I heard the sound of everything before I even entered. Stepping back into the ballroom felt like entering a completely different world than the one I'd left twenty minutes ago.
The space was still glittering with chandeliers and crowded with even more elegant people holding champagne flutes, classical music still playing softly from the orchestra near the stage, but everything felt different now.
I am in pink instead of red, and Lexi's beside me in her own shade of pink, and we were matching in a way that was completely unintentional but very obviously noticeable to anyone who looked.
People were noticing too, eyes tracking us as we moved through the space, and I muttered to Lexi without looking at her, "They're staring at you, you're too beautiful."
"You're the one that's the most bea
