A Gift from the Goddess

Chapter Twenty-Nine 

Chapter Twenty-Nine Within the hour, I found myself at a clothing store in town with one very over excited Myra by my side.

The look of her complete unabridged joy when I’d shown up at her door to ask if she wanted to hang out, had been worth the bribe to skip out on Luna studies. I didn’t particularly need clothes, nor have any desire to impress anyone, but spending time with the one positive presence I could always count on was refreshing. Seeing her flutter around looking at the different outfits while gushing about how good they’d look on was so simplistic and easy. I was able to relax and shut my mind off to everything that had gone wrong the day before.

However, after we’d gone to several shops, I started to notice a trend with Myra. She seemed t o love so many of the clothes she would try on, which was a fair amount of them, but every time she would leave the store without buying anything. When we had reached the fifth shop, I watched her coming out of the changing room with a

gorgeous red dress on. It complimented her hair and figure perfectly.

“Wow, Myra, I really love that one,” I said encouragingly.

“Yes! It’s so pretty!” she did a spin in the mirror, checking it from all angles. When she was finally satisfied with how it looked, she went back into the changing room to return to her normal clothes.

“Ready to go to the next store?” she asked once she’d finished dressing. I watched and saw how, once again, she returned the dress back to the clothing rack without purchasing it. “Aren’t you going to buy it? It really did look amazing on you.” She smiled a little timidly. “No, that’s ok.”

I frowned, confused as to why she wouldn’t want to buy something when I was under the impression the whole point of the shopping trip was to… Well, shop.

“No seriously, I think you should get it! It will be great for semi-formal events!”

Her cheeks suddenly became red and she looked away a little awkwardly.

is,” she said hesitantly, “the stores around here are

tag on the dress but only got more confused. I’d chosen this strip of stores in town because they always looked to have a lower price range. And it wasn’t even an expensive dress by any means. I knew I had been born into a wealthy family, but I still had an understanding of what would constitute as expensive. And this dress definitely wasn’t that pricey. “Where

There are some really nice second-hand shops there that

people regardless of her home situation. She had never let on that things were any different from the other kids at school. “… You never told me,” I said finally. “Because it’s not a big deal!” she said with a smile. “I’m actually really fine with how things in my life are. My family owns the local orphanage and so we donate a

never let anything ever hurt her. She was too precious for this world. “That’s really incredible of you and your family to do that,” I said. “No, it’s fine! But, oh, actually…,” she said, touching a finger to her lip in thought, “if you’re interested, it would really mean a lot if you’d come to our big

didn’t understand why

“It’s fine if you don’t want t o come! It wasn’t meant to pressure you into doing something you didn’t want to do.” “No! No… it’s fine,” I replied with a smile. “I’d love to come. Let me know all the details

off guard by her sudden embrace and it

must have felt my uneasiness because she pulled away almost

head, a small smile of my own to show her I was okay. “Don’t

I didn’t mind. I wasn’t exactly the most affectionate of people by any means, given my past history, but I was pretty sure Myra was by far one of the

felt a slight glimmer of peace whenever I touched it. It reminded me that I was capable of doing good and that there were good people out there, even when I refused to acknowledge it. Maybe I had been relying on Myra this entire time

to the red dress again behind her, a small nagging in my head ensuing.

arm. “What are you doing?” she asked, surprised. “If you’re going to be hosting a big annual charity event then you need to look the part.” Her jaw dropped. She looked

too much.” She tried to tug the dress out of my arms but I

laughed at her overreaction to

want to have to point this out because I’m not

stopped protesting for a second to