#Chapter 35: Drunken Search Parties

The dance was over and Ethan left as the final note was played. Standing at the filled dancefloor, watching Ethan chase another girl, I assumed, was mortifying. Multiple people saw the way he abandoned me as the song was finishing, and the whispers already started. Couples glanced at me suspiciously, wondering where Ethan was off to in such a hurry. I suppose I couldn’t be angry with them, I was wondering the same thing. Where was he going? Who was he chasing? The longer I stood on the dancefloor, the more people were throwing around conspiratory whispers about what they just witnessed. I blinked away the confusion and tried to run in the direction I saw Ethan go. I went through the same hallway, but there were more people in there than I had anticipated and Ethan was nowhere to be seen. Better yet, not one woman in there was wearing a red dress like the one I saw him chasing. I walked over to a bench that lined against the wall and threw myself down, rather unladylik