A/N: I'm so sorry I swore I wasn't going to be this author but I had to change a couple of things that I mentioned before to make it fit this chapter, nothing major but I'm still so so so so so sorry. Thanks for reviewing guys, getting reviews always makes my day(;

Chapter 19

The next morning, I woke to Bex shaking my shoulders and repeating the phrase "Today's the day." Yeesh, it's like we were getting married or something she was so freaked out.

"Peace Bex." I said touching her shoulder and she realized that she was speaking out loud. She gave me a sheepish smile and then went to shake Macey's shoulder.

I reached to my other side and gave Liz a shove.

"Mmmm." She moaned.

"It's Friday Lizzie. You know what today is. We have to get ready."

"What time is it?" She mumbled.

"Almost 11." I said and Macey jumped right out of bed. Literally jumped.

"What time do we have to be ready?" Macey asked wide eyed.

"Dunno." I replied after thinking about it quickly.

"Everybody check your phones. I updated them last night so there might be a few surprises, but don't freak." Liz said climbing out of bed towards the opposite wall where our phones were charging.

"Nothing." Macey said.

"Nothing about tonight." Bex said.

"Got it! We all have to be ready at different times, jerks, I have to be ready by 6, Macey by 7, and Cam and Bex need to be ready by 7:45." Liz read off.

We all sighed in aggravation. It should be twenty times easier to get ready but the fact that the times were so close together and that Macey was in the middle would just make it harder.

"Okay, it's 10:47, we have precisely 7 hours and 13 minutes and absolutely no food. This needs to be fixed. Cam, contact your mom while I go over our bathroom prep. Liz make a schedule so we can make sure everyone gets done on time. Bex, clear the floor in the other room. Do the circle , help her when you're done" Macey instructed. She then stalked off towards the bathroom.

"Circle thingy?" Bex asked.

"You know, the thing we do in our dorm sometimes when there's a town day. When we put our desks and beds all along the sides of the room and clear that huge space in the middle with all the mirrors and stuff balanced on the beds and desks." I said describing what Macey wanted.

"Oh the thing with all the outfits and stuff." She said realization dawning.

"Yeah, the one for trying on clothes. You might wanna ask Macey what she wants in there though." I said as I finally opened my phone to text my mom.

"Will do." She replied crossing the bathroom.

I had one new text from Zach. It read, 'So, Gallagher Girl, would you like to explain where our pillows disappeared to?' I checked the time and he had sent it about an hour after his last text. I replied. 'I have no idea what you're talking about' I sent back quickly. I then switched to a new message for my mom. I quickly asked her if she would bring us something to eat but before I could put my phone down I got a new text from Zach.

'So you're saying you have no idea what happened to our pillows?'

'That's what I'm saying.' I replied.

I unplugged my phone and crossed through the bathroom to help Bex. By the time I reached the other room, Zach had replied.

'Why don't I believe you?(:' He said.

'Because you're a naturally suspicious person?' I typed quickly before dropping my phone by the door.

"You know if you keep dropping your phone like that, you're going to break it." Bex commented.

I shrugged then went to help her move the bed frames. Once we had everything cleared out of the way and the mirrors and stations set up, which I will admit took us longer than it should have, we heard a knock on the door.

"Food!" My mom's voice called and I hurried to open the door.

She did not skimp on the food. Not only was there hot food to eat right then (those little pizza bites that Liz and I adored), but she had a bunch of fruit and vegetables that we could snack on while we got ready. As we moved the tray full of food to an accessible but out of the way place, she surveyed our room.

"Wow you girls have been busy. Where are the beds may I ask?"

"In the other room." Bex replied while we shoved mini pizza's in our mouths.

"Nice. I assume all the outfits are in there as well?" She questioned, and just then Macey and Liz came through carrying two outfits each, Macey had my dress and Bex's, while Liz had her outfit and Macey's.

"They were in the bathroom." I told her in reply to her earlier question.

"I've almost got everything set up." Macey told us as she put a carrot stick in her mouth.

"Oooh, Pizza!" Liz exclaimed. She crossed to us and put one in her mouth.

"It's like a salon in here with all the things you girls have got going on." My mom said with a smile. "Can I see the rest of your setup?" She asked.

"Sure, come on Cam and I will take you on a tour." Bex said grabbing my arm.

"Don't touch anything in the bathroom yet, I'm not done." Macey said as Bex and I brought her to the doorway.

