Introduction:
Beep…beep… "You've reached the one and only Alek Petrov, I can't answer the phone right now because I'm otherwise entertained. If it's not important- don't leave a message. Bye."
"Alek" She said shakily, "I don't know what's going on…or where I am… but I need you to answer me. I'm in the middle of nowhere, there's only fields and fields around here, I haven't seen another person for miles and Alek, and I'm scared… I'm so scared please-"
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Chapter 1:
Her heels softly fell against the floor making a small click, click, click sound as she walked to the dressing room mirror. She tried to smooth out the lines, and make the golden dress her. But unfortunately, between the sparkles and glitter the dress was not meant to be.
"Chloe, right?" A familiar face emerged from the heap of formal gowns laid out on the chairs around Chloe.
Chloe pointed at her as she squinted her eyes, "I know you! You're Kelsey Black…I go to school with you." Kelsey had brown hair, with blonde highlights in it, she was sort of tall compared to Chloe and she played basketball for the varsity team. She was also very popular with her dozens of friends. Chloe had never seen her without a smile on her face.
"Yeah. I work here, and I noticed that you're having trouble finding a dress." Chloe had never talked to Kelsey although they'd been in school together since Elementary school. But Kelsey had always been at the top of the social scale whereas Chloe had always stuck with the same two friends. "I don't mean to overstep but I think you should wear a green dress, or even a royal blue."
"Really?" Chloe furrowed her eyebrows trying to imagine the colors on her, which got her no where. She'd been in the dress store for two hours and tried on at least 18 different dresses. She had no idea between the style, color or cut when it came to dresses. It had been a process of elimination this whole time. "I guess you would know, you've probably seen hundreds of me in this store."
"What's the dress for exactly?" Kelsey asked as she looked through the dresses Chloe had tried on, "I'm just trying to get an idea of what you need because these dresses are on two different spectrums of events."
Chloe blushed as Kelsey talked about the different types of dresses for different events, then she explained her situation "It's for this formal get together with all these important people to my mom." She lied about the mom part, but it was a get together with very important Mai that just had to meet their Uniter.
"Alright, so glitter is definitely out of the question as well as low cut and obviously short dresses" Kelsey held up her hand, "Because the last thing you want are for people to look at you as a troubled teenager. Personally, I think you should go for a one shoulder, emerald dress with a small jewel design in the middle of it."
"I get the feeling there is a dress somewhere like that…" Chloe said with a small smile on her face, "Whatever you think is appropriate, I clearly have no idea what I'm doing." She glanced over at the pile of glittery- teenage dresses. She should have known better, but she got distracted by the shiny things in the store.
"Yes! I'll bring it to you, you go take that disaster off!" Chloe could not help but enjoy the time she'd listened to Kelsey talk about the dresses because for the first times in months she was doing something normal that didn't directly involve the Mai. She was talking to a girl about clothes.
Kelsey brought the dress to Chloe with a excited smile on her face, "Thanks Kelsey for everything." Chloe said as she slid into the dress, being careful with the chiffon type material. "You've been a really big help."
"Don't thank me until you see the dress on yourself." Kelsey said, "But thanks…I guess it's a relief to know that not all of us preppy girls are total bitches, right?"
Chloe laughed at Kelsey's statement, "I never thought that…You guys are just untouchable, you're always together so everyone just views you as a group."
"Well, that group is not really working out right now…" Kelsey led on that things weren't as happy as they seemed. "I don't want to talk about me, let's talk about you."
Chloe zipped up the side of the dress, shrugging "There's nothing to say. I've had the same friends since I was little, I've been a social outcast my whole life and today one of the most popular girls in the school is helping me pick out a dress."
"I wouldn't say one of the most popular girls in school. I just have acquaintances that don't know me… I have friends that don't know me, and I feel like I've been a social outcast my whole life because where you have a best friend I don't." Chloe felt bad for Kelsey. "Are you ready?"
Chloe opened the door, "How do I look?"
"Oh my god…" Kelsey said, putting her hands over her mouth and jumping up and down in excitement. "This is the dress. Go on, look at yourself!"