Janet's P. O. V

"Is this okay?" I ask Steven after changing into the first outfit I picked out.

"No, it looks too boring. Not party type," he says and I sigh before walking into the changing room again.

He had stopped laughing when I put all the pirate stuff away and started to search for Kiara's outfits. He's also changed back to his clothes and sat down, doing god knows what on his phone.

I picked some outfits and moved to the small and conjusted changing room. I had changed and looked at my reflection in the ceiling to floor length mirror.

This looks good enough.

But Steven has to go and reject the dress, isn't it?

I sigh and move towards the dressing room again to change into another one.

I fit into the small place and hold some clothes because of limited hooks and somehow, change into the other dress.

I swear, this ability of changing in such trial rooms should be counted as a super power.

I walk out in the little-above-the-knee length dress and put my hands on my hips."This one?"

His head snaps up from his phone and his eyes fall on my exposed legs before they travel lazily back to my face.

Yeah, take advantage of the situation. Dork.

He clears his throat and shakes his head."I don't think Kiara should wear this, it will be difficult for the audience to focus on the act."

Polite much?

I sigh and shake my head at him before going back in grumpily. I don't know how many more times I'll have to change.

I go through the painful process again and change into the third dress that I had picked up.

I look at myself in the mirror again.

If he rejected the first two, he's definitely not approving of this one.

I walk out anyway, trying my luck. This time his head is already up, like he's waiting for me to come out.

He looks at me and then he frowns, before getting up and moving towards the rack. I just stand there, tapping my foot, frowning and waiting for him to say something.

He removes a dress that I earlier rejected and walks towards me.

"Here, try this on," he says and stuff the dress in my hands.

"Steven, I saw this before and I rejected it. I don't think it will look nice on Kiara," I say and raise the dress in my hand.

He rolls his eyes."Are you going or no?"

This time I roll my eyes and huff before turning and going in.

"He doesn't have to change in this stuffed place..." I mumble and rant while changing and adjust the dress before looking up.

My mumbling stops. I stare at my reflection in the mirror, something very similar to what I wanted to see.

It's a black and white halter dress that goes right up till my knees. It's got black diamonds and thin black lines in the center. It's very similar to one of the dresses Jennifer Aniston wore on friends. The first time I saw it on the rack, I thought I'd look like a chess board but my, I was wrong.

The material is amazing and sits on all my curves. I won't say I look hot but I don't look so bad as well. Kiara will rock this dress too.

I open my tied up hair and let it fall, completing my look.

So Steven's choice is not so bad after all.

I walk out the changing room and I catch Steven's attention immediately.

He looks at me and keeps looking at me and that makes my knees turn to jelly.

I clear my throat and he snaps out of whatever trance he was in before nodding."That's more like it. Here, she can wear this along with the dress," he holds up a pretty silver chain with a medium sized elegant butterfly pendant.

I place my open palm in the air and he places the accessory in my palm. I walk to the nearby mirror and hold it around my neck. I stare at it, memorising how beautiful it looks and how well it goes with the dress. I look up and through the mirror, I see Steven staring at me and for some alien reason, I hold the gaze.

Both of us are looking at each other, through the mirror and I can't help but wonder what he's thinking about.

He's probably thinking about how Kiara will look in this dress. He likes her, remember?

Somehow, my heart sinks at that. It sinks because a little part of me wants him to appreciate how I look right now.

Two weeks ago, I would have never said something like this. I would have frowned at my thoughts and dismissed them away.

But surprisingly, this time I don't do that. I don't dismiss them because I can't. Their too strong. The things I feel around him, the things he makes me feel around him, what I've felt in these two weeks, is too much to be ignored.

And it all comes down to one thing.

That I'm infatuated with him.

My heart bursts into happiness and I want to cry in ecstacy. I don't know what this feeling is, but it's amazing and overwhelming. I have no control over it. I want it to stop, but maybe I don't want it to stop too.

Maybe it's acceptance. Acceptance that somewhere all those fights, bickering, little favours and those rehearsals, I started to like him.

I find him creepy and mysterious, but maybe it's the mystery that draws me to him.

He looks away and I snap out of my thoughts, smiling slightly at the conclusion I just arrived at.

This is new.

But it's not like anything will happen between us.

This is just a crush and I'm going to get over it. Anyways, two weeks are already over.

That's when I feel sad again."Two weeks of your one month torture is over," I say and he looks at me again and smiles weakly.

"The qualifier is in a week," he says and I nod.

"And the final is in the week after that," I say and he nods, looking down. He's got a slight smile on his face but his eyes are saying a whole different story.

Maybe he's sad because he won't meet Kiara anymore.

"And then all of us will be on our own ways, back to our own worlds," he says, staring at me through the mirror. I nod with a half smile.

"Away from each other, both of us burying our secrets in our hearts," I say and he nods before walking out the room, oblivious.

Oblivious to the fact that I buried more than one secret.

I buried the unbelievable fact that I'm crushing on Steven Rome.

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A/N- I haven't even proofread this chapter once so it's going to be full of mistakes, excuse me for it.

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