The Silhouette of a Girl

Chapter 12

     After quite a few weeks of planning, hurting, and being exhausted, I accomplished many things. For the band competition, we made a first division, lost the Area competition, and had great memories made. For the Drama performances, we played our opening shows and the crowd loved it! 

     It was now October 31st and everyone was ready for our game. Well, I was terrified of trying to accomplish my plan of the outfit. Tootsie had learned of her part in my plan and didn't completely agree with it at first. She was to be the fairy godmother of Liam and point him to me, the "silhouette." She is supposed to say to him something along the lines of "I'm your fairy godmother and to help you through your struggles, there is your soulmate... You don't see the real her, because you are blinded by what you think you want to what you really need. In order to see the real her, you must learn to love a person on their personality instead of basing on looks. Go to her and ask her for a dance, learn of her, and learn to love her." and for her to walk away. After a bit of convincing, I got her to say yes to the dress. I have asked the principals and teachers if it was alright if I took a bit of class-time away in order to perform this charade. They all enjoy me as a student, so they said sure. After Liam approaches me, I am to act like a girl in love. This won't really be that hard, but I have to make a character so that I don't stutter. I will pretend to be the one that he is supposed to love and say that, after he asks me to dance, "to what music my dear prince?" And Tootsie is going to play Beauty and Beast's Theme song.

     "Tale as old as time, Song as old as Rhyme, Beauty and the Beast." He takes my hand and dances with me, the world just disappearing and it just being our two hearts beating as one. Then we get caught up in the moment and he dips me, then we continue onward to our class after we realize that we are not alone anymore.

     Everyone will clap and I will basically be just like Belle in the storyline, but he learns to love someone unexpected. Then he will fall hopelessly in love with me and our happily ever after, the end.

     I snap out of my daze again, as I get ready with my completely black outfit. We decided on a black dress mid-thigh in length. The dress was cocktail style and had a lace stitched halter and an open back with a V-neck in the front (Picture on the Left). I wore a black half-faced masquerade ball mask. It is held on by a silk ribbon tied around my hair.  I wore a pair of 3-inch, opened-toe heels to match the outfit. My hair was pulled into a half up-half down look with the "up" part being in a bun with a dark pin in the top. I thought that I actually looked pretty good for the moment. The only thing I hoped is if Liam's outfit wasn't completely out of the ballpark.

     As I got ready to go to school, I reminded the principal about what time this was all supposed to go down at, which was the 5-minute transition between 5th and 6th period. Tootsie even went as far as asking Cindy's 5th-period teacher to hold her back for a minute or two. Luckily, Mr. Red had a couple of ideas on how to hold her back a couple minutes, without looking suspicious.

     After 4th-period, I walked with Tootsie to our 5th-period. She was wearing a thigh-length poofy dress with a V-neck and a shoulder strap look. she added a pair of white wings to finish the fairy look. She also had glitter Turquoise masquerade mask, and a small wand to complete the finished look (Picture on the Right). She noticed my nervousness and tried to calm me down a little by reminding me that I'm going to need to act as Belle when she finally is in love with the beast. I haven't seen Liam all day, but I'm pretty sure that he will look either dorky or amazing in whatever he is wearing.

     I finally get through Pre-cal and I am ready for the scene to play. I walk just a little ways ahead of where I know he will be when Trinity starts. I got a feeling of a million butterflies in my stomach that just wouldn't go away. Some of my classmates looked at me and was wondering what I was doing, they knew I was never late and they only knew it was me since they have previous classes with me. I shrugged them off unless they came up to me and spoke to me, then I would try to quickly finish the conversation and wait for my cue. Finally, I heard it, Tootsie talking to Liam and saying her lines. I heard about a dozen sets of footsteps and waited for one person to walk to me and call for my attention just like how I dreamed it to be like.

     I finally heard the voice I was longing and dreading to hear all day. I felt my heart clench and goosebumps rise on my skin as I heard his silky voice. I quickly made myself fall into character as I heard his little sequence of words. "So, you're my soulmate?"