Love And The Outcome (A Selection Fanfiction)

Chapter 4

The next two days went by in a whirlwind of Kathy telling everyone she knew, or even ran into on the street, that I was entering into the selection and that I would miraculously be picked, while Jules and I made a schedule of what was going to happen that day, how I should answer the questions on the files that are entered, and perfecting my smile.

Thursday night's dinner was mostly Jules bragging about how perfect I'll look for the photo's, while I slowly picked at my food, not really eating much.

We went to bed at like 8 o'clock, Jules said I needed my beauty sleep, although I ended up tossing and turning all night.

At exactly 5:30 the alarm clock started blaring, cutting the little bit of sleep that I was getting short. Immediately Jules swung off her covers, jumped down, and shook me violently.

"Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!!!" I gave a loud groan but she was not taking that for an answer. She let out a sigh, then started to pull my legs causing me to fall on my butt.

"You know I kinda need to be to perfect health for the pictures. You can't just go around injuring me." She just rolled her eyes and yanked me up. She shoved my towel, hairbrush, undergarments, and the dress into my hand, and pushed me into the bathroom.

I don't know how on earth she had this much energy, because I certainly didn't have it. I tried to take my time in the shower but ended up having to rush as Jules kept banging on the door, telling me to hurry up, because apparently 'we don't have much time'.

Once I got out of the shower I quickly dried myself off, got dressed, and pulled the brush through my tangled hair. The second I opened the door, I got dragged over to a chair in front of the desk, that now had a mirror on top of it.

The moment I sat down, Kathy attacked me with the hair dryer, while Jules organized the pins that would end up being put in my hair, the one with the bow front and center.

I glanced over at the watch that kathy had given me to wear with the dress, the time reading 6:12AM. I still understand why they were rushing so much, but didn't question it, afraid of getting burned or something.

After like half an hour of Kathy finishing up my hair and putting on my makeup, Jules making sure that my eyes stayed closed the entire time, I was finally ready.

Jules slowly put down her hands from my face, allowing me to finally look at myself for the first time in the past 30 minutes. I took one look at myself and gasped.

Pretty would be an understatement! I literally looked beautiful! Of course, not gorgeous but not bad... not bad at all. Kathy and Jules instantly broke into squeals of excitement, and I had to bite my tongue or else I would have ended up squealing with them.

I didn't expect to be chosen but it felt nice to be able to look pretty every once and awhile. At this point it was almost 7 so they pulled me into the kitchen where Jeff was waiting with a stack of pancakes in his hands.

Kathy gave him a quick good morning kiss, but snatched the plate out of his hands, and placed it on the table, leaving him standing there clueless.

Jules rushed over to the cabinets and took out 3 plates, leaving poor uncle Jeff to get his own. I put two onto my plate, started eating the first one, but 5 minutes later she picked my plate back up again, the second pancake still on it, and took it to the sink.

"Come on, we need to get going now!" I ended up shoving the rest of my pancake into my mouth, while Jules can back, and grabbed my fork right out of my hand. I tried to protest but I quickly knew that they weren't listening to me.

I quickly ran back to my room, grabbed my purse, made sure that I had everything, then made my way out the door, where Kathy and Jules were already waiting in the car.