Once Upon A Pink Suitcase|✔️

Chapter Twenty Nine:

I sit in a clump with the other Elite, watching our Update. We all lay in Holiday's bed wrapped up in blankets and layers. My daily dresses get longer and sometimes I throw over a sweatshirt, despite their dismay. What's better then a comfy sweatshirt? Nothing. Nothing at all. We sit huddled in pajamas and comfy clothes, me in a tight navy long sleeve shirt, with a thumb hole, might I add and gray sweatpants, that are just a bit to big on me. It's right after Thanksgiving, and while the Thanksgiving meal was delicious, we are all homesick. We also knew that Will would be ending the selection soon, we just didn't know how soon. Before Christmas? Or before the end of the week? We figured to just live it up and have fun. So while munching our way through the palaces stash of snacks and modeling all of our clothes, we watch bits of every Update. Laughing with each other about something funny someone said, getting teary about girls who left, and getting sucked in to news about the rebels and the tv stars. Daisy's face comes up a couple times!

"Thanks for letting me come and watch this with you." I said, "But I am going to bed back to my room now to think."

"I am going to do that too." Andrea says. We exit Holiday's room and she turns to me. "Do you think we could talk?"

"Sure, let's go to my room." We walk down the hall in silence. I open my door, and hold it open for her. "It's funny I don't think we have ever talked one on one without you threatening me." I laugh.

"I wanted to talk about that." She says looking at the ground. "I am so sorry Saige," she says, tears in her eyes. "You are so beautiful but modest and nice, and there wasn't a way the Prince couldn't like you. I was so jealous."

"Jealous?" I repeat. "Andrea I was jealous of you! You got guys wrapped around your finger so easily, and act like it's no big deal when I am over here struggling to try to say the right thing."

"He loves you Saige, he loves you a lot. We are all waiting until someone is eliminated and then he chooses you. I wish you could see that."

"I can see it, but what if I don't want to believe it?"

"Huh?"

"All my life I tried to impress my mother, my father gave me unconditional love but I wanted my mother to be happy. She told me "Saige, the selection is for girls who don't know how to get a boyfriend or a husband and they do stupid things to try to win something they can't." I believed her, despite my friends around me being excited they were he same age as Will. I believed her. I think she is somewhere out their disappointed in me."

"Or jealous."

"What?"

"Your mother sounded like she was jealous. I don't want to offend you..."

"She left me, I don't care about her anymore."

"Good, then listen to me. I am the youngest in my friend group, about a year younger than everyone else. When they couldn't enter the selection they were upset and said things along those lines. How old is your mom?"

"I think she would be maybe 48 now...."

"And the king is 47, and he postponed his selection for a year, so he would have been 21 or the cutoff when it happened."

"Oh my gosh. She is jealous..."

"It can be hard, not being the right age for something."

"Thanks for helping me, I really do like Will, I just don't know how to show it."

"Give him a gift or make him a card. I notice how often you write. Write him a letter."

"Okay, thanks so much."

"This is my way of apologizing, I haven't been very nice to you or to everyone else. I just really thought this could be my thing, Princess and stuff."

"You have other opportunities, you will be okay."

"Yea," she says with a small smile. "I know I will."
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"As you can see, Miss Andrea has left us. With a sad goodbye, but fans to greet her, she goes out with a bang and certainly changed the palace." David says, a smile on his face.

"So now the race is on, and their are twenty for hours on the clock until our beloved Prince William has to choose. Who will be the next crowned Princess of the United Kingdom of America?"

authors note:
guys! it's the second to last chapter! it's almost at the end and it makes me super sad. I have had so much fun writing this. please vote/comment/share or ask me questions.

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