Chapter 14
Aria and I are at the mall looking at dresses. This day cannot get worse. I am hosting a party tomorrow, and buying a dress for it...
We go into Forever 21, which is making me want to vomit on the clothes that they have. All the clothes look tight, shows too much cleavage and they have holes! The jeans have the largest holes I have ever seen. I can literally put my hand through it. I don’t even know why people wear these types of jeans if half of the jean is like ripped. Why don’t they just wear shorts? Even the shirts have holes! What kind of shirt has a hole? Why would someone even buy that? So the boys can in their shirts? Checking if we are wearing bras?
Whatever, I shouldn’t even bother trying to understand why this store sells this crap. I walk all the way to Aria seeing what she’s doing. She’s looking at tight black dresses. They look like sluts wear them. This is so stupid, yet I just want to wonder what Jackson would say when he sees me in this dress.
“Aria, what the hell are you doing?”
“What? I’m just choosing a dress for you and for me.” She says while holding up a dress and looking at it carefully. I don’t wear dresses, and I won’t wear that sleazy, slutty dress. I would rather swim in bleach then wear that dress.
“Aria, I am not wearing that dress. It looks like I’m going to a nightclub or something!”
“Nah, don’t worry. And don’t you want people to say you look hot? I mean, you would look so hot if you wore this. I think Jackson would like it.” She says grinning at me with a wink. I am not telling her I kissed Jackson. Maybe I’ll tell her at the party. Hopefully that she will end up drunk or something and will forget what I said to her.
“But I…. Aria I really don’t want to wear a dress.”
“Too late. You're going to wear a dress, and you're going to try one on right now. Go to the change room and when you're finished call me so I can see what you look like.”
“Ugh fine. But I am not going to like it.” I say and she hands me the dress and winks at me. I seriously think that she wants me to look like an idiot. I go into the dress room and this lady asks me what my name is. I am not going to give my name to a stranger that I hardly know but Aria tells it to her. Great. If she dares to stalk me, I’m going to call the police. I close the door, lock it and look at myself in the mirror. I look cute, but not hot as Amanda. I comb down my hair and turn to get the dress. I take of my shirt and pants and put on the dress. It is so tight that I cannot breathe. But damn it looks good on me! I spin around slowly to see how my butt looks and it actually looks good. My body looks great in this dress. It’s a good colour, too. It’s a dark blue, almost like a black but if you look at it closely you can see that it’s really blue. My favourite colour.
I open the door so Aria can see the dress. As I open the door I see Aria talking to someone. Someone I feel like I know. I have seen him before. The way he talks, the way he puts his hand through his hair. Hoping that it’s not Jackson calms me down. But knowing that it’s not him, scares me. I come close to Aria and see who that person is. It’s that crappy boy Michael. I really don’t know why on earth he is here. I mean it’s a girl’s store for god’s sake. I mean, come on. If he’s only here because he wanted to see Aria, I’m going to scream. I walk all the way to Aria and tap her on her shoulder. Michael’s eyes light up when he sees me. Maybe it’s because he’s happy to see me or because he likes how my butt looks in this dress. Douche bag.
Aria looks at me and her eyes light up and for her, I only think that’s because she likes how the dress looks on me and I do too.
“OMG you look so hot!!!” She says in such a loud voice. Damn that girl is going to get me in trouble.
“Yeah you do.” Michael says while looking down onto the floor blushing.
“Great. Aria, what the hell are you doing?” I say putting on a mad face because after what Michael has done to Aria. By kissing Amanda, that boy makes me want to punch him in the face.
“Mia, don’t be rude.”
“Don’t be rude? Don’t be rude? What the hell do you mean by don’t be rude? He kissed Amanda, Aria! Get that straight in your head! He kissed Amanda!” I say feeling so much better. Aria knew, but somehow, she didn’t want to believe it. I walk away from them and look in the mirror. I feel so angry that I just want to run away from this place but if I do, then the theft detector thing will beep. I can’t ruin my reputation by making everyone think that I stole a slutty dress. No one wants that from a teenage girl.
“Mia, wait!” Aria says walking towards me. I really don’t want to talk to her, or listen to her but I can’t be mad at her. She’s my best friend, so I gotta suck it up and just listen to what she is saying. It better be good.
“What?” I say, putting my hands on my hips. This better be good.
“Mia, what’s wrong?”
“What’s wrong? You're asking me what’s wrong? Aria, the guy kissed the sluttiest girl in our school! You saw him for yourself! I slapped the shit out of him for you Aria! And now you're asking me what’s wrong? Well guess what, if you go out with him or something or do anything with him, we are over. Ok? Over. I don’t want him to hurt your feelings again because if he does, I’m not going to be there to kick his sorry little ass.” I say while putting my fingers through my hair.
I am so mad that I don’t even want to see his face any more. I close my eyes then feel someone hugging me. I open my eyes and I see that it's Aria. She is hugging me. Damn I thought she was going to like, slap me across the face. I guess she really is my best friend.
“Aria, what the?”
“I’m sorry. You’re right. Michael is a douchebag. I was just talking to him because he apologized for what was happening. He didn’t really know that Amanda was going to kiss him. He came up to me when he saw me in the store. He just wanted to say sorry Mia, and he is, but you’re right. He is not the right guy for me.” She says while patting my back, which feels good.
I cannot believe that came out of Aria’s mouth. I thought she would never figure it out that he is not right for her. It makes me so happy that she figured it out now. So happy. I sigh and hug Aria harder. I love her so much.
“Ok so should we buy this dress then?”
“OMG yes! You look so sexy in this Mia!”
“Ok, ok, but what about you? I am not buying a dress if you're not buying.” I say still hugging her.
I keep trying to see if Michael is still here but I think he left. Thank god. I always hated that boy.
“Don’t worry. I have mine here.” She says while breaking out of the hug so she can show me her dress. She goes to her cart and picks it up. The dress looks just like mine except it’s black. A little bit shiny but looks very cute.
“Wow Aria. That’s really pretty.”
“I know right!” She says while putting it back in the cart. She looks at me with such a huge big smile on her face. I can’t believe we are actually throwing a party. Oh, I should also tell Aria that we should just tell everyone at school tomorrow since the party is tomorrow.
“You maybe should take of your dress so we can actually pay for it.” She says, laughing as she looks at me. I laugh too and walk back to my change room so I can change into my clothes. I take the dress off and put on my blue t-shirt and tights and walk out of the room with my dress. The dress that I’m going to wear at the party. The dress that Jackson will love. The dress that may make him want to take it off me because I look so sexy in it.