Winter Dance

Ian walked into the Ballroom. For some reason, he hadn't bothered to dress himself up much for the occasion. He was wearing a pair of jeans, a black Allstar Otis t-shirt, and a suit jacket. He wasn't planning on really meeting anyone here, so he just found himself a seat and sat down watching some of the other people dancing.

Not wanting to make himself seem alone, he got up and walked into a crowd of people so he wouldn't stand out as much.

"Trying to blend in there?" Belle said behind a bo6y who had just walked into the ballroom. "tried it here, no matter how new students try to blend in we're still behind," she said smiling. "i'm Belle Charmant."

"Hi" responded Ian, purely suprised that anyone was talkign to him. "I'm Ian. I wasn't really planning on coming to the ball anyway, because I don't do to well at stuff like this, but I figured I'd drop by for a few minutes."

"yea, my friend got a date and I came along with my sister and other friend. there over there," Belle said pointing out Seth and Keira. "That's Seth and Keira. And Beatrice is out dancing somewhere with her date. I didn't come to find a date unlike my sister. Just came to see if it was any good."

"Oh." replied Ian, "Yeah, I wasn't planning on gettign a date either, I don't do so well with girls." Ian shrugged and put his hands in the pockets of his suit jacket.

Seth looked around. Keira was talking to some guy and so was Belle. Now Seth felt extremely awkward. Just standing there alone, he was usually Mr. Social but tonight was a tad shy in fact.
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"Oh. SO are you new here?" belle asked.

"yes." replied Ian, "I am new here." He took one of his hands out of his pockets and ran it through his hair, His bangs fell back into his eyes again.

"that's cool. I've been here like a month or something. It's a pretty cool school once people start to notice your there. Meet any cool people yet?" Belle asked.

Ian looked down at his shirt, and thought of the past few days. "Not really." he said trying to make that not sound so depressing. "Everyone around here seems so caught up in their lifes, or some relationship, or something. I figure, why rush anything, they'll notice me when they get around to it.." Ian shrugged.

Ian decided that he had enough of just standing around pretending he was doing something. He walked over to a chair near the wall and sat down.