Frostbite
"This might be the strangest thing I have ever done." Mina muttered to Lucy as they both stared into the mirror. She was doing her makeup and Mina was just finishing her hair.
"What is?" She asked and Mina smiled and shook her head.
Downstairs waiting for them was Casimir, William, Davide, Amare, Otis, Vikas, and Jonathan. Everyone was either a vampire or drudge, and knew her in a past life or in both lives. Considering the twisted past that they all have, Mina found it strange that they are all just sitting around waiting to take pictures of her before the Snow Ball. It was almost like an elephant trying to play parent to a fish. Strange...But she couldn't tell Lucy that.
It was so easy to forget that though Lucy was one of her closest friends...She still had no idea that Mina was a vampire. She also still didn't know about her past life and how Dracula changed her which led to her own murder. Yeah, Mina didn't plan to tell her soon.
"It's just weird having Caz over with Otis and Vikas. I know they know each other it's just...a strange feeling." Lucy shrugged and finished the last touches of her eye shadow and stood.
"Just think of how hunky Jon will look tonight and you'll be fine!"
Mina blushed at her words, collapsing into her hyper hug easily in her embarrassment. They parted to look at their work in the mirror. Lucy wore a purple dress, her favorite color, which resembled a ballroom gown with no straps and a wrap to cover her shoulders from the cold.
Mina's dress was black, with no large flowing skirts that remind her of umbrellas like past years. It was slim-fitting, and stopped just barely above the floor. There were straps of silver to hold up the V-neck and to keep the fabric form-fitting. There was no back, but it was still very modest, otherwise she wouldn't have worn it. Along the sides were swirls of silver in elegant designs reaching from under her arm to her hip, then branching back to connect with the other side. There was also a slit in her skirts from her mid-thigh to the floor.
Casimir and his sons helped her pick it out...it is extremely awkward going dress shopping with three hot guys who are one's nephews in a creepy way, and one's old creepy-on-purpose brother-in-law.
They liked it because it was soft and fit the corset-curves that Mina sometimes hated that she had. Casimir thought they suited her, buying her cloths that purposefully show her form because that's what her past lives did. Also it was black and 'mysterious' as Davide put it. William-being the flirt that he is-flat out stated that it was sexy with the exposed back, V-neck line, and swirls to bring notice to the curves. Will, always the one to embarrass her whenever he had the chance.
Her hair was down and straightened with the red curled and twisted back to the silver pins in the back. Yet for some reason...She still couldn't part with her necklace or ring.
When she was younger she believed since it somehow was connected to Vlad's 'secret' that it was a way of binding herself to him. Now that she knew the truth about the two items they have lost their splendor and sometimes bring even bitter thoughts or memories. But she loved them still...They were all she had of Elizabeth and Wilhelmina, other than herself. And what could she do with Wilhelmina's long dark hair and Elizabeth's milky skin? Nothing, nothing but possess them but the ring and necklace were emblems of them. She must represent them both, no matter the things that plague her mind because of them.
"You okay, Mina?" Lucy asked and Mina smiled at her.
"Yeah...Just worried my hair will get messed up while we are performing." Lucy wrapped an arm around her shoulders and leaned her head against Mina's.
