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"This is waking up with Kristine La Cartier", Paulette said and my eyes fluttered open. Turning to my right, Paulette sat on the edge of my bed with her phone in her hand.ย 

"Seriously?", I asked her, my morning voice coming out raspier and deep. I forgot that Paulette slept over last night. Lazily, I sat up and ran my hand through my hair.ย 

"And she wakes up pretty too. How does she do it people?", Paulette exaggerated while filming on her phone.ย 

"Yeah, so pretty." I rolled my eyes and blocked the camera with my hand. She chuckled and placed her phone down.ย 

"Shall we go over your schedule over breakfast?",

"Are you my assistant now?" I smiled.

"No", she answered bluntly and my smile fell. "I will be your temporary assistant, only while you are here in New York. But you need to get yourself a real one ASAP gurl, your schedule is a full day party."

"Don't remind me. Protein smoothie?", I asked her.ย 

"She takes care of her diet too. She's THAT girl people", she exaggerated once more while getting off my bed.ย 

"It's delicious and healthy", I said while yawning.

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"We're fortunate you are beyond organised", Paulette said as she went through my schedule book.ย 

"My way of surviving without an assistant", I replied while pouring the almond milk into the blender.

"You have a full schedule today. Mains would be the photoshoot at 5 pm and the meeting with the real estate agent at 11 am", Paulette said.

"Got it." I dropped a few blueberries in each glass of smoothie before placing them on the counter. She was about to take it but I stopped her, "Wait. The finishing touch is needed."

I opened one of the drawers and took out two reusable pink striped straws. Then, placed one in each glass.ย 

"Done." I smiled. "Enjoy."

"She's also a . .ย  . .decoratist?" Paulette chuckled and took a glass of smoothie.ย 

"That's not a word. Decorist is."

"I'm sure it is. Because you are one, no?", Paulette asked and took a sip of the smoothie.ย 

I nodded."It's like a hobby", I said, "I'm starting to regret putting the pink straw. It looks disgusting with purple", I mumbled and started drinking the smoothie.ย 

"It's actually really good. What's in it?", she asked before continuing to drink.ย 

"Almond milk, spinach, banana, cinnamon, almond butter, ground flaxseed meal and blueberries."

She nodded in understanding.ย 

"Would you like anything else?", I asked her kindly.ย 

"Nope. This is actually quite filling", she said and stared at the glass of purple smoothie.ย 

"It's supposed to be."ย 

"When are you going to Paris?", she asked me.

"Tomorrow. Suppose to yesterday, but . . . you know. I really just want to get through this fast, I need to get back to my sisters."

"To your sisters? or to the yummies?", she asked and I gave her an exasperated look. She chuckled. "You don't miss them a bit?"

"I miss my new friends."

She smiled. "It's good to hear you made friends", she said and looked down at the counter. There was a change of mood in the kitchen until Paulette spoke again. "Anyways, I know we already talked about it last night, but . . . . Charles Harrison? Lord Charles Harrison?"

"Indeed. We already talked about it last night."

"It's just . . . crazy! There are four guys?"ย 

I stayed silent.ย 

"Four unbelievably hot guys at that." She smirked.

"Don't overthink it please."

"I'm not overthinking anything", she said, "I'm just hopeful."

"Yeah . . .hopeful", I muttered.

"You should be too."

"For?"

"New experiences! Changes! Something . . . .amazing?", she said and tilted her head at me.ย 

"Something . . .amazing?", I furrowed my eyebrows.ย 

She shrugged. "Romance?" She wriggled her eyebrows and I rolled my eyes. "But seriously, you and Charles last night. I almost swooned just watching the two of you."

"I'm sure you did." I scoffed.ย 

"You just seem like you were having fun, that smile you had on your face . . ." She smiled while looking at me.ย 

I looked down at the glass in my hands. All of a sudden, my thoughts drifted to the four guys. But that there was also Luca, I still don't know what happened to him that night. I don't think I ever will.ย 

There's only one question now.ย 

Do I care?ย 

Also, what Paulette said . . . . I can't get it out of my head now.

Romance.

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Three days later

Everything just keeps on getting postponed.ย 

I'm desperate to go back to London, to my sisters.

But is it just my sisters?

My friends, of course.ย 

There's the feeling I have in my stomach that rises to my chest, and it's making me sick. I'm probably just missing my sister's. Ever since we met each other and got close, we were inseparable.ย 

"Merci madame. (Thank you, ma'am.)" I paid the florist before walking away.ย 

"You bought flowers?", Mesia asked.

"It's a beautiful day to buy flowers, don't you think?" I smiled and he returned one with a light chuckle following after a nod.

"Petit dรฉjeuner. (Breakfast.)" Antoine passed me a paper bag of pain au chocolat. I smiled at him in thanks and took the paper bag from his hand. "I'll take this." He took the bouquet from my hand and I thanked him again.

I took a bite of the pastry and moaned at the savoury taste, little dance incoming. This time my whole body moved since I was standing up and my bodyguards chuckled. This was just too good.ย 

"Here." Lucas opened the lid and passed me a cup of tea. I know it's tea because they know I don't really drink coffee. Sometimes I do, but only latte. "Just how you like it, no sugar."

"Thank you." I took the warm cup from his hand.

