Chapter 2

"I'd like to nominate myself." She said then smiled. Her smile was breathtaking. Silence echoed around the room and when she sat down, echoes of joy and celebration was heard.

"Sakuno." Mi-chan said.

I was shocked. No way am I competing with the goddess of beauty. A roar of applause was heard around the class room.

"Okay. We'll vote." The teacher muttered.

Of all the bad luck involved, I was voted as muse. Courtney lost because of one vote.

"Congrats." Mi-chan whispered.

I grinned back at her.

After that second period, it was lunch. Mi-chan and Echizen-kun didn't go to the cafeteria. They said they had somewhere to go to. I am now stuck with no one to talk to. For lunch, I got a can of soda and an apple. I was looking for an unoccupied table when the Brad-guy went near me again.

"Hi! Wanna sit together?" he asked.

I was about to say no when a female voice interrupted.

"Shut up, Brad." Courtney Love looked irritated but her face was still breathtaking.

"Do you want to be with him- as one of his exes?" She was now talking to me.

"Um…no, thank you." I said politely.

"Then, it's all cleared up. You can go now Brad."

Brad walked away with shoulders slumped on his sides.

"Thank you." I told her. I started to walk away too.

"Wanna sit with us?" Courtney offered. The other girls were giving me dark stares.

"S-sure." I sat down away frome them- at the last part of the table.

"Oh. Don't sit there. Here." She patted the empty chair beside her.

Courtney had two more girls beside her- a dark-haired girl and another one whose hair was red. Their faces were all perfect.

"I'm Courtney. Well, you know that already. This is Ashley," she pointed to the dark-haired girl, "and this is Tricia," she introduced the redhead.

"Hi" Ashley waved at me.

"Hi! Sakuno, right?" Tricia asked.

I nodded.

"Okay. From now on you'll be… Megan." CXourtney said in an authorative voice. "Girls, introduce yourselves."

"Shane."

"Margaret."

"Jeanette."

"Jennifer."

"Paulina."

"I'm Mandy." The one nearest to the trio said.

"Okay. We have a hierarchy here." Courtney informed me.

"A…?" I trailed off.

"Hierarchy. I'm the highest, of course. Next is Ashley. Then, Tricia. We're the three princesses. Lucky for you, you get to be one of us so we'll be four. Yay us! Then the assistants. Mandy's mine. Shane is Ashley's. Margaret is Tricia's and Jeanette will be yours. Jennifer and Paulina are servants. They're still under training." She explained and beamed a self-congratulatory smile.

"Nice braids." She complimented me. "Okay. We'll give you a makeover."

"As long as you're one of us, you have to follow rules." Tricia said.

"We actually follow a dress code. Monday is pink day. You have to wear something pink. Tuesday is scarf day. Wednesday is skirts, of course. Thursday is Prada day and Friday is Gucci!" Ashley squealed.

"You'll start tomorrow." Courtney suggested.

"Welcome to LIPGLOSS!" Tricia squealed as she gave me a bear hug.

"Thanks." I murmured.

I think they're not bad at all. Mi-chan was probably exaggerating or just joking. They all seemed nice to me. They also had innocent faces that you could easily trust.

Due to the rules LIPGLOSS has, I was forced to go on a makeover that day with the three princesses. They introduced themselves formally to me. Courtney is the heiress of her dad's gigantic business in the makeup industry. Ashley's family owns a group of malls around the world. Tricia's parents divorced. Her dad is currently soaring as the top designer in U.S. her mom is living a simple life with her new family. When they asked me what my parents do, I told them I didn't know.

All of them were used to makeovers.

They let my hair loose out of my twin braids.

"Megan," as they called me, "We'll put on a few buttery highlights and a few honey tones."

"Anou…o-okay?" My voice made it into a question.

"Don't worry. I'm trained in this thing." Courtney assured me, "daddy taught me already."

She cut, relaxed and dyed my hair. I couldn't explain some parts of what it was. It was something I've never tried before.

When they were done with everything including makeup, clothes, shoes, bags and other accessories, four hours have passed. And after those four dreadful hours, I was finally allowed to look at myself.

"Okay. Close your eyes." Courtney ordered. "No peeking. 1…2…3…Ta-dah!"

She spun me around to look at my reflection in the mirror. I wasn't…me.

My plain auburn hair had parts highlighted dull gold while the others were a darker shade of brown. My hair was in loose locks which resembled Courtney's but it hung just above my waist. They put emerald-contacts on my eyes. I was wearing a pink long-sleeved shirt and on top of it was a brown-colored vest. My legs were covered with tights that were almost as light as my skin and it was accented with the shortest of miniskirts. They made me wear high strappy heels and a silver anklet which had letters that spell LIPGLOSS.

"Megan! Megan!" Ashley caught my attention. "Here. Try this."

She handed me a box of perfume.

"W-what do I…?" My voice trailed off.

Ashley got the box and opened it. She brought out the perfume and started spraying me with scent was too overwhelming. I started coughing.

"That's enough."Courtney told her.

"What do you think?" she asked me directly.

"It's um…", I couldn't put it to words and the first word that entered my mind is,"different."

"Of course it is.", She giggled. "You're one of us now."

Author's notes:

Well, it was a short chapter. I've been very lazy lately. I even lost the copy of this chapter and well, I found it again. For those who doesn't know yet, Sakuno has never met Ryoma in this story until their fist meeting in America. I promise to put more RyoSaku moments in the next chapter since there's none in this one. Thanks to all who read this especially to those who left reviews.

Etalocohc has the possibility of being updated since miyo-chan offered to type it while forgotten promise is something that I'm still not sure on what to do.

Well that's all.

Hope you enjoyed it! XD