Chapter Two; Makeover Magic
The knock at my door had come from no other than my best friend Marisa. We had been best friends ever since we were little. But one surprising thing about me and Marisa is that we are both magic. An even more surprising thing though, is that we are both from the state of Iowa.
"Hey Rissy! What are you up to? And you know you don't have to knock," I told her as she came bounding in.
"I know, but are you almost ready yet? I told Tony that we could go to the movies with him and Patrick. Besides, our flight doesn't leave until 10 tomorrow!" Marisa said.
"Okay I guess," I said unsure of myself. Tony is Marisa's boyfriend of 8 months. They're the perfect couple, but Marisa has no trouble getting a guy. She has blonde shoulder length hair with blue eyes and a pretty face. She's tall, skinny, and has the nicest personality you could ask for. And I guess I am the opposite of her. I have long, thick, brown hair which is very wavy. I have green eyes with glasses, am pretty short, and am not all that pretty.
After a few minutes of packing and making sure I had everything, I went to Marisa's house a few blocks away. You see me and Marisa have this little ritual before the school year starts. Every year about two weeks before school starts, we spend the night at each others house alternating houses every year. Then we do something together and then the next day we go to the airport and fly to London. After we get to London we go to Diagon Alley to get supply's and then stay at the Leaky Cauldron until we leave for Hogwarts. This year we are meeting Harry, Ron, and Hermione there too.
"So what movie are we going to?" I asked Marisa.
"Um….She's the Man I'm pretty sure. It looks like a good movie," Marisa replied. "So what are you going to wear?"
"Jeans and a T-shirt?" I told her.
"Oh come on Megan! Don't you ever want to dress to impress at all?" She asked. When I shrugged my shoulders she said, "Come on, I'm going to give you a makeover that I'm never going to let you undo."
She whisked me away to her huge bathroom where I was in there for 1 and a half hours waiting to see what Marisa was doing with my hair, face, and wardrobe.
An hour and a half later and what seems like 50 pounds of makeup later I finally looked in the mirror. "All you have to do is put in your contacts and you'll look even better," Marisa told me. And then when I saw myself, I almost fainted.
What I saw in the mirror was totally different from what I usually see every day. When looking at my self I saw my thick hair straightened to perfection. My green eyes shined brightly with the mascara and nude eye shadow Marisa put on me. And my rosy red cheeks were tamed with the powder and liquid stuff.
"Wow!" I finally managed to stammer out. "I look…Wow. I can't believe this!" I was admiring all of the different angles of my body, and then realizing Marisa was standing there watching me.
"Awww! Rissy, I can never thank you enough! You are the greatest!" I practically shouted at her.
"I know, I know! I am the greatest aren't I?" she said sarcastically. "There is one thing though. You have to keep it this way, even at school!"
"OK, Deal," I said, still looking in the mirror. I was so excited about my makeover, I almost forgot about the movies. Apparently Marisa did too.
5 minutes later we hopped into Marisa's Gold Grand Am. We got to the movies just in time to meet Tony and Patrick. We got out of the car and waited for Marisa to give Tony a peck on the cheek. I went up to Patrick to say hey, when he let out a gasp. "Oh My Gosh. When did this happen?" Pat asked me.
"Like a few hours ago," I told him. "But the point is, do you like it?"
"Of course!" He told me. I felt a sigh of relief cross over my body. Patrick's telling me that he liked the new me was so great. I guess you could say that he was cute, and I was just hoping the people at Hogwarts would like the new me too.
When the movie got done later, Marisa and I went back to Marisa's house and got in our pajama's. "That was really fun," I told her.
"So did I. But the reason you had fun was because guys were noticing you!" Marisa told me and we both had to laugh at that one. But it was true though. Guys were turning their heads right and left to look at me. Most of them didn't recognize me, because if they did, they wouldn't know what hit them.
I just hope that the guys at Hogwarts will take it the ways the guys in Iowa do!