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Ara and Gina's mouths might as well have touched the ground. Their minds seem to have trouble processing what's happening. "Then what happened?" Niether girl is sure who asked that question. After hearing their moms story it'd hard to tell what's up and what's down. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTSi4HXMTHF
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Gina shakes her head and leans forward, "Wait, shouldn't Ftiz known about this?". Arabella tilts her and looks to Gina, "She is right, he should be here too". Miranda massages her temples in frustration, "He does". Miranda looks pointedly at her daughters amd then the window. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ehqDbgHtO
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"It is near mid morning, this story has taken to long". 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfTSUqqbSgu
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"Wait, we need to know more" Gina grabs Miranda's hands and pleads with her like a child who wants a new toy. "You, both of you need to write your own stories" Miranda pauses as she tears her hands away, "Not worry about the ones already written". 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIknDAnW6hm
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Arabella feels struck to her core and truly in that instance takes her mother's words to heart. It dawns in her she has a family and a country she knows absolutely nothing about. "Goodbye sister" Ara kisses Gina's checks and runs out the door. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIT2TYOR1wy
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Chris and Theo are found in the library working on letters and proper documents. Both boys are one of the most eligible men on the market and they would rather avoid it at all cost. A creek in the door as she enters alters them to her presence. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMvDA1VOUn8
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"Hello sister" Theo smirks at her and leans back. "I have questions" Ara can't help but get to the point, anticipation is killing her. "I want to know of our family, of our people" Ara stands tall and lifts her head higher. "Mama is the Queen Regent of Avalor, Daughter of King" Ara stops him right there. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKUkKb94ANK
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"I already know who she is, I want to know what she is like" Ara voice is clipped she knows she isn't the most patient person. Chris snaps his head when he hears this and his eyes are daggers now. "So you know everything then, do you". 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVZ1FsYpQIn
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Both siblings are more than temperamental and impatient. They have that same fire in their eyes. Theo is watching from the side lines he knows better than to get in-between those two. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxwR9InDXSw
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"I never said that".188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSsZ57rBI7q
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"You implied it!".188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtoOuK6OpbV
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"Stop" Theo is normally an extremely calm and grounded person but even he has his limits. Being forced to hear the Two of them bicker about the same bloody thing, going in circles. "Start acting like adults" Theo exclaims in frustration. "Mama is a wonderful Queen and mother. She would do anything for us and her people". 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1bGrBfp84Z
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"Now what are your questions" Theo looks to Ara whereas Chris is taken a back. He has never seen his brother that way, then again he hasn't known him long. "Can we stay for the season?" Theo face turns red and his eye twitches,"You only care about the season". Ara waves her hands frantically in the air, "No, I just didn't know what to say on the spot". 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlY4baeupIZ
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Ara starts to pace back and forth in frustration, "I planned to be on the marriage market, I planned to find a husband". She starts bitting her nails in anxiety, "I know I wanted to find out about my birth family but". 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeCzCPDgcGY
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Chris and Theo burst out laughing and have to hold their sides, it hurts to breath. "You got what you asked for" Chris chuckles and Ara scoffs at their immaturity. "Yes, this is what every girl dreams of" Ara says as she puts her hands on her hips. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXaa6L1alaD
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"It is what ever girl could dream of, most marry for higher status mind you" Theo says as he picks at his pants. "The lower class could only dream of this" Theo explains, as he remembers the dirty worn out clothes and night of sleeping on an empty stomach. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOZx9ytaedz
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Chris and Ara don't say anything at all, they known the truth of the lower class people. Niether one has had the exsperince of it and they Thank God for that. Most of the Ton could care less of other and only themselves. The poor fight and beg for bread. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNvsZkn1CXI
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Chris sits there there messing with the end of the quill. "So Ara just wanted to find a husband and we wanted to find her" Chris points out what eveyone already knows. "Yet did anyone of us plan for what happens after we succeed in our plans".188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZiQ0XSR4zE
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"Well I.." Ara and trails off not having a good answer. "We could surely" Theo starts but he is just as clueless. Chris just slames his head on the desk infront of him. "I can't believe none of us, thought anything through" Chris agonizingly says to them both. "What a great team we all are" Theo signs and Ara looks at them both and decides then and there. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPuWNPW5GSm
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"Well don't just sit there, let's make a plan". 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9kTYW5vHvb
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Gina told her sisters as they parted that she was going to work on her needle work but it was a lie. What she really intended to do was sneak out to the gardens. She needed time to process eveything. She couldn't imagine how that effected her mother. Being sent away from your country, seeing your closest friend and Queen get betrayed. She can't even imagine it. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCKCPQz7EKi
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"Why do you look so glum, Pretty girl?" She jumps half in the air startled by his voice. "Claudel" Gina hits him in the arm as she calms down. "What are you doing here?"Gina laughs and Claudel looks at her as if she has lost her head. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBaiZG3FLIn
