White Shadows

Chapter Two: Lies Lies Lies

"Ouch!" Ava exclaimed as Lucy ran a brush through her wet long blonde hair. Lucy blinked in surprise, waking up from her fog. 

"Oops! Sorry!" Lucy said. She was tired from lack of sleep. Although she attempted to relax, she couldn't get her mind off the strange old couple. She mentally slapped herself, Snap out of it! Forget about it just for tonight, just for Ava. 

At the moment, her blonde twin was sitting at the vanity in Lucy's huge bathroom. Brushes, hairspray, a straightener and a curling iron sat on the vanity mixed with tubes of mascara, eye-liner, and lip gloss. Lucy pick up the curler taking sections of her hair and curling them carefully.  She glanced up into the mirror to see Ava looking at herself with a smile, a real smile. Lucy giggled, happy at her sisters reaction, but she wasn't done yet. Lastly she took a little part of her hair and clipped it off to the side with a silver flower pin, showing more of her sister's face. 

"Lucy you are a miracle worker," Ava said looking at herself in the mirror, she looked better than she could ever imagine. Whenever Lucy had dressed her up she looked like a different person. She looked like a real happy young teenager, instead of a confused teenager who felt like she was in her fifties from stress. She knew the worse was to come though, the make-up. It was Ava's mortal enemy. The pulling and the blinking. Event he chance something could get in her eye was scary to think about.

"Now hold still..." Lucy said, tilting Ava's head upward and lightly brushing her eyelashes with dark brown mascara. She then put a little bit of light eyeliner on her bottom lids. To finish it off, she added a light layer of metallic tan eye shadow. "Finished!" Lucy exclaimed happily after curling her sister's eyelashes. 

"Thanks Lucy," Ava said standing from the vanity, partly because she looked amazing, partly because she didn't harm her. Now they only needed to pick out a dress for her to wear. Even the word made Ava get a bad taste in her mouth. Since she was young she didn't like dresses, mostly because of the way she looked. She also couldn't fight, run or climb, anything that was fun that her father taught her to do. Ava had the innocent wide-eyes look when not scolding and her mother loved to dress her up when she was littler. Ava took a deep breath propering herself and flung Lucy's closet door wide open.

"How about this one?" Ava asked closing one of her eyes and pointing in the closet at a floral blue and white dress. 

"Sure," Lucy said peeking into the closet, "That one doesn't really look good on me anyway. You can keep it." She smiled and winked.

"Thanks," Ava growned going into the bathroom to change. A minute later she came out with the mid-thigh length dress on. "So how will I look for the grandparents?" she asked with a sharp laugh.

"More than fine," Lucy said as she walked into the bathroom, "You look like your going on a date with a boy, and be both know that's sure not the case." Lucy replied with a snort as she began to curl her own hair.

"Very funny," Ava said sticking her tongue at Lucy, though she knew it was true. Ava had never had a boyfriend before, not even one of those little first grade check the box kind of things. Lucy however was good with relationships. She was able to flirt and smile. At times Ava was jealous of Lucy, all she ended up doing with scaring boys away with either her personality or the fact that she was stronger than them.. Ava looked at the clock on Lucy's nightstand. "Hey it's 5:43," she said looking at Lucy.  Lucy glanced up, her hair pulled up in a half up-half down hairstyle. Her bangs swooped across her forehead and one of her bright green eyes.

"Is it really?" She asked, beginning to quickly finish up her make-up.  Ava nodded as Lucy skipped over to her big walk in closet and pulling on a cute maroon, doll-like dress with big black buttons down the front. She reached into her closet and pulled out a pair of white pumps and threw them to Ava from across the room, she herself pulling on a matching black pair, giving her a little bit more height.  Ava slipped on the shoes thrown at her. She stood up reaching the height of 5'11, her feet started to hurt the moment she put them on but Ava ignored the pain as she walked to the door. "Lets go," she said before descending the stairs with her sister.