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Chapter 21
~The Next Day~
"Hello?"
I asked answering the phone.
"Hey Linds. How you feeling?" AJ asked.
"A little better, but I haven't really gotten out of bed yet. You
know where Nick is?" I asked sitting up in bed.
"Uh...nope. Hey, is Steph there?" He asked hopefully. I laughed a
little at him.
"Yeah, hold on." I said pressing the ‘hold' button and then the
‘intercom' button. "Steph, it's AJ." I said into the microphone.
I heard
footsteps run up the stairs and her bedroom door shut. I laughed and hung
up the phone when I knew she had picked up. Sighing, I decided I needed
to get up and take a shower. Maybe I'd feel better. I walked into the
closet and grabbed my robe noticing shoe boxes all over the floor. Now, I
know Nick has a lot of shoes, but there were TOO MANY boxes. I picked one
up that was laying on it's side. A few pictures fell out. I recognized
some of them to be from a bbq the Carter's had last summer. Tons of
pictures were taken with Nick and I. There were also a few with the other
Carter kids and me. I placed them back in the box when I saw some
magazine pictures. They were of me and I cringed when I saw myself
looking skinny. I had always been a little chubby with pinchable cheeks
and whatnot, but when this picture was taken my cheek bones were
definitely standing out. I put the picture back and went in the shower. I
smiled thinking of how Nick kept all that stuff and even cut out pics of
me in magazines when we weren't together.
Stepping out of the bathroom, I saw Nick on the floor in the closet
perhaps cleaning up the mess he made. I stood behind him and watched him
for a minute until I decided to make my presence known. I cleared my
throat and he turned around.
"Hey babe, you feeling any better?" He asked standing up and giving
me a quick kiss on the lips.
"Actually I am. Now that I've taken a shower and everything."
"Good...cuz we're going out tonight." He said and walked out of the
room. I ran to the door and yelled down the stairs.
"For what?"
"Your birthday! What'd you think, I forgot?" He asked and then left
the house. I groaned and sat on the bed.
"Why the hell does he keep leaving?" Huffing and getting dressed,
I
walked downstairs to see Steph still on the phone. I walked up behind her
and grabbed the phone out of her hand.
"AJ! Go find someone else to torture! I need my friend back!" I said
into the phone and then hung up. I placed the phone on the table next to
the couch and sat down next to Steph.
"You know he has a girlfriend, right?" I asked her knowing she
really liked him.
"They're having problems." She said fiddling with one of the rings
she wore.
"Do you know where Nick went?" I asked looking at her. She ran a
hand through her short black hair.
"Nope." She answered and left me on the couch. I huffed again. No
one was talking to me. I hated this!
A few hours later, someone was shaking me violently trying to wake
me up. I opened my eyes and looked to see Steph there.
"Wake up. We gotta get ready." She said and dragged me up the
stairs.
"OK, go take another shower, but don't wash your hair. I'm gonna get
dressed while you're in there." I nodded still a little tired and clipped
my long hair into a bun at the top of my head. I took my shower and
walked into the room to see Steph in a long, sleek, sleeve-less, black
dress.
"Let's do your hair." She said.
Half an hour later, my entire head was covered in little ringlets of
blonde hair. Steph had actually curled all my hair and pulled up only
half of it and set it on top of head with a fancy clip. She kept two
little ringlets out to outline my face.
"Perfect." She said and began spraying my head with hair spray.
"Now get changed." She said and scooted me into the bathroom. She
walked away and appeared with a long, navy blue, satin dress. I took it
from her and my jaw practically hit the floor. This was the type of dress
I wanted to wear for my sweet sixteen, but my plans were shot down when
my mom broke the news that I wasn't going to be having one. Steph came
back with panty hose, shoes, and some fancy underwear.
"What the hell is this?" I asked holding up this thing that was
supposed to hold up my boobs.
"Just get dressed." She said and left me for a few minutes. I
quickly changed and opened the door so Steph could help me with the
zipper on the back of the dress.
"You look great!" She said in a giddy voice.
"I wanna see." I said walking away to look in the mirror.
"Not until I do your make-up." She said and sat me down in the
bedroom.
A few minutes later, Steph was done. She blew off the excess eye
shadow and took a look at me. A smile spread across her face and she told
me to go to look in the mirror.
Wow! I never though I'd be saying this about myself, but I looked really
beautiful. The dress made my blue eyes stand out and I was very impresses
with the make-up job. Steph did her make-up quickly and left her hair
down.
"Where exactly are we going?" I asked as we got into her car.
"You'll see." She said quickly glancing at me.
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