Hey look at me two chapters in one day. Love summer. Leaving for Hawaii soon but no worries... I'll be taking my computer with me. Want the list of story credits? It's up on my bio... Love you all and enjoy. Writing in first person for this chapter. I'll decide which I want to stick with for the rest after this chapter. Thanks for understanding and sorry If it's annoying.

JASPER

"Ladies, Ladies, let's hurry, we have lots of things to do today." We were all ushered into a large house, which seemed to be about 30 minutes from the palace. Inside were dozens of girls waiting on soft red velvet couches. Nervous chatter and introductions started as we waited for our names to be called. Since my last name started with an L, I was one of the first.

"Lark? Jasper Lark?" I got up from the spot I had secured between two girls that had introduced themselves as Sierra and Elizabeth. "Are you Jasper" Called the lady in the tall hair and probably the worst makeup I'd ever seen. I walked over glancing back at all the girls. As soon as I walked through the doorway into a big room, filled with tables full of makeup and racks with plenty of dresses made of luxurious silk and lace. After brief introductions with the lady she lead me over to 3 maids.

"Hi miss Lar-" I cut her off

"Jasper, please." I saw her eyes roll to the back of her head.

"Hello, Jasper" she paused "I'm your head maid, Agatha. This is Kylie and Tulisa." She motioned to the two girls on either side of her. One appeared to be college age and the other one barely older than 14. "If you could please sit down we've got a lot of work to do." I couldn't help feel just little offended by the honest tone in her vioce.

The youngest one Tulisa pulled out a rack of dresses that seemed to be made entirely for me. Looking at where my eyes were pointing, she pulled off the rack a gorgeous white dress that went all the way to the ground a small train behind it. I slipped it on, noticing even more about it, like how it had the most gorgeous sweet heart neck line. It had a tight bodice that billowed out at the waist line spilling onto the floor. Small golden strands came down from the waist line, only making my curves stand out more and highlighting the golden speck in my eyes.

Without even needing the reaction of my maids, I nodded and looked up. My maids seemed to agree with my assessment, even grouchy Agatha.

Agatha and Tulisa sat me down in the chair and got to work on my makeup as Kylie cut off my dead ends.

"You have beautiful hair my lady." said Kylie as she brushed it out. I had always loved my hair. It was wavy and long and thick and the most lovely shade of brown. In fact I thought it was one of my greatest attributes. As I looked around everyone seemed to be in beautiful dresses and have beautiful hair and suddenly my greatest attribute and my dress might not lock me down as the winner.

JORDAN

My maids pulled me in front of a rack. And pulled out dresses one by one making me try them one, going in one end of the screen in one dress and out the other in one just as beautiful. But, none of them felt just right. I was about to meet the man who could be my possible husband not to mention he was the possible future king of Iléa. Then, we were down to the last dress on the rack, my maids looking impatient and nervous. Something told me that as prepared as they were, they didn't have a backup plan.

"We might as well try my lady" I nodded pulling the skater dress of the rack. I got behind the screen slipping it over my skin. Even though the fabric was lace, the body of the dress was made of soft silk. One thing I did notice was the particular length. I mean, the bottom of the skirt barely went past my butt. It certainly wouldn't pass the finger tip rule rule at school. It had triangle slits at the bottom of rib cage right above the waistline. It was scandalous and gorgeous as the white of the dress contrasted beautifully with my tan skin tone. I nodded. It wasn't just because this was the last dress on the rack or because I knew there were no other dresses after I finished the rack, it was because I could see myself meeting my future husband. And once he saw pretty much my entire killer legs in this dress his jaw would drop.

I picked up my dress and sat down on a chair in front of a table full of makeup under a giant mirror. My maids got to work, applying a thin layer of foundation and concealer, covering up all my freckles and my dark circled from the late nights I had spent working on blue prints. I looked myself in the mirror barely recognizing myself. My maids saw my nervous look and Wendy asked me,

"Is that too much?" I nodded, breaking out a small smile. She grabbed a wet toilette and wiped it all off revealing my freckles. Once again the maids went in. This time they skipped the foundation and just stuck with a bit of concealer. They added light eyeshadow on my eyes and pearly pink pressed eyeshadow over it. They smoked out my lash line with brown eyeshadow. As I looked up into the mirror I thought I looked like a goddess. And for the first time I thought I could have a chance.

LIAM

I brushed the dust of my gray wool suit and straightened up my tie. "Liam?" I turned around to see my sister Esmeralda, holding Brooklyn in her arms.

"What?" I said, more rude than I wanted, "Do you want to wish me bad luck?" even Brooklyn looked shocked at my remark.

"No," I had always admired how calm my sister stayed when faced with my brother and I's snarkiness. " I wanted to wish you good luck. It's no secret that even though no one knows who is the oldest, you've always been the little brother. It's no shock that you're doing this last but just so you know, that's not as bad as you may think. I'm here to help you and, my husband, James, he knows how hard it is to be one of the selected, so don't be afraid to take a look from their point of view. They're in this too. That's the best advice I can probably give you." Without any more words we hugged and the words "I love you too" were passed within us. After as few seconds, Brooklyn grabbed onto our legs and we burst into laughter as she turned this hug into a group hug.

I love you guys. Thanks for all the support you're giving this story. Please submit characters, they're much better than the ones I can make. Provinces that are taken are White, St. George, Baffin, Likely, Fennley, Sonnage, Belcourt, Kent, Midston, Bonita, and Waverly.

~Clara M.