Beneath You're Beautiful (EDITING)

Epilogue: Beauty

* Alice's POV *

Years later...

I looked at myself in the mirror and felt my heart race ecstatically. To be honest, I had never imagined myself to actually be in this position...the only time I had was in my dreams as an innocent little girl, walking up to my Prince Charming in all my desired beauty and wonder.

The white dress fell to the floor and trailed behind me. It was rather fitting and did well for my figure. The crystals around the waist and in the embroiled flowers that stretched across the flowing dress were not at all flashy. They were simply beautiful without exaggerating anything, just like the dress as a whole.

I took a deep, and rather shaky breath. At that moment, I was in the large hotel room on my own. The girls, Olivia and Penny, had gone downstairs to get the flowers and bring up a drink for me...lets just say it wasn't juice and instead, something a little stronger.

I knew it was silly but inside, I was terrified and that emotion was starting to show on the outside as my hands began to tremble at my sides. I decided to blah with my thumbs and calm myself down.

This day was something that I was supposed to be happy about but I was actually on the edge of having a break down. Though, I wasn't having any second thoughts and my feet were far from cold. There was no way that I would ever second guess this day, not when I loved Thomas with so much love that it almost made my heart ache.

In my childhood dreams, I had saw my older self walking towards my heartthrob prince with my arm wrapped around my father's while my mother sat at the front, holding a fissure as she cried joyfully.

But they weren't here. My parents weren't here to see this day...I still had my foster parents though and I loved them so much, it's just that my loss still caused me great pain.

Clutching the sides of my dress as my breathing increased and the tears filled my eyes, blurring my vision, I shook my head and turned away from the mirror. This was truly ridiculous of me, how could I act like this on one of the most important days of my life that I would surely remember forever?

The door opened, revealing Olivia and Penny in their light green dresses that flowed around them. They both looked wonderful with their hair up in halo braids and light makeup.

"Alice what's wrong?!" Penny asked worriedly as she and Olivia hastily placed down the white and yellow bunch of flowers on the table.

I brought my hand up to my face and felt the warm tears slowly running down my cheeks.

"Oh no." I said and quickly turned back to the mirror so I could gently pat the water away and not ruin my makeup.

"Here." Olivia said as she placed a fissure against the corner of my eyes to stop any more years from escaping.

"I'm sorry." I told them both, sniffling as the last of the emotional water works disappeared.

"What for?"

"What's wrong Alice?"

I looked down at the ground and scratched my elbow awkwardly.

"I just really miss my parents, that's all." I whispered weakly.

"Aw Alice! Why didn't you tell us?" The girls brought me into a hug and I suddenly felt emotional all over again so I held onto them tightly.