" Do you need help" I hear Jonah tell me as I try to tie my tie. I've been trying to fix my tie for the past five minutes. Jonah must have noticed my struggles with this tie. I don't understand why you go to a dance and you have to wear a tie.

This is our Christmas dance today. It's Saturday night. The dance started like two hours ago. So now it's like 8:30 Pm. Tomorrow everyone is leaving campus to go back home for two weeks.

Am wearing a dark crimson red suit. With my cherry red tie if it would work for me. Jessica thought it would be a good idea to choose a color outside of my Comfort zone.

I usually like wearing blue and greens. Like how Jonah suit looks. It has a nice light blue color. Jonah looks great and his suit fits wonderfully around his body.

Wait what am I thinking. Am dating Mark, or are we a thing yet. We have made it official yet, so I won't put a label on us then. I should only put a label on us if he is ready to.

I did have feelings for Johan. Well, I still have some. But the reason I didn't act on them at the beginning was that he had a girlfriend. He still has a girlfriend. Does he even have feelings for me? But he's dating one of my friends. I can't steel her boyfriend. Besides, I have Mark now. But there is that part of me that still wants to be with Jonah.

" Yes please," I tell him as I hand over the tie. He comes up to me and takes the tie and wraps around my neck. He gets right in front of me to tie it. He is usually close to me. For some reason, he also seems a little down. " Hey, are you okay?" I ask him as he starts to put the tie in a loop. " Yeah is fine," he says to me as he stays force on the tie. He doesn't even look up at me. Is he that concentrated on this. " Are you sure. You can tell me whatever you want" I tell him as I put my hand on his shoulder. He is still looking straight down at the ground.

" Just forget about it, Thomas," He tells me as he walks over to his desk and grabs his coat. What could be wrong with him? Something has to be going on with him? Maybe there is something going on with him and Rebecca again. But I shouldn't bring it up to him right before the dance.

Maybe he is cheating on her with someone else. But I don't think Jonah would do that to anyone especially her.

Jonah walks to the door and opens it up to Jessica and Rebecca laughing at each other. Jonah and I both look shocked. Well, Rebecca is not usually the person Jessica would hang out with. " Oh my God, Thomas how come you have never introduced me to your friend," Rebecca tells me as she is still laughing. I would never have guessed they would have gotten along. " Yeah, same," Jessica says to me as she walks over to me. Jessica wraps her arm around my arm as if we were a married couple. It was Jessica's idea that we both wear Crimson red outfits so we could match.

Jessica is wearing a Crimson red wrapped dress. It has a small bow on the side. It is the complete opposite of what Rebecca is wearing. She is wearing a light blue Princess cut dress. That shows off her body really well. It is the complete opposite of Jessica's dress.

" Are you two going together?" Rebecca asked as she walks over to Jonah and starts to fix his hair. He is trying to resist her hands touching his hair. I can tell he has put like two tons of gel in it. " No we both got dates," Rebecca tells her as I grab my suit jacket. "They are probably waiting for us downstairs," I tell her as I put on my jacket. " Oh shit your right," Jessica says as she opens the door. " See you guys later," I tell them as Jessica grabs me by the arms and drags me out of the room.

Jessica starts dragging me down the hall as we passed by a couple of different groups of kids. Jessica is trying to run in heels right now and it doesn't look great. " Should we slow down?" I tell her as she stops. " Yeah, I guess that works," she tells me as we start to walk.

" So when did you become friends, Rebecca," I ask her as we pass by the staircase. Why did we pass by the staircase? It must be the case she's in heels. But I don't think there is an elevator in our building. " Well, she saw me struggling to get up the stairs so she told me to use the elevator." She says to me as we pass through another hallway. " We have an elevator?" I ask her as we make it in front of the elevator. She clicks a button and opens the door" That's what I said. But we talk in the elevator and now we are friends. " she tells me as she clicks the button to the first floor. The elevator shuts the door.

