"……………..Oh Jessie has this gorgeous red dress………..Grace is wearing a lovely mint 2 piece………….we're having white gardenia's…………. " Lily smiled as she watched Judy sort through a new box of books.
"Do gardenia's come in any other colour than white?" Judy asked, looking up at her sister.
Lily shrugged, "well ours our going to be white" she smiled.
Judy went back to sorting through the box, which was filled with the new Nicholas Sparks book, 'guardian'.
"Jessie is just going to love this formal party………." Lily beamed.
LILY when I turned sixteen I really wanted to throw a huge party……….
Judy huffed at Lily's remark, but didn't say anymore………
"What was that for?" Lily snapped, losing her daydream smile.
Judy looked at her sister innocently.
"What?" she asked, in a small voice.
LILY I was going to wear a flowing white gown……….with daisies in my hair………….(laughs)………… I was going to have it at my father's restaurant……….with an elegant dinner, complete with an ice statue……….
"You huffed!" Lily snapped.
"I did not huff!" Judy shook her head and started stacking the books back into the box.
"I heard you huff!" Lily slid off the stool she was sitting on, and took a seat next to her sister on the floor, helping her pile the books away.
"There was no huff………I didn't huff!" Judy said, defensively.
LILY I'd been planning my sweet sixteen since I was……….eight!
The two sisters sat in silence for a few minutes; until Judy couldn't take it anymore.
She flung her hands in the air, and sighed heavily, causing Lily to jump slightly.
"Ok! I huffed!" Judy finally exclaimed.
"Why?"
"Because………" Judy bit her bottom lip, unsure whether to go on.
"Judy……..why?"
JUDY she'd been planning it since she was eight………..she even kept a little white shoe box under her bed with magazine cut outs of the dress she wanted to wear……….
LILY (smiling happily) ………….you know………. I think I even had a little box that I kept all these cut outs of the dresses I wanted in………every month I'd rush out to the news agents and buy the latest copy of 'teen girl' and cut out all the dresses I liked……….. I had completely forgotten about that!
Judy shifted her body, tucking her legs underneath her; she grabbed Lily's hands in her own, and stared into her sister's eyes anxiously.
"Do you think maybe your trying to compensate for the sweet sixteen you never had………….by making Jessie's perfect?" Judy continued to bite her lip.
Lily snatched her hands back, and laughed off Judy's comment.
"What are you talking about?"
LILY (shifting in chair uncomfortably) ……….well, a few months before my birthday………. I begged my parents! I explained to them all the plans I had………and, it took a bit of convincing……….but they eventually came around!
JUDY Lily was on a mission………all we ever heard about 6 months before her birthday was (mimicking Lily) "I want this……….I want that………I must have a flowing gown!"………..It was a nightmare!
"Sweety……..you've got to admit………you didn't have the best sweet sixteen"
Lily looked into Judy's eyes pointedly, "I had a lovely sweet sixteen!" she snapped.
JUDY then the big day finally came around………and Lily had gotten everything she demanded (surprise, surprise!)
"Oh honey………you must STILL be in denial!"
JUDY disaster 101!
"The night before you're party you got you're period……….you freaked out and cried in mums arms until midnight………so the next day you had these huge puffy eyes, that not even make-up could fix!" Judy sighed, and Lily felt blood rush to her cheeks.
"You and I were the only ones that turned up in formal wear……… I mean……….you do remember that horrible yellow flamingo dress mum made me wear? …………. And we looked so stupid……..me as an oversized lemon and you dressed up in that wavy white dress…….while everyone else wore jeans and Jimmy Hendrix tees!" Judy looked off into the distance, cringing as she remember the putrid yellow colour.
"And you're period was so heavy that halfway through the night mum pulled you aside and told you that a 'stain' was showing through you're white dress……!"
More blood rushed to Lily's cheeks.
"OH! And to top it all off………..you caught you're boyfriend…….."
"Chuck Garrett" Lily supplied.
"Yeah………that loser………….you caught him out the back with that big chested bimbo Cindy Sparker!"
"Don't forget………dad didn't cool the ice statue properly and it melted all over my cake" Lily sighed.
Judy reached out and swiped a piece of hair off her sister's face; "I suppose……..it was a fairly nice sweet sixteen!" she sighed.
Lily looked up, determination painted on her face; "that is exactly why Jessie needs to have the perfect sweet sixteen………so she doesn't look back when she's 40 and wish she'd had it better!" Lily exclaimed, and scrambled to her feet.
"Infact………I feel like checking up on the girls dresses……..to see how the alterations are going" Lily stomped towards the door; leaving Judy shaking her head after her.
JUDY disaster!
LILY Jessie's will be much nicer!