"Careful it's hot", Lucas told and I nodded.ย 

I blew the tea softly before taking a sip. "Wait, did guys have breakfast?", I asked the four.

"Don't worry we did", Antoine answered and I narrowed my eyes.ย 

"I can never be fooled", I said and started walking towards the bakery.ย 

"Where are you going?" Mesia quickly walked up to me and blocked my path.ย 

"Buying you four breakfast, and you can't stop me from doing so." I smiled and sidestep past him. I heard him sigh and chuckled. He then walked to walk beside me and Antoine on my other side. Lucas and Levi followed behind.ย 

"You really don't have to miss", Lucas said and I glanced at him over my shoulder.ย 

"I know. I want to." I smiled.ย 

15 minutes later

"Mademoiselle La Cartier (Miss La Cartier)", Aline called. She's the one who manages Sophia's boutique back here in Paris.ย 

"Bonjour. Vous devez รชtre Cecillia. Enchantรฉ (Hi. You must be Aline. Nice to meet you)", I smiled and shooked her hand.ย 

"Quel honneur de vous rencontrer enfin. Les tenues que vous avez aidรฉ ร  concevoir sont superbes, vous รชtes trรจs talentueuse. (What an honour it is to finally meet you. The outfits you helped design are stunning, you're very talented.)" She smiled.ย 

"Vous รชtes trop gentil. Sophia a de bien meilleures idรฉes en matiรจre de modeย (You're too kind. Sophia has way better ideas when it comes to fashion)", I chuckled.

"lle a dit que vous รฉtiez son usine ร  idรฉes. Son inspiration. Elle vous admire beaucoup et n'arrรชte jamais de parler de vous (She did say that you are her idea factory. Her inspiration. She looks up to you a lot and never stops talking about you)", she said.ย 

I smiled.ย 

I look up to you more, Soph.

"ย Oh, je t'ai apportรฉ รงa. C'est une belle journรฉe pour offrir des fleurs. (Oh, I brought this for you. It's a nice day to give flowers.)" I smiled and passed her the bouquet.ย 

"Ils sont beaux . . .Merci. Je vais les placer prรจs du comptoir pour l'instant. (They're beautiful . . .Thank you. I'll place them by the counter for now.)" She placed the large bouquet of flowers behind the cashier counter. "Peut-รชtre que plus tard je devrais les placer au centre du magasin. ร‡a aimerait bien, non? (Maybe later I should place them in the centre of the store. That would look nice, no?)"

"Ce serait. ( It would.)", I smiled.ย 

"Tu as appelรฉ pour voir des robes pour un bal ? Correct? (You called to see dresses for a ball? Correct?)", she asked and I nodded. "Trรจs bien. J'en ai sรฉlectionnรฉ quelques-uns. Leur en haut, suivez-moi, s'il vous plaรฎt.ย (Very well. I've picked out a few. Their upstairs, follow me, please.)"

She led me to the elevator and my bodyguards followed behind me in pursuit. Sophia's fashion house is huge. It has multiple floors. On the first and second floors was the boutique. The third floor was the studio. The fourth floor was the workplace. The fifth was the storage floor.ย 

Once the glass doors of the shaftless elevator opened, we stepped out and were now in the studio.

2 hours and 30 minutes later

It was now my turn to find a gown. Since they were Sophia's designs, she knows every single outfit in this studio. Sophia already called Aline and told her which dress she wanted, but a few alterations are needed, so the dress will be delivered to the academy when done. I've taken a few pictures of different gowns for Tamara, she picked one in particular and Aline will have it delivered with Sophia's gown. It's better to leave the gowns here since the ball is in about 1 month's time.ย 

Then, me.

"Celui-ci conviendra ร  votre teint. (This one will suit your skin tone)", Aline said while holding up a particular gown.ย 

"No", I said before bringing the cup of tea to my lips.

She nodded and started searching for another dress on the rack. In the studio, there were unreleased that of course weren't for sale. They were just for shows, events or publicity. Or for us. Me. My sisters. It was our extra closet.ย 

While she was doing that, I stood up and approached another rack of dresses. I started searching for myself. I sighed. Nothing really caught my interest. When it came to fashion, I was beyond picky. Sophia even more so. Tamara is chilled and layback, but she has her own sense of style.

"Little miss." I heard Levi call.

"Yes?"

"We thought .ย  . . .you might like this one", Lucas said and I turned around.

There Levi and Lucas stood, both holding each side of the hanger which held a simple and plain but elegant gown. My eyes analyzed the gown. It reminded me of a fairytale story, Cinderella. But instead of it being blue, it was a beautiful shade of cream.ย 

ย I smiled in awe.

"J'avais oubliรฉ que nous avions celle-ci.ย (I forgot we had this one)", Aline said.

"Je ne l'ai jamais vue.ย (I've never seen this one)", I said while walking towards the gown.ย 

"Ce n'est jamais quittรฉ le studio.ย Mademoiselleย Lemieux dit qu'il manque quelque chose.ย C'est incomplet.ย (It's never left the studio. Miss Lemieux says there's something missing. It's not done)", Aline answered. " Ne pensez vous pas qu'elle soit trop simple?ย (Don't you think it's too simple?)"

I smiled while admiring the full-length gown.ย 

"Je pense que c'estย parfait.(I think it's perfect.)"


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