Not Always Glamorous

Chapter 27: Getting Ready For The Time Of Our Lives!

Chapter 27: Getting Ready For the Time OF Our Lives!

       "Wow! That was some night at the Grammy's!" I exclaim to Taylor, who was my new roommate as of now Harry slept on the couch. She nods and yawns. She got to sleep pretty late, texting Niall. I look at the clock. 3:00 P.M. I decide, hey, Harry and I already got out couples massage and my grandmother is out with my grandfather since I flew him in, let's all have fun!

     "Okay, well, I am going to go get everyone up here! Okay?" I say. Taylor nods and mutters "okay" back before closing her eyes and sleeping in her bed. I rush out the door and down the hall. I run up the hall to room 21. I knock on the door and Ms. Castillo comes to the door in a bright pink robe and yawns. "Hey, what are you still doing in your robe?" I ask her. "IIt's already three in the afternoon!"

     "Well, why are you so energetic? Aren't you tired?" she asks me with an are-you-insane look. "NO! How could I?" I respond back happily. She moans and collapses on her bed. "Okay, well, I know how to make you feel better!" I say excitedly and drag her out of her room and into mine. She collapses on a chair and falls asleep along with Taylor. I dash out of my room again and go to Zayn and Perrie's room. Perrie yells "Who is it?" and I respond. "OKAY, COME IN!" Zayn yells back to me. I jump in closing the door behind me. They were watching television and eating pizza from my dressing room. "Yeah, we know! It's a late lunch!" Perrie says, pausing the TV and turning around to face me. "It's fine, I'm not incharge of you guys. I couldn't care less about when you guys eat lunch!" I giggle.

     Perrie smiles back to me and walks over, placing her pizza on the counter. "Yes, Jade?" she asks me. "Oh, right! I need you guys to go to my room!" I tell them. "Okay, we'll be there in a few!" Zayn tells me. I smile and give thumbs up before running out to go to Niall and Liam's room. I tell them to go to my room and run downstairs, but being blinded by flashing lights and a floor full of fans. I run to a security guard and he helps me through the crowd and get some snacks. I thank him and run back upstairs and dump the snacks on my bed. Taylor and Ms. Castillo had just woken up and were stretching in the chairs, Perrie was sitting on my bed, Zayn, Harry, Niall, and Liam were sitting on the couch. "Thank you for coming, everyone!" I say thanking them.

     "No problem!" Niall replies with a smile. I smile back. "Ms. Castillo looked worn out and super tired. "I remember my first Red Carpet and Grammy Award show..." I tell her,  reminiscing about the good old days. "Were you this tired, too?" she asks. I suck in my breath. "Um, no....not really..." I tell her. It is silent for a minute before everyone, including Ms. Castillo and I, started cracking up. I jump on my bed with Perrie. I toss a bottled frappacino to Ms. Castillo and wink to her. She smiles and opens it.

    "Anyway, I have big plans for tonight! All you need to know is you need to dress up formal...like for a party! Like what you wear to your Senior prom...kind of...do you get what I mean?" I ask. They all nod and the boys go to Niall adn Laim's room and the girls stay with me. I blast some music from my phone amplifier. We all dance, sing, and twirl around until I run to get my nail polish collection (I love it!). I come back with a big box of various colors...almost any color you could dream it! I place it down and we grab out colors, get with another person, and swap colors to do each other's nails. I ran to Ms. Castillo. We got on the floor and we did our feet first. She painted my toenails and I painted hers at the same time. My nails came out awesome!

    We did our hands...well, one hand. To do the other, we had to wait for the original hand to dry. I got neon yellow nails (thanks to Ms. Castillo who showed me how awesome neon yellow and yellow in general is!), Ms. Castillo got the same (neon yellow), Taylor got light sea blue, and Perrie had light violet nails. We all jumped and squealed looking at our nails in excitement. We let for the most recent hand dry. After that, Ms. Castillo grabbed a pair of shorts and a t-shirt from her room down the hall and we left to shop for the perfect dress.

     We looked almost in every store in Las Vegas and couldn't find anything...at all! We walked in frustration and stress from not finding anything back to my car. We drive to Target, our only hope. We didn't expect to find the MOST PERFECT dress there, but we could only hope. We walked into Target in despair...well, we had a little hope, so not COMPLETE despair, but you get it. We walk to the Junior's section and look around. I wander off from the group and immediately find the most perfect dress in the whole world!

     It had a high, black belt , I white kind of tank top with little black polka dots and it had white, frilly material down the middle, then a black, high waisted skirt. I ADORED IT! I grab its hanger and hugged it, well, as well you could hug a dress. Anyway, I run to the rest of my buds adn looks like they've found the perfect dresses too. Taylor was embracing a short, light purple dress, almost the same color as Perrie's nails,  Perrie found a short, silk, light pink dress with a flower near the waist, and Ms. Castillo found a long, sleeveless, majestic, midnight blue, silk dress. She was holding the dress against her and twirling around with it. I smiled because she looked so happy!

     So, I guess we doubted Target for no reason. Sorry, Target! So, anyway, we payed and shot into the car and to the hotel. We immediately changed into the dresses and started to do make-up. I lied down on my bed and Ms. Castillo sat next to me and started applying my make-up. It took about 25 minutes (half as much time as I took on her!) and I sat up and looked in the mirror. My jaw dropped. I looked amazing! I looked unbelievable! SHE was unbelievable! Man, I am telling you! This woman is a miracle worker at all things girl! It's awesome! I try my hardest to tell her, but it was too amazing to put to words. She blushed and giggled. "No problem, Jade! You're welcome!" she says and hugs me.

     She laughs and lies down were I did. I do hers very slowly, I have a sort of shaky hand, so I did it slow to keep everything even and not all...ugly and messed up. So it took a while and a lot of cotton balls of make-up remover, but I think I did a pretty good job (not as great as Ms. Castillo, though!). She had black cat eyes, midnight blue eye lids, fuchsia pink lips, and long, dark eyelashes...except, I don't remember putting that much blush on...AWWW!

     I squeal and she squeals as well! We look in the mirror and we both look...perfect. Well, there was no such thing as perfect...but this was a slight exception! Perrie and Taylor were still doing their make-up, so Ms. Castillo and I go to do each other's hair. We go to my bathroom and I plug in my In-Styler, and while we wait for it to heat up enough, we talk. "Remember that trip to Universal Studios in sixth and seventh grade?" I ask her. "Oh my God, how could I forget?" she says laughing, remembering the memory. "When, I was in sixth grade and the person behind me had an exploding glow stick? It went all over the floor, ceiling, my pillow, blanket, clothes, and the chaperone's hair that was sitting in front of me?!" I reminded her.

     "It wasn't funny then..." I start. "But it is hilarious now!" she finishes. We start to, like, crack up. Hard! We couldn't breathe and our faces turned red. My sides hurt so much and so did Ms. Castillo's did too, so we were clutching out sides, tears coming from our eyes, red faces. The whole package!

     The In-Styler was heated enough and we finish our laughs of hysteria. I grab it and take a deep breath. Whew, that was fun...ny! So anyway, I look at Ms. Castillo and she nods her head. I take a strand of her curly, red, bouncy hair and straighten it. A fashionable, STRAIGHT piece of hair lands with the rest of her cheerful, bouncy hair. I smile and she smiles back. It was so weird seeing her with straight hair when, my whole life, I'd only seen her with curly hair! This was going to be great!