Legends of Mirandis Academy

Chapter 44: One for the Books

"What would be a good date? Like a normal, but still romantic setting? I want something she'll really like. Not in formal wear or covered in sawdust, something genuine." Brielle sighed. "I want something perfect."

"Think about her as a person, her personality, her favorite pastimes. What's something she really likes that isn't surface level?" Spencer spoke from her bed as she paced. Blanche sat beside him, nodding along.

"No hardware store," Blanche pointed out. "Not romantic."

"I think the drill section is perfect for a date." Spencer remarked under his breath, to which Blanche promptly smacked him on the leg for. "Ow!"

"No, I need something really good!" Brielle suddenly perked up. "Books!"

"Books?" Blanche and Spencer simultaneously echoed.

"Books! Yes!" Brielle turned to them with wide, excited eyes. "We both love to read. Her shelves are totally packed, they're literally everywhere in her room. The paperback spines are all sorts of creased a-and..." She breathily laughed, ecstatic. "A bookstore date! Oh, that's going to be the best, there's a park right there, and then the coffee shop is around the corner..." Brielle continued, getting more and more confident and excited with each line.

Before the end of the hour, she already had the perfect idea for the whole date: what they would do, when and where they would go, everything down to the last breath they took. She couldn't help the giddy feeling inside her. She grabbed her phone and immediately texted Iridia, and just like she'd already known, she was available and more than excited.

Brielle Thisbe Prescott was a woman of dignity and poise, but Bri was just a girl in love.

It was a lot to explain, the way her and Brielle had come together. Iridia's sisters had become so invested in the relationship—or the potential relationship at the time—that she should have exclaimed it right away, but now she had the two of them together in the house and all she needed was to call a little Trilliaris sister gathering.

A part of her wished she could have her parents in the room too, but they were out working on some project out of town—she probably should have actually paid attention to them discussing at the dinner table. It didn't matter, she would get to give them their own time. She smiled, imagining having a nice family dinner and getting to properly introduce Brielle; of course they already knew her, but now they would know her as her girlfriend, and it would be so worth it to see how happy they would be for her.

Iridia paced her room. She knew telling anyone in her family wouldn't go bad, but it was a matter of how. Iridia's phone went off, a specific chime she set for texts from Brielle—her heart fluttered at the sounds. Her eyes went wide at the text, and her thumbs immediately went flying across the keyboard in response. Now she had to call in her sisters.

"Okay, I have something to tell you two." Iridia took a deep breath, staring at her two younger sisters on her bed as she stood in the middle of the room like a presenter. "Brielle."

Irena's eyes lit up, but she stayed silent. Ivita's folded hands tensed as she leaned forward.

She kept the story limited, excluding her breakdown on the catwalk and their fiendish make out session following their talk the next day. She'd yet to say, though, the one part that made it all amazing: the icing on the cake, the bow on the gift.

Iridia couldn't keep her smile down anymore. She laughed with unabashed glee. "Brielle is my girlfriend. She's actually, officially my girlfriend."

They both squealed and raced to her, grabbing her torso from different heights in a hug. She grabbed them both back, pulling them tight into her as well.