"Okay, well first of all this room is all outfits and shoes and accessories, etc, etc. You could call this the finishing room." I said before we reached the bathroom. As we entered the doorway Bex took over.

"The bathroom is mostly for prep. Showers, hair, make-up, calming scents." She explained as we surveyed the organized chaos that can only be achieved by Macey.

There were towels set out, two for each of us, on the window sill. The colors dictated whose was whose. On the counter there was all of the makeup in order of who was going to use it first. We all generally used the same type of makeup but we all had different skin tones (except for me and Macey) so it was spread out from Liz to Bex. Ironically it was lightest skin to darkest. In the shower she had laid out the four different shampoo's and conditioners we used as well as laid out like ten different body scrubs that would each be used by all of us. She also had lotions and moisturizers laid out at various points throughout it all. Very nicely done.

"Lastly, this is where we slept last night and most likely where we will sleep again tonight." I said opening the final door to our fort.

When we opened the door, she gasped. Liz, who is kind of a neat freak, had made the bed on the floor and made sure everything was cleared off the floor so it looked magical once more. No one had bothered to turn off the christmas lights so they worked with the morning light to make the room look luminous. It looked just as good as it did last night.

"You girls made this?" She said as she walked further into the room. We nodded. "This is incredible! I wish I had done something like this when I was young…" She trailed off in awe of it. I looked at Bex and giggled.

"So ma," I said snapping her back to reality "What are the boys up to?"

"Oh, they're in a panic getting everything ready. Zach and Grant have been on the computer for almost an hour now. Preston has been on the phone for just as long and I think Jonas is doing math." She explained.

"Math?" I said confused.

"Probably calculating the odds of the night going horribly wrong." Bex said with a snicker and I giggled along with her.

"Cam!" Macey called from the other room. I stuck my head in the doorway.

"Yeah?" I replied.

"Your phone has been going off like crazy, come check it!" She said tossing said phone across the bathroom for me to look at.

I had two new text messages. I rolled my eyes, a little then opened the messages. The first one read 'I am not that suspicious.' And the next said, 'Well maybe a little bit. Maybe.' I snorted before replying.

'You can't lie to me Zachary Goode, I know you're suspicious.' Then threw my phone onto the bathroom counter.

"I'm not kidding Cam, one of these days you're going to break it." Bex said with a shake of her head.

"I'll believe it when I see it." I said with a smile before bumping my hip into hers.

She smiled and rolled her eyes.

"Guys, come here we need to go over the schedule." Macey called and Bex and I started to cross to the other room.

As we made it to the other room, my mom jumped to speak before Macey could.

"Would you girls mind if I stayed to help? I'm not really doing much downstairs and this could be lots of fun." She asked.

"Absolutely, any help is very welcome." Macey said with a look of relief. "I was planning on asking you to help actually. Okay, here's the plan. Lizzie is going to shower first, we'll go over what that entails in a moment, after she's done I'm going to shower while Liz gets into stage one of her outfit. When she's done I will take her place and Cammie will get in the shower. After Cammie is done in the shower, she will move into stage one of her outfit. After Bex is out of the shower, we will take a break and plan out from there.

"You will have exactly 9 minutes in the shower. Everyone of us needs to use the shampoo of her choice and my conditioner. There are instructions on the back that must be followed. Each body scrub needs to be used by each person according the instructions on the bottles. While you're waiting to shower you can help me set up everything else we'll need to use. Everyone clear?" Macey asked, eyebrows raised expectantly.

Simultaneously, Bex, Liz, and I let out a "Yes Sir!" And saluted. My mom laughed as Macey ushered Liz into the bathroom and pointed out which towels were hers. Bex and I plugged in Macey's ipod and hit shuffle.

So while we waited for Liz to give us the okay, we all crossed carefully into the bathroom. Now, Liz has three sisters, one older and two younger so she doesn't find it as weird as the rest of us to have other people in the bathroom while she showers. I mean, it's not like we could see anything so it wasn't exactly weird.

"Okay, so we're going to organize makeup, moisturizer, and hair stations. We're curling Cammie and Bex's hair but Liz and I are going to straighten ours. Cam will you plug those in over there?" Macey asked pointing to the far end of the sink. I obliged while the others got started organizing makeup.

