by Morgan Landry 6/29/2014, 1:17 pm
Maddy and Raven had prepared together -- nothing like dressing up with a friend before a dance to get that impatient party feeling, in her opinion. Raven and her had laughed forever in the Dionysus cabin, making jokes, being hyperactive and dancing together in bikinis to the pop music that always played in the room. It was one of the reasons Maddy loved Raven so much: she was so fun, so hyper, all the time, wild and reckless, talking nonstop: absolutely crazy, just what Maddy adored. Plus, she was never serious, which was a huge aspect of Maddy's and her friendship. None of them took anything too seriously.
And her hair color was awesome. She just loved the purple die, and not just because Dionysus's color was purple.
Maddy was going as Megara, from the Hercules movie. She had bought her outfit in New York; it was an amethyst-colored dress, ankle-long, with golden pins to hold the sleeves on her shoulders, accenting the rather small cleavage (she had a rather small chest; not flat, but still small, so having a huge cleavage wouldn't be a good idea). A deep violet strap of cloth was attached right under her chest, another one wrapped around her waist and held there too by a golden brooch.
The dress was very long, but there was a cut on one side which revealed her left leg every time she stepped forward, to make the dancing more easy and comfortable. Long dresses could be a pain when you were on the dance floor.
Her brown curls were attached in a high ponytail, the wavy streaks flowing down to her shoulder blades smoothly, held by a violet cuff. She had Sergio Rossi high heels, violet in color and discretely spangled with gold, eleven centimeters high, with violet ribbons she had wrapped up her calves, like an antique sandal. To finish it, she had sprayed a bit of Yves-Saint-Laurent's Manifesto perfume on her neck and wrists; she just loved the fragrance of it.
Once they were ready, the two of them had lazily sat around on Maddy's bunk for thirty minutes, or more -- because coming too early at a party was bogus -- then they had finally set off. The path to the Mess Hall was lined with flowers of various sorts: orchids, tulips, English roses, camelias, irises... Dayum, the Demeter kids really knew how to arrange the plants, Maddy thought.
Loud party music came to their ears as they reached the dance floor, lasers beaming up into the star-filled sky; it had been changed into a real Disney place: garlands of flowers around the columns, a miniature Rapunzel tower, a Sleeping Beauty bed, a buffet, hovering stroboscopes, tables arranged at the far side of the ball floor.... It was at one of those tables that Maddy spotted Jeremy.
Jeremy, her best friend. Raven's half brother. Cabin leader of the Minor Water Gods cabin. And yeah, her crush. Bogus, huh? Well, as long as he didn't know it, it was fine. Though she was determined to make it work between them.
"Jeremy!" she called, raising an arm. A stroboscope floated over her head, casting squares of light on her face; it drew attention on her violet make-up: the liquid, discrete golden eye-liner, the amethyst eye-shadow, the light touch of blush and the hint of spangled gloss. In daylight, the make-up would have been definitely too much, but at night, under the lights of the party, it was perfectly acceptable.
She stalked over to him on her high heels, walking past two Aurora's who were giggling with a Pocahontas and a Kristoff, before arriving at the table, dragging Raven behind her.
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