Title Wedding Day Author Kaitee Theme Dorea Black Prompt Word height
Dorea’s bedroom was filled to the point of bursting with flowers of all colours and types. She did not know if it was customary for the bride to be given flowers by her weddings guests, but she did not care. Dorea felt that she deserved them. It was her big day, after all.
Behind her, she could hear her mother and older sister bickering. It was about shoes, Dorea’s bridal shoes. Her mother wanted her to wear flats, so she did not tower over her husband to be. Cassiopeia wanted her baby sister to wear heels, adding a few more inches to her already uncommon height to display the Black supremacy. Dorea laughed lightly at the two of them as she lit a cigarette.
Her hair done and her makeup finished, Dorea lazily stood and snapped her fingers to call her family over to her. Violetta grabbed her daughter’s dress and delicately set it on the floor at her feet, open and waiting for Dorea to step into it. Cassiopeia held onto her sister’s arm to make sure she did not fall, and once the dress was completely on, the two of them set about the task of clasping the fifty plus buttons that went down Dorea’s spine.
Standing in front of her full length mirror, Dorea felt like royalty. She had a beautiful tiara atop her head, but there was something missing. Something that, for a moment, Dorea could not place. She puffed away at her cigarette as she thought, tipping the ashes into a particularly ugly bundle of daises nearby when the need arose.
Her mother and sister began to quarrel again, and their words floated past Dorea like her cigarette smoke. Height. That is what she needed. She stamped her cigarette out in the ashtray on her vanity and slipped into the higher heeled shoes. Going to her mirror again, Dorea could not see anything of herself above her eyes. “Perfect,” she said, smiling and rubbing her palms together.
Dorea grabbed her bouquet of red roses and headed out of her bedroom, her mother and sister following, to go outside and into the August sun to become Mrs Dorea Potter.