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Fallon
23/24 of the girls still in the Selection sat at desks (desks!) in a small grey walled classroom with one whiteboard and a mahogany desk sitting in the front when Meadow entered the room. Sophie was lecturing us about the importance of making a good impression on the next report, where we'll all be interviewed. It wasn't very interesting and many of the girls were whispering and passing notes through it, but Sophie had my full attention. I wanted to make a really good impression on the country! I don't know if my parents would be watching, but if they were I wanted them to be proud of me. But everything halted when she walked in.
Sophie has a distinct habit of letting us all go when a girl walks in from a date. I guess I like that about her, she let us feed in to our natural curiosity and realized if she didn't we would all be asking questions about dates while she lectured. It was a better system this way.
Meadow was the most casual I have ever seen her, dressed in what appeared to be a romper with a light raspberry colored sleeveless cargo shirt as the top and a navy bottom part. Her strawberry hair was done in a low and curly bun, and besides light raspberry-tan lip gloss, French nails, and the teeniest of cat's eyes, you could call her face naked. She wore little black thong sandals with pearl beads and rose-stones jewelry. It was certainly something that anyone would be comfortable wearing, from Grace to Roxanne! Do you have any idea what a big range that is?
"Sooo tell us about it!" Aria insisted eagerly.
"Ugh! Kaylee! When you told me he was romantic I had no idea how romantic!" She sighed in bliss.
"More specific please!" Aria was always the first to make people talk about the dates and force them to elaborate when they refuse.
"OK, well, you should know that I absolutely love trees, right? Ok, so he took me to some of the inner layers of the palace grounds and we planted an oak tree! Romantic right?!"
"Umm…" Gemma made a face like not particularly.
"Well I thought it was anyways." Meadow insisted. "It'll grow to be big and tall one day, and he'll always think of me when he sees it." She smiled wistfully, imagining it. I guess maybe it could be romantic, but more for someone who likes trees, like Meadow.
"Ehem." A petite voice came from outside the huddle. She wore the white sleeveless top and navy skirt that the rest of the regular maids around the palace wore, and she held a small vanilla oak tag card. The same card that every girl who had gotten a date so far had reported to have. We all quickly let her into our circle quickly; eager to see who got the next date. "Umm…" The brunette seemed so uncomfortable with so many pairs of eyes staring at her in anticipation. "This is for Lady Fallon." She held it out to me.
"Ugh!" Madison rolled her eyes in the background, and I noticed several of the girls do so as well.
…
I still wasn't ready by the time Lucas knocked on my door to take me to the gardens.
I had decided to go for a "Belle" inspired look, with a blue dress and black belt, black flats, and rose silhouette diamond earrings. I slipped on a sweater because it was a bit cold today, for some reason. I had delicately done white nails with blue roses (stick-ons of course, there's no way some one can do something so intricate!) pale pink lips and the same lip-gloss I used for the Report. We were right in the middle of my hair, a very bad place to be. So they quickly threw it into a ponytail and tied a blue ribbon to it. Then I raced out the door.
"Hello Lady Fallon." He addresses.
"Hello Your Highness. But there's no need to call me 'Lady'." I curtsey quickly as I take his arm and we walk to the gardens.
"Ok. You don't need to call me 'Prince' either, I guess."
"So how are you?" I nonchalantly ask.
"I'm fine. You?"
"Good, thanks." Ok Fallon, you're going to have to do a lot better than that if you want to stay. I need to think quickly to change the tone of the conversation.
"Are you a morning or a night person?" I ask randomly. He makes a confused face, but thinks about it before answering. Don't worry; I have a plan for this…
"I'm more of a night person myself, I think. I stay up half of the night, and then can't wake myself up in the morning. It's a bit annoying, actually. Not the best trait for someone whose day starts early." I smirk and chuckle. "And you?"
"Well, usually I'm a morning person. I always got up at the crack of dawn and then wrote or made breakfast or something. But this morning, I didn't wake up until 2 hours ago." It's 3 o'clock right now, right?
"Oh."
"Yeah, and then I just remember my maids scrambling to get me dressed, and then running down the hallway and then running into the wrong room while a guard and a maid were making out, and that was quite uncomfortable." I admit. He laughs a bit, although a bit dry. But I can tell that at least he's amused. "That was embarrassing, but then I ran away and found the correct room. Then Sophie got angry with me and scolded me for 10 minutes, while Roxanne snuck into the room unnoticed." He smirks again. "So there I was, standing there like an idiot, and she says to me 'if you're ever late again-' and then I cut her off and told her 'A queen is never late, everyone else is simply early' and she just stared at me like my god are you actually serious?" This time he actually laughs, not a hearty laugh, but enough for me! "Anyways, a couple of the other girls laughed, but I can't remember who."
