Evening,

hotel in the country and a family-owned business-I had just finished enduring tw

n the rows of pink dresses lined nea

er of my life I'd disliked deeply-a time when everything I wore,

should be traced t

ents had been too preoccupied with their respective careers to raise

they had the time to care, the twins had sadly grown u

the image of perfect children, but the emotiona

ecame a regret that weighe

they were determined t

they

, and the best of everything from birth. I lacked noth

like a doll i

Pampered.

life was perfectly arranged-the color of my room, the clothes I wore, the

pink stemmed from the fact that it had b

en the first car they ever gifted me. A car I never got to drive

arried, but even then, I never asked or understood what the color meant to the

t represente

only color that seemed to exist in my universe. I woke up

minder of the unhappy memories I'd kept locked away-I

s furrowed tightly. "Take thes

made the stylist te

with a faintly worried expression. "Bu

ith a frosty look

lls, but in this room, I'm your emp

ed, each team member l

new exa

they'd probably grown accustomed to my quiet and well-behaved demeanor. Like a p

time speaking out, and also goi

kly masking her surprise, then lowered

. I didn't have

ly caught sight of something. Swiveling, I walked

nk gowns, was what had drawn my atte

id firmly, my fingers runn

this was likely her mistake-accidentally slipping in a different color. But she soon rec

k instead of pink? That was between us mother and d

ed, appropriately. "It'

h compliments. How elegant it was, how well it match

ere any of them wer

g as I liked the dress, t

ook the gown and disappea

of everyone in the room visibly lit up a

o

show it. Instead, I walked up to the full-le

g my slender frame in all the right places.

een in th

e first real smile since I arrived a

bet

ding of a notification

ng I knew who

orrect. It was indeed a message from

age, the smile at the co

h the remaining pictures and a file,

asure worki

came just

with our services. Let's wo

ur

t, I wen

as I began thinking about how b

s etched into everyone's mem