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Filomina POV
You should go ask Jack to dance, Gretel tells me. Me? I ask. Yeah, he’s just sitting there, go on ask him, she answers. Shouldn’t he ask me to dance? I ask her. What is this? The eleventh century, well I guess it is the eleventh century in never after, but we’re from the twenty-first, she responds. What about you? Shouldn’t you ask Riff? I ask, honestly kinda stalling. Just because I think he’s attractive doesn’t mean I like him, it's just a fact, like saying the sky is blue, besides, she continues, he’s taken, she gestures to Riff and princess Jeanne dancing, looking perfectly content. Who do you like, Gretel? I ask. I don’t know, I like myself, I like making things, I like my friends, I haven’t felt that way about anyone yet, maybe I never will, she answers. It made sense not everyone needs a someone and Gretel is certainly enough on her own.
The night goes on and princess Jeanne and Riff danced happily looking as though they were made for eachother, Gretel and Alister seem to be involved in some sort of dance battle, trying to outdo each other's moves, Alister is pretending to be a watering can, while Gretel is doing the robot. When the next song ends I notice Jack hadn’t moved and it was getting a little sad if i’m being honest, so I walk over to him, up you get, I tell him. What? He asks, snapping out of the trance he seemed to have been in. Up you get, I repeat, tugging on his arm to get him up. Why? He asks, seemingly still confused. Because, you’ve been sitting there all alone and it's kinda sad, I tell him. So standing in the corner alone is less sad? He asks, I was starting to wonder if he was really confused or just being stupid on purpose. Nonetheless I pull on his arm and tilt my head to where everyone else is. Dance with me, I tell him. He smiles and obliges though it does take a while until he seems to actually be happy about it.
Jack POV
Once the dishes were all clear, music began to play. Think that means you missed your chance? Alister asks me as Gretel drags Filomina into the crowd of dancing merry men and women. If I’m being perfectly honest I’m not paying all that much attention. I’m still not sure how they had managed to steal all of our stuff so quickly. Alister left to join them. I spent a long time sitting in silence. A while later, a tug on my arm snapped me out of the trance I had been in. What? I ask Filomina as she seems to have said anything. Up you get, she tells me. Why, I ask her. Because you’ve been sitting here all alone and it’s kinda sad, she answers. So standing in the corner alone is less sad? I ask. She tugs on my arm again and tilts her head toward where everyone else is dancing, dance with me, she tells me. I can’t help but smile as I oblige her request and after a while I can even forget about the robbery.