shakes his head. "Nope." "But you just said-" "Yeah I say baby brother because he is usually the baby. He's the oldest by two minutes." "How cute. You are the baby one." I say sarcastically and he rolls his eyes. "Shut up." "Aw someone is getting sad." I pout out my bottom lip while he purses his lips into a thin line. "Oh Adeline, you shouldn't play with me like that. I always win the games." I cross my arms over my chest. "And what game do you think I'm playing?" I stay still while he walks up to me until we are touching. He wraps his arm around my waist and brings his face to the side of mine. His breath is fanning my neck and I feel goosebumps rushing along my body. "You know what game." He says before I feel his tongue suck my earlobe lightly. I gasp at the feeling before he pulls away and vanishes in the crowd with a large smirk on his face. I watch him disappear and after I shake the thought out. He's just trying to get me to him. And he's not. I turn around to walk away but I bump into one of the six. He has blond hair and ocean blue eyes. He smiles when he sees me and sticks his hand out. "Hi I'm Cameron Paloutous." I shake his warm hand which felt welcoming softy. "Adeline O'Here." He looks up and down at my body figure and I know he is interested in just my body. "So do you-" He is cut off by Piper who places her hands on his shoulders. "Hey guys I'm sorry to disrupt." She looks at me while winking before going in front of me. "Hi I'm Piper and you are?" Cameron looks at her then looks over her to me then back to her. Totally confused. "Ugh, Cameron." "Nice to meet you." She pauses before turning around to look at me. "Adeline, someone wants to talk to you where the desserts are." "Are you kidding me." I say. "No like now." She seemed determined while I sigh and walk out of the crowd. I walk to the desserts and now I see why she wanted me to go. Evan is by himself staring out at the large window which shows the lit night sky from the moon. His hands are in his dressy black pants and his face is glistening bright from the moon. "Um, hey." I awkwardly start off and he snaps his head to look at me. "Oh Adeline. About earlier, I'm sorry that I freaked out and left you." I shake my head, placing my hand on his arm. "Don't worry it's fine. It happens to everyone." "Yeah but what I did was rude." "Stop it. You don't have to apologize." He bites his bottom lip like he didn't know what to say. "So you don't want to get chosen right?" "Yeah." I quickly say. Evan stares down at his shoes while awkwardly shifting. "That's why you were avoiding everyone and eating chocolate dessert by yourself?" I open my mouth shocked with a gasp. "You were watching me!" I say while giggling. "I was just wondering what you were doing and you seemed sad." "No I'm fine but yeah, I'm avoiding everyone." He looks at me in the eyes and something about the color makes me warm in the inside. Suddenly, the music ended and everyone got quiet. "I'm sorry but the party has officially ended. Will the boys leave first to go back to your dorms and to chose who you will be keeping. And as for the girls, you will leave after and tomorrow will be the choosing day as in if you go home or not. Thank you and have a goodnight." The same man who greeted the boys to the party earlier says with a microphone. The boys said their final goodbyes to the girls they were talking to and walked out the doors together. I turn back to Evan who has a grin on his lips. "Well, it was nice talking to you." He whispers like he was sad. "Same to you, Evan." I smile to try and make him feel happy. He stares at me before grabbing my cheeks with his hands and bring my face to his. He slowly presses his lips against my forehead and kisses me. I didn't think he'd kiss me. I thought he'd hug me or something. Or not kiss me only on my forehead. "I'm sorry." He whispers before walking away and joining the six boys. I silently watch him fade into the darkness. ~~~~~~~~~ I wake up from the sound of birds chirping out my window. I groan in annoyance while I slowly get up. It must be early and yesterday I was so exhausted, when we reached out dorm, I changed and didn't even clean my makeup or anything. I go in the bathroom and I clean my face with makeup removers. After I take out the bobby-pins that were put in my hair last night to make it look like a messy bun. Piper wakes up after me when I get out of the bathroom and she goes in quickly. I change out of my pajamas and I realized that today is the day whether I know that I go home or not. I feel anxiety creeping in me again. Fiona's voice appears in the speaker while Piper comes out of the bathroom. "Will the girls please come to the dining room for the chosen six who will be staying. Thank you." After Piper changes, we both walk down to the dining room where everyone else is. Mr. Hansel is sitting at a table with Fiona and our teachers we had this week. When everyone arrived, Fiona stands in the front of the room and grabs all of our attentions. "Good morning everybody. I would like to say, whether you get chosen or not, you all are amazing independent women. You all are placed in my heart." She pauses before taking a deep breath. She places a folder she was holding in her hands on the podium in front of her. "Now I will be saying the boy's names one by one and after saying one, I will call a girls name. If your name is called, you will stand up and take a seat at one of these chairs next to me." Next to her was six empty seats, my stomach turns. "Ryder Cole chose Danielle Nami." She pauses and looks up at the group of us. A petit dark skinned girl gets up and walks to one of the empty seats and sits down. The teachers and Mr. Hansel clap. "Cameron Paloutous chose Francesca McKay." She gets up also and sits next to Danielle. My heart is racing and I don't know why. Whether I want to go home or not. "Kaden Jones chose Piper Woods." I turn my head to Piper who's eyes have widen. I smile for her while her lips are twitching to smile but she couldn't let it out. People applaud for her as well as I. She sits next to Francesca and looks at me with a worried look on her face. "Asher Forman chose Erica Manson." A girl with big curly hair that seems like she can't tame sits besides Piper. "Miles Blackwell chose..." I close my eyes, hoping he didn't pick me. "... Amber Scorch." A squeak of excitement slipped out of Amber's lips while she got up and skipped next to Erica, plopping her butt on the empty seat. There's one more next to her and I didn't get picked yet. One out of fifteen girls in the crowd. I glance my head to Mr. Hansel is he looks at me with a small smile. I quickly look away because I don't know what to do. "Lastly, Evan Blackwell chose..." It's me.It's not me.It's me.It's not me.It's me. It's- "... Adeline Cooke." -not me.