Into the Midst

Chapter 3

 I woke up the morning of the wedding in a room that I was slowly getting used to. This morning however, I was not going to do my usual routine. I was instructed by Narcissa, who was to prepare me for the wedding, not to change out of my nightwear. It seemed almost amusing that a year ago, I was a sheltered little daddy's girl and tonight I was going to get married for a war. A war that I wasn't even a part of until about a week ago.

My musings were interrupted by a knock on the door follow my Narcissa coming through it. She looks elegant as ever. Saying very little, she led me into the bathroom where she was going to make me over. While I might not have been excited for the wedding, I was looking forward to this spa day. I haven't really had one growing up with only a father, and my father at that.

My soon to be mother-in-law went straight over to the tub and started running the water. I was told to brush my hair while she was preparing the tub with many different soaps and oils. When I went to undress, I turned around with my redend face only to get a sharp tut and a reminder that we were both girls.

While in the bath, I was scrubbed, washed, and rinsed along with all the products I had put in my hair. It was rinsed six different times. I have no clue as to how this got done so fast. When my fingers were just starting to prune, I was finished and had to get out of the relaxing warm water because I 'wouldn't want wrinkles on my wedding day'.

After I was put into a white robe (which was so soft I didn't even know how do describe it) and on a massage table, two more women came in. Narcissa said it was to help her with everything, especially the massage because she just had her nails done and didn't want to ruin them. I was put face down on a massage table the other women brought with them. My face fit snugly into the little face hole in the table and my hair was flipped over my head to hang off the table and left to dry naturally.

After a full body massage to 'relax my muscles', I was tapped on the shoulder by a hand I recognised as Narcissa's. I was told to flip and lay on my back as a pillow was put over the hole my head was in. I felt a warm goo be put on my leg and, assuming that it was another scrub, relaxed. This quickly ended by a quick sharp pain. The pain was only there for a second, but it was enough to make me sit up in shock.

Narcissa's perfectly manicured hand laid me back down. "We are doing a full body wax. Shh... It's nothing." She comforted me. I got a little nervous at this as I had never waxed before, or even shaved. Papa never minded and he didn't want to have to buy embarrassing 'female high gene products' as he puts it. However, all my worries were for nothing, there was hardly any pain, except when it came to genital area, it hurt a bit more. After each area was waxed, it was massaged with oil to prevent irritation.

I was then moved over to the stool in front of the large vanity table. I started by being plucked. After they finished ripping out my hair one by one, I was steamed to exfoliate my skin. Once exfoliated, I was attacked with metal scrappers to clean out my pores. When I was, eventually, spot free, I got a very soothing facial. I don't know what it was, something to make my skin glow and feel smooth, but it was super relaxing. Of course, after all the pain it took to get rid of all my spots, I think asking Papa to get me some more tampons would be more relaxing.

While I was getting the facial, I got a manicure and a pedicure. I hadn't gotten one before, I hadn't really had the desire to, and I think it might have shown. Looking at my feet before getting one of her assistants to start working on them, Narcissa let out a loud tut. One to rival Papa when he reads a paper by one of the 'incompetent dunderheads know as children' that he has to work with.

Apparently my fingernails weren't better. In fact, I think they were worse given the fact that she actually made a remark about them. "Oh honestly, you could have at least given me something so work with." My nails were always super short as a result of my chewing them. After declaring I needed extensions, they set to work. A simple dark green on my toes and a clear french manicure on my fingers.