CHAPTER SIX:
Terrla of Kipling Peak leaped high and fell low. With a shout of delight, she jumped up and landed with a thump. The door slammed open and a girl ran in yelling.
"Terry! Terry! Stop jumping and listen! I have news!!" the girl hopped from foot to foot in excitement. Falling down onto her bed a final time, Terry looked at the impatient girl. With her short blonde hair done up in ribbons, dancing blue eyes and a small nose, Yvenne was giving conservatives heart palpitations. She resembled the ideal little cherub but was definitely not. Her whoops and hollers could be heard around the castle and some of her more personal questions had gotten her expelled from classes as well from several drawing rooms. Terry winced as she remembered Yvenne asking the very fat Lady Edelle if she was pregnant and after learning she was not, Yvenne informed Lady Edelle that she was a hog.
Yvenne glared at her best friend. She knew that pained look on Terry's face; she was remembering when Yvenne slipped up socially. It's not my fault; Yvenne thought despondently, it's my nature. But remebering her news, Yvenne forgot to be annoyed or upset.
"Terry!! We are not alone!!" whispered Yvenne excitedly and she quickly began to explain. Puzzled but not bothering to try and interject, Terry simply let Yvenne prattle on for a couple of minutes. "….and then I turned the corner and saw another girl in page livery and I was all-"
"WHAT?!?!?" Terrla squealed. "Yvenne!! Start off with news like that!! Don't give me your whole day!! Who is she? Where does she come from? What does she look like?" Yvenne sat down and thought out her answer.
"Well" she started slowly, "she looks very mean, you know? Has a growly look about her, as if that if you don't meet with her approval, she's never gonna like you. And I guess, she's sorta pretty; nothing like Queen Thayet or even my mamma. I couldn't get her name 'cuz Salma was taking her to her room." Terry raised her eyebrows. "Of course I followed. I'm flighty but I'm not stupid." Yvenne said in reply to Terrla's unasked question. Yvenne grabbed Terrla's hand and dragged her out the door. "Come on! Let's find out who she is!!" she giggled. The two ran out the door, running to go see the newest addition to the rank of female pages.
Terrla of Kipling Peak leaped high and fell low. With a shout of delight, she jumped up and landed with a thump. The door slammed open and a girl ran in yelling.
"Terry! Terry! Stop jumping and listen! I have news!!" the girl hopped from foot to foot in excitement. Falling down onto her bed a final time, Terry looked at the impatient girl. With her short blonde hair done up in ribbons, dancing blue eyes and a small nose, Yvenne was giving conservatives heart palpitations. She resembled the ideal little cherub but was definitely not. Her whoops and hollers could be heard around the castle and some of her more personal questions had gotten her expelled from classes as well from several drawing rooms. Terry winced as she remembered Yvenne asking the very fat Lady Edelle if she was pregnant and after learning she was not, Yvenne informed Lady Edelle that she was a hog.
Yvenne glared at her best friend. She knew that pained look on Terry's face; she was remembering when Yvenne slipped up socially. It's not my fault; Yvenne thought despondently, it's my nature. But remebering her news, Yvenne forgot to be annoyed or upset.
"Terry!! We are not alone!!" whispered Yvenne excitedly and she quickly began to explain. Puzzled but not bothering to try and interject, Terry simply let Yvenne prattle on for a couple of minutes. "….and then I turned the corner and saw another girl in page livery and I was all-"
"WHAT?!?!?" Terrla squealed. "Yvenne!! Start off with news like that!! Don't give me your whole day!! Who is she? Where does she come from? What does she look like?" Yvenne sat down and thought out her answer.
"Well" she started slowly, "she looks very mean, you know? Has a growly look about her, as if that if you don't meet with her approval, she's never gonna like you. And I guess, she's sorta pretty; nothing like Queen Thayet or even my mamma. I couldn't get her name 'cuz Salma was taking her to her room." Terry raised her eyebrows. "Of course I followed. I'm flighty but I'm not stupid." Yvenne said in reply to Terrla's unasked question. Yvenne grabbed Terrla's hand and dragged her out the door. "Come on! Let's find out who she is!!" she giggled. The two ran out the door, running to go see the newest addition to the rank of female pages.