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Part Two—The Invite

"Hello?"

"Greetings Miss. This is for you and your family." The royal mail man said.

"Oh! Thank you very much, sir." Sapphire said in a joyful tone. The royal mail man bow and left to find the next house. Sapphire closed the door behind him.

"Look!" Amia calmly walked to her younger sister's side. "It came from the royal family!"

"I bet that Feather head met with one of the princes and made him sick. And now he demands an apology. We best give it to them now. Uncle Molely's Wart may have given our poor princes some unkind dreams." Amia said.

"But we're not allowed to interrupt their lesson." Sapphire said running after her sister who was on the second level and at the lesson room already.

"My dear sister, this is from the royal family we will only get into more trouble if we don't give it them. Besides if you think about it, it's a lose lose situation. We get yelled at either way." Amia smiled. "Besides I'd rather hear what the letter has to say don't you?" Sapphire nodded happily and knocked on the door.

"WHAT IS IT?" Amanda bellowed. Sapphire opened the door quickly and gave the letter to her.

Amanda quickly opened it. Her eyes became wide with joy as she read part of the letter. "You are cordially invited to attend the welcome home ball for the princes! And every woman in the kingdom is to attend!"

"So that means Amia and I are allowed to go!" Sapphire asked excitedly. Amanda scowled.

"It says for every woman to attend! So we are allowed to go whether you like it or not!" Amia retorted to her stepmother's scowl.

"Well, if the two of you have better dresses, I guess you could go." Amanda said. Heather and Liz wanted to tell their mother it wasn't fair, but their mother held up her hand and that was the signal to hush up and say nothing.

"Thank you, so much!" Sapphire exclaimed as she grabbed her sister's hand and they ran off to their room.

While the girls run off…

"Mother why did you do that?" Liz asked indignantly.

"Because I said IF." Amanda explained.

"Oh IF!" Feather head repeated. (As if she was a mocking bird).

At Sapphire's and Amia's room…

"I think that was a little too easy." Amia said suspiciously.

"Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, Amia!" Sapphire told her sister as she rummaged through their mother's old dresses. "I found two! I knew father would stash these away for us when we were older!" She pulled out two old fashion gowns.

One was long and thin. It was light blue and sparkled as bright as the sun. It was strapless and had a blue moon rose off to the right side. The next one was small and was a dark red that had a tang top look with a turtle neck (with no sleeves) at the top of the skirt that had a cut that went up a little bit above the knee. Light red beads sewn into the bottom and on the edges of the tank, neck and skirt.

"Wow! Dad sure knew what we liked!" Amia said enthusiastically. She took the dress and slip and snuck into the bathroom and changed. After Amia had changed Sapphire went in and did the same.

Both girls went to the mirror to see how they looked.

"I think we have a problem…" Amia looked down at her feet. Saying that they needed shoes.

"We can't walk in bare-foot. There must be something for us to wear."

"And there is!" Sapphire pulled out a pair of dark red shoes and another pair of dark blue shoes. "They really don't match but that's the best we've got."

"Don't worry about it. It's not like their going to be looking at our feet. I have a feeling the guys will look at our bodies and faces before our feet."

"I know, but I just don't want to be uncoordinated with our outfits." Sapphire muttered.

"Well, it's either that or no ball at all." Sapphire heaved a sigh and nodded.

"I would also like to do some fix ups on the dress…" Sapphire started to say.

"Servants!" Feather head and Lizard screeched from the bottom of the tower.

"We'll be right there!" Amia shouted down to them. They quickly got changed and were down to the prisses in a moment.

"You need to clean this and this, this, this, this, this and oh yes and THIS." Heather dumped a huge pile of dresses, gowns, slips, and stockings into Sapphire's arms.

"Liz and I need to be measure so we can readjust our gowns because they'll simply be too big. I have definitely lost weight." Feather head said with a sneer and went into her room. Amia leaned to Sapphire…

"Right either that or the earth's gravitational pull just got larger." Amia and Sapphire giggled knowing that their readjustments would mean making them even larger.

While this is going on the boys were having a surprise…

"Father, why did you plan a ball a day after when we returned?" Kurama asked his father.

"Because when the kingdom heard that you two were coming they wanted to be able to see you two. And we want our people to be happy."

"So the fact that we're not married has nothing to do with this. Right?" Hiei concluded.

"We'll of course not!" The king said with a smile.

"So all the maidens in the kingdom just happen to want to come to this ball." Kurama asked suspiciously.

"Who did you hear all the maidens were coming? I mean not all of them could possibly make it!" the king defended himself. Hiei and Kurama glared at their father.

"Father, the whole town was talking about it when we got home." Hiei said.

"Okay, so I extended an invitation to everyone in the kingdom."

"I can't believe you! Just about everyone in the kingdom has a daughter! We all know that! Please quit the lies. You wouldn't do this if mother were still around!" Hiei shouted.

"I merely want what's best for the both of you!" King Yusuke said defiantly.

"Father, we know what's best of us, not you." Kurama stated and walked out of the living room with Hiei.

While the boys prepare for the unwanted ball the girls are having some trouble…

"This dress is bigger than when it started!" Lizard yelled at Sapphire.

"You must be skinner than I thought I'm sorry." Sapphire said in a shaky voice. "Do I need to make it slimmer?"

"Of course! It's way too big!" Lizard screamed.

"Okay. Just calm down." Sapphire said in a weak voice and went off to the tower bed room were the sewing kit was to fix the dress.

"Here you are all fixed." Sapphire said proudly.

"It's still too big!" Feather head announced.

"But if I make it any slimmer you won't be able to breath!" Sapphire told them. 'Not like I care; I just don't want to be blamed for their deaths' Sapphire thought.

"Make it slimmer or you'll get no food for a week!" Feather head said. And with that Sapphire went up and made the dresses skinner again.

"Here you are." Sapphire told them exasperated.

"Took you long enough." Lizard said and took her dress to her room and Feather head did the same.

Then Feather head and Lizard came running out in their new gowns. "Mother don't we look beautiful?" They chorused.

"Of course you do!" Amanda said proudly. "Tonight you will both dance with the princes! Then they will see that you two are the prettiest and most brilliant women in the kingdom and fall madly in love with you two!" Amanda said with much excitement in her voice.

Amia leaned toward her sister "Geeeezzzzzz could she get any farther from the truth?" Sapphire smiled and held back a laugh.

"And what are you two smiling at?" Amanda asked Amia and Sapphire.

"Oh we were just thinking how they look in their dresses." Sapphire smiled brightly.

"Really?" Amanda said suspiciously, "Is that so? If you two want to be able to go to the ball to night then you better finish the rest of your chores."

"Yes stepmother." Amia and Sapphire said together; and went off to do their work.

By the time the girls were finished it was time to get dressed. When the got to their room they found the most beautiful dresses.

"Amia, did you fix the dresses?" Sapphire asked her sister eagerly.

"No. I thought you did it." Amia answered bewildered.

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