A confused heart. (Open/Ryan)

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After getting Cupid's notification about the Valentine's Day ball, Lilith just sat on her bed and bit her lower lip without knowing what should she do about it. She read the note and re-read it, then close the small pink paper and then opened it again hoping that the name on the note would have changed. The note informed her that the amazing god Cupid had chosen someone to be her date for Valentine's Day ball. Why did cupid decided that the best man for her that day was the owner of the name in that note?!

She put the note on her bed and then paced around, cracking her knuckles as her face blushed with each step a bit more. "Why... Why..." she said in a really low voice, almost a whisper, still in the empty cohort her whisper was echoing in that room. She stopped and looked again at the bed, she walked closer and grabbed the paper again. She breathed deeply and opened it again.

"... Lilith and Ryan... "

She read both names in the same low but trembling voice. "Lilith and Ryan..." She sighed once more and sat again on her bed still looking at it. Lilith really cared about Ryan, he was an amazing guy, all the time trying to help others. He was one of the most shy person in the world! At least that she had known. Still, when he felt comfortable with the person he was talking to, he talked a bit more fluently. his touch with plants was more than a miracle, Lilith was sure that his mother would be really proud of him.

To Lilith, going out with him wasn't the problem. The problem was that she also cared about another man. His name was Alistair and he was son of Neptune. He felt he was bad luck to everyone around him, but she knew he wasn't such thing. She never thought she would have a slight chance with him, but a week before Valentine's Day, she was talking to Alistair. Gwen, daughter of Cupid, got there and was talking to them, suddenly she pushed a bit and Lilith said things she never thought she could say to him! all of that ended up with Alistair kissing Lilith on the lips. since that day her heart was more than confused about her feeling for him and for Ryan.

Lilith decided to go and see what happened, maybe Cupid wasn't thinking on her when he decided the couples like that, maybe he was thinking on Ryan, he needed a friend that day. She wasn't going to make him feel bad that day. She was going to be the best friend he could have that day. She knew that alistair would go too, she had heard that he would go with Cassie. She felt Cassie was her friend so she wasn't going to ruin that night to her. She was trying to convince herself that Alistair and Cassie were first cousins, so they wouldn't fall for each other, it was a false hope, but it kept her hopes alive.

Next morning she got that note, she went to New rome and bought a dress there. It was one that she loved, with leather and textiles too. She walked back with it in a box and put it under her bed until the day of the ball. That day, she took a long bath and then put the dress on. She didn't ask for help to get her make up done, which for sure would be a dissaster, yet she wanted to go as herself, not as a doll of any of the Venus' daughters.

She walked to the place where the ball was going to be held, and looked around, there were a lot of campers there. She nodded at some of them and tried to smile in a gentle way to all of them. she walked to the food bar and took a glass with soda wating for Ryan, but hoping to see Alistair too.

OUTFIT: Lilith's Dress and make up.

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Ryan really had no idea what to do with himself. He had never been asked out on a play date, much less a date. Okay, so at least he hadn't had to do the asking. That would have been way out of his league. Instead, Cupid had decided for him. He was rather glad he had gotten Lilith; at least they had talked before and he was semi-comfortable around her. He wasn't exactly sure if he liked liked her in that way yet, but she was a beautiful singer and a good friend. He could at least try to get semi in the spirit of the love holiday. Before, he had no reason to celebrate it. He wasn't exactly anti-valentines day, it was just that he had no guts to give and wasn't even really that friendly with anyone in his grade schools. Ryan didn't have a mother (well, now he had Ceres, but he didn't know how she felt about Valentine's day and he doubted that she'd ever appreciate him asking her to be his valentine). He wasn't one to not show just because of nervousness though. Ryan was going. He wasn't just leaving Lilith there all alone: a) it wasn't gentleman like and b) it was embarrassing just to be there by yourself when everyone else had partners. He knew the feeling all too well.

So, against all his anxieties about love, letting himself get close to people, and potentially evading personal space, Ryan went to the Cupid hosted ball. It was almost ironic. Romans celebrating Valentine's day. They were also supposed to all gung-ho and violent; no weaknesses. To love someone was to give an enemy the upper hand and yourself a weakness. Then again, Ryan never really conformed to the usual Roman style of thinking. He was still shy. He still stammered. He still didn't like fighting. He still believed in love to an extent. Unlike all the girls going, he didn't do anything with the make up. All he had to do was get a nice looking suit, shower, put the suit on, and brush his hair. The most time was spent in the shower. His hair was too short to do anything special with; all he really did was make sure it stayed flat and forward in the front and then down in the back. Not hard. It naturally fell that way. He didn't know how all the girls stood infront of the mirror to make sure their make up was perfect for an event like this. It would drive him crazy.

He walked over to the cleared area for the event. It was already filled with Campers. He hoped he wasn't too late... His hazel colored eyes sweped around the area. Tables, tables, dance floor, buffet, and lots of campers. He looked around for Lilith at the tables for a moment or so, trying to avoid the other campers. Ryan still wasn't that great with mass numbers of people. He could tolerate since he had been in schools and such, but he wasn't comfortable per-say. He finally found her over at the buffet table. Ryan silently drifted up beside her, seeing her take some soda. "Hey Lilith," he said quietly. The son of Ceres looked at her, tilting his head. "You, You look nice..." he said, a shy smile creeping onto his face.

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Lilith looked around and felt really awkward to be out there by herself. Other campers were in that place already and all of them had their dates, all of them were happy and smiling. She looked at them and felt a deep pitch black hole in her chest, why could all of them be so happy and she couldn't? Why couldn't she be a normal camper, she wasn't asking for much, just to have been claimed by Apollo, that would have been a 180° turn in her life. she would be considered a good omen, someone good for the camp and campers, a good archer wit a beautiful voice that had the luck to speak to lares, spirits, and ghosts.But instead of that, she had been claimed by Mors, so she was the weird, lonely girl who was a bad omen and by a very lucky chance she knew how to use a bow and thought that could sing. at least most campers thought those last words about her.

She felt the hate in her heart, then closed her eyes and shook her head, she needed to remember those few that cared about her. Felicity, Alistair -even if he didn't love her as a girl, he did as a friend-, Cassie and Ryan. All of them cared about her, and she cared about them. She needed to be strong for them. Looking at the Valentine's decorations, she sighed and smiled. She knew something bad was going to happen, mors had sent her to do it, but she wouldn't let him hurt those who cared for her.

She took another sip of her soda and smiled thinking on Ryan, cupid for sure was crazy for setting her up with ryan, but she would thank him forever for that. She didn't knew it at first, but when Ryan showed up, she started to really think that she was lucky to be there with him. "Hello Ryan..." she said in a slow voice but with a wide smile at him. She even forgot she was wearing the green blue rose that Alistair had gave her hours ago. "thank you..." she said when he complimented her, she thought she looked just like a girl in dark outfit. With her pale skin she was sure she looked just like a Lare.

"You look really handsome" she said and blushed like a tomato, then giggled and grabbed a glass with soda, then gave it to Ryan. "do you want some?" she was trying to act as a normal girl, not an antisocial one.