Vol. 08

Chapter 31

Selina Chase-Moon

Birth: June 30th

Age: 18

Colour(s): White

Metal: Silver

God/dess: Diana

Hermione Driscoll-Mercury

Birth: September 10th

Age: 18

Colour(s): Royal Blue/Yellow

Metal: Quicksilver

God/dess: Mercury

Marcella Guerra-Mars

Birth: April 17th

Age: 18

Colour(s): Red

Metal: Iron

God/dess: Mars

At the college, the class had a designs program teacher for the day, and a very boring one. Half the...no, wait...the most of the class were sleeping on their desks, drooling all over their papers. The teacher continue to write on the white board very slowly and even speaking in a low tone which can put you to sleep. "This is how you make a successful program for a reliable company." She then smiled timidly to herself. She had semi-short dark hair wearing a hairband, wears very round glasses, wore a red pencil skirt and a black shirt. Ellie not paying much attention to the class but more to the teacher's behaviour got her wondering. She turned to speak to Selina but found her embarrassingly talking in her sleep, drooling on top of her books.

"Another chocolate parfait, please." The teacher went up to the window of the classroom and looked out in dazed and hugged herself. After the no-energy-at all class ended, the two girls went to the parkette to enjoy a sweet cool ice cream to boost their energy at a patio table and chairs.

"I wonder what's the matter with Ms. Aki?" Ellie mentioned. Selina yawned a big one.

"I can't stand it. It's because of that design class. I'm so sleepy." Selina couldn't even lick her cone.

"Ms. Aki used to be so enthusiastic about creating programs." Ellie mentioned. Out of nowhere, Manny popped up from underneath the table with his little book of information scaring the girls to death. That should ought to wake them up.

"It is because..." Manny was about to explain when the two crowd over him looking very upset.

"Why are you always showing up from the least expected places?!" Selina yelled at him, but he's used to it by now.

"The reason Ms. Harvest Aki is acting weird...has a great deal to do with her engagement." Manny added.

"Engagement?!" Ellie almost spilled her ice cream when she jumped up.

"Yes! Harvest Aki, 34 years old and still single. Ms. Aki has wished with all her heart to get married and her greatest dream of her life is to have a luxurious wedding in a wedding dress that she made herself."

"Harvest, I'm a dull business man with no status or savings, and I'm not tall at all either. I cannot give you a very big wedding reception, but will you...but will you marry me?" the short man was on his knees giving her a bouquet of roses. Harvest took the bouquet and smiled.

"Yes." The man was about to cry, and the two ran into each others arms.

"He may not be what you'd call ideal, but as long as there's love..." Manny finished it off. Selina heckled at him and his ideas.

"That's being soft! Always have high, limitless ideals! If there's a handsome guy, I'll go after him and catch him! My goal is to get married before I turn 25!" Ellie said it proudly.

"Ellie, you don't mean that!" Manny butt in.

Outside the fabric shop at the front, a red Ferrari was parked outside. Ms. Aki stepped out of the store and started to walk but caught her eye on a beautiful fabric that is hanging in the window of the store. "Ms. Aki!" She turned to see who called out to her.

"Oh, Mrs. Lenz..."

"What are you doing? Oh, were you thinking about your fiance?" She made Ms. Aki blush.

"Oh, no..."

"Wow! This silk is beautiful!" She said out loud when she turned to the window of the shop. "Didn't you say you were going to sew your own wedding dress for the ceremony?"

"Yes, but I haven't been able to find a silk cloth that I like, even though I already have the design for it." Mrs. Lenz grabbed Ms. Aki's hands.

"Hang in there! You absolutely must complete a fabulous wedding gown and have a wonderful ceremony! After all, I'm counting on meeting my future husband at your wedding reception!"

"Okay, I'll do my best." Ms. Aki promised.

"I better work hard, too!" The two walk down the street and continue their chat. The car rolled down the window revealing Paris in the car listening in to the two teachers. He drove back to the countryside and do his usual in that mansion of his.

"The stars know everything. The star Vega...The tears of Lyra's Vega fill the heavens, but they cannot cross the vast Milky Way. The woman about to shine her brightest under the light of Vega, is Harvest Aki. I know who my next target is!"

At the City Hall, Selina was just passing by and noticed the crowd. "Wow! Congratulations! She's so beautiful!" Selina saw a couple just got married. "It's so wonderful! Have a happy time!"

"Wow...A bride! She looks great! That's got to be the dream of every girl in love. One day, I'll may also..." Selina was interrupted by a few men in suits.

"No,no. Bring it more this way! Okay, that's perfect. Hurry!" They were dragging a promotional poster board saying 'Handmade Wedding Dress Contest: Grand Prize, A Free Wedding Reception; First Second Prize, Blu-Ray Deck; Third Prize...'

"What's this? A handmade wedding dress contest? The grand prize is a free wedding reception?!" Selina was surprise of this event. Marcella was also passing by and got her eyes glued to the poster board. "A grand wedding reception! That's not bad for those who can't afford it." Selina started to drift off to cloud 9. She imagine herself wearing a simple white chiffon, silver beading on the waistline with a draped collar with the same beading, the back drapes into a exposed back and turned into a train. She imagine a groom beside her, not knowing who it might be. She came out of dream world and realized something. "Wait, I'm not good at sewing. Making a wedding dress would be a royal pain to make!"

