FRIDAY MORNING
Olivia, Abby and Quinn landed a John F. Kennedy international airport in Queens, New York. They had already arranged for a car service to pick them up and drop them to the Renaissance hotel in midtown Manhattan.
After driving for about two hours because of the crazy traffic they arrived at the hotel. The hotel was beautiful, very modern and it was in the middle of all the crazy New York hustle and bustle. It was close to all of the beautiful New York city sights but they were not tourist, they were there on a mission, except for Quinn, she had never been to New York City but democracy rules and Olivia and Abby ruled that sight seeing would have to wait until they got their makeovers.
The girls booked a suite with a king sized bed and all three of them planned on sleeping in the same bed, perfect slumber party etiquette.
The room was huge. They were on the floor just under the penthouse and it had an extraordinary view of the city. They had one bathroom with a luxurious hot tub in it along with a shower and a bath tub. There was a kitchenette area, the living area had a huge flat screen tv and then there was a patio.
The girls decided not to stay cooped up and go out to do some shopping as they had planned. Fortunately Bergdorf Goodman, Saks, Barney's and Neiman Marcus were all within a few blocks of the hotel.
They decided to start with Saks since they had already booked appointments with the store stylist. When they got to Saks, they went to the 6th floor to the personal shopping suite to get started.
A gentleman named Alexander greeted them. He was warm and friendly.
He has a great sense of style, wearing navy blue chinos, a white button down and a navy blue cardigan wrapped around his neck.
"Hello, Abby, nice to meet you. Is this your party of three?"
"Yes, so this is Olivia and Quinn," Abby gestured to both women.
"Hi alexander," both Olivia and Quinn said at the same time.
The group of them chuckled.
"So, what are you ladies looking for today, we carry a wide assortment, we have all the brand names you can think of. So where would you ladies, like to start? We have wine, prosecco and moscato, to kick off the fun."
"Can we start with some wine please?" Olivia said a little too quickly.
"Wow, we're excited, alright, let me grab the wine, please Ladies have a seat and get comfortable, I'll be right back."
They sat down on the grey sofa that in the office suite. The place was well decorated with arrangements of flowers all over the office and a pastry tower in the middle of a coffee table.
"Okay ladies, here is your wine."
He handed them the glasses of wine and took a seat opposite to them on the other sofa.
"Now ladies, what are you looking for today, in the email Abby said that you all wanted style makeover, what sort of style are you going for," He asked.
The ladies pondered for a while, Abby was first to answer.
"I want to make my style more fun, I'm looking for fun little things so can add to my wardrobe because right now, my work clothes look like old lady stuff."
"Abby," Olivia laughed so hard she almost spit up her drink.
"What? It's true!" Abby said.
"Quinn, are you looking for anything today?" Alexander asked.
"Not really, just tagged along with the girls," Quinn said nonchalantly, fashion and shopping really weren't her thing so she decided to sit this one out, mentally.
"Olivia what about you?"
"I want a complete makeover, I want the whole thing done over. I definitely want to make my style sexier and edgier."
"Here's the thing Alex, is it okay if I call you Alex, she just broke up with her asshole of a boyfriend so she needs some stuff that will make him sorry he ever left and I mean really sorry."
"Abby," Olivia gasped, she was slightly embarrassed but she laughed anyways.
"What! It's true."
"I know all about ex-boyfriends trust me. So what brands do you tend to lean towards when shopping Olivia?"
"I mostly bought Escada, Armani, Hugo boss and Prada in the past for my work attire, I really want to switch it up though and I also want to get some stuff for outside of work if you know what I mean."
"Yes Olivia, that's what I'm talking about girl." Abby was excited.
"Olivia what's your budget?"
"I don't have one."
"I think we can arrange that for you," Alexander was all too excited.
They began to walk the floor of the store.
They were so many brands Olivia didn't know where to start.
Alexander suggest they start shopping for handbags. After about 40 mins Olivia decided to get a few bags because she loved them all. She ended up buying a Chanel classic quilted bag in black, she got a Saint Laurent sac de jour grey bag in small, a Givenchy Antigona in black matte, Gucci medium Dionysus bag, a Louis Vuitton cross body purse with the LV crest at the front in baby blue dyed leather, three Prada Saffiano totes in red, black and navy in three different sizes, 2 smalls and a medium sized and she also got a Chloe saddle bag in nude suede.
