Chap 8
In the weeks that passed Miguel continued to feel as though he was missing out on his friends and his youth. The gang kept going places or doing things that Charity wanted no part of.
Kay for her part was having a blast. She was trying to get a shopping trip together for this weekend. She wanted to go up to the outlet stores. Her sister Jessica was helping her plan.
"Hey Kay?"
"Yeah?"
"This is a good idea."
"Thanks!"
"You've had a lot of them lately."
"Thanks."
"Don't take this the wrong way or anything... but what's up?"
Kay laughed her sister never was one to beat around the bush.
"Do you want the truth?"
"yes."
"can you keep a secret?"
"Yes." Jessica said edging closer.
"Five weeks ago I gave-up on Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerld"
"Huh?"
"I realized that he belongs to Charity and I was being a mean spoiled brat about the whole thing. I didn't like who I was. So I gave up on him."
"So you have been planning all these activities so you don't have to think about him?"
"No I plan all these activities because I like them. I used to do stuff like this all the time, but once I got so involved with Charity and Miguel, I stopped. I stopped being me and doing all the things I love. I realize now that no boy is worth that. So now I'm back to me."
Jessica smiled. "It's good to have you back Kay."
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Kay and Jessica were able to get enough students interested to rent a bus to go to the outlet malls. The whole gang went. Even Miguel was able to go because Charity needed some new hair clips.Of course once they got there they could not agree on where to go first.
'TIMBERLANE!'
"VANITY FAIR"
"NIKE!"
"OLD NAVY!"
"DKNY"
"REEBOK"
"GODIVA!"
"Godiva?"
"Hey chocolate is always good!" Kay said. Everyone laughed at the way Kay had stopped the fight. "Guys we have five hours but we all have different tastes we will probably have to split up. So we can split up for a few hours and then meet for lunch and go to the stores we all want to go to."
Everyone agreed. Kay, Jessica, and Simone, went one way while Reese, Miguel, and Charity went another. After a few hours of shopping they returned for lunch. Kay, Simone, and Jessica, had tons of bags. Miguel and Reese on the other hand hadn't gotten anything because they could only go into the stores that Charity liked.
"Don't you guys know you should have about 10 bags by now?" Jessica asked.
"Well we need food to shop." Miguel covered.
"yeah." Said Reese gloomily. He could not believe that Charity had sensed evil inside of every store that he wanted to go into.
"We were thinking after lunch you girls could get together so Miguel and I can do some manly shopping." Reese said hopefully.
"Hey let's go to Monique's !" Simone cried excitedly
"Yeah!" said Jessica.
"Monique's?" Charity asked.
"It's a store full of clothes we can't afford even at outlet prices and these two just want to play dress up!" Kay answered."
"Come on Kay it's fun!" Simone said. Kay started to protest but she saw that Reese was pleading with her too. He was also giving her looks. All of a sudden she understood.
"Charity you will love it! We'll go and you two can meet us in there." Reese smiled at Kay.
"YES!" said Jessica. The group finished lunch and split up again. Without Charity, Reese and Miguel were able to go to all the stores that they wanted and pretty quickly they had almost as many bags as Jessica. When they were done they headed to Monique's. Miguel walked in and looked around all of sudden he caught sight of something that took his breath away. A model was walking through the store dressed in a beautiful, sexy, red dress and heels. She had a diamond necklace around her neck. Her hair was in a sophisticated knot above her head. Miguel just stared. Suddenly she spoke to him.
"So Miguel what do you think?"
"KAY!?" Miguel could not believe it! The gorgeous woman
was Kay! When had that happened?"
"No, I'm the other girl you have known all your life. of course it's me!" Miguel blinked not believing his eyes. Jessica walked up in lovely blue dress. she had matching heels and jewelry.
"See Miguel." Jessica said. " Now you know why I love this store so much. And you will love it too when you look over there." Jessica said pointing. Miguel looked over and there was Charity she was in a pink dress and her hair was still down. She was pretty that was true but it wasn't the same breath taking beauty that Kay had. Simone walked up in a green dress.
"Hey guys I hate to ruin the fun, but the bus leaves in 15 minutes."
The girls ran off to get changed leaving Miguel and Reese standing there.
"They sure are pretty girls." Reese said. He had been watching his friend for a few minutes and had been highly amused by the play of emotions that went across Miguel's face.
"Yeah but when did Kay and Jessica grow up?" Miguel asked. Reese who had noticed that Jessica looked very nice, nodded his agreement as Miguel continued "I mean I've known Kay my whole life. I've never paid attention to the fact that she was a girl and now she's a woman. I never noticed."
"It' time you did." Reese said as the girls came out of the dressing room. Once on the bus Miguel had no time for thinking as Charity was talking to him. But the last picture in his mind as he fell asleep that night was a woman in a red dress.