The Time of the Hidden

The Party

The next couple days went by with side glances, complements, and an unexpected rise in popularity. All around school, people have been questioning me on where I got my hair done, and how much it cost. I would usually just feed them whatever popped into my mind. I was getting complements left and right on my new look. And Jessica was still lost for words, not knowing how to put me down. I strangely got a lot more confident with everything that has been going on. There were people who tried to criticize me, but I was able to simply ignore them. Maybe the change was just what I needed.

Friday came with me snuggled up on a couch, sipping on my steaming camomile tea, and Patrick Swayze dancing on the T.V screen. Dirty Dancing seemed perfect to get me into an up beat mood for tonight.

As the end of the movie was playing out, I heard a rapid knocking at the door. I walked to the door with a beat in my step, dancing along to (I've had) the Time of my Life. I opened the door to Jennifer grinning, carrying two beautiful dresses. One, a deep ocean blue, and another, a royal purple.

"They're gorgeous! How much were they?" I said holding up the blue one. It was a light fabric that cut off a little below the knee. It had a split that ran a third up the thigh, which made it tight but movable, a slight V neck, and a steeper V in the back. It had a thin, cloth, black belt, and faded into black at the bottom.

"I got them half off! What are the chances! It cost me about 100 all together. I'll be expecting payment from you, by the way." I gave her back the blue one and took the purple. The dress had a thicker cloth that layered onto each other on the bottom half, ranging in different shades, from a rich purple, to a gentle lavender. It had a lavender belt matching a short, leather, lavender jacket. The top half was a dark, deep purple. And at the belt, the bottom of the dress puffed out, cutting the dress rim just above the knee's.

"So what do you think?" Jennifer asked me after I finished examining the dresses.

"They're both perfect. I didn't know you were going all out on this party."

"I want to make our victory as sweet as possible."

"Well you're confident."

"Who wouldn't be with these dresses?" She said holding up the blue dress.

"What time does the party start again?"

"Seven, but I suspect that we'll be done getting ready by eight. That only gives us about two hours to get ready."

"Only?"

"This could take a while." She justified. I let out a small laugh.

"Well, I'm going to take a quick shower."

"And I'll search the web for cute ways to do our hair."

When I got out of the shower fifteen minutes later, I saw that Jennifer was already in the blue dress. It worked good with her black hair, and tan skin. I got in my dress, and began helping her decide on how we would do our hair. We ended up choosing a elaborate bun, that kind of made her hair look like a slick, black sea shell, perfect with her ocean dress. My hair ended up kind of looking like a flowery Elsa braid. Jennifer had done my hair in a side French braid, while making flowers out of my hair on the side of the braid.

Jennifer was right about us taking a long time. It was 7:40 when we finished our hair. We did our make-up according to the shades of our dress, and it was then, when we finished, that I realized just how gorgeous we looked. It felt like we had transformed from ugly ducklings to swans, which highly boosted my confidence.