Once upon a time there was a girl who thought she was a princess.
She wasn’t a real princess of course, but she liked to imagine she was. In real life she was just a normal girl who went to work and hung out with friends and shopped and gossiped like normal girls do.
One day, she was at work, as usual, when she got a call from her “Fairy Godmother” who asked the (so-called) princess whether she wanted to attend a fancy high end fashion show with her! There would be cocktails and dinner and of course the fashion show with all the lovely fashionable things the princess could ever imagine! The princess was beside herself with excitement!! However, she was nervous at the same time. She wasn’t sure if she was “princess-y” enough to go. Would she be able to hack it in the REAL princess world? After thinking about it and asking the advice of her sister and friends, who all said “Uh…YEAH!! OF COURSE you have to go!!” She decided that she would swallow her insecurities and become a real princess for an evening…so she called her Fairy Godmother back and told her “Yes! I would love to go! Thank you for thinking of me, fairy godmother!”
After she got off the phone she had another thought though…what was she going to wear?! Her sister advised her to wear something fashion forward. Something involving fur, leopard and booties…Her fairy godmother told her to wear a dress. Something that you would wear to a party. So she settled on her famous perpel dress! She even knew what shoes she wanted to wear with it: High platform, perpel velvet shoes embellished with a jewel and feathers. The only problem was she didn’t have them yet. She did have a back-up dress in case she wasn’t able to get the shoes, but she needed to wear some tights with them…which she also didn’t have. She was not going to have too much time after work to get ready for the fashion event. The timing was going to be tight and she would need to be as efficient as possible. However…she was able to work some of her own magic and convinced her dad to pick her up after work. They were going to pass by the mall to pick up her shoes...Everything was starting to come together! But then she looked down at her hands and alas, her nails looked terrible and were in dire need of a manicure! She had been planning to have one, but had not had the time to schedule it. As luck would have it though, she worked close to downtown. She decided that she would use her lunch hour to find some tights, nail polish remover, cotton balls, and some nail polish and would hopefully be back in time to actually have some lunch and do her nails.
She left work, all ready to begin her lunchtime adventure. But she must’ve had some bad timing because there were no buses in sight! She waited and finally she caught the first bus she saw. Unfortunately, it wasn’t going by the store she was planning to go to. But she took it to get to another bus stop that she knew she would be able to catch more buses. She got off and got on another bus, assuming that this bus would take her to her destination. This bus however, was going to turn off at the wrong street. This adventure was beginning to look like a bad idea. Finally she got on the right bus. By this time her lunch was almost half done. She finally got to the store…which had recently been renovated and she didn’t know where everything was! Once she finally found the hosiery department, she circled the aisles but couldn’t find the tights she was hoping for. Finally she decided to give up and went to look for the nail polish remover, cotton balls and nail polish. (Which luckily, she found quickly.) She was trying to decide what kind of polish to buy, but decided she should just get the remover and cotton balls and be on her way. Time was running out and she had to be back at work in 17 minutes! She got in line to pay and…every line for the check-out was so long!!! And as she scanned what people had in their hands (thinking, that none of their purchases were as important as hers) she started to get nervous. The lady who was at the till when she got in line was still there, looking for coupons or change or some such thing! The lady was taking forever and the faux princess was starting to freak out! She wondered at the random stuff people bought in the middle of the day. She looked at her watch… it was 12:48. She had to make a decision. There were still 4 people in line ahead of her and a couple of them had full baskets. She decided to leave the line – put her stuff down and run to catch her bus. Luckily she caught an express. She finally got back to work at 1:03 but was so upset she had missed lunch AND had nothing to show for it!
She called her sister, who agreed to pick up the ultra-fabulous shoes for her (they would totally make her outfit) but her sister warned her they were high and that she might have trouble walking in them. “Let’s hope you don’t trip” she said…Tripping however, was the last thing on her mind, as she thought about how she was going to do her hair and whether or not she was making the right decision about which dress to wear.
The afternoon at work was going quickly and slowly at the same time, as she watched the clock thinking about not making a fool of herself at the fashion show. She was nervous and excited and couldn’t wait for the end of the day…
To be continued….part 2: The Fashion Show
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