"Valene! Hey Valene!" came the voice of Nex as the curvy woman trotted towards her friend. Valene turned to meet her with a smile, tossing back her long, blood red locks out of her face as the girl finally stopped beside her, nearly out of breath with her hand threaded through her own dark purple curls.
"Hey Nex, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be home getting ready?" she asked. Nex Daniels, an average and rather good looking woman with fair skin and emerald eyes stood panting beside Valene as she finally managed to utter out a sentence.
"I was.....looking....for you....I need....help deciding...an outfit...." she wheezed. Valene chuckled and pulled out a bottle of water from her sachel, handing it to Nex who took it and downed nearly half the contents in relief. Valene shook her head and chuckled.
"You know Nex, you could have just texted me." she said. A blush crossed her cheeks for a moment and she rubbed the back of her neck.
"Oh yea....well anyways! Now that I caught you, can I come back to your house with you and get ready?" she asked. Valene nodded.
"Of course, Claudia is coming over too she just needed to swing by her place and grab her outfit. She's gonna meet us there in about a half hour. Are you excited?" she asked. Nex smiled wide and nodded.
"Hell yea, we are gonna get so wasted!" she said excitedly. Today, April 2nd, was Nex's twenty first birthday and both Valene and Claudia planned on taking her out for drinks at a popular club at the other side of the city where they lived. Nex was the youngest out of the three friends, Claudia was the second and Valene was the oldest by a year. Nex was super pumped about finally being able to drink legally...not that she never had before, but now she could without having to hide at home.
"I'm thinking something purple or blue, what do you think?" Valene asked as she and Nex walked towards the parking lot near the strip mall where she had parked. All three girls lived on the outer skirts of a rather large beach city in California near a huge dense forest. The homes there were small and fairly cheap concidering everyone else flooded to the city so the girl's thought it was a nice, peaceful place to settle that wasn't too far from civilization. They were only about three blocks apart from each other and a mile or two away from the city. Both Valene and Claudia's parents ran their own shops in their home state of South Carolina and when the girl's got old enough to be on their own they were nice enough to help them put a down payment on the houses and helped move them to California to be together. Valene had gotten a job at a nice ritzy cafe as a server not long after the three arrived in California. Claudia was a part time cellist that played with a band in the dance hall of a five star hotel near the beach and Nex was a waitress at the club they were going to. She had gotten the job when she was nineteen and though she loved the place, they did not allow her any of the drinks there and she had to wear a tag telling everyone that she was underage and that no one was to buy or offer her drinks since it was common that patrons usually tipped some of the girls with a small coctail or daquiri to have on their break. But tonight was her night off and she was finally able to get as many drinks as she wanted and pretty enough to have plenty of guys offer to buy them for her.
"Oh! I think you should wear that black dress with the stripped arm..thingies...~" Nex answered after pilfering through her large paint splatter backpack that she carried with her everywhere. Valene looked at her with a raised brow.
"Really? Black and white? What made you decide on that?" she inquired. Nex shrugged.
"Your hair is dark red....I dunno...I like the purple, but I just think black and white makes you look hotter." she said with a smile. Valene shrugged and merely gave a nod as they walked up to her little blue Volkswagon "convertabeetle" as Claudia liked to refer to it as. Valene unlocked the doors and tossed her bags in the back before sitting in the front seat and putting down the top. After starting up the car they drove off down the road to Valene's house with some music blaring and their hair whipping in the wind as they sung along as loud as they could. Once they arrived at the house they both hopped out and raced to the door like excited children, throwing their stuff on the couch as they passed by it before running upstairs to Valene's room.
