Skull

 

Skull has been my best girl friend on and off since Middle School. She is energetic, petite and slender, and always has been. We actually first encountered each other as adversaries. She was friends with a girl who had a crush on the same guy I did. Neither of us even remembers his name. Then, after the guy went to the school’s Valentine’s dance with a third girl, we put our differences aside and our groups joined forces.

Skull’s apartment is really rather nice, considering it’s in a tall building on a main street. Her room looks out over the next set of apartments down a small incline. I knocked on the door.

I heard her bound over the sofa and skid to a halt in her socks on the wooden floor just inches from the door. I’d seen her do it possibly hundreds of times, because we used to hang out here after school until my parents could pick me up after work. Then, I’d been awarded a monthly bus pass, and could go anywhere within city limits that I wanted. She peeked out the window as her fingers tripped over the lock.

I sprang on her with a hug. “Hey you!”

“Hey my little witchy darling! Come on, I’ve got leftovers in the kitchen.” She made a face. “My mom made her famous apple pie again this year, and it is to die for!”

Bunny looked up from a plate of pie, the fork still shoved in his mouth. “Hey Blair.” He said with a full mouth. He swallowed. “Come look at this!” He pointed into a magazine.

“I want that one,” Skull said over my shoulder. “See the way it laces in the back?”

“Are we shopping for prom already?” I asked, confused.

Bunny shrugged. “Might as well. Whaddaya think about this one?” He pointed to an off-the shoulder black and pink dress with a loose, flowing skirt. “It looks like it’d fit me, and I saw another one a lot like it at Goodwill.”

Skull looked at me. “What are you thinking of?”

I shrugged. “I like my dress from last year…”

She shook her head. “Sweetie, you have to wear something flashy to Senior Prom! Besides, I think you’ve lost weight since then. It wouldn’t fit the same.”

Bunny nodded. “We can go to Goodwill or wherever, hit all the cheap places now, if you want.”

I grinned. “Sure.” We piled into his pickup and headed towards Goodwill. I held up a black dress, but Bunny shook his head. He held up a cream-colored backless gown that looked like it belonged in a movie.

Skull pushed me into the changing stall with a pile of fancy dresses she’d un-racked for me. She slipped into the stall next to me with a pile of her own, and we stepped out in our first try-on. She turned sideways, looking in the three-way mirror. “No. I like yours, though.”

“But it’s blue!” I complained.

“I like the style anyway. It fits you really well.”

We giggled and complained through about three more before I tried on the cream backless. She emerged in a sparkly, slinky red dress with a slit up to her thigh and a plunging neckline. “I think I could pull this off.” She said, turning in the mirror. Her eyes flitted over to me, and she gasped, covering her mouth with her hand. “Oh my God!”

“What?” I asked, suddenly self-conscious. “Is it that bad?”

“That’s the one! Go show it to Bunny!”

I rolled my eyes and ran to the dressing room door. “Bunny?”

He peeked in. “Wow! Aren’t you a looker!”

Skull joined us in the red slinky number. “You like mine?”

“I like it very much! But wow, Blair, it’s like that dress was made for you!”

“It is, isn’t it?” Skull agreed. “We can do your make-up like a Vargas girl, it’ll look wicked great!” She looked at my price tag. “It’s only thirty!”

I was embarrassed. This kind of attention would have usually mortified me, and now my cheeks turned pink and my ears burned, but that was all. That was how Skull talked me into buying my prom dress, as she talked me into quite a few things. This, however, was the best decision she had ever made for me.

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[Brie]

I like that we get to see all of her friends stories. This chapter was exciting and great!
-Brie