"Okay so now that we are done with bags, I think we should head to clothing, I can have our assistant drop the bags back to the personal styling suite back on the 3rd floor?"
"That would be great," Olivia agreed, with that Alexander called the assistant to come and grab the bags.
They headed to the 4th floor, Alex began suggesting ideas.
"Okay Olivia, I think we should start with Theory because there are a lot of edgy pieces that are great for the office, what do you say?"
"Yea, I think that's a great idea, let's go," Olivia agreed.
They made the rounds on the floor pretty quickly, they went through brands: Theory, Max Mara, Acne studios, Burberry, Stella McCartney, Tory Burch and Sergio Rossi until the ladies lost count.
They got a mixture of sexy pencil skirts, skinny dress pants, delicate silk shell tops, modern structured and unstructured blazers and beautiful sheath dresses that we very chic.
They also got a few fun pairs of jeans, fitted dresses and fun tops.
The girls were winded from running from section to section, so they decided to stop and grab lunch from the cafe that was located in the store.
After lunch, they decided to start grabbing items for Abby and then they headed to the shoes department to get shoes for Olivia.
Olivia ended up grabbing about three pairs of Christian Louboutin So Kate pumps, she thought they made her legs look longer and sexier than anything else she had in her closet. She grabbed a pair of Chanel flats, Alaia pom pom heels, Alexander recommended some Stuart Weitzman over the knee heeled suede boots that were absolutely the sexiest pair of boots she ever bought. She even grabbed a few pair of Jimmy Choo pumps in about three different colors.
They made their way back to the suite and began trying all the items on and making outfits out of the pieces.
Olivia bought pretty much all the pieces. They couldn't manage to carry all of the bags so they decided to ship them back to D.C.
They went back to the hotel room, they got there at about 8:30. It was too late for them to do anything else other than go clubbing so they decided to call it a night.
Saturday Morning.
"Wake up liv," Abby yelled.
Olivia didn't move.
Abby hit her with a pillow
"I'm up Abbs, I'm up"
"Good, get ready it's time to hit the spa then the salon, were on a tight schedule, we leave on sunday," Abby said.
"If I have to get up, so does Quinn," and with that Olivia rolled and hit Quinn with her pillow.
"5 more minutes, I'm jet lagged ."
"Oh please Quinn, D.C. is a couple hours from here, stop being a lazy ass and get up," Abby yelled.
"Why do I have to get up, Olivia didn't get up yet, in fact I'm pretty sure she went back to sleep."
Abby grabbed two pillows and started hitting both Olivia and Quinn.
They both jumped up.
"Okay ladies you have an hour to get ready. We have an appointment at 10 am for the spa and them 2pm for the salon, chop chop," Abby said gleefully.
Abby had gotten up earlier to get ready since she knew there was only one bathroom.
The girls got ready and went ahead and ordered an uber. They arrived at the spa just in time. They started off in the sauna, then they hung out in the pool for a little while then then moved on the the full body massages and acupuncture which Quinn decided to sit out. They ended the trip with the green tea facial, that everyone has been raging about.
They left the spa at about 1:30 and headed to the salon.
They ended up being a little late for the salon but luckily there was a grace period of 20 minutes and they were only 10 mins late. The salon manager walked up to them. A short woman named Blair, she was even tinier than Olivia.
"Hi I'm blair, nice to meet you," she said stretching out her hand for a handshake.
"Hi I'm Abby, this is Quinn and Olivia."
They all shook hands.
"So, I have to ask, that are we doing with our hair today guys?"
They pondered for a little, all the while Blair stood there smiling at them waiting for their reply.
I was a little awkward how nice she was almost like it was fake.
Abby decided to break the silence.
"Sooo.. I was thinking of going a deeper red, what do you guys think?"
"I think that's a great idea, you're already a fierce red, now you'll just be redder " Olivia said.
They all chuckled.
She was actually surprised at how much fun they were having. She thought the trip was going to a pathetic attempt of trying to get her mind of Fitz but it was actually working out pretty well. Except she would lie awake and think about him until she fell asleep and then even when she was asleep she would dream about him, there was no stopping the dreams.
"What about you Quinn?" Blair asked the question like it was the most interesting question in the world, breaking Olivia's train of thought and bringing her back to reality.
