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With a calming intake of breath, her eyes anxiously scanned the guests around her.

Her exhale was accompanied by fidgeting with the curve hugging black dress she wore that bore intricate silver designs on the upper half and part of the bottom. She looked beautiful with her hair in a bun and no jewelry save a dull metallic necklace. It was long and wrapped around her neck several times with little stars, moons, and roses. Bella fixed a stray strand of hair that had fallen across her left eye, momentarily distacting her from what she was searching for.

It had been three years, three long uneventful years, since she had seen them. Her life had turned into a satisfactory one, but a rather routine one as well. Her look itself hadn't changed much, still like the same old Bella but a little more mature. Her fighting had definetely changed. A shield was her main weapon now. She had put down her chains in the fight for peace long time ago and now that it had come, a little part of her still missed it. What she really missed though were her dear friends she had met all those years ago. The ones that had stayed on her mind through all these years even though she hadn't talked to most of them.

The one she had managed to talk to was around here, somewhere among the throng of guests. They had agreed to meet at the party and now, she wondered if he was even here. The two had met a while back, when she had gone off for one of her usual weekend trips. She had walked into a cafe to see if they had any appetizing pastries when he had been passing by. Bella looked out just as he walked by and without a second thought she had ran out and after him. As soon as she caught up, the two struck up a conversation and spoke often after that. Bella sighed, remembering their last conversation in which Noxas had agreed to meet her at the party.

But where was- Bellatrix suddenly picked up her pace as a familiar face came into sight. Well there should be more than one familiar face but first him.

"Noxas," Bella said as she approached him, a sweet smile on her face, "Looking for me?"