I don't anything. Even Belladonna and Bonny have declared their independence.
I also want to apologize for the long wait. I lost my inspiration for the story, (I have since made a better plan) and apparently during summer I do not know the meaning of the word "update". However, know that school's started, my updates should be more regular. For anyone who is still reading this, I love you forever. Really. FOREVER.
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"So, Thorin's pretty cute, don't ya think?" Belladonna was talking to Bonny, making sure that Billa could hear her. And Billa definitely started listening from where she was doing her hair in the bathroom.
"I guess," came Bonny's slower reply, who wasn't quite as merciless as Belladonna when it came to Billa's love-life.
"C'mon. Those blue eyes," Belladonna made a sound of approval. "They go so well with Billa's. Don't you agree?"
"well," Billa said, coming out of the bathroom. "I'm not the only one who's interested in a blue eyed Durin."
"And they are fantastic blue eyes." Belladona agreed. "I wonder if its a common trait from where they're from or if it's just in the family."
Bonny rolled her own green eyes. "One day, the fact that you pick your boyfriends based on their eye color is going to get you into trouble."
Belladonna shrugged. "Maybe. I only want my kids to be attractive."
"Belladonna Primula Took," Bonny and Billa said at the exact same.
Instead of replying to her cousins' joint statement, Belladonna chose to criticize her older cousin's clothing choice. "Is that what you're wearing?"
"So it would appear," Bonny said drily.
"What's wrong with it?" Billa asked, looking down at her dark was heans and checkered pale green and white button down.
"Nothing," Belladonna said as she got off the bed and started going through the bags. "Except with the dorky shoes, boring hairstyle, minimum amount of make-up and lack of jewelry, you look like grandma ... on one of her bad days."
"And instead I should look like," Billa trailed off, almost missing the camisole that Belladonna had thrown her way.
"The three F's," Belladonna rolled her eyes at Billa's blank look. "Fun. Flirty. Fantastic. We're going to have Thorin forget everything that has to do with Smaug and anything to do with that stuff. He's going to lose his brain when you walk off of that elevator."
"Why would we want that?" Billa asked, looking somewhat worriedly at Belladonna. "I'm putting you on a strict no romance novel ban."
Belladonna rolled her blue-eyeshadowed eyes at her cousin, and got to work transforming Billa from a "grandmother" to a "fun, flirty, and fantastic seductress" (That was the only word that Billa could match with Belladonna's description.) With Belladonna taking care of the clothing and make-up and Bonny doing Billa's hair, the girls were ready to go pretty quickly.
Belladonna used the mirror in the elevator to fluff up her bouncing Took curls. Since she had decided to skip straightening her hair after her shower, the barely dry locks were in the tight ringlets that were common to her family. A blue headband was fighting a losing battle trying to keep the black curls out of her pale face. With her turquoise camisole underneath the buttoned up white bolero jacket, she definitely thought she had fulfilled her requirements of the F's. She was annoyed when the only blue shoes she could find were her ballet flats that emphasized her height, or lack thereof. But, since she refused to mess up her color scheme, she was stuck with those.
She had reluctantly agreed that Billa's hair was fantastic enough when the Baggins girl refused to let Bonny do anymore after the brunette curls had been blowed-dried to the wind-blown unruly curls that Billa had spent half an hour brushing out and then the brown locks were being held back with sparkly pink bobby pins. Bonny had ignored Billa's complaints of, "I look like Trixie Belden."
"Sure you do, if Trixie Belden had worked in a -"
"If you finish that sentence, I will knock you out, tie you up and send you back to New York in a heartbeat," Billa said with red cheeks.
"Honestly," Belladonna said, her picture of innocence ruined by a truly wicked grin. "I have no clue what you think I was going to say. And I'm not sure if I want to know. What do you think, Bonny?"
"There is no way that I am getting involved. However, I do think that we should get downstairs if we want dinner." Bonny said, pushing her two cousins out the door. Her green dress flared out a couple inches above her knees and paired with her white heels made her the most reasonably dressed out of the three girls. Or at least in Billa's opinion. Belladonna attracted attention no matter what she was wearing and dressed in bright turquoise, her short white sweater and the tight jeans was no exception.
And in all honesty, Billa thought that she looked ridiculous. With a short denim short and heeled flip-flops, she was showing more leg than she was entirely comfortable with. And that was just her bottom half. Belladonna had replaced Billa's green checkered shirt for a pink one. And then promptly refused to let Billa do any more buttons than the single middle one, making her reveal the white camisole underneath. Needless to say, Billa felt closer to twelve than her twenty-three years.
"They're not going to start without us." Belladonna said confidently. She held up a manilla folder, and waved it around. "Thorin is going to want this to much."
