I sat at a table in the food court. Summer and I were shopping for outfits for the upcoming Dance that was to be held at Horace Green High. At the moment we were slurping on slushies from Juice Express.
"So, see anything you like so far?" Summer asked through slurps.
"Uhh, not really. But we still haven't gone to Eternity yet," I sighed.
"Oh yeah! I completely forgot about Eternity!"
"Hey you guys!" Marta smiled as she and Alicia walked up to them.
"Hey how've you been?" I inquired.
"Fine. You?"
"Same. Are you excited about the dance?" Summer asked.
"Of course!" Alicia laughed.
"We're dress shopping," Marta informed us.
"Same here."
"Oh cool. Do you guys want to 'team up'?" Alicia invited.
"Yeah. Why not?" I smiled.
We headed off to Eternity. Since Alicia and Marta had just got to the mall it didn't really matter to them where the group went. We walked into the store and saw almost one million things that they thought looked cool. I headed over to the dresses. Summer followed.
"Ooh!" Summer squealed. "What do you think of this?"
Summer put a light pink dress up to herself.
"It's not the cutest I've seen you in."
"Hmm, okay. I want Zack to be dazzled!"
"Well that I suggest this."
I picked up a flowy red dress that would fall right above Summer's knees.
"Are you sure? The neckline is cut a bit low."
"It will look fine on you!" I reassured her. "You will fill this dress out beautifully! I promise!"
I pushed her into a dressing room and went to look through some more dresses.
I came across a black dress that faded into sky blue at the bottom. It was knee length with spaghetti straps. I had spotted a "corset" purse that would match perfectly.
As I was about to go into another dressing room, Summer came out.
She looked amazing!
I must have looked surprised because she freaked out.
"Oh my God! I must look like a balloon! The top is too low cut! I told you! I knew it but you insisted!" she rapidly uttered. It was so fast that it only took her 3 seconds to slur it all out.
Instead of responding I pushed her in front a mirror.
"Summer Anne Hathaway. Calm down. You look beautiful," I said.
"Really?"
"Yes. With some nice eyeliner and lip-gloss, you will look breathtaking!" I smiled.
Marta and Alicia walked up behind us.
"Summer you look gorgeous!" they said together.
"You think?"
All three of us nodded.
"Okay Summer. Now, I want you to find some nice accessories," I smiled.
"I'll help there!" Marta said perkily as she pulled Summer back towards the dressing room to change.
"What have you got there, Kate?" Alicia asked me.
"Oh, I just picked up this," I said nonchalantly as I showed her the dress.
"You are going to look really cute in that! Freddy will be stunned."
I laughed because she said his name like it was a disease.
"You know that we don't go out right? We're just close is all."
"Well I know that, but you will going out after the dance."
And with that Alicia walked away leaving me dumbfounded. Obviously she knew something I didn't. Of course, I could put the pieces together. I mean, even a lab rat could figure out that we were going to get together.
I walked into the dressing room and changed.
When I came out I walked over the mirror. I don't want to come off as an egomaniac but I looked really, really, really pretty. I picked up the purse and it finished to outfit off beautifully. All I needed now were a pair of shoes, jewelry, a cute hair-do, and some makeup and I would look hot.
After I had changed, I headed over to the shoes. I came across a really nice pair of strappy silver heels.
I don't know why but I was really into this dance. I really wanted to look good. Which was unusual, for me. I was generally was the girl who didn't care about looks. I was usually the girl who, as a kid, would blow off playing with dolls to go play in the mud with Freddy. I guess that's my reason. Freddy. I suppose that he is the reason I want to look my best. He's the reason that I want to appear to be a superstar on Wednesday night.
After we had left Eternity, we all had basic outfits:
SummerRed dress, black slip on sandals ((2 inch heels)), gold dangly earrings, and a glittery red bag with matching hair clip ((to pull her hair back)) 120 in total
MartaA pale purple tube dress, white stiletto sandals ((stiletto is a type of high heel if you didn't know)), small purple flower stud earrings with a matching necklace, and a small lavender clutch bag 95 in total
AliciaA beautiful silky silver long gown, matching silver pumps, a silver bag, and a pair of silver hoops, 150 in total
MeA blue and black dress, silver sandals, a blue and black "corset" purse, a pair of small silver hoops, and silver hair clips to accent my "glamorous" up-do 100 in total
Now we all headed to the Walgreen's across the street. We figured that we had already spent a lot on outfits that we should save on makeup.
We spent about 30 minutes trying to find nice looks for ourselves. Eventually we settled on what we thought would look nice on each of us.
Wednesday NightJust before the danceI stood in my room looking at my refection in my full-length mirror. My cat, Terra, sat on the bed watching me.
"What do you think Terra? It's not me is it?" I asked, extremely unsure of myself.
