Orphaned at the age of 5, Aria Drakos is taken in by her parent's friends Charlie and Renee Swan. Shortly after, Renee leaves with their 4-year-old daughter Bella, leaving you with Charlie. But that is fine with you, since you not really 5 years old...
As we were approaching twilight, my sarcastically chosen time of day to start the ceremony, the girls finally let me see my final look. My dress and shoes are on, my makeup and hair done, and holding my bouquet, I finally saw myself.
"You guys... oh my god, I can't believe it." I say, starting to choke up at the vision of myself. I have never before looked so beautiful. Everything about me is flawless, as if I was a painting instead of real.
"You're a beautiful woman. You're an easy canvas to work on. We just made you shine that little bit brighter." Rosalie says sincerely to me.
A knock on the door interrupted my staring at the mirror. "Everyone decent?" I hear Charlie call out.
"Yes, come in." Alice chimes out. Charlie opens the door, and walks in wearing his tux from Bella's wedding. We changed his shirt so it was a soft navy instead of white.
"Wow. Kiddo... you look stunning." Charlie chokes out gruffly, staring at me with soft eyes. "Your parents would be so proud of you today. I brought you something, figured you'd need something new. So here." He hands me an open jewelry box, and on the velvet is a pair of silver climber earrings shaped like branches that will wrap around the outside of my ears.
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"Charlie... Thank you so much, these are beautiful!" I say to him sincerely as I put them in my ears. I pull him into a tight hug as he sniffs loudly, making me grin into his shoulder.
"Here, I got something borrowed for ya." Jay says while walking in behind Charlie. He pauses for a minute, taking in the sight of me, and a soft warm smile forms on his face, one I know he reserves only ever for me, and usually only in private. "Holy crap... You clean up nice, sis." He says genuinely to me. "Anyway, here. I want this back later." He shoves an ornate silver knife with a sapphire on the end of the pummel into my hand.
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"Jay! Ha! This is absolutely perfect! And it's blue! T=And the diadem is old, so that wraps everything up. Leah, can you strap the knife to my garter for me?" I excitedly hand the blade to Leah, who looks at it questioningly but shrugs, ducking down under my dress and strapping it to my right thigh. Charlie is sputtering for a moment looking at the blade, he's never seen me with knives before so he doesn't get why I love it so much, but just clears his throat and ignores it. My twin got me the perfect borrowed gift, it really shows how well he knows me.
