Princesses Don't Fight in Skirts by Ling Aya

Author:Ling, Aya [Ling, Aya]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2013-10-05T04:00:00+00:00

Ari could hardly wait until Georgiana returned.

“Can you believe this?” Georgiana grumbled, tossing a pink frilly dress on the bed. “My mother wants me to wear THIS. She wouldn’t let me go until I promised I’d take this back with me.”

Ari glanced at the dress. Even her superior fashion sense (at least in her opinion superior to anyone in the Academy) disapproved. The sleeves were so puffed up that they resembled balloons. The color of the skirt was a deep fuchsia pink that no one should be caught wearing, and the huge bow in the back of the waist made the entire outfit look gaudy. Ari seriously wondered if Lady Greenwood was trying to diminish her daughter’s matrimonial prospects rather than enhance them.

“Do not wear it,” Marcella said simply. “That dress is auspicious.”

“Atrocious, you mean,” Georgiana said. She looked down on the dress with deep disgust. “Atrocious, appalling, abominable!”

“We’ll figure out a way to improve it,” Ari said. “But first: Georgiana, who mended my lavender gown? I went to the tailor’s today, and he never heard of my burnt gown. So I want to know—who actually put on those half-sleeves?”

Georgiana flushed. She fiddled with the hem of her tunic before speaking.

“Well... if you really must know... it’s Lance.”

“LANCE?” Ari dropped the hideous dress on the floor.

“Your brother can... sew?” Marcella stared.

Georgiana nodded. “I know it sounds weird, but he’s actually awfully skilled with needle and thread, ever since we were children. I’ve asked him to mend my clothes ever so many times, and he always does it beautifully. He wanted to be a tailor, but Father wouldn’t hear of it.”

An image of Sir Greenwood sprang into Ari’s mind. No, he definitely did not seem the type of father who would approve of a wayward son.

“Lance has an eye for dress patterns. I wanted to take your gown to the tailors as a rag, but he stopped me and offered to fix it. Said it was a waste to let your gown be cut up in bits and pieces, especially when the color’s so pretty.”

Ari couldn’t believe what she just heard. Did Georgiana just say that Lance, who came from a prestigious family of knights, was in fact a talented dressmaker?

Then she remembered her first day of school, when she had just arrived on the Academy grounds. She remembered the admiring look that Lance had given her, and had smugly thought that she must have dazzled him with her good looks. But now she realized that it must have been her gown that garnered his attention. Her elegant lavender gown, with hyacinth-blue embroidery and snowy white trimmings. No wonder he hadn’t shown any romantic interest in her afterwards. She had assumed that it was because she was no longer wearing makeup and was forced to wear the monochrome black-and-white uniform. He was never interested in her romantically in the beginning, just in her dress.

Ari almost laughed. Once the humiliation was over, she found it hilarious. And picturing Lance mending her gown...

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