Two Worlds Crossed

Chapter 22

RACHEL

Once we get to the mall, Lauren drags me into every store with a sign saying "Sale" on dresses or anything else she has loads of, like Jeans; if it's not a sale, it's 50% off when it comes to it. Finally, after looking through stores for an hour, my stomach starts feeling funny, "Hey. Wanna get something to eat?" I ask.

Lauren hands the cash register lady, looks towards me. "Yes, I'm starving," she replies. Minutes later, we walk towards the huge food count and look around the food places to Chinese to greasy, sloppy pizza; once we both agreed on Chinese food, I see Lauren's arm turning red from holding least five different bags in each arm, " Do you need help with that?" I ask; she smiles and hands some bags to me, " Better?" I wonder, and she nods when walking in line to Panda Express. When waiting, I can smell something so good; I don't know if it's the food or something else, "Do you smell that?" I whisper.

Yes, the food smells so good.

"Yeah, but I smell something familiar." I keep smelling it to see in the corner of my eye, and It's Henry whose eating Chinese noodles; I go up to him, "Hey Henry." I say to him. As I walk closer to him, I can smell his cologne, and it smells Ezra's, all sweet but musky. When thinking about him, I think about my secret admire. Whose has already sent me two bouquets of sunflowers with a notecard in each, so far if there's more.

Notecard #1: Dinner tomorrow night at 8.

Notecard #2: Wear something beautiful as you are.

I can still feel the butterflies in my stomach; His eyes wide up as eating up his food, he wipes his mouth before talking, "Hey Rachel? What's up?". I sit across from him, with the bags on the ground when Lauren orders for us. As I continue talking to Henry and Lauren, I can't help noticing how different Henry looks without a suit from his black and white Nike track pants and black shirt; it's weird not to see him in a case from the office. I wonder if he's the one who was sending me the flowers; I would be surprised if he were but on the other hand. I wouldn't be surprised since one of the people whose friendly to me.

"Rachel, we should get going." Lauren demands as grabbing her things and walking away from us. Henry looks at me and smirks, "Oh, I'm so sorry." he laughs, "I gotta get going myself; I hope you have fun shopping and find something beautiful like you," he says.

"I hope so if Lauren doesn't rip off my arm from dragging me."

Hey!

We look at Lauren, she laughs; "I'm sure you'll be fine. But if you needed it to be reattached, my brother is a doctor so give me a call," he sarcastically marks out in a whisper. I smile as he leaves. As I watch her walking away, I'm slowly feeling better from the debut that Ezra was a good guy and think that Henry is the 'secret admire.'

He's like Prince Charming, and I'm Cinderella.

"Why are you smiling like a silly girl? Do you think he's your secret admirer questions? I bit the inside of my check, nodded yes, "I think so." I tell her, and she jumps in excitement...

Moments later, after trying on too many dresses to count since many of them were either too, you can probably see the bottom of my ass. The last thing I need is to look like a hooker who's buying outfits for her next show to too much cleavage. I keep looking through all of the clothing racks, Lauren; suddenly, I see a black semi mini dress with a slit, "Hey? What do you think about this one?" I uttered out to Lauren as she walked over to me and gasped.

"That's so beautiful but sexy. You need to get that."

I look at the dress for a moment, trying to convince myself to get it when having doubts a little, "You don't think it's too sexy or scandalous?" I question. Lauren smiles and shakes her head at me, "No, not at all. Besides, you need a scandalous in your life, after you been though with you know who." she says as picking out the red dress and hands it to me.

"Why are you giving me the red one? You don't like the black one?" I wonder as putting the dress back. She grabs it and hands it to me, "You should get both, what's better than two sexy dresses then one. Now let's get you shoes," she demands.

...

After coming back from the mall, and spending hours of shop for an outfit, Lauren and I decided to get some pizza and watch Netflix at her place, "What do you want to watch? Legally Blonde or What A Girl Wants?" I ask her, scroll through the dozen of old classic movies on the couch; Lauren looks over at her shoulder when being in the kitchen, preparing different junk foods like popcorn and chips in bowls, "Umm Let's do Legally Blonde. You can never so wrong with a Reese Witherspoon movies," she says, walks over to me with the food in her hands.

I nod as agreeing and presses the selected movie; Hours later, it's already 11 pm when I return to my bedroom with my stuff; I'm tired and exhausted from shopping, luckily my makeup is already off from those glittery gel masks that Lauren had. I go to my closet, set my new clothes on the floor, grabbing a match PJ purple set; once I'm all set, I head to bed with exciting but nervous nerves shaking through my whole body.