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Demi's pov

There was something about tonight that was magical.

It wasn't the dazzling outfit that I had put on or the glimmer of the hall room from the event nor the ladies who were gorgeous, gracing the ball room.

It wasn't all that.

What was magical was different and it was a first.

For the first time in my life, something enchanting was pointed at me, in my direction and it exuded from me affirming my thoughts.

It was confidence.

For the first time in my life, I had experienced confidence and the foreign yet comfortable feel settled within me rearing its presence in me announcing that it was here to stay.

I first experienced it when I gazed upon my reflection in the mirror after dousing myself in perfume while Bopha had finished dressing me up.

I had gazed upon myself, the urge to talk down on myself was gone and my tongue was coated with just positive words while my fingers clutched to the purse housing my phone that matched the outfit.

Bopha was happier tha