Down But Not Out

Chapter 14

Lizzie's POV

"Summer I look like a prostitute" I exclaimed as I looked at myself in the floor length mirror she had in her room. I heard her snort with laughter behind me. I turned around to glare at her but she shuck her head at me.

"Lizzie, compared to what actual prostitutes wear, that tiny bit of skin you're showing is tame" she replied and I huffed a sigh before turning around and looking at myself in the mirror.

I'd finally given in and decided this morning to let Summer give me a make over. Luckily she'd been up early today, which was weird because today was her day off. Yeah she seemed to have a lot of those lately. Anyway she had practically squealed the house down in her excitement and while I was seriously shitting myself about how I would look, I had to admit that I looked okay, but I was aware of the fact that I was showing more skin than what I usually did.

Summer of course had guessed why I wanted her to do this today, since I'd had an interesting chat with Josh last night, and she was determined to make me look feminine. We'd talked easier this morning about everything, and I'd even touched on Louise a little bit to see that Summer was shocked that I'd even brought up the subject of my sister. I couldn't exactly keep living like this, not talking about my sister with my best friend who had loved her as well. Summer seemed happy that I was more comfortable with myself and had said it probably had something to do with Josh since I hadn't run away from him yet, even though I'd developed feelings for him. Of course I'd suffered more teasing about the fact that I'd finally admitted to her this morning that I had strong feelings for him. It was hard for me to admit this since I hated talking about how I felt about guys- I'd only ever done that with Louise- as well as the fact that she'd been flirting with him a few days ago, although Summer didn't seem upset about this, I knew of course because I could read her like an open book, we had been friends for thirteen years after all.

"Lizzie would you stop trying to pull your shorts down to cover yourself" Summer scolded and I frowned at her reflection in the mirror before sighing.

Summer had decided to make me look a little bit more feminine by swapping my normal skinny jeans for fitted, high waist shorts. The shorts covered my nearly flat stomach and flowed over the curves of my hips and down to above my knee. They were dark blue in colour with little buttons sewn onto the fabric above my stomach. I'd had no clue that I even owned a pair of shorts but, after rummaging in my wardrobe, Summer had found them.

With my shorts Summer had let me choose my own top, and for once I hadn't chosen a band tee or something from Down But Not Out. Instead I chose a white t-shirt with a colourful image of the Eiffel Tower behind the image of a girl playing an electric guitar. Not exactly my usual clothes, but I still felt comfortable wearing it. The top was strange though because it sat on my left shoulder, with the sleeve ending halfway down my upper arm, while the right shoulder drooped a little and this sleeve ended just past my elbow. This meant that you could see the white straps of my bra and I was uncomfortable about this because I hardly ever revealed my shoulders- which was why they were so pale- and my legs were bare, since Summer had decided not to give me tights to go with my shorts, but I had to admit that I looked great, even though I hated all the skin that was on show.

"Here" Summer said as she handed me my ankle length, black leather boots with a tiny wedge heel, with a chain around the back of the ankles and my Down But Not Out jacket. Well at least I would be able to make it less girlie with these.

I pulled on the boots and shrugged into my jacket just as Summer quickly returned with a necklace of hers. It was just a simple cheap necklace and I took it off her before slipping it over my head. Biting my lip I walked over to where I kept my jewellery, and pulled out one of Louise's favourite necklaces- since my parents had given me all of her jewellery and there was a lot of it. It was a gold chain with a heart made out of the jade stone, which was basically smooth and light green in colour. This one fell much lower than Summer's necklace, as Summer's necklace ended just a little lower than my neck, whereas Louise's ended at my cleavage, which thankfully wasn't on show. Although I knew if Summer had her way I would be showing off some cleavage until I finally had Josh, as my best friend had pointed out that I had been blessed in that department.