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Our school break was spent in the hallway. Shain and his girlfriend didn't came back. Maybe they are still fighting. I just hope that they will gonna break up soon.

When the bell rings, we all went to our classroom. Lonie and Yamada parted ways as me and my friends go upstairs. The boys were serious while the girls was laughing. The class ended for the last bell and we moved fast as we get excited to the party.

The boys went down and the girls went to the powder room. We heard some chitchat when we entered the room but they immediately shut their mouth when they saw us. I smiled at them and that's the sign of their panick as they gathered all their things from the marble sink and walked fast to get out.

"When I am with Sharika, the powder room isn't crowded at all!" Mary giggles at her remarks.

I flipped my hair and laugh with them. We all lined up to the wide mirror of the powder room. We're both have our own make up kit and do our own thing while talking. We gossips some celebrities in our campus, and our classmates. Anika even brought up Louise while glancing at me.

"Jonard was disappointed when he heard that his crush is being crashed by you," Anika laughs while drawing her eyebrow.

I rolled my eyes at her and put a light red lipstick on my lips, "Are you two gonna go to Anika's?" I glanced at Mary and Ash through the mirror.

Anika giggles, "Changing topics, huh?"

I hit her hand when she was about to draw on her eyebrow. It went to her nose and we all laughed as she cursed me. The topic gone too far from my question as Mary remembered that she has received the perfume she ordered abroad. We all smell it and it smells floral and sweet. We examine it first before getting back to my question.

Ashley shake her head while putting press powder on her cheeks, "No, it's Leonore's coffee shop grand opening."

"Leonore?" Anika asked.

"Yeah, Leonore Lenach. You know her?"

Anika lookes at me and we both shake our head, "Obviously not. She didn't invite me so I'm sure we didn't know each other," I simply said.

Mary said some features of Leonore but I can't imagine anyone with that description. They said that she was an alumni here and her father was once a bigger stockholder in the campus but their business failed. So our topic went to someone we all know because of the recent news about his family suing someone for scamming them.

After a couple of minutes, we all went down but the boys weren't there. Anika took out her phone and scrolled. She said that the boys went on their way and got tired of waiting for us. We both frown at that statement but went our way to the parking lot.

Mary and Ashley kissed our cheeks as they both went to the gate of our school. Anika and I went inside her sedan. We're both sitting at the passenger seat. Since she has a driver on her own.

"Just be sure that it will be worth it to go to your room," I crossed my leg and stares at her.

"Hell yeah! Its from Wtoshop bondage dresses collections! You'll love it as much as I am," she said with an excited voice.

Anika's style is nearer the same to mine. In her designer bag on her lap now, I can say that her fashion style came from mine. We were together for years now and her style changed from the first time we met. She loved black and white floral dresses, wedge heels and light make up. But now? Looking at her is very different from herself before.

I texted my brother while we are on car. Anika can't stop on blabbering on how much she waited for her dresses to come and to show it to me.

Three uniformed maid greet us as we enter at their main door. Their house is as big as ours. The only difference was the theme. If our house has a minimalist theme, their house is like into naturalist one. They have plants in every corner of their house with some paintings of nature hanged on their walls. It's very refreshing to look at especially with sun light escaping from their windows, giving the house a natural light.

We entered her room and I was amazed at how many paperbags were lined up at her bed. Anika squealed at that sight and run to her queen size bed. She immediately open a red paperbag and take out the dress.

"My babies! Look, look, Sha! This style was worn by a supermodel!"

She faced me with an excited smile. She tried covering her body with the white mermaid lace dress. I almost laugh at her face.

"Don't tell me that is the one you're gonna wear later?" I asked.

She rolled her eyes at me. She walked to the right side of her room to look to a full body mirror.

"Of course not. This is an evening dress!"

I laughed at her and walked to her paperbags. I picked them out one by one, examining their differences. I lined the dresses on her bed from light colors to darkest to see their designs more clearer.

She has ten bandage dresses. Different style, different color, and different textures.

Because she received massive of dresses, we tried to fit them while partnering it with some make up. We spent a full hour to make a good look for one dress. We will take photos everytime we're done with one and model it for like half an hour, and change into different outfit afterwards.

We were enjoying the small fitting show when her maid knocked and delivered us a snack. We ate while looking at the pictures we took when my brother suddenly called me.

He checked on me and asked for a detailed explanation about the party I am attending this night. A little bit of words to remember before we ended the call with I love you's.

"Kya! Melvern is really like your boyfriend. He is sweeter than my boyfriend!" Anika with a dreamy eyes teased me.

I shake my head at her but with a smile on my lips.

She praised my brother with such exaggerated sweet words while trying to examine her dresses one by one. I was sitting at the edge of her bed with a crossed legs. Since I got tired from earlier fitting show, I was just scribbling on my phone when she said something.

"Anyway, I heard you did something to Princess Louise," she said with an intriguing voice.

