Kept Secret

Chapter 7

Lia~

Yesterday with Maddie was so much fun that we decided to do it again before my big date with Lucus tonight which I still can't believe is happening.

The guy of my dreams asked me on a date and I didn't even have to compel him with my vampire side!

Maddie arrives around 3:30 and wastes no time. She barges into my room with 3 servants in tow, all carrying make-up, dresses, shoes, and of course enough hair products to choke a whale.

Why this girl is so extra only the moon goddess knows! I already have all this stuff so I have no idea why she'd even bother bringing hers.

"Okay biatch, we have exactly two and a half hours to make you look spectacularly gorgeous and if you ask me..." she trails off, taking in my oversized hoodie and messy hair, and sighs, "two and a half hours definitely won't be enough."

I roll my eyes at her as she practically drags me off the bed towards the vanity and starts doing my make-up. "Oh sweetheart, when he sees you tonight he's going to absolutely die." she giggles and I close my eyes so she can start.

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"just a bit more sparkle and done!" I open my eyes to admire her work and almost gasp at the beauty of it. My eyeshadow is a gorgeous smokey eye but with blue and silver touches that really make my eyes pop and she used a pink lipgloss with a silver tint for my lips, making them look naturally plump and full, and finished the look with a little rosy blush on my cheeks. She kept my hair in its natural curls but added some jeweled hair clips, matching the sapphire necklace and earrings I'm wearing.

"I love it, Mads." I admire her work and then notice something wrong with my eyeliner. Human sight wouldn't be able to pick it up but thankfully I'm not human and am able to notice the writing in dark blue over the black, making it almost unnoticeable. I couldn't read the inscription properly because of the false eyelashes she put on me but it looked like some sort of spell, a protection spell.

I glance up at Maddie and notice her staring at me, maybe thinking that I noticed the inscription. "I love the eyeshadow and how you did the shading in the corner of my eye, it's so beautiful." She looks grateful and relieved, probably because she thought I didn't notice the writing but I did and it made me wonder.

"Thanks, now let's get your cute little butt in that gorgeous dress and go meet your date who should be here in less than an hour."

*knock* *knock* *knock*

"Come in, Lila." my personal assistant, Lila come shuffling in, looking just as adorable as ever. Lila is 25 years old but can pass for 16 any day especially in the yellow and pink sundress she's currently wearing.

"Madam, here's a Lucas Maxwell to see you. He says he's picking you up for the ball."

"Wait what!?" Maddie and I scream at the same time. It's barely 5 o'clock so what the hell is he doing here already?

"uh- I'll let him know you'll be a minute." She shuffles off, probably to go tell Lucas that we'll "be a minute".

Maddie looks absolutely horrified, "Okay, no time to figure out why the fuck he's so early, get your ass in that dress now!" Together we get me dressed in record time and I grab my purse with my mask in it as well as emergency supplies, lipstick, tampons, wolfsbane, silver dagger, stuff like that. A girl can never be too prepared.

I try my best to gracefully run down the stairs where I spot Lucas sitting on the couch with an old picture of me and my dad. The air is sucked out of my lungs at the sight of that picture.