OUTFITS ON MY POLYVORE! REMEMBER TO VOTE ON MY POLL!
"You did NOT!" Everyone's heads snapped to Rebecca, Isla, and Skylar's huddle, as Rebecca had just screamed.
"Shush!" Skylar commanded, putting a finger to her lips.
"Sorry!" Rebecca apologized.
"It's okay everyone," Isla announced to the 22 other girls eyeing them in sheer anticipation. "Go back to doing whatever you were doing!"
But of course, it was a bit too late at this point. No ones' gaze wavered, except for Juliana's, who happily went back to coloring whatever drawing in the coloring book that Sophia had given her that could use a mustard yellow colored crayon. The trio looked at the rest of the girls, as silent plea that their attention would avert. So they sat there in silence, for a good 5 minutes at least, just a staring competition, three against twenty-two.
"Just tell us what it is already!" Madison commanded with a frustrated huff.
Willow crossed her arms. Anna's eyebrows lifted in an expectant stare. Emerson cocked a hip and placed her hands on her waist. There was no way they were getting out of telling.
Isla huffed in defeat. "Fine. I'll tell you. Skylar-"
The most bodacious selected member cut off her friend.
"I got the first date." She finished. There were gasps, and a few of the girls had to turn their heads away. A few actually looked like they were about to cry… but Skylar got a sort of satisfaction from it all. Ha! She thought. Finally, a little bit of something to give me that edge I've been waiting for!
Over half of the remaining Selected stopped whatever they were doing to crowd around Skylar and demand to hear absolutely every detail of her date. But she was more than happy to share.
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Madison was not one of the people to waste her time comparing herself to other girls, and especially not some 5! She could get some of her "friends" to tell her everything they heard, or Roxi and Lacey really, considering Rhea was hardly interested.
Lacey only went up to be polite, as far as Madison could tell. Madison was far too proud to hear about Skylar's first date. True, it was unimaginably hard to believe that she hadn't gotten it. The first date, I mean. But still, in the midst of her confusion, she was almost relieved. No one who gets the first date makes it to the Elite, much less gets chosen as the one! She almost exhaled a breath in relief. As Roxi came back, she tried not to look as interested as she actually was.
Roxanne needed no invitation to share every detail. So she droned on endlessly about the location and activity and what they ate and then how they enjoyed it, and how she would have been so bored and she would prefer a date at a karaoke bar and blah blah blah blah.
Madison zoned out on the last part. She couldn't help but think of this as a strategist's point of view. How was he picking the dates? Was it better to go first, and risk his dislike, or go last, where you wouldn't stand out as much? Probably somewhere in the middle, more towards the front, from maybe 5-7, is what she decided. So the question is, how can she make it so that her date is exactly then?
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
"No idea what you were talking about Ara." Lucas announced as he barged into his sisters room unannounced.
"Would it kill you to knock?" Ara groaned, frustrated.
"Seriously though," Lucas continued, completely ignoring his older sister, "Lady Skylar's so nice! She's funny, intelligent, clever, bold," he added with a laugh. "I had a great time with her."
"Really? What did you do?"
"Well she's a jazz dancer, right? So I had a small known jazz band come in, and they played for us while we had drinks on the terrace on the second floor. I wish we could have caught the sunset, but it was the very middle of the day so the sun was really high and bright and everything. Hah!" He laughed.
"We both didn't have sunglasses, so we made a bet to see who could locate a pair first. We had to get maids who scrambled around as fast as possible to help us find some! She won, and she got new tap shoes. When we were both back outside with our sunglasses, she got up and requested a song. New Orleans Lullaby, I think it was called. Anyways, apparently she's preformed that song before, so she taught me how to dance. At first I sucked, but then I started to get the hang of it. And we laughed and talked through the entire thing! It was great!"
"Hm. Maybe I just asked her the wrong questions. She seemed entirely boring to me."
"I think that she was fine. I'm keeping her."
"Ok. That's fine. Do you think you can fit in another date today?"
He hesitated for a moment. "Yeah, I think so."
