The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0055

I stared at Julian, disbelieving my ears. Did he really just ask me for a solo date?

Yet everyone in the whole ballroom was looking at us. Julian still held the microphone up to his mouth.

This was definitely happening. It wasn’t a dream.

Which meant that Julian was up to something.

“Why?” I asked, before I could think better of it.

A few girls around me gasped. Only then did I realize my mistake and covered my mouth.

Julian also looked shocked, his eyes going wide for a moment. But then, just as quickly, he burst out

laughing.

His good humor seemed to erase the surprise of the other onlookers. Everyone seemed to think I had

been telling a joke.

With the microphone lowered, he said to me, “I insist this request is genuine, Piper.”

I didn’t believe him.

always played the angles. Asking me on a date had to be

to figure out how. I’d only scratched the surface of the inner politics

waited for my answer. Everyone

me, even if I didn’t know how, but I couldn’t exactly turn him down.

was a competition. I was just a

I said, “I

the microphone, he announced, “She said

the girls clapped

said, no longer speaking to me, but to the waiting

of the dance floor, Nicholas stood. His face was an emotionless

he stared straight

I

heart ached. I wanted to tell him that this didn’t mean anything. Julian was only

for

publicly dismissing Julian. I had to

didn’t need an explanation anyway. We weren’t anything to each

anymore

had triggered something inside of

screamed to soothe away his

meant nothing like

I looked at Nicholas now, that look had dimmed. Now he seemed

away from me and, even an hour later, had not sought me

by Julian and

stop

so mischievous, asking