Three
We finally landed at around three-thirty. Once we walk out of the plane I saw what my dad's idea of a "car" was. "Woah! A Hummer stretch limo! NO way!" Jason said excitedly.
Dad! You honestly do not know how to just stay incognito! "Yeah, I guess he thought it would be cool to get us a limo." I said just a little bit irritated. I am always telling him how much I hate limos, but he never seems to listen. "Well let's get to the house we need to have our fittings done tonight so we all have something to wear tomorrow."
They all laughed as we got into the limo and headed to my house. My house is not exactly the normal house. Because I have eight brothers, it's big, really really big. Like what you see on an episode of Laguna Beach. It's open and airy with a great view of the ocean. Because I'm the only girl, I have my own room. It's up on the fourth, yes I said fourth, floor and I love it. It has a huge window that you can see the beach from and is all cool with different blues and green all around. That's where we went first so Aly and I could drop off our stuff before I lead the guys to their room.
I had called my brother Mike before we got on the plane and he has said it was cool if the guys slept in his room. Mike was away at college in South Carolina, so he wouldn't be needing his room here anyway. "This place is sick" Jason said as I showed him where they'd be staying. The room had a snow theme because both of the twins love skiing and snowboarding. Oh did I mention that John, Mike's twin, also shared the room with him? The room was covered in life-sized pictures of my brothers and their friends on the slops in different places. "Hey I know who everyone else is, but who's this?" Jason asked pointing to a picture that was blown up to cover the wall. It had a white coat and black pant clad skier on it jumping in the air with their skis crossed to the side.
"Oh that?" I asked, "That's me. Why?"
"You can do that?!" Drew said in awe.
"Yeah, it's not th-" the door bell rang and I ran tp the intercom next to the door. "Who is it?" I said into the intercom.
"Christina darling, I need to dress four people for two different events and alter at least two outfits so they fit your skinny arse. Let me in this instant" a huffy British voice blared through the speaker attached to the intercom.
"Well Joseph if you had had the sense to check the door you would have found it to be open," I said back while laughing slightly. Joe had been dressing me and my brothers for all of our dad's events since I was ten. "We'll be in the living room in a sec."
We charged out of the guy's room and down the hall. By the time we got to the living room, it was transformed. Four racks of dresses lined one side of the room in a semi circle on the other side of the room, trunks full of accessories were lined up. In the center of the room was a small circular step was in the middle of a mirror that was surrounded by about five people all looking super chic and highly stylized; in the center of them was a short man in a light purple suit. I ran into the room and stood with my hands on my hips. "If it isn't the only man who can pull off a purple suit! Guy come here and meet the fabulous Joseph." And with that I introduce Joey to my friends.
After about thirty seconds, Joey gets bored and says "Yes, yess, I love you all now boys go into the other room with Michella, Will, and Samantha, we need to get you fitted into something a bit more carpet worthy. Girls stay here with me, we are going to find you some dresses."
It doesn't take Joey long to get Aly fitted into a stunning emerald gown. It fit her really well without any alterations, contrasting her pale skin and red hair really nicely. It would be perfect for the premiere. I was a bit more difficult, nothing seemed to fit right. I'm really skinny, with a well toned body. Unlike all my brothers who are at least 6'5", I'm about 5'5" and with my body, it's hard to find anything to wear. After trying on a million dresses, I see a pretty white halter dress and pull it off the rack. After changing into it, I hear a squeal from behind me. "Yes! Yes! Yes! Finally something that I can work with!" Joey says.
"You look like a brunette Marylyn Monroe." Aly says to me giggling. It takes a long time for them to pin the dress so it fits me, and then even longer for Joey to pick out our accessories, but soon we're on to dress number two.
This time it takes Aly a while to find a dress too, but Joey finally finds a cute black dress that he quickly adds blue accessories to and looks at her like he's happy. Turning to me, he sighs and walks over to a rack. He picks up a strapless red dress that looks super cute. I grab it from him and put it on. The top part is a simple tube that, once altered, fit me like a glove. The bottom was about knee length. It's made out of the same type of fabric that tutus are made out of, so there is a silky red slip under it. Joey decides that black is defiantly my accent color and goes to see what the boys look like.
Jason, Aly's escort, comes out first in an all black suit. The only color is his tie which is a nice emerald color like Aly's dress. Drew comes out next in a black suit with a white shirt and a black skinny tie. When I saw him, I had to laugh: he looked just like one of the guys from Geek Squad.
"What's so- Holly wow," Drew said stumbling on his words.
"What was that Drew?" I ask regaining my composure.
He shrugged and Joey came bustling back in. After Aly and I had changed out of our dresses, he took them and left. Saying he'd be back tomorrow at noon with everything altered.
"Um… what time do we need to be ready by tomorrow?" Jason asks later. We're sitting on the couch in the living room watching music videos and just hanging out.
"Well I figure we'd go out tonight since there's no food in the house, then get up in the morning and chill. We need to be at the Hollywood Theater by three, so we'll start getting ready at noon and leave by like two thirty. Sound good?"
They all agree and we head up stairs to change for dinner.