A few months later...
America POV
Since Maxon and I had changed out mods to a mid-July wedding, today, I finally got to see Marlee and Celeste! I was so excited. I'd chosen them to be my bridesmaids, along with Nicoletta, and they were having a dress fitting, and I'd done a ton of work the past few weeks so that I could spend the afternoon with them rather than in meetings. Nicoletta couldn't make it out for it, not that I could blame her, so her dress was mailed for her to try on, and Mary and Indigo would go out to make any needed adjustments.
I sit in my room reading until I hear a knock on the door.
"Come in" I yell.
The door opens to reveal Marlee and Celeste.
"America! I missed you!" Marlee squeals, running over and giving me a huge hug.
"Can't...breathe...Marlee."I squeak out.
"Oh right. Sorry."
Celeste slowly walks over to us, admiring the room.
"Hi America!" She says, giving me a hug when she finally gets over to us. "Nice room!"
"Thanks. Well since you two are here, we'd better get started." I say. We walk over to my 'dress room', which is really a workroom for my maids that's more convenient, but it also has a coffee maker and some food, as well as a card table and some board games. Anne, Mary, Lucy, Indigo and Rylee were all already there. They had two bright pink dresses out that they had created from Marlee and Celeste's measurements.
"Okay, so Marlee and Celeste, we need you guys to try the dresses on, and we'll work from there." Anne told us.
Fifteen minutes later, both of them were standing in the middle of the room next to each other looking stunning. They were both wearing floor length, strapless, hot-pink dresses and silver heels that looked stunning on them. Marlee's gold hair looked great with the dress, and Celeste's dark hair had a great contrast. They had an empire waist, and went down to their feet and had the tiniest bit of a train. There was some intricate silver beading starting at their hip that seemed to scatter diagonally downwards.
"They're beautiful" I said.
Evidently, they aren't done. My maids start to work on their hair twisting it up into elegant hairstyles.
When they step away, I'm stunned by the work they have done. Both of their hair is up, Celeste's in an intricate style with parts braided and parts not, and Marlee's swept up with a line of jewels pinned in indicating she is the maid of honor. Apparently since it's a royal wedding, she can't wear a tiara. Once my maids step away from her, Celeste immediately goes for the mirror, as does Marlee.
"Preeetttyyy." they both say.
We all turn towards my maids and thank them, then get them out of the dresses into more comfortable clothes for them to spend the afternoon in.
"So what'd ya guys wanna do?" I asked them once we were all in normal clothes again.
"Well, you're supposed to be the expert all things palace, what's the most fun?" Celeste asked me, smiling.
"Well, I've heard rumors there's a pool and hot tub that're supposed to be good. You guys have swimsuits?"
It turns out they didn't, but the palace had ones in their size, so we headed down to the pool to change. I hadn't actually been there before, but it was great. There was a hot tub and jacuzzi, as well as a huge swimming pool. It was probably about 100 yards long and 25 across, and half of it was indoors and half was outside. There was a diving pool with boards going up to 30 feet, as well as a few diving boards for the big pool, some indoors and some outdoors, and an indoor and outdoor water slide. There was also a smaller completely outside pool, that I was told was used as a pool in the Summer and an Ice rink in the Winter. It wasn't very deep. There were also fast acting temperature controls for everything, and a table with some food on it next to the pool. Once we had all changed into our suits, we met on the pool deck. Marlee was wearing a yellow bikini, Celeste an orange one, and me a blue one.
"What should we do first?" I asked them. Marlee looked around thinking, but Celeste answered.
"The diving pool." She said. "How well does the future queen of Illea dive?" She asked me, winking.
It turns out I was pretty terrible at it. Marlee was okay, while Celeste was actually pretty good.
"Free position dive with two rotations and five twists, and an amazing entry!" Marlee announces as Celeste does another beautiful dive. I've landed in my stomach from the higher platforms and boards that it's red, while Marlee is barely able to do a backflip, though her front flips are pretty good, though her free positions are shaky. Celeste however, dives like a pro.
"How do you do it?" I ask her as she swims over to us where we've been sitting and just watching her dive for a little while.
"I was diving before the selection, but I haven't done it since. I'm not as good as I used to be. I used to be able to do 7 rotations and ten twists." My eyes must visibly grow, because she laughs.
"Just joking. That's basically impossible. I did used to be better though."
"How about we go to the pool?" Marlee suggests.
We do, and its great. We spend most of our time on the water slides,which are super long and twisty and fun. We take one of the four person things for them, and all go at the same time. It feels like some of them go upside down, and we have a blast.
Too soon, dinner has come and gone and it's time for them to leave.
"Bye! Come back soon!" I yell after them. They wave as they get in the cars, and I watch the cars until I can no longer see them.
Okay, another chapter!As always please review. I really want more feedback about how it is, and if there's something you want to happen, please feel free to tell me and it's not a guarantee, but I'll do my best to make it happen.
