Amber's Pov

Ugh! Nina takes way to long! She's already practically given up! Sure, all the dresses she's tried on look fine but I'm looking for something that has the 'WOW' factor! You know what I mean?

The red one looks good. The blue one looks fine. The green one was too… green. The purple one… no. This was just too hard! She was TOO pretty! And that's coming from me. That's it! I'm letting her pick! You hear that shopping world? I, Amber Millington, the all-fabulous, AM GIVING UP!

"Nina, you are impossible! Just go grab any dress and pay for it, I'm tired" I whined

"Ok, Why don't you call the cab company?" she asked ;

"Alright" I flipped out my cell phone and found the cab company;

I dialed the number and held it up to my ear;

"Liverpool Cab Company, How can I help you?" a man asked on the other end

His voice sounded rough and dry, full of desperation

"Oh… Um… I need a car here like… pronto"

"Where is 'here'?" he asked

"Duh! The mall!"

Sometimes, cabbies can be kind of slow

"Which mall?" he asked

"The Factory Outlet!"

Seriously, he was being kind of annoying;

"I'll be at the front in a few" then he hung up on me!

I turned around to see Nina, holding a long, white dress bag as if it were a bride. How did she do it? How on EARTH did she find something so quickly?

"What the hell!" I said "You take five hours in one store but when I give up, you find one in the amount of time it takes to call a cab? Really?" I asked

"Yeah, I was going to tell you I decided on one, but then you went and called a cab" she smiled

"Ok, ok… Let's go, We have to meet the car at the front entrance in a few minutes" I rolled my eyes, smiled, linked arms with her as we walked out of the mall…

Nina's Pov

I got back to the house and went up to the bathroom to try on my dress in a different light. I scurried up the stairs and locked the bathroom door behind me. I put the dress on and smiled at my reflection in the mirror. The dress was white with little sparklies at the bust with shimmers of gold at the bottom. It was perfect.

I almost got teary eyed, seeing myself back in a get-up like this. The reason I quit doing pageants was because my Mom, Margret, was the one who would always to my hair and make up. She would be my cheerleader along with my dad, Stephen. My mom died in a car crash along with my father and I refused to get back on stage without her cheering me on.

The only reason I agreed to this one was the fact I would have the rest of my family there, my Anubis family.

That reminded me! Fabian! He had no idea about any of this, he wasn't going to be home until the next day! I had to call him to catch him up!

I took a picture of myself in the dress on my cell phone and sent it to him. After a few minutes of toying with my hair and twirling in the dress a couple times, the phone rang.

I snatched the phone off the counter and said;

"Fabian?"

"Nina! You look gorgeous! Why are you wearing a dress?" he asked

I figured I might have little fun…

"I'm going on a date" I covered the speaking part of my phone and laughed before I held it back to my ear "You still there?" I asked

"Um… You're going on a date? Wwwith who?" he asked

"Oh, Jerome" I couldn't help but laugh at that

"WHAT?" he yelled

"Gotchya! I'm kidding! Amber entered me in Miss Teen Liverpool" I laughed

"Nina Martin, nearly gave me a heart attack!" he laughed on the other line "So you're really in a pageant?" he asked

"Yeah, re-living my glory days" I smiled

"Glory days?" he asked

"I'll tell you when you get home tomorrow" I smiled "got to go, I think Amber's cooking downstairs because I swear I smell smoke!"

"Bye Beautiful, see you then!" he hung up

Then, I ran downstairs to see what on Earth Amber was making down there.