"Hey, hey!" Selina heard a shouting that sounds way too familiar. "It's says a free wedding reception, but what if the woman doesn't have a fiance...No, I mean...What if there's no set date?!" Marcella asked the man in the suit.

"The ceremony can be held whenever the grand prize winner wishes, no matter how many years in the future that may be." He explained. Everybody in the crowd grew excited.

"Alright! Then I better hurry and find..." Marcella started to plan out everything.

"Marcy." Popped up Selina, scaring the socks out of Marcella.

"Oh! Selina?!"

"What are you doing here?" Selina gave her the stink eye.

"Oh, nothing really! What about you?" (lightbulb) "By the way, Luna is at home doing house stuff, right?"

"Huh? So, what about it?" Selina had no idea what Marcella was thinking and was freaking her out a bit. Marcella put a dumb smirk across her face.

"Selina."

"What do you want?" Marcella pushed Selina her way to home. "Marcy, what's going on?!" Ms. Aki walked by the poster board and her eyes went wide.

"A handmade wedding dress contest..."

At the apartments, inside Luna's home, "So, what's the occasion?" Luna asked. Marcella sat down on the couch and the same with Selina.

"I wanted to see ya!"

"Haven't you seen me enough?And since when you get so cheery?"

"Well, you know I don't go to the same college as Selina so I try to make the bonding in friendship a little stronger." Marcella replied with the same stupid grin.

"Really? You just followed me home!...Oooo, cake! Can I?" Selina pointed out the cake on the coffee table.

"Go ahead, but don't cry to me if you gain something! Marcella, you can have some too if there's any left." Luna offered.

"Thank you." Marcella took her little plate of cake and used nothing but sweet manners. Luna leaned in to Selina.

"What's going on?" Luna whispered.

"I have no idea!" Selina whispered back.

"Your homemade cake is delicious! You must be a wonderful cook." Marcella commented.

"Well..."

"You goody two shoes! One look, and you can tell it's from the store across the street!" Selina blab out. Luna threw a book at her head hitting it spot on. "OUCH! That hurt!"

"Selina is one lucky girl. You are a wonderful guardian! You must be good at sewing, right?"

"What?!" Selina's ears were up.

"It was always been my dream to learn sewing from somebody wonderful like you! For example, sewing a wedding dress."

"Sewing you say?" Luna started to laugh and grew even harder. Selina also joined in until her stomach hurt. Marcella didn't understand why they were laughing so hard. Marcella stormed out of the apartment with embarrassment written all over her face.

"Thank you for having me!" She yelled out. "If she's not good at sewing, why didn't you just tell me so earlier?!"

"Hey! So, you were planning on making Luna help you and participate in that wedding dress contest, weren't you?!" Said Selina. Marcella walked up the stairs not listening to a word she's saying. "That dirty, sneaky girl!"

"She's unbelievable! If she has time for a contest like that, I wish she'd train herself more in preparation for the monsters' next move! You too, Selina!" Luna added as she came outside for air. "Huh? What? Selina was just here! She probably went to her apartment." Marcella was sitting in Hermione's room.

"A wedding dress contest?" Hermione asked.

"That's right. And Selina and Luna are laughing at me for taking part in it! Hermione, doesn't that get on your nerves?!" Marcella explained. Hermione was sitting by her desk doing some paperwork.

"Not really. I don't have any plans to get married anyway." Hermione responded in a monotone manner. Marcella couldn't believe what she just said.

"Don't you get it? It's a dream! A dream! Every girl's dream!" Marcella got up. "Hey, Hermione, I know you're good at everything. Teach me how to sew?" Marcella begged.

"Well, if you really want me to." Marcella jumped in joy.

"Yay! I'm going to prove to those two that I'm going to win!" Hermione plop down a pile of thick books of about six. Marcella dropped to the floor.

"If you want to learn the basics, these should get you started. The actual sewing lessons will come after that." Hermione sat there with a straight face and crossed armed.

"Hermione, you're something else..."

In the fabric shop, customers went ballistic on just to get their materials for the contest. "It's mine! No, it's mine! Don't! I'm first! No, you're not!" A red Ferrari stopped at the front of the shop. "I'm the one who'll win the contest! No, I am!" Ms. Aki was cornered to the wall and watch Mrs. Lenz do a tug-of-war with another customer over a piece of material.

"I got this first!" She screams out.

"No, I was first!"

"Mrs. Lenz..." Ms. Aki was shocked by her behaviour. A piece of material went flying over her head and landed by her feet. She picked it up and felt the texture of the material. "Oh, this silk is..."

"Beautiful." Troy Parisi showed up behind her, scaring her a bit. "It is very beautiful."

"Excuse me?" She hugged the fabric close to her in case if he would take but instead he walked up to her and took her fabric and held it up to the light.

"This is a wonderful silk. A silk worthy of becoming your wedding dress." He wrapped himself with the silk like a cape. "Oh, I can just see you standing under a sky full of stars and walking along the shoreline. Every star is sure to sparkle and bestow their blessings upon you." He held his hand up to the material and posses it. "Here." He wrapped the silk onto Ms. Aki, "I wish you happiness." He walked out of the store. She just stared on hugging the fabric, tight.