_AMERICA POV_
It's been a few days since Maxons tugged his ear or showed up at my room. I understood that it was going to be like this sometimes were I didnt see him for long points of time. Sometimes Clarkson and Maxon didn't even show for dinner. Anne chastised me making my thoughts flow away like a plastic bag on a windy night. "Hold still." Getting your make up done was kinda boring. "If you don't hold still I'm going to smudge the gesso and your going to have to deal with this all over again." I let out a laugh.
"What's Gesso?" I really am freaked out by make up like its powder that defines weather or not you are beautiful. Some of the makeup they use is gross and stick and I hate it. Like the gooey not powder based eye shadows and foundations. Anything gooey just ughhahfda. I hate it.
"Its a whitish silver water based eyeshadow. We're using it to blend with the deep green. Its not the brand but the normal color we use to blend." Her thumb smoothed out some of the goopy stuff she put on my eyelid. "Open them." She brushed the liquid eyeliner bellow the other eyeliner they put on earlier. "Your dress tonight is even better than any other dress we have made in the past months you've been here." This makes Lucy laugh and me smile I love hearing my maids laugh It remindes me of home. Well before home went sour.
"The dress isn't better its fabulous. Its sexy but modest." All of my maids were full of glee and joy. I miss us being happy. I miss the smiles and the giggles. I reminds me of May the giggling and the teasing. At home that was all may she was the silly sister of the two I had. She was the optimist and I was just America.
"Luce," Mary tugs on a lock of hair and readjusts it. "Or like this ooh I can add a few of thoes pins and some of thoes." Its kinda adorable how their excited about my hair and how it should look. I don't think I would be here with out my maids. They make me feel like the luckyest girl in the world. I couldnt ever thank them enough for what they have done to help me after the philanthropy project I failed.
"Yes that would look amazing." I laugh, they remind me of me, Kenna, and May. When dad sold like ten of his paintings when I was younger and got alot of money they went on a date night so me, Kenna, and May who was real little at the time maybe four or five. We did moms hair and make up and May picked out a dress for her. She ended up re-doing the make up but left the hair.
"America keep your eyes closed this dress is gonna be a suprise. weather you like it or not." Anne said as adimet as ever. "Okay drop the robe." Trying to get into a dress with your eyes closed and you're clumsy doesnt work or go over well at all. I kept moving my leg wrong or I would almost topple over.
"No step a little forward!" Mary laughs takes my hands and places them on her shoulders. "Okay now step into the dress." Reluctantly I lift my legs and step into the dress. I hear the sound of fabric rustling. The silk feels so nice and smooth against my legs. "America, stand up straight." Mary chastides me I will never, oh no.
"You had to make it tie up the back didn't you." Dresses like this are so hard to move in, well at first they are they gradually get easier to move in. Gradually being used lightly.
"It didnt look nice with a zipper or snaps. Plus it only goes till like six inches bellow your shoulder blades thats only like five times we have to lace it through." Well at least it wasnt twelve like last time.
"Fine." I'm still not okay with the back of the dress though. "Can I open my eyes yet." You know when you have your eyes closed for a little too long and it kinda hurts, yeah that was what was going on.
"Open them."
"You three are like magic." I say the dress is emerald green little silver beading fills the bottom part of the skirt. And theres a slit in the skirt so my knee hangs out. from there the fabric is covered in some sort of small pieces of fabric sewn to this sheer fabric It looks like leafs are covering the top half of the dress. The little leafs had silver beading sewn. It looks just plain gorgeous. "How long have you been working on this It looks like It took months." Im just in awe of this dress. I have never seen anything like it ever.
"We've been working on it since everyone was aware that you were Maxons favorite." Months. I couldn't believe them. I really couldnt, I think I loved my maids even more.
"You three are perfect. I cant believe you guys. You shouldnt have worked so hard on this." I laugh and spin in the dress. The silver beading shimmered and flickered off light with each step. I stepped into some four inch white peep toed shoes. I realised why they had made my toe nails that green color the other day.
"Dont worry how long it took. Just enjoy the report tonight. Win or loose your a princess in our eyes." Anne pulls me in for a hug and I let her.
Our sweet moment is ruined when I Kelly shows up, "Lady America, your uh brother is being quiet difficult." Peaceful time is done and over with. I let go of Anne and follow Kelly down the hall to Gerards room.
"Sir Gerard you have to look regal on the report, please put on the suit coat." Marrissa is squatting by Gerard holing a coat whiltz on his bed the tie and dress shoes sit. Wait also a small pair of cuff links.
"Gerard, why wont you wear the coat?" I ask him arms crossed over my breasts. He shamefully looks at his toes and shrugs. "Sweets if you wear the coat, tie, cuff links, and dress shoes you can stay up as late as you want tonight." He sits there for a few minutes, oh god that mop of a head of hair he has is out of wack. "Do we have a deal sweets." I hold out my hand for him to shake.
Smugly he takes it shakes, "fine."
We get to the report a tad bit late. "So Maxon what was the hardest part about the selection?" Gavril is standing there in a pin striped suit interviewing Maxon.
"The hardest part, I think that was when I was narrowing down to the elite." He pauses and moves in his seat. "It wasnt the actual picking who I wanted to stay, It was the elimintation. I felt so bad half them where in tear and the other half wanted to punch me in the face." Maxon chuckles.
"Oh it seems Lady America has made it." I give them a smile while uncrossing and recrossing my ankles. It was so awkward all the other girls had on less glitzy dresses while I had this piece of art plastered to my skin.
"My apologizes Gavril we were having wardobe malfunctions," I nervously I unfold and refold my fingers in my lap. He just laughs.
"We'll you look beautiful as ever, and we're all glad you made it." He turns back around to Maxon and points at him whiltse spinning his microphone like its a gun and hes at a show down. "So down to buisness."
"I am choosing to end the selection. I've taken the last few day to really decide who I wanted to marry, but I don't really think their was a compition since shes had me since the first week of the selection." He get up and takes a small light blue box from his coat pocket. He walks over to the chairs ment for the selected. "America its always been you. From the first night you yelled and called me shameless to the point when you accidentally kneed me in the groin, and even when you messed up your Philanthrapy project. You have been the one." He kneels down on one knee. By then I was kind of crying. "America singer will you Marry me?"
In gaspy tears I gave him my answer. "Yes, I will, I'll marry you." Slowly her takes the silver ring out of the box and slips it on my left ring finger. Its got little birds, which it dawns on me. Song Birds like the necklace dad got me. Then that just makes me cry more. I look over and Elise and Celeste are smiling, no Kriss though shes crying. I feel bad but at the same time I feel awesome. I feel like happyness and all the strawberry tarts in the world.
"Can I call you my dear now?" He asks and im crying laughing and smiling all at the same time. "Yes, yes, you can." He stands up and gives me a hug.
goingforthewin- well I was gonna have him propose in the bedroom that night but then I was like nah brah nah lets see if i can actually write this Idea
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heehee okay there a slight chance of you getting an update tomarrow I might just stop and read fire and flood not sure? hope you like this chapter! Im using wordpad so not sure how bad it is pssh i never edit this stuff anymore I actually started writing chapter 27 last night at like 3 or 4 am i might wanna revise it though.