I chose a black flower imprinted knee high dress for the dinner. I put on some of Zoel's Chanel perfume with some elegant gold jewelry and red as my make up color. Aliyah had her Guess white and black cheveron print dress on with black diamond earrings. "That's sexy." I said "Where did you get it?"
She looked back at me putting on an earring "Oh, thanks Umm my mom bought it for me about a week ago from the outlets in Florida when she went to visit Full Sail." I nodded and glanced at Zoel still trying to figure out what to wear. "Zoe what are you doing! You need to hurry up." "I know, just not what to wear!" She leaned against my bed with only her undergarments on looking absentmindedly into her suitcase that is no longer in order. Things are shuffled around now. Bras were hanging out the sides and it just looked like a blender was turned on and thrown in there.
Me and Aliyah walked to her. I pulled her suitcase on the bed and she scooted back still staring. "You won't find anything." She said blankly. "We'll find something." Aliyah assured her. We looked high and low thru her bag and found nothing but a summer dress which wasn't nice enough. I felt a sudden change in her attitude.
"Where are all your clothes?" I asked. She looked down and shook her head " Zoe whats wrong?" Aliyah asked and all of a sudden I heard a sob. We freaked and sat next to her hugging her not caring if she just had on panties and a bra. "What! What happened?!" Aliyah asked "Why are you crying?" She tried to explain several times but she only said "My parents only had enough money for on- one dress... I don't even know how they go- got me that watch because we don't have the money! I don't wan- wanna go anymore tell I-Isaiah I got tired or some- something " Oh my god. That was all she needed to hear. I got up and went to my closet.
I came out with three expensive dresses. And laid them each on the bed. "I've never worn any of these dresses and I want you to have all of them." I told her "Your not going to not participate on your graduation day because you can't afford elegant dresses... I don't want you to say anything. Just chose which one your going to wear tonight and pack up the rest of them. None of these dresses have black in them because I want you to stand out from me and Aliyah. " Aliyah looked at me, her eyes filling up with water. "Stop crying Liah! Before you make me." I told her my voice chocking. She wiped her eyes and stood up to finish getting ready and so did Zoel. She stood up and gave me a hug while she choose which one to wear.
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She chose a light blue and white dress my mom bought me as a "surprise" to wear a few months ago. It had a white lace collar(I guess you could say) from her chest to her neck line. The rest was the light blue part with diamonds embroidered onto it.
"You guys ready?" I asked anxious to see Stephon. I had to talk to him about what happened. "Yeah." Aliyah responded. "Okay let's go." I grabbed my white clutch and walked out my bedroom door. They followed me downstairs into the family room where our parents were. "You girls ready?" My dad asked. "Yeah were gonna drive my car. We'll see you when you get there."
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Holding Onto You
Genç KurguI was in the end of my Senior year when I met Stephan Owens. He had just moved from Chicago to New Orleans with his older brother Elijah and little sister London. When he came to my high school everyone was convinced that he was a thug like his brot...
