"Have you seen Levana's new post on Jitterbug?"

"I know what my step-mother is doing without looking on an app, Seleney."

She pulled a face. "You know I don't like being called Selene, Winter."

Winter giggled and pulled a neon orange bag off the shelf in front of her. The two cousins were looking through Selene's-no, Cinder's closet, trying to find something they might want to wear to Scarlet's farewell party. Their rockstar friend was starting her third world tour in two days and their little group of friends had put together a hopefully discreet party to send her off.

"Your mother might be a world-famous designer, Cinder, but her stuff isn't all that great, no offense." Winter put the bag back on the shelf and moved over to the racks of dresses, organized by color, fabric, and pattern. Cinder's design studio might be a mess, but she was picky about her closet.

"Oh I know it isn't, which is why I'm going to start modeling my own designs on my Jitterbug page. The boys have been helping me take some shots." Cinder flicked through a rack of pants and shorts and pulled out a pair of high-waisted shorts with distressed lace dripping off the hem. "What about these with that halter crop top I did last week?"

"The red one or the blue?" Winter held a flowing dress up to herself in front of a floor length mirror.

"The blue one with the chiffon strip down the middle, yeah." Cinder wandered over to the rack of shirts. "With the gold Jimmy Choo's or the silver Zanotti's?"

Winter picked up a silver skirt and headed over to where Cinder stood, examining the shirts. "The gold ones-but only if you wear that turquoise set Kai got you last summer when he came back from filming in Nevada."

Cinder nodded in agreement and went around pulling the pieces of the outfit they had decided on out of their spots. "I would wear the black skirt behind you with the holo top from Armani."

"Oh! With those bright yellow pumps from the Louboutin show at Fashion Week!"

Winter squealed and rushed off to the wall of shoes while Cinder put the skirt back with a chuckle, nearly dropping it when her phone started to ring. She hung up the skirt, set the armful of clothes onto a table in the middle of the room, and answered.

"Cinder? Is that you?" a meek voice asked. "I don't know if I walked into the wrong closet, but there are a lot of spikes and sharp edges and it's kind of scary."

"Cress, walk away from my mother's design vault and press the help button out in the hall," Cinder said.

"Is that a joke or is that the big lamp post looking thing outside?"

"There isn't a help button, just go to your right when you get out of that disaster area and head down the hall until you reach the end. After that, go to your left and go into the room at the end of the hall." Cinder laughed and hung up.

"Who was that?" Winter had changed into her outfit and was now rifling though the drawers of jewelry on the far wall.

"Cress. She got lost in the house again." Cinder slipped behind a rack of dresses and started changing into her clothes. "She should find my room in-"

"Hello? Are you guys in here? Or is this another fashionable, spiky, death room?"

Winter rushed out of the closet and into Cinder's bedroom, coming back with a smiling Cress.

"So what, oh great fashion moguls, am I wearing to Scarlet's party?"

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