My Fiancée Hates Me novel Chapter 21

"Welcome back, Arielle!" my aunt said she wrapped her arms around me as soon as she opened her doors to see me.

"It is good to see you in good health, Lady Bernadette."

"Arielle is so formal... It probably has to do with my sister's teachings."

"I only received the same education as Lady Bernadette and my mother did. It is due to my own personality that I take things a bit too seriously at times."

To appease my aunt, I was to swing by her house at least once every two weeks or so when I am not busy. I already came by her house this week but had to come again to see my dress get delivered to her home.

"You came just in time! Your dress was delivered not too long ago," Lady Bernadette said as she grabbed my hand and dragged me inside.

We were to prepare two dresses. One dress was for entering and another dress that would have to be a ball gown would be worn during intermission. The specific requirements were that we needed a dress to make us stand out. In order to avoid color clashing, Charlotte and I and the other girls from the office drew lots for the color of our ball gowns. The color of our first dress was not really as important.

I drew the card for a white dress. White dress does not really mean that it has to be completely white. There can be other things like jewels or ribbons of other colors mixed onto the dress. I opted for plain dresses for both of them.

I looked over at a room filled with flowers without stems.

Did my aunt brutally go out and behead hundreds of flowers?

"...Pruning?" I asked my aunt.

She took a few flowers out and showed it to me.

"No, silly. These are artificial flowers that I made by hand. Beautiful, right? I was going to go around decorating my house with them, but it appears that I have made a bit too much. Now, I am at a loss at what I should do with them."

"They are certainly beautiful..."

I heard Lady Bernadette was a very skilled artistic genius. To think she could recreate something so beautiful even if it was an imitation...

"Would you like some?" Lady Bernadette asked with a large smile on her face.

"I think such flowers would be wasted on me as a home decoration. They would be lovely as an accessory or something similar."

"What a wonderful idea!"

We were soon at the room of where the dresses were being held.

Dressed on two mannequins were two very different dresses. The first dress was a dark navy-blue dress with an illusion halter neck, sweetheart neckline, and an asymmetrical skirt. The second dress was a long white ball gown with an A-line tulle skirt and a V-neck tulle ruche off-the-shoulder bodice. Both the dresses were far from simple.

"Lady Bernadette, I believe there was a mistake."

"There is no mistake. These are your dresses. I received them before and thought that they were too simple for my niece, so I tweaked it just a bit."

I am going to stand out way more than I would like to...