The Mess You Made..

5. Necklace

"I hate you so much" I huff angrily while trying to pull down the jacket I was wearing so that it can engulf me completely. I wore a cap and a hoodie over it to hide my hair, baggy jeans and my father's over-sized jacket so that my entire body could be covered up perfectly.
I still feel like I needed more clothes to cover myself up. This isn't doing much.

Kate chuckles from the driver's seat as she stops the engine, "Relax babe, you aren't visible under those grandma clothes"

"Why do I have to be here buying groceries with you... It's Sunday, let me go sleep in my room!" I exclaim from my seat while cuddling into a tiny ball.

"Coz you are my saviour" She looks to my side and winks, "Come on Grandma, we have to move fast to beat the crowd"

"The whole parking lot has only two cars in it and one of them is yours." I mock her as I look at the hot Summer afternoon outside. But she ignores and tries pushing me to get out of the car as I fight with her to stay back inside it for few minutes longer. I can't go out, not looking like this at all...

"I'll treat you to choco brownie ice cream" She tries bargaining, and damn for she knows me so well!

"Fine" I drop my hands and slowly open the car door. It's fcking hot outside!

"Kate, tell me I look okay.. at least bare minimum passable?" I pout her way.

"Geez darling, it will be a sin if I say what you want me to say" She squints her eyes in the sunny weather to look at me properly "You look.. umm.."

As she stutters for the right word, I fill in, "A pink alien? Clown? Smurf? Pink Panther?"

"A cute little pink Bunny?" She adds laughing at me.

I glare at her as she locks the car doors and come towards my side to loop her hand around mine and pity me some more.
She is wearing a very short jeans shorts and her upper body is only covered by a fancy bra and a sleeveless jacket which tightly covers half her body in place.
While on the other hand, I look like I came from Antarctica!

"Why is it that only you cannot get rid of the colours?" She asks looking around the almost empty parking lot and then at her phone to check the time, "I mean we all played with the colours more or less, none of us have any stains left.."

"I don't know, Kate" I said fuming with anger, "If I find that jerk I will kill him for sure.. I am dying in this hot weather and still have to cover myself up from head to toe so that I don't scare away innocent people around me. I even have school tomorrow, what will I do?"

"Principal Fitzgerald will let you know what to do.. Probably clean the toilet floors this time?" She smirks at me as I look away from her angrily. I hear some noises coming from the other side of the supermarket, so I think of taking a few feet to the side to see. And just as my luck would have it, I see Verner and a group of his so-called friends on the other side with their motorbikes.

"Kate, I'll be right back" I leave her hand and quickly march towards his direction. They were smoking when my footsteps make them stop and they look my way.
I can hear them laughing and as I approach Verner, he stops and turns to look at me in amusement.

"What the hell did you mix in the paint?" I walk upto him and clutch his jacket collar.
He doesn't say anything and stares at me with the same amusement in his eyes.
Screw those eyes!

"I asked, what did you mix in them, Dckhead?" I jerk him so that he would at least reply, "The more I wash it, the worse it becomes, what did you do?" I leave his collar and step back to Undo the cap and hoodie as my hair loosely fall back. The long blonde hair I once had is now completely pink with few blond streaks loosely flowing here and there. My face is almost pink and so are my hands, while he looks perfectly normal.