23rd Piece

This is the 21st post for the book I was talking about in my "What My Blog Is" post.

The man speaking stops in his tracks, he has been pacing, and swivels around to face me. “What was that Audra?” He asks softly. Ok Audra you need to think fast otherwise you’re going to die.Am I really talking to myself? I am aren’t I. I’m going insane. “I, uh, was just trying to warm myself up to the idea of wearing a dress,” He looks at me, his eyes are the same but his face and stance are skeptical so I push on, “I was saying that if there’s trouble then I can possibly use my, what is probably going to be 50 pound dress, to either sit on them and crush them with the weight, or use a piece of it to strangle them,” I smile big hoping he bought it. “Well there will be no need for any of that.” He says, and starts to pace again. I sigh with relief through my still smiling mouth, and look at Eric. His eyes are wide and his mouth slightly ajar, I guess he’s also surprised I wasn’t shot in the head right then. I force a sigh and try to look uninterested when I say, “Is there anything else you need to tell us before you say ‘Be gone.’?” His gaze holds mine for full minute before answering, “No there is nothing more other than who you shall be going with in just a few minutes.” “Who we will be going with? Where would we be going?” “To get ready for the ball of course!” He exclaims. Eric and I take a step away from him. “Now?” I ask as calmly as I can possibly manage. “But of course, you only have 3 hours to get ready!” I stare into his eyes, while his whole face is beaming and even his body seems to be excited his eyes are still cold and hard. “You, Audra, will go with Darlene. Eric, you will go with Daniel.” My eyes never leave his as I am pulled away by this woman who I’m guessing is Darlene.