Van somehow managed to get through the rest of the day. Thanks to Irvine threatening anyone who would pick on him, Van managed to go the rest of the day without being picked on.
Now school was finally out for the summer and Van was free from the most painful place in his life. He didn't have to see anyone but his friends for the rest of the summer. Not to mention Irvine was planning to start training him. He wondered what the final result of it would end up being.
By the time that the next morning came around, Van was actually almost anxious to get started with whatever it was that Irvine had planned for him. He wanted to get started as soon as possible. He was never so anxious about anything in his life. He wasn't sure as to why this was.
Thoughts of all kinds were going through Van's head as he walked down the sidewalk towards Irvine's mansion. They were both rich because their fathers were partners in a business they had been in for many years.
The thought he was having were things like what he was going to go through, what the results would be, and how would people react to whatever it was that Irvine had planned for him. Van did have every intention on going through whatever it was. He wanted to become the type of person that Fiona would actually notice. He didn't really care what everyone else thought of it.
Van came up to the front door of Irvine's place at the time that Irvine had wanted him to come over at. His hand reached for the doorbell but he hesitated for a bit and pulled his hand back before he could finish it. He regained himself and pressed the doorbell and waited for an answer.
It wasn't long that he had to wait before an elderly man opened the door. It was their servant Dave. He was about 65 years old and had been working for their family for years. He really seemed to enjoy his job though.
"Greeting Mr. Flyheight. Irvine is upstairs and waiting for you," the man said with a smile as he moved out of the way allowing Van to walk into the huge mansion that he had been in many times before.
Van began his long trek up the many flights of stairs that led to Irvine's room. There house was three stories tall and Irvine's room happened to be on the very top. He always did like this thing for heights and Van was almost the exact same way because it was almost the same at his place.
Van laughed slightly when he heard music blasting from Irvine's room. 'Leave it to Irvine to allow the whole world to listen to what he is listening to,' Van thought before walking into the room before even knocking. He walked over to the stereo and turned it off before Irvine even noticed that he was in the room.
"What the!" Irvine said finally looking in the direction of the stereo. "Oh it's just you. I was beginning to wonder when you were planning on showing up. So are you ready to get started. As soon as Moonbay arrives, we will get to work on you," Irvine said looking Van up and down in a slightly disgusted way.
The two of them sat down and talked for a while before Moonbay came barging into the room with a broad smile upon her face. "Hey there you two, sorry that I am late but I couldn't get out of my house fast enough," she said taking a seat in a chair that was next to Van.
"Alright Van. Here is the deal. Over this summer we are going to completely redo who you are. Give you more confidence in yourself and your abilities," Irvine pointed out while trying to think of what they should first start out with. "First off, lose the glasses, you look like an idiot," Irvine said staring at the huge glasses that Van wore. "From now on you will start wearing contacts if you need to or a better looking pair of glasses which we will choose," Irvine said standing up and walking towards Moonbay.
"While Irvine is going to be working on toughening you up a lot, I am going to be working on your image a lot. You need to give off a better appearance if you want someone like Fiona to actually take notice of you. I don't think that she really looks at outer appearance though, but it always helps," Moonbay said with a smirk.
Van was starting to wonder what it was that he was getting himself into. 'No! I will do anything that they ask me to do. Maybe it will actually make everyone stop taunting me,' he thought with a serious look.
"First off, you need a haircut and a new style for it. Then we are going to burn all of your clothes and get you new ones. Irvine here says he will try to teach you charm but I think that it will be best if you left something like that up to me," Moonbay said earning her a glare from Irvine. "By the way Irvine, did you get the person that I asked you about?" Moonbay asked seriously.
"It was easy enough to get a stylist in here. I just had to call a few people. She will be able to figure out what Van really needs, you just work with your other tasks," Irvine said with a smirk. "Lets go Van, that will be the first thing that we will do is give you a much needed haircut," Irvine said as him and Moonbay grabbed Van and started to drag him to a different room of the house.
