Imperfectly Perfect

Chapter 2 - Practice Makes Perfect

Elandra walked home, carrying her books as she looked for her house. When she found it, it was a house next to a shed.
She didn't think much of it and stepped inside, the place already had a kitchen, bed, bathroom, and bookshelf. She placed her books on the bookshelf and decided to get her studying done early. She sat down and began to read, she was concentrated when she started hearing noises outside.
She ignored them, and tried to study.
"Perfect dolls have perfect eyesight" Elandra heard someone say. She looked out the window to see a dark skinned girl with magenta hair and glasses, walking out of a shed like house, rubbing her eyes.
Elandra had a feeling something was up, she was drawn to her. She seemed sad, and she wanted to help. When she thought of helping her, anxiety hit her chest, it's like her shyness gets away with her. She sighed and looked back at her books.

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Elandra fluttered her eyelids opened as the sun hit her eyes, she stretched her arms and opened her eyes and realized, she had fallen asleep where she was studying. Elandra sighed and went to her bathroom, fixed up her hair and outfit, and decided to go outside early.

The sky was blue, filled with clouds, and the sun bright as can be. No one was outside in the institute of perfection, it was just Elandra. She walked around and noticed that there were a bunch of set ups. She was confused of why they were here.

"Why are you here so early?" A voice said. Elandra turned around to see someone familiar.
The doll with blonde hair a piercing blue eyes approached her. Elandra was silent as she just looked at him with a neutral expression. "You don't talk, huh? Cats got your tounge?" He said. Elandra giggled at the funny remark. "Aweh, there's the smile. My names Lou...and yours?" He asked. Elandra looked down for a moment, and looked back at him, sharing a soft smile. "My name is Elandra." She responded. Lou shared a smirk. "The perfect doll..." he said under his breath.
I'm seriously getting sick of this name people call me. Elandra thought. "..not even a flaw." He said as he looked at her, still smirking. Elandra felt uncomfortable.
He began to spin around her, scanning her more and more, she followed him with her eyes, she started to get dizzy.
"Lou!" She heard multiple girl-like voices say. He stopped spinning around her, and looked at the crowd of people who were calling his name. Loud smirked, "See you around, dollface~" He winked, then walking into the crowd. Elandra blushed a tad from the label, and started fidgeting with a piece of her hair while looking at her feet.

"Good morning everyone!" He said. "Today will be a very busy day." He said. "Today will be day one of practicing to be the perfect doll for your human."
Elandra looked up at a screen that showed different types of humans playing with dolls, Elandra smiled, someday that would be her.
"I'm so excited!" She heard someone say.
Elandra looked next to her to see a group of...strange..dolls. They were short, and seemed very different from the dolls here.
They looked like animals, kind of, there skin were bright colors, they had strange eyes, and other weird things.

"If we work hard enough, we will be sure to meet our human!" A bright pink doll said.
Elandra didn't seem to care that they were different.
"Our first activity will be the paint pool! You must skillfully tip toe across large buckets of paint, if you fall, you loose!" Lou said.
People one by one followed his rules and one by one fell in.
Every person that fell brought Elandra great anxiety.

Elandra was next in line of all the dolls left, and nervousness hit her. She stepped on the up and carefully walked, holding her breath and being careful, and she...passed! She happily cheered in her head and heard from the Inter come, "We have our first passer!" Lou clapped, as the dolls cheered. She smiled and waited for everyone else to finish.

After a while of zoning out and thinking of random stuff, she notices that the dolls she saw earlier were going to go!
"Alright guys, we can do this!" The pink one said.
"Sureee" a Orange one said, rolling there eyes.
I watched as one by one of them tried there best, but didn't succeed. She felt deeply bad, those dolls were insanely confident...
When the dolls walked passed them, she wished she could say something, anything.

But she couldn't.
"Alright everyone! Time for our next activity." Lou said speaking through the speaker-phone.
Eldnadra stood there as she just listened to everyone's footsteps, but still wishing she could just speak.

Time passed and all the activities Elandra did she succeeded in.
And all of those activities made those strange dolls loss, every lose made her feel worse and worse.
It was already the afternoon, and each doll was assigned to go home and study. Elandra was walking home as she heard a familiar voice...
"Hello, Dollface!"
She turned around and saw Lou, the handsome blonde boy with stunning eyes, the two things she admired of him the most.
"I just wanted to point of that you did excellent today, you will definitely be able to go to the human world with that talent of yours!" Lou exclaimed.
Elandra smiled as she thanked him.
"Before I let you go and study, I want you to know something.
Those dolls that you saw...they don't belong here, keep it a secret though, if you do, you'll
go far in success!"

Elandra was confused, not knowing what to say. Bring her far? What was that supposed to mean?!

"See you tomorrow, Princess." Lou said before walking away, holding his hands behind his back.
Elandra walked home as she thought about what Lou said, she glanced at the shed where she saw the reflection of the dolls before she entered her house and studied.

They don't belong here.