Rose's Party
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While Jazz was helping me get ready my family had been busy transforming our modest cottage into a party fit for royalty. The family table was laden with enough food to feed a cavalry, with roasted pig, lamb, and roast beef in a savory gravy. There was also fresh fruits and vegetables, salads, and pies and cakes galore. A big bowl of punch sat in the middle, it was spectacular and way over the top. I remember Jazz's party was way more modest than this. "Father, Mother, what is all this?" I ask mouth agape and staring all around enraptured. "This is way to much, and we can not afford such extravagance, I am undeserving of such a party." Father looks at me sternly and replies, "Rose, my little angel do not worry your pretty little head. You and your sisters are deserving of the best parties and so much more. Don't ever think less of yourselves because we are humble farmers. Besides we did not pay for this party, you have a very generous man who picked up the tab for this party as his gift to you and you shall meet him later tonight. "Well I shall hope so, so that I can thank him in person for such an awesome gift." I reply as I head out the door awaiting the guests to greet them as they show up. I faintly remember the men from my sister Jazz's party a year ago, I really didn't interact with them due to Father's strict rules that we were not to talk with or be courted by boys until we turn eighteen. Jazz meant many men that night and our farmhand caught her heart that very night. After a short 6 month courtship they were married and now it's my turn. I do remember one man who caught my eye that night and I have had a few private nights of sneaking out to have a few minute conversations with him. They were not very long as Father almost caught us a couple times, and once we were startled by a snarling pack of three wolves. The first guests to show our my two best friends Holly and Molly. They are seventeen year old twins that live in the upstairs apartment of the village square's bakery. Their parents own the bakery and they just started helping their parents with the baking. Both have dark brown hair, chocolate eyes, and tan complexions. They are pretty and have had many admirers as their parents are less strict than mine. Molly the more outspoken of the two runs up to me giggling and embraces me, "Ready to kiss the night away with a prince charming?" She smirks. I laugh, and reply dreamily, "Only if he is tall with short brown hair, brown eyes, works as an apprentice at the smithy and is named Lyle." She smirks even bigger, and shouts, "I knew it, you have been a naughty girl and gone against your parents." I cover her mouth and make a shushing sounds, "Please you're both my best friends don't let it on to my parents, that I already have a suitor." She nods and I let go of her mouth, they head inside to talk to Lily and Jasmine while I finish greeting the other guest who are all the men of the village hoping to catch my heart tonight, but it only belongs to one man who shows up last. "Hello Lyle, thank you for attending my party tonight, I say, "Please come into my humble home and enjoy yourself." Lyle leans in close as he makes to move pass me and whispers close to my ear his breath tickling me there, "Oh I will enjoy my night as I can finally hold you publicly, and court you as I have been dying to do for a year. I'm 20 have bought a home close to the smith shop and ready to make you my wife." My knees practically buckle hearing that. I join the party inside and am soon surrounded in a corner with many men hoping to impress me tonight, but my eyes are drawn to Lyle hoping that tonight he will make his intentions known to Father. An hour into the party, and a breeze blows through the front door carrying with it the scent of cloves, cinnamon, and other savory spices. I look towards the doorway from my corner and see a dark figure walk in followed closely behind by two other dark figures. I excuse myself and gently push through the group of men surrounding me drawn by the scent and figure I'm sure I have never met before. His and his companions eyes settle on me for a moment and I feel a heat set in my belly and my undergarments' suddenly become moist startling me as nothing like this has ever happened to me before. Did I just wet myself like a infant? I don't believe I did, so I don't know why I'm wet all of a sudden. The man smirks slightly as I can clearly see him now, and my heart stops. He is undoubtedly the most handsome man I have ever seen. Shoulder length spun gold hair tied back with a royal blue strap of fabric, sapphire blue eyes, and a muscular body. His companions were also handsome I noted, though not as nearly as he was. I my father and mother smiled at him and rushed over to greet him, he glanced at them then back at me while my parents eyes were also drawn to me and they beckoned me over.
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