There was so much. I mean, there were four of us who were so completely different but there was still. So. Much. Macey arranged everything by person. Liz was on the far left of the counter, nearest the curling irons and the hair straightner (I hoped Liz wouldn't burn herself on them), then Macey and I have a very similar skin tone so we shared all our makeup and that was in the middle then Bex had everything of hers on the far right. There were a lot of things we shared like mascara and lip shades and those were dispersed evenly between the sections, all within easy reach. By the time we had finished organizing the makeup Liz was out of the shower, and it was Macey's turn.

"Oh, before I shower, Liz, Bex and I got some things for you and Cam while we were shopping yesterday." Macey said crossing to the finishing room and walking to the closet where a bag was hidden.

Macey opened the bag, and horror of horrors it had underwear in it. And not just any underwear, it was the unspeakable things Liz and I had thought we avoided buying the day before!

"Macey! We got underwear!" Liz explained with flaming cheeks.

"But nothing that would work with what you're wearing!" Macey explained. "You needed something that would work well underneath your dresses and something that wouldn't ride up under your shorts!" She laid out a set for each of us. Liz's face was as red as her set and I blushed when I saw what she got me.

"You needed something more supportive, especially you Cam, and as your best friends we found it to be our responsibility to make sure we didn't have another incident like at the ball." Bex explained as we stared blankly at what they had offered.

It wasn't so bad really, a little something to go underneath on top and something to go on bottom that looked both cute and functional.

"And," Macey said drawing our attention to the shorts that accompanied the earlier items. "We got you shorts with pockets so we can all carry our phones with us."

"We didn't even have phones yesterday." I protested.

"Yeah but your mom mentioned getting them, so we decided it would be a good fail safe. Now, Liz you go put on stage one." Macey instructed throwing a pink button up shirt (where did she get that?) on Liz's pile and a purple one on mine before moving to the bathroom with her own. "Brush out your hair when you're done, I'm going to shower.

Macey's shower was over in a flash and eventually Liz and I stopped grumbling about Bex and Macey's secret purchase. I showered exactly to Macey's instructions (getting more and more impatient with every passing minute) and slipped on the unwanted gift before waiting for Bex to finish. Macey sat with us in her blue button up shirt as we brushed our hair one hundred times. After Bex appeared in her red button up shirt, we were all ready for stage two.

"Okay, now it's time to wash our faces and use that face mask that Liz made a while back." Macey said as we crossed to the bathroom.

"Do we have enough?" I asked.

"Definitely, not get working." Macey said handing me a bottle and I began washing my face.

It's a very laborious process. It involves scrubbing your face twice, once with a really painful scrub that burns and then with a different painful scrub that burns more. Then we applied Liz's magic face mask that we had to let sit for five minutes. As we waited, we chatted.

"I always feel like a green monster with this stuff on my face." I remarked as we sat on the floor of the bathroom with my mom.

"Yeah, I like to pretend I'm the hulk." Liz said with a smile.

"Sometimes I hit people really hard and if I knock them unconscious after not so long of a fight, I always tell myself I'm the hulk." Bex admitted.

"Bex SMASH!" I said in a deep voice.

"Cam, Zach wants you to text him back and I'm not supposed to tell you." Macey said as she typed a reply on her phone.

"I don't know where my phone went." I lied.

"Liar." My mom said, calling me out.

I sighed. "Fine, I just keep forgetting he sends me messages and then I'm having fun with you guys and I don't really want to reply." I said reaching for my phone.

"Aww Cam you're sweet." Liz said and I grinned at her.

"No you're sweet Liz." I said poking her in the stomach.

"Oh no, we aren't doing this right now." Bex said coming to seperate us.

Liz and I made disappointed noises.

"We don't have time for it today, you can later though." Macey said patting my shoulder comfortingly and my mom laughed.

"Alright, it's been five minutes." I said standing up. We all crossed to the sink and rinsed off our faces then dabbed them on our color coordinated towels before moisturizing.

"Okay, it's time for make up." Macey said. "Mrs. Morgan, I want you to help Liz with hers. Something natural and nothing too harsh. Cam, you're going to help me do mine then I'll do yours when I'm done. Mrs. Morgan will you do Bex when you're done with Liz?"

"You're the boss." My mom said with a smile before reaching for one of the same chairs that we used when we waxed just a few days before.

So it began. Makeup and hair always take the longest amount of time, on a regular basis we could take ten minutes to do our makeup, each, but this wasn't a regular day so I estimated that it would take a half hour each with makeup and at least an hour and a half per person with hair if all went according to plan. We might be cutting it close.

