Dance with Me

Chapter One:

Before The Ball

Jill Pole was still trying to get used to life at Cair Paravel. She had royal breakfast every morning, lessons every afternoon (which were much like English finishing school, and school all in one), Then lunch, then free time until dinner. All meals were held in the Great Hall, and if you were late, you didn't eat, unless a King or Queen was late.

Jill loved dancing at balls especially. All the handsome Archenlanders and daring Calormenes, sometimes she danced with Edmund, but that was if he couldn't find a partner. And the food. Oh! What I wouldn't give to eat that food. Meat that wasn't meat, and foods so organically grown, all English and American organic food was put to shame! And so filling, you need only one serving to be full.

But Jill often wondered the same thing she supposed Eustace wondered. That was how her parents were fairing. They must've thought her dead. Oh her poor sister. The child loved her more than anything. But no one from her old life would recognize Jill anymore. That is because she was quite a different girl. She was braver, and happier, and friendlier. But perhaps the biggest change is Jill hardly cried at all anymore.

Jill had only been at Cair Paravel a month and so much had happened. Susan had come to Narnia. Lucy, Edmund, Eustace and Jill were confused, but as it turns out, they were in a fatal car accident a week after the train crash.

Just then Jill heard a knock at her door.

"Come in!" she called.

It was Eustace. He and Jill had become very close friends in the past month.

"Hullo Jill!" Eustace said cheerily.

"Hullo. Time for dinner?" She asked

"Yes. Dress in your best gown and slippers. "

"Why?"

"I dunno. I couldn't get anyone to tell me."

Jill looked and saw he was in his best clothes.

"Okay, well I have to get dressed."

Eustace turned red.

"Oh. Of course, sorry."

"It's alright."

"Thanks." With that, he left.

Jill walked over to her closet (the special occasions one, as she had two) and quickly pulled out her best gown. It was crimson of the Narnian fashion, with golden trim. She got her best slippers (which were crimson also trimmed with gold but had fine rubies in them), and her best necklace (gold with a single ruby).

Then she headed down to the Great Hall.

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When Jill arrived, she found that the Great Hall was decorated for a feast.

"Oh!" She gasped.

"Yeah I did that when I first saw it too." Came a voice from behind her.

"Eustace! Isn't it lovely?"

"Yeah, it is. I say, Jill?"

"Yes?"

Just then King Edmund appeared.

"Nothing."

Jill looked at him quizzically, but didn't have enough time to make him tell her, for Edmund had reached them.

"Eustace, Jill; do you mind if you two sit together?"

"Not at all, you know how great of friends Eustace and I are."

"Very well then, I must go."

With that, he left

"So what, exactly was it that you were going to say to me, Eustace."

"I forgot." He lied.

Jill just gave him a quizzical look and went to find Queen Lucy.