"I thought all the work that we put into Billa," (Billa's sarcastic, Thanks, Bonny was ignored), "was to make him forget about that."
"It is," Belladonna grinned, "but this will be so much more interesting. Seeing the two passions of Thorin's life warring for his attention." She sighed dramatically and placed her hand over her heart.
"I am totally agreeing on the no romance novel ban for you," Bonny told her younger cousin.
"And this will be a way to see that all of our hard work paid off," Belladonna continued as if she had never been interrupted. "Trust me Billa," she threw her arms around her cousin and hugged her, "you're a total knock-out."
"I have to agree with Belladonna," Bonny pushed the elevator button for the lobby, "you look great."
"Thanks, guys," Billa said, not at all as confident as her two cousins. Not being as confident as Belladonna was something that she was used to. Belladonna, for all her other issues, was entirely happy in her own body. Billa briefly wondered if it had something to do with the longer relationship that she had with her own beautiful mother. After all, when your mother is still turning heads in her forties, you do feel like you have some pretty high standards to live up to.
"Now, let's make 'em run 'round for us," Belladonna gave a seductive smoulder to her cousins before bursting into laughter along with the two of them.
"Promise me that you'll never do that again," Billa gasped out. Bonny nodded her agreement, unable to speak.
"Was it that bad?" Belladonna mock-pouted, before losing the expression to another grin.
The elevator doors slid open as Billa and Bonny both nodded furiously. Belladonna linked her arms through her two cousins and pulled the still giggling girls out of the box. "You're horrible for my ego. You know that? I thought that I did a good job."
"A good job at what?" Fili asked, as him, his brother, and Ori.
Belladonna threw a mischievious look at her two cousins before turning back to the three males. "Just tell me how I do okay." Neither Billa nor Bonny could recover in time to save the boys as Belladonna arranged her face in an expression that would have made any actress from the twenties proud, lowered her voice, and whispered, as she detangled herself from her cousins' arms, and placed one hand over her chest. "What do you say, you and I get out of here, handsome."
Ori and Fili both turned bright red. The elder Durin tried to stammer out a reply but could force his voice to work and Kili laughed even harder than Billa and Bonny. Belladonna abruptly straightened up out of her seductive slouch, grinning self-deprecatingly, "Okay, you were right girls. I've got to work on that." She moved away, hooking her arms through Kili and Ori's arms. "Now tell me, have either of you checked out the menu, yet?"
"Why don't I think that it's because she was bad at the impression that Fili Durin couldn't speak," Bonny whispered into Billa's ear as they trailed along behind the said heir, who was following the three in front.
"I can't imagine why," Billa laughed back, remembering Fili's exact expression when Belladonna had pulled her act. It hadn't been the expression of someone who hadn't liked the show. "You'd think that someone who looks like that would know how to talk to a woman," Billa continued.
"What?" she asked when her cousin cracked up.
"Look at his uncle," Bonny responded. "It's a miracle he's able to carry on a decent conversation with a woman related to a man like that."
"Bonny," Billa reprimanded, looking around to make sure that none of the males heard her cousin.;
"It's true." Bonny defended herself, making Billa start laughing again at how incredibly alike to Belladonna Bonny sounded.
"Ah, Mr. Thorin," Belladonna laughingly removed her arms from her escorts' and handed the folder she had carried down to him. "I have found some extra information. I'm expecting more information tomorrow."
Thorin resisted telling her Not an option as he took the folder from her and said, "Thank you, Belladonna."
Belladonna's grin grew even more as if she knew exactly what Thorin was thinking, a feeling that he experienced often when dealing with Belladonna and not one that he particularly enjoyed. "No problem. I hope the results are slightly more favorable then last times."
Thorin only had time to offer her a pained smile before Billa and Bonny entered the room - but more importantly Billa. Belladonna and Bonny shared a grin, and Bonny leaned over to whisper Told ya so into her cousin's ear. Billa, having been trained by a Took, was able to get a glance at Thorin without his realizing that she was looking at him. Her face turned a faint red at the intensity of his gaze.
"I'm sure that has nothing to do with me."
"Of course it doesn't," Bonny mocked. But on seeing her cousin's discomfort decided to change the topic. "What would you say about turning the tables on Belladonna."
"How?" Billa was definitely eager to dish out a little payback. She loved her youngest cousin dearly but she still had a bit of the Tookish streak of mischief that seemed to have manifested itself the most in Belladonna.
"Just a thought right, but don't you agree that Fili's going to definitely need some help getting Belladonna." Bonny's expression was completely innocent.
Billa grinned in response. "Yes. Yes, I do."
I wanted to get this up sooner rather than later so, here you go. Also, I just finished reading the Mortal Instruments and Infernal Devices series. If anyone wants to talk about them please pm me. I need to get all the feels out of my system.
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