" Do you think nights going to be crazy?" I ask her as I can feel the elevator move. " Yeah for sure," She tells me with a laugh. I start to laugh too. " As long it's not without friends I'll be fine," I tell her as we laughing it off. The elevator opens as we walk out to a hallway that I have never seen before. " This way," Rebecca tells me as she guides me out of the hallway. At the end of the hallway, I can see a door. I don't have much time to think about it before Jessica pulls me out of the hallway. It leads out to the lobby in the back.

We can see out dates watching the staircase for us. Keegan is standing next to Mark. There are a couple of other guys waiting by the stairs as well. I go to call their names when Jessica puts her hand over my mouth. I look at her with a stare that could kill. I can see her mouth something to me. I didn't understand what she said. " What?" I ask very loudly. Both Keegan and Mark turn around to see us and smile. "great job I was trying to scare them." Jessica tells me as we walk over to them.

" Whoa you look great," Mark tells me. " Ugh" Jessica makes sounds towards him. " Both of you, look great," Mark tells us taking back what he had said before.

~~~

There is a huge entrance into the dance. There is a giant hole that leads into the dance. Inside the past the entrance you can see everyone dancing around.

We walk up into the dance, the dance is taking place in the cafeteria. There must have used an enchantment spell that causes the cafeteria is wider and tall inside. There look to be chandeliers made out of icicles. The wall is cover with snow. There are a couple of tables off to the side for people to sit at. At one corner of the room, I see Beth, Samuel, Jeb Lucas, Ned, Liam, and Charlotte sitting at a table.

" We are going to go dancing," Jessica tells me as her and Keegan walk-off. We make it towards the dance floor. I look over at my friends sitting at the table. Why are there just sitting around doing nothing?

I look next to them to see the one and only Peter and he is talking to his groups of friends. Including Dylan and his two friends. I guess now their friends as well. Cause that just great for me. Those guys pick on me and my friends but it's mostly just Dylan. Peter just lets his stupidity get in his way. I just hope they don't try anything tonight cause I want everything to go great for my friends.

" let's go talk to them," I tell Mark as I point at our friends. Right before I said this he looks like he wanted to say something. " Umm sure why not," tells me with a fake smile. I can tell his smile is being forced. His grin seems like he doesn't want to. This seems a little off for him.

We walk over to the table to see everyone talking. " What are you guys doing," I ask them as everyone looks up at me. " Talking?" Charlotte sarcastically tells us. "See nothing wrong. Let's go dance now" Mark tells me as he grabs my hand trying to leave the table. Lift my hand out of his grip. What's gotten into him today? I wonder if everything is okay.

" Not yet," I tell him as I look back at the group. I can tell on his face he is trying to hold something back. " Guys come on this is the Christmas Dance. Let's have fun. Go dance. " I tell them as Liam stands up and walks over to Charlotte. " sure," she tells him before he gets the chance to speak.

I watch as there get up from the table. Charlotte is not even wearing a dress. Hey but that's her style. Liam and Charlotte have been friends just as long as Jessica and I have been. I watch as they start to dance.

I look back at the table to see Lucas and Samuel discussing to each other. Then there stand up and walk over to Beth and Jeb. They reach their hands out as both they grab there hands. " Oh that was smooth," Mark tells me. He was right. There walk on to the dance floor. Just leaving Ned at the table by himself. There is so no one else there. " Looks like am stuck here. " He says to me as he puts his feet on the table.

I start to look around into I see Chole. I sit down next to him. I look up to see Mark looking down at me. " Hey Ned you see that girl there," I tell him as I point at Chloe. " Yeah, why," He tells me. " Where go ask to dance," I tell him. " No. I don't even know here," he says to me with an angry look. " Hey it's just a suggestion," I tell him as I get up.

" Well, Mark shall we dance," I say to him as he nods his head real fast. We head to the dance floor. A slow song is on right now. I see him look back at Ned. " Really know you and how much you like to help people. I thought you would have made him ask Dance." He tells me as I laugh. " Why are you laughing," he asks me as we make to the middle of the dance floor. " Look back at him," I tell him. He looks back at Ned to see him get up from the table. He walks over to Chloe. After a couple of seconds, they start to walk towards the dance floor. " You use a spell?" he asks me.

I would never use a spell on my friends for something like that. I don't want to make it sound like that comment made me upset. Cause it did make me upset." No why would I use a spell when I have reverse psychology." I tell him trying to play it off. " Oh, I see," He tells me.

When standing there for a couple of seconds of silence. Into Mark grabs me by the waist and pulls me in. We hook our hands together to start dancing. Then the music starts to speed up into an upbeat song. Everyone starts coming on to the dance floor jumping up and down. I see Marks look down.

" Hey, it's fine. Am sure there will be another slow song." I tell him as he gives me a warm smile. I can he is trying to be happy right now. Why does he feel like he needs to fake it? But I'll ask him about it later. Tonight is not the night. I don't want to start any drama right now. I want tonight to go as smoothly as possible.

