princess

chapter five

Today was the 18th January. lillianna and Luca's 16th birthday. So their father was throwing them a party, but quite honestly there was no point in throwing the twins a party the people coming would be their fathers 'business partners' -other families that are apart of the Mafia. when she awoke lillianna was informed via debbie that she had an appointment with Valentina, the designer, to look for a dress. Debbie dressed her in a fitted black suede skirt with black lights and a baby blue blouse with her hair pulled back into a high pony tail with a baby blue ribbon. She dragged Debbie to the appointment too so that she could get her opinion on the dress, she didn't get to dress up very often so she wanted the dress you be perfect.
Valentina had set up three rails of dresses in every colour and shade you could possibly imagine, in some room in the house, lillianna had no idea where the room came from because it wasn't there four years ago. The dresses on the rails were all ones her father approved of, they covered the amount of skin that he approved of as well as disguise a morjority of her womanly features. At least she had a choice in which conservative dress she wore.
She tried on dress after dress after dress and they were all abominations to fashion. All three women were getting tired until lillianna happened upon a silver halter neck dress. It was perfect. The top hinted at what was underneath, but only slightly, it was cinched around her waist and the skirt flowed down towards the floor with a slit in the left leg going all the way up towards her hip. It was a very beautiful dress and it was the one.

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Hours had past and lillianna had had her make up done and her hair done. Her make up was relitivley simple with eyeliner lining her upper eye lid pointing towards her temples, she wore foundation and a deep red lipstick. Her hair was straight and flowed down her back, she would have preferred it wavy but the waves never stayed put. Debbie helped her into her dress to avoid smudging her makeup and handed her her shoes. They were a pair of six inch heels in an emerald green that matched her eyes. "Okay dokey all done then" Debbie said enthusiastically as she opened her door to reveal her twin brother dressed in black jeans and a black shirt with an emerald green tie.
Lillian clutched onto lucas as they desended down the stair case, afraid that she would fall in the heels.
The music was loud in the room but not too loud. The room had white walls but a dark wooden floor with dark alcoving. There were paintings on the walls, many of which lillianna had painted before they were sent to England. A bar was set up in the fair side of the room with her favourite butler, James, working there. James was relitivley young compared to the other people who worked in their house he was in his late twenties and had dirty blonde hair, his eyes were two different colours one blue, one brown - he used to wear a brown contact you hide his blue eye but lillianna didn't want him to she liked his eyes and he did whatever the 10 year old girl had asked him.
Many people came up to her to wish her a happy birthday that night, it was getting rather tedious reply with the same old thing. So she decided to go to the bar and talk to James, "Can I have a long Island ice tea, please?" She asked politely knowing he wouldn't be paying attention to who asked. "Sure" he replied as he began making the cocktail. When he had finished making it he placed it in front of the dark haired girl, who thanked him. That was a rare occurrence, mostly everyone he served was rich and couldn't care less about those below them. James turned around shocked at who sat at the bar, pissed that he didn't recognize her voice. "Lillianna?" He asked in disbelief, he knew she was back from England, he knew that she would be at the party.
She smiled widely at him "hi James" she said and took a sip of her drink. "Hey!" She cried out as he took her drink from her "what was that for?".
" One: You are too young to drink and you know it, two: your father would have my head if he found out I gave his daughter alcohol."
"But he's not gonna find out and I'm like your best friend so I think you should let me have the drink." She always hot her way and this time was no different, James's revolve was non existent at this point and he just let her have the drink plus it just looked like cola. They chatted for a while about every thing that had happened whilst they were away, James serving the odd customer every now and again. Towards the end of their conversation lilliannas curiosity got the best of her. "James, what happened to Andy?" Andy was one of her body guards along with Axel, his twin brother, they had been her guards every since she was born and quite possibly longer than that. The two never left her side unless told to by her father so it was odd that Andrew had disappeared. What was even more odd was that James had paled considerably at her question.
"You should ask you father Lillian, I'm sorry" and with that walked away.