Floriography: Red Roses

Chapter 16

Tracy was starting to get nervous. He could see the crowd of people who started to enter one by one. Celebrities, famous models, some people with fashion magazine names, and some famous designers.

Unlike other models, Tracy waits in a separate room at the front, in the committee office space. Because

there was no way from backstage to the outer door, and Violetta really wanted the Ocean Tears to be a surprise.

Tracy stood up, approaching the glass slowly while making sure the end of her dress did not get caught. Makeup

Candice is more unique this time, her dress is dark blue, Candice makeup Tracy with a similar color, which makes her eyes glitter with the glitter of her black shadow every time she blinks. The lipstick is also dark blue, which makes it look very fierce. Tracy took a breath.

“You can do this, Gra—“

Tracy gasps.

He can't say it.

The figure he saw on the glass wasn't Gracy. His face was similar, but he could see himself now. Tracy, Tracy

Manson, who has slightly thicker lips than Gracy, Tracy, who has slightly larger eyes than Gracy. Tracy has a more oval face than Gracy.

Everything he could see clearly.

Tracy took a deep breath, she could feel herself starting to panic.

“Say you want to be Gracy but you know you'll never be as good as her.”

Tracy held her breath. Louis is right, now is not the right time to lose confidence. Tracy is herself off the runway, but when she climbs onto the runway, she is Gracy. Because Tracy knew, Tracy on the runway wouldn't be able to be taken anywhere, only Gracy could.

Tracy's breathing began to reorganize, and she ventured back to see herself in the glass, and she began to see

that shadow.

The shadow of Gracy's face.

Tracy nodded.

“You can do this, Gracy.”

“Miss Manson! Ten minutes!”

Tracy looked at the face of the committee calling her from the glass, and she quickly turned around, and lifted her dress quickly. The committee ran towards her to help Tracy carry her long dress and they walked towards the closed door. Tracy stood up straight, and she extended her body. The two surrounding organizers tidied up the tail of her dress at the back, and it wasn't long before Candice slipped out the door.

She tidied up the side of the dress that fell on Tracy's shoulder, her hairdo tied in a disheveled fashion below, and made sure everything was perfect.

Candice nodded while holding Tracy's shoulder.

“Good luck!” Candice whispered and then shifted to the side. Right after that the walkie-talkie brought by the committee sounded slowly.

“Open the door in three...two..”.

Tracy closed her eyes.

“One!”

As Tracy's eyes opened, a bright beam of light burst through her. He could see the makeup powder that fell onto his eyelashes glistening in the light, and his feet began to walk towards the shining stage.

The audience sits on the left, right and front side of the stage. The front row of the stage split in two quite wide, and Tracy walked in the middle of it. Tracy could not feel those gazes, all she could see was the end of the runway, the door to her exit.

But that doesn't mean Tracy's in a hurry, no. He enjoyed this moment. Her chest felt warm, and she felt that no other girl was as beautiful as her current self.

That's Gracy Manson, right?

Tracy climbed the stairs slowly, then turned around and posed once. He threw his gaze throughout the room, and was satisfied when some people nodded to look at his performance, or the beauty of Violetta's designs wrapped around his body. Tracy turned back, and walked slightly to stop on the right side. Pictures of tiny sakura-sakura popped up on the panels lining the entire runway every time its feet rested on its surface. He posed twice, slowly, and he can recognize some people now. The celebrities he saw at the door.

Tracy walked back, and stopped on the left side. Several influencers and beauty celebgrams he knew sat in the front row, and whispered to each other. In the same row sat several designers, and models that he had seen several times.

After posing twice, he again walked towards his last point. She carried her skirt around, held her pose forward, then threw her last pose before the lights were turned off. Tracy quickly turned around, and that's when she listened to a few whispers of incense,

“Tracy Manson?”

Her eyes widened.

They knew?

Inside his head was mixed. Tracy Manson's? They should have seen her as Gracy not Tracy!

Tracy suddenly felt her legs resting in the wrong place, and lost balance. Just then, the lights came back on and the song was also turned on. The audience boisterously clapped and Violetta was called to the stage by the MC who was hosting the day's show in English.

Tracy realizes someone is holding her firmly, before she can touch the floor, some models even come up to her.

“You okay?”

