Time passes...
"There finally done. Here you go." Lyra said as she handed me her application. I tell her thank you and lean down to stick it in my bag next to mines. "So, you excited for tonight?" She asks me.
"More nervous than exciting. I mean what if some old, pervert of a man bids on me?" I asked her.
"Well just smile and show him a good time. Remember that there's some sad little puppy out there that needs your help." She said patting me on the back. I guess I can think of it like that.
We continue to talk about random stuff until we were interrupted by an announcement.
"All the students that are participating in the charity auction you may leave."
"Let's go." Lyra says grabbing her bag. I grab my bag also and we head out the doors.
"I have to go do some stuff; I'll catch you at the venue." Lyra tells me while walking off. I pull out my car keys and head on over to my car.
I pull out of the school parking lot and head to the venue. Driving down the road I think about the event tonight. Lyra never really told me much about the event. This is a yearly thing in St. Helena, but since we were very young, we just heard about them. This will be my first year attending it me and Lyra both.
Turning onto Bell and Ford I spot the venue down the road. There're not many cars in the drive way yet, I must be early. I park my car and head over to the man with the checkboard.
"Name?" He asked.
"Quinneth Worthingshire." I told him while waiting for him to find my name.
"You're good to go. Just follow the pink footsteps on the floor." I give him a smile and head on in.
Walking in the inside looks beautiful. There're tables everywhere with white clothes on them. The stage sits to the right and has white string lights hanging from them. Many caterers and workers are working around still setting things up.
I realize that I'm just standing all weird so I do as the man says and follow the footsteps until I reach the backstage. Opening the black curtains, I'm greeted by hairspray and loads of expensive perfume. Women are walking around everywhere trying to look for missing stocking and heels. I see one woman in the corner crying about her dress. This can't be real it looks like a scene out of a movie.
I look over to the right and see a booth with my name on it. I walk on over and get situated. Sitting down for a few minutes I see a woman come up to me.
"Hello I'm Shelia and I will be doing your makeup today." She tells me while taking out her brushes.
"Alright, but can you not do anything too glamorous I just want something simple." I tell her.
"You got it!" She tells me with a smile. I watch her as she pulls all her stuff out, concealers, powder and blush. Oh man I'm going to be here a while.
1 Hour later...
Shelia lightly puts blush on my face then steps away so I can see the product. Looking at myself in the mirror I don't even recognize myself.
"Wow Shelia this is amazing thank you so much." She really did a number on me.
"Your very welcome I have to move on to the other girls now don't touch your face." She says. I give her a nod letting her know I won't touch my face.
"Harlequin?" I hear Lyra say from behind me. I turn around in my chair to see her jaw drop to the ground.
"Wow you look amazing this can't be you." She says bringing her finger up to my face. I bring my hand up to swat her hand away.
"Hey don't touch my face Shelia said no." I tell her.
"Who in the hell is Shelia?" She asks me. I point to Shelia who's in the corner doing someone else's makeup.
"Fine I won't touch this is the best you've looked in a while." I gasp at her comment.
"Hey that's hurtful." I said giving a fake pout.
"It's true I won't lie to you Quinn. Go put your dress on now, carefully no makeup on the dresses their rentals." She walks off and goes to talk to the other girls.
I walk over to the rack and look for my dress.
"Ok Sarah, Jessica, Nia, Aaliyah here we go Quinneth." Pulling out the dress my eyes bulge open, it's beautiful. The dress is a black, long, sleek satin dress with a sweetheart neckline and spaghetti straps. I was scared for the dress because Clariza's dresses usually reveal a lot, if you what I mean, but this one doesn't. I walk towards the back to see if any of the dressing rooms are open. Looking towards the far left I see there is one open. I go inside and change really quick. Once I get the dress on, I look in the mirror and gawk on how this dress fits my body perfectly.
"Mary, you really have good taste." I whisper to myself.
I grab my clothes and put them in the bag that the dress was in. Walking back into the dressing room I sit my clothes in the chair and look around for my shoes. Towards the back I see a rack full of shoes and see my name on the black pumps. Reaching up I try to grab the shoes, but sadly failed. Dang why do I have to be short.
"Let me get those for you." A male voice says behind me. I turn around to see Myer's dressed in a nice black and white suit. I smile up at him and tell him thank you.
"Anything for you." He bends down and slides my shoes on my feet. What am I Cinderella?
"Thank you, Myers." I tell him. He stands up and plants a sweet kiss on my lips. "You look handsome here I thought all you wore was flannels." I say laughing.
"You don't look bad yourself. All I thought you wore was hoddies and graphic t's." He says. I give him a slight smack on his arm. "These are for you." He hands me a bouquet of flowers.
"Lotus flowers I love them." We walk over to my little booth. I lay the flowers on the table. "You better bid on me I don't want some weirdo having me for the night."
He slings his hands around my waist and pulls me closer to him. "I brought tons of cash so if anyone tries to challenge me, they won't stand a chance." He says. Thank god that makes me feel good. The highest someone might bid on me is like 50 bucks.
He leans in to get me another kiss, but sadly Lyra interrupts us.
"Hey Hey no kissing the merchandise." She says eying Myers.
"Merchandise?" I asked her putting my hand on my hip.
"Yes, someone is going to buy you which makes you merchandise. No one touches or tastes the merchandise. Myer's go to your seat." He sighs and pats me on the shoulder.
"See you out there Quinn." He leaves out and goes to this seat.
I turn around and give Lyra a look. She shrugs her shoulder and goes over to check on the other girls.
30 minutes later...
My stomach starts to grumble. This is the second time It's done that. I look around to see if Lyra is anywhere, when I don't see her, I walk into the main part of the venue and sneak over to the buffet. The smell of warm bread and crab puffs fill my noise. I grab a napkin and start placing crab puffs on it. I pop one into my mouth, god this is so good. Soon as I finish the first one, I pop another one in my mouth.
"Damn if you eat another one, you'll buss out of that dress." A man says behind me. What the hell did he just say.
"Excuse me!" I semi scream at the guy to turn around and be face to face with Alexander.
"I only meant that you're eating them back to back if you eat any more, you'll buss out of the dress. I wasn't saying your fat because as we can see your clearly not." He says rambling on and on. I put my hand up for him to stop.
"When someone starves you then you can judge." I told him popping another crab puff in my mouth.
"You look... amazing Quinn just amazing." He said looking me up and down. If I didn't know better, I would say he was checking me out.
"Thank you. You look nice also Alexander." He waves me off. He really does actually. His hair is slicked back with a string of it hanging out. He's wearing a black and white suit with a bow tie and black sleek shoes.
"Oh, I look nice everyday." He is forever cocky.
In the distance I see Lyra walking over to me, enraged.
"What did I tell you about eating, it will ruin the dress and make you pudgy." She grabs the crab puffs from me and hands them to Alexander. Turning me around she drags me back to the dressing room. What a tyrant.
1 hour later...
Finally, it's time for the auction to start. Me and all the other girls lined up according to our last names.
Peeking through the curtains I see a lot of people. Women wearing their most expensive jewelry and men wearing their nicest suits. Paving my eyes to the right I see Alexander talking to a girl. She's wearing a dark blue dress with black heels. Her black hair flows down her back. What is she doing with him? What is he doing with her? Wait, am I jealous no way?
"Ok girls it's time smile and stand up straight." Lyra tells us while ushering us to the stage. I go back to my spot and do as she says. As we walk out many people clapped. The moment I walk out to the stage the bright light blinds me; Jesus how bright do the lights need to be.
"Welcome to the 2020 Auction Date Charity for Animals." The announcer says. Everyone starts to clap and cheer. "We will start the evening by thanking our sponsors Mr. Evans and Mr. Germani." Everyone turns in the room to look at them, they smile and thank the audience. "Now we will start the auction remember hold up your pallets when you want to bid. Let's start with Ms. Jessica Andrew we will start at 5 dollars." A man in the far left holds up his paddle.
"10 DOLLARS." The second man said.
"12."
"18."
"30." the last man said.
"Going once, twice, sold to Mr. Tanner for 30 dollars." The announcer said. Jessica walks off the stage to her date. "Now let's move on our next person Ms. Madeline Bernie."
The evening goes on and on with girls getting bided off. Sarah Jenkins was the girl so far to get bided the highest. Mr. Evan's bought her for 300 dollars I mean wow. Sarah's always been drop dead gorgeous with her sandy hair and perfect sized waist. The girl that beats her would have to look like Naomi Campbell.
"Our second to last contestant for tonight is Ms. Quinneth Worthingshire." The crowd claps for me. "Let's start the bid at 13 dollars."
"20 dollars." A man says holding his paddle up. I look to the man to see that it's Myers, this guy is everything.
"40 dollars." A man to the right of me says. I look down at him and he gives me a creepy grin. Oh no I will not be getting killed tonight. I look to Myers and gave him a 'bid higher' look.
"60 dollars." Myers said.
"80 dollars." The creepy man said.
"360 dollars." Myers screamed out.
"Eh it isn't worth it." The creepy man said sitting down and drinking his champagne. Yes no one else is bidding on me but Myers. This will finally end."
"400 dollars." The audience turned around to see the mysterious man with his paddle up. Some people cleared out the way to expose the man. I gasp in shock, Alexander what the hell is he up to. I point my finger up at Myers to tell him to go higher.
Myers: "450".
Alexander: "500."
Myers: "580."
Alexander: "680."
I look to Alexander and mouth the word stop. He gives me a smirk and keeps on bidding.
They keep going like for almost 5 minutes. The crowd starts to look at me, then look back at them. What is Alexander doing?
"1,000 dollars." Myers said giving Alexander a smirk. There is no way Alexander can go higher than that. I start to almost step down from the stage until Alexander says something.
"10,000 dollars." Everyone including me gasps.
TEN THOUSAND FUCKING DOLLARS!!!!!!
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