It had been about a week since Rose and I took the pcement test.

  Two weeks to go before we got the results and I was getting nervous.

  I knew I had done well. That was apparently some guarantee in my family's eyes.

  They had to reassure me several times before I believed them.

  I had been spending my time pying with Rose.

  After school started I would be wearing different clothes than I had a chance to right now, so I was going to be doing this as much now as I could.

  Today, I had picked out a gothic lolita dress. The dress was pink with bck accents. Its sleeves were short. But to make up for that, it had a set of detached sleeves in white with bck ribbons on them.

  I had a pair of bck and pink striped stockings on as well.

  And stly a pair of bck and pink high heels.

  Rose had a good time helping me put all of it on.

  Wearing things like this was really fun for me, even if it was just me and Rose.

  While wearing this, Rose and I were in my room, just doing normal things for the day.

  Recently I had taken an interest in the arts and was practicing drawing.

  I wasn’t very good, but had a good time with it.

  Rose also picked it up, saying that she would do the same things as me.

  But whenever I tried to see what she was drawing, she wouldn’t show me.

  As I was trying to draw a flower in my room, someone knocked on my door.

  Before I could respond, mom popped her head into my room.

  “Nyx, can you please come to the main hall” she said to me.

  “Of course” I said, putting my drawing down and following after her.

  When we made it to the main hall, I was met with two visitors to the mansion.

  “Hello” Sharon Frost said when she saw me walking over to them.

  “Hi, Nyx” Emily said at the same time.

  They were about the same height now. Emily had her long blue hair down today, reaching her mid back.

  Based on the game, she would primarily wear it in a side ponytail.

  She was wearing a nice dress. It had a white blouse with a long sleeve with holes where her shoulder was. The skirt was two yers with a dark underyer and a light, almost see through over yer. She also had a pair of boots on.

  She had earrings on that complimented her blue hair and eyes.

  She was completely beautiful.

  And about a second ter I remembered that I was not wearing normal clothes. Not something I showed to people outside of the mansion.

  I freeze while walking down the stairs. But since I was mid step, I tripped.

  Falling down the stairs, I hear gasps from everyone else.

  I hit the ground with a thud.

  “Ow” I said, rubbing my back.

  “Are you ok” Mom said, rushing over to me.

  “I’m fine” I say back, standing up, only to trip again. Looking down, I saw that my heel had broken.

  I quickly take them both off.

  This was not against any form of decency, which was good.

  “Are you sure you're fine?” Emily said, walking over to me.

  “Yes, just caught off guard” I said, holding my broken shoe, as well as the ok one.

  “Well. Emily came to visit you. She said that you and her were in the same testing group” mom said.

  “Um, yes we were” I said.

  “Well, I thought we could get closer before school start” Emily said, grabbing my hands.

  “Huh?” I said, confused by the turn of events.

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  Currently, I was in my closet with Rose and Emily.

  Emily had come over to spend time with me.

  And now I was changing out of my dress.

  I wasn’t comfortable wearing that kind of clothes in front of Emily, so I decided to change.

  But when I said this, she insisted on helping me choose.

  So, she was helping me choose.

  I had a limited selection currently, though mom had apparently been sending clothes to the capital for a while for me.

  In the end, I chose a dress. The top was white with long sleeves, though, like Emily's dress, it had holes where your shoulders went.

  The blouse had a bck ribbon in the front, and went up to a bck choker at my neck.

  The skirt was a short bck one that ended before my knees.

  I also grabbed a pair of white tights and bck boots that went up to just below my knees.

  “I think that should work” Emily said, seeing the outfit we had pnned.

  “Good, then I can change,” I say. But Emily does not leave my closet. “Emily, can you please leave?” I ask her.

  “No” she says with a straight face.

  “Why not” I asked her.

  “Because I want to see you change” she said very directly. She then leans forward, “I think you should be telling the maid to leave” she whispers into my ear.

  I fall back, blushing horribly. I try to say something, but I can’t.

  But before Emily could do anything, Rose spoke up. “Excuse me miss Princess, but I must also ask you to allow my master to get dressed”.

  “Fine, I’ll leave when you leave” Emily said to Rose.

  “Then please follow me” Rose said, leading the way out of my closet.

  With them gone, I change my clothes quickly. Looking at the mirror in my closet, I decide to add a headband to my outfit.

  I then head back out to both of the people waiting for me.

  Right when I leave the closet, Emily jumps and hugs me from behind.

  She leans in again and whispers into my ear, “I knew you would look this cute”.

  I flush again, but manage to push out some words. “Thank you”

  “Well, what is it that you do in your free time” Emily said, pulling away from me.

  “Um, currently I am trying to learn to draw” I told her. “But we also have a lot of books to read, or gardens to walk through.”

  “Oh, how good are you at drawing?” she asked me.

  “Not very good I think” I tell her. I walked over to my desk where the flower and my sketchbook was. I pick up the stretch book and hand it to her. “My practice is all in there”

  She flips through the book, but I can’t tell what she thinks while looking at them. I wasn’t embarrassed by others seeing my work, but I wanted to know what they thought.

  When she was done flipping through the book, she looked at me and spoke. “I have a good idea” she says.