"Hmmm… I was thinking of going short?"
"I think that's great, It'll be so different," Abby said, Olivia agreed.
"What about you Liv, thinking of going blonde?" Abby asked jokingly.
"Not in a hundred years, but I was thinking of going longer?"
"Wow, I've never seen you with hair longer than your shoulders, this should be interesting," Abby thought out loud.
After about four and a half hours in the salon, their looks were done.
Quinn had a bob, that everyone thought made her looks so much younger. She loved it.
Abby had brick red hair that would make her stand out in any crowd and she couldn't stop gushing about it.
Olivia opted for extensions, which made her hair fall mid to lower back, the longest she ever had it. It was jet black with beach wave curls. She looked like an absolute bombshell.
She was momentarily speechless when she turned and looked in the mirror. Then her eyes started to gather water.
Abby rushed over.
"Don't cry Liv, you look amazing," she said grabbing her for a big hug.
Quinn stood there nodding her head in agreement. Olivia wiped her eyes.
"It's not that," she chuckled and drew a breath.
"It's just, I've haven't been feeling great about myself lately, just with all the things he said, you know, I don't know, I guess I just started to believe him."
"Liv no.." abby said
"I know it's not true, but ever so often I catch myself thinking it is. But no tears, those weren't even sad tears, they were happy tears, I'm just really glad we decided to take the weekend and come here. I think I would have been Losing my mind if I was still in D.C."
"Liv, when you say he, who are you talking about?" Quinn asked, she still had no idea about the affair, all she knew was that she heard Abby say something about a breakup earlier. Before that she didn't even know Liv was dating anyone, she couldn't see how Olivia could make time for it with her schedule.
"Her dickhead Boyfriend, but weren't not even gonna talk about him, he's not even worth it," Abby said trying to deflect the question and steer the conversation in a different direction. She shot a quick glance over to Olivia who widened her eyes in agreement.
"Yea, he's not even worth it, who does he think he is the president of the United States," Quinn said nonchalantly.
Abby and Liv erupted with laughter. Quinn Personally didn't think her joke was that funny, but she appreciated them laughing.
They asked their driver to ride them around the city just to give Quinn a glimpse of the city in the night time.
After driving for almost an hour they headed back to the hotel, to grab some food, they had been so busy at the spa and then with having to rush to the salon, they didn't have time to grab anything to eat. They were all ravenous, so they decided to eat in the hotel restaurant. While eating at the restaurant they toyed with the idea of maybe hitting a club later that night but by the time they all got upstairs, Abby was so tired that she basically passed out on the the sofa. Quinn laid on the fluffy white carpet and refused to move, and Olivia realized that the plans were a bust and decided to take a shower so she could lay down feeling refreshed.
Sunday Morning - Last day.
It was their final day. The flight was less than 2 hours from NYC to D.C. and their flight was booked for 2 pm but they need to get to the airport at least one and a half hours before the flight. It also takes about 2 hours to get to the airport from their hotel. They needed to leave the hotel at 10am in order to make their flight on time. It was 10:15 am and no-one was awake.
Olivia rolled and yawned, she realized it was morning time, but couldn't exactly tell because all the blinds were closed. she reached over to the nightstand to check her phone. She had a really hard time sleeping that night because for some reason, she couldn't stop thinking about Fitz. She was really annoyed with herself and she ended up not sleeping until about 4am that morning. She pressed the home button on her iPhone and realized it was 10:17am.
"Fuck," she said really annoyed.
"Abby, Quinn, get up, we have to move it now."
They both turned and looked at her.
"What time is it?" Abby asked.
"It's after 10, like almost 10:20, we should have been out of here since 10," Olivia said.
"Shit," Abby yelled.
Abby reached for her phone on the night stand and realized that their driver had been calling for the past half hour.
"Dammit, guys we gotta go, let me call the driver and see if he's still available. We have to get moving or we're definitely gonna miss our flight."
They rushed to brush their teeth and freshen up, most of the stuff was already packed. Within 20 minutes they managed to run out of the room. the driver had left but Abby managed to get him to turn around and come back for them in exchange he would get a really good tip.
They made it to their flight just in time and managed to get to D.C. by 4pm that evening to get home start preparing for the work week that was ahead of them.