The 5th Member

Chapter 14

After straightening myself up as much as I could, I sit at one of the stools by our bar and tap my nails against the granite counter. I'm actually am a little nervous.

Not that I should be, but I am really excited to shop, and to go get a new dress and walk on a red carpet.

Soon Todd informs me that Perrie has arrived and I walk over to the door to see her standing there in her high waisted jeans, and her cute crop top.

"Lexi!" She says cheerfully while walking over to me and giving me a hug which I accept. Her hug is hesitant though, like she senses that I'm uncomfortable.

"You ready to go shopping?" She asks with a huge smile that is contagious.

"I am so excited, you have no clue!" I say giggling slightly.

She leads me out the doors and into her sleek black car once again. We drive down the long stretch of street and back out onto the main highway.

"So, Jesy isn't able to make it because she got the flu last night." She sighs loudly before continuing. "Leigh and Jade already have their outfits, but I haven't yet. I can't believe I forgot" she says while shaking her head and looking down at her phone.

Soon we pull up to a cute little boutique in a more secluded area.

"The paps will show up soon, I'd ignore there questions. They like to start rumors. Don't let them get into your head." She kindly smiles at me.

We exit the doors of the car and begin to walk into the boutique. Since Perrie called in advance there aren't too many people in the store. The people that are seem older and respectful as we walk in.

"Marina!" Perrie yells as an older woman, maybe in her forties, with a greyish blonde bob haircut comes with a big smile on her face and hugs Perrie.

"Oh have I missed you, you haven't been in here forever!" She yelps at Perrie.

"And you!" She says while gesturing to me.

The lady comes over and pulls me into a huge huge. I feel so uncomfortable

"Why.. You are even more beautiful than the last time I saw you!" She says letting me go and walking over to the door. She suddenly locks it as teenagers begin to pile up at the window.

She looks at me as I frown at the children. I'm sure they don't mean any harm, they just want to meet their idols and I can understand that, because at one point in time.. I was just like them. But my idols never noticed me.

"Safety reasons, my little ladybug" Marina says and leads Perrie and I to another showroom.

"I'm glad you guys got here so early, because all of our new gowns came in this morning and I pulled out a couple that each of you might like."

Marina leads us to our separate racks. I have never really been to good at picking out my own dresses so I hope I find one I like. She has picked me out a red sparkly high- low gown, a gown with a short black skirt and a pink and black lacey top with a low cut back, the last gown is a long emerald green silky strapped.

"This is it! I love this one!" Perrie cheers, while spinning around in her beautiful dress. It has a black long skirt, and a nude colored top. The black seems to run up the top, forming what looks like tree branches. It's stunning.

"Wow.." I say in awe of just how beautiful she looks in it.

"Do you think everyone will like it?" She says to me in a very concerned tone.

Both Marina and I nod very excitedly at her as she claps her hands together.

"Thanks Marina! You never let me down!" She says while giving her a huge hug, and Marina squeezes her tightly back.

"Well Lexi, you should probably try on your dresses!" Perrie smiles at me, I had almost entirely forgotten about my own dress. I nod to her and walk into the dressing room. I first grad the black shorter dress, I slip it on and it fits like a glove. Wow. I stand in awe of my appearance in front of the mirror. This is the first time that I have looked in a mirror. I must have lost a lot of weight because I look a lot slimmer than I remember. The back of the dress dances around my lower back.

"Come on Lexi! Show me, show me!!" Perrie laughs and I step out of the dressing room. Both of there eyes practically pop out of there heads.

"Oh my god.." Perrie says slowly and Marina covers her mouth with both of her hands.

"You look so gorgeous!" Perrie says in a high pitched voice "Awww!"

As soon as we had changed back to our regular clothes, we walk up to the register and purchase both of our dresses. My dress comes to $1200 dollars which made me gasp because I have never even had that much money. But when I pull out my wallet, I definently have enough. We pay her and thank her again. As we are about to walk out the doors, we remember the group of teens that were waiting at the window.

By now the group had multiplied and there were several paps now.

"It's ok, don't answer any questions." Perrie says to me, as she opens the door. Thankfully, Marina had already called the police so that we could exit the building safely. We began crossing the sidewalk to get to our car. I hear our names screamed numerous times, and random questions being thrown at me.

I see a little girl in the front. She is being pushed around by other teenage girls and has all of her little mix clothing on. I stop and smile at me. I feel bad for her, she just wants to be noticed.

"Bring that little girl and her mum out here I say to one of the police men and he lets her and her mum through. I shake hands with the mum and crouch down to the little girl. After getting a hug and a picture with her, I join Perrie in the limo.

She begins to laugh at me and I smile back at her.

"What?" I laugh as the limo begins to pull away from the shop.

"Nothing. Nothing. What you did just now..." She laughs again "it was pretty cute" she smiles and I smile back as we head off to our next destination.

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