Forgotten

Chapter 3 - The trip to the Shopping Centre

CHAPTER 3

Emily was stuffing all of Romy’s clothes into a large, black, rubbish bag. “What are you doing?!” snapped Romy, “They are my favourite jeans!” Snatching it out of Emily’s hands, she walked over to her now empty dresser and shoved it in. “I-I’m cleaning up for you…” stuttered Emily, her eyes wide full of fear and surprise. “I just wanted to wear your clothes for today, not ask you to re-arrange my entire wardrobe.” muttered Romy, feeling a bit guilty, dropping her sharp glaze. “Oh, sorry Romy…I wanted to surprise you.”

 “Pfffhahaha!” The loud noise shocked both Emily and Romy. They both turned towards the boy sitting in the tree outside Romy’s window.

He had dark-brown hair that covered his jade-coloured eyes as he jumped out of the tree and landed on Romy’s bed. “Well you surprised her alright.”

Both girls started at him, eyes wide open before they came to their senses. Romy looked down at herself in a fluffy bright purple towel and hid behind Emily. “Get out! What are you doing here?!?” Emily grabbed Romy’s plush teddies and started pegging it at the boy. He started laughing, easily dodging the teddies flying past and out the window. The mystery boy climbed back onto the window ledge and back flipped out the window.

Romy and Emily rushed to the open window checked to see if he was alright. He seemed unharmed as he landed neatly on his feet and wolf-whistled at Romy as she leaned out. She ducked her head as she felt her face burning up. Then it started, teddies that had fallen out of the window had started flying back up and hitting Romy in the face. Both girls grabbed as many stuffed animals and threw them as hard as they could. After half an hour, Emily and Romy ran out of ammo as the boy stood there with not a hair out of place. “See ya around crazy girls!”  As he jogged away he flashed Romy a crooked grin before disappearing down the road.

“Who was he?”

 Romy shrugged her shoulders, “I dunno but he’s cute!” Something sparkly flashed in front of her face, a summer dress dangled on a hanger as Emily grinned down at Romy. “This dress will make me look weird Emm...” mumbled Romy, looking down at her feet. Emily shook her head vigorously. “You’ll look perfect in this, I’m sure.” Romy slowly grabbed the shimmery material with the uncertainty look on her face, Romy walked into the bathroom.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 15 Minutes Later ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Romy stepped out into Emily’s sight, the dress fitting her perfectly. Her hair let down and curled into ringlets. Emily led her to the bed as she applied make up on Romy. “The natural look coming right up,” Emily smiled, “Then we are going shopping for my outfit!” After applying the makeup, Romy looked into her closet mirror. “Wow Emm! If I did my own makeup I’ll look like a clown.” The natural look made Romy’s skin glow like Emily’s did except Emily’s was always better with a tinge of eye shadow making her Bambi eyes cuter and bigger. Romy secretly stared at Emily applying her own makeup enviously but she shook the feeling off.

Emily shut her mini emergency makeup kit closed with a snap, placed it under Romy’s bed where it belonged. The girls linked arms and walked downstairs to the front door. Romy managed to grab some food for her empty, hungry stomach until she was interrupted by a loud coughing noise.

“Finally up honey?” Romy froze glancing at Emily at the corner of her eye. Emily smiled up that Mary, “Yep I had to drag her out of bed.” Mary took a look at the girls’ clothes and eyed them enviously. “Wow, you girls look stunning!” Emily winked at Romy and she reached for a peach, “Yep Romy will have to look her best for the Modelling Audition!” Romy opened and closed her mouth like a goldfish unable to understand what the two people in front of her were gossiping about. Emily wrapped up the conversation laughing then after grabbing a peach from the fruit bowl she grabbed Romy’s arm and waved good bye to Mary.