She just looked up at me.
"Well it would help if you could talk back huh?" I smiled as I sat down and laid her on my lap. She mewed happily.
"KATIE! FREDDY'S HERE!" I hear my dad shout from downstairs.
Freddy's PoV"GIMME A SECOND!" I heard Katie yell.
"She'll be down in a minute. Would you like to come inside?" Mr. Brown asked me.
"Naw, I'll be fine out here."
"Are you sure?" he asked.
I nodded.
He shut the door and I sat down on the step.
As I waited, I fidgeted with my blazer.
"Damn you Mom," I cursed. She made me wear this damn thing. I was in a pair of kaki pants, and gray blazer, and a white button-down shirt underneath. My mom almost made me wear a tie but I hopped in the car before she could even finish saying the word "tie." She was out seconds later with Jamie trailing behind with her trusty kitten stuffed animal in her hand.
I heard the door open behind me. I turned around to Katie. She looked gorgeous. Her hair had strands hanging free in all the right places and she looked awesome in her dress.
"Hey Freddy," she smiled.
"Sup Katie?"
"Ready to go?" she asked.
"Your chariot awaits," I smirked as I opened the door of my mom's SUV for her.
"Oh thank you," she chuckled as she got in.
When I got in, Jamie was smiling at Katie.
"You look so pretty Katie? Doesn't she look pretty Mommy? I wish I could look as pretty as you do! I'd look just a princess. That's what you look like, Katie!" The four-year-old garbled.
"You do look very nice Kathryn."
"Thank you Mrs. Jones."
"Your welcome."
"Freddy doesn't Katie look pretty?" Jamie asked me.
"Yeah."
I didn't want to sound so cold but I couldn't go off saying, Oh my dear Katie! You look dazzling, for lack of a better term, tonight! Marry me! That just wasn't how I operated. I looked over at her to see a hurt look in her eyes. That was the last thing I meant to do, make Katie feel bad.
Katie's PoV"Yeah," Freddy unfeelingly said.
Yeah? That's all I got? Yeah? I spent my entire day at the mall for yeah! UGH! How could I just get a yeah!
We looked at each other. I saw a very sorrowful look in his eyes.
Then I rethought it. I felt like I could read Freddy Jones like a book at that moment. I automatically knew that it was just how he was expected to act. Freddy was expected to act as a joker, a punk, a cool tough guy. That's how he was recognized. I knew better but that was just me.
We pulled up in front of the school. Over the doors there was a banner that read, Dance Tonight!
"Thank you, Mrs. Jones!" I smiled as I got out of the car.
"Katie wait!"
I peered into the car to see Jamie fidgeting in her car seat to lean over to me. I leaned in farther so she wouldn't have to.
"Give Alice a hug," she demanded as she held out her raggedy light green kitty to me. I carefully hugged it close then gave it back. "Thank you!" she smiled.
"Your welcome."
Freddy and I walked into the gym.
"See the guys?" he shouted over the song, Rich Girl by Gwen Stefani.
"Umm, no!" I yelled back. "No wait! There they are!"
He nodded and we headed over.
"KATIE YOU LOOK GOREGEOUS!" I heard most of the girls squeal.
"Thank you!"
"Hey Sum," I smiled as I took a seat next to her.
"Hi," she said glumly.
"What's the deal?"
"Zack hasn't even said a word to me yet!" she sighed.
"Hmm. I think I can fix that my dear friend."
"Really?"
"Why do you always doubt me?" I asked as I saw Freddy coming over.
"I don't know."
"Hello girls," Freddy smirked.
"Hey," we said in unison.
"Be right back Summer," I grinned.
I grabbed Freddy's wrist and pulled him out into the hall.
"Freddy can you help me?"
"What's up?"
"I need you to help Summer and Zack. Will you?"
"My services don't come cheap," he informed me.
"What do you want?" I asked, slightly annoyed.
"At least one dance with you."
I was completely taken back by that. I didn't expect him to ask me. Then again, who expects the unexpected?
"Sure," I said as confidently as I could.
Freddy's PoV"At least one dance with you."
Woah, had I just said that? That came out accidentally. Woah. What if she says no?
"Sure," she said as she looked up at me.
"I get to choose when and where okay?" I asked.
"Where?"
"Yeah, where. Now what do you want me to do."
"Has Zack said anything about Summer?"
"Only that she's," I batted my eyelashes, "absolutely stunning every five seconds."
"Well there's a good start. Now how about I ask Zack to ask Summer to dance?"
"Well, yeah, that would work." I said in a 'duh!' tone.
"That's why I said it," she smirked.
A/N: I'm going to continue with the dance next chapter. It's like 9:30 now and South Park is on now so…I'm done for the night.
