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.

had to

only scratched the surface of the inner politics of

for my answer. Everyone

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

was a competition. I was

I said,

smiled. Into the microphone, he announced, “She said

of the girls clapped politely. A

will be tomorrow,” he said, no longer speaking to me, but to

of the dance floor, Nicholas stood. His face was an emotionless mask, but his golden

as he stared straight

I

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

for the sake of

publicly dismissing Julian. I had to

Nicholas didn’t need an explanation anyway. We weren’t

anymore

gaze had triggered something inside of me,

to soothe

nothing like that to

look had

He turned away from me and, even an hour later, had

Julian and his antics. Even after he had

could not stop telling me how

so mischievous, asking you