Doing make up with Macey was easy and fun, she liked to chatter while she did her makeup and all I really had to do was pass her certain things when she asked for them.

"Hand me the big fluffy brush." She asked as we began. She knew I had no idea which brush was named what, and this would be much faster than me searching for the one she was talking about.

We chatted about trivial things for a while, about school, and the guys and their plans for the e

"So what do you have planned for makeup?" I asked her.

"For you or for me?" She asked.

"Both."

"Okay, well I'm doing a sort of basic evening makeup on myself, you know the one where I use the really shimmery eye shadow that catches the light?" I nodded that I knew what she was talking about. "Then I'm trying this new idea I've had for a while on you, it might take a few minutes but it will work perfectly on you for tonight."

"Are you going to do the smokey eye thing?" I asked.

"I'm going to try something similar to it." She said. "It's the same basic principles but not really…" She paused for a minute and looked at me. "That didn't make any sense, sorry. It's hard to explain. For the moment it's just a picture in my head and I don't really know how to put it into words yet."

"I know the feeling. I can't wait to see it. Why do they call it a smokey eye?"

"Because it looks like smoke."

"But it doesn't really, I mean you can hardly see smoke some of the time and most of the time when people do smokey eyes it looks really dark."

"Do you remember that one time we caught the chem labs on fire and the smoke was like black?"

"Oh yeah that was really intense."

"Yeah it was…" She trailed off.

"This one time when we were seventh graders we caught the science lab on fire and the fire was like, blue but also green."

"What color was the smoke?"

"Like, purple."

"I never understood how smoke could be different colors."

"Me either... Are you going to tell me how you caught that teachers head on fire?"

"It was an accident really. I didn't exactly mean too. We were doing this lab where we mixed a bunch of random things to see what could and couldn't make good lighter fluid, me and my lab partner decided to see what would happen if we dumped all the chemicals except for the ones we knew wouldn't work onto the thing and then light it on fire. Well, needless to say it exploded and luckily for me and my partner we had leaned away from it because it caught the ceiling on fire in this never ending fiery inferno. It was like a column of fire from the beaker to the ceiling and I don't think it ever would've ended. The teacher ran over to put it out but got too close and his head and his hair caught on fire. There was this huge panic and everyone was screaming while me and my lab partner just sat there trying not to laugh. It was kind of great and horrible all at the same time." She explained and by the end of it I was dying.

"Oh my gosh Macey!" I exclaimed.

"Well after everyone had calmed down and after the fire was put out, my lab partner and I were called down to the headmasters office. He was not very happy. We ended up having to call the fire department and the science teacher needed an ambulance so you can image the mood he was in. We got a stern talking to before being informed that our parents were going to be contacted and we were expelled from the school and banned from the premises. It was great. Done."

We were both laughing as we switched places.

"That was fast." My mom remarked.

"That was fifteen minutes." Macey protested.

"It was almost twenty." I commented.

She looked at us and gave us a sly look. "Come see how pretty Liz looks." She said smiling. We crossed over to where they sat and I gasped.

"Liz...you look gorgeous." I said wide eyed.

"Jonas is going to be all over you!" Macey explained laughing.

"Well, I'm not done yet." My mom said with a wink.

"Can I see what you've done so far?" Liz asked politely.

"Sure." My mom stepped out of way of the way of the mirror and Liz gasped.

She reached up hesitantly to her face. It was so simple, it was genius. She had found a way to emphasis Liz's best points, her big blue eyes looked absolutely stunning and her skin looked pale and perfect. Every feature had been emphasised making it look like she wasn't really wearing makeup.

"Wow...it's like a perfect version of me." She said in awe.

"You're already perfect Liz." I said giving her a small smile.

She grinned at me.

"Okay, you can finish now." Liz said smiling to herself.

"Come on Cam, it's your turn." Macey said pulling me to the chair she had just vacated.

For the next 45 minutes Macey worked on my make up. I don't know exactly what she was doing, she kept switching brushes and wiping things off and putting new things on. She stared so intently at my face for a while I thought she was trying to see through it. About ten minutes after I started, Bex began getting her makeup done and she finished getting it on before me. As the last one getting their makeup done, they all crowded around me.

"Wow Macey it looks great." Bex said as she walked into my view.

"Bex you look fabulous!" I exclaimed.

"Don't move." Macey instructed.

"You look twenty times better Cam I promise.

