Chapter One
"Hey, can I borrow a dress to wear?", I heard my best friend call from her spot in my bed.
We were at my house getting ready for a party we heard about and oh boy was I excited. There weren't many parties where we lived which was a small town in Utah that no one knew about. The population was somewhere around 1,500 and our high school only had a couple hundred kids who never threw parties so this was kind of a big deal.
"Uh yeah. Just find something in my closet that fits.", I called from the bath room as I applied my mascara.
"Do you think Matt's gonna be there?", she questioned me.
Matt was the guy she's adored since the start of freshman year but he never seemed to give her the time of day but crazy things happened at parties and knowing Ella, she would work some kind of magic to put him under her spell tonight.
"Yeah, of course. Its the first party in a year to happen so I doubt he'd miss it.", I retorted.
"Yesssss,", she hissed, "maybe tonight will be the night then. I'm telling you Gab, we belong together and tonight I'm gonna make it happen.".
"Uh huh, sure, okay hun. You do that.", I replied as I finished up my makeup and walked out of my bathroom to go see what she had picked out to wear.
She had on one of my older dresses that I wore to one of my mom's business brunches a couple years ago. It was black and tight fitting and synched right at we waist and had a small pattern throughout the whole fabric. It looked nice on her.
"Nice choice, it looks better on you than it did me.", I complimented her. She turned away from the mirror where she was examining her outfit to look at me.
"Me?! Oh my god Gab are you trying to get laid tonight or what because you look so damn hot.", she exclaimed.
I let out a giggle because she was always so over enthusiastic. I walked over to where she was standing and joined her in looking at my outfit in the mirror.
I wasn't wearing anything special, just some black high waisted shorts which made my legs look longer and a grey crop top with small golden crosses patterned through out it. My feet wore my favorite pair of black wedges which added four inches to my height, I never had an opportunity to wear them because nothing ever happened in our small town which called for them.
"Oh man, you're gonna catch someone's attention tonight. I know it.", she assured me.
"Uh... Probably not..", I spoke slowly. I wasn't the type of girl to attract people. I didn't put myself out there and I didn't even believe I was all that pretty. Plenty of people have complimented me before but for some reason I could never allow myself to believe them. Ella was always telling me nice things about my appearance but I never really read into her compliments. I just graciously accepted and moved on with life.
"No, I'm telling you, Gab, tonight is the night. For both of us. You're gonna get you some man candy and I'm gonna cut me a slice of that Matty pie finally.", Ella spoke excitedly.
I laughed at her pie metaphor before speaking, "Well, we'll see what happens. now are you ready to go? We have somewhere to be you know.", I asked her as I checked the time on my phone. The time read 7:32 and the party started at eight. It was going to be about a half hour drive because the party wasn't at a house, it was in some random desert hang out outside the town for some reason I didn't know.
"I'm as ready as I'll ever be.", she told me as she grabbed her purse and head out of my room to go downstairs. I grabbed my car keys and black hand bag and followed after her.
