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Since Alina had joined the council the others had slowly warmed up to her but one had always kept her distance.
Alina walked into the meeting room but the table was gone and she saw the others talking in a circle. Once all twelve of the councilors where in the room Emery clapped his hands together calling the attention to him
“As you all know for official balls and events the council is expected to have the first dance. Usually for rehearsals I would just say get in your partnered pairs, and we would practice for a few hours. But, with the addition of councilor Alina and the loss of councilor Kenric.” At the mention of Kenric's name the council fell silent for a few moments, Alina looked over and saw Oralie wiping tears. Of course everyone knew the two loved each other but they were councilors, and Kenric died before they stepped down. After the moment was over councilor Emery continued “Because of this development Oralie and Alina will now be pared for dances, due to neither of them having a dance partner at the moment.” Alina looks over and locks eyes with Oralie, neither of them look really to happy with this development. Alina tries to look away but Oralie's gaze is like a tractarbeam from one of those human movies. Finally Oralie looks away, Alina checks her watch it felt like they had stared at each other for hours but it had only been thirty seconds. “Okay,” Emery's voice begins “Let's all get in our dance partners and I'll start the music.” The council nodded and partnered up. Alina figured out that they were partnered up based on how long they had each been there. This meant that Liora was partnered with Bronte. Ramira was partnered with Emery. Zarina was partnered with Clarette. Velia was partnered with Noland. Terik was partnered with Darek. And finally Oralie was partnered with Alina. This was going to be interesting.
She was right. The whole rehearsal Alina and Oralie had been tripping over each other far from the amazing grace the other councilors seemed to have. It also didn't help that Oralie seemed to hate Alina and that her face would get red as a cherry bomb every time they got too close, and seemed to shove her away every chance she got. Both physically and emotionally.
After the third practice that went that way Alina decided to confront Oralie, and it went about as well as she expected it too with Oralie shoving her away and telling her to leave her alone, but Alina was done.
As Oralie walked away Alina grabbed her wrist and stopped her
"What is your problem with me?" Oralie shook her head
“I don't have a problem with you. I just don't like you.”
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the tell tale sign of an empath is lying
“Clearly you do or maybe your heart just disagrees with your head.” Oralie shook her head once again
"I can't tell you. Really Alina, so just drop it."
"Why not?" Alina demanded because she does not listen when people tell her to drop things
"Because I love you Alina! I tried to hide my feelings and pushing them down so that I didn't risk our positions." Her voice cracked "I hated not being around you, but it was safer, I thought." and with that Oralie pulled her arm out of Alina's grip, and walked out of the meeting room, leaving Alina standing there.
Annual elvin ball
As the dance ended and the other elves cheered Alina dipped Oralie. Their faces were obscured, hidden behind Alina's long hair. Alina kissed Oralie and rested her forehead against hers
"Do you still not like me?" Oralie laughed,
“Maybe we will have a happy ending.”