The Protector [ J. Hale ]

06 | Dresses, Books and Creepy Guys

Currently, Bellamy was perched on a couch watching Jessica and Angela start their own runway show.

It's been an hour since they started shopping for dresses, and so far they've been to two boutiques but none of the dresses there had been what either Jessica or Angela had been looking for, which is how they ended up here, in 'Petite Jolie'.

Three stores and Bellamy already wanted this trip to be over, he's not sure he could handle a fourth.

"Okay, so! I kind of like this one but... I don't know, the one shoulder strap looks weird to me." Jessica came strutting out of her changing room in a dark sleek purple shoulder strap dress that fell to her ankles.

Sure, it was a beautiful dress, but it would've looked better strapless.

"It's weird, don't do it. Look for strapless dresses if you're planning on socialising the entire time, otherwise, try to look for a two-shoulder strapped dress if you're going to dance and move around a lot." Bellamy waved away Jessica and turned back to his sister who looked bored.

"Having fun Izzy?" Bellamy innocently smiled in the face of Bella's death glare, "Shut up Bellamy." He laughed, happy that it wasn't only him suffering. 

Normally he enjoyed shopping, but that was usually only for himself or his family.

"This was your idea, you only have yourself to blame." As he finished talking, Angela came out in a green, short-laced dress. "Well, what do you think?" She looked to Bellamy who'd been the only sibling to give them valuable feedback.

Bella was busy gazing out of the window, her attention drifting and her responses to the girls were lacklustre to say the best. It became obvious very quickly that Bella wasn't interested which left Bellamy to be their go-to advisor.

"Hmm," his eyes ran down her figure and assessed how the dress looked on her.

"I hate it," he said. 

"What? Why, what's wrong with it?" Angela gazed into the mirror and twirled around on the spot, her eyes were glancing around her figure trying to spot what part of the dress Bellamy hated.

"You're too tall for short dresses, you need a longer one, something that hugs your body." Bellamy got up and went over to a nearby rack to find a dress he thought would suit Angela best.

It wasn't long until he spotted a beautiful dark purple dress that he knew would compliment both Angela's dark complexion and figure. "Here, take this and shoo." He passed the dress over to Angela and watched her disappear back into the changing room.

While he was up, he also decided to look for a dress that he thought would suit Jessica. He'd noticed early on that she always seemed to pick over-the-top dresses, ones that made her look like a child playing dress up in her mother's wardrobe.

He searched for a bit, rummaging through the racks of dresses in the sales section until he stumbled across a light pink dress with a large bow on the mid-back and spaghetti straps.