"Okay Cam, as soon as I'm done with your lips, I'll let you see." Macey said as an incentive to hold still.

"Are you almost done at least?" I asked, really getting fidgety.

"Yeah, lips are the last thing." She said picking up a lip liner and a lipstick.

I sat there with my hands squished in between my thighs, seriously getting impatient. As Macey leaned closer to my lips, Bex and Liz leaned in close with here. I made eye contact with Liz and Bex and tried very hard not to laugh. Bex grinned widely and Liz giggled.

"Don't make her laugh." Macey said.

Bex and Liz looked suitably chastened. Not.

"Hey Liz did I ever tell you my pie shop joke?" Bex asked.

"No, I don't believe you did."

"Bex." Macey said warning her. "I've been working on Cam for almost an hour, if you ruin it now-" Bex cut her off.

"Cam won't even think it's funny. Okay Liz, so a grasshopper walks into a pie shop and the owner of the pie shop comes out and says 'Wow, a grasshopper' he then walks up the grasshopper and says 'This is such an honor sir, you know we have a pie named after you'. The grasshopper is so touched he grins widely and says excitedly 'You have a pie named Kenneth?!'" She finished with flare.

Liz burst into laughter and I fought the urge to laugh along with her.

"Hold on Cam, just a few more minutes." Macey said pleadingly. "I'm almost done, I know you want to be done just as much as I do."

I am proud to say that I didn't laugh, it was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do, but I did it. Finally another two minutes later, Macey told me to rub my lips together one final time and I was finally free to see what had taken so long.

"Okay, you ready to see your makeup Cam?" Macey asked smiling.

Bex and Liz and my mom grinned at me. "So beyond ready." I replied running a hand through my hair.

"Okay." Macey stepped to the side and I looked into the mirror.

I didn't even realize that it was me for a minute. I mean, I still looked like me...but a better me. Macey was a wiz with makeup. My eyelids were covered in a smokey eye fashion but not as dark and whatever it was made my blue eyes pop. My skin looked flawless, my cheeks looked naturally rosy and my lips were a perfect pink. It looked incredibly natural...yet insanely fancy all at once. I don't know how she managed to do it.

"Wow...Mace I look incredible. Thank you!" I jumped up to hug here. "I never expected to be beautiful."

"Cam, you're gorgeous, especially without makeup." Bex said joining our hug.

"Get in here Liz." I said calling our short friend to join us.

After we broke apart, I turned to Macey. "Okay, what's next." I asked.

"Now, it's time for hair." Macey said gesturing to the curling irons and hair straighteners.

First we all applied heat protection, oil, and gel to our hair. After that Macey and Liz blow dried their hair then moved into the bathroom to straighten their hair while Bex and I dried our hair. Now, Macey and Liz both have naturally straight hair so by the time me and Bex were done drying our incredibly thick hair, they were ready to curl our hair. Bex sat in her chair by Macey who was going to give her what I can only describe as loose ringlets. My mom and Liz were going to curl my hair into princess curls that would hang down my back. We estimated that we would be done with hair by 5:45, enough time to change and take pictures.

My mom let Liz start out with the curling irons, I didn't know how well this would work out, but Liz actually has a very light touch and knew her way around the wand. As they worked on my hair, my mom would offer tips or point out strands that could easily be missed, but it was honestly mostly Liz doing my hair. Liz has braided my hair before but she hasn't done anything this intense on my hair, like, ever and I was a little nervous. About an hour and fifteen minutes of singing loudly and off pitch with the music playing on Macey's iPod, Bex's hair was curled and we were waiting for Liz to finish with mine. I was anxious to see how my hair looked, because I was facing away from the mirror and all the reflective objects in the room were at the wrong angle for me to see.

"Okay, I'm going to go and check on the boys to see how they're doing. Don't let her see her hair until I get back." My mom said after glancing at her phone.

"You got it." Macey said from where she sat (on the floor in front of me).

"And don't give her the phone either she'll just use it to-"

"We know Mrs. Morgan." Bex said with a smile from where she lounged (on the chair that she had pulled next to mine).

"I'll be done in about five minutes." Liz said as she picked up another piece of hair.

"Okay, I'll try to hurry." My mom said before turning and leaving.

"It's burning in here!" I exclaimed. The curling irons and straighteners had been on for over an hour, and Florida's hot weather wasn't helping.

