Chapter 6
Before i knew it it was April 11, the day before the concert. I woke up at about 8:00am, it was Friday mornong and normally I'd be on my way to school, but our parents (again) had relucatantly agrred to let us miss the day of school and go shopping. Which we thought was pretty cool of them. But of course this was not just any shopping trip, this was "the shopping trip." We had pre-schedualed manicures. I yawned and picked up my call display phone and presses button 1 which automatically dialed Stephanie's number. "Hello?" She said grogily. "Hi, what time are you going to be ready?" I asked.
"Um...how about we leave at 10:00?" She replied. "Yah, that's fine, just com over when your ready OK? Bye," I hung up the phone. I went downstairs and downed a bowl of Rice Krispies for breakfast. I flipped through the newspaper and cam across an article about Hanson's concert tommorow, it also included a picture, I immediately cut it out. I went upstairs and placed the article in my latest Hanson scrapbook. I carefully pressed it down and put the scrap book back on my shelf. I rummaged through my closet and pulled out my brown cords and my little navy blue boys-tee. I pulled my hair up into a messy twist and touched on some makeup. I heard the doorbell ring, "hey, come in for a sec."I told her, pulling on