"Fantastic."
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Emerson came into the room sobbing.
"Lady Emerson? What's wrong?" Asked Emerson's only friend in the Selection, Meadow.
"I'm done! He's eliminated me! What have I done to deserve this! I was not expecting to leave this early! And right after a spectacular date too!" Meadow screamed so that everyone could hear her, then sobbed, guaranteeing everyone's full.
"Where did you go on your date?"
"To the aquarium! Ew right? Those animals were so gross! I practically had a FIT, and I made him take me somewhere else, because I can't make an impression on him when there are creatures around me!
"And then we left, and had a great time over wine, crackers, and cheese. So beautiful, that view, and we didn't even need to talk! We just sat there and enjoyed each other's presence, and I had a great time overall! I was so sure that he did too!" She lets out a strangled sob. "And then– and then– he eliminated me!"
"I'm so sorry." Meadow said politely, patting her distraught friend's back.
"And he didn't eliminate me because I looked ugly! I was wearing this beautiful dark blue chiffon dress with a black ribbon belt and it was so perfect on me! And these heels made me taller, and then my hair makeup was SO on point and ugh! Waste of a perfect outfit!" Emerson continued to sob.
"That's ok, Lady Emerson. Maybe it just wasn't meant to be." Meadow's soothing voice did nothing for Emerson.
"You know what? If he think's he's stupid enough to eliminate me and think that he won't regret it, he's wrong." She declared through a break in her tears, rubbing a few away from under her eyes, where blue eye shadow and mascara ran down so far on her face they almost touched her lips.
"But I thought that it was loooooveee!" she blubbered as she raced out of the women's room and down the hall to her room.
"Lady Emerson! Wait!" Meadow called, chasing after her.
"Good riddance," stated Madison simply as she flipped through her magazine.
No one objected.
So, Emerson is gone. I hope you guys don't mind. But please keep in mind, I will not be eliminating my characters by how much you guys mind *insert evil grin*
Reviews:
thirteenth13- Yes, 2 dates done. I'll go into details of different ones later. Of course I can
shadeslayerprincess111- Hahaha yeah I really need to make my updates longer… blah…. thanks! Thanks! I'm so glad you liked the dress! Yeah…. that was an honest mistake! Wow, I cant believe so many people noticed! Mission ACCOMPLISHED!
everyonecaresaboutbeingthebest- Hahaha I know you made Isla :) Don't worry about that! Thank you! I'm so glad the polyvores were good, I was pretty happy with how a lot of them turned out, but I started to doubt a couple. That was an HONEST MISTAKE! I'm sooo sorry! She's be in the "Ok" column, on the connections with Bella, just in case you were curious. Hahahaha thank you!
xxbookwormmockingjayxx- Soon, you'll see me get into detail soon….. just wait! Thanks!
Athenachild101 (x2)- Yep, that's going to be far more of an interesting POV to feature…. Hahahahahaha! Ok, I'll keep that in mind ;)
Demigod-Gallagher-Selected- Gracias Ninchica, gracias. **not, you mean? You wont tell anyone I'm NOT the supreme ruler? Because I am, duh. You should see that first chapter I wrote. Up to a certain point, Caroline told me it actually sounded like a professional novel. That's a bit long….. harsh….. Which wildly contributed to the fact that Emerson was eliminated, just saying. And the fact that he didn't eliminate Skylar was major as well. That is incorrect, sorry. I don't believe that's possible.
SelectedDivergentShadowhunter- OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH! Glad you like her! Yeahh…. that was a mistake, soooo sorry! Thanks!
Smiley face- I AM! Yay! Yeah, I know. Emerson was one of my characters, I just kind of wanted her gone. I don't even remember what her profession was, to be honest.
GELStrandomgirl2- Hello and welcome! I sent you the form! I'm so happy she's going to be adopted, could you add a bit more detail to her maybe? Hahaha we'll see *evil smirk* Idk, I'm not sure I want any royal connections, if that's ok…. sorry…
THANK YOU EVERYBODY! And GOODNIGHT!