Once a Dare leads to Love (BOOK 1)

|41|Perfect Yet Imperfect|

I assumed the person with his back facing me was Eric. I only made it out to his clothes and he was wearing black pants with, no doubt, a white shirt, and a black vest.

Zack shouted as he stood up abruptly from his stool. "Who is that? Am I the only one hallucinating that girl as Rosalyn or is that girl really her?"

I immediately moved my head back and looked towards the direction he was pointing. Well, it indeed was Rosalyn, dancing with a guy or more like grinding with him in a very scandalous way.

Oops! She didn't seem drunken to me. Then... I grinned when I sensed some drama was on its way.

"She is." I heard Eric confirmed before he added, "You told her where are we going?"

"No. I just told her I'm going on a boys' night out and that's all." He gritted rather angrily.

"Then she probably used her ways to find out where are we going and came here. Come on, our boys' night out doesn't have a good reputation. You shouldn't have told her. But it's quite amusing to see she succeed in provoking you." Owen said with a chuckle.

Oh, so coming to this masquerade party was Rosalyn's plan. That also explained why she was so impatient to come here.

"Provoking or not. Are you going to kick some sense in that fucker over there or should I go? She is my sister you damn it!" Eric shouted and before I knew, Zack made his way towards them before saying, "I'm going."

I sipped my champagne and watched with amusement as Zack made his way towards them and said something to that guy, who in return yelled back at him. Then Zack put his mask down and glared at Rosalyn then back at that guy. I watched as he again said something to that guy who looked very terrifying before he disappeared somewhere in the crowd.

I chuckled. Pretty dramatic! Then Zack held Rosalyn's hand and dragged her somewhere with him.

"Do you think she would be here too?" I heard Eric asked quite impatiently.

"I don't know and let's assume if she is here. How are you gonna find her when everyone is looking the same with these masks? Besides, maybe she is not the party person."

"I will recognize her even with a mask." Eric retorted and I felt something clenched inside me hearing him talk about some other girl.

'Come on, Skylee, you know he is a playboy. You can't let him affect you.' I consoled myself.

I choked the rest of my champagne in one go and looked around the crowd to find Helen. I sighed when I found her sitting in a booth with some boys and girls. Of course, she was Queen Bee of the school. Everyone adored her and she had plenty of people following her like cats and dogs.

"You're talking like another version of Zack." Owen chuckled.

"Shut up! At least, I'm not behaving like you. Huh?" Eric shouted rather irritatingly.

I scrunched my nose up in anger or maybe disgust or maybe jealousy, whatever. I really hated myself right now for getting affected by him. It wasn't like I had a right on him but then again, I wouldn't be call Skylee Kingston if I let the guy go when that guy happened to be someone on whom I had something more than a crush, and that for the first time in my entire life.

How could I let him go when he was someone I like? I wasn't in one of them who sat back silently and hid their feelings. Geez, what the hell was I even thinking? It seemed like only a single glass of champagne had gotten over my nerves.

But to be honest, he was the first guy who made my heartbeat increased without even doing anything. Not to mention he made me feel things I had never felt before.