Chapter 3
Liz and I were marched up the stairs, with Macey and Bex blocking the only exit. As we walked into our bathroom, I saw what Macey was up to the whole time we were outside. There were pots of wax warming on the counter, moisturizer, scents, and cloth strips everywhere. In the center of this organized chaos, were 2 chairs.
"Come on Cam, you and Liz are first." Macey said as she handed Liz and I both a sports bra and spandex. We exchanged nervous looks as we changed into the given clothes. Macey and Bex faced away from us and we hurriedly changed and sat down in each of the chairs.
"I'll do Cammie!" Bex volunteered.
Macey shut her down "No way! Last time you did Cammie, you ended up ripping her skin off, you're way more careful when you do Liz." She handed Bex a pot of wax and some cloth strips, hit play on her iPod, and got started on removing unwanted hair from me.
For the next hour and a half Macey carefully poured wax anywhere with unwanted hair and then ripped it off. Small burst of pain were heard from Liz, but I didn't utter a peep (a fact I'm extremely proud of.) When she was done, I was red and soft everywhere. She handed me a bottle of moisturizer and I put it on without complaint. With the soothing lotion, my skin didn't burn quite so bad. Macey had changed while I applied the moisturizer so I extracted my revenge and started removing unwanted hair with Macey.
When I was half way done, Bex finished with Liz and Liz started on Bex. I finished with Macey and handed her the bottle of moisturizer. Over the music she chatted with me.
"See that wasn't so bad!" she said way too cheerfully. I rolled my eyes and opened the bathroom door leading to my room. With the windows open, the house was as hot and as humid as it was outside. I grabbed an oversized t-shirt I loved to sleep in and slipped it over the sports bra and spandex. I went back into the bathroom to see how my friends were faring.
Bex was grumbling to herself and Liz and grabbed a t-shirt like mine, as had Macey.
"So, what's on the agenda for tomorrow?" I asked
Macey grinned at me. "Shopping!" I resisted the urge to groan. I didn't mind the new clothes, I was even a little excited, but considering the fact that all she said was shopping made me nervous.
"All day?" I asked timidly.
She rolled her eyes at me "No, not this time at least" I released a breath I didn't know I was holding. "Tomorrow is food shopping, clothes shopping isn't until next week."
"Can we go to the beach after shopping?" asked Liz excitedly. I nodded my agreement, the beach sounded awesome.
"Sounds good, but we'll have to pack a bag tonight." Bex added in.
We voice our agreements and went to our separate rooms to pack bags we could take down to the waters edge with us. I laid out a bathing suit that Macey had lent me for the trip and packed a towel, a brush, a water bottle, sunglasses, sunscreen, and tanning oil in a small bag. I placed the bag by my door and went to the bathroom to brush my teeth.
"Hey Cammie! Come here for a sec!" Macey called from her room next door. I went to see what she wanted and saw a brush in her hand. "Don't freak out, I just want to french braid your hair. Bring my iPod over when you come here, would you?"
I grabbed the item and went to sit in front of her bed. I handed her the iPod and let her run the brush through my hair. It felt nice. She wove my hair into a french braid and wound a hair tie around the end.
As she did my hair we talked "What day are we leaving again?" I asked her.
"July 3rd. Apparently it's essential I'm home for the fourth of July" I could hear her roll her eyes. "Would you let me put highlights in your hair?"
"Maybe." I meant it.
"I saw some guys looking over at you guys from the house next door. They were cute." I could imagine her grin. In spite of myself, I grinned too.
"Oh yeah? How cute? Rate them for me."
"An 8.5, a 8.75, a 9.2 and a 9.5" I raised my eyebrows sceptically. No way just some guys from florida would receive such a rating from Macey McHenry.
"Seriously?"
"Yeah, I saw one perfect for you." She tugged my hair affectionately. "But then again, you still might be hung up on Zach." I forced down a blush.
"Unfortunately, one kiss does not a boyfriend make." I climbed up onto her bed and was met with a sceptical look. "Seriously! I'm ready for a summer fling." I wiggled my eyebrows at her and she laughed.
"Do my hair now would you?"
"French braid?" I asked for clarification
"Yeah!"
"Do you have any idea why Zach would kiss me?"
She shrugged her shoulders "I guess after a whole semester of flirting he decided to do something about it." I tugged a strand of her hair as I set the brush aside and began to braid "I'm serious though! He was looking you, like, whenever you weren't looking at him. I kept on hoping you would catch him in the act just once. It's too bad he won't be around any more, you would've made a cute couple."
I let out a short laugh. "Yeah, too bad."
"You may not have admit it, but you like him just as much if not more than you liked Josh." I hated to admit that it was true.
I changed the subject "You wanna work on catching up in CoveOps this summer?" I asked.
"Yeah! Totally! You and Bex could help me!" she responded enthusiastically. I smiled as I wrapped a hair tie around the end of the braid.
"That's the plan" She jumped up on the bed next to me.
"Can I tell you a secret?" she asked me very seriously
"Of course!" I responded immediately.
"Okay, well that notebook you saw me writing in earlier has a list in it," she reached over and pulled the notebook out of a drawer in her bed side table "it has a ton of things to do over the summer, kind of a summer bucket list. I've had it since I was twelve. It's a little pathetic actually, it's all the stuff I dreamed of doing with my best friend if I ever got one." she trailed off a little embarrassed
"I don't think it's pathetic," I argued "I think it's great, and since you're gonna be stuck with me all summer, looks like it's gonna be up to us to make sure everything on the list gets completed" I smiled at her
She surprised me by pulling me into a hug but I didn't hesitate to hug back.
"Thanks, Cam." she said sincerely "You really are my best friend."
"Anytime Mace." I said back, and I really meant it. "Now, it's getting late, I'm going to bed before we get into to trouble with my mom."
"Night Cam"
"Night Macey"