He smiles at me, but it's cut short because apparently, we're here.
The gardens.
Isla
I try to curtsey low as I can under my restraining dress (only because it was a mini dress, with a strapless tribal print top and a hot pink bottom), but I end up falling to my knees, even though I'm only wearing sandals. I blush scarlet, but he laughs hysterically.
"Are you ok Lady Isla?" He laughs, a solid smile on his (incredibly attractive) face.
"Yes. Darn it!" I chide under my breath. He laughs again and offers his arm, which I take. "And don't call me that!"
"Call you what?"
"'Lady'. It gets in the way."
"Agreed. And just call me Lucas."
The walk down is not going well already. His blue blazer is making my arm itchy, and I want to remove it really badly. My black thong sandals needed to be loosened and I cant do that while we're walking! Maybe my hair was too short to be in a side braid, and that it would keep falling off, even when it hadn't yet. I was afraid that my dress would be too short, or it would fall down; that my perfect cats eyes and lip-gloss made me underdressed, and my dangly diamond and black gold earrings made me overdressed. And we aren't saying anything. So I wrack my brain to think of something to say.
"If you could be an Ice Cream flavor, what flavor would you be?" ISLA ARE YOU ACTUALLY SERIOUS!?
"Ummm... probably Neapolitan." He hesitates, but nods his head with his choice.
"Why do you say that?"
"Well, I have three sides, I feel like. Vanilla to the public, kind of uptight and simple, a bit boring even. Chocolate is when I'm with Ara and Charlie, and I'm a bit sassier and I feel like I feel the most myself around them. Then there's strawberry, the sweet side I share around you guys." He blushes a bit, and I laugh so he feels more at ease. "So what about you?"
"Hmmm... raspberry sorbet."
"That's not even technically ice cream."
"Exactly."
"So are you telling me that you aren't technically human?"
"Of course." I tell him nonchalantly. He laughs. "You don't believe me?"
"Not really."
"Well then." I roll my eyes to the back of my head.
"Eww ok stop it!" He yells at me, covering his eyes.
My eyes roll back into my head. Then I make my left one go lazy.
"OK, stop it now!" He exclaims.
"Ok, ok, I'm done."
We walk in silence until we get out to the course.
"So have you been mini golfing before?" Prince Lucas asks me.
"Nope."
"Me neither."
"Well, this should be interesting."
"Agreed."
It turns out I suck at mini golf, which is rather unfortunate, because he seems to have a natural talent. In a way he kind of reminds me of one those guys who was really rich and then retired early and became a golfer. He would be, if he wasn't going to be king.
"Hey, if you weren't going to be a king, what do you think you would want to be?"
He considered it. "I guess I don't really know. I think maybe I would want to be a college professor, once I get a full college education. I might want to go to law school, and then become a lawyer, or even teach law. I want to do something where I'm making a difference to someone, to benefit peoples lives."
"And as King, you can't do that?"
"I mean, I guess so. If I really didn't want the position, I could have given it up to Charlie—although he would make a very difficult king and wouldn't ever take it seriously—like Ara gave it to me. But I would still be a One. And I would still be famous just for being born, and I would need protection everywhere I went. I guess it isn't really the position I want to escape, it's the caste."
I sit in silence, drinking that in. "So a three then?"
"Yes."
"That's interesting."
"I think I would be a 5."
"Down a caste?"
"Yeah. I know that life would be hard down a caste. But I feel like I want to entertain. I've always credited myself as an entertainer. I think I would want to dance."
"Dance? Like Lady Skylar?"
"Yeah. Or act."
"Hmm. Cool."
…
So in the end, he destroyed me. He got less than half of my score, but at least I could laugh at it instead of pouting. And he was a good winner.
As we walk up to my door, I offer my hand. "Good game." I tell him.
He takes it and shakes. "Good game." He agrees. Then he holds my hand and kisses it, and I blush like mad.
"Good evening Lady Isla. I'll see you at dinner."
I chuckle nervously. "Ok. See you then."
I open my door and stand in the doorway, and after giving an enthusiastic wave, shut it behind me.
"How did it go?" Eve asks me eagerly.
"Did you kiss him?"
"Relax, Savannah, she didn't kiss him! Wait, did you?" Crea hounds.
"No! Of course not! Not yet…. kissing will come later." I wink at them.
"Ok, lets get you changed up for dinner. You're going to have to look your best for 23 girls buzzing at you." Crea instructs, ushering me to my closet.
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