Over the rest of the day, word spread that I rejected Zeek, but with him biting the bullet and being the first to ask me out, he empowered the rest of the guys in my classes with the courage to start asking me out the next day. The next few days, I had probably over 10 different guys ask me out. Luckily I learned from my mistake of being too soft-hearted with Zeek and turned them all down. The barrage of date offers seemed to have no end in sight. After another couple of days of suffering through it, I started to try and think of a plan to make everyone stop asking me out, 'I'm really getting tired of the constant date invites! I really want them to stop...' I then had the idea to ask someone for advice, 'Maybe I can ask Tom or Dan what to do? No, they're hopeless when it comes to something like this. I can't ask Dad, he'll probably do something impulsive, and I can't ask Mom; she's way too excitable. Don't tell me I can only ask Tasha...' During the lunch break, I sat next to Tash

Because of how fast I ran to hide, Dan didn't even notice where I went. But, as he looked around, he saw some of my dress sticking out from underneath the table. Dan kneeled down and lifted up the tablecloth to see me sitting on the other side, doing my best not to be noticed, so he asked, "Sash, what are you doing?" "Nothing...I just needed to sit down for a minute..." "Are you hiding from having to talk in front of people?" "No, I'm just not in the mood..." "It's fine to have stage fright." "It's not stage fright. I just don't want to give a speech; I just wanted to come here, try and have a little fun and then leave the moment it was over." "How can you enjoy yourself if you're stuck under the table?" "I don't know...you can bring me cake, that's fun..." "They don't have cake at this event, though." "It's worse than I thought..." Dan reached out his hand to me, "Come on, let's just walk around, I can try and hide you, or we can just leave." I grabbed his hand, "Thanks, a

After Angela left the estate, I rushed to my room and wrote a letter to Tasha telling her I had to talk to her urgently and to come to visit the estate by 8 am tomorrow. When I finished the letter, I handed it to a maid, who sent it to her for me. The next day, Tasha arrived just before 8 and found her way to me. I was waiting for her in my garden, and when I saw her, I stood up out of my seat and excitedly gestured with my hand for her to sit down, "Sit down, now! I got something amazing to tell you!" Tasha looked intrigued at what I had to tell her since she never saw me look so excited to share gossip. Tasha rushed over, excitedly sat down, and asked, "What is it that's got you so excited you had to tell me to get here so early?" I sat back in my chair, calmed myself down, and told her, "You know how Dan has never had a girlfriend or even dated anyone, for that matter?" Tashas's eyes lit up, and she asked, "Are you telling me he's finally found someone!" "Almost! I actually set

After that day, Dan started to spend all his free time with Angela. Anytime I saw them spending time together, I could tell they were starting to get closer to one another. Dan finally asked her to start dating him after they had already spent months getting to know each other. After that, it took Dan a whole year and a half before he finally decided to propose to her. Because Angela hadn't had her coming-of-age ceremony yet, they couldn't get married, so they made plans to marry two months after her coming-of-age ceremony. After the first year of them getting too over the top with their display of affection for one another, I started trying to avoid them as much as humanly possible because I couldn't stand seeing how cringy they were. I ended up getting so caught up in Dan's life that I didn't notice the time passing me by, and before I knew it, my coming-of-age ceremony was only a day away. The day before my coming-of-age ceremony, I was woken up by someone. When I looked around

As I was reeling from the surprise of how my eyes looked, the pain suddenly spiked, and I was thrown off balance. The pain quickly became too much for me to handle, and I fell to the floor and passed out the moment I hit the ground. When I came to, I was in what looked like one of the castle's guest rooms, and to my surprise, my head stopped hurting, 'I'm so glad my head has stopped hurting. I can't believe it got so bad I fainted. I feel embarrassed!' As I woke up more, I remembered what the king told me, 'Wait, didn't the king show me eyes were changing just before I fainted?' I looked around and saw a dressing mirror. I got off the bed and rushed over to it. When I looked in the mirror, my eyes were a solid pink colour, 'I can't believe it, my eyes really did change!' While I was in disbelief looking in the mirror, Dan came into the room to check on me, "Sasha, are you awake?" I couldn't bring myself to look away from the mirror while I answered, "Yeah, I'm over here..." "Mom