~~~

It's about two hours now from when got here and tonight has been going incredible. I have had a great time dancing with Mark. But there still hasn't been any slow songs yet. Am sitting a table trying to relax my feet. " Everything okay" Mark comes up to handing me some punch to drink. He went to get me some punch cause it is so hot in here. Even though half the room is covered in ice. We have been sweating a lot.

I pull my dress shoes off to see my sock has a hole in it. " I must have danced a hole into," I say to him as we laugh.

" Hey guys" I hear Jeb's voice call out from behind us. We both turn around to see Jeb walking over to us. He has been sweating a lot as well. Mark sit don next to me. "Having you guys seen Lucas? I went to the bathroom like 30 minutes came back and I haven't been able to find him. I've been searching everywhere for him." He tells us as we look at each other. " No we haven't," Mark told him. I haven't seen him, Lucas, all night. I think I would be much help.

Then I see Beth Jump behind Jeb. Making Jeb jump up in flight. " What's up?" Beth says after scary Jeb. " Jeb can't find his boyfriend. " I tell her jokingly. Everyone laughs at this into Beth turns around and stops laughing really fast. This concerns me that she stop so fast. What could have made her stop laughing?

Into I look over at the other side of the Dance floor. I see Lucas hiding in the corner of the room. You can nearly miss him with all the dancers. But it's hard to miss Lucas making out with some girl. She is on top of him making out. I think Jeb sees this cause gets up really fast and starts to speed walk over to him.

Beth fellows close behind him. I also fellow right behind them into halfway through the Dance floor I feel someone pull me back by my hand. They pull me by my hand so far it though be off Guard. It makes me fall on the ground. I look to see Mark holding my hand while am on the floor.

I get up real fast hoping no one saw that. I go to continue following them. Until I feel his hand hold me back again. I need to be there to support my friend though this.

I look up at him. Why is he holding my arm? I need to go and check on him. " Let go pleased," I tell him as I point at his hands. " No," He tells me as he tries to drag me away from them. What the hell is he doing? " Let go," I tell him firmly as I try to pull away from him. He moves his grip to my wrist. I could use a spell on him but I rather not use spells on my friends.

"That's Jeb's own business there's no need to get in it," He tells me brutally. He right it is his business but as a good friend, a have to be there for him. Why is he acting like this he knows I like to put my friends and family before me. I look back over at Jeb and Lucas. To see Jeb smack Lucas right in the face and runoff. With Beth right behind Jeb.

"Yeah but I have to be there to support him," I tell him to try to get his hands to let go of my hand. I should be with them to make him feel better.

"Thomas you need to stop thinking about your friends so much and about your self." He tells me angrily as he pulls hard on me. Why is acting so harsh and in front of everyone? " Yeah, they're your friends and all but you never think about yourself. You always want to make sure everyone else around feels great. It's honestly kinda toxic Thomas. " He tries to tell me in the most sensitive way but just comes out rude.

What am not being toxic? What now he is being more toxic by doing this whole scene in front of most of the school. I look around to see that we have started to gain a crowd of people. I feel a sharp pain in my wrist. I look down to see my whole hand and wrist is bright red. I haven't really noticed the pain until now.

