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"Do I look fat?" I turn away from the mirror and look back at Bella, "do you really want me to answer that?" My mouth drops open, "no, Al, you do not look fat, you have the perfect body shape," she looks up and down my body, I smile, "thanks, Bells" I go to my closet and grab my dress, "so who is taking you too the ball?" Bella asked as she helped me up on my dress, "um, Damon is taking me," I mutter.

She stops what she is doing ad looks at me with a big grin, "when?" I clear my throat, "this morning," I feel my cheeks grow hot, she makes a sound, but before she could talk I did, "but that does not mean we are together, we are just friends," I feel a burn in my mouth sating that me and Damon are just friends.

I don't want to be just friends.

A frown touched her lips, "damn," she mutters, "come on I want to get this dress on," I change the subject. When we got the dress on, I look at myself in the mirror, "you look beautiful, Al," Bella place her chin in my shoulder, I glance down at her, "thank you, Bella," I place the side of my head on her forehead, "love you," she mutters, "love you too," I mutter back.

We set they're for a second before the door opens, me and Bella turn around and I see Maya, "we got to do your hair," she holds up a bag, "I'll be getting ready," Bella tells me, I nod. Bella gives Maya hug then walking out of the room, "so what hairstyle do you want?" Maya sets the bag down.

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We are finally done; I got my hair up into a French braid and it is put up in a bun, two stings of hair are down on my face. I got my makeup done too, I have a dark blue smokey eye, and dark red lipstick. "I love it," I smile looking at myself, "you did awesome, Maya," I see a faint blush appear on her cheeks, "you have a good night, Alaska," she comes by me, I look at her, "you're not coming?" she shakes her head, "no, I'm going to spend time with my boyfriend," she blushed darker.

I smirk, I bump my shoulder on hers, "well you have fun," I wink at her, her eyes widen, and she turns around, "U-um I got to go," she stumbles on her words, I bite my lip stopping me from laughing, she goes to the door, "have fun," she mumbles and goes out the door. I let out a laugh, I let out a big sigh and straighten out my dress, the door opens, and I see Nev come in, she gasps when she sees me, "damn girl, you hot as hell," she whistled, I chuckle, she opens her arms and gives me a hug, "Damon s going to fall to his knees when he sees you," she whispered in my ear.

My neck to my ears gets hot. I clear my throat, "are you sure you don't want to go?" I pull out of her hug, she nods, "I'm pretty sure," she chuckles, "ok, we'll have fun," I kiss her cheek. The door open and Bella and Kat enter the room, "you all look beautiful," Nev smiles at Kat, who smile back at her, "thanks," Bella grins. Nev flashes one back and kissed me on the cheek, "call me if you need me," she mutters and goes out of the room.

Bella walks over to me, "you ready?" I nod and grab my purse, we go out of my room, and we go down the stairs where Damon and Ares are. They both look up and I see Damon eyes widen, he mutters something under his breath and holds out his hand, "you look beautiful," he whispers in my ear, I blush but let out a breath not letting him see my redden cheeks.

Ares whispers something him Bella's ear making her blush and her eye widen, Kat holds Ares hand as we go out to the limo, I set down and Damon seats right beside me.

I feel my phone buzz, I get it out of my purse and check it. "I'm going enjoy killing your little boyfriend and you." my heart drops as I read the text message. My phone buzzes again and I dare to look at it, "you're a fucking slut." I close my eyes and breath in slowly and let out a breath, I put my phone away and I see Damon looking at me, "you, ok?" I bite my lip nodding.

He knows that I'm lying. He always knew that I was lying.

Fuck.

But he does not push me to tell him the truth, he just looks at Bella.

Ok, weird.

All the way to the ball me and Damon did not talk, but I could feel him staring at me as I look out the window. I feel the limo stop, Ares and Damon get out first, Ares helps Kat and Bella out. Damon helps his hand out, I grab his hand, I feel sparks go through my body when I touched him. He helps me out and we walk into the ball.

I look around and see everyone looks at us, I feel my body get tense, "don't pay attention to them, angelo," I gasp when I feel his breath on my neck, "I'm not," I say confidently, looking away from them.

We go set down, Damon sets at the end of the seat and so does Ares, "Katerina you stay here no matter what ok?" Bella locks her gaze on her, "yes, mommy," Bella smiles and kissed the top of her head.

It feels like Deja vu looking around the ball, I remember the last time I was here I got shot.

I hope I don't get shot this time.

A hand goes on my lower back, I glance at Damon who has a tiny smirk on his lips, "let's go dance," he grabs my hand and pulls me out of the seat. When we got in the dance floor, he puts his large hand on my lower back and his fingers go through mine, I put my hand on his shoulder.

Even in heels I can't even reach his to his chin. He has to look down to meet eye contact with me. "Do you even know how to dance?" I chuckle, he snickers, "no, but I can't just let you set there looking all pretty, now, can I?" He locks his lips. I thin my lips, "nope," I tilt my head. "I guess not," I mutter looking around.

