Once Upon A Pink Suitcase|✔️

Chapter Tweleve:

Lauren runs to the bathroom and comes back with a strapless short red dress.

"Based on your interview and interview photos we decided to go with a similar outfit style to the one you were wearing. Red for power, short for that active movable length but also made it super short so you can see a lot of your legs, and strapless because you seem to like that." she says gesturing to my outfit now.

"Ohmigosh!" I exclaim. "I love it!"

"Let's get you prepped for tonight, first starting with waxing, do you um... take care of your bikini zone...?" Kelsey asks kinda nervously.

"Oh yea I do." I say quickly.

"Okay great. Let's do your legs then, and after hop in the bathtub and use this," Lauren says shoving two bottles in my arms. "After we will paint your nails and do your makeup. Stacey can you please put Miss Saige's clothes away?"

"Yes Mommy." Stacey responds, then scampers away pulling my suitcase with her. She plops right down in front of the white wood set of drawers and starts folding and putting stuff away.

"Wow! When I was five I don't think I would be folding." I say, chucking.

"We trained her, since she is young for her age she just helps us do our work until she will go off to school next year." Lauren says.

"She can do any simple task, it's just something else we don't have to do." Kelsey adds, preparing the wax.

"AUGH!" I cry out as Lauren rips of one of the sheets.

"ughhh" I groan as she finally finishes 20 minutes later. Kelsey made a bath ready for me, she added a strawberry bath bomb.

"You look powerful, but smell sweet." she comments clearly proud with herself. I undress, my cheeks turning pink. I don't typically undress in front of other people, but I guess I will get used to this.

"Honey don't be shy," Lauren assures. "You are stunning inside and out."

"Thanks..." I say not fully convinced. Kelsey massages my head, and it feels oh-so-good. The time I have spent solely on relaxing had been zero in the past six months. There is just too much to do, and not enough time.

"Here," Lauren says while putting a facial mask on me. "It's lemon scented and helps clean out your pores."

"Ahhhhh" I say, a sign of pure bliss. The timer buzzed on Lauren's phone, and so I got up and rapped myself in a towel. Lauren came over and started working on my hair and then Kelsey painted my nails.

"I want to hear more about Sir Luke, Lauren." I ask while she blow dried my hair into soft curls.

"We met on my first day of work. I was seventeen and fresh out of a boarding school, I graduated early. My mom is a chef here and my dad is the head groundskeeper, so naturally I fell into the family line of working in the palace. I loved traveling around with my boarding school despite rarely seeing my parents. I got a partial scholarship to the best art design school in the nation. I attended the public school until sixth grade, then moved to the boarding school. I would stay there for the majority of the summer in a fashion design program they had which I saved up and payed for half. I got to travel to New York County and California County and work with some companies to design looks and learn about business." she sighed. "Having not been at the palace for at least seven years, it changed a lot. I grew up alongside Prince William, but he was cold and distant when I came back. We were such good friends, but seven years changes someone. I was upset and missing my friends at school, my parents worked full shifts and I would rarely see them. Then when I was struggling to make my way to the kitchen for some food I bumped right into Sir Luke. I fell flat on my butt, my skirt flying up around me. I could see him eyeing what was under there, he lead out his hand for me, I took it and he lead me to his room. At this point I was not thinking straight, so I fallowed him. He had made a pizza, he was quite a good cook, I stayed the night. That one night mushed into two, then three, then a week, and we slowly fell in love. But when we took that next step, we weren't safe about it in the heat of the moment. I have always stood against abortion, and Sir Luke came to terms with that. I had planned to move out of the palace and move to New York County to work for some clothing brand company, but when Sir Luke said he would stick with me and we would raise Stacey together, it made more sense to stay. " Lauren's eyes cloud up. "I don't know what would have happened if I left and fallowed my dreams, but I have a reason to stay here. I have a job, food, and a loving family."

"Wow that's a beautiful story, and you have done such a nice job raising Stacey." I gush. "She is so adorable and spunky."

"What about you Kelsey? Anyone stole your heart?" I ask.

"Well..." she starts.

"Spill! We have two hours and my whole face to finish. We are your friends."

"I am still in high school, I am seventeen. I just missed the cutoff for the Selection." she sighs with a small smile on her face. "Not that I would have been called anyways, I am registered from California County, and that place has so many people it's impossible to be picked without some sort of connections." she adds quickly.

"Right, all Royalty residents register as the last County they had been in." I mutter to myself. "Maybe I could make that easier if I was queen..."

"Anyways, I go to school at Royal High, from the public school system Royal Schools. It's where all the non-in-line-for-the-thrown kids go unless they get shipped of to a boarding school for a better future blah blah. My friends and I all go to school from 6am to 12 am, then come and work five hours at the palace in some form. You can either work five hours in the morning, then go to school from 1pm- 7pm or do the program I do. My boyfriend works on the grounds like most of the boys, and most of my friends are maids. It's quite a production but we make it work. During the summer most of us opt for extra hours, because that's extra money. Then we all pile in that extra money and rent out a house in Florida County during the last week in July. It's really fun, boyfriends and girlfriends get to sleep together for the first half, then we clear out the basement for giant sleepover nights."

"What's your boyfriend like?" I ask.

"He is perfect, a gentleman, kind, athletic, a bit over protective, and generous. He is super tall and has tanned skin from working outside, he has fawn colored hair too, and blue eyes."

"He sounds wonderful, I wish you two the best." I sigh, wishing for my own guy like that.

"Okay I am done!" Lauren announces. "Go put on this dress and these shoes and then come back!" The dress fits like a glove, but I guess it should considering it's personally made. I slip into the shoes and they are perfect. It's a strapless red apron dress with a huge bow in the back, with red thick strapped wedges.

"Come look at yourself in the mirror honey!" Lauren calls.

"Ohmigosh," I gasp. My blond hair is curled framing my face. The bronze sparkly eyeshadow draws attention to my blue eyes, then leading to my small amount of freckles, my nose, and my perfectly shaped eyebrows. Then at last, my blossom lips are coated with a glossy light pink lipstick.

"The prince won't be able to keep his eyes and hands off you." Kelsey comments.

I really hope you are right Kelsey.

authors note:
I don't really have much to say... next update out today!

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