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Cate and Lux and Tasha bonding time!
The dance…not just any dance homecoming. I hadn't ever gone to a homecoming dance because I never had those few dollars to spare to pay for a ticket. But this year I had those dollars to spare. I had guest bided by best friend and sister Tasha to come along which she accepted. My date was my handsome boyfriend Bug, who is getting annoyed with that name and is now commanding people to call him Buck. I was completely open to the change of name. But Cate my biological Mom had decided that a shopping trip was in order for the three girls.
So here we were trooping into the hell that everyone called the Mall. The snotty over crowed, fast food smelling Mall. With the overpriced tee-shirts and so called designer boots that I can get at the local thrift store for 100 dollars less than what they sell them here for. Me and Tasha we obviously more comfortable over by Hot Topic and Zumes. But no we had to go into Macys. Whoop de fuckin' do.
Cate dragged us over the dress area. Where we saw the flashiest dresses with sequins and low back and plunging V-necks. Natasha and I were most uncomfortable. Cate commanded me to try on the light green dress with the low back and scoop neck with shiny plastic sequins that dotted over one shoulder. I was not pleased. First of all green is my least favorite color.
When I told her that she went pale and grabbed the dress away from me to hand me an orange one, I balked.
"Orange Cate. Even I know orange is not the most flattering color on my with my skin tone."
"Um…here?" she handed me a long blue dress with hot pink trimming.
I tried it on…it looked decent but not what I wanted. I looked desperately to Natasha who was trying her hardest not to burst out laughing. She grinned a grin the Cheshire Cat would have been proud of and sauntered over to where we stood. She circled me for a few seconds before pointing to the dressing room. I went over and waited…
(switch POV to Natasha)
This was way to fuckin' good. I get a free pass to go to dance with my best friend and brother. Poor Cate she has no idea what her own daughter likes.
"Hey Cate, come here. I'll show you what Lux likes." I grabbed her wrist and dragged her over to the dresses. I got a short dress that was a little over her knees, one shouldered cinched at the waist. The V-neck not as plunging but still showed enough to make both Bug…excuse me Buck happy and Lux feel comfortable. I pulled out silver heels two and a half inch heels. The color of the dress itself was a pale silver-gray-blue, matching her eyes and Buck's tux which was going to be black with a silver tie and white cuffs.
"Perfect…see Cate Lux has a thing for silver and blue, she hates sequins and she tends to like to show a little cleavage but nothing that makes her seem the part of the whore or slut. She doesn't like heels to much that why they are a little smaller. She likes her figure so cinched at the wait to show off her hourglass figure, but she likes the off one shoulder look, it seems kinda mysterious to her."
"How…do you know all of this?"
"I have a thing that I can tell some ones personality by what they wear and buy and stuff. You…your clothes seem to others as if you have the perfect life, famous, good job, nice fiancé. But it's obviously from the duller colors that you don't want to stand out but you're forever pushed into the limelight. You like to be in control of your life but that never seems to happen. Your parents may not have been as supportive in your life as they may have been. You dislike surprises, but you can cope if something is thrown at you. Your patience is almost to the point where you just never fight for anything except when you think you may win." Natasha said all of this in a after a few moments of just looking her up and down, "Now tell me is that correct?" she stared at Cate with those dark green eyes, deep and forbidding.
Cate had frozen, this child had just reveled to her what she knew but could never admit to herself. She turned away from her. But the girl kept talking, "I know you without ever really talking to you. I can tell you things about yourself…but that's not what I'm here for. I'm here to tell you about Luxie."
Cate turned back to her, "You're not going to tell me more about myself?"
"I'm going to tell you about Lux. She covers herself in layer to protect herself because she has she's been betrayed to many times in her life. She lies to protect the ones she loves and to hide her own insecurities. Lux however when is in her own element such as a party or dance can be dangerous, she doesn't know her own charms and can often seem snotty and stuck up when she's not trying. She loves others more than herself and it takes a while for her to get used to certain people and in order to keep herself from getting hurt she lies."
"I-I…"
"Don't say anything Cate you'll ruin the moment where you realize I'm not the juvenile delinquent you once thought I was." Natasha turned back to the dresses filtering through them quickly and pulled out a dark green one with a plunging back and thin black straps and black wave trimmings, "Perfect…" she checked the price and smiled again, "150$ that's right in my budget…I might not have dinner and lunch for the next week but I'll at least get a pretty dress…"
"Natasha surly you aren't going to without food for a week!"
"Hell yea I am this dress is perfect for me!" she smiled, "I have 200$ and that 50& for food I'll do fine!" her green eyes sparkled with happiness at the thought of buying such a perfect dress.
"Natasha…would you mind if…I bought the dress for you?"
Natasha eyes went wide then narrowed, "Alright do you want in return?"
"Huh?"
"What. Do. You. Want. In. Return.?"
"Nothing-what makes you think?"
"Cate…what do you want in return for buying me the dress? You must want something parents just don't offer to buy clothes or presents for their kids friends."
"Really? My friend's parents did?"
"…really?"
"Yea…I'll buy it for you free of charge."
"Are you sure? I don't want any oh 'Lo siento queiro money back'. Got it Cate?"
"Lo siento wha-"
"You can't speak Spanish." She crackled.
"Well no I'm white! I'm sure Lux doesn't know how to speak it…"
"Wrong she's fluent in it. Better than me. She can speak some French to I think."
"I never knew…"
"She has a flair for languages. Always has. She knows some Chinese and Japanese to. At least enough to buy us food at the Red Dragon or Samurais Sushi."
"Oh…"
"I think we should get back to Lux she might think I may have killed you." She ginned and took the two dresses back to dressing rooms where Cate could hear a Luxish squeal of happiness.
