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The party has begun without me.
Slowly, I descend the main staircase of our apartment, which curves
dramatically into the reception lounge, currently packed with important
guests. Tall ceramic vases line the room, overflowing with roses of every
variety: white albas from Africa, pink centifolias from the Netherlands, pale
yellow tea roses from China, and roses altered with mystic dye right here in
Manhattan to produce colors so electric they hardly seem real. Everywhere
I turn there are roses, roses, roses—more roses than people.
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I reach behind me for assurance. My friend Kiki gives my hand a
squeeze, and together we slip into the crowd. I scan the room for Thomas.
Where is he?
“I hope your mom doesn’t notice we’re late,” Kiki says, careful not to
trample on her dress. Gold, but not garish, her gown falls to the floor in
luxurious waves. Her black curls flow past her shoulders in delicate dark
loops; both eyelids are dusted with a shimmery pink that makes her brown
eyes sparkle.
“She’s too busy schmoozing to care,” I say. “You look mag, by the way.”
“So do you! Shame you’re already taken.” Kiki eyes the room.
“Otherwise, I’d marry you myself.”
Practically all the members of the New York State Senate and Assembly
are here, as well as our most prominent judges. Not to mention the
businessmen and society folk who are indebted to my father, Johnny Rose,
or his former political rival, George Foster, for their own success. But
tonight isn’t about them. Tonight, the spotlight is on me.
“Aria!”
I quickly find the speaker. “Hello, Judge Dismond,” I say, nodding to a
large woman whose blond hair is swept up into a tornado funnel.
She smiles at me. “Congratulations!”
“Thank you,” I say. Since the wedding announcement, the entire city has
been celebrating the end of the war between Thomas’s and my families, or
so I’m told. The Times is going to do a profile on me as a political darling
and a champion of bipartisan unity—Kiki’s been mocking me about it ever
since I told her. My best friend, the darling, she says in her best phony
newscaster voice. I have to cross my eyes and smack her just to get her to
stop.
Kiki at my side, I continue my meet-and-greet duties, floating through
the party as if I’m on autopilot. “Thank you for coming,” I say to Mayor
Greenlorn and our state senators, Trick Jellyton and Marishka Reynolds,
and their families.
“Quite an engagement party,” Senator Jellyton says, raising his glass.
“But then, you’re quite a girl!”
“You’re too kind,” I say.
“We were all surprised to hear about you and Thomas Foster,” Greenlorn
says.
“I am just full of surprises!” I laugh, as though I’ve said something funny.
And they all obligingly laugh with me.
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