-Chapter 8-
Later on in the day Endymion was walking through his vastly large rose garden. The garden had roses of all colors… red, white, pink, yellow, purple, dark blue, and peach, all different colors. Yet his favorite one was the red rose. He just loved the color of it and the way it smelled. He sat on the bench in the middle of the garden by the beautiful water fountain. As he sat there deep in thought, just taking in the sweet smell of the roses and the beautiful sound of the water.
"Hello Endy, I can call you that right?" said the little grey eyed demon happily, which was quite odd. "Sure, why not… as long as I can call you Sere"… "Sure!" Sere said as she plopped herself next to the tall prince with dark ebony hair. "Serenity?" Endymion said questioning himself whether or to say some to her. "Yes Endymion?" their was a long pause then he spoke. "We are throwing a royal ball tonight and uh… I was wondering if you--" "If I didn't show? If I don't bother you?! Sure! I won't bother you! Not at all!! I'll make sure of it!! I won't even go!!" Sere shouted into a rage as tears tried to force through her burning eyes.
"No! ... no! It's not that at all, I was wondering if I could go as your escort." He said as she looked at him in shock and completely misunderstood "I- I'm sorry of course I'd love to go with you." Serenity said as she looked at him with quite an apologetic face. "Well the ball starts at 8:00, so I expect you to be ready, and to look nice too." He said jokingly, "Alright, I'll be ready! I can't wait!"
Later on in the day Serenity decided to go into her "closet" again to see what she was going to wear for the evenings events, when suddenly she heard a knock on the door just loud enough to be noticed. "My lady? Are you in there? ... hello? Said a sweet young voice she could guess about the same age as her, "Hello?? My lady?! Do you need help Mt lady?" then suddenly Serenity opened the door to find a young girl with long black hair and wide purple eyes. She wore a short yellow sundress with a little white apron on the front. Serenity stared at her with awe, wondering why a beautiful girl like her, was in a place like this.
"My name is Luna, and I'm the lady-in-waiting here and I'm also here to help you get ready for the ball tonight." She said very courteously. "Well thank you very much Luna. I would love for you to help me get ready for the ball tonight." Sere said with a warm smile. So after that Sere and Luna began looking for a dress for Sere to wear that evening.
"This looks nice My lady!" as Luna pulled out a pink ball gown with pearls on it. "Umm… I don't think that's quite for me Luna, thanks, but no thanks" as she gave the dress a disgusted look and turned away. "More non-vibrant, darker colors are for me." She said to Luna, "Ohh… I understand, well then I have the perfect dress for you!" as Luna started rummaging through Sere's closet of assorted dresses as she then finally came out running joyfully with the dress in her hand, yet a mess of a closet to clean later.
"I've found it! It's perfect, it's just for you! Just your size, color, texture and would look stunning on you! Just like a princess!" Luna said excitedly, Serenity looked at the dress with great admiration. It was a black strapless gown that had dark red flowers embroiled on it. On the trim their beautiful black pearls, very hard to find, and the bottom of her gown was covered with a layer of black lace -stunning- she thought, "Just right for tonight Luna, how did you know?" she said curiously, "I guess I just knew!" Luna aid looking a little embarrassed, yet flattered all the same.
"Hurry up my lady, the ball starts in less than an hour! I'm sure everyone else including the prince is ready!" said Luna. "Alright, alright Luna, I'm hurrying, I'm hurrying! Uh… Luna? Can you help me fix my hair?" Sere asked, well almost pleaded, "Sure! I'd love too! But what would you like me to do? Your hair looks perfectly fine." Luna said to her. "Could you weave roses, dark red roses, through my hair, please?" she said to her, "Of course! I'd love too! Right away!" she hurriedly grabbed a bundle of the darkest red roses and weaved them through Sere's hair, she looked beautiful. "There you go! All done!" she said as she pulled the mirror toward Sere, when she saw herself, she couldn't believe it, she began to cry. "I know, you look gorgeous …"Luna said proudly, "Now go on… have fun" as Luna pushed Serenity out the door.