"Here, punch." Adeline raised her hand to take the punch from her friend Marshall. After they had arrived Adaline and Xavier had turned to each other and asked for a few moments alone with their friends.She liked the idea since it was not prom and not many had bothered to bring dates. They were here to have fun with their friends along and enjoy the feeling of exam stress gone.

Xavier and his friends were howling and that somewhat annoyed Adeline, yet she kept quiet and to herself because it was his group and she was no one to interfere. It was their time to enjoy.She smiled as Elizabeth dragged Christie to the dance floor and practically forced her to become her partner to dance with a slow dance. Elizabeth was giggling hysterically whereas Christie had a dead ass expression on her face. She had no intention of enjoying this as she shook her head saying no repeatedly.

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"Come on, baby," Elizabeth twirled her friends around, "Dance with me!"

Christine looked horrified by the attention they suddenly received as they were the only ones of the same gender and one of them was going mad.

But that only ticked her off even more.

Smiling devilishly, she grabbed Elizabeth's waist and they waltzed.

Yes, they waltzed across the floor.

Adeline smiled and giggled at them. The smile on Elizabeth's face was too precious and no one could resist smiling back.

"Hey?" She looked towards Marshall who had called her. "Do you wanna dance?" She looked at his outstretched hand and then at his face.

Marshall was a confident person but now she saw a nervous expression on his face. She couldn't help but want to say yes. He was afraid of rejection and she had no intention of insulting him.

He was a nice guy and a friend. So, dance with him won't hurt.

"Sure, why not." She smiled and took his hand. Something crawled up her spine and she instantly felt bad or...guilty for this decision. It felt to her as if she was cheating by just taking up his dancing invitation and it hurt her. What was this? She was not betraying anyone so what was this feeling?

It was just a dance and the guilt was making her mood dim down.

Inside of holding her lower back, Marshall placed his hand on her upper back. A few inches below her shoulder and she felt comfortable with that. He was looking out of her comfort.

"It's every year." Marshall blurted out.

"Hm?" Widened eyes of that of a Bambi, she asked what was he talking about. The boy was nervous as if it was his first time dancing with a girl.

"I mean the winter dance." He waved his hand around nervously and in a hurry. "It happens every year and for year class. The primary, middle and high school, everyone attends it but it's on different days for more convenience."

She smiled genuinely. "That's so nice." Something burned her back but she didn't pay much attention to it and continued to listen to Marshall.

"Yes, yes. Every year, it's Elizabeth and me as partners. We never have anyone else asking us, so we publically ask each other and embarrass ourselves too." He rambled on and on making Adeline realise that she would rather be in someone else's arms.

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She laughed as Marshall gave her a wild twirl and her dress flew around too. She laughed and demanded it once more and Marshall heartfully complied.

"It's so fun!" She squealed as she saw the whole room. Dancing was fun!

He gently took her hand once more and pulled her away. Raising their joined hands above their heads he circled and gave her a twirl. As she turned around, she collided with someone and stopped due to the harmful impact.

"Hey, careful." She saw Xavier holding her up as someone did with the other girl.

Seeing discomfort on her face, Adeline immediately went to her, apologizing for the nasty collision.

"I am so sorry. I was n-"

"It's okay," the girl smiled sheepishly. "I was staring somewhere else too." She winced and then walked away to her friends.

"You okay?" Holding her hand, Xavier tinted her around to face him and checked her head. "Does it hurt anywhere?"

"No, no." She smiled. "I'm fine. It was the shoulder that collided and it doesn't hurt at all." She shrugged to explain her point further.

"Okay." He smiled but then looked behind her with a furious expression. "You." He hissed.

"Hey, you okay?" Marshall asked staring behind her and she nodded, saying that she was okay.

"Is she?" Xavier hissed from behind her. "You should have been more careful on where you were throwing her instead of laughing about it!"

"Xavier!" She whispered loudly staring at him.

"I didn't mean to!" Marshall came to his defence. "We were just dancing." He was sacred If the buffy guy in front of him and his whole group of friends. It won't be the first time they would beat someone up and Marshall did not want to be on that list.

"And we were," Adeline added too making her mate frown. "Xavier we were dancing how were we supposed to know.." She hinted at the girl.

Xavier looked like he was not going to be convinced of this. He had already made up his mind regarding this.

"Come on, let's go get something to eat." Taking her by her arm he practically dragged her arm and tugged her away from the dance. Adeline had been looking away and apologizing to Marshall. As soon as they walked out of the gym, she tugged her hand back.

"What is wrong with you?" She threw at him.

"Me?" He growled for which she blinked her eyes at that. He growled. "You could have fallen." He barked out.

She pointed to herself. "But I didn't."

"Fallen and bled. Your father entrusted me with this responsibility of getting you home safe and before curfew."

Adeline sighed irritatedly and he sniffed the change in her emotions but he did not care for any of it. she could have gotten hurt as she was a human and was the most fragile person that he knew.

One could grab a human a bit rough and they would fall or bruise up immediately.

"Look, I am standing in front of you and I'm not feeling any kind of pain or discomfort. We were enjoying and I slammed into someone and that was partly my fault as partly hers and nothing major happened so stop thinking about it, it's done." She stressed the work done. It happened and she didn't fall. There was no reason for him to stress too much on it.

He ran his hand over his neck aggressively. He was angry and agitated as well. First, she danced with the Marshall boy and then she was taking his side even though he was clearly at fault for not taking care of her. If she had not been on his side and he would have pretty surely, knocked the boy out cold without thinking twice about it.

"Fine." He grunted out. "Since you are fine by it, I am too."

"Thank you." She stubbornly said and didn't turn to look at him but everywhere else.

He sighed and then pulled her close to him. Hugging her waist he smiled done at her, "Okay, Lil miss angry bird, are you hungry?" He asked as he poked her tummy making her laugh slightly.

Suddenly shy of the attention that she was getting she smiled and nodded not trusting her words.

She looked at him and just shrugged without any emotions.

Xavier scoffed at that. "Are you angry with me?" He mused and started at the girl who was ignoring him.

She shrugged again.

"Ah, what to do." He sighed and barely controlled his laughter. "Hmm. . ." he watched her, who was trying to find something of interest.

"Well. . . " he leaned in and placed his lips right next to her ears. He smirked as the goosebumps appeared on her skin and her breath hitched immediately. The smell of her arousal wafted into the air immediately and he breathed it on loudly making her shudder.

"I apologize baby." He whispered and she whimpered, "But if anyone thinks that they can hurt you and get away, I will make sure to change their minds about it." He vowed and placed a kiss below her earlobe.

He watched his mate who had her lips close and he could smell her dripping. It was pure torture and he was not ready to endure it.

His pants were strained too.

He gently took her lips in his and kissed her. Sucking on the lower lips, he slowly let go as he realised that his self-control would snap.

"Alright, I do find this dance bring so do you want to come with me? We could have something from the McDonald's drive-through."

She smiled as her eyes opened, her anger long gone. "Sure, sounds like a plan."