We got home after about an hour, and currently Christina is crashing on our couch. Poor thing, must be exhausted. And yes! Guys who don't know our pain, shopping is tiring! Seriously, you get muscles from that heavy lifting, clothes are heavy! Guys if you want your girl to be impressed and even more in love with you, do laundry! You'll get beefy in no time plus you're doing chores. But, back to our small little two bedroom apartment. I'm putting my clothes away in my room playing Young Volcanoes by Fall Out Boy and dancing with my clothes. (yes I know I'm ridiculous) Picking up my room and screwing around with my make up and the mirror in the bathroom. I decide that Christina needs a blast of color in her life, so I change her shampoo with my hair dye and mix the conditioner. I smile to myself and grab my earbuds, moving to the kitchen and checking the time, 6:45. The girls should be over in a few, meaning I should probably wake up Chrissy.
I smile and start up dinner, a few minutes into it I see her stir and I smile. Grabbing three ice cubes and quickly putting two in her bra. She squeals and jumps up "Tris!?" I laugh and slide the other one in her pants, she screams again and runs to her room shouting "Cold!" I laugh harder and hold my stomach, I giggle and walk back into the kitchen, checking the pasta. No I am not the greatest cook, plus I'm tired.
Someone knocks on the door as soon as I turn off the burner, I pause my music and open the door. The girls are standing there, all smiling at me. "Tris. Heeeeey," Lauren says in a preppy voice, I laugh lightly and wave them all in, Shauna sniffs the air and looks at me, "Smells good Tris, spaghetti?"
"Yeah, Christina took me shopping-"
"The Pedrad party right?" Marlene asks,
"Yeah," I say slowly,
"Omg! We're going too!" Lauren squeals,
"All of you?" I point between the four of them, they all nod
"Yeah, but speaking of Chrissy, where is she?" Molly asks as I walk over to the cupboard and grab a stack of plates, "Dunno-"
"Beatrice Elizabeth Prior you are SO dead!" Christina screams, I can't help but smile at the girls, who all give me a what-did-you-do look. Christina storms into the kitchen in nothing but a towel with the water steaming up off of her, she's pointing to her hair and glaring at me with more fury than what I thought was physically possible. Her hair, apparently the problem, is bleach blonde and gold. "Oh goodness Christina," I say in shock, putting a hand over my mouth, she crumples to the stool at the bar and puts her face in her hands. "Does it really look that bad?" she dares to ask, looking at us, the girls look at her, then me and back again, ugh, fine. I clear my throat and smile, "It's not, don't worry,"
"Yeah! You can totally rock blonde and white with that pretty white cowl dress you got and some gold eyeshadow, sparkles can fix everything." Lauren says matter-of-factly, thank God for more than one fashionista friend. She still pouts but looks a lot better from that statement, "Really?" She asks quietly. We all give an encouraging nod and smile, then she looks at me while holding some hair in front of her so she can see it, "Please tell me it's not permanent,"
"It's not, don't worry, you'll be fine It'll wear out in a few days," I smile, "You hungry?" She looks like she's going to cry, "No, I just, want to figure this out-" and her signature stomach growl echoes through the rooms, the girls and I laugh and I say in a mushy tone "Aww c'mon, I made your favorite?" I pucker my lips and hold up a plate of noodles and meatballs, "No Tris. Really, what if I can't meet a guy 'cause my hair's screwed up?" Molly helps herself to food and Lauren runs to Chrissy's room coming back with all of her makeup, and that's a lot. Dumping it on the floor and going through it all. I sigh and raise my eyebrows at my best friend, "Really Christina? I didn't think you were the type to get serious," She frowns at me and Marlene laughs, "Oh wait, you meant getting down and dirty in the guest bedroom," Her jaw drops at me and Shauna covers her mouth stifling a laugh. "Well honey I got news for you, if you wanna 'meet a guy' then you can start meeting these beautiful meatballs and spaghetti that I spent an hour on,"
"Tris!" She gasps and stares at me,
"Hey at least I didn't say get your slurp on, God." I roll my eyes and set the plate in front of her. "Tris!" She yells again, but she's smiling, and of course Molly is the awesomest friend ever and makes a slurping noise as she sucks noodles in her mouth. We all start laughing. Eventually everyone starts eating around 7:30 and finish close to 8. Apparently, someone and I won't say who, invited the girls to spend the night with us, so they all left to Shaunas 918 Porsche to get their things. I sigh and flop on the couch as Christina walks over in her boy shorts and oversized blue t. With a finished shower, all was forgiven after she felt pretty again. I smiled at her as she grabbed the T.V. remote, and flipped to Pretty Little Liars, honestly I could care less about the show, but Christinas in love with it. So I put up with her all day marathons whenever it happens and run her errands, get her chips and stuff and so on. Her marathon day is her lazy day, she'd be working now if I hadn't bargained with her boss about a few days off because she moved in with me.
Currently she's attending Bartending School, and I'm happy for her, but to earn the money to pay for it she's a waitress and chaperone for a nice restaurant called D.I.A. it's very popular and always busy. I've read her reviews, she's very good, and devoted to her work. She just need's some time off, and her boss wasn't as awful as people say so, score! And the outcome of my niceness is being dragged to a party with her. The girls all come back in and I tell them I'm headed to the shower, checking for the right shampoo and conditioner I get in and take a cold one, washing my hair and the like. Thinking about our families that we left to grow up so fast in our own world, I miss my mom and brother, and I know Cristina misses her parents and her little sisters, she just never admits it. She decided to move in with me, as soon as highschool ended, being on your own at 18 isn't easy, and I warned her, but she seems fixed on sticking with me, even if it means cutting yourself from any help from your parents. We still talk to them, every once in a while, but even that's not enough for all of us.
I get out and dry off, getting changed into my fuzzy pants and white t-shirt. I put my hair into a messy bun and walk out the the girls, who are all hustled around in the living room giggling and watching T.V. making little comments about what happens or what's going to happen next. I smile and sit on the couch catching Laurens eye, she gets up and takes my wrist, guiding me to the kitchen. She stops and looks at me, like, really looks at me. Then she hugs me tightly, I hug back and she says "I missed you Tris,"
"I missed you too Lauren, all of you girls," I say, pulling away from her, taking her in. She got her eyebrow pierced, her eyes still a mix of green and hazel, with her long dark wavy hair. She was still pretty, and still taller than me. "Tris, I hate to ask, but could you help me?"
"Yeah sure, with what?"
"My color scheme,"
"Well show me your dress and we can get down to it," She nods and grabs something golden in a bag out of her duffle, and I take her to my room. She throws on the golden thing and I gasp. It's floor length and a ruffled sheath dress that hugged her curves perfectly, it was laced with small pearls at the lining at the top leaning off as a sleeve that turned into fine lace to her hand. "Oh you look amazing Lauren," She smiled and blushed, looking down,
"Now what colors?" I eyed her for a moment,
"Green and some gold, smudged, and a cat eye with black." She smiled at me,
"Yeah I can do that," she takes it off and hugs me, then we walk back to the living room to see everyone already passed out. It's almost midnight, so I don't blame them for slipping into food-comas. I claim the couch and Lauren tosses a few pillows around before settling in her little nest thing. I smile and drift to sleep.
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