Allison Monroe's POV:
"Ali I'm gonna be late!" Sophie stomped a foot nearly knocking the curling iron out of my hand and irritating me.
"So hold still so I can finish!" I snap at her as I finish curling the last section of her blonde hair.
"Ugh! I still need to do my red lipstick!" She huffs as I apply hair spray.
"You'll thank me when the wind is blowing the hair of your fellow cheerleaders in their face and yours stays perfect." I assert as I take a step back from the vanity chair and admire my work.
"Okay that's great, let's get in the car!" Sophie leaps to her feet and starts pushing me out the bedroom door and into the hallway where we walk out to the living room. Katie stands up from the couch with Levi. "Ta da! What do you think?" Sophie does a spin in her cheer uniform as Katie claps.
"You look so beautiful Soph." Katie puts her hands over her heart.
"You look amazing Sophie." Levi echos Katie's sentiments.
"I know." Sophie says as she tosses her locks over her right shoulder. "Now we gotta go people!"
"Alright, let's go then ladies." Levi starts out the door, holding the front door for Katie and Sophie. I stop in the doorway and look up at him.
"I haven't really said it yet but thank you Levi, for everything you've done for us the past few weeks. Sophie feels so much safer with you living here." I smile at him gently.
"You're welcome. Though I do wish the sofa mattress was a little more comfortable." Levi says as he stretches his back. I lock the front door behind us.
"You can sleep in the master bedroom, I'll go bunk with Sophie or Katie." I say as we walk out to the truck, pausing near the grill of it.
"That's fine for tonight but Ali, I'm gonna have to return home at some point." Levi says, putting his hands in the pockets of his jacket. I go to say more but the truck horn blares, causing both of us to jump and turn to face Sophie who's leaning over the steering wheel and screaming at us to hurry up.
"I've never met a more demanding, self absorbed person in my life." I stomp my foot in the gravel driveway.
"Then you never met high school you." Levi gives me a look and walk around to the driver's side leaving me in shock.
Levi dropped us off back home after the parade. He insisted he needed to go home to shower and change and he'd meet us at the ball. Sophie seemed uneasy with him leaving but I assured her we would be just fine without him for a few hours. Earlier that week I had gone through Farrah's closet and found a blush pink dress that Sophie said Farrah had designed and wore to the Founder's Ball years ago. I brought it out and steamed it along with one of my old prom dresses for Sophie to wear. Katie insisted on wearing the same dress she wore last year claiming she didn't feel like shopping for a new one. I showered and started on my makeup as Sophie wandered in the bedroom, sitting on my bed behind me.
"Your mom must've been so pretty because you and mom are gorgeous." Sophie says quietly.
"Farrah never showed you a picture of her?" I spin around on the vanity stool to face her. She shakes her head 'no'. I stand up and walk over to the book shelf in the right corner of the room and pull a deep purple velvet book off of it. I walk back over to the bed and sit down next to her, opening the photo album to the third page where a picture of Aunt Carla and my mother was taped in. It was a Polaroid that Aunt Carla had taken herself with her arm around my mom. They're both laughing and they are in their early twenties.
"That's your mom?" Sophie's eyebrows shoot up in surprise.
"Yup." I nod searching Sophie's face for a readable expression.
"She was pretty." Sophie nods and hands me a box of hairpins. I accept the box but look at her confused on what she wanted me to do with them, her hair was already done. Sophie stands up and takes a pin from the box and begins toying with my hair. "I saw this messy chic updo in one of the old teen vogue magazines we found with your prom dress, anyways I practiced it on Katie a bunch of times this week. I wanted to make sure you looked like a bombshell since you're gonna win Levi back tonight." She explains as I still myself.
"Sophie I told you-" I start.
"Ali, I should probably confess when I was going through that box of your stuff in the garage I read your old high school journal." Sophie says through the pin she has hanging from her gritted teeth.
"Hey!" I snap.
"Listen, I now know too much about you." She pins more hair in place. "Enough to know you love that man more than anything else in this world. You gotta get him back. Now look in the mirror." She finishes. I eye her suspiciously before walking over to the vanity mirror and admiring her handiwork.
"Wow, Sophie, this is amazing." I say in awe. My hair sat in a low bun with face framing pieces hanging around. It's messy but put together at the same time. Katie walks in the room, full dressed, makeup and hair done. I turn around to face her.
"You killed it Soph. Her hair looks great." Katie gives Sophie a double thumbs up.
"I did Katie's hair too. What do you think?" Sophie asks me. Katie's hair is a half up half down braided crown.
"It looks amazing Soph." I nod with a proud smile on my face.
"Thanks! I'm thinking cosmetology school might be next after high school." Sophie nods. "Now come on people, we gotta get dressed!"
I put the blush pink gown on and match a pair of nude colored strappy heels to it. I grab my clutch and run out to the living room where Katie is waiting just like this morning.
"Well if I was Levi, I sure would take you back." Katie looks me up and down.
"Don't feed into Sophie's fantasy." I warn with a pointed finger. Katie laugh but her eyes look past me and she stops laughing. Instead her lips fall into a gentle smile and a look of almost sadness flashes across her face. I turn around and see Sophie walking down the hallway in my old red prom dress. I put a hand over my mouth.
"Don't cry." Sophie warns me a stern look.
"I'm not gonna." I choke out.
"Awww come on you old softy, let's get the princess to the ball." Katie puts an arm around me as I choke back any tears that were threatening to fall.
"Okay, let's get in the car." I nod and dab at the corners of my eyes as we all walk out the front door together.
YOU ARE READING
I'd Sell My Soul
General FictionKathryn "Katie" Aberdeen has lived in Colfax her whole life and never planned on leaving. Allison "Ali" Monroe was Katie's childhood best friend but moved to Seattle for college, more opportunities and never looked back much to Katie's dismay. Trage...
