The Boy Next Door

Chapter 12

Alex and I had been waiting for Liz to make her grand entrance for a good ten minutes.

"What is taking her so long?" Alex questioned impatiently.

"I'll go check on her," I said walking towards the dressing room. Not really knowing what to say I said, "Uh, are you okay?" I mentally slapped my forehead. Way to be awkward Keeley.

"Would you come in here please! I uh, haven't worn a dress in uh, 11 years and I can't seem to put it on right."

Confused I walked in and saw Liz trying to put the dress on with jeans still on.

I did my best not to laugh as I tried to help her get out of the dress and re-put it on.

"Why do you still have your jeans on?"

"Well I figured I'd put the dress on over my jeans so I wouldn't have to stand in my underwear. That's just weird."

I just laughed before zipping up her dress. Classic Liz. Once she had the dress on the way she wanted it, we both walked out while Liz looked at it in the mirror.

"What do you guys think?"

She was in a grey long sleeve dress that was covered in beads and some sparkles. It wasn't much like Liz but it was simple and it didn't show a lot of skin up top.

"Do you like it?" I asked her.

"I like that it doesn't show my shoulder and isn't too short."

"Who cares if someone sees your shoulder? It's not like someone's going to come slap your shoulder and say, 'Damn, nice shoulder'!" Alex said.

I was about to scold her mouth but I was too busy laughing.

We both were cracking up, waiting for Liz to answer her question.

"Well showing skin is good right?"

"I believe so."

"Exactly. Too much of a good thing is a bad thing," she said turning around. That's when my jaw dropped.

"Uh Liz, how do you like the back of the dress?". Her entire back was showing through a big 'V' in the back that ended just above her waist.

"What do you me- oooooohhhhh," Liz said looking at her back.

"This dress is hideous! MY ENTIRE BACK IS SHOWING! GET ME OUT OF THIS," Liz screeched running back to the dressing room.

"Chill out, drama queen. Now hurry up and put the next dress on," Alex said holding back a laugh. Once Liz had shut the door, we burst out laughing.

"Did you see the look on her face?" I said in between laughs.

"If only I had my camera out. . ."

Finally after leaving us to laugh hysterically, Liz trudged out in the next dress and my jaw hit the floor. It was an ocean blue dress that looked like it was strapless, but where the blue dress ended there were straps made out of clear fabric. To top off the look, it had a couple flowers sewn into the clear fabric along the neckline and a belt made out of jewels.

"Liz that looks incredible on you!" Alex and I said in unison.

"Don't make things up. It's not nice to lie.".

"I'm not lying! Have you looked in the mirror yet?" I questioned.

"No. . ."

When Liz turned around her frown turned upside down.

"I love it! I'm still shaky about the shoulders but I'm glad it's not sleeveless and it goes well past my butt."

"'So are you saying yes to the dress?'" Alex said, pretending she was on Say Yes to the Dress.