Ripping off the band-aid

You hurry upstairs and manage to catch the speech the Darlington sisters are doing just in time. The whole dance floor feels warm and everyone is either tipsy or exhausted from dancing, you fit right in with your pounding heart and red face - you need to find Iris and tell her how you feel, you have to.

"Alright, phew... what a show! Can we all just give a hand to Iris, come on!" Chelsie says with her charismatic voice. People cheer and the skeleton girl waves and cools off behind the DJ stand. You know she loves it, even through the mask she is putting on, you bet she's smiling under it all. "Now, I checked out your moves and guess what? We have the best dancer all figured out! Well... I do, my bitch of a sister is somewhere. Whatever..." You were assuming that Nat would be there but now when she says that, you can't see the angel anywhere, maybe for the better honestly. "Where is she? Why isn't she here? I saw her earlier!" It's the clown girl, one of the only people you know who is friends with Nat. Chels pouts and mutters: "We had a little argument... we'll see if she shows up... anyways~"

You see Iris checking her face with a little mirror and fixing her facepaint - the mirror has a skull on it. Her hair is up and it looks like a little tower almost, she fixes it too and smacks her lips and crosses her arms looking at Chels, so do you. "The one who got the most points this time around was... Oh, it's y-you... Selene, you got the most points. Great!" She says a little awkwardly and people cheer and the clown girl whoops and you remember her doing some crazy moves earlier, you would never even bend like she does. "As a prize, because you know we have those! You get a free pass for the party next year! Although... ah, whatever. Congrats..." The demon girl sighs and puts down the microphone and you feel a little bad for her honestly, she seems very exhausted.

You are thinking, maybe you should go talk with her some more and then talk with Iris? Or maybe find what's Helena up to? You have those questions circling your head and then people start moving and you are left on the dance floor with just a couple people. You see Iris unplugging electronics and feel shy. You should go talk with her but again, you don't know what to say exactly. Then you see the witch girl. She runs right past you upstairs screaming.

You feel confused and walk up to the third floor where you see her shaking in place and leaning against a wall. "Help me! I didn't mean to! M-March? Please!" You hurry up to her and ask: "What's going on now? Why are you... what happened?" She gulps and says with a small voice: "A-a-apparently I-I-I won... t-t-the whole g-game thing and... they say that I-I have to go meet someone... it's the w-whore...woman. I can't!" She hugs you and you remember the demon girl mention it before - you can't believe they are actually going with that stupid thing.

"I think I can help you out. Just point me where you are supposed to meet her. Uhh... I am curious, didn't you have to play some extra game just now? Like... with the other winners?" She gets a pout and scowls: "I did! It was the dumbest thing ever! I played with... I played with Prichilla, Eleanor and Molly. Do you know them? Ah, whatever... Gosh, have you ever played hot potato? Well, we played that, but it was so bad..." You are so interested, you really wonder what happened. You ask her and she gets flustered: "Ah! It was so bad! There was music and when it stopped the one with the stupid... it wasn't a potato either! I can't... March, sorry..." You want to shake her and make her say but she obviously feels uncomfortable so you won't.

"So... you won that? So... you are supposed to be with that prostitute now, right?" She shrugs and blurts out: "I'd rather have sex with someone like you who is actually nice and pretty and who I really like!" She gags and looks at you eyes wide. You remember her having some kind of talking problem and almost let it pass but she takes it worse and runs in the glow show room and locks the door. You knock on it and ask: "Where was that meeting again? I might be able to help." She has a high pitched voice as she says: "I-in the second floor bedroom... March... you are too nice..." You sometimes feel the same and say bye and go back downstairs. Then you bump into someone.

"March... w-watch where you are walking, sheesh... you are like a damn truck when you walk that fast." You see that it's the skeleton girl carrying a heavy looking electric piano. You blush and ask: "H-how are you doing... Do you need help?" Fully acknowledging that now you are getting side tracked from what you were doing. She looks at you and then looks to the side and mutters: "W-what's up with being so helpful with me... I got it..." You smile and make her turn her head more: "I-I think you are really cute... i-it's how you act so cool-like, when you are really..." She looks at you with wide eyes and shouts: "Stop! S-shit! What are you saying? If you want to knock me over with your fat fucking tits, do it by accident... in fact, I have no idea what's your deal, do you like me or something? Is that why you keep looking at me?" She has a concerned face and you feel powerless - she got you now, it's bad.

"I-Iris..." She stares at you and you gulp: "I-it's just that... ever since I saw you... earlier I mean..." She interrupts you: "When I told you that you have nice tits, huh?" You notice a shake in her voice, she is keeping it cool and composed but you did notice it: "Y-yes... but that's not it... you... you greeted me here and... this has been such an experience for me. And I just love spending it with you. I like doing things with you a lot." You raise your eyes and see her mouth agape and eyes darting across your face: "O-ok... f-fuck..." She stammers and grips the piano keyboard harder: "I-if that's how you f-feel... I gotta get this thing back to my van... m-maybe we could like... talk it out after? Ok?" You nod shyly and she turns around and looks back and you smile.

Suddenly you feel lighter and full of energy. You managed to tell it to her somehow! With this new found energy you go into the bedroom to solve this other thing.