"I'll text your mom and ask her to turn on the AC." Bex said pulling my phone from the pocket on her button up shirt. "Oh, you have a text from Zach." Bex said.

"What does it say?" I asked.

"'I can't believe you guys stole our pillows.'" She read in a deep voice, trying to imitate Zach.

"Text back...'You have no proof that we did.'" I instructed and she did.

"Has anyone actually been checking their phone?" Liz asked.

"I haven't been." I said.

"I haven't either." Bex replied.

"I have, but mostly because I've almost got Preston to spill on what their plans are." Macey said. "But I haven't replied in a while, in a couple hours actually."

"He said 'Oh, so if I go into your room right now I won't see our pillows.'" Bex read off.

"Tell him I'll kick him if he enters without permission." Macey said.

"That would be fun to see." I said.

"Here, let me reply." Macey said grabbing my phone. Bex got down on the floor next to her to see what she said.

"I have a feeling that I'm going to regret giving them my phone." I said.

"You didn't give it to us, we took it." Bex said.

"Aw." Macey said disappointedly.

"What?" I asked.

"He knew it was me." She complained.

"How dare he!" I said in a mock scandalized voice before laughing.

"Okay, I'm back." My mom said as she entered the room, looking slightly out of breath.

"Wow, that was really fast." I remarked.

"How are the boys doing?" Macey asked.

"They're good. They're now getting ready to go. Everything is set up as far as I can tell."

"Solomon?" Bex asked with an amused smile on her face.

"He looks ready to murder them all. He wants to come see you girls before you go." She replied.

"Oh wow...they can be a handful." I said referencing the four teenage boys Solomon had been stuck with for the past few hours.

"He told me to remind him to never accept a job at Blackthorne." She confided and we all laughed.

"Okay Cam, your hair's done." Liz said stepping away from the chair.

"So I can look?" I clarified.

"You can look." Macey said.

I whirled around to see my hair in the mirror. It turns out Liz did more than curl, my hair had a beautiful french braid from my left temple that went around my head in a crown that emphasised the curls. The curls themselves looked like something out of a million dollar movie. They looked and felt soft and fell loosely, but not too loose, all down my back and over my shoulders. Paired with the makeup, I looked like a fairy tale princess.

"Wow, Liz…Thank you so much! It's perfect! Where did you learn to do this?" I asked.

She laughed a little. "I have three sisters Cam, this is what we do in our spare time!" She exclaimed.

"Macey I want Liz to do my hair now." I said turning to look at my two friends on the floor.

"I think I want Liz to do my hair too." Macey said reaching out to touch the gentle curls.

"Liz can do all of our hair later, we've got to get dressed." Bex said pulling herself to her feet as we crossed to the finishing room.

We all walked carefully around the chairs and our mess towards the room with all of our clothing. We all moved to take our dresses off the hangers, but my mom stopped us.

"Hold up your dresses and just look at them for a second, I want to take a picture." She asked us. We exchanged looks but did as she asked.

"Okay, great, now Cam and Bex you two take three steps back. Right there. Everyone looking at your dresses. Macey a little higher. Great. I got the picture, you're free to change." She instructed.

"Have you been taking pictures this whole time?" I asked as I undid my button up shirt.

"Maybe." She said mysteriously.

"Oh she definitely has. I officially need help getting into my dress." Bex said.

"Me too." I admitted looking at the huge pink ruffly mass of gorgeous.

"Come help me, then I'll help you." Bex said, that's what we had done in the store.

"Awesome." I carefully hung my dress back up and moved to help Bex.

I held open the top of the long red dress for her to step into. She carefully into the hole before we pulled the dress up around her torso. I did up the zipper and the buttons and helped arrange the layers of skirt.

"You want to know what I just realized?" Bex asked.

"What?" I replied.

"There's no way I'm going to be able to help you in this thing." Bex said helplessly gesturing to her dress.

"I'll help you Cam." Macey said as she shrugged her blazer on and arranged her hair.

"I can help do up the laces too." Liz said as she arranged her shawl-like-shrug over her adorable white dress.

"Awesome." I said as we pulled the dress off the hanger.

Macey held open the top of the dress as I stepped into the long pink gown.

"Let's double check to make sure the bra is secure." Liz said. We giggled as she tugged it to make sure it was secure. "Okay, we're good." She said and we laughed a little more.

Macey held the flap of fabric that went behind the laces in place as Liz pulled the ribbon through the holes and pulled them tight. I thought I saw my mom catch another picture.

