Feb 21

Things have been totally hectic this week! I just realized that winter formal is Friday the 23rd! That's 2 days! I don't have a dress, hair appointment, accessories...the works! But hey at least I have a date.

That's the whole reason I remembered was because Troy asked me to go with him at lunch today! Right, after he asked for my jello..hehe. And to add to that, musical dress rehearsal is coming up fast, which means the real un dress rehearsal version (the informal way to call it I guess) will be coming up soon. Its not that I'm nervous, mostly excited, but I don't want to make myself look like an idiot. L0L.

So anyways, I talked to my mom about winter formal and she got so excited! "Aw, my little girl is going to have so much fun! I get to dress you up and do your make up! Won't that be fun? Oh you can even wear my old prom dress Gab!" I was happy that my mom was excited about the formal, I'm not too crazy about the old prom dress, I don't want to go to the formal smelling like an attic.

"Um sure mom, you can do my make up but doesn't Aunt Carol have a hair salon in town?"

"Oh yes I forgot about that! Carol will do a beautiful job I'm sure,

I'll call in the appointment in a jiffy! Now, let's go see the shape of my prom dress!" Heehee my mom said jiffy. Anyways, I sat on the couch and waited for my mom to return with her attic dress. She came into the living room holding a trash bag...ew.

"Mom, I just took out the trash like 10 minutes ago, you don't need to take it out now."

"No no no no Gabriella! My dress is in this bag!" Oh, even better. I thought at least my mom would take care of the dress, but gosh... I'm really going to smell like attic. I opened up the trash bag and pulled out the dress. I was right about the smell, and the trash bag gave it some wrinkles, but all in all, the dress was amazingly gorgeous. It wasn't a pink, but yet not a red either. The hem flowed and ruffled with a hint of sparkles here and there. It was even a halter top dress, which I didn't think was even that popular back in the 70s. This dress actually looked perfectly normal. And that's what I loved the most about it. I stepped into the guest bathroom downstairs and slipped it on pretty easily.

It was like magic, it fit so incredibly perfect, I didn't want to take it off. I walked out and my mom seemed even more excited than I was!

"Oh Gabi Gabi Gabi! This dress looks even better on you then it did on me back in the groovy days!" Heehee my mom said groovy.

"It's lovely mom! Are you sure you don't mind me wearing it?"

"Gabriella. Of course not. Now, hop in the car we must find some shoes."

"I'm not going to the mall in this!" I said as I ran my fingers through the fabric of the dress.

"Gabriella, I didn't say you had too silly. Now, go put on some jeans and bring the dress back down and we'll stop by the dry cleaners and drop it off."

When we got to the mall, we parked at Borders, and when we got inside I found about 15 books I wanted to buy. So my mom just looked at me and said.

"Narrow down to one book and I will get it for you, after all it's a special shopping day! But, the other 14 books you'll have to buy with the babysitting money."

"Thanks mom!" I ended up picking out 'Avalon High" which was a new book by Meg Cabot I wanted to read. I left the 14 books back in there spot though, since I didn't even have any babysitting money left. After finishing up at Borders, we headed to Dillards and walked to the shoe department. I looked around and almost tripped over a shoebox. I picked it up and opened it just for curiosity. Inside the box were not shoes, no they were glass slippers. There was a buckle that went around the ankle with gems a color not pink OR red, just like my dress. When all was going fabulous, I looked at the size...size 6. Great. I wear 8 1/2. I asked the shoe lady (is that what they're called?) and she checked in the back and couldn't find my size. Darn. We started looking around some more in hopes that another shoe might catch my attention, when I heard a squeaky voice from behind me.

"Oh um Tabby right? Troy's sister?" Wonderful, just my luck. Robyn was in the store shopping..and that's exactly the best thing to top off my day...NOT!

"Um no Robyn, it's Gabriella, not Tabby, heehee then it would be

Tabriella. And that just doesn't sound right does it?"

"Yea true! I guess you're right!" My mom gave me a look saying "Who the heck is this psycho?" that made me giggle. Then Robyn turned to my mom and said,

"Omigosh! You must be Troy's mom, it's a pleasure to meet you mam! You have an awesome son." My mom gave me another look that said..."Uh...double psycho." Then my mom replied by saying, "Actually sweetheart, Troy's not my son, but who knows someday it could happen if he ends up marrying my daughter..." whoa my mom was thinking about my marriage? Okay a little strange one there. I looked down at the shoes Robyn was trying on.

And what do you know, my dream shoes...size 8 1/2 were in her pile.

"Um yea so anyways Robyn, are you going to buy those shoes right there?"

"Oh but of course not! They are way too cheap for me, I think I'll go check Nordstrom. Catch ya later Maddy!" Who cares if she got my name wrong, I scored the shoes! And Robyn was right, they were cheap...24.99!

That's a steal! I went to the accessories and picked out a simple white clutch and brought it to my mom. She took the shoes and the clutch and headed for the register. The register lady rang it up and said "That will be 3.99" whoa wait what? My mom noticed the cheapness and asked,

"Aren't the shoes 24.99 and the clutch 14.99?"

"Oh no mam, you just had to pay partial tax, that kind man over there has your purchase covered." And she pointed over to the men's section wear I saw a handsome smiling face waving at me. I ran up to Troy while my mom paid the 3.99. I thanked him for paying for it and told him I would pay him back pronto.

"Yeah right Gab, I want you to go to formal saying...'Hey look at my free shoes'!"

"Haha thanks Troy, I gotta go though, its getting late and I bought a new book today at Borders! See ya tomorrow at school though!" And after that, he kissed my cheek and said goodbye. On the way back to the car

I felt like I was floating on clouds or something. Seriously, my mom asked me why I was walking funny. We made it home and I flopped on my bed and started my book. Ah, it can't get any better then this.