They barged into a room where someone was already waiting for them. "Is this the patient?" the woman asked with a heavy French accent. "You were right, he is in definite need of my help," the woman said when Irvine and Moonbay shoved Van into a chair.
The woman was a very beautiful woman who appeared to be in her mid twenties. Her hair was up in a messy bun with a few strands of hair falling loose over her neck and her forehead. She was medium height only coming up to Van chin if he was standing.
"Yes he is, do you think there is any hope for him?" Irvine asked with a laugh at the sour look that Van was giving him. He didn't really see it though because he was too busy checking out the stylist, which was earning him a glare from Moonbay.
"When I am done with him, then he will already be a whole new person. There is no such thing as impossible for me," she said circling around Van like a predator waiting for its prey. She was trying to figure out what it was that would look best on the young me. "I got it!" she said after a few minute of looking at Van.
She wrapped Van up so that the hair she was about to cut wouldn't fall on him and she pulled out a pair of scissors and then set to work on her idea. She grabbed some of Van's hair and snipped a good amount off of it shorting it considerably. She repeated this many times until his hair was a great deal shorter everywhere. She left a bit falling at the bottom of his head and shaved that area so that the hair was even sorter there than the rest of it.
She put her scissors away since she didn't need them anymore and then pulled out some gel and a comb. Squeezing some gel onto her hand, she worked it into Van hair and then used the comb to spike up his hair. Then she grabbed the hair at the bottom of his head and made a rattail out of it.
Irvine and Moonbay were impressed with how much of a change Van had gone through with only the haircut. They wondered what the rest of their ingenious plan would do to him.
"I am finished," the woman said with her heavily accented voice. She stepped back to admire her work. "It suit you," she said holding up a mirror for Van to see himself in. He liked his hair like this as well.
"Wow Van, I didn't know you could look like this with all of that hair in the way," Moonbay said in an impressed voice as the stylist left the room because she got a call almost as soon as she was done with Van. "Why don't you forget about Fiona and come with me," she said but only as a joke. She didn't actually mean it and she knew that Van knew that.
Van stood up and looked at himself in the large mirror that was in the room. He looked so different from what he was used to. It was a pleasant change for him and he wondered if it would be a pleasant one for everyone else.
"Alright, haircut, check!" Irvine said going over a mentally list of what he had prepared. "Now all that we need to do is get you some decent clothes. That way you will actually have a good appearance out in public. I know just where to go, Moonbay will also help out because she knows what women would want better, not to mention what Fiona would want since they are friends," Irvine said with a smile turning towards the door.
Van was about to follow before Irvine stopped as if remembering something and pulled something out of his pocket before throwing it to Van. Van looked down at them and noticed that it was a case that more than likely had a pair of contacts within them. He didn't exactly have bad vision but he didn't have great vision either.
"Wear those because there is no possible way that I am going to give you back those horrible looking glasses," Irvine said before leaning against a wall and waiting for Van to put them in. Van disappeared for a minute before he came back. After confirming that he had then in, the three of them walked out of the room.
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Taking Irvine's car, it only took them about fifteen minutes before they reached the destination that Irvine and Moonbay had planned out. It was a rather large department store in the middle of the city. The city was big but they mainly lived in a smaller, quieter, better-looking park a few miles away from there.
"Moonbay, you take over from here," Irvine said pointing to all of the clothes towards and excited Moonbay. She was never this interested in this sort of thing before but she was excited at the thought of working her magic to help her poor, helpless friend.
"Gotcha! Lets go Van!" Moonbay said grabbing a hold of his shoulder before dragging him towards the section of clothes for Vans size. They were all really casual clothes. Nothing that was too fancy, yet they were very comfortable to have on.
Moonbay seemed to be the only one doing anything as she shuffled through the different racks of clothes, occasionally pulling out some clothes and throwing them to either Irvine or Van who were merely flicking through the different clothes that were around them.
