Soom had never received so much attention before and was highly embarrassed at first, but after an hour of genuine compliments from friends and family, she started to settle down and even enjoy the sort of attention hat she had never had in her life before. Fuse went to sit with her boyfriend and Soom made her way as quickly as possible to the relative sanctuary of her parents’ company on the first trestle table, where they had been sitting that afternoon..
She was wearing a full-length, scarlet evening gown with white slippers. Her long black hair was gathered at the neck into a pony tail and sported a white flower from the garden on each side of her head and she was carrying a small white purse which held her mobile phone. It was the first time anyone had seen her like that although Ros
