CHAPTER 1 - Here's To the Night
PAIGE'S POV
"Me and you are hitting that red carpet tonight, and we are going to make Kevin so regret cutting you out of that film. Cause we are going to look hot!"
As she stands she does a little shake then grabs my hands to pull me up.
"And I don't mean up-do, pearls, pink prom dress hot. I mean HOT hot!"
She turns her body and leans against me grabbing the scarf around my neck and slides her body against me doing a little dance, which actually makes me laugh and even blush a little.
Later that night.
ALEX'S POV
'She looks beautiful. She has been running around her room after her shower looking for something to wear tonight for nearly 20 minutes, trying on outfit after outfit. Tonight is the premiere and she wants to look perfect.' I let out a laugh as I look up at her from the yearbook I am looking at as I sit on her bed and wait for her.
"Paige!"
She is now running around in her bra and underwear holding a crumpled up dress in her hand.
"Paige!"
'The things I gotta do to get some attention around here…' She stops and stares at me waiting for me to say something. I stand and walk over to her.
"Really Paige, anything you wear will be great."
I walk over to her closet and pick out a blouse she has hanging, It's a cute black spaghetti strap halter top that has a design cut out to get a slight peek at the skin just below the neckline. And at the bottom of it the design is cut as if it was torn perfectly to fit around her curves. I pull it out of her closet and push it towards her.
"Wear that. With…"
Turning back to her closet I look through the many pairs of pants that she has.
'My God this woman has a shopping mall in her closet.'
I pull out a pair of Khaki pants and look her up and down as she pulls the blouse I handed her over her head.
"I don't know Alex..."
She says in her cute whiney Paige voice. When she straightens it out over her body I look at the pants again, scrunching my nose.
"No, not these."
I look in her closet again and run my fingers over the pants, coming across a pair of light blue jeans torn in all the right places.
"Here." I hand her the second pair.
I sit down playing with the cowboy hat I had brought with me to complete my outfit and wait for her to slip on the pants. She turns to me and then to the full length mirror she has in her room.
"See? Gorgeous."
She looks up at me and smirks then sighs showing me I have won. She takes the hat from my hands and pops it on to the top of my head.
"Come on Nunez. I get to do your make up!"
I rolled my eyes as she took my hand pulling me into her washroom. She squealed with excitement all the way down the hall.
"Sit."
She says pointing to the toilet. I give her a look that quickly turns into an evil smirk.
"I uh...already went before I left my house Paige...I think I'm good."
She smacks my arm lightly.
"Ugh. You know what I mean. Now sit."
She rolls her eyes in that very Paige way. I smile and sit down as she takes out her BIG make-up kit. She leans over to me and starts to put some eyeliner on just beneath my eyes, then lightly brushes a little eye shadow on.
"Paige, really, why do you have all that make up? You don't wear much...Not that you need any at all. You're beautiful."
PAIGE'S POV
'Ugh. She's doing it again. She really needs to stop that. The compliments, the comments... Come on Paige. Focus. God her eyes are beautiful. NO!' I shake my head to snap myself out of it.
"Ok you're done."
I stand up from the position of leaning over close to her. And fan myself a bit trying to cover up my nerves.
"It's a little hot in here don't you think?" God Paige, Get a hold of yourself! She's Alex. Calm down.
"Paige, you okay?"
She stands by me and puts her hand on the small of my back. Her touch jolting me back to reality.
"Huh? Oh! Yeah…uh…I'm fine"
I shrug it off and move away from her towards the door back to my room to slip my shoes on. She follows me and I can tell that she is watching me again; she has been most of the night. Running around in my bra and underwear was mainly a test to see if there would be any reaction. And just as I thought, there was.
"Come on."
Without looking at her I grab her hand and pull her out of my room and down the stairs. I glance back at her as we reach the bottom step of my house; she is smiling that killer Alex smile.
'Damn how am I supposed to do this? Why did I agree to go with her? Why didn't I just stay home and let her take the tickets? Ben & Jerry would have been waiting for me anyway.'
"The cabs here!"
Her exclamation snaps me out of my thoughts and she pulls me toward the door.
"Bye mom! I'll be home late!"
As I yell into the house my mom waves through the kitchen to see us rush out the front door.
