My time at school dragged on like it did in my previous life. 6 years had dragged by since I started, and I was 13 before I knew it. When I woke up for school, I went to my dresser and had one of the maids fix my hair like they do every morning. As the maid brushed my hair, one of the other maids laid out my uniform on my bed read. When she finished my hair, I turned to my bed. I saw a new piece of clothing with my uniform I hadn't seen before. It looked like a short fabric band with shoulder straps. Confused by what I was looking at, I asked one of the maids, "What's that?" "What, miss?" I walked over, picked up the item, and held it out to her, "This, what is it?" "Oh, the Duchess informed us that you should start wearing this now. She said you're at that age where you need to wear this to support your chest." I felt confused by what she meant, "Support for what exactly?" "For your developing chest, miss." I suddenly realised what she meant and what they wanted me to wear. I
Over the next couple of days, I asked all around the school to see if anyone had seen or knew who the man was that I saw, but no one knew. Then, finally, one day, while I was in class finishing off our assignment for that lesson, a guy walked up to me, "Excuse me, Sasha?" "Yes?" He looked nervous while trying to talk, "We haven't spoken before, but I'm Zeek. We have a couple of classes together." "Ok, was there something you wanted to say?" "Yes, actually. I wanted to know if you wanted to go on a date?" His question completely threw me, "What...?" He paused for a moment before building up the courage to say it again, "I wanted to know if you would go on a date with me?" "That's rather sudden, don't you think? We don't even know each other." "I've liked you for some time now, and your friend told me you would be interested in a date if I asked you." I sighed, "Let me think about it, and I'll let you know after class, ok?" Hearing me say I would think about it made him smile,
We got onto my family carriage and spent a long awkward drive to the market square. On the way there, Zeek tried to make small talk, "So, what do your parents do for work?" "My Mother works on tracking and accounting for all the estate expenses, and my Dad is the king's royal advisor." "Wow, I didn't know your family was so important." "My Dad is a Duke. Not to mention my family has been the right hand of the royal family since there was a royal family. What about you? What do your parents do?" "My Mother works as a chef for a restaurant in the market square, and my Father is a blacksmith who crafts most foundation piece's for enchanted items." "They sound like they work very intensive jobs." "They do. They're almost always tired from working long hours to afford our house." "Is the house you live in that expensive?" "Well, my Mother likes to live a little fancier than most commoners earning the same as my family, so she convinced my Father to move into a slightly bigger house
Over the rest of the day, word spread that I rejected Zeek, but with him biting the bullet and being the first to ask me out, he empowered the rest of the guys in my classes with the courage to start asking me out the next day. The next few days, I had probably over 10 different guys ask me out. Luckily I learned from my mistake of being too soft-hearted with Zeek and turned them all down. The barrage of date offers seemed to have no end in sight. After another couple of days of suffering through it, I started to try and think of a plan to make everyone stop asking me out, 'I'm really getting tired of the constant date invites! I really want them to stop...' I then had the idea to ask someone for advice, 'Maybe I can ask Tom or Dan what to do? No, they're hopeless when it comes to something like this. I can't ask Dad, he'll probably do something impulsive, and I can't ask Mom; she's way too excitable. Don't tell me I can only ask Tasha...' During the lunch break, I sat next to Tash
Thanks to the fact that I knocked Zeek out, word quickly spread that I would knock out anyone who crossed me. This, luckily, led to the guys in my school being too scared to ask me out again, and I had a relatively peaceful time going to school for the next 5 years. I struggled to adjust to school life after Tasha graduated, but I managed to get by. But she still made sure to visit me on my days off; she wouldn't take no for an answer even though I was always busy with assignments and practice. Before I knew it, I was also graduating. Both Walter and Crimson made too much of a big deal of it. When I woke up and went downstairs to the dining room, I found Crimson and Walter waiting. Walter stood up and walked over to me. I felt confused by what was going on since I had forgotten that it was my graduation day, so I asked, "Was there something you wanted to say, Dad?" "I just wanted to congratulate you on graduating today. I'm very proud of you, especially because you're graduating to
Because of how fast I ran to hide, Dan didn't even notice where I went. But, as he looked around, he saw some of my dress sticking out from underneath the table. Dan kneeled down and lifted up the tablecloth to see me sitting on the other side, doing my best not to be noticed, so he asked, "Sash, what are you doing?" "Nothing...I just needed to sit down for a minute..." "Are you hiding from having to talk in front of people?" "No, I'm just not in the mood..." "It's fine to have stage fright." "It's not stage fright. I just don't want to give a speech; I just wanted to come here, try and have a little fun and then leave the moment it was over." "How can you enjoy yourself if you're stuck under the table?" "I don't know...you can bring me cake, that's fun..." "They don't have cake at this event, though." "It's worse than I thought..." Dan reached out his hand to me, "Come on, let's just walk around, I can try and hide you, or we can just leave." I grabbed his hand, "Thanks, a
The next day I spent the afternoon with Walter in the living room, enjoying tea with him. Walter asked me how my graduation went the day before, "I noticed you came home earlier than expected yesterday. Did something happen at the ball?" "Not really. Dan and I just had enough of the ball after a while, neither of us enjoy dancing, and I never socialised much with the other students in my class other than Tasha while she was still there, so there wasn't anything for us to do." "Well, now you have your coming-of-age ceremony in 3 years. I look forward to seeing you officially become an adult, but I will miss you being small enough to fit in my arms." "You still say that every year...I haven't fit in your arms since I was 7." While Walter and I were talking, a maid came into the room, "Miss, there's a guest here for you." I couldn't help but sigh, "Tasha should know by now that she can just come in. I don't understand why she sometimes feels the need to knock first." "It's not miss
After Angela left the estate, I rushed to my room and wrote a letter to Tasha telling her I had to talk to her urgently and to come to visit the estate by 8 am tomorrow. When I finished the letter, I handed it to a maid, who sent it to her for me. The next day, Tasha arrived just before 8 and found her way to me. I was waiting for her in my garden, and when I saw her, I stood up out of my seat and excitedly gestured with my hand for her to sit down, "Sit down, now! I got something amazing to tell you!" Tasha looked intrigued at what I had to tell her since she never saw me look so excited to share gossip. Tasha rushed over, excitedly sat down, and asked, "What is it that's got you so excited you had to tell me to get here so early?" I sat back in my chair, calmed myself down, and told her, "You know how Dan has never had a girlfriend or even dated anyone, for that matter?" Tashas's eyes lit up, and she asked, "Are you telling me he's finally found someone!" "Almost! I actually set