<div class="floatleft">(http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/5439/bellalavoreauxside.jpg)</div><strong>Isabella Levoreaux</strong>, Carriage #2 [Frederick Martin, Lilian Montague, Richard Dupont, Isabella Levoreaux, Ivy Montague, Imogene Campbell, Katrina Browly, Emily Laroche]<br/><br/>Isabella Levoreaux was busy writing into a small book, across from Ivy and Imogene. She looked up, though, as the two moved closer to each other, to share the view out of the carriage. The three of them, Ivy and her girls, were incredibly cute; Bella had thought that many times, watching them play their innocent, girlish games. "If only such things were meant to last," she murmured to herself softly.<br/><br/>Ivy, it seemed, had a suitor, and it was possible that the sixteen-year-old girl might be wed before the year was out. Lillian had confided in Bella two days past, and it had been quite a shock to hear. Her husband, if things went according to plan, would be an older man many decades her senior...a politician from Part-a-Lucine; a man of incredible wealth and power, but still in his late fifties nonetheless.<br/><br/>It would break Ivy's heart to hear that she was being sold into a marriage of convenience by her family; but what else could a girl expect from her life. In a way, Bella was almost jealous...almost. While she was looking for a husband of her own, she knew that Ivy wasn't ready for what would lay ahead of her. That's why Ivy and her friends had been invited along. The Montagues believed that it might do the girls well to spend time among an older and more mature crowd.<br/><br/>Still, she felt protective towards the girls. "You three are quite beautiful together," she said, her voice warm and sweet as she spoke to the young women across from her. "Enjoy your time together. To be young, and free, is quite the gift."