Dressing Up

 

 

 

 

 

It was the night of the masquerade party. Catherine had all her "friends" - Mia, Kayla, Alison, and Zoey - over at her house. General rule was, "no friends allowed at home" because Catherine's parents considered their household and family name higher and more powerful than the other families in town.

Catherine didn't care though. Her little posse was always over sometime or another, whether because she was bored, needed someone to do her homework, or other times they were jut plotting (how to scare the new victim away and out of town). This time though, the girls were picking out dresses.

Catherine whirled around when she heard an ear piercing shriek that would have killed everyone if it had gone through a microphone.

It ws Zoey. Catherine's white closet doors were open and the short blonde girl was holding up a sleeveless pink frilly dress. "Oh my gosh!" She held it to her body. "This is so pretty!!!" She shrieked. 

Kayla went through Catherine's closet and pulled out a sea-green colored dress. It had small frills here and there with sparkly silver straps. There was also a matching sparkly silver belt going across the stomach. 

Kayla took the dress off of the hanger and held it in front of Zoey. "Girl, I think this matches you better. It matches your eyes. Then you can curl your hair in soft light curls and you'd look drop-dead GORGEOUS." Kayla smiled

Alison however, groaned. "You idiot!" she hit Kayla. "This is a MASQUERADE PARTY with MASKS. We're not going to see any EYES."

Mia rolled her eyes. "Um, HELLO! There's something called EYEHOLES. How else are people supposed to see through masks?" She scoffed and put her hands on her hips. When there was no reaction from any of the girls, she flipped her hair over one shoulder. "Too fab for you." She said in a sassy voice with her arms crossed and looked out the window awkwardly.  

Alison got a pretty purple dress and looked at it. "I think this will match my skin. I mean, I'm tan enough." She went in front of the full length mirror and held the dress up in front of her. "Yep. Perfect." She muttered to herself. "Now I just need ear rings and a purple hair accessory to match~" She sang. 

Without a word, Alison left to the bathroom down the hall and came back in her dress...well...Catherine's dress. Everyone watched as Alison applied a generous amount of bright purple lipstick to her lips and brushed her eyelids over with glittery different shades of dark blue and purple, with blue starting at the base of her eyes, purple on the eyelids, and a little pink at the very top, near her eyebrows. She glanced at herself in the mirror and her smile turned into one of dissatisfaction. "Kayla, you got some white eyeliner and purple mascara?" She asked. 

Kayla rolled her eyes. "What makes you think I have all that nonsense?" she scoffed.

Zoey shrugged and counted off her fingers, "Well, you ARE the daughter of a cosmetics company, and you ARE always the make up sponsor for EVERYTHING...." Zoey looked up and then back down at her two fingers. "Yeah...that's all I got. Anyone else got something?" she asked.

Mia cringed at Zoey's stupidity and Catherine resisted the urge to chuck a pillow at the thin girl, which was pretty temtping especially when she was sitting on her bed and there was a pillow within reach. 

Kayla just looked at Zoey with a dumbfounded expression and shook her head. "Just keep quiet, just keep quiet." she patted Zoey's back but she only grinned back. "I'll do just that!" She nodded eagerly. 

"Um, hello?" Alison cleared her throat. "I need that make up!" 

"Yeah, in the make up bag. Duh." Kayla waved her hand.

Alison avoided eye contact. "I knew that~!" She sang under her breath. "...no i didn't~!"

A couple minutes later, Alison was already done with her party outfit. "Your turn." She pushed Zoey out the door with her sea-green dress. "Come back when you're done!" She threw the make up bag at Zoey, who, as expected, failed to catch it.

Kayla, who was impatient and decided that Zoey was too slow, decided to change in Catherine's closet. Catherine just watched as her closet doors closed shut with a bored expression. Was Kayla serious?! She was going to get dressed in a closet. A freaking closet.

Whatever, Catherine blew her bangs. Whatever floats her boat.

In the next couple minutes, Zoey had come back from the bathroom. "Where's the make up?" She asked. When no one answered, Zoey looked confused until Catherine couldn't take it anymore and jabbed her finger towards the door. 

"Over there, Dummy." She refrained herself from calling Zoe much worse than just "dummy" but then again, the girl's feelings were easily hurt. Zoey came back with light blue eyeshadow and bright blue-lined eyes with silver lip gloss.

Kayla came out of the closet and put on make up accordingly. Mia ended up wearing a bright yellow strapless dress and Catherine wore a blue chiffon dress. Catherine only applied mascara and eyeliner, and Mia did the same. 

The only ones with over-done make up were Alison, Zoey, and Kayla...well, who else would they be?

They each chose a mask, and went downstairs to raid Catherine's shoe closet, and Mia's limo came to pick them up.

 

 

 

 

 

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Hey guys, I'm really sorry for not updating for - what, a month? I don't even remember anymore.

But I'm really sorry! 

I went on vacation for a week  with a tour group that required us to wake up every morning at 5 in order to leave at 6AM and it was really tiring. 

Then, I had dance nationals on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, AND Wednesday. I had to wake up everyday at 4:30 in the morning to get my hair, makeup, and costume ready to be on stage at 6:15AM. 

But, I'm still alive, so here's your update!

Comments are greatly appreciated! They keep me going~