Through the eyes of a capital girl

Chapter one

The hat shop was a large building, with rows and rows of hats lining the walls in their multicolored boxes, with the afternoon sun filtering in through the large glass windows, the shop felt almost dream-like. Ever Meadow took in the store, delight painting her pale Features. She smiled and twirled around, her satin dress spinning until it resembled more of a blur than a dress. She could hear laughter floating around the room, likely coming from her friend. She stopped twirling long enough to see her friend giggling like a dainty little hyena, an ivory hand immediately coming up to stifle the laughter. Ever frowned and ran over to the girl, her blue heels clicking and clacking on the carpeted floors.

Her friend smiled at her, as Ever came to join her near the front of the store.

"Oh shush!" she said, which only seemed to spur her friend to laugh more, it seemed the pink flush coloring her cheeks was positively delightful for the pink clothed girl next to her.

"I'm sorry!" her friend Leonora said, her eyes streaming, "I really am you just looked so- so silly spinning around like that, I couldn't help but-" with that Leonora burst into another fit of giggles.

Ever tried to look stern but after only a few seconds her lips broke into a smile, Leonora was a tall girl with perfect Ivory skin and hazel hair that fell around her face in ringlets, and when she laughed it seemed to fill the whole room.

"Ahem" a stern voice cut through the laughter, a tall woman sat at the front desk, staring at them with dark eyes, through gold rimmed glasses. Ever immediately straightened, her face switching from joyful to down right serious, her blue eyes hardening as she looked back at the woman, trying as hard as she might to channel the firm face of her father.

"Sorry," Ever replied "we're just looking for a new hat for a party."

After making sure the girls weren't serial hat murderers, the lady sat back down and nodded at them to proceed. Leonora muttered a quick thank you before hurrying Ever past.

"What a serious woman!" Ever blurted out the minute the saleslady was out of earshot. 

"Well not everyone can be as bright as you, eve." Leonora replied, smoothing down her rumpled hair.

"I suppose." Ever mumbled, entranced by the large array of hats that lay before her, she reached out a gloved hand and brushed it against a maroon sailor hat, wonder apparent in her wide eyed gaze. Leonora looked equally happy, she was busy trying on a variety of hats in front of a tall mirror.

Ever scanned the hats that sat neatly in perfect little boxes around the room, It seemed everything in the capital had some fit, some box for which to fit into, Leonora had that box, Ever it seemed did not.

With its stark white buildings and lush greenery, the capital was the perfect paradise, every street was lined with symmetrical houses, inside of which lived symmetrical people, though the capital citizens varied in shapes and colors, each were sculpted in a way, Ever wasn't.

She sighed as her thoughts drifted further and further away from the silk lined hats, until her thoughts seemed to fly along with the birds in the blue, cloudless sky.

"Eve?" Leonora called, startling Ever from her thoughts, "Did you hear me?"

Ever shook her head sheepishly, pink coloring her cheeks, she had been daydreaming, a skill which according to her professors was "Unnecessary and despicable" which was almost always accompanied by a glare, as if they could reach into her mind and pluck out each unruly fantasy with a single look.

"I SAID," Leonora replied, raising her voice a tad on the word, "are you done yet? We have to go soon."

Ever looked around the room, surprised to see the light of evening slowly filtering in through the windows, replacing bright blue.

"Yeah I guess so." She answered, while swiping a hat from a nearby table, not pausing to look at it, before following Leonora to the front of the shop.

The night air was cool as it brushed against her skin, she shivered slightly and rubbed her arms trying to keep any remnant of warmth in her pale skin. The street was mostly empty, other than the occasional passerby rushing home from work to crying children or hungry pets. Ever's shoes tapped against the pavement softly, the only other sounds being her and Leonora's breathing, as they walked down the lighted streets.

When they neared Ever's three story home, She started to wish she could stay out in the cool night, the wind on her skin felt good, like a soothing presence was rubbing against her, subtly reminding her that it was there, that she wasn't alone in her big empty house, with a weeping mother and a silent father.

She waved goodbye to Leonora, biting down on words she wished she could say, before heading into her lonely house filled with secrets she could never ask.

Hi! So that was the first chapter I hoped you liked it, this is my first story on Wattpad, (why did that just get autocorrected to wattles?) So feel free to give me constructive criticism!

I 'll try to write more every day, but I'm lazy so I'll write whenever I can.

-Moonlarkrising