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Chapter Two

One Thousand Faces

Last time:

Hana smiled. “Oh, I wonder who’s all going to be there?” she said, half wondering to herself, and half talking to Emi.

“Well, the 1000 most famous people, of course!” Emi answered.

“Well duh! I meant, I wonder who’s in the top 1000. Besides the obvious, of course,” Hana said.

“I guess we’ll just have to find out! Ready to go in?” Emi stopped. They were in front of Nana Love’s mansion, where the party would take place (as always). She knew that Hana was excited, and probably nervous too.

“Yep! Top 1000, here I come!”

The mansion was thronging with noise and cluttered with people when Hana and Emi walked in. Everyone was so extravagant looking that Emi no longer felt overdressed. The two were welcomed by many strangers as they entered, nodding and smiling at acquaintances and friends.

“Wow! This is amazing!” Hana finally managed to say. She stared up at the high-vaulted ceilings that were ornately decorated with banners, signs, pictures, and more in awe. Emi let her best friend be enthralled for a while longer; it was her first time at this party after all.

In the midst of all the noise, Emi thought she heard someone calling her name. She looked around, searching for the source of the sound, when she saw Aya Fuse and one other person coming straight towards her. She paled, the thought of Hana knowing that she’d made friends with the person she envied so much was not a good one.

“Emi! There you are. I thought I’d see you here,” Aya said, having caught up. Hana snapped out of her trance and stared bewildered at the girl in front of her. Emi nudged her in the stomach.

“Hi, Aya. This is my best friend, Hana Kiro. Hana, this is Aya Fuse, as you know,” she said. Hana was still confused but shook Aya’s hand none-the-less.

“Nice to meet you,” Aya said. “This is my boyfriend, Frizz Mizuno,” Emi saw a slight blush creep across Aya’s face as she said the word ‘boyfriend’. Frizz shook hands with both Emi and Hana.

“Is this your first time coming to the Thousand Faces party? I don’t think I’ve seen you here before,” Frizz asked Hana.

“What? Oh, yeah. I just made the top thousand not that long ago. But this place looks amazing,” Hana said, taking another look around the place.

“Yeah, it sure does! Of course it’s only my second time coming myself, but still,” Aya said. “Oh, here comes Hiro!” Aya’s face lit up as she waved her older brother over to where they were all standing.

As Aya and Frizz were turned, Hana shot a glare at Emi and whispered, “Since when were you friends with Aya Fuse? I don’t remember you ever telling me that,”

“Sorry,” was all Emi could whisper back before the other three turned back to face them. Aya’s brother, Hiro, had just come and joined the little group.

“Hi, I’m Hiro.” He held out his hand to Emi, who shook it. She felt a little dazed; such a famous and cute guy was talking to her! She had to admit that he was extremely good-looking.

“Emi Closse,” she greeted. Hana eyed her suspiciously. The awkward moment was interrupted by an announcement.

“Welcome everyone, to the greatest party of the year…the Thousand Faces!!” a loud voice boomed over everyone else’s as the lights dimmed. There was a large amount of applauding and then the voice sounded again. “And now welcoming the hostess of this event, Miss Nana Love!” even more applause sounded as a beautiful and lithe girl stepped out into the room and took center stage. Emi saw Hiro and several other boys in the room redden at the sight of her.

“Thank you, everyone!” Nana said. “Thank you for coming. And welcome to the Thousand Faces Party! I hope that you all enjoy your time here, as you have earned it. That is all for now! Have fun,” yet another roar of crazy applause took place as the very popular girl stepped down for the stage to join in her own party. Hana tapped Emi on the shoulder and whispered something in her ear.

“What a show off. I just can’t stand that girl. Can you?” Emi just shrugged and Hana frowned. Her best friend was too busy staring off into space.

“Hey, what’s up? You seem out of it,” Hana asked her.

“Huh? Oh, nothing. I’m just tired.” Hana didn’t look convinced. “Come on; let’s go get something to eat. I hear they have amazing brownies!” Emi pulled her best friend by the arm over to the snack area.

“Hey, where’d Emi and Hana run off to?” Aya wondered out loud. Ren had joined them and she was going to introduce them, but her new companions were nowhere to be found.

“Who knows? And who cares? You’ve got plenty of friends to hang around with, right? You are the second most famous person in the city,” Hiro said rather coldly. Aya shot him a death glare.

“Plenty of friends! Yeah right. I don’t even know 3/4ths of the people who come up to me and say hi. And for your information, I’m the third most famous person.” She said. She heard Ren chuckle a little at her defiance towards her brother.

“Second, third, whatever. We all know that Tally doesn’t really count anyway,” Hiro said.

“That’s not true. Tally’s been visiting the city a lot more often ever since last year,” Frizz said. “We even managed to drag her into this party last time,”

“Okay, fine. But she still doesn’t live here,” Hiro argued. Frizz shrugged. Aya’s brother seemed to be in a foul mood tonight. It might’ve had something to do with the amount of love letters and fan mail he’d received from all his crazy fangirls earlier that day. Or the countless number of times he’d been approached and given chocolate or other presents. Hiro was a popular guy, despite his usually-cold attitude.

“So, Aya, how’s Moggle been working for you lately?” Ren asked, trying to strike up conversation.

“Good, I guess. I mean, I don’t really use him much anymore, but it’s good to have his company. I couldn’t bring him along today though,” Aya answered, informing Ren about her hovercam.

The conversation was led off onto more topics, such as Hiro’s new story he’d be kicking in a few weeks, and Frizz’s bumping up to the top 100. He was nearly as famous as Hiro now. (Which Hiro wasn’t all that thrilled about)

As the four were talking, Emi and Hana had finished eating brownies and were now heading over to be with their new ‘friends’. Hana was hesitant at first, she’d never really cared for Aya Fuse (mostly because she was jealous), but agreed anyway. Emi thought that it might’ve had something to do with the stunningly handsome older guy that was sitting with the group.

“Oh, hey guys!” Aya said as she saw them coming. She then introduced both of them to the handsome guy, whose name was Ren. Emi laughed to herself when she saw how flustered Hana was around him.

Soon the clock tolled midnight, and everyone gathered around the extravagant pink cake to watch Nana Love cut it. This tradition was mostly the center of the party, but not the only important thing. Still, many people left after eating the cake if they were too tired.

This year’s cake was even huger than the one from the previous year. Nobody wanted to even think about last year’s cutting of the cake, though, because it had exploded when Nana had cut it. Aya knew that that particular trick was set by the Sly Girls. It looked perfectly normal this year though, and everyone seemed to have forgotten the incident by now.

At the stroke of midnight, the cake was cut, and pieces were given out to all one thousand of the party’s attendants. It really was an honor to eat from one of the Thousand Faces cakes. It wasn’t something one did every day.

The night went by all too fast, and the party was soon over. Everyone was tired and partied-out, and returned back to their suites and mansions to sleep through the next day. Many people would wake up with hangovers the next day; that was for sure.

Emi entered her multi-room suite and plopped herself onto the soft bed, not even bothering to change before falling into a deep slumber.

A/N

There you go! I finally wrote the second chapter! YOSH! I know that it was really short, but I couldn’t think of much to write for this chapter, and I just wanted to update. Sorry again but I hope you like it!

Please review and let me know what you think! Constructive criticism is welcome!