Worth the Effort

Chapter 6 - ORIGINAL

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Stella

Since Chris left right around two, I decided to call Jamie to see if she wanted to hang out. On the weekends we usually either went to the mall or a cute little cafe to chat. Despite my hate for shopping, it was always entertaining to see Jamie get so excited about a new pair of jeans or a cute pair of boots.

Maybe I was breaking some girl code by hating shopping. Especially since my parents were practically rich and I could buy pretty much whatever I wanted. But since I was a little curvier in the chest and butt regions, it was always hard for me to find clothes that fit me.

That never stopped Jamie from picking things out for me, though.

When we got to the mall, Jamie went on the hunt for a new store that she said sold "everything you could imagine". Apparently it had everything from band t-shirts and skinny jeans to halloween costumes and sexy lingerie.

When we got there, Jamie's statement was proven correct. It did have every kind of clothing you could imagine. There must've been a really big store here before, because this new store took up so much space. It was huge.

Jamie made a straight beeline for the lingerie. "Oh my gosh stella, look at this stuff! There's pink, black, green... What do you think Scott would like more?"

Scott was Jamie's current boyfriend. Though I don't know you could call him her "boyfriend" since they really only slept together. They would attend parties together and lock themselves in a random room somewhere, but they were quite open to other relationships at school.

I would always tease Jamie about it; it was quite obvious to everyone with eyes that they really liked each other, but I think they were both too afraid of commitment to make their relationship official.

I looked between her and the underwear, contemplating. "I think you should go for the lacy dark blue one. It would really bring out the lightness of your eyes."

She gasped. "You're so right! See? You're so good at style, this is why I bring you with me!"

"It's just underwear, Jamie."

"It's not just underwear Stella!" She exclaimed, mouth open in shock. "It's sexy clothing that Scott will be taking off of me. If I'm going to be half-naked in front of anyone, I better look good while doing it."

I laughed. "Okay Jamie, whatever you say."

She glared at me and led me towards the dresses.

"So... you know what's coming up soon, don't you?" She asked, shifting dresses around, gravitating towards the tighter, skimpier ones.

"Um..." I thought for a few moments and remembered what was coming up in just under a month. "Prom is coming up soon. It's not even a month away."

She waved me off. "Yeah yeah, I know that. We'll go shopping for that in a week or two. But I'm talking about Natalia's raging end of the year party. You know, the one she throws 2 months before the end of the school year just so people can talk about it in school before the summer?"

I groaned and shook my head viciously. "I hate parties."

"I know. But you promised you'd go to this with me 5 months ago, so you're not backing out now." She looked at me excitedly, blue eyes sparkling. "At school yesterday she told me it would either be next weekend or the weekend after, so we better get you a dress today."

She rubbed her hands together and let out an excited laugh, looking at me evilly.

My best friend was crazy.