Yes, hands at the edge of your skirt, but not pressing it, grip the cloth and list as you crouch. Keep your eyes low and your head bowed, show proper submission.
Submission?! I am three years older than him and was team captain! He plays second string!
Benjamin was three years older and team captain! YOU are Bella now. Demure, alluring SUBMISSIVE and just come of age!
I don’t want to be alluring and submissive! I don’t want to be a girl! I don’t want to marry that loser Nate, or ANY boy! Change me back! Please!
Bella Ophelia Oscot! You were raised to place family above all else were you not?
Yes, ma’am. But I was serving the family already as…
If the decision were based on merit alone, Ron would be here in skirts instead of you. But he is courting the daughter of a powerful family and we dare not risk that alliance.
But if Ron’s prospects are so good, why must I be a bride to Nate?
Because a promise was made to Nate’s family before you were born, one we dare not break! It is just bad luck that both houses had only sons. As the lesser house, you must be the bride and the bride must submit!
Yes ma’am.