"Wow, Cam that looks really good on you." Bex remarked.

"It shows off your curves really well." Macey agreed.

"I love how Bex's dress looks honestly." I said gesturing to my insanely gorgeous friend.

"So do I, the red sets off her eyes and she looks like something out of a story." Liz agreed.

"You all look gorgeous." My mom remarked.

"Yeah we do!" Bex yelled.

"I'm going to go get Solomon, he'll want to see this." My mom said. "Don't move. Actually, I changed my mind I'm just going to call him." She decided pulling out her phone.

We looked at each other and Bex mouthed 'Speed dial' and we all giggled. My mom shot us a look but didn't say anything.

"They're ready." Is all she said when he answered and seconds later she hung up.

"That was the shortest phone call I've ever heard." I remarked.

"That was all that needed to be said." She remarked as she crossed to the door.

We heard a knock just as she moved to open it. Macey mouthed 'Love' and we laughed again as Mr. Solomon came in.

"Wow." He said, eye's wide as he entered the room and saw us.

"We aren't quite finished yet." I said as he eye our dresses.

"You girls look lovely." He said finally.

"Thank you Mr. Solomon." We replied in unison.

"The boys are going to...Maybe we shouldn't let them go." He said turning to my mom. She just rolled her eyes.

"Of course they're going, they're smart responsible girls and I trust them completely. You should too." She explained as we stared at them. He nodded eventually.

"Just remember my training girls, I don't trust them not to do something stupid." He said shaking his head.

"Have you had a rough day with them Solomon?" Liz asked teasingly.

He gave us the look of a man who had died inside. "You have no idea. What you girls see in them, I'll never know. You deserve better." We laughed.

"Thanks Solomon, but we'll stick with the four that are crazy enough to think they can handle us." Macey said with a laugh. "Now, Cam was right, we aren't finished."

"What could possibly be left?" Liz asked, baffled.

I looked at her, slightly dead inside myself. "Accessories." I said seriously.

She let out a small whine.

I grabbed her hand and together we walked towards the jewelry boxes. It actually ended up being much better than I expected. Macey quickly handed me some diamond stud earrings as well as my matching ring, and a diamond looking necklace. Considering the fact that both earrings and necklace were Maceys, I didn't doubt they were real. Bex got a gold chain that had a small charm at the bottom of the necklace that I couldn't quite make out. She also got a gold charm bracelet, and although her theme was gold she slipped on her matching ring anyway. Liz simply wore her matching ring and one of my charm bracelets. Macey slipped in some red dangly earrings and put on her matching ring. After we had all of our accessories on we were ready. Well, we hadn't put our shoes on yet but that's beside the point.

We turned to look at Solomon and my mom.

"So, what do you think?" Liz asked.

"It makes me wish Gallagher had a prom." My mom said teary eyed.

"It makes me glad Gallagher doesn't have a prom." Solomon said. "You ladies look beautiful."

"Thank you." We all replied with varied degrees of enthusiasm.

"Well, I think we're practically ready." I said surveying my friends.

"I'm in charge of bringing you ladies down one at a time and Jonas will be expecting Liz any minute now." Solomon informed us.

"Put your shoes on and let me take a picture." My mom said grabbing her phone. We all quickly put on our shoes then wrapped our arms around each other and smiled for the camera.

"Okay Lizzie." Bex said turning to look at her. "If you need anything at all, if there's any kind of emergency just let us know and we'll come for you."

Liz nodded and I took over. "You have your phone and emergency money right?" She nodded. "Good, good. You're going to have a ton of fun tonight! We'll see you when you get back!" I said wrapping her in a hug and smiling at her. "Don't do anything we would do."

"Don't you mean 'Don't do anything we wouldn't do'?" Macey asked smiling.

"Well, I would but there isn't much we collectively wouldn't do and we can't have that." I said with a grin and we all laughed.

"Here," Macey said spraying us all with that fabulous scent we had bought at the boutique what seemed like ages ago. "Now we all match." She said quoting Bex's earlier remark from days ago.

"You guys be careful tonight." Liz said as she looked at us each in turn. "Especially you, Cammie." We all laughed again.

"Alright we will, we will, now go have the time of your life!" I said pushing her towards the door.

"Bye Liz!"

"Don't do anything stupid."

"Like that's possible, have fun!"

We all called to her as she walked down the steps with Solomon. It had begun.