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Now I'm In Purgatory

When I made it into 221B I threw my bag on the floor and collapsed onto the sofa. Sherlock stopped playing the violin and laughed.

"That bad?"

"Worse. I have to go dress shopping tomorrow. There's going to be a formal next week. Oh and you know that secretary we saw when we were shopping? She works at the school! You missed her American accent."

"Dammit! I always miss something! What about Callum?"

"I'm in his clique but its horrible. They're all arse holes, exactly the type of people I hate. There's this one girl who doesn't shut up and says like too much..." I ranted for about a half hour and I'm almost positive Sherlock was in his mind palace the whole time.

When I stopped talking, and got up to get something to eat, he didn't even notice. Well he didn't notice until I screamed and slammed the fridge shut.

"THERE'S A HEAD IN THE FRIDGE!"

"Calm down its for an experiment!"

I sat on the kitchen floor and tried to get myself together. Sherlock came in to "check" on me.

"I'm going to teach you how to play the violin. Your lessons at school are rubbish, I'll teach you much faster."

"What?! I just saw a SEVERED HEAD and you want to give me violin lessons!?"

"Yep!" he popped the p and waited for me to get up. It will be awhile before I get used to this.

We were so busy with the violin that I didn't notice Mrs. Hudson come up the stairs. I had been playing a piece from "The Nutcracker".

She set down a tray of food and started clapping. I was so startled I dropped the violin.

"Olive! Be careful!" yelled Sherlock.

"Sorry!"

Once I ate supper, I headed to bed. We had worked for 5 hours and it was 9:30. I was exhausted and I really wasn't looking forward to dress shopping.

~~~~~

"Ooh!" said Hope holding up a short silver dress, "What about this one?"

Stella looked it over, "No it looks cheap."

I had survived another day of hell and was now in purgatory. They had been here for 2 hours and only Alice and I had a dress. Hers was white with a v-neck, and there were sparkles everywhere. It was 130£!

Abby was stuck between a flower pattern dress (which I think is really ugly) and one that was identical to Alice's but black.

Stella had picked 5 dresses and was still searching while Hope hadn't found one. It didn't help that Stella didn't like any of the ones she picked.

The dress I picked was sky blue with a heart neckline. The skirt was really flowy and reached my knees. I also picked a dark blue belt, and heels the same color. Alice helped me pick out dangling earrings too. She was my favorite.

Stella had finally given up and was looking at her 5 dresses. Each of them were some shade of pink. Abby decided on the black dress and was helping Hope.

Hope and Abby found a really nice bright red dress and asked Stella what she thought. Before she could shoot it down I gave my opinion.

"OMG! It's so beautiful! You should totally wear it."

I was not going to sit here for another 3 fucking hours because Stella was being a bitch. Stella picked out ugly dresses for Hope because she didn't want Hope to look better than her.

There was some weird thing with girls that if you said something the others had to agree, because they don't want to offend you.

Stella put on a big fake smile and said she loved it too. Now there was one dress to go.

"I really like this one, but this one is better to accessorize with. On the other hand this one..." and on and on and on. Does Stella ever stop talking?

While they were busy I snuck off to the electronics apartment. Sherlock had given me extra money to buy a mobile for myself. I was glad he thought of it because I'm sure they are going to want my number soon. Luckily it hadn't been brought up yet.

When I got back they had finally decided on a coral pink dress for Stella. We decided to go out to eat at a little cafe. Every one else had a salad but I got fish and chips.

"Olive? Don't you think you should cut back on the calories?" Stella asked.

I looked down at my concave stomach. I was still trying to gain back my body weight. If anything I should be gaining calories.

"Nope," I said before shoving some chips in my mouth. They were shocked to say the least. I wonder when was the last time someone disagreed with Stella? They avoided making conversation with me after that and I was glad.

~~~~~

That night I got a text from Callum.

Hello beautiful ;) -CM

How did u get my number? -O

I have my ways :D -CM

Wutever, ur such a flirt ;) -O

U know u like it -CM

I'm gonna puke.

I was wondering if u wanted to go to the formal as my date -CM

Shit, I have to say yes don't I?

I thought u would never ask! -O

My dad wants 2 meet u. Come to my house after school, bring ur dress so I can get a tie 2 match. -CM

Awesome! Cant wait! -O

Now I was nervous, the easy stuff is over. Tomorrow I'll be stealing information from a criminal.