It was Wednesday, the day of the party. Clary had called Tessa last night saying that she was claiming her for the day, party preparations she said. She had even called her boss and told him that Tessa weren't coming in today, that she was sick. Clary had showed up at Tessa's house at around 9 am, so much for sleeping in, Tessa thought as she answered the door.
"Good morning Tessa!" Clary exclaimed as Tessa opened the door to her apartment, clearly she's been up for a while Tessa thought.
"Yeah, morning" Tessa replied, still not very awake
"So, you ready to go shopping?"
"Shopping? Do I look ready to you?" Tessa said, looking down at her sweat pants and baggy t-shirt, wondering if Clary was blind, I mean seriously I'm not even close to being publicly presentable.
"Well, I wasn't going to say anything,"
"Very funny Clary, now may I go get dressed or am I still needed here?" Tessa said, you could practically feel the sarcasm in her voice, not something that Tessa often used.
"You may go, but you must realize that I shall raid your fridge while you are gone, so be quick" Clary said, but no sarcasm was detectable in her voice, she was very serious and Tessa knew this. Running back into her room she took a quick shower and got dressed into a pair jeans and a long sleeved t-shirt, its cold outside after all. After doing all of this she came out of her room and saw Clary sitting at the kitchen bench with a glass of juice.
"Is that what you got after raiding my fridge?" Tessa asked Clary after walking out of her room.
"Yes indeed it was, you need to get some better food for me to eat," Clary retorted.
"I'll get right on that," Tessa said, again sarcasm dripping from her voice. "So are we going or what?" Tessa said looking at her phone to see the time; 10:05 am, and putting it back into the pocket of her jeans.
"Yup, let's go"
-Time skip three hours-
"What do you think of this dress?" Clary asked, this was about the twentieth dress she has tried on and each of them got the same response from Tessa,
"It looks nice,"
"Come on Tessa, let's have your real opinion, you've said that about the last twenty dresses"
"Fine, you want my real opinion?"
"Yes! Please"
"Fine, you asked for it," Tessa said, lifting her head from the book that she was reading and looking at Clary, Tessa continued, "all of the dresses look nice, but they are too slutty because Clary dear, you already have a boyfriend so I'm not sure who you're trying to impress. So find a dress that has a similar shape and colour as the ones you have already found but just a little longer." After finishing this little rant she went back to her book.
"Well now that's more like it, sometimes I miss your opinion Tessa dear, you should talk like that more often, now I'm gonna go find a longer dress, have you found one yet?"
"No,"
"Have you even looked Tessa?"
"No, I'm reading," Tessa said lifting the book to show Clary, "see book."
"Well," Clary said walking over to Tessa, "you're not reading anymore" Clary finished, picking up and closing Tessa's book.
"Clary, give it back," Tessa whined at her best friend that had just stolen her beloved book.
"No, you need to find a dress for the party tonight, you don't see me sitting here drawing or sketching do you?"
"No, but that's because you actually want to go to the party tonight,"
"You don't want to go?" Clary said, a little disappointed
"Well, you know me; I don't really like parties, too loud and too many people, not my scene"
"Oh, I see, but why did you agree to come?"
"It seemed important to you, so I thought why not, but I don't want to be spending all day out shopping, you know that, books are much more entertaining"
"Yeah I know, okay tell you what, when we are finished in this shop even if we don't find dresses we will take a break and go get some food, deal?"
"Yeah sure,"
"Good now let's get shopping" Clary said as she turned away from Tessa and dove back into the store with Tessa following behind her.
After about ten more minutes of looking around the store Tessa found a gorgeous dress that was totally her. Knee length red dress, with elbow length sleeves, tight bodice with a puffy skirt. After showing Clary the dress this is what she said,
"Wow that's gorgeous, see what you can find when you set your mind to it?"
"Very funny Clary, I'm gonna go try this on" Tessa said before walking into the changing rooms. It was a perfect fit, both in size and look Tessa walked out of the changing room in the dress to show Clary,
"Okay, you look hot Tessa, drop dead gorgeous, you're putting up some tough competition girl, anyway get dressed again, I can't find anything and I'm really hungry, I mean it's like 2 o'clock, so let's get the dress and get out of here"
"Okay, be out in a minute"
-Time Skip two more hours-
After looking in about four more shops and looking at like fifty more dresses Clary finally found her favourite one. A knee length emerald green dress, nearly skin tight with no straps. Now it was time to go back to Tessa's apartment to get ready for the party, there were now only about two hours till the party.
With the dresses laid out neatly on Tessa's bed the two girls started their final preparations for the party. That included nails, hair, make-up and finally putting on the dresses and shoes. With the music blaring in the small apartment it was like a pre-party party especially for the two best friends. First thing to do was nails, all of the sparkly, glittery nail polish's were taken out and put on the floor and colours were chosen; red for Tessa and green for Clary. Not much talking was done during this time; it was mostly singing the lyrics of the songs they knew completely off tune and then bursting out in fits of the giggles.
Hair was done next, curling irons, hairbrushes, clips and hair ties were laid out in an "organized" fashion on Tessa's dresser. Tessa made Clary's hair into tight ringlets and then pulled the front part back and clipped in there while leaving the rest alone to do whatever it wanted. Clary made Tessa's hair into a simple side braid, simple yet classy, just like Tessa. Both of the girls did simple make-up going for the 'natural' look, foundation, mascara, a touch of eyeliner and some lip gloss; that was it.
The next and final steps were putting on the dresses and shoes. Dresses were first, after putting them on and making sure their nails, hair and make-up were still fine they moved onto shoes. Tessa grabbed a pair of black wedges out of her closet while Clary grabbed her new green pair of heels that she picked up earlier. After checking themselves on the mirror, Clary's idea not mine Tessa said to herself; the two girls grabbed their clutches and started filling them. Lip gloss, small compact mirrors, foundation and phones went inside both bags; each girl had their own black clutch. Grabbing their clutches and linking arms the two girls headed downstairs to hail a cab.
When the two girls arrived at the party venue about ten minutes later they got out of the taxi and headed inside. It was a club that Jace had rented out for his party, from the looks of it there were already a decent amount of people inside. Tessa was amazed at the look of the club as she walked inside the club with Clary next to her,
"Wow," she muttered under her breathe as soon as the two girls entered the doors of the club.
