PHILEO | Shirbert

Eight ~ Destiny

The day of the party...

Vanity is a sin, Marilla always tells her that, but Anne could not help it. She wished to be beautiful, to have shiny raven hair and a freckle-free skin. Every morning, Anne looked in the mirror as soon as she had woken up, hoping to see that her freckles were gone and her hair was no longer red. Every morning, she was disappointed to see that she looked the same as she did the day before. This morning was not different from the others.

The party was this evening; she was supposed to go to Diana's after breakfast. Anne was going to be there early, Diana insisted on her going this early so they can spend as much time as they liked choosing a dress, and doing their hair for the evening.

"Anne! Breakfast" Marilla called from downstairs.

Anne ran downstairs, "Good morning, Marilla!" she kissed her cheek, "Good morning, Matthew!" she kissed his cheek too.

"Good morning, Anne" Marilla said, "you seem happy today. Are you excited for the dance?"

"Well, kind of... I am excited to be with my friends outside the school. The party is a plus" she smiled "Besides, I get to borrow one of Diana's beautiful dresses. This day could not get any better. Let's just ignore the fact I look the same as yesterday" she sighed. Anne loved Matthew, he always knew exactly what to say.

"You mean... as beautiful as yesterday?" Matthew asked, "That's weird because I think you look more beautiful than yesterday, and yesterday you looked more beautiful than the day before, and tomorrow, I'm sure you'll look even more beautiful" he smiled.

After breakfast, as promised, Anne went to Diana's. They spent a lot of time choosing Anne's dress, more than what Diana had expected, she knew Anne was indecisive but this was another level of indecisiveness. Anne put on the dress she finally settled for and stood in front of the mirror.

"You look so beautiful, Anne" Diana said, standing next to her friend in front of the mirror.

"I must admit I really like the way I look right now, but I don't look nearly as beautiful as you do, dear Diana" said Anne, clearly amazed by the way she looked. The dress was a beautiful navy blue with some white flourish around the wrists and the neck. She had her hair down, Diana curled it.

"Stop that!" Anne furrowed her brows, confused "You are beautiful, Anne. Stop saying those things about yourself! I've listened to you talk horribly about yourself for five years and I will not have it anymore" she made Anne look at her "I'm being completely honest, I know you don't believe me. I've told you this so many times and you still don't believe it. I will accept you not believing in your beauty, you can believe whatever you want, even if you're wrong, but I will not accept you being mean to yourself. If you say anything mean about yourself, Anne, I swear to you, I'll-" Diana did not know what to say, she thought about it a bit until she came up with something, "I'll tell Gilbert to tell you how beautiful you truly are" she smirked.

"You wouldn't dare!" Anne exclaimed.

"I would and I will dare if you keep talking like that about yourself" Diana crossed her arms, and smiled. Anne turned to look at herself in the mirror again; "Gilbert is going to lose his mind when he sees you in this dress" she smiled at her friend "What are you waiting to ask Gilbert out?"

"Ask Gilbert out?" Anne gasped "Why would I do that?"

"Oh stop, we've been over this like a thousand times before" she sighed "You like him, he likes you. ASK.HIM.OUT"

"He doesn't like me and-"

"So you do like him, you didn't denied it" Diana smirked.

"And" Anne ignored her friend's comment "even if he did, he's the one that's supposed to ask me out. He's the boy"

"Ah come on, you don't believe that" she shook her head "That's a terrible excuse, you're Anne 'if I liked a boy couldn't I just kiss him' Cuthbert"

Anne laughed, "I'm not asking him out, Di"

"You're impossible" Diana sighed and fell dramatically to her bed.

Anne chuckled, "I'm going to miss you so much. I can't believe I'm going to Queens without you" she sighed.

"Don't worry, we can write to each other... all the time. I'll be back home in Avonlea during summer and winter break, we can see each other then" Diana said, sitting in her bed.

"Talk to them, Di" she said, "Tell them you don't want to go to Paris"

"You know I can't do that"

"Why not? Is your future, not theirs" Anne sat next to her friend.

Some of their classmates started to arrive, the party was starting. Anne and Diana decided to stay upstairs for a little bit to be fashionably late. When they heard music, they decided it was now time to go downstairs. Their entire class was there already, almost every eye in the room was looking at their direction as they were coming down the stairs, the two girls looked like angels coming down from heaven. A certain person's stare was stronger than the others, but he was only looking at one of the angels that were coming down, the redhead.

"He's wearing matching colors" Diana whispered to her friend, Anne shrugged like she did not care "What a coincidence, don't you think?" she smirked "That the one and only Gilbert Blythe decided to wear a boutonniere with the same colors as your dress. Did you tell him what you were wearing?"

"How could I've? I've been we here all day" Anne answered.

"Well, there's only other thing that could explain this-" Diana made a dramatic pause "It's destiny!"

"He's wearing white and blue, Diana. Those are very common colors, every girl could have worn a dress with those same colors!" she explained.

"Look around, Anne. No one but you is wearing those colors" Anne looked around to see that Diana was right.

Destiny. 'Could it be?' Anne thought. 

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AN: Hi!! It's weird I'm doing this bc I don't really like putting things like this at the end of the chapter but I felt I had to... I want to know how are you guys liking the story. Tell me if you have any theories!

Do you prefer I make you wait for them to come together or should I just do it? :)

xo GingerSpirits