She went inside and found no one. She stood before the white dress for a moment—she remembered having a dress just like it in her past life, a gift from a fan named Moonward Idler.
Then she called the hairstylist, who apologized profusely. "My mistake, I'm waiting for you in the second dressing room..." So she left.
Now it was clear this was a setup from the start. Ruby Bellamy wanted to use Stella's trending status to blow this incident up, elevating her own profile and grabbing headlines while smearing someone else. Kill two birds with one stone.
'Sigh, what a pain.'
Stella Lockwood knew perfectly well that calling the hairstylist out wouldn't prove this had nothing to do with her. Many people knew she and Ruby Bellamy didn't get along. Gossipmongers would rather believe this was her deliberate revenge; the more melodramatic the story, the better it satisfied the curiosity of the gossip-hungry crowd.
"Sigh, I never thought Stella Lockwood would stoop to such petty tricks..."
