Haii! Ok, a couple things before I start, thank you to anyone who actually reads this, this story reached 3k reads on Wattpad so I thought I'd extent my gratitude here too. Second, I've kinda hit a bad spiral, apparently I'm turning into a mute lol, I'm currently barricaded into my room with 3 cans of iced tea, 2 packets of hula hoops, an apple, hand sanitizer, most gaming devices I own and HP and the POA. I haven't come out in 3 days. So...yeah, I'm not looking good at the moment. Anyway, I'll still try and write the best I can while I try to get back on track, so if the writing seems a bit off I apologise. .

Small recap:

"Ok, Ash. I'll be there soon." Sal ran out the door, slinging his dress bag over his shoulder.

"Are you really ready to do this?"

"As ready as I'll ever be..."

A few loud knocks echoed in the quiet apartment before someone practically ran through the door and into Larry's room. Larry was still lying on his bed, one arm by his side, the other dramatically resting over his eyes, the phone still in his hand.

"Right, I should have everything we need. Neil is getting ready at his place and coming to get me later. Did you ring for the pizza?" The curly-haired ginger stuttered out before he had even closed the door.

Larry simply shook his head, remaining to stare into his arm.

"Todd...what if the plan goes wrong? What do I do then?"

Todd sighed and sat on the end of the bed, placing one hand on Larry's leg in comfort.

"It wont go wrong, I can promise you that. And even if it did, Sal would never know. Now come on, we have work to do. You order the pizza and I'll message Ash."

And just like that, Larry sprang to his feet and dialled the pizza place, while Todd reached for his phone,

"Is he there? Remember what we discussed."

Sal ran around the corner, his dress bag blowing behind him in a dramatic style. As he approached Ash's house, he noticed the he wouldn't even need to knock on her door as it was already open, with Ash standing just inside.

"Hey! Come on, you're late!" Ash shouted as the small boy ran as fast as his legs could carry him down the street, straight into her house, she put her arm out to stop him from completely running through her house as the momentum had got him.

Sal stood back, having a minute to catch his breath.

"So- sorry, A-Ash. I lost...track of time. "

The brunette bumped his arm and took the dress bag from his shoulder.

"Haha, never mind that, come on. I have food waiting upstairs and then we need to start getting you ready."

Sal just nodded and slowly followed Ash up the stairs and into her bedroom. It was quite a spacious room, clearly well looked after. Sal had never been in her room before and stood in the doorway in awe.

The walls were covered in paintings and drawings that Ash had painted onto them with little traces of the white paint behind it in the small gaps between paintings. The floor was wooden with a large, black fluffy rug taking up most of the floor to hide it.

She had a black dressing table with white lamps and a large mirror which sat in the middle, scattered all over it was assorted makeup and perfumes, obviously been used in a rush because of the lack of organisation, a little white stool had been pushed under the table with a few pairs of shoes placed on top.

On the other side of the room, stood a large, formerly white wardrobe which had hand-painted black pinstripes all over it. A white dress bag hung from its side, which Sal assumed was Ash's dress. A large circular bed was placed in the centre of the room, the mattress was covered with a white velvety sheet and black silk sheets were folded neatly into the middle of the bed.

"Sal, take off your shoes before you come in, and mind the door, I was just painting on it. I didn't know what you liked so I got KFC and McDonalds, pick whichever you want, I'll have the other one."

Ash pointed towards her black and white pinstripe bedside table, on top was two bags of food. Each labelled with their food franchise. Sal walked over and took the KFC bag, he didn't really fancy a big burger. He took the other bag and handed it to Ash, who immediately opened it and sank her teeth into her big mac before sitting on the outside of her bed. She patted the bed beside her with her free hand as an indication for Sal to sit down.

"Thanks." He said before he carefully unwrapped his snack box meal and nibbled on a few chips (or fries for you Americans). Even though it's called a snack box, it always came as a whole meal. Ashley practically inhaled her entire meal, burger, chips, even the entire drink before Sal had started to eat his popcorn chicken. She cleaned up her wrappers before turning to Sal,

"You know, I never expected that you'd ever want to talk to me again after what I did to Larry all that time ago, I thought you'd hold a grudge... I don't think I could've forgiven someone if they had done that to me..."

Sal shook his head and held up a finger as he finished his mouthful.

"Of course not! I know we weren't friends before that but it doesn't mean I'd hate you forever. Plus, you come in useful in times like this. Haha."

Ash smiled weakly,

"Yeah... but let me just say how sorry I am about it. If there is anything I can do to make up for it after all this time, tell me ok?"

Sal laughed as he popped a couple of chips into his mouth. He nodded to the brunette as he continued to eat.

"Good, now. You need to hurry up, we have lots of work to do! I'll do my make up while you finish eating, ok?" She walked over to her dressing table and pulled out the little stool from beneath it, placing the shoes on the floor beside it.

"I was testing out different looks earlier but I think I found a good one to go with my dress." She set to work as Sal hurried to eat the rest of his chicken and went to wash his hands. By the time he had come back, Ash's face was covered in make up, and she looked beautiful. All her contour and highlighter was perfect, her eyeshadow was purple which faded down to blue the closer it got to her inner eye. Her eyeliner had big wings which ended at a flawless point. Sal couldn't help but gasp at her rapid transformation. Ash turned around to face Sal,

"You like it? Maybe I should wear a little less..."

Sal quickly interjected,

"No! You look amazing! I don't even know how you did that so quick."

Ash chuckled at the compliment and thanked him.

"So, are you ready? Don't get your hopes up too high, I don't know if this will work."

The bluenette eagerly nodded,

"I trust you, if anyone can help me, you can."

Ash nodded and walked out the room for a minute, when she returned, she had a small grey parcel in her hand.

"You're lucky, it arrived his morning. I was scared it wouldn't come in time."

She ripped open the bag to reveal a small bottle of some variant of liquid makeup. Ash handed it to Sal so he could examine the package. As he read the description, his eyes lit up. He placed the bottle down and turned to Ash.

"Are you sure you're going to be ok? People can't usually stand to see me without my prosthet-"

Before he could finish his sentence, Ash had reached behind his head and unbuckled the clips and was gently pulling it away from his face. Sal took a deep breath as she precariously removed his mask and placed it on the table next to her. She sucked air in through her teeth before gathering the courage to look upon Sal's face. After a few moments, she pulled her face into a smile.

"There, that wasn't too bad was it? Let me know if I hurt you ok?"

Sal nodded, but before Ash could get started, her phone lit up with a message, she smiled as she read it.

"Yeah, he's here. Hurry up you two, you have loads to do"

Welp, sorry for the short chapter but I wanna put the next bit into the next chapter because I'm special lol. Thanks for reading! I'll upload soon .