Tracy looked up, looking at the person holding her hands and back while pulling her up straight. Her feet were touching the floor properly, the shoes she was wearing were hard and tall, and even Gracy might have fallen in with those shoes. Tracy pulls her hand from the man who helped her.

Yes, Louis Troy.

“Thanks.” Her whisper was limp, before she stopped in front of one of the dressers, and sat there to look back at herself in the glass.

“Tracy, your dress I hung in the dressing room, hurry up to it before it's full, I'll take care of the makeup of other models first.” Candice came back in a hurry, patted her on the shoulder and then moved back to another model. Tracy could only smile, and then she sat up straight.

You can do it, Gracy.

He whispered inwardly, smiled at the reflection of his face on the glass, then walked towards the backstage.

The Last Snow dress that she will wear for Frozen Flower hugs her body like it was made to fit her size. Candice didn't even make any changes to the dress.

Tracy begins to think, Violetta did make the dress based on its size while expecting this to happen at her presentation. Or maybe all that stuff about the journalist was just a fraction of Violetta's plan? Tracy will never know, and won't want to know either.

Tracy stared at her reflection in the glass. Candice untied Tracy's hair and untied it and made sure the curls in her hair were perfect. After arranging a little, he put white earmuffs that perched pretty on his head. Her thick blond hair frames Tracy's face perfectly, making her look more gaunt than she really is.

All the thick blue and black makeup that had been removed and replaced with fruity

make up is orange. This time Tracy can clearly see Gracy's face in the reflection of the glass with that thin makeup.

“So I heard you fell while getting backstage. Are your legs okay?”

Tracy almost jumps in shock when Candice suddenly opens her voice. Tracy looked at her bare feet.

“I'm fine.” Tracy smiled at the reflection of Candice's face on the glass. Candice

little laugh.

“Good. The shoes for this dress will also be quite tall, the models are high-heeled winter boots with white and orange fur, so pretty so I want you to wear them now. Can?” Candice turns to pick up the shoe and gives it to Tracy. Tracy just nodded and took the shoes.

“Oh, and this.” Candice also gives Tracy a white hairy scarf. “Please wear as you like.” Candice

smile and leave him.

After that Tracy heard the MC mention the collection Frozen Flower and Violetta discuss the matter of The Last

Snow.

“After Ocean Tears, which has received quite a controversial reaction from the audience who yesterday had witnessed the presentation of Tokyo, how about the best work from the Frozen Flower collection? Because I heard that the Frozen Flower collection will not be brought complete in this presentation.” Mc Discuss. Violetta as usual started her answer with a small awkward laugh.

“Ocean Tears yesterday was criticized as too erotic for kimono variations. But the dress won't show any sensitive parts. Indeed the shoulder of the sabrin is quite low, but the circumference of her chest is tight so the dress will not go down. Likewise with the hemisphere of the skirt that is made right in the middle. The dress will not be able to rise again even if the dress wearer raises his legs because the part has been sewn as natural as possible.”

Tracy nodded. The dress is not as open as it looks.

“For Frozen Flower, yes indeed the collection shown will only be twelve clothes, and one of them is The Last Snow which is a work that I can be proud of.”

Tracy looked again at her reflection in the glass. This dress is something to be proud of.

“This work I created with images of poppies blooming after the last snow. Not real, of course, this

like images in movies and the like.” Violetta laughs. It's true that Violetta gets a lot of inspiration from the anime, but so far only Jesca and Tracy know. Violetta did not brag much about herself to the public. It was also one of the reasons why Aya Eiko would sing her favorite song tonight, and the song she performed was also one of Violetta's favorite anime songs. Tracy laughed a little considering all this. For a moment, the nagging nervousness in his stomach disappeared.

“Oh, exactly, means indeed the appearance of Aya Eiko tonight is also a request from you?”

Violetta laughed again.

“Yes, it is. Aya my friend, we went to school in the same Junior High before I left Japan. The song he will be performing tonight is not from his own album, but we have also asked permission from the original songwriter and singer. Aya will even perform with her own band tonight.”

Tracy is surprised, he immediately looks for Candice who is nodding at one of the models, and says that Aya so bring her personal band tonight. Yeah, just for that one song. Just for four and a half minutes. Aya must have fallen in love with Violetta.

Another sudden change. Tracy sighed but she could do nothing about the change. Hopefully the band is not put in the middle of the runway.