An Elementals choice

Chapter 18 Cassy

THIRD PERSON

Indra was feeling weird about his conversation with Leizi. He was confused about why he feels like he has to protect her, be in her presence, need to touch her. This has never happened before. He wished he could touch her, that she could see him in the real. This is the first time in his existence that he was jealous of the fay being able to appear and be seen, to be able to touch another. How could her father abandon her like that? The man didn’t even give her his name! Indra finds his anger raising “guards with me I want this, Duncan Brennus of House Brennus found. You Niall do not show yourself to any other human’s without your mistresses permission and do NOT suppress her abilities any more without her permission as you don’t have that right. Branadon I am assigning you to Princess Leizi for now, do what she asks”. And with that Indra and his guards left the house.

LEIZI’S VIEW

I quickly cleaned up my face and put on a nice top with my only remaining pair of jeans and grab my jacket making sure that I have the money and key that Cody had given me. No sooner had I done so than I heard a knock on the bedroom door. I guess Cassy has her own key, how interesting. “Hi, Leizi, are you ready?” Cassy called out. I opened the door and smiled back at her “sure am, just let me get my boots on”. “Cassy is that you?” Astra called out while coming from the back room. “Sure is. Hi Astra, I’m just taking Leizi out for a girl’s lunch date together” replied Cassy while she visibly steeled herself. Astra had on full heavy makeup and was over dressed for someone hanging out at home.  “Oh, that’s nice of you to invite Cody’s little baby sister to our weekly luncheon” Astra beams. I stop tying up my laces, what! I look to Cassy, there is no way she could possibly think I would want to hang out with Astra after yesterday. “Astra what are you talking about? I told you last night and I sent you a reminder text, a lot of texts that we would not be having lunch together today. I told you I was taking LEIZI out” calmly explained Cassy. “But it’s Friday Boo, we always go out for lunch on Friday, it’s our thing” sulked Astra. “Not this Friday Astra I told you. And I am not going to let you pressure or guilt me into letting you come. Leizi you ready?” and with that Cassidy turned to the front door. Astra started crying “but I’m pregnant. I never get to go anywhere. How can you do this to me? Surely Leizi won’t mind.” “Cry me a river b***h, cause I don’t wont to hang out with you” I said and walked out the door closely followed by an apologizing Cassy.

I am starting to get the impression that Cassy is always apologizing for Astra’s bad behaviour and having to play peace maker. While Astra is full of entitlement and used to getting her own way without any responsibility for what she says or does. There is a reason why I don’t have any friends as I don’t ever feel like playing these kinds of games. Cassy had a genuinely nice car I had to ask her what it was because other than the Porsche badge I had no idea, she said it was “a Frozen Berry Metallic, Taycan 4S it’s a Tesla you know”. But all I saw was one overpriced but very pretty car. How rich was this girl? Or was it her parents’ money. We got in the car all black and shiny metal inside and went off to a much better neighbourhood where she pulled into a private carpark for a Café.

As we walked down the street, I couldn’t help but look at the extremely high prices on the menus for the few places that had them displayed either in the windows or outside on a podium by the front doors. What on earth are we doing here? Doesn’t she realize that I am penniless. Cassy walked into a very fancy café and was greeted straight away, and we were shown to a table. I took a look at the menu and nearly dropped it $25 for a salad are they crazy? There was nothing under $10 and even the coffee was over $10 a cup not even a mug. I looked back up to Cassy “Cassy what are we doing here? I can’t afford anything here and there is no way I am spending the money that Cody gave me on such an overpriced meal” I loudly whisper to her. Cassy looked at me confused for a minute, did the blink blinks, smiled and waved me off “don’t be silly I’m paying, so have whatever you want it’s on me”. “Cassy, I’m not comfortable doing that. How can someone your age afford to pay for two meals at such an … expensive place” I asked quietly. I hope she isn’t one of those women who put everything on credit and live way outside their means just to look good. You see them all over social media.  I so don’t want someone like that for my brother.

Before she could answer an older woman come over “Cassy, hi there sweetie. Looking good as always. I see you have a new friend with you today.” Cassy smiled at the woman “Hello Jetta, this is Cody’s sister, Leizi, she has come to live with him. So, I thought that I would show her around today.” “Oh, that’s wonderful darling. Well don’t worry I will have the chief make something up special then. Welcome Leizi. You are going to love living here” and with that Jetta went back to the kitchen yelling out orders.   I sat there blank face and confused. “It’s alright Leizi. I understand that you aren’t use to money. But I am not some overspending want to be. And even though my parents still give me an allowance that is more than what you are used to earning, I have worked for a living and I do work for my parents when ever they ask me too” Cassy spoke calmly to me. “I’m sorry I just …”. “I know your brother pretty much had the same reaction when I brought him to one of my parents’ restaurants” Cassy smiled at me. “You need to relax and let someone take care of you. I know that it’s foreign to you. Cody has tried his best to explain what your home life with your mother was like. And I am so sorry for everything that you have been through. But I would like for us to become like sisters cause I really love Cody, I do. It would mean the world to me if we could be close” she pleaded with me.