"Princess Louise? I thought her name was Louise Hernandez Calathea?"

She laughed at me, "Haha! Silly! People called her Princess since her family's business is called Calathea Palace."

I arched an eyebrow at her answer. She put hanger on her dress and enter her walk-in closet. She went back and stand in the mirror to try something again without putting it on her body.

"If she is a princess, then I am the one and only Queen."

Anika laughed at my sarcastic yet serious declaration. I put my ohone down on her bed and rolls my eyes at her.

What I just said was true. I was crowned as our university's queen last year. Ever since I was in Junior High, I am already conquering the beauty pageant. And just last year, I was crowned as the champion and the most beautiful girl in the university. I won over the college students who has a more defined and matured body. I won over the crowd's favourite who only goes to first runner-up. I won from 12 candidates and crowned as a Queen. And a freaking princess who owns a palace has a no fight in me.

Anika just laughed off at my sentence and focused at her own fitting. I laid down on my stomach on her bed and start scribbling on my phone again. I just turned off my phone for a minute and now, alot of message tone and notifications from my social media accounts flooded my phone. But I just ignored them all.

"Will you please mute your phone? You're making me lonely for not being a famous," Anika blurted out.

I ignored her and go to the search panel of my phone. I typed Louise's name. There's a several of results and I click the very first one to appear. It looks legit but the profile picture was from two years ago and the shared posts were somehow not kind of the one she will shared. I clicked another one account and it's just the same as the first.

I was scrolling on the fourth account when Anika lay besides me and peeked at my phone.

"What are you doing?"

I looked at Anika and had a doubt to tell her but I have no choice since I can't proceed to my second plan without her help.

"Do you know Louise's account?"

She blinked once and start smirking like she just think of something crazy again. She grabbed my phone and start typing instead of answering my question.

Louise Hernandez

367 mutual friends

Hernandez? Isn't her last name Calathea?

Anika manipulated my phone for awhile until she clicked the display photo of Louise. She was wearing a flower crown and a flowy white dress. Her eyes were closed and smiling sweetly while holding a white and red bouquet of roses on her chest. Her face was very angelic and it partnered with a floral soft background making her facial features to lighten up.

"Wow? I didn't know that she was this pretty. We saw her on her debut and her dressed was overly designed and looks heavy on her face, but this one? She can even make it to a pageant," Anika, who just simply stated what's on her mind, zooming in Louise's photo.

I can't say no or disagree to her. Her compliments was justifiable and it was the only fact. She keeps on moving her thumb to slide the next pictures with so much praises and comments. When I got irritated because she slide fastly, I grabbed my phone and just went to Louise's timeline.

I scrolled at her timeline. She shared posts from different pages and persons but it was just few shared posts. After two shared posts, the next shared posts was for another week. She rarely shared anything funny or interesting. Her posts and tagged posts was mainly from funds or charities.

"You know what," Anika said after looking at a tagged posts of Louise saying 'thank you fro visiting', "Her parents company is bigger than we thought. I saw her debut being featured at Forbes magazine just last week."

"Forbes magazine? We both know that her debut will be featured at some famous magazines before attending the party. Why do you act like you didn't know? Plus, even disregarding that it was her debut, her family status can be always put on magazine if they want to. "

She extended her hands and open a cabinet on her side table. She put out a medium thick long magazine and flipped the pages until she saw Louise's picture. She handed it to me while pointing out at a whole pages about Louise's debut.

"Of course, I know that! What do you think of me? Stupid? We are in the same industry so I know her status in the society. I am just saying that the article was all about her. I am just sharing an information on you since you looked interested on her," she said bitterly.

I laughed at her reactions and scanned the article. I just read a few lines and give it back to Anika. I go back to scrolling on Louise's timeline. I reached the date of her debut. There's alot of tagged photos with a congratulatory messages on it.

On one friend of her, she tagged almost five posts with different pictures and quote. I frowned as I scrolled it down and still it's about the same person. I scrolled faster and Anika tapped my finger.

"Don't scroll too much! Let's see if the article was true or not," she said like sh wants to proved one's innocence.

"Why do you want to know about the article? It's just about her debut and all, what's the difference?" I annoyingly asked her.

"Girl, isn't hee life interested? According to the article, instead of accepting her father's gift, she suggested on donating it to charity! She donated $5 million to three different charity! Can you imagine it? He father gave her $15 million as her birthday present! If my parents gave me that much on my debut, I will definitely travel abroad with my friends, all expenses on me!"

$15 million just for charity? Is she insane? That was really a big deal, huh. My family personal donations for five charities was the same as her donation and that will be the totalled of donations for one year. But $15 million for just three charities in just one month? Sounds like they don't need money at all.

"She must be crazily kind," I shrugged my shoulders.

"That's right! She's super kind and beautiful on top of that. Jonard said that's the reason why they called her princess. He also said that some boys called her angel, haha," Anika giggled as she flipped the pages of the magazine, "She's almost perfect, huh?"