Aurora Abroad by Aron Lewes

Author:Aron Lewes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult fantasy, young adult fantasy romance, funny young adult romance, funny fairy tale, young adult fantasy 2018, sleeping beauty retelling, cinderella 2018
Publisher: Aron Lewes
Published: 2018-07-25T16:00:00+00:00

III

LYRIC‘S CAPITULATION was imminent. If wearing the dress was the only way he could get back home, he had to do it. He wore the dress, and he wore it with his head held high.

Until Aurora saw him and nearly suffocated from a fit giggles.

“I’m sorry... I’m sorry! I don’t mean to laugh!” Aurora was wiping away tears of laughter as she tried to regain her composure, but it was no use. As soon as she took another look at Lyric in the dress, she started cackling again.

“Ohhhh, go ahead and laugh!” Lyric snarled. “Laugh at me all you want!”

“I’m not laughing at YOU, Lyric. It’s just... the dress... on you... it’s too much!” Aurora reached up and straightened his curly red wig. “You don’t look too bad, actually. You make an attractive woman.”

“Thank you. It’s so comforting, of course, to hear you say that.” If the sarcasm in his voice wasn’t enough, he added, “I’m joking, of course. To hear you say I’m an attractive woman is devastating, to say the least.”

“Is it? It’s not so bad.”

“You never even said I was attractive as a man!”

“Quiet!” Aurora shouted at him all of a sudden. “I think something’s happening downstairs.”

“Really? I don’t hear anything.”

Aurora grabbed Lyric by the frilly sleeve of his dress and pulled him over to the door. She pressed her ear against it and tried to eavesdrop on the crisis that was unfolding on the floor below them.

“Absolutely not! No, you can’t go!”

“But all the women in the realm are invited! It’s not fair!”

“Don’t talk back to me, young lady! If you want to walk to the ball, that’s fine. But you’re not riding in any carriage of ours!”

“But the castle is nearly five miles off!”

“Too bad, so sad!”

“The castle is no place for the likes of you, Cydney!”

“Let’s see how the prince likes your dress after I’m done with it!”

The voices were followed by the sickening sounds of ripping fabric, a sob, and laughter.

Aurora turned to Lyric. “Oh no...”

Lyric was wincing. “It doesn’t sound like that went well.”

A few minutes later, Cydney ran up the stairs, her face flooded with tears. The sleeves of her dress were torn and her hair was a mess. She burrowed her head against Aurora’s shoulder and sobbed uncontrollably.

Aurora tried her best to console the inconsolable girl. “D-don’t cry. We might be able to salvage this.”

“N-no,” Cyndey answered with a sniffle. “No, it’s impossible! I know it is. It just wasn’t meant to be.”

“Oh, don’t say that! We can fix the dress, and then we can hoof it over to the castle. Lyric and I were going to walk, anyway. If you have some good walking shoes, five miles isn’t so bad!”

Cydney made a gesture toward the torn sleeves, which dangled irreparably from their threads. “There’s no way we can fix this!”

“Well... m-m-maybe we can.” Aurora tried to sound encouraging, but it really did seem like a monstrous task. Whomever ripped her dress made certain to do a thorough job. “S-sit down on that stool, okay? I’ll try to sew it up as fast as I can.

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