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“I’ on my face”
“Nice try, but I’e on you; ht foundation and soloss, with a little smoke around the eyes Even he can’t coain; you’re hopeless”
“Leave her alone, Rosa; you already knohat she’s thinking about Or should I say who?” Anna waltzed into view in a black and gold evening gown that was stunning “You look so grown up”
“You like?” She did a little thile her sister finished with me
“Get dressed, Gia, while I finish getting ready” I looked down at the bed where I’d placed the dress when I first walked in It’s too elegant to wear, I think, but I won’t say it out loud for fear of sounding like an idiot The dress re my mom would wear Before I lost all the pictures of her, I used to spend hours just looking at them, at all the different fashion statements my beautiful and vivacious mom used to make She had a kind of class that I could never achieve
I alanted to grow up to be like her I think I inherited her love of fashion But with Becky and Victoria constantly destroying anything of beauty I owned, I’d pretty y jeans or sweats and oversized tees becao when that was all Becky would allow
I’d learned long ago that the idea behind her craziness was to hter she birthed It’s so obvious the blind could see it, but soone over my dad’s head for years Somehow, he doesn’t see that the woman who tells hi else would be too revealing is the saner hile leaving s
She’d even convinced him that it waslady because of s like that ever since they got rid of grandma and the aunts; there was no point
No, I cutto let theet back ho to enjoy this to the fullest I stepped into the dress and looked into the full-lengthfor just that moment in time; reborn
GABRIEL
“Yo, what’re you doing standing around out here?”
“I’ to s won’t work “What about you? Why’re you over here?”
“Saht a fire under theet out of here” He looked at his watch “I don’t want to ”
“Don’t pout, you ass; they should be out soon” Just then, the door opened, and they ca out Fuck! I’d been tooelse; now, it was her body in that dress, the dress I'd bought I’d guessed her size maybe too perfectly The shit fit like a second skin
I took her in from head to toe, “what’s on your face?” I looked at ly
“It’s just a little powder Gabe, don’t be a cave about it; we’ll be late” Is that why you taited until the last ht; it wasn’t that bad, no color on her cheeks, and they’d left her lips bare, with just soloss to add shine to the natural soft pink of her mouth
Still, she looked too pretty; no, that’s not right She’s always been pretty; noith her new hairstyle and what they’d done to her face, she looked like a daot while I was shopping for her that others would see her in what I bought That it was not just solely for my pleasure
“Whoa, Gia, is that you?” Sorew hot then cold at the sound of admiration in Lance’s voice, the way he looked at her with so awe as he walked around her, and when he reached out as if to touch her, I grabbed his wrist and flung it away from her Too late, I realized rin and that twinkle in his eye would’ve been enough, but that ass can’t ever leave well enough alone “Uh-huh, not interested, my ass!” Bastard!
GABRIEL
“Let’s go, people We can’t always be the last ones walking in everywhere we go” Lance grabbed the twins leaving me to take Gianna’s arm to follow