Fake it to Make it

Chapter 3

Chapter 3

“Lilly wake up!” my mom yells while knocking on the door. I grab my phone and look at the time only to see that its 8 o’clock and I completely overslept! I walk over to the door and open it to see my angry mom. “I’m sorry mom. I didn’t mean to oversleep!” I tell her. She looks at me, “You’ve already missed 1st period! I’m so done with you!” she rolls her eyes and starts to walk away. “So I can just stay home than?” I yell from upstairs. After she didn’t answer for a minute I just assume I can.  I go back to my bed and text Tessa.

Me: overslept so I won’t be there today. Don’t miss me too much.

Tessa: Don’t worry I won’t miss you at all!

Me: Lies!

Tessa: I know. Gotta go!

Me: Bye

I grab my laptop from beside my bed and log onto my Lizzy hays profile on Facebook. I have a new message from troy.

Troy: hey! I can’t make it next weekend, family plans. /: but I’m not busy this weekend, if you want to meet Saturday?

Lizzy: Oh, um yeah I guess I can. 

Troy:. Meet me at the Starbucks off exit 48B around 2pm. I can’t wait to meet you babe!!

Lizzy: okay! I can’t wait either!! Only 2 more days!

Troy: Just to remind you, you’re so beautiful Lizzy. Thank you for being so amazing :)

Lizzy: Awe, stop! You know you’re not too bad yourself! (:

Troy: :* aren’t you supposed to be at school?

Lizzy: yeah, overslept so I’m staying in today!

Troy: well I’ve got to go; this history assignment isn’t going to do itself. Bye :)

Lizzy: Bye (:

I close my laptop and head downstairs only to miss the last step and go flying forward.

“Lilly dear, you are so clumsy!” my mom laughs.

“I get it from my mom” I mutter.

“there’s some pancakes in the fridge, help yourself” she raises her voice as I step into the kitchen.

I open the fridge and grab the pancakes and syrup then I get a fork and head to the table. When I finish and head over to the living room to watch tv, my mom comes out her room and opens her mouth, “I’m heading out too work. I’ll be back around 6. Love you.”

“Love you too mom.” I say, holding in my excitement.

As mom leaves, I feel so relieved. Now that she’s gone, I can go out shopping for when I meet troy. I take my phone out my back pocket and start to text Tessa.

Me: Moms working today! I’m going to the mall to get ready to meet troy this weekend.

Tessa: I’m in free period, I’ll come meet you up there and just ditch the rest of the day. And I thought you were meeting troy next weekend?

Me: He can’t do next weekend so we rescheduled. Anyways, I’m about to leave in 5 minutes. See you there.

Tessa: Ah, okay. See you in 15 minutes!

 I run up to my room and put on black skinny jeans and a sweater then brush my hair and I don’t bother with makeup. I grab my purse and slip on my flip flops and walk downstairs and out to my car. I hop in and start driving to the mall with my radio up. When I pull in I can see Tessa’s car parked next to me. I get out and go open her door, “you’ve really got to stop keeping your door unlocked. Some stranger could come kill you” I joke.

“yeah, yeah. It’s nice to see you too” she laughs.

We stroll into the mall and head over to Sephora where the nice lady gives me a complete makeover. I bought all the products she used and go to Tara’s boutique to find a perfect dress to wear. Tessa kept showing me dress after dress but none of them felt like me. I kept looking and I finally saw the one. It was a black strapless dress; it was so simple yet so beautiful. I immediately go to the checkout and pay for it, with Tessa behind me. “have a great day” the sales person chants as were walking away.

“So, where too next?” Tessa asks me.

“I guess home, unless you wanted to go somewhere else.”

“Well I am hungry, if you want to go somewhere to eat.” Tessa raises her eyebrow.

“Sure, where do you want to eat?”

“How about Fridays, its right down the street.” 

“Okay ill meet you there.” I smile and get into my car.

Once I get to Fridays, I wait for Tessa to pull in next to me. I take my phone out my back pocket and see a text from troy.

Troy: Hey I just wanted to remind you how perfect you are! :)

I start to type a reply.

Me: Back at you (:

I hear someone knocking on my window and when I look over to see who it is, it’s Tessa. I open my car door and grab my purse, and get out. We walk into Fridays and the hostess leads us to our table, which happens to be all the way in the back.

Tessa’s phone is vibrating constantly, her smiling every time she looks at it.

“Who are you texting?”

Tessa smiles, “Just derrick. He asked me out last night.”

“Oh my gosh! Why didn’t you tell me?”

“I didn’t want to tell you till after you met troy, I didn’t want to distract you.”

“Well thanks for looking out for me.” I roll my eyes.

“Are you mad?” she asks me.

“Nope, its fine. Let’s just order, the waiter is coming over.”

“What would you like to order today?” the waiter asks us.

While Tessa’s ordering I sneak a peek at the waiter. He’s tall, blonde hair and hazel eyes, with killer dimples. “And what can I get for you?” he asks me.

“Alfredo with mashed potatoes. Thanks.” I smile at him. He starts to walk away.

When our food comes, we devour it in a second. I look at the time and its already 3 in the afternoon. “I have to go. See you later.” I say to Tessa before walking out and to my car.

When I get home, I take a shower and change into spandex. I walk over to my bed and lie down, and start to text troy. Today’s been a long day. Tomorrow’s Saturday. I meet troy tomorrow. Let me just let that sink in.