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Here's chapter seventeen. It's longer than I had suspected, so enjoy!

Chapter 17, Part I

‘Hey, guys!’ Shadee flashed a huge grin stepping aside to let Holly and Sebastien walk inside the house. She couldn’t help but feel happy at the sight of Seb’s smiling face.



‘Hey!’ Holly was already walking up the stairs, but Sebastien stopped next to Shadee and looked her straight in the eyes, as if he wanted to read her thoughts. The girl felt her cheeks literally burning under his gaze. ‘Are you ok?’ he asked genuinely worried ‘Me and Holly were really concerned about you. We thought that you may have done…something irrational…’



‘Whaddayamean?!?’ Shadee blurted out reddening even more. She was very ashamed to admit it, but she had actually thought of suicide in one of those dark moments of solitude and despair.

Sebastien shrugged the idea off and smiled again.

‘Let’s go up, ok?’ the girl invited, feeling a wee bit awkward. They walked silently up the stairs and entered the room. Shadee’s heart skipped a few beats when she almost collided with Holly, who was contemplating the girl’s new painting, brows furrowed.



‘Who’s this you’re painting here, ‘cause the person looks mighty familiar. I just can’t put my finger on it who it actually is…’

Shadee rushed forward in front of Sebastien’s portrait and covered it with her back, trying to hide it from the boy’s curious glances. She could feel her face glow red once again.



‘It’s no one, someone I made up for a stupid painting…’

‘You can’t say that!’ Holly raised an eyebrow ‘In my opinion, it’s one of your best yet.’

While Shadee took the canvas off and hid it, Sebastien and Holly proceeded to serve themselves out of the plates with tasty looking treats.



‘We’re really gonna have a blast at the ball!’ Holly sighed dreamily, smiling at Seb ‘Especially that I’ll be going there with my two absolutely favorite people in the universe.’



‘Hey, why are you leaving dear ol’ Dork out of the equation?’ smirked Sebastien and stuffed his mouth with two chocolate chip cookies.

‘Because I’ll be the one concerned with him!’ Shadee answered back quirkily, trying to set her mind back to the young man that was actually her boyfriend and whom she had also ignored for the past few days ‘You two just need to worry about each other. After all, you’re prom dates.’

Awkward silence followed in which Shadee missed the impatient glance Holly and Sebastien had thrown each other.

‘You haven’t even seen my tux.’ Seb pouted, changing the subject ‘And neither I nor Holly have seen your dress!’



‘I guess that’s going to be a surprise then, won’t it? Because I’m not showing it to you!’

They continued making fun of each other and gossiping about the stuff that had happened at school for a few good hours. Shadee relaxed and simply felt happier to be with the two of them again. And on top of that, it didn’t seem to her anymore as though Sebastien and Holly was so very much in love as it had appeared a few days before. This of course was good news to her, even though she wanted them to be happy.

‘Let’s go out somewhere.’ Sebastien suggested stretching and yawning ‘I really feel like drinking a beer.’



‘Yeah, sounds good! But I have to change my clothes first.’ Shadee stood up and chose a different outfit, then they all went downstairs.

‘Hey, look there!’ Holly giggled, looking outside the window ‘Your “uncle”’s got a girlfriend!’

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