Chasing Secrets

9

Homecoming is tonight, Harley, Juniper and I are at the Dragon Boutique to buy some dresses, our shopping is last minute because we had spent the whole day after school getting our hair and nails done, being the basic girls we are, but we also wanted Juniper to get the experience as well.
"How's this one?" Juniper opens the curtains of her dressing room appearing in a velvet material purple long dress with a slit in one of the legs, she looked absolutely gorgeous, the color of the dress made her dark chocolate eyes pop, she did a quick spin and the back of her dress was low cut. This was the perfect dress for her
"You look incredible" I say
"Beyond incredible!" Harley adds
Harley gets up from where we were sitting and goes to Juniper to check the price of this dress
"Um, Lils. You're not gonna like the price of this."
"Oh come on it can't be that bad" she checks the price for herself "That's a good price"
"Good price?" Harley repeats and Juniper nods
"I'm paying by the way"
"Oh no no no no" Harley and I say in sync
"You're dress is a lot to deal with, we don't want you to spend all your money on all of our dresses" I say
"Yeah and besides you still have to get some heels" Harley adds
She rolls her eyes as a joke then Harley and I continue to pick out our dresses.

After a long while of finding our perfect dresses I've ended up with a long yellow princess like dress, and Harley's left with a to her knees red dress, with no straps, and a sparkly part on the top of her dress.
We went over to the shoe section and found our favorite shoes and we got ten times more excited for tonight. Once we were finally done shopping we headed back to my place to get ready, Harley knows I don't really like to wear a lot of makeup so she insisted I do for tonight and she wanted to do it for me, so I let her, but I told her not a smokey eye
"Voila!" she says
I look in the mirror and I don't recognize myself for a second, I blink a couple of times to get my vision right, wow I look different. Good different.
"Harley I love this" I say as I shift my head from side to side to get a good look
"You said you didn't want much makeup so I did a little eyeshadow, top liner to make it seem like there's a lot of makeup, mascara, possibly the tiniest bit of foundation, bronzer and highlight, now just for the gloss and you're complete with a setting spray!"
I grab my favorite lip gloss and apply it to my lips, Harley hands me the setting spray and I spray quite a ton on my face and let it dry
"Okay, you need to do my makeup too" Juniper says as she sat down as I got up from the chair, I went over and took my bag off the floor, picked up my dress from inside of it, I grabbed a pair of scissors and cut the tag off, I made my way to the bathroom and I slipped out of my normal clothes into the dress, I have a full length mirror in my bathroom and so I turned to it and looked at myself. I was stunned, I looked like another person, but at the same time you could still see some me, it was perfect, I did a quick twirl and I was definitely happy with the results. I headed back to the room and by that time Harley had finished Juniper's makeup
"Oohh I like!!" I tell Juniper as I clasp my hands in excitement
"You do?" She looks at herself in the mirror
"Of course I do"
"I love it" she turns to Harley "you're a magician at makeup"
Harley blushes "Aw, it's nothing. I just do makeup for fun"
"No you have real talent you should do something, like start an instagram page"
"You think so?"
"Oh yeah"
"I'll think about it" she smiles to herself
I love seeing Harley and Juniper getting along together so well. I just wish Harley knew Juniper's secret so we would all be closer. I get back to my vanity, plug in my curling iron and section my hair as I wait for it to heat up. I curl the first section of my hair and I get a notification from Pietro saying he and Ace are on their way
"Guys they're on their way"
We all finish up getting ready, possibly the quickest we've ever gotten ready. I rush over to the top of the stairs when I hear the doorbell ring and I yell to my dad "It's them, make them wait up for a bit we're almost ready!"
As he gets the door I run back to the room, spray a couple of splashes of my favorite perfume, which was Honeysuckle and Davana by Jo Malone, I lend the perfume to Harley as I wore my shoes and grabbed my clutch, Harley then passed it on to Juniper as she did a twirl in front of the mirror to make sure everything was looking good, Juniper and I joined her and we all were happy with the end results.
As we get to the top of the stairs I say "We're ready"
and I walk down the stairs with Juniper behind me, followed by Harley, my dad took photos of us individually walking down the stairs. My dad's eyes started to fill with tears
"Aw dad, don't cry" I give him a hug
He places a kiss on my forehead "You're just growing up too fast. And you look like your mother" He smiles as a single tear streams down his cheek
"Excuse me" He said raising a palm to us
Alexis grabbed the camera from dad and took a couple of group pictures of us, I gave her and Rainer a hug before I left "Bye guys" I say as I opened and closed the door behind me
"Your family is so cute" Juniper says
"Thanks. They're the best" I say smiling and thinking about how lucky I am to have them in my life, even if it's without my mom.
Pietro opens the limousine door for us
"Woah, woah. A limo? You guys didn't have to go that far" I say
"Yes they should have!" Harley says and the guys giggle
"It's nothing, now relax" Ace says
Harley gets in, then Juniper, followed by me, then Ace, and finally Pietro and he shut the door as he sat down. I've never been in a limo before, it was really cool, it's just like in the movies and shows, all you can eat snacks, two bottles of champagne, a tv which was quite far away, I was sat next to Pietro to my right and Harley to my left, Ace was on the floor popping a bottle of champagne, pouring it and passing it on to us
"To us!" he says
"To us!" we repeat in sync and take a sip.