I guess if she loves my brother, she can’t be all bad. The waitresses brought out a seemly never-ending arrangement of food. It looked like we got tasters of everything on the menu. I had to let one of the waitresses know about my allergy after a plate with mushrooms appeared. The plate was taken away and Jetta came over to apologize for not checking first. Jetta looked a bit panicked and kept looking over at Cassy to make sure Cassy was happy. Cassy told me all about herself. She was an only child. She had been working at one or another of her parents many businesses like this  Café  since she was 15 afterschool each day. Cassy was nearing the end of a dual Degree in Accounting and Business Management, which was why her parents wouldn’t let her work but instead gave her an allowance as they want her to concentrate on her studies. Her parents had both warmed up to Cody very quickly once they realized that he only wanted what was best for Cassy and never interfered with her studies and wanted nothing from them.   I had to explain that I was a very straight forward person who didn’t lie and hated liars. That I had also worked everyday afterschool and on weekends since I was 14 but for very different reasons then for her. For me it was work or starve. I told her about all my courses, and she was impressed. I told her that I was waiting on hearing back for work placement but as I was now in a much larger city that should be easier to do. I told her about my plans to become a paramedic. It turned out to be a fun lunch where we really got to know about each other better.

Cassy’s phone kept buzzing, but after a while she stopped answering her messages. They were all from Astra who really didn’t like being left behind.  After a two-hour lunch Cassy paid, and we thanked the staff for the wonderful food and left. “Let’s go shopping!” cheered Cassy. “But Cassy, Cody only gave me $40 and I really would like to make it last. I don’t know when I will be getting paid work or unemployment benefits” I let her know. “But I know all the best shops to go to, come on Leizi you really need some more cloths” Cassy begged putting out her bottom lip and looking all cute. I sign “that look must really work on Cody, but I’m not Cody. I can’t afford to shop at the type of places that you shop at and before you say it NO, I will not let you go on a shopping extreme blow-out buying me cloths I would never buy for myself. I don’t need big label items.” Cassy pouted, then I saw her eyes light up with an idea “I know how about this, I loan you the money, you can pay me back once you’re working and I will only take you to stores that you can afford.” I can see I am not going to win this, and I do need more cloth’s.

So, we spent the rest of the day going from one op-shop to other and visiting factory direct stores until Cassy was happy that I had enough cloths to get by with. Then she made a call and the next thing I knew I was standing out the front of a lingerie shop. “Oh no, what are we doing here?” I asked out of shock and fear. “Well, I guessed that your mother being the type of person she is probably never took you to get properly fitted. You’re a young woman now, and this is part of becoming a woman. Please let me do this for you. I’m your big sis now so it falls to me to make sure that you are set up right. Or you can come back with Cody” says Cassy. “No way would I ever want to go in a*****e like this with my brother that's just so …” my words rush from me in embarrassment. “Well ok then, in we go” said Cassy with a big grin on her face as she linked arms with me and walked me inside.  

We were greeted by one of the store workers straight away “Cassy lovely to see you as always, we have those new items that you were interested in put aside for you. This must be the young lady that you spoke about. How adorably cute. Right this way ladies” and with that we were shown into a separate room to the main floor. This room had mirrors and seats in the center and a few change rooms around the walls. I was given a slip to change into and told to come back out once I was done. I got changed and went back out and now there were two of them. The guy introduced himself as Jason, he was the fitter and very extravagant. Cassy was sitting in one of the chairs with a glass of something bubbly. Jason told me to just relax and trust him as he took my measurements, shaking his head as he took my waist measurement. “Sweetie has you been overusing training corsets” inquired Jason. “No, I’ve never worn a corset of any kind. I normally just wear front attached bras with pretty backs or sports or training crops”. “Hmm, well darling you have a bust of 34 and a half inches, hips of 30 inches which is ideal for your height, but your waist is rather small at 18 inches, its outside the 10 to 10 ratio. Ideally you should be about 24 inches. Don’t get me wrong darling it is great for role playing period costumes, but … lets see what we can do” and with that Jason started dictating instructions to his assistant who went rushing back out to the main floor grabbing items and bringing them back. No one would let me see the prices of what I was trying on and Jason kept making adjustments to make each one of them fit better or order a different cup to make for a better fit. He did have some good advice about cuts, materials, and brands. After what seems like hours I was allowed to get back into my own cloths and when I came back out Cassy was holding about 6 bags of items. “What! Cassy, they had better not all be for me” I exclaimed. “They’re not. Some are for me. I had and an order that finally came in and just in time too. We have an event tomorrow and I can’t wait to show off my new corset” Cassy said proudly.  And with that Cassy finally took me home.