Lynsay Emerson's POV
Everyone seemed giddy,
It all began a breakfast, and I was curious as to believe it was because our first Report was tonight. It was all everyone was talking about to day, and we had to spend 2 hours in the woman's room after lunch before we could go to get ready. It was then that we began our first discussion on Maxon
"So, how's Maxon?" Lauren asked the three girls who had been on dates with him, Clover was first to answer,
"Well, he's great, and sweet, and almost everything Kiera says he is,"
"What do you mean by "almost"," Rose said, sounding slightly worried
"Well, he loves to swim," Clover said
"He's easily entertained by knock-knock jokes," December added
"And he stole my shoes, and doesn't think it's cool to go swimming in clothes," Liz put in.
"Doesn't everyone?" Lane, Alice, and Jacki said in unison. Liz shrugged,
"I do but if you guys don't that's perfectly fine by me,"
"So, what did you guys do with him? I have a pretty good idea what he did with Clover," Isabelle said
"We went swimming it was so awesome, and the pool was huge!" Clover said
"He took me behind the woods to the beach, and I showed him some astronomy, however some of the stars in the constellations burned out," Liz said
"He took me on a picnic, wasn't as romantic as I hoped, but he said he liked me and that I was going to stay for a while." December said
"Really that must have been fun, the picnic I mean, it so must've beat playing Euchre with Thorn," Josie said
"Hey! I like Euchre, you just weren't that good at it that's all," Thorn said
"No seriously that game sucked," Cecelia added "Who wants to play a loser game like that, especially when it's with a loser,"
"Whoops, sounds like we got a Celeste on our hands," Amy said
"Am not, I am too pretty to be a Celeste,"
"Sounds like a Celeste to me," Josie whispered to Alice.
"Ugh! You girls and your cheap gossip!" Cecelia said and stormed out off the room,
"Glad we got rid of her... you should have heard her on the plane ride here 'Don't get to comfortable girls, with me his choice will be easy,'" Clover said mockingly,
"Yeah, you got that right," Lily added
"So, I wonder who his next date will be," I asked
"I don't know but who ever it is will be soon, our interviews on the report should be in a week, and if we don't have anything to say, well then he'll be in the hole," Brin said.
This of course led to another discussion, and too soon we were sent to our room to get ready for the report. Everyone was excited as we hurried to our rooms.
I arrived at my room seconds after my maids, and was excited as they helped me into a Rosy pink dress that complemented my hair, which was done up in a twist.
"Wow, those are long lashes," Dana one of my maids said "No mascara for you," I frowned, but when she made a tisk-tisk sound, I couldn't help but smile. I was given a small pair of silvery shoes, and did a quick twirl in them, Then I took a look in the mirror. My face was framed perfectly by the few loose locks of hair, and my dress was fitted in all the right places, It started at a dark pink, and lightened as it went up. The waist of the dress was studded with jewels that shimmered when I moved. In other words, I had never seen myself look more beautiful.
"Oh Ladies, it's perfect," I said turning and smiling at them,
"It took some effort miss, but we came through," Jeanitta one of my other maids said.
"Oh you did more then come through! I don't think I can thank you enough,"
"Well, what you can do is make sure you get to the report on time," Kipsy said. I smiled, and hurried out the door, smiling the whole way.
We were asked to meet down in the screening room 15 minutes early, and I was already 5 minutes late so I hurried down stairs, with a few girls behind me, and a few ahead. When I enter the room, I was met with girls, in flownsing dresses everywhere, most girls wore pink, three wore blue, and a fourth of the girls went far enough to wear green, but four had daring colors that stood out.
Alex wore a dark purple dress, with black lace at the bottom, it was strapless, and layered, with black there too, the colors complemented her white hair, and made her blue eyes stand out. Thorn acted a little shy in her red dress that shifted to a golden crimson when ever it moved, the dress had three layers, and had gold ribbons on the edges of each layer. Brin's dress was the plainest there. It was orange, and it was hemmed using knife-cut style so that it grew out around her, it shimmered gold here and there, and had silver jewels all over the bodice, in a symmetrical style. Jacki's dress was by far the best, it was silver, a glistening bright color, and it had three layers, each that ended in black ribbon, it was very plain, but it was also ravishing all the same. Liz came up to me, She was one of the three in blue. It was gorgeous dress, that seemed to melt white as it went down.
"Isn't Jacki's dress incredible, I mean it's so plain but perfect!" She whispered
"Yeah I know, what about Alex's? I think her's is pretty cool too," I replied
"Yeah, but hey look at you, you look like a heart stopper,"
"Never heard that one before, but thanks," she smiled,
"Ladies if you like you can go take a seat on the risers over there," Silvia said pointing to the far right corner, we obliged and found spots in the second row between Jacki and Katherine.