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"It is the middle of the afternoon, is it not?" Claudel informs her and she is completely taken a back. "I completely forgot, I'm so sorry" she explains as turns to face him better. As Gina does she can see that his face has been washed better, hair combed and his Sunday best. Obviously it must be Sunday she deducts and he looks it's nice to see how he cleans up. Claudel usually has tear's in his clothes and covered in ash as he works in a factory. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX0McFbFubu
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They meant at a bookstore that Gina snuck out to once before. As a little girl she always wish to shop in a sweet shop or book store. Their up bringing in the Ton meant that most of their needs were brought to their own home. Clothes, food, toys, anything at all at their request would be brought to them. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZiYN4Co7yE
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Going to anything other than the modiest would be irrelevant and unnecessary. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz6ixKXfEQC
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"I apologize, so much has changed within these past few hours" Gina tries to explain as Claudel leans a bit closer. Gina goes on to explain the shock and betrayal she felt from her parents and what excatly she found out. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ47FTv8Te4q
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"I truly have no words" Claudel reaches out to touch her hand in comfort but hesitates. He knows you don't touch another hand specially not a women of the Ton. "Do you remember when we first meant?"He turns from her to his satchel. "How could I forget?" She chuckles and thinks back. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVIDnRed0Mv
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"You had nearly 100 books stacked so high you could not see" Claudel gives her a look, "That is surely an exaggeration". 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKJPZlxHGrD
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She quickly shakes her head and this starts a back and forth amongst them. "Well good thing for if you had not knocked me down" he pauses to look take out the book he had kept hidden. "I would not have meant such a wonderful women" He finishes saying as he hands her on old and dearly loved copy of "Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded". 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrluFRgeXGj
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"This is one of my favorite books" he tells her as her hands delicately go over the book. What once would have been a deep red is now light with age. "What is it about?" She can't help but ask, "I suppose you'll have to read it to find out". 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2H4zYTo3Q0
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"Oh please, just a hint" Gina brings her hand to a prayer sign and can't help but mumble, please over and over again. "Okay, fine" He always gives into her wants, "It's about a servant and her mistresses son". Gina feels her checks turn red, "You make that sound so scandalous". She flips through the yellow worn out pages, "Your mind is the only one who is scandalous". Gina covers face with the book, it's the only way she can hide her embarrassment. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4z4oqwz0zZ
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Gina is so greatful to have a confidante outside of her family. Ever since their meeting in the bookstore six months ago. They well have grown closer and this form of familiarity no long truly shocks her. Yet she can't help but think of his body so close to hers. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡudMUoIlSWm
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She hates to admit it but she her affections for him stopped being those of a friend awhile ago. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT2FhkCm9XA
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"Georgina, Georgina Darcy" They hear her brother Fitz call into the gardens below. Her family don't know of this spot but they know this is a favorite place of hers. Gina and Claudel both jump ten feet in the air and far away as possible. You thought they just touched a burning stove with how they acted. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj8uOTfCRbV
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Just before she leaves Gina quickly and without thinking kisses Claudel on the check. Claudel looks like a deer caught in headlights. He can't even think of a response as she runs after the voice of her brother. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgDhtELoDBl
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"Hello, Brother" Gina grabs his arm and drags him back to the gardens entrance. The candlelight dances off the wall and the windows sparkle. "You aren't even dressed" Fitz gestures to her gown. It's the same one she had been wearing when Ara and her talked to their mother. "The ball at the Duke of York House" Fitz explains as he lifts an eyebrow. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1MkQF6M5ov
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She stops in her place and thinks of how stupid she is and blames herself for her carelessness. "I'll make us all late" she cringes at the idea of it. "Yes, you are lucky Mama set a gown out" He doesn't get a chance to say more as she dashes for her room.188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvh5mwiKQir
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Gina slips on the gown with the help of her sister and her maid Selena. They redid her hair into a stylized bun. It had been far to messy from the events of the day. She didn't have time to bath and just spritzed some perfume on herself. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPqFC1zPz0T
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Her brother and mother were already waiting near their carriage. Her entire family will be late and it's all her fault. They all jump into the carrige and she hopes the Duke and Duchess of York won't be offended. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1UfInYcm3x
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The bright side of it all is that they don't live to terribly far from the House of York. It is only a 25 minute ride in the carriage, there is a reason why the marriage season is held in London. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWs6fnmcRCC
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The Darcy are the last family of the Ton to arrive at the Ball. Gina takes in one deep breath as she steps down and takes the hand of the carrige driver. 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡppUKYLpw1Q
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"Let's go Gina, we are late as it is". 188Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUAqCu7yGfv
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"Im coming Mama, I'm ready now".