After what seemed like an hour and nearly burying both Van and Irvine with the clothes that she threw to them, Moonbay felt satisfied that what she had picked out would work well for now. "I think that is good enough, all you have to do it try them on and then we will see which of them works best. Either that or we are going to buy everything," Moonbay feeling a need to burn a lot of Irvine's cash since he was the one that was funding all of this.
Van groaned a little. 'What the heck have I gotten myself into? This is going to take hours to finish and I am already tired," Van said as he was forcefully shoved into the dressing room.
He looked at the large pile of clothes and groaned again. He just started to take some random clothes out of the pile and started to put them on hoping that he could get done with this as soon as possible. After quickly putting on a shirt and a pair of jeans that he thought looked ok together, he walked out because Moonbay had told him she wanted to see what he looked like before they decided.
Moonbay was sitting down in a chair that was next to the dressing room and let out a yawn before she heard the door to the dressing room open and a man she hadn't seen before come out. "That can not possibly be Van," she said, as she looked him over. He had on a pair of blue jeans that looked like they weren't too loose yet not too tight at the same time. The shit that he put on was a gray shirt that was black at the top from the neck of it to the ends of the sleeves.
Irvine walked up to him with a quirked eyes brow. He reached out his hand before poking Van in the side as if trying to make sure that it was still the same man that he saw just yesterday dressed in the geekiest way possible. "Van?" he asked poking the man before him again.
Van didn't know exact what to say but "Yeah?" He saw the shocked looks on their faces and looked towards the mirror. If he weren't himself, he wouldn't have known that it was him. It was such a huge change from what he was used to wear but very comfortable at the same time.
Moonbay was getting excited once again and pushed Van back into the dressing room. He came out a few minutes later but this time he was wearing a pair of kaki pants and a blue shirt that had a picture of a tiger on the chest.
"Hmmm… the pants look pretty good with that shirt I would say. What would you say about it Irvine?" Moonbay asked turning towards him and he merely nodded in response to his question. "Very well then, why don't you head back in and try on the rest," Moonbay said pushing him back in.
This went on for at least thirty minutes to an hour. Van felt that Moonbay had picked out way too many clothes before she first shoved him in there. It was finally over and he gave a sigh of relief after showing them the last of the clothes that Moonbay had picked out for him.
He was about to head back into the dressing room and change back into his regular clothes for the moment because he was almost sure that Irvine and Moonbay were going to make him change into some of the new clothes that he was getting as soon as they possibly could.
An annoying voice that made all three of them shuddered suddenly filled the room as the source of it started to approach them. "This has got to be a first, Irvine and Moonbay not seen without the company of the geek Van," Thomas said looking from Irvine to Moonbay and then to the third person but not taking much notice of him because he didn't recognize him.
Van felt the need to bite his cheek to stop himself from laughing. In just one day, Thomas couldn't even recognize a person that he had gone to school with for the past few years. He couldn't blame him because Van was very surprised how much he had changed in looks over one day.
"Oh he is around here somewhere," Moonbay said casting a quick glance in Van's direction without the idiot Thomas noticing. She wondered what his reaction would be when he saw Van. The two of them never got along with each other, even before Thomas started to hang out with his brother and his friends giving him a feeling like he was in the popular crowd. She could just imagine his reaction and each one of them was finnier then the last.
"Whatever, It is not like I want to see that geek anyways. I have a lot better things to do," Thomas said turning around and walking towards the exit of the store much to their relief. He was really being annoying so they were glad that he left.
"It is not like he will be any competition for Fiona so things will be a lot easier for you Van," Irvine said turning around only to find that Van was already getting changed in the dressing room back into his horrid clothes since they had to pay for the ones they chose before he could wear.
"Step one complete. Now the hard part comes," Irvine muttered remembering all that he had planned out for the summer. Each was probably going to be harder than the last when it came to Van.