*Ian’s POV*
We were awestruck when Aleric declared that we would attend the annual Moon Ball. I am sure the decision was not sudden because it took a few days after getting the invitation to make up his mind. He was never quiet about how he felt about going to parties, and we understood, none of us expected he would actually want to go to this one. Even when he gets invited, he turned them down and the ones he couldn’t turn down, he’d send Jason and I. Not that we get invited to parties that much, not after the incident three years ago.
What was even more shocking was the way he kept talking about it nonstop after deciding which was unlike him, and when the D day came, he was all dressed up and ready to go at the wee hours of the morning. Jason and I tried to make a little joke about it,
