Winter Ball part one

I'm currently at the mall looking for a ball gown with Blaire. She found a beautiful forest green strapless gown that stops at her feet.

"Come on Nora, try on this black one. It's similar to mine but not strapless." She says as she pushes me into the dressing room with the dress.

"Fine," I say shut the curtain. I start to undress to notice that the dress is gorgeous. I put the dress on only to have trouble getting the zipper up all the way. "Hey Blaire, can you come here? I need help." I yell from behind the curtain to her.

She comes into the dressing room and zips me up when I turn my back to her. "Now turn around I want to see what you look in the dress." She says to me.

I turn around to look at her. And ask, "How do I look?"

"You look like a princess," Blaire says as she smiles at me. "Really, because I feel really exposed," I say feeling nervous. "That's only because you aren't used to wearing dresses. But you're getting the dress. I have the shoes for it at home. Get dressed to pay." She says before walking out of the dressing room.

I get dressed back into my clothes before walking out of the room to look for Blaire with the dress in hand. I look around the store to find her waiting in line to pay.

I walk over to her to wait in the line too. When we get ready to pay and leave someone bumps into us.

We look at the person to see it's my crazed uncle. "What do we have here?"

"It looks like your unguarded my sweet niece. And I can take a go at my plan again. But what is this?" He says as he looks at me. "Well your wrong, I am not unguarded. You just have to look more closely around you to find my guards." I say trying to get around him with Blaire hot on my trail.

"Ah I see but dear it looks like you've taken Jason's son's marriage proposal. This will not do at all." He says getting angrier by the moment.

"Well, its none of your business. And for farther more we love each other. Now get out of my way." I say grabbing Blaire's hand to run to the nearest place to hide.

"I will get you back." He yells angrily before running off. "He is such a creep," Blaire says when we stop at the food court.

"I know but right now we need to leave and tell my father about this and fast," I say as we walk out to our car.

The driver takes us back to the house in record time. We take our bags and rush into the house to my father's office.

My father looks up from whatever he was doing to ask, "What happened?"

"My deranged uncle was following us at the mall and talking about starting up his plan again. Also, he got very upset when he saw my ring." I explain to him.

"Alright Nora, I'll have someone go out to look for him, but you girls need to start getting ready for the dance. It's in less than 4 hours from now." He says before picking up the phone.

We walk out of the room straight to my room to get ready. I quickly shower and dry off. I wrap the towel around me to walk out of the bathroom. I find Blaire trying to curl her hair but failing badly. I walk over to her to grab the curling iron from her.

"Girl You need some help because you're really struggling with it," I say as I curl all her one piece at a time till I'm all done with her hair. "Thanks' I usually just braid it before bed." She says getting up from the chair.

She turns to me to show me how she looks. I see that she make up is simply done. "Now sit and let me do my magic on you." She says pointing to the chair she was just sitting for me to sit.

I do what she says and close my eyes for her to get started on my make-up. It only takes her a couple of minutes to do my male up. "You can open your eyes, Nora." I hear her say. I open my eyes to see I'm wearing some eyeliner with light eyeshadow that matches my dress. "Thank you but get dress so that I can do my hair really fast," I say to her as I fix my hair. I put half my hair up and the rest done in soft curls with the top in a bun with my bangs to the left.

When I'm done with my hair, I get up to put my dress on. But I have trouble with the zipper like I did at the mall. "Hey, Blaire could you come here please?" I yell to her since she's in the bathroom.

"Yeah, I'm coming." She says coming out of the bathroom fully ready for the ball. I walk closer to her and turn for her to zip the dress up. I turn around when she is done to say "Thank you, Blaire."

"Your welcome. Put these on because we need to get going." She says handing me the shoes to go with my dress. I put them on before walking out of the room with my matching handbag in my hands that has my phone, money, and house keys in it.

Making it to the living room I find Richie there waiting for me dressed in a suit with a bowtie.

"Don't you look handsome," I say walking up to him to receive a kiss on the cheek. "Thank you but look at you gorgeous as always." He says making me blush as I hide my face in his chest. I feel him pull me forward making me look at him. "Don't hide from me. I want to show you that you're my one and only. Now let me kiss you." He says curling his finger under my chin to lift my face up to his. I kiss him when he leans in to kiss me. The taste of strawberries.

We hear a camera go off making us pull apart from each other to find my father and Blaire with their phones out taking pictures. "Sorry, I couldn't resist taking a picture. You guys just looked so perfect." My father says as he walks over to us.

"Now go enjoy your night. And take care of my daughter Richie." My dad says kissing my forehead before walking us to the front door. "I will sir. I'll have guards with us hiding in plain sight." Richie says tightening his arm my waist as we walk out the house. I look at my father to see him nod before sliding into the car.

The door close's and I hear Richie tell the driver to drive.