Love Bite

Ch 31: Set

"Nails first" Selene says and sits me down at the vanity.

"You're really excited" I say and she looks at me with a look of 'uh huh'.

"I haven't ever had anyone but Greyson and Orpheus to dress up" she explains "and they're so simple and boring"

"Yeah, I guess you're right" I say and she pulls out a bunch of nail polishes from a drawer.

I look back at my yer 10 formal, my mum was really excited for it and she really looked forward to dressing me up.

"Okay, so your dress has multiple different colours, but it's warm mainly, so I grabbed a bunch of colours that are in the dress" she says as she starts showing me different pinks and golds and oranges and yellows.

I catch sight of a light, shimmering, goldish pink colour and grab that one when she puts it down.

"This one matches the jewellery really good" I say and she nods.

"Okay, that one it is" she smiles and starts to get my nails ready, wiping them over with some nail polish remover and pulling out a light gold striping polish.

As she does my nails peacefully she hums a tune and I stare down at my fingers. The tunes is familiar and as I listen along I realise that it is 'A Dream is a Wish your Heart Makes'. She seems like she's done this before or something, it honestly looks like she is a professional at this stuff.

"You'll have fun" she suddenly says and I look up at her but she stays focused on my nails.

"Uh, yeah, hopefully" I say.

"You are going to look beautiful my friend" she says and finishes putting the first coats of nail polish on my nails. She tells me to put my hand into a nail drying device that she has, solidifying the idea that she often does her own and maybe others nails.

She starts painting the other hand and I smile "I can bet I will be asked to keep a dance aside for a couple people"

"I bet you will" she says.

"It sounds really rude to say that though" I mumble.

"Who cares, you will get requests to have a dance, you are downplaying it already by just saying a couple, I know you'll be pestered all night" she smiles. She makes me switch hands and starts the next coat.

"How much time do we have?" I ask as I look around for a clock.

"Let's see" she glances at her watch and then looks back at me "three hours"

...

Once the nails are done she tells me to take a shower, which I do and she gives me a treatment for my hair that makes it smell like coconut when I get out. As she blow drys and styles my hair To create small waves just at the bottom with the rest pretty straight, I stare at her happy, focused face.

And as she puts on my makeup and keeps it simple and pretty I wander off into endless scenarios of how tonight could be. I hope that I have fun, I hang out with the girls, that they look beautiful. I look forward to it a lot, I wonder what Penny will look like? I don't mind the thought of dancing with everyone, the girls, but the boys are the ones that I will be dancing with, considering it's a ball. So I really don't mind the thought of dancing with the boys. Except Griffin and Hayden, because they really disturb me, so if they know what's good for them, they shouldn't ask.

I shiver in the seat just simulating the thought of dancing with either of them. Hayden is still better than Griffin, and he may seem kind to other people and I was starting to like him but now I get a bad vibe again.