"OMG I am sooooo nervous," Katherine said rubbing her hands together she took a deep breath, and slowly let it out.
"Don't be," I said "All you got to do tonight is sit here and act pretty!" I said trilling my voice on the word pretty, this made her laugh, and I could feel her tenseness melt away some.
Everyone was in there seats, and the cameras were on. I watched the king, with a slight smile on my face. He was announced and gave a brief update on the war in new Asia before the cameras turned to Gravil,
"Good evening everyone. Tonight I have a special announcement. The Selection has been going on for a week a six ladies have already gone home, leaving 29 beautiful ladies for Prince Maxon to choose from. Next week, by hook or crook, the majority of the Illea Capital Report will be dedicated to getting to know these amazing young women." He said grinning. I really could wait for next week.
"Before we get to ladies, tonight let's take a moment with the man of the hour. How are you tonight Prince Maxon?" Maxon smiled, and caught my eye, or was it Liz's before we spoke into the mic.
"I'm very well, Gravil, thank you,"
"Are you enjoying your company so far?" Gravil asked
"Yes! It's been a pleasure getting to know these ladies." this made some of us smile, Liz grinned,
"Are they all the sweet, gentle ladies they appear to be?" Gavril asked. Maxon smiled,
"Most of the time" he said looking a Alex
"Most of the time, what have the done that isn't sweet?" Gavril said, surprised. He turned to us. "What's going on Ladies, some of you not being so nice?" he asked. We looked at each other and shrugged
"What exactly did these girls do that isn't so sweet?" Gavril asked Maxon.
"Oh, well, I would tell you...but some things are supposed to be left unsaid." Maxon crossed his legs, and his arms, and looked into the crowd of girls.
"Please tell your highness," Gravil said, Maxon sighed as if Gravil had torn down the last of the walls preventing him from telling his story,
"Well, I was walking down the hall and ran into one of the girls, she freaked, and flipped me on my back, I was a little shocked, until I saw her face, she freaked out, helped me to my feet, and ran off, sprinting down the hall, with her shoes in her hand, I have to admit it was rather amusing." Alex was turning redder and redder, but no one but me seemed to notice, I looked at the girl with her choppy cut white hair, and dark blue eyes, she was looking at the ground some what ashamed
Behind Maxon, the king and queen glanced at each other. As if they were hearing this for the first time, too. The other girls were looking around, confused. No one seemed to notice Alex's blush that had now faded from her face.
"She flipped you? Whatever for?" Gavril continued.
"Honestly, I wasn't really sure. I think it was because she felt a little nervous and insecure. Which is why I forgave her,
of course." Maxon was loose and easy now, playing with poor Alex, and talking to Gavril like he was the only person in the
room.
"So she's still here then?" Gavril looked over at us girls, and searched us like we were hiding secrets, "Over there in the crowd?"
"Oh, yes. She's still here," Maxon said, letting a smile creep onto his face and not letting his eyes wander from Gavril's face. "I can keep secrets with her too, so I plan on keeping her here,"
The report was over, and I was heading back to my room, I stayed towards the back, and tried to keep a good distance from Alex so I could ask her about Maxon. She was turning into our hall, I took a quick sweep and noticed it was empty except for her.
"Alex, I have a quick question for you," I said hurrying towards her,
"Whats up," she asked
"Ok this is all optional, if you don't want to answer then that's fine, OK, alright first question were you the one who flipped Maxon?" I asked. Her already pale face turned white, and she hung her head,
"Yes it was me, it was after the rebel attack, and I was so freaked out, and then he came out from behind me, and I freaked."
"And what was the other thing about him trusting you,"
"Sorry, but I can't answer that without giving anything away," she said, "I catch ya' later then," she then turned and entered her room, leaving me in the deserted hallway with only my thoughts.
Maxon's POV
The report went great.
But to make sure things were OK between Alex and I, I went in to check on her afterwards. I was walking to her room, I was just turning a corner when I ran into Lynsay.
"Oh sorry your Majesty, didn't see you there," she said, and turned to go,
"Wait Lynsay!" she turned
"Yeah?"
"I was wondering, would you like to go hunting with me tomorrow?" I asked, I could tell by the look on her face that it wasn't really her thing, but she nodded,
"Sure thing, what time do you want me ready at?"
"I'll get you at 1:00," she smiled,
"See you then," she said smiling and went to room, leaving me, alone until I heard footsteps behind me, I turned, and saw my father,
"See your cracking down on them," he said "Tomorrow I want to talk to you about the girl you were talking about on the report," I nodded not wanting to upset him, it was a miracle the make-up artists had done a well enough job on my face from our last encounter.
"Well, I need to talk to one of the girls quick but I will see you at breakfast?" he nodded, and left. With that over, I went to Alex's room, and knocked at the door.
Character by Smashleigh
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