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Holy cow, wrote Pembroke.You just started dating!It’d been a few months, but true enough. Who got married after a few months? Then again, shehadmoved in with her boyfriend after a rather short amount of time herself. Lilac was happier and more settled than she’d ever been and yet… The idea of marriage made her headspin.
Um, yes!wrote Brielle and it took a second for Lilac to even figure out what she meant. Yes, she’d be hisgroomsmaid.
…So only Brielle is going to stand beside me?Gavin sent a frownyface.
UM, I’M THE MAID OF HONOR, RIGHT?He owed her that much for not coming to herfirst.
I’d love to!typed Pembroke. It didn’t seem like anyone would be competing with her forit.
Congrats, wrote Brielle.Send more details soon. Sorry, got to go!She loggedoff.
I should get going, too, wrote Pembroke.Got another train tocatch.
Pictures, please!wrote Lilac. Pembroke had been sending her pics from her travels and having her guess where shewas.
Pembroke sent a winky face and loggedoff.
That just left Lilac and Gavin. She had so any questions, so many things she wanted to discuss, but she caught the time on her phone and knew she needed to get back outthere.
Li, he wrote.Are you angry withme?
Why the hell would I be angry?she typed as fast as her fingers would allow. She stood up then, typing as she walked down thehallways.
For not telling you first.He could read her like abook.
Just a touch miffed, she admitted.But, Gavvy, I’m so happy for you. Gabriel’samazing.
Gavin sent a laughing face.Don’t ever tell him I hated his guts earlier this summer,okay?
Lilac sent an emoji with one finger to its lips.You never hated him, she wrote.He just drove you crazy. I should have known that was a sign you were inlove.
Ha ha, wrote Gavin as Lilac reached the door that would take her back out to that magical world. The music was louder now—a campfire song instead of the classical music that often played in theBallroom.
Break’s over, she wrote.But we are having a LONG conversation sometime this weekend. After my Ballroom sleepovers areover.
Gavin sent a thumbs up.Yes, ma’am. Now get out there and dance with a campfire or whatever it is you do in a campball!
Snorting, Lilac slipped the phone into the pockets in her shorts. She liked these uniforms. Unlike with her dress pants, you could always count on them to have pockets. Stepping out into the entryway and making her way back to the Ballroom, she arrived just in time for the music to cutout.
“Everyone,” said a voice over the loudspeaker—Gyu-ri’s, Lilac noted, and not the usual pre-recorded message. “Please stand at attention to welcome Her Majesty, Queen Animaliao, and her princely consort, PrinceBeastly!”
A spotlight hit the royal chamber doors and Lilac wondered that she hadn’t passed whoever had been preparing to step out while she’d been on her way out, but shehadbeen focused on herphone.
The royal couple stepped out, hand in hand, their Tildy Scout caretakers to either side of them. Eddie stood with Queen Animaliao—Lilac recognized the queen as Cheryl—and DeShawn was with PrinceBeastly.
But if Eddie and DeShawn are the caretakers,who…?
Lilac’s mouth dropped open. Nolan was PrinceBeastly.
Nolan was a literal cotton-pickin’prince.
Well, not aliteralone.
Angie slid in beside her, her arm still wrapped around Silly’s wing. “Surprise!” she said, grinning. “He asked me to make you think nothing was out of theordinary.”
“Who’s in there then?” asked Lilac, staring Silly down. No wonder he’d seemedoff.
“I don’t know what you mean,” said Angie, a finger tapping the side of her nose. “This is Silly Sandgrouse.” She guided her fluffy mascot off toward the crowd of kids gathering to greet the royalcouple.
