“Where are you?” Katie asked through her phone as she quickly gathered her purse and vape from the car.
“I’m in line, but there’s a fuck ton of people in front of us, just get here.” Kat said, letting her hair out of her clip. Katie never wore her hair down now that it was waist length and everytime they got together they dressed like opposite twins. Today Kat as wearing a black pleated tennis skirt with a black short sleeve shirt tucked in with a small bat on the right chest, black mary janes and fishnets. Her hair fell about mid waist with the bottom half dyed red. Her legs were tiny and there was an inch wide gap at the hem of of her skirt, and her collarbones peaked out the top of her t-shirt. A mom gave her a dirty look for the language.
“I’m here! I’m here. Holy fuck, I’m out of breath.” Katie heaved as she bent over to catch her breath. The mom looked at Katie and then Kat, a bit confused. Now that they were almost the same weight, they could almost pass as twins, but definitely sisters- Kat stood over Katie, but with their glasses, hair and similar physic they looked related. Katie was wearing a pink and white plaid pleated tennis skirt; her hipbones were visible through the thick material when she stretched, white fishnets, pink mary janes and a cream colored tshirt with a pink skull on the right chest. Her hair was long, curly and waist length. It was blonde on the top with black on the bottom half. They hugged and waited to enter Six Flags, they could see the purple, green and orange halloween lights from the park and the shrieks and screams from people in the park.
“Water?” Katie handed Kat her black studded starbucks reusable cup. Kat took a giant sip.
“I really want a Boba tea once we get in, you down?”
“I would murder for a brown sugar boba.” Katie said as they handed their tickets to the girl at the booth. She had a round red face and was sweating. It was 77 degrees outside, pretty warm for fall but not sweat worthy. They entered the park and made a beeline for the overpriced tea shop- fake cobwebs hung from the door and spooky music played in the shop speakers. It was fairly empty as this was the healthiest option of all the parks cafes. There were skeletons all over the cafe and little skull and cat mugs decorated the shelves.
“Did you see that girl sweating?” Kat asked as they entered the shop; monster mash playing lowly.
“To think- that used to be us.” Katie fake gagged as they giggled up to the counter. The boy behind the counter looked at them both and blushed.
“What can I get for you?” He stammered out. Katie gave him her best mean girl smile. Becoming skinny gave her confidence and had made her slightly mean…or rude, as people had said. But she didn’t care. She had earned this attitude, and at least they could insult her by calling her fat. The boy refused to look at Katie after that.
“I want an almond milk and strawberry boba, please.” Kat ordered and paid.
“And you?” The boy said, looking at the register the whole time.
“Almond milk and brown sugar boba.” She said, not breaking her eye contact from the flustered kid. “Please.” She added sweetly at the end, she felt bad. A few minutes later they had their drinks and were headed for a tea cups type ride, but it as decorated ith purple and orange lights that looked like glowing lines when they zipped by the people waiting in line.
“Holy shit, I think I know her, I went to school with her.” Kat whispered to Katie, pointing to a chubby woman in elastic jeans and a large sweater than clung in the wrong places, sweat beaded on her forehead and chin- partly from the sweater she was wearing and partly from just being plain fat. “I’m gonna go say hi.” Kat smiled evily.
“Hang on.” Katie set her drink down and began primping Kat. She fluffed her bangs off to the side and tucked her shirt in tighter to cinch her waist more. “God.” Katie wrapped her hands around Kat’s waist, she could almost touch her middle fingers and thumbs, her ribs protuded sharply. “Get it, girl.”
“Ashley? Is that you?” The sweater girl spun around and looked Kat up and down. Sweater girl grabbed the kid standing near her that was pitching a fit and had ice cream smeared around his lips.
“Do I know you?” Ashley looked confused.
“It’s Kat. We went to school together.” Ashley’s eyes got big and she blushed.
“Wow, girl. You look incredible. What in the world, it’s like you aged backwards. What’s your secret?” Kat giggled. “No, really. What’s your secret. I can’t stop gaining weight no matter what I do.”
“Oh. Uh, less carbs, lots of exercise, less sugar…the usual things.” Kat said.
“Hi! I’m Katie.” She popped up next to Kat.
“Wow, both of you are beautiful. I wish I was naturally skinny like you.” Ashley directed at Katie.
“Natural? Honey, I have Italian blood running through my veins. I’m practically born with carbs and olive oil in my veins. I used to be 195 pounds.”
“What-” Ashley said, still wrangling the little blonde boy. “I wish I had the time. But with work, and kids, and picking up after the husband. I’m eating macaroni and dino nuggets everyday.” Both Kat and Katie gave Ashley an unapologetic ‘yikes’ look and snickered to each other as they wandered towards a haunted house attraction.
