Royale High: The Sequel 👑 (COMPLETED)

Chapter 31: Design Department

Sky's POV
The sun rays were exposed, illuminating the tranquil room. I woke up, taking double looks: the living room had been decked up, mattresses, blankets, pillows. I slowly stood up, pacing towards the curtains. I ripped them off, exposing the sunlight even more.

Wait.

The last thing I recall was being put to sleep in a cloud of smoke. And now I was safe at last, with my best friends at my side. Finally, some peace after all this time. Moving away from the curtains, I scanned the kitchen. I was incredibly hungry. Indecisive, I tapped my foot gently on the kitchen tiles. Captain crunch? Or coco pops? Ugh.

Suddenly, I heard yawning. I turned around, seeing Rose wake up.
"Morning, Rose," I whispered, walling over towards her.
She smiled, slowly getting up, "Sky? Good morning."
"How did you sleep?" I asked.
"Good. Super excited for today! Yesterday was rough..."
I frowned, "Today? What's going on today?"

Rose giggled, slapping her forehead, "Oh- right! You were asleep. Today's um... prom day!"
I blinked multiple times, staggering back slightly, "I don't have a dress!"
"Right," Rose pulled a face, "None of us do..that's why we have to go to the design department asap."

"Speaking of 'asap', it's actually 7am right now. We should be leaving!" A voice echoed in the room.
"Gumball!" I said, shuffling over towards her, "Morning."
"Morning!" she exclaimed, followed by a yawn, "We have to get ready! Shoo, shoo! You two go get ready, I'll wake up Shaina and Lulu!"
I nodded, beckoning Rose.

As soon as we got ready, we hurried to the living room.
Rose panted heavily, "Woah, that was a rush. Hurry - go get ready!"

Ten minutes later
Everyone was ready to go. Lulu was sipping her iced coffee, Rose was tap-dancing and the rest of us were waiting on Shaina - who was pouring milkshake into a glass.
"Why don't you just use the bottle??" I asked, sighing, "Hurry!"
"There!" Shaina snapped, "I'm finished!"
Gumball unlocked the door, and we left our dorm.

In the design department
"Psst!" Lulu hissed, "Someone knock on the door!"
"You do it!" I hissed back.
"No, you!"
"You!"
"Shush!" Gumball whispered, "I'll knock."
Slowly, Gumball knocked...and then turned to us, "Smile!"

We each put on a smile, and watched the door open. A short, slim woman opened the door. Her hair was blood red, which matched her lips, and she wore a welcoming smile.

"Bonjour! How may I help you?" she said.
Lulu stepped forward, "Bonjour Madame! Je m'appelle Lulu! These are my friends: Shaina, Felicity, Sky and Rose. As you may or may not know, today is prom, but we don't have any dresses. We were wondering if we could each borrow a dress?"
The girl swivelled her eyes upwards, hesitating, "You can borrow dresses. Only if you impress me."

I frowned, narrowing my eyebrows. Impress her? How? Why couldn't she just be kind enough to let us borrow dresses?
"How?" Lulu asked, tapping her foot, impatiently.
The woman pointed at Rose, smirking, "You. Speak some french."
Oh gosh. Rose wouldn't know any French to save her life. In the nicest way possible, she's terrible at speaking French. Our dresses depended on Rose.
I saw the anxiousness in her face. She hesitated, "How much?"
The red-haired girl smiled, "Enough to impress me."

Rose took a long gulp, and then cleared her throat, "Bonjour Madame. Je m'appelle Rosé. Je seize ans. J'adore la chat. J'adore roses."
"Shush!" The girl said, closing the door on our faces.
I turned immediately to look at my friends, who were clearly offended.
Gumball flooded red, "She cannot do that! I feel offend-"
Suddenly, the door swung open, and out walked the red-haired girl, "I was kidding! But, come on in! I'll lead you."

I smiled. Correction: we smiled.

As soon as we walked in, we were greeted by racks and racks of colourful fabrics. I couldn't help myself from stroking each rack.
"Woah! This is so cool!" I exclaimed, rushing to the metallic fabrics, "Extra. Just like me."
Lulu gasped, "You think you're extra?" She rolled her eyes, and spun herself over to the feather boas, snaking a red one around her neck, "Nice, right?"
I nodded, "Yeah, really brings out the colour in your eyes!
She glared at me, removing her sunglasses, "My eyes clearly aren't red."

Gumball nudged me, "Stop messing about! We have little time!"
The red-haired girl smiled, "I forgot to introduce myself - I am Catelina, but I am referred to as Cat."
"Nice to...meet you, cat!" We said in chorus.
"Ahh, oui! Nice to meet you too! Now, please follow me into here!" Cat pointed to a door, beckoning us forward, "Come!"
We followed her in, walking in to...

Heaven.

The room was filled to the brim with hundreds of dresses - all sorts of dresses: they ranged from glittery dresses, to mermaid-tail dresses, to halter neck dresses and many more. Dresses, dresses, dresses!

"Take your pick!" Cat said.
"Gladly!" Shaina yelped, dropping her handbag and rushing to the racks of dresses.
Happily, I joined her.

It took so long for us to pick our dresses. Longer than expected. We tried on dresses after dresses after dresses, until we were tired. In actual fact, we spent a whole two hours there, which wasn't supposed to happen. The dress I chose was beautiful: slick & blue. We even picked cute lil clutches. We were going to look amazing.

As soon as we left, we all began screaming in happiness.
"Yayayaya!"
I jumped up, "I'm so happy! Now, let's hurry and get home! It's already like 9am!"