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xoxox Rhyleigh
On the day of their formal, the kids didn't go to school. They got up early for training, as usual, and ate a quick breakfast. The boys went back down to the beach, and the girls went to the pool.
It was after lunch, however, Bridget, Cassie and Loren took over the girls' bathroom.
"Where are the girls?" Garry wanted to know, coming into the lounge room. Bec was sitting on the lounge, a TV Week magazine in her hands.
"Intensely beautifying themselves". She grinned, as Garry sighed.
"I'm assuming we won't be seeing them for a while?"
"Not a hope".
The invitations to their formal said the kids had to be at Solar Blue High by five thirty. They had eaten lunch at twelve, and the girls were in the bathroom by twelve thirty.
"Girls?" Bec asked, knocking on the bathroom door.
"Come in!" Bridget called.
Bec slid in, to find the girls standing there in their bikinis, getting ready. Cassie had jars, tubes and bottles of makeup lined up on the vanity. Bridget had a hair straightener, a hair dryer and a curler plugged in at the wall, resting on the shelf. Loren was getting the bottles of shampoo and conditioner out of the cupboard, lining them up on the ledge of the shower.
"Whoa", Bec said, surveying the bathroom. "This is almost as bad as our announcement night!"
"What happened?" Loren asked. They still enjoyed Bec's stories, even though all three girls- and the boys- had heard them many times over.
"Andrew- the head of Solar Blue, like Angus is- gave the seven of us two hundred dollars each. Fifty dollars an hour. Anna, Perri, Fly and I went shopping, and tried on ridiculous nine hundred dollar wedding dresses. in the end, we went for simple things. I bought the green dress you saw, Fly wore light blue, Anna wore pink and Perri opted for... yellow, I think it was".
Loren sighed, probably picturing the entire thing.
"After Andrew made the announcement, we partied. We partied like there was no tomorrow. Fly fell asleep on the dance floor- Fly's like you, Loren, she's the baby of my year".
Loren blushed, and Cassie and Bridget laughed.
"What about your formal?" Cassie checked.
Bec looked down. "Well, that one didn't turn out as well. Heath punched Edge in the nose and he bled all over the floor of the hall".
"Our hall?" Bridget checked, before shuddering. "Why?"
"Because I went to the formal with Heath- yeah, don't ask- and Edge took Fly to a beach twenty minutes away, with Heath's jet ski". Bec shrugged.
"Oh, how silly of us not to have known that", Cassie said sarcastically, towelling her hair dry. "Any particular reason why, Bec?"
"Because Edge wanted to use the jet ski before Heath sold it, and the plan backfired. He crashed it on the way back".
"Well, that was unexpected". Loren giggled, before attacking her skin with a bar of soap and climbing into the shower.
"Aw, how gorgeous do they look?" Bec asked, delighted.
Their six kids were standing at the top of the stairs, while Bec and Garry peered up at them, cameras in hand.
"The next time we'll be doing this will be their announcement night", Garry reminded her.
Bec laughed and put an arm around her housemate. "There'll be many more times, buddy boy. Many, many more times".