and rubbed my eyes. "Eli?" I asked. He came in shyly, as if we had never met or I wasn't living with him or anything.
"Bad news." He declared, resting against the doorframe. It was to early for bad news, I had just woken up.
"CeeCee hadda cancel,something about an emergency at the radio station that BullFrog needed help with." He explained,looking at my lamp.
"So no dinner party?" I said hopefull. He chuckled and rolled his eyes,moving a piece of hair out of his face.
"Get dressed." He insisted, still resting at the doorframe.
I hopped out of bed and stretched quickly, going through my dresser and picking out whatever my hands touched first. I grabbed black jeans and a
black shirt with a blue spaghetti strip top over it, and a black cardigan over it.
"So what's the plan?" I asked,half scared to ask.
"Well,I thought I could-"
I cut him off,"You're going to pick out a dress?" I scoffed.
Eli sighed,"Well,thats all I can do right now,we don't have time to wait for CeeCee."
I played with the hem of my shirt,and mumbled,"Well,you could call Clare."
He smiled,"Clare?" I nodded.
"Are you sure,babygirl?"
"Call her before I change my mind." I smiled, going back to my bed. He smirked, and took a phone out of his back-pocket, flipping it open, he had it up
to his ear in a matter of seconds. "Thanks a lot babygirl." He winked, walking out of the room. I sighed,not very happy that she was coming a long but
we needed help,and She made Eli happy,so I guess I could put up with her for a few hours. He walked back into the room,"Ok,she's going to meet us
there." I got up and ringed my hands,"Wanna walk?" I asked, half hopeful.
He sighed,"Do you know how long it would take to walk there?"
"Uhm,five minutes?" I asked,hopeful soon
He snorted,"c'mon,Ameliah-Noel."
Relucantly I follwed him to the car.
The carride to the mall is a total of 15 minutes,but with the traffic,it took 30, and it was easily the worse 30 minutes of my life. Eli knew this was hard
for me,and he really tried everything. A favorite song, holding hands? Nothing. He rubbed my hand, and quietly sang a long to the song playing, but
nothing would stop me from bitting my fingernails to the stumps they already were, or making me grip the doorhandle for life.
"Ok,MeMe," he muttered, making a quick left into the mall parking lot. I took an unsteady breathe, and he finally parked. As soon as the car stopped
and I threw open the door, and Eli hurried to my side. "Ameliah,c'mon." I whipped an inhaler out of my pocket, and with shaking hands took a few puffs
of that. "Ok," I stood up, and held hands, walking into the mall with Eli.
"She said she'd meet us in the kid's section?" Eli murmerd. "God,I hate shopping." He ran a hand through his hair, looking around.
I looked around,"Kid's sections there." I pointed to the corner nook of the store.
We quickly found Clare, who already had a few dresses picked out.
"Hi Ameliah,hope you don't mind,I found some you might like?" her voice trailed off.
I glanced at them, most of them were pink, and frilly, and horrible, but Eli grabbed them from her and threw his arm over her shoulder.
"They look great,try them on,Ameliah." He pushed me towards the changing room.
"Did you get something to wear?" I heard Eli whisper to Clare.
I roughly took the first dress off the hanger and slipped it on. We'd been here for what,two minutes and she was already annoying? I zipped the zipper
and looked at the dress. It was a horrible red dress,with white poka dots on it. The worse part? It fit perfectly.
"C'mon out,Ameliah." Eli said. Relucantly I opened the door and walked out,only to find them both sharing a seat.
Eli shook his head no quickly, as Clare nodded,"It's cute!" Eli turned to her,
"You like it?" he asked clearly shocked.
"of course." She defended the dress,"It's cute, it's what 7 year olds wear."
"I'm eight." I tried to cut into the conversation.
"Why don't you like it?" Clare asked.
"It's red-"
"Eli,she can't wear all black to a meeting dinner party,first impressions mean everything."
"Speaking of,Eli,What are you wearing?" I finally broke into the conversation.
He smirked at Clare,"Black."
"Why do I have to get dressed up?" I argued.
Now he smirked at me,"First impressions are everything. Now go try on the other one."
The next one was worse,if that's even ,it was red,but it had lacey collar and had little black dogs on it. Dogs? really? I was 8, not 2.
"There's no way I'm wearing this." I argued,crossing my arms over my chest.
Eli chuckled,"Cmon,let's see it."
Relucantly,I opened the door,showing off the dress of at once, Eli snorted and shot forward a little in his seat. Clare cracked a smile,
"Sorry Ameliah,It looked cuter on the hanger." She tried to explain. I rolled my eyes and stepped back in, and looked at the last dress left. It wasn't
horrible looking. It looked like an easter dress,(Which made semi-sense,since Easter was approaching.) It was white,with gray and yellow flowers on
it. I shrugged and quickly put it on and zipped it up. I stepped out.
"Oh Ameliah,That one's great." Clare smiled. But her approval meant nothing, she picked out the dog dress after all.
I glanced at Eli,"Look at you Ameliah." he chuckled. "We have to get shoes,right?" He asked Clare. Which was his way of saying,'It's cute,Ameliah, I
love it,and everyone else will too.' Clare nodded.
"I saw some really cute gray flats on the way in. They had bows on them."
"Flats?" Eli asked. We rolled our eyes, and I quickly changed back into my regular clothes.
Within five minutes,we made it to the shoes,found the flats,and got my size and he was paying."Swipe your card here." The salesperson said,looking
less then thrilled. I rested my head on his legs, tired from shopping and lack of sleep. He ruffled my hair and quickly signed his name and grabbed the
bag. "Clare,want to come over for some lunch?" Eli asked. She nodded,
"You're not making it,are you?" I groaned.
"Hey! My cookings not that bad!" He argued. I giggled,even Clare agreed that it was pretty bad.
The carride home, while in the backseat is even more nervewracking if that's even possible. Not that Eli payed attention. He was to busy singing and
holding hands with Clare, as I held onto the armrest, my eyes shut, hands shaking, one handing holding my inhaler, silently praying that everything
would go okay. Somehow,I managed to fall asleep,I guess, because when I woke up, I was in Eli's old Dead Hand shirt, and black sweatpants, laying
in bed next to him as he typed on his laptop. I snuggled deeper into his chest, not bothering to wake up fully. I was perfectly content like this.
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AU: So,it's short,kinda,but I felt like posting something after everything you guys posted/messaged me,etc. (:
I tried my best to describe the dresses,but I made a collage,(its my first one,so it sucks,and I hope its the right link,haha) Thanks again,and the next chapter is (finally) the dinner party! haha .com/cgi/profile?id=2207462