I awaken in the morning to the sun beaming in my eyes. I'm not feeling it this morning so I roll over and pull the blankets up over my head. It's Saturday, so there is no need to rush. I glance at my watch from beneath the blankets and cringe that it says 6:37am. Yeah I'm going back to bed and fall back asleep rather quickly.
"Ella!!!" Courtney bursts into my room. "It's almost 11am!"
"Go away!"
"No it's time for you to get up, I've only been up for 3 hours now."
"Good for you Courtney." I say annoyed.
"Come on I made French toast. Brad ate his already and left for work."
"So is he practically living her now?" I ask sliding out of bed and walk to the kitchen.
"No...I mean well kinda I guess. You don't mind that he's been here a lot lately do you?"
"Courtney are you happy?"
"Absolutely, yes, hell yes!"
"Well then I'm happy, but if he's moving in he better start pitching in."
"I'll talk to him about it I promise."
"Good" I say shoving a piece of French toast into my mouth.
It got rather quiet while I finished my French toast. Courtney poured me a cup of coffee and sat next to me at the table and opened the paper to the horoscopes section.
"Taurus-You will have a great deal of fun today. It is the day to relax and meet new people. So try to enjoy and let the conversations come naturally." Courtney read.
"Hmmm is that a hint towards dinner tonight?" I say with a chuckle.
Courtney joined in on my chuckle. She's beautiful, Brad practically fell in love with her the minute he laid eyes on her. She has light brown curly hair with beautiful green eyes, freckles under her eyes across the bridge of her nose. She goes all natural, no make up and she doesn't need it what so ever. She's perfect, has the perfect body type, she's not totally skinny but I wouldn't say she's fat. She's no size zero model but she wears it well. We are complete opposites where I come from an Italian family, with dark brown hair, brown eyes, darker skin. I'm shorter and I too have a bit of pudge but I don't mind it because it's me. I just got out of a bad relationship with Jason. He was a cheater. He cheated on me more times than I can count on one hand but for some reason I fell for his bullshit everytime. I came home from school one day and he was trying to get Courtney into bed with him. That was the last straw. I kicked his ass to the curb.
"Thanks for the French toast and coffee Courntey, it was much needed!"
"You're welcome my love! So what are we wearing to dinner tonight?"
"I honestly have no idea, I was just going to raid your closet." I laugh.
"Sounds like a plan to me! Let's go see what we can find!"
"So have you met this friend of Brad's yet?"
"Nope this will be the first time, just like you."
"Well hopefully he's nice." I smirk.
"Who knows Ella, you two may hit off. Brad says that he's an awesome guy, that he's known him his whole life."
"Courtney I'm not trying to rush into anything. After what happened with Jason, I don't know if I want anyone."
"Let's go check out my closet!"
We head into Courtney's room and open the closet doors. Wow half the closet is filled with Brad's clothes. Courtney and Brad have been together for over a year and he's been slowly moving in over the last few months. Why he doesn't fully move in is beyond me. Maybe Courtney was waiting for my permission. We pull out the dresses and each one we hold up to ourselves saying nooooo this isn't the one. Finally I found a dress! It's dark purple with one shoulder strap. The top fits loosely on my breasts and it flows down starting at the waist. It's one of those dresses that is longer in the back and shorter in the front. I feel beautiful!
Courtney's eyes grow wide "oh Ella you look gorgeous!" She admires the way the dress looks on me. "I'd say it looks so much better on you than on me."
I blush. "Not possible Court"
"Just take a compliment you dope."
I smile " let's get you something to wear"
Courtney whips out a black strapless dress, that stops a little before the knees. The top is lined in gold sequins and this dress too is flowy. Courtney steps into it pulling it up. Perfect!
"You and me my friend are drop dead gorgeous!" I gloat.
Just then Brad comes home from work. It's already 6:15pm and we are supposed to meet Brad's friend at the Real Grill at 7:00pm. Brad immediately walks into Courtney's room and his jaw drops.
"Don't you girls look amazing, you girls are absolutely beautiful."
Brad's a good guy, he's not shy when it comes to compliments. He was raised by his mom, she taught him the right way to treat a lady and to be respectable.
"Awe Bradley" Courtney gushed giving Brad a sweet kiss on the cheek.
"Ladies can I kick you out, so I too can get changed?"
Courtney and I went to my room, checking our makeup in the mirror and making sure our hair was perfect not a strand out of place. While we waited for Brad, Courtney and I got our shoes on and our coats. Minutes later Brad comes blasting out of the room.
"Well do I clean up nice?"
"Of coarse you do baby" Courtney squeals!
We head out and climb in Brad's Jeep Wrangler. Nerves hit me as we head to the restaurant. I'm not good with meeting new people. I just get really nervous. But here goes nothing!