But before I can say anything I hear Jonah loud voice. " let go of him now" Jonah says coming through the crowd me and Mark had attracted during our fight. I wouldn't really call it a fight. It's just disagreement but Mark did hurt me.

" Oh yes. Aren't you guys just love it when two Fags just fight." I hear Dylan say from behind us. I look down at Mark he still has his grip on me. " Umm, yep" I hear Peter say next to Dylan. " Epically the type of faggot that will just love to be in control. The type that is not afraid to abandon his family" Peter says to everyone in the circle. What his Peter talking about. I have never abandoned my family. According to Mark, I think about them too much. " The kind that will go against traditional to just have the attention" Peter counties on. I feel Marks grip losses. But before Peter could continue on Mark goes running towards him at full speed punching him.

The Mark punch him again, and again, and again. He's not stopping. I can hear Mark saying things to him under his breath. One of them sticks out to me.

" Peter you are a shit brother" Mark yells at him. Mark and Peter are brothers. That makes sense why Mark had an invitation to that party. Why he didn't talk to his family much. Then I think about how Mark is still attacking Peter. That why Mark said he has known Peter for must of his childhood. They were in the same pod cause the are siblings.

I need to stop this. Then I see Mark's body freeze up. Then in walks, Ms. Anderson and Ms. Victoria breaking up the circle. Ms. Victoria, she must have used a spell on him. Everyone immediately leaving to go and start to dance again.

I see my aunt and Ms. Victoria guide them both out of the hall. I go to fellow them to make everything is okay. That when I hear a soft voice. "Thomas where you going" I hear Jonah ask me. I turn around to see an unhappy face on him. Now, what can be wrong with him? "Am going to make sure that he is okay?" I tell him as I start to walk again.

Before I get far I see Jonah run in front of me. " Wait, Wait," He tells me as he puts his hand out in front of me. He trying to stop me. " You are going to check on the guy who hurt you?" He tells me as he softly grabs my arm to show me. " Well, he's my friend," I tell him as he softly touches my arm. I look down at my wrist to see a red mark on my arm. He's looking down at my hand. He just softly touching it. Why is he looking down at my hand like that?

" Does it hurt?" He asks me as he touches it still. " Not much, my body can heal really fast. " I tell him as I move my hand away from him. He let my hand go. I start to walk away from Jonah to do to Mark.

I walk past a group of people dancing around. I walk through the huge entrance. Then I realized I haven't heard anything from Jonah. Or I haven't felt anyone pull me back. I stop and turn around to see Jonah standing there looking at me. Why is he just standing there? Is he not going to stop me. I don't why but I have this feeling in my stomach.

Then he starts to walk towards me. What am I doing? I should go and see if Marks okay. But I just don't know why am here.

My brain is wanting me to run off and go to Mark and check on Jeb. My brain is telling me that I should find Jessica. My brain is telling me that I should hide. But my heart is telling me to stay. My heart is saying to wait for him. My heart is... I don't know.

He walks up to me and he stands there in front of me. What should I do? I still feel like I should run. But why would I run? Cause I want to go check on Mark or to hide from Jonah.

Then he stands he wipes his hands around my body into a hug. I can feel the warmth of his body on me. I don't know why but this makes me feel safe. I feel the warmth in him. I can have the feeling in me that I did the first time he had a hug on his bed.

I return his hug back to him. I can hear the up best music switch into a slow song. Ha, I've been waiting all night for a slow song. I don't have anyone to Dance with. That's when I can feel Jonah start to move around. Is this his attempt at a slow dance. I was going to return his poor dancing skills with some of my own. I look back at the dance hall to see everyone there. We are still in the huge entranceway. Then I think about Rebecca.

" We can't, you have a girlfriend," I tell him as pull back from his grip. I can't hurt my friend's heart. " We broke up. We were both unhappy." He tells me. I thought he was going to step towards me. When he didn't I took step towards him. Making the space between us even smaller now. I just wrap my hands around him. We start to dance to the song playing.

We dance for the rest of the night without talking for some reason we can both have a conversation with each other without speaking. Like we did the first time on my bed as we cuddle. We just dance as if nothing wrong went on tonight.