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.

on a date had to be some kind of move for his

scratched the surface of the inner politics of

for my

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

a competition. I was just a pawn in a

said,

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

cheered. Most of the girls

tomorrow,” he said, no longer speaking to me,

His face

stared straight at

I

tell him that this

just for the sake

reach him without publicly dismissing Julian. I

need an

anymore

inside of me, like a memory response. Every

to soothe away

nothing like that to

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

away from me and, even an hour later, had

charmed by Julian and his

not stop telling me how funny he

asking you

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