Girl of Steel and Stone

Chapter 10

I'm so, so sorry for not updating last week. You would think I had time, since it was the holidays but school managed to ruin even that! Anyways, enjoy, vote and comment!

Chapter ten

Today was the day of the ball. I felt bile rise at the thought. This was going to be a complete disaster and there was nothing I could do to get out of it. Selene didn't understand why I didn't want to go and the guys were just as nervous as I was.

Apparently, Selene had the whole day planned full. First we would go into the city for something called a spa day. And I don't like what I don't know. And I had no idea what to think of it.

It wasn't quite as terrible as I thought it would be. But I still didn't like the fact that I had to leave all my weapons behind at the entry. Well, all of them, except one dagger, but that wasn't enough by far. Selene had just rolled her eyes and continued on her way.

So now we were back, my nails as red as my dress would be. And I was more than nervous. Selene practically carried me towards Cinderella's dressmaker and I wanted to puke. This was going to be so impossibly terrible. A true nightmare.

Cindy ushered us inside and showed us the dresses on standards. Mine was truly beautiful. The right arm was covered with a lacy design and the lace continued over my shoulder, following the square neckline and dipping lower, stopping just above my breast. The hem of the dress was also covered with lace.

Cindy let me sit before a mirror and started with my make-up. Selene had told me that Cindy was an old family friend and that that was why she would help us with our hair and make-up. Mascara was my enemy, just like eyeliner. Everything that came near my eye, actually.

I had been afraid I would have been covered by make-up by the time she was done, but I looked actually quite natural. Without bloodred lips. Thank God for lip gloss.

My hair was another story.

'What have you done with it?' Cindy practically screamed. 'Look at all these knots and those split ends and what did you cut it with? A knife?'

'Well, actually....

'This is terrible.'

So, she cut my hair and put it in some kind of hairdo where a braid circled my head, but there were still a lot of subtly curled locks brushing the small of my back.

Then I had to wait until Selene was done. She always looked beautiful, but now she was drop dead gorgeous. I felt a twinge of jealousy, but quickly smiled at her.

Selene was the first to be ushered into her dress. And she changed in a few seconds from normal Selene to Princess Selene. She seriously looked like a princess in those fairytales.

Her heels were absolute killers. My feet hurt just looking at them.

When it was my time I clipped my most beautiful – and black – scabbard to the black belt and put one knife in it. It was just as much for decoration as to feel safe. There was another knife hidden in the black knee-high boots with a lot smaller heels I would be wearing. And that would have to do.

Finally, Cindy fastened a black choker around my neck with one red ruby glinting in the light.

'Oh, you look gorgeous...' Cindy crooned. She took pictures from all sides with her smartphone and sent them to Selene's parents. When she wanted to know my parents numbers I just looked at her like she was crazy.

'We don't have a phone. No one in Jarran has a phone.'

'Oh.'

'Yeah, oh.'