Choose Your Ending

Disclaimers in Part 1

We stood there looking at each other for a moment before he ran his thumb along the edge of my mask. I took a deep breath and covered his hand with mine stopping him from revealing myself. He looked at me intensely and I knew that he was disappointed.

“I’m sorry, but I don’t think that I can do this,” I said reluctantly.

“What’s wrong, Cinderella?” he asked with such concern.

“This night has just been so perfect…” I tried to explain.

“And you want to remember tonight as if you were with that special someone, right?”

I turned away nearly overcome with guilt. He reached his arms around me from behind and pulled me to his solid chest.

“Yes. I’m sorry, my prince.”

“What for? This night was the most magical that I can recall,” he whispered in my ear almost as if he were afraid to speak so romantically.

“I used you. That was wrong,” I said embarrassed and ashamed of my actions.

“I told you before, you didn’t use me. If anything, we used each other.” He tenderly turned me around and looking into my eyes, he continued. “I understand how you feel. Honestly. I don’t usually do things like this.”

“So you don’t normally lie?”

“Not to myself. And tonight, I let myself think of you as someone else all night.”

“I made you lie to yourself,” I said unable to meet his eyes.

“No, you gave me a gift. She’s someone I can’t have and I don’t even fool myself in thinking that I have the chance with her. You gave me a night with her. I never thought I would have that.”

“I haven’t though of it that way,” I smiled slightly at him. “I guess that I should thank you myself.”

“That’s not necessary, Cinderella. We both gave each other a special gift, one that I know that I will never forget.”

“Neither will I. You will always be my Prince Charming,” I said. I gave him a tender kiss before turning around and slipping off the balcony headed to my car and to the memories that I would always treasure.

The End