It was depressing to take 20 nearly identical clothes out of the closet. I chose a dark blue lace dress.
"Please hang this black back, please."
'It'll be perfect if I have to go to a funeral.'
I smiled to myself as I handed Letty the dark material adorned with gold embriodery and precious stones.
"Is there anything you like from these?"
I looked at the girl.
"Theay are all beautiful."
"I mean, is there anything you can imagine yourself into?"
"I would never dare…"
"Ajh…"
I sighed, then pressed the poison green velvet dress into her hand.
"It might even look good on you… just take it, salary supplement."
"But miss .."
Letty's eyes dimmed with tears. The clothes may have been ugly, but starting from the count's fortune, everything in this room was valuable.
"Please put the rest of them into bags, I have to change these funeral clothes this afternoon. After all… I'm not 80 years old for God's sake… even my great-grandmother would dress more fashionably… "
"Yes!"
The expensive bonus made an impact. Letty turned from a shy little girl to a confident, resilient maid in the blink of an eye.
"My jewelry?"
"I'll bring them!"
She took out a wooden box lined with burgundy velvet, containing exactly 17 necklaces. Disgusting fist sized gems on a gold chain. The chain was more like a collar, since it was thicker than my finger. Nowhere is a headdress, ring or something…
"That's it?"
"Yes, this is all you have."
'Actually… I knew Ashley had received a necklace from her parents every year as a birthday gift, nothing else… but these are useless. Expensive and rarities, I'm sure of that… but tasteless and heavy pieces. Didn't they give her anything else? Kelsey has always been dressed up with special jewelry according to the book… now I know why Ashley didn't wear any jewelry… '
"Pack these too, after Christian's gone we'll visit a jeweler as well."
I took a deep breath.
"OKay, now I am ready!"
I took another look at myself in the mirror and set off for my first battle.
"Sister!"
As I stepped out the door I heard a jinggling voice. When I turned around I saw Kelsey the famous little sister was headed for my room.
'Ah… right… according to the original story, the fiancée and little sister would have met now, since the real Ashley could not have gotten out of bed, so Kelsey invites Christian to tea instead of her sister. Every part of my body is screaming from the pain… but I couldn't let the first encounter happen now, not yet. '
"Kelsey!"
I called her name with a wide smile on my face.
She stopped walking, the rare sight must have suprised her.
'She was really damn beautiful… I mean, my God, how can someone be so biased, fuck you author !? Kelsey is really like a goddess. Red kissable lips, huge black lashes… dazzling indigo eyes, and how big are her breasts already? Is this a D cup? '
In any case, Kelsey was not used to this reception.
Kelsey was basically a healthy little girl, but the Kerrington couple were so afraid of loosing her too, that they almost never let the girl out of the house. Over the years, a lot of workers were beaten, or fired if only a small mistake was made around the little Kelsey. She slowly became depressed, and eventually produced epileptic seizures of psychic origin. That stupid quack treated her with the wrong medicine, so she had seizures even more often. After a while, she wasn't even let out of her room.
Ashley initially tried to approach her sister as a caring sibling, and her sister who longed for age-appropriate company wanted to happily cling onto Ashley, but every time the girl went close to Kelsey, their mother beat her with a walking stick. The stupid attachment..that she looks like her grandmother … „for sure she only wants to harm Kelse syndrome"… idiot beasts.
The point is, after a while, Ashley was afraid to be in Kelsey's company because she was directly associated with the punishment… so she started to avoid her little sister…
"How are you feeling, sister? I heard… you had an accident… I was just on my way to visit you. "
"Oh, it was nothing… I just stumbled and fell, but I'm fine now."
I smiled.
Of course, in reality, Ashley threw herself straight off the top of the stairs, hoping that if she got hurt, maybe her parents would spare a look at her. Unfortunately, the parents have not been to the girl's room since the age of 3 and, according to the original story, will not be visiting her room in the future either.
"How different you look, Sister."
She stepped closer to me.
"Well, yes, new year new me…you know…it's time to change my style."
I giggled foolishly.
"How do you feel? You should relax, you can easily feel dizzy in this heat. "
I stroked her face worriedly.
"I'm fine, I haven't had a seizure in 3 months."
"It's great… you know Kelsey, now that you're 16 years old… it's time for you to live a little bit too."
"What do you mean?"
"I think it would be good for you if you could go to the academy with me. After all, as a noblewoman, you have a right to do so… and I thought I would talk to father to let you learn with me. "
"That ... that would be wonderful!"
She raised her hand to her mouth in delight. It radiated of her, how she wanted to get out from the 4 walls prison.
"Of course you have to have no seizures for that… so rest a lot my dear sister, okay?"
"All right."
Kelsey nodded excitedly and headed back to her room.
'Perfect… all I have to do is find the doctor who will later diagnose the girl correctly, and arrange for her to go to the academy… hehehe…'