Max's POV

My hand was red and now was turning slightly purple.

"Nudge" I said but she still didn't hear me, or she was ignoring me. It was now Saturday, the 1st of September. Tomorrow night the ball was on so now Nudge, Ella, and Iggy, yes Iggy, were dragging me around every clothes shop they could find, looking for dresses for tomorrow.

"I thought you already had a dress" I frowned at Nudge.

"Which one?" she asked confused.

"The blue one" I said and she laughed.

"Max that's a date dress" she said and Ella and Iggy laughed as well.

"I need a dress that's either so breathtakingly beautiful that I can just go as myself, or an amazing costume" she said rolling her eyes like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Oh" was all I said.

"Oh my god! A costume shop!" Iggy screamed running towards it making Zoidburg noises from Futurama and I facepalmed as everyone in the mall stopped to stare at him. We waited a few seconds before heading towards the shop so no one knew Iggy was with us. By the time we had gotten in there Iggy was already prancing around the shop with a fluffy pink tutu on.

"You are so weird" Ella and Nudge hissed at him, embarrassed for him. In response he just picked up and crown, put it on his head, and tapped the girls hard on their heads with his wand.

Nudge just rolled her eyes and headed towards a rack of costumes.

Within the first hour they had already made me try on a cowgirl costume, a princess costume, a fairy costume, a grim reaper costume and a peasant costume. By then I cracked a tantrum so now Ella and nudge were looking for costumes for themselves.

Iggy was still wearing his ballerina costume, helping the girl's look for their own. Suddenly the bell on the door of the shop tinkled as a few people walked in.

I mentally facepalmed as I noticed they were kids from my class. I had figured seems this was small, dusty looking shop no one would come in.

The group was quite large, making it impossible to walk around without passing one of them or more. The group consisted of the most popular kids at school: Lissa, Dylan, Fang, Sam, Liz, Gazzy and Angel.

I liked to think of this group as royalty because they were so close knitted and related, letting no one else into their circle. Lissa was dating Fang, Liz was Fang's sister, Dylan was Fang's twin, Gazzy and Angel were brother and sisters and Sam was Lissa's step-brother. Either way as creepy as that was, they were still most popular.

I watched from behind a rack as Dylan put on at top hat and Sam subtly knocked off as he walked past, making Lissa giggle.

"I could go as a princess" Lissa said putting the crown on her head, making her face light up like it's what she's dreamed of her whole life.

"Sure thing babe" Fang said, walking away to go look at another rack.

I walked over to Ella and Nudge who were still looking at costumes.

"Ladies" Dylan said as he walked past, making them giggle once he was out of range.

"Wouldn't be amazing if Dylan Gunther asked me to the ball?" Ella sighed.

"Or Gazzy" Nudge blushed as he winked at her from across the room.

"Please. They're just flirting with you because there are no other girl's around" Iggy rolled his eyes.

"Lissa and Liz are there" Nudge said.

"Yeah but Lissa is dating Fang and Fang would never let anyone go near his little sister" he said laughing.

"She's only a year younger then him, 16" Ella shrugged.

"Come on guys find something and lets get out of here" I sighed, bored out of my brains.

All of a sudden something caught my eye but it was only my reflection in the mirror on one of the change-room doors. I sighed at my reflection. My hair was tied up in a ponytail like always, it was never down. I flicked it, making it swing. I saw Lissa in the refection, her long natural red hair flowing so gracefully down her back. Liz was standing with her, her hair was dark brown and cut at her shoulders. Sometimes I think the only reason she hangs out in that group is because she is Fang's younger sister. I touched my hair self-consciously as Lissa walked past me. It's not like I cared, but still.

"Come on guys let's blow this joint. Theres a much better place down the street" Lissa huffed, walking out and the others followed.

I walked back over to the others while Ella was trying on a dress.

"Whats up with you?" I asked as I looked at Iggy. His chest was puffed out and his cheeks were red and he had a massive grin.

"Liz said she liked his tutu" Nudge rolled her eyes.

"At least some people can respect the finer art of fashion" he said and I laughed.

Ella walked out and I felt jealous of her looks. She wore a modernised Snow White costume. It was tight around her chest and stomach, like an olden day dress and was blue with puffy sleeves. Then the rest of the dress puffed out in yellow with red lining lace and went to about her mid thighs. As childish as it was, on her it looked very sexy and innocent at the same time, much like Ella herself. It went perfect with a red and gold mask she found that looked very fancy.

All of a sudden Iggy burst out of a change room wearing a Zorro costume, swinging the sword around, jumping on stuff yelling "On guard!"

"If we temporarily died your hair black you could so pass for Zorro" I said and he grinned.

Nudge then also walked out. She wore a flowing light purple dress. It was the thinnest material I had ever seen and it wrapped around her body like it was a part of her. It looked so light, she must have felt like she was wearing nothing, and you could faintly see her skin under it, but not enough to be too revealing. On her head there were branches all wrapped together to make a crown. She also then picked out a light and dark green mask, so she looked like a forest nymph or something.

We were getting close to leaving when Ella ran up to me holding the prettiest dress in this dusty store. It was so beautiful I agreed to try it on. When I walked out of the change rooms they all happily sighed and Iggy jumped up and down clapping his hands. Looked like I was going to the ball dressed up after all.