As we arrived to homecoming, a bunch of people were coming up to us and greeting us, I felt pretty special so I just let it all happen.
"I'm gonna go find my date, Jacob"
"Good luck!" I say to her
A slow song plays and Pietro asks to have this dance, I take his hand as we walk across the dance floor to the center of it, I place my arms around his neck, as he puts his hands on my waist, we're swaying to the beat of the music, I look him in the eyes, his stunning emerald green eyes, they're just as bright and beautiful as they were the first time I laid my eyes on them, at the corner of my eye I can see Ace and Juniper looking at us happily, I turn my head to my side and flash them a smile, Pietro pulls me closer so our bodies are a couple of inches apart, I bury my face into his chest as we continue dancing.
Moments later Harley comes back and her face looks flushed, like she's been crying for hours on end
"Har are you okay?" I let go of Pietro and pull her into a tight hug as she sobs into my arms
I looks behind her to see her date had arrived with someone else and there they were making out. My heart shattered for Harley
"I'll be right back" I say as I let Pietro hug Harley while I went to talk to Jacob

"Jacob?" I say standing with my arms across my chest
"What?" He turns to me and says in an attitude
"Who's this bitch?"
"She's no bitch, that's my girlfriend"
"Your girlfriend! Oh how rude of me" I say in a sarcastic tone "Meanwhile my best friend is over there thinking you were going to be at this dance together"
"Relax okay, I made a mistake, girl isn't pretty enough for me"
"Isn't pretty enough for you? If she 'isn't pretty enough for you' then why'd you say yes to be her date?" my voice slowly rises, my anger is pushing through, I feel my hands sweating so I switch my standing position to my hands on my hips to calm the sweating
"I was upset over Angelina, but when she asked me to get back together with her I couldn't say no"
"Well you could've at least told Harley so she wouldn't get her hopes up, look at that poor girl"
"So what? She'll get over it. Anyways like I said she isn't pretty enough"
I look at Angelina, she is really pretty, short, straight shiny chestnut brown hair, which was half up tied with a bow, dark-ish brown eyes, not the perfect shade of tan skin, she was wearing a long black gown.
"I'll show you what's not pretty" I yell, I attack him and push him onto the floor, I got on top of him, I held both his wrists so he wouldn't be able to punch me "Say she isn't pretty one more fucking time"
The words were about to come out of his mouth but I felt someone drag me off of him and I turn to see Ace
"He isn't worth it, let it go" he whispers into my ear which sends chills down my body
As Jacob gets back up on his feet he says "You psycho bitch" and the next thing I knew Ace punched him in the eye and he was on the floor again
"You asshole" Ace says.

Back in the limo I was staring at the floor remembering every detail of the fight that had happened, I barely get into fights but there is a limit to when my friends get made fun of I don't sit down, we were all exhausted, I look up to see Harley sleeping on Ace's lap, Juniper had her head on Ace's shoulder while sleeping, Ace was sleeping too, except his head was tilted upwards, they all looked so cute
Pietro was also asleep, he slowly opened his eyes
"hey" he says, his voice was deeper than usual
"hi" I say back
"you okay?"
I nod "tonight was weird" I pause "but at the same time it was one of the best nights of my life, we danced together most of the night, I'm with the people I love" I smile
"most importantly you're happy" he puts one arm around me
"besides that dumb jerk"
"hey don't worry about him, he's not worth your breath"
I turn to face him "you're worth every breath of mine"
he chuckles and kisses my cheek.

Once we arrive home we wake everyone else up to get out of the limo and back into my house to watch movies, I gently opened the door and we all slowly tip toed into the house up to my room, at this point it was 1 am.m, we sat on my bed and I postmated a bunch of food for us to eat while binge watching movies, I told the postmates delivery person to not ring the doorbell so that they don't wake my parents, instead I'll wait outside. And so that's what I did, I thanked the delivery person and got back to my room, they were debating what movie to watch, it was 2 votes for Birdbox, the girls, 2 votes for Grown Ups, the boys. I was in the mood for comedy so that's what I voted for, the girls got upset but the boys high fived each other. By 6 am everyone somehow fell asleep, clearly none of them can pull an all nighter, but I was exhausted so I just fell asleep with them.