Meeting Skies

Chapter 9

It's been two weeks since me and Alex kissed. It was amazing, the beautiful feeling I had at the pit of my stomach, the way the wind blew against us, the way his hands felt against my head. He was so sweet, so gentle.
It was a Saturday morning, and I was doing the usual watching spongebob and eating lucky charms in my PJ's. I lay my bowl of cereal on the table next to our family picture. I'm the only child, we looked so happy. I'm in between my mom and dad and we're all smilingly think we were laughing. I remember that day like it was yesterday. We were at the beach and mom thought it would be a great idea if we took a picture of how perfect everything was. Of course that didn't last, a day later they found out about Dylan, about me. And as the strict Christian parents they are they disapproved. And disowned me, now they can't wait for me to turn 18 so I can get out of the house. They stopped doing things with me, they stopped taking me to dinners with them, taking me on their vacations, now my mom just tells me they're going out, my dad hasn't said a word to me since then.

I hear my phone ring and vibrate against the wooden table it's Nicole. I just remembered about her, I haven't talked to her in a while. I'm scared to answer, I can already hear her yelling at me.

"Hello?"
"Well hello Elenore, remember me, YOUR BESTFRIEND!"
"Hey Nicole."
"Don't hey me, you're in big trouble."
"What have I done?"
"You haven't talked to me lately, I thought we were close."
"What do you mean, we are close."
"Well you've been distant lately."
Wow all this because I haven't talked to her in a week.
"I'm sorry I've been caught up with stuff."
Lies, I haven't been doing shit
"What about today."
"I'm not doing anything today, wanna hang out?"
"DUH! Wanna go to the mall."
"Sure."
"Ok I'm outside your house, I'll meet you inside."
"What the fuck, your kidding right."
I hear the car horn come from outside my house and I rush to the window. I see the shinny red convertible, with a blonde girl in the car waving her arm at my house.
"Nicole are you serious."
"I'm coming in."
She hangs up. I run to the door to unlock the door and run to my room to wash my face.
I hear her open the door and hear her heels making their way to my room. She's always dolled up. She walks into my restroom even though the door was closed.

"You ready to go?"
I turn to her with bubbles all over my face and my lips sealed shut.
"Oh darling your not nowhere near ready."
I took a good look at her and she looked so hot. I'm not attracted to girls at all but if I was I would tap that. She had on her black louboutin heels with her denim skinny jeans and a black crop top that had the words "let's poison the bitch" printed across her boobs in red. Her hair was up in a messy bun and she had her black Kate spade purse clinched at her fist, on her wrist was the Gold Rolex her dad got her for Christmas. She knew how to dress, every time I'm with her I feel like everything is out of proportion because she looks like that and I just have my jeans converse and a hoodie.

I rinse my face and head to my bed.
"So what do you intend on wearing?"
I look at the gray tee shirt and the jeans.
"You're so lucky you're going shopping with me."
"Shut up, not everyone can afford to look like you."
"Which is why I'm here to help, come on lets go."

I quickly change in the restroom and grab my wallet.

When we arrive, she hands the keys to the valet parking lot. And we head inside, the mall was packed. I'm standing next to Nicole and already I can already see people thinking how?, how can she be with me? She's so perfect, from her messy bun the the natural contour on her face. She doesn't wear makeup. The only thing she's ever put on is eyeshadow and lipstick, because she has the natural highlight, the contour and her prose are so small. She looks like a Barbie doll fresh out of the box, she looks like a super model. Yet she's with me.

We walk into Macy's were guys start rushing to her asking her if we need any help.
"Where's the men's section?"
She's so generous every time I go out with her she gets something for her dad. Of were at a restaurant she orders something to go for him, when she takes me to the mall she buys him shirts or pants.Their very close, something I wish I had with my parents.
She walks over to the button down shirts and pulls out a beautiful white one. She looks over at the mannequin and then me.
"I want the everything on that mannequin."
Nicole glances to me.
"In small please."
The guy leaves and later comes back with the blazer the dress pants tie. She grabs them and hands them to me.
"Go try it on"
"Oh no it's ok I'm fine, you don't have to buy me anything."
"I didn't ask."
"It's fine honestly."
"You're trying it on."
I grab the clothes and head to the dressing room.
When I'm trying on the shirt the price tag hits my forehead. It reads $478.83, what the actual fuck. This is too expensive for a shirt.

"Put everything on and come out so I can see."
Nicole yells with a squeak in her voice. Why does she want to buy me this. She probably did something really bad, and is trying to soften the blow.
I try everything on and I totaled the price in my head, $1,235.47 plus tax. I come out with the complete look.
"Fabulous. You look amazing."
I look down and head to whisper in her ear.

"1,235 fucking dollars."
She pushes me off.
"It's fine, when have you seen me worry about the price."
"Yeah but that's different because that's for yo-"
She interrupts me and hands me more clothes.
"Shut up and try these."
I wanted to groan but I couldn't, that would be ungrateful. I take the clothes and head to the dressing room.

We head to the cash register with 6 pairs of shoes, 4 dress pants, 3 shorts, 8 bow ties, 8 dress shirts, 5 tee shirts , 4 sweaters, two watches, and a chanel cologne. It all totaled up to 5,379.36 cents. I look at Nicole in shock.
"There's no way you're buying me this."
"Oh yeah, watch me."
She hands the guy her credit card, and he swipes.
"Nicole please don't, I don't even need this."
"Trust me, you do."
They guy hands her back her card and makes her sign the receipt.
"Now come on we're still not done."
"There's more!?" I exclaim
"Obviously silly, we just got here, this is our warmup."
She grabs the bag and hands it to me.
"I can't, this is too much."
"Nori just take the bag."
She says frustrated.
"I'm still buying you stuff no matter what you say so how about you make this easy for me and let me handle it, just ignore the price."
She was sincere about it, but I would feel bad if I did, I already feel like I'm in depth.
"I ca-"
"Just let me ok."
I sigh.
"Ok."