Dreamful

 

DREAMFUL

  CHAPTER:25

                       ..."Dez! WAKE UP!- Look who's-", Grace, her elder sister started shouting right at nine AM.

"Shush Grace! Let me sleep, Sunday's are my non-productive days!", a sleepy Dez said with annoyance, throwing the closest pillow next to her on her sister.

"Oh, well...you don't want to see yourself in 'The Times' then?". Dez quickly got up and Grace handed over the newspaper to her. She rubbed her eyes several times-one can't see things clearly after immediately getting up!. She looked at her picture and her eyes sparkled, her smile broadened.

"This...is magic?!"

"Get up, Dez! Good Morning, your phone's buzzing non-stop from the last one hour and we even have to see you on the T.V at ten A.M?", Grace said, hugging her. She hugged her back, the newspaper still in her hands.

"I'm going to be famous at work today, huh?!", Mrs. Decker said, after Dez came out of her room. She had started working in a bakery, shortly after her husband had passed away in a ship drown to make both ends meet. Destiny smiled and with teary eyes held her mother's hand and said,

"Mom...I promise you won't have to work one day! I promise you!". Mrs. Decker patted her back and said,

"Dez...now stop being the emotional wreck you've always been and go get ready!". And it was true! Grace laughed,

"Please go and check your phone, miss. model! it's buzzing like crazy!". She went ahead and checked it. Her Instagram followers had gone up from five hundred to one thousand and there was still the whole day to go. The pageant had also posted the photographs on the mail, so she forwarded it on her Instagram and quickly went to take a shower.

The trio sat in front of the T.V on the worn-out couch right from ten forty-five. The show started at sharp ten and the editing had been done amazingly! The camera moved several times from the models to the judges and vice-versa and Edwin looked cool as ever on the T.V as well.

"Wait...wait..., wait...! Is this the guy whose name is Edwin...?!", Grace said, getting up and going closer to the T.V. Dez tried to maintain a neutral expression. Her heart was throbbing like nuts for watching herself on the T.V and her sister was worried about Edwin.

"Ummm...yes..."

"Dez. Isn't he a heart-throb...?!". 'Heart throb? That's what I'm going through right now.", Dez thought to herself and replied,

"Grace, aren't you engaged?"

"Duh, can't I appreciate him like come one...I'm not gonna steal him from you or-"

"What nonsense?! You don't even-"

"Girls! SHHH! Dez, we're just agreeing over the fact that he looks cool. No offense!", Mrs. Decker said with a laugh.

"None taken.", Dez said rolling her eyes at her sister and went back to the screen....lights out and she came on the ramp...she clearly remembered that when she had stepped on the ramp that day..., her eyes had been closed shut quickly due to the sharp lighting and that super-embarrassing part wasn't there, which meant Edwin had edited it off. She was so thankful to him. When it was her turn on the T.V, her mom said,

"Dez...you look so gorgeous and look at that confidence!", while Grace said,

"I agree, mom! You look like a professional on the ramp, Dez... a piece of heaven! but look, Edwin's looking right at her". Dez let out a sarcastic laugh and said,

"Isn't that what judges are supposed to do-LOOK AT YOU?"

"Look at you with a whole different glam is something new.", Grace replied and Dez had nothing to reply to her.

                                                                   TO BE CONTINUED...

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