We dance for a while, till my feet were killing me, "I got to go set down," I groan, I let go of Damons hand and start to walk to Ares and Bella, "so, where is Ace?" I have not seen him all day today, "he is coming with Sebastian and his mom and dad," I lick my lips, wetting them, "when should they be here?" Bella looks at the time on her phone, "anytime," I nod.

"What are they doing this year?" I look at Ares, "they are going to announce awards and then after that everyone just party," Ares shrugged, ok, thanks," Ares nods and glanced at Bella. "You already know that you're going to get called up, do you?" Damon asked, "yep," I rub my temples.

I have not been to the Mafia ball for almost four years, Bella has gone to everyone and has gotten three awards. Me and Bella have many awards from here, but we never cared. We have gotten awards since we were nineteen and I'm twenty and she is twenty four six, so we gotten a lot of trophies.

The doors open and I see Seby and Vic, I see Ace already at the wine bar, "Ares can you go get Ace, and don't let him get him a drink," Bella says giving Ares a dark glare, Ares eyes widen and hurry and goes to Ace.

Bitch his whipped.

Seby and his mom and dad set down in front of us, "it is about time you got your asses here," Bella scolded, "Sebastion and Ace did not want to go,' Vic mutter giving Seby a death stare, "mamá," (ma) Seby rolls his eyes, "bueno, es cierto," (well, it is true) "no, no lo es" (no, it is not), Seby argues back.

I feel turned on...

I clear my throat and get up, "I'm going to get a drink," I mumble, Damon gets up letting me get out, "want me to come with you?" Damon winders, "no, I need to by myself," I don't let him talk back I just walk away.

"Cocktail, please," I tell the bartender. She walks away.

I take out my phone and read the text message over and over again, "slut," goes through my mind, "you're a fucking slut you hear me. A slut," I get lost in my memory. I feel my eyes get watery. I was popped out of my mind when a drink was laid down in front of me, I pick the drink up and take a sip of it.

I tried to get them memory out of my head, but they always come back. What if it is him? Is he here to kill me? Like he always said h would.

"ебать," (fuck) I mutter in Russian, "you ok Al?" Bella voice made me pop my head up, "yeah, why wouldn't I be?" I scoff, she shrugged, "I just got a feeling that your sad," she's right I am fucking sad and mad.

"No, I'm not," I lie out of my fucking ass, she nods and sets down, "what she got," she tells the Bartender. "When will they be calling awards?" I ask keeping my head down, 'about ten minutes," I sip down the rest of the drink, "I don't think that we should go up there," I speak, her eyebrows pull, "why?" Bella takes a drink of her cocktail, "I mean we still have hundreds of people that want to kill us. How do you know there not here?" I lay y elbows on the bar, "Ares made sure there was no one here to kill us, and so did Damon, they even looked around to make sure, you got nothing to worry about, Al," sure I don't.

I sigh, "ok," I force myself to agree. "Ladies and gentlemen, can I have your attention," a man's voice made me and Bella turn our head, "we got to go back to the boys," Bella gets off of the chair, I do to and walk to the table, Damon gets up and lets me in the seat, I set down, Damon slides beside me, his arm goes the back of the seat, behind my head.

"We are going to call some announcements, if you hear you name come up," the man says, "do you get an award?" I ask Damon, "no, this is only for assassins, Mafia men or women don't get awards," he whispers back to me, "oh, nice," I mutter.

"Alaska Amana and Bella Petrov, the most dangerous and feared assassin, also a part of the top five best assassin board," my heart sank when I heard my voice, clapping goes all around us, "Angelo, puoi farlo"(angel, you can do this) Damon's deep Italian voice rings in my ear, I sigh and get out of the seat, Bella grabs my hand, "you can do this," Bella whispers, "I know, but I don't want to," I scoff, Bella rolls her eye.

When we reach the man, he gives us a gold trophy, "have a great day," he holds out his hand, waiting for us to shake his hand, "yeah, no," me and Bella both say and just walk off the stage. "Good job, Amore," Ares kissed Bella on the lips, "Kat say good job to mommy," Ares turn to Kat, "can I have the trophy, mommy?" Kat tried to reach the trophy, "sure if you can lift it," Bella puts it down on the table.

I glare at Bella, "what?" she mouths smirking.

She knows that it wights like ten pounds.

"You're a bitch mommy," Kat glares at her, I bite my lip holding in my laugh, so does everyone else, "Ares if you laugh you will be sleeping outside," she pats his cheek, he clears his throat, "Kat don't say that," Ares pulls her closer to him, "but you say that to her when she is not listening," Ares's eyes widen, "shit," he mutters, "Ares we need to talk when we get home," Bella crossed her arms, "sure, Amore," Kat giggles.

I turn around and put my face in Damon's chest, laughing, "shit," I wipe a tear going down my cheek from laughing so hard, "Alaska," Damon clears his throat, I look around and see an angry Bella, "hey I'm your best friend don't even think about it," I point a finger at her. She rolls her eyes.

I smile and turn back around only to see Damon about two inches away from my face, my eyes fall on his lips, "um, sorry," I pull away from him.

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When we got home, I take my dress of and take a shower, after I was done with my shower, I go straight to bed.

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