Sixty Five

“The dresses are beautiful but I won’t be wearing them”.

The maid, a small lady in a typical maid outfit looks at me in surprise. “But madam, these dresses have been made from the finest laces in our kingdom and beyond. Is it the net? Don’t worry my lady we can remove the net if you don’t want it”.

“It’s not the net. I just don’t like them”.

“That’s a bummer my lady. We worked very hard to make these dresses for you and you say you don’t like them?”, the maid shrieks.

I risk a glance at all the dresses that are spread out on Sia’s bed. They are so many and ugh! I just don’t like them.

“I’m very sorry if you wasted your time but it’s still a no. Take your dresses and replace them with leather pants. The kind the princes wear.”

The maid let out a horrified gasp. “My lady, it’s forbidden for a woman to walk around wearing pants! Especially a woman of your status!”.

“Do you wanna know a secret? I wasn’t always like this, curvy and pretty. There was a time my aura screamed male. And then I