The Perfect Invitation

She didn't expect Rosalyn to offer her outright but she knew there couldn't be a better teacher. Hooray for not getting her brothers involved, she was finally able to do something without them. "Really?" She asked, just to be sure.

Smiling, she agreed and opened her fan again. "I'd be delighted to, really. Though it is quite a hard task I can have you ready within a month." Uh oh, Theia thought as, gently petting the snake around her neck while averting her gaze.

"Actually… father said I only have a week to attend and a month and a half to host a tea party." Hearing this, her eyes widened for a moment and she immediately grabbed her hand, dragging her away with her beasts glaring up at her.

Rosalyn was walking quite fast and she knew she she in for an extremely long ride, one of the reasons she'd never bothered to learn etiquette in the first place. Did a villainess even need thorough etiquette? Surely she could just humiliate Penelope, or perhaps it would be better to do it with class. "This won't do.."

Hearing Rosalyn mutter she found herself struggling to catch up with her fast pace while her sister ranted. "None of your dresses will do and you need new jewelry. We'll have to order them custom made by tomorrow and get it done within three days… we need to pick the parties tonight." She didn't like the sound of parties, plural.

It was a mistake, she was now going to be a dress up doll for as long as Rosalyn deemed fit. She could feel her life leaving her body as she was dragged into Rosalyn's room, seeing it for the very first time.

It was large with a large vanity and closet to the side. The chandelier was fancier than her own and there were large windows and silk curtains with detailed embroidery. Her room was decorated with plants that gave off a sweet fragrance, no wonder she smelt like flowers, it must be a pain to change and water them.

Her canopy bed was even larger than her own and she didn't know that'd be possible to fit in here along with a mini study in the corner opposite of the vanity. Taking a moment to stop admiring, she found herself being forced to tell her beasts to sit in a corner in order to get her measurements, maids appearing her before she knew it.

It was a painful half hour but Rosalyn worked quick. She was thorough getting all her measurements to even the size of her fingertips, insisting that she needed custom jewelry regardless of whether she'd only wear it once. Finally able to plop on the floor, she let out a few pants while Rosalyn spoke to her guard, a man identical to his father, that just returned. He was someone she surprisingly didn't see often out of the siblings.

They weren't spoken about in the novel, but the man who served her father was a Marquis, his family one that was serving the Argyris family for generations. She first thought they'd be attendants like their father, but all of his kids took different jobs and she'd see them randomly pop around the estate and nearly get a heart attack.

If she were right, this one was Rosalyn's guard once she became sixteen, but couldn't recall his name. "…and that's why I need you to find her immediately." Rosalyn explained to the man who nodded, wasting zero time to fulfill her request. Maybe he was a butler instead of a guard.

Clapping her hands, Rosalyn made her way to her study, neatly writing down a schedule for Theia to follow for the next week. "There's not much time but we'll bring her here tomorrow and get your jewelry custom made tomorrow, we'll prepare an outfit tonight for you to wear tomorrow out in the town."

Taking her schedule, she read it over and had to try and figure out what all the unnecessary fancy letters had meant, she wished she learned cursive. "Thank you for your help, sister." She smiled while internally screaming.

As soon as breakfast was over she'd have an hour to take care of the sanctuary before Rosalyn would take her shopping the next day for six hours it wrote. She had a fitting in four days lasting the same amount of time, along with etiquette lessons in between for at least four hours a day! That's on top of her regular schedule with the beasts and learning.

Her eyes swirled as Rosalyn who was used to this daily life took a seat at her bedroom bench, paying no mind as she scrambled to her feet to join her. "Next we need to decide which parties you will be attending, this is important as your outfits should adhere to the themes, or at the bare minimum showcase how much better you are than the others attending."

The lightbulb went off in her head as she ran over to Phius and Theron, taking the papers she'd left with them again. She really couldn't wait to stop running around. "Father gave me these to look through." She explained, handing them to Rosalyn as she took a seat next to her, gulping as she read them.

She threw the etiquette teachers list aside and went through the letters mercilessly. Read the sender, throw away if she deemed them useless. Read the sender, open and read contents and either throw it into the useless pile or put aside if she deemed the sender useful, rinse and repeat.

This went on for ten minutes with over forty invites, she didn't even know there were that many. Soon enough, it was narrowed down to five. Reading the last letter, Rosalyn's eyes sparkled as she closed it, folding it neatly away back into the envelope in which it came.

Rosalyn's expression was hard to pinpoint, making her a bit cautious but had little choices regarding which parties to attend. "This one first, followed by this, you don't want to seem too eager to attend, now do you?" She asked a rhetorical question, throwing the three letters aside and went to place the two letters onto her desk.

She didn't know what got her so excited, but had little time to dwell on it as Rosalyn begun drilling information into her about desperateness and elegance, and how she needed to know these things.