Chapter Eleven

Namui screamed in anger as we came back to her house of glass. Jareth looked at me and smiled. How annoying was that? I save him but it still feels like he's saving me? How does that work?

"You can't!" Namui yelled and Jareth sighed. He contained her within a glass crystal and it shrunk, and shrunk until nothing was left. He set me down on my bed when we got back and sat on the floor in front of me.

"So," he said nervously.

"What exactly happened?" I asked.

"Namui?" he asked "old girlfriend."

"Oh really?" I asked raising an eyebrow.

"Not like that," he sighed "besides, she was jealous."

"Jealous?" I laughed "why would she be," I paused. He couldn't be talking about me... could he? "Please tell me your not talking about me."

"I am," he said.

"And I just-"

"Yes you just verified it," he laughed.

"And you knew-"

"That you loved me?" he asked "since forever ago."

"Oh fun," I mumbled.

"I thought so," he laughed.

"Not helping," I snapped.

"It's not my job to," he said kissing me "I just choose to."

"What are you trying to do?" I asked.

"Me?" he asked innocently "try something? Please Sarah, like I would try, anything."

"You would," I said "it's exactly like you to try... something."

"Well you won't know," he said "until the party, now will you?"

The next few weeks had been spent planning the party. So many people were coming that May was beginning to think that we needed another hotel. But, the only reason there were so many people was because May was smart and invited half of the damn Labyrinth. My book continued to change and got thicker and bigger. Soon, I wouldn't have to keep a journal because this thing documented everything.

Halloween day was probably the second scariest day of my life. I hadn't seen Jareth around much since the Namui incident. I'd seen him a few times in our tree and I'd called him once, but that was about it. I was hoping that he wouldn't come that night, but then, I knew better.

"Excited?" May asked when I went to her house to get ready.

"I'm somewhere in-between excited and a near death experience," I mumbled and she laughed.

"Don't worry," she said "your gonna love it. Everything is set up."

"Oh really?" I asked. Her eyes grew big. She was hiding something.

"Yeah," she said "it's all decorated Halloween like, nothing weird about it. Nope."

"Alright," I said keeping my mouth shut. I now knew why I hadn't seen Jareth or May lately, they had planed something. They did it like the ballroom I just knew it. I took a deep breath and though about how handsome Jareth would look.

Whoa. Did I just think about him... and me, together? As in, together until I die? As in, I wanted to marry him? No. It must be me freaking out over the party. But the more I thought about it, the more I came to realize that I loved him. Truly desperately loved him.

"Sarah," May said snapping her fingers "earth to Sarah."

"Huh?" I asked coming out of my thoughts.

"Get ready!" she yelled "we only have a little while before we leave. I put my make-up on and then slid on the dress. It differently was the same dress. I could tell by the smell and the feel of it. I put my hair up... didn't look right. I tried another style... nope. I got fed up and looked through the bag the dress came in, there was those little silver leaves. I curled my hair and put the leaves in, much better.

"Ready?" May asked and we finally looked at each other in out costumes. May looked a lot like cat woman. Actually, I think she was cat woman because, she defiantly had the eye thing going on.

"Catwoman?" I asked.

"Princess?" she giggled. We both laughed and got in her car to go to our 'ball'.

There was no way I could go in there. Cars lined up all over the hotel, but only those with invitations, and their friends could come in.

"I can't do this," I sighed and Catwoman... I mean May sent an understanding look.

"Look," she said "sometimes you have to suck it up and do what you have to do for someone else. I mean, look at me. I wanted this party to be something people would remember me here by. But, I changed it so... oops."

"I already knew," I said quietly "neither you, nor Jareth are good at keeping secrets."

"Sarah," she started but I shook my head.

"Thank you," I said "May, you're my best friend and,"

By then we were already hugging. We both knew that if what we both thought would happen happened that neither of us would be seeing a lot of each other.

"One last thing," May said before we got out of the car "do you like him?"

"No," I sighed "I love him."