And fck Prince Beckett Sterling! That was the motto Lore goes by, and that is the motto Lore will always live by. She just couldn’t understand or she could but not really. Why did he need to find a bride through a selection of 30 candidates so badly? And why did she have to be forced to be one of those silly candidates? Couldn’t the prince just she doesn’t know, go to different ladies debut balls and find a possible bride there? Or like interact with people through tea parties and sht? Did the prince really have no game that he has to do this? Great, Lore is becoming a candidate for marriage to a prince with no game.
“FATHER, you can’t possible send little Lore off for marriage to the prince, she’s hardly even old enough. She’s like ten.” That was her elder brother Agustus who loved to exaggerate, she wasn’t ten but 18, she still agreed with him tho, how could her dad? But honestly it isn’t his fault.
“I’m not sending a 10 years old to be a bride Augustus, i’m sending an 18 years old.”
“Same thing.” Agustus twin and her other brother, Ceasar said crossing his arms and glaring at the ground.
“Is it impossible to reject the selection? I’m sure I can find a way to win Lore out of-” Her eldest brother who was a powerful military man, Rubion, was caught off.
“I wish it was, I wish it was. But there isn’t Rubions.” Her father said with disappointment, the disappointment in which you can tell he had tried to find ways. Sigh.
“Besides,” her mother came beautifully as always, putting her hand on father’s shoulders, “Lore is a big girl now, and can protect herself.”
“Big?” Rubion let out a chuckle, “In what world is 18 a big girl? She’s still a teenage girl who needs the protection of her brothers.” No the fck she didn’t, but she appreciated it.
“Exactly! and she’s really fragile, i’m afraid she would break a nail or a leg or something. Maybe I should follow her and go-”
“Cesar-” Lore cuts him off, entering the main room, “You are not going to follow me to the palace, I can handle myself just fine.”
“Darling-” her dad called, wrapping her in his arms. “I’m going to miss you so much, I’m so sorry.” He hugged her tightly, like he was afraid she would disappear from his eyes. Dad…
Her brothers crossed their arms grumbling and her mother gave her a sad expression. Yeah, the prince was the worst.
“Maids, please prepare Lore to travel to the palace.” Lore followed the maids who escorted her to her room. Brushing her hair and styling it into an updo and styling her edges. They had brought in her fancy emerald dress, her most gorgeous dress that would draw and captivate the eyes of everyone, just like Lore like doing. But in this occasion, Lore would feel sick in the stomach if she managed to captivate the monster prince and the royal family. So she rejected the green emerald dress and asked for her red silver dress. The dress, ah the dress was gorgeous and sexy without being too revealing. It was her least beautiful dress but it was one of the most beautiful dresses across providence, a lot of women would kill for the red dress, but to Lore who had more lavishing and fancy dresses (she was the youngest child her family doted on after all) it was considered ‘simple’ enough. Majestic enough to not shame the Georgina line but hopefully simple enough to not draw the eyes of the annoying prince but impress the other ladies. She styled the dress with a robe that went along with it, pearl earrings, a shining silver necklace, black hills and long white gloves. It looked nice, she decided before putting it into her luggage and putting on a pair of white shirt and black stylish pants. She was going to let the maids in that palace dress her, they wouldn’t know her style and this was the dress she wanted to wear. She had put on brown lipsticks, white eyeliner, blue eyeshadow- the way she typically would do her makeup but the words that left her maid’s mouth made her remove the makeup.
“You look so good, Lady, you would surely catch your intended eyes.” Nah, the makeup had to come off. Lore removed the makeup, the brown lipstick, the eyeshadow and eyeliner and styled it in a different way. A way that still screamed “Lorecore” even though it wasn’t Lore.
“I hope not.” She tells her maid before standing up from her chair. Wrapping her arms around the maid’s body, Lore says her goodbyes, “Take care Miss Noton, I’ll miss you.” Miss Noton has been a maid who has worked with her family for a very long time. Miss Norton daughter was a friend of her mother’s making Miss Norton the head maid and Miss Norton granddaughter, Lore’s friend. Although, Miss Norton was just a maid, the relations her family had with Lore’s, made her more than a maid and more like a mother to Lore.
“You act like you’re being sent to your death.” Miss norton teased
“In a way I am.” Lore says with a small smile, Miss Norton stares at her and Lore laughs it off. “I’m only kidding of course.” She wasn’t. God would she miss her family and Miss Norton, “Please tell Tennese, I’ll miss her and to send me letters.”
“Tennese would have done that even without me telling her.” Lore grinned
“She’s like so obsessed with me but then again who isn’t?” Lore says jokingly. Miss Norton laughs, pulling the young lady into a hug.
“You are truly the best person I’ve served.”
“Shush don’t let my mom hear that, she’s going to be jealous.” Lore throws in another joke.
“It would our little secret.”
“Yeah, our little secret.”
Well, Lore has now arrived. Before she could enter the carriage and get to where she was sadly supposed to get too. Her brothers had cried and begged her not to go, saying that she could run away and Rubion would harm those who try to take her. Lore had just given them a ‘be fr’ stare, she was not going to drag the Georgina family line down the gutters just because. The Georgina family has always been respected and loyal to the royal family, Lore was a true Georgina lady, she valued her family so fcking much and she won’t ruin all that for them.
Upon arrival at the palace, she was escorted into a room where makeovers were being conducted. Lore had scowled as they change her makeup to a different one, before smiling, she would remove it eitherways. There was no use to ruin her pretty face with an ugly scowl.
This was definitely what being in heaven felt like. If heaven truly was like this, then Lum will pierce a dagger through her heart and unalive herself just so she can be this happy forever- sorry, too far but Lum was just excited. This has been her dream for ages, she was finally going to meet the prince in person. She screamed in excitement, oh how she wished that her best friend was chosen like her, so they could both fangirl over everything in the palace. She squealed, it would have been so fun, but eitherways, it’s going to be real fun.
Lum had gone to her closest and pulled out a pink flowered dress that she has tailored herself when she was younger with her mother. It was a dress that Lum had kept secured and prepared if she ever got the chance to meet the prince in real life. She finally got a chance to wear this dress! She squealed grabbing the dress, squeezing it and smelling it. Aaah it smelt just like roses, did the prince like roses? Hopefully because vanilla and roses were gorgeous and the prince is gorgeous so they matched each other really- but if he didn’t that was ok, she just hoped he liked flowers in general. Continuing, Lum put the pink flowered dress on with her necklace that was gifted to her by her mom who was gifted by her own mom who was gifted by her grandmas mom (it was something that was passed down generation to generation to the ladies) bunny earrings to match and a white pretty shoe. After seeing how she looked in the mirror, Lum put in into her luggage and changed to a white shirt and black pants.
“You’re really excited huh?” Her brother said standing in the doorway.
“Of course! Why wouldn’t I be! I’m meeting him.”
“Mm the prince you have had deluded thoughts for since you could walk? Yeah you’re meeting him and so are different ladies.”
“Thy arent deluded anymore if they are coming true brother.” Lum said with a bright smile, so bright it could blind a sun god, “Besides, I don’t care if other ladies are there too as candidates, I love making friends.”
“Sigh, never change Lum never change.” Was all her brother said before escorting her out of the house and into a carriage.
Lum arrived at the palace and she was in awed, she couldn’t help but think about how her best friend would also love being here. She wished she could take pictures and send it to her best friend. But bestie loved hearing her talk eitherways, so Lum could just describe it too her in letters.
She was escorted to a place where they changed a lot of things about her and Lum gasped when she saw herself- she looked so wow.
Her mother wrapped her arms around Dariana body, her uncle, that evil mad dog stood having a kind of sad look in his face? Why was that evil dragon sad? Whatever, “My sweet daughter” “my sweet daughter” her mom said crying in her arms, Dariana patted her. It was ok mom, it truly is, after all she will be meeting her twin and maybe if she did win the selection making her mother proud. She didn’t care that much of the selection, but she didn’t care too little for it, she was more on the neutral side. It had its cons and pros that you would have to look at it logically or more emotionally in Dariana case. A con could be, being separated from her mother, those evil bstards they call men here flirting with her mom while she’s gone but pros could be, making her beautiful mother proud. Also it could also help boost the plan.
Her mother told her to wait, walked up the scale and brought a batch of cookies, “If you’re hungry in the flight there, take this.” Dariana internally cringed, sorry mom but I can not take this. “Omg cookies my favorite!” Dariana said, shakily grabbing the cookies. They were not healthy, it looked like it was filled with sugar, and the icing made Dariana want to barf. And yet it still looked good, just not healthy nor low enough for Dariana to actually eat. She will give it to her twin as a gift.
They parted ways and Dariana was in a plane with the other girls sighing because she wasn’t placed to sit with her sister. She waved at the crowd outside the plane, entering the palace. The palace was really huge and the architecture was beautiful. Though, the interior design seemed a little too old for Dariana’s taste (after all it was a palace that has existed for quite a long time so Dariana tried not to judge it to harshly) She had so many design ideas for this palace in her mind as she was escorted by maids showing her around, she was already done with the ‘makeover’ by the maids, and was dressed in a green dress. It seemed like the royal family really liked the color of the interior or something. Its nice… it just needs more flavor.
