Bad and Broken (H.S)

Chapter 9

       

A/N - Please don't be a silent reader! Comments make me so happy :)

It had been a week and Mum was only acting weirder and weirder; making up weak excuses as to why she left home at 7:00 in the morning and came home at 7:00 at night, as well as turning her phone off and putting it screen-down next to her whenever I walked past her, like she was afraid I was going to see what she was typing. Either she was dating someone new or something strange was going on.

When I finally had a moment to confront her, she smiled sweetly and said she was 'still single as a pringle and not ready to mingle anytime soon.' She also assured me that nothing was going on and that I was only being paranoid, which I did not believe for a second.

Despite her curious actions I also had other things on my mind, such as my upcoming 'catch-up' with Harry, which only had me becoming more and more nervous by the day. Especially after he told me to dress nice, how in ever living hell would I choose what to wear when the only instructions I had been given were 'dress nice'?! Boys just do not understand how difficult it is to pick an outfit suitable for an occasion.

Leila had overcome her little hissy fit and offered to go shopping with me to find a nice dress, which I grudgingly agreed to, afraid of another of her mood swings.

So, Leila drove us down to Ribon Mall and insisted on finding a parking space 200 metres away from the shopping centre in an empty parking lot so that no one would scratch her car. Ridiculous. Lucky I wore comfy shoes.

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"Leila this shop sells dresses for $1000, I'm not going to find anything in here that I can afford." I sighed at her half an hour later after I had turned down four beautiful but ridiculously expensive dresses she had shown me.

"Chill out, let me just ask this employee." She grinned, dragging my by the arm up to the counter. "Hi, do you have any dresses for under 200 dollars?" The employee had bleached blonde hair with dark roots growing through and a completely orange layer of makeup covering her pale skin. She simply rolled her eyes and pointed to the door.

"Try the thrift shop, it's around the corner, although I presume you already know that considering what your outfit looks like." She drawled then laughed and turned around to continue rifling through some clothes on a rack behind her. My jaw simply dropped, but Leila's quick wit shone through.

"Oh, that must be where you bought your wig from, or did you make it from the hairballs your cat threw up?" Leila was seething and stormed out of the store, leaving me to catch the store clerk glaring daggers at Leila's back.

"It's not a wig!" The lady shouted, but Leila was already gone.

Got to love having a feisty friend.

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"Elli!" Leila screeched, the little episode in the expensive store long forgotten. "I Have found the perfect dress!" I trudged over to her, my feet aching and all hope lost, this was the 10th 'perfect dress' she had found. The previous 9 had been absolute failures, including a navy blue dress that showed WAY too much of my chest - I mean, not that it was anything Harry hadn't seen already.

But this dress was different. As soon as I saw it my heart fluttered with nerves, I could hardly imagine myself wearing a dress as sexy as THAT, but i had to try it on. I grabbed it from Leila's hands with a grin and rushed to the fitting rooms.

When I finished putting it on and stepped out from behind the curtain, Leila gasped loudly. "Oh. My. Gosh. Elli you look stunning!" She gushed. I laughed and admired the dress in a mirror. It was a deep, dark red and fit me perfectly. It hugged my figure, causing my 'booty' to look 'poppin' in Leila's words, which only caused me to cringe. The dress reached just below my knees but had a wide split in one side that exposed almost too much of my thigh.

"I think you really have found the perfect dress Leila. Thank you."

"Don't thank me, thank you for looking so damn hot." She grinned and I rolled my eyes jokingly at her. "Now go pay for that thing!" She squealed.

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A/N - Get ready for the date ;) (Picture of Elli's dress attached, though you can imagine it however you like.)

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