Chapter 28

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With Orange and Prissy we went to all the shops in town and looked around for two hours. It was really hard shopping for someone you didn't know and it took us a long time to find something at least acceptable. I stopped when I saw a chrysanthemum shaped clothing brooch. Sverre was never drawn in the manhwa but we did see his shadow and he seemed to be holding a chrysanthemum. I knew it because that was the only flower I knew and it looked exactly like it. I stared at the gift for a few seconds and bought it. I always followed my instinct and it was telling me that this was the perfect gift.

Now that we had what we came looking for, I was ready to go home but the others didn't seem ready to leave. They stopped in front of a dress shop and looked at each other before smiling and turning towards me:

"Let's go inside, Pohina."

I smiled coming closer to the dresses that we could see from outside:

"Did you see a dress you like, Orange?"

I looked at the dresses in the shop window wondering which one was Orange's taste. She didn't like bows and liked wearing blue a lot because it was the color of my eyes. I did notice a blue dress but it was way fancier than I thought she would like. I tilted my head and looked back at Orange:

"Do you want to try that blue dress on?"

Orange shook her head and I was disappointed. I knew that she wasn't the type to try on such a dress but I would have loved to see her in it.

"You should put it on.

-Me?"

Orange and Prissy didn't wait for my answer and pushed me into the shop. They immediately asked the lady for the dress in the window and the next second I was in a changing room trying on that fine fabric. When I came out, Orange already had six other dresses in her arms but almost dropped all of them seeing me in the dress. She needed to sit down and that made me laugh:

"Am I that gorgeous?"

I was led to a mirror and turned to see how I looked. I quite liked this dress and I had to admit that Orange had an incredible taste. When I turned around, Orange was still staring at me with shining eyes:

"You are gorgeous."

I rubbed her head with a smile:

"Thank you."

She was ready to make me try on the other dresses but I shook my head:

"I won't be the only one trying on dresses. I want to see you all pretty too."

Still wearing the dress, I walked around the shop, Orange following me behind. She did look like Astéria following me to eat and that was adorable. Like a little duck who would do anything I said. I had to focus back and found multiple dresses I thought Orange would look amazing in. A purple dress because of her eyes, of course, a green dress that looked gorgeous and a pink dress because I really wanted to see Orange, all cute and girly. Orange took the dresses and went to the dressing room without a word. As she was changing, I decided to wait for her outside the dressing room but at the same time I heard someone walk into the shop.

I turned around and didn't think I would see Alastair. I was so surprised that I rubbed my eyes multiple times. What was he doing here? Alastair on the other hand didn't seem that shocked. He immediately saw me and walked up to me with a polite smile.

"How nice to see you here, Poehina. I have to say, this dress looks incredible on you. Blue really highlights the color of your eyes.

-Thank you. What are you doing here?"

Alastair sat down and tea immediately got served to him as well as biscuits.

"I'll be honest. I was already in town and when I heard that you were here I immediately rushed over here. I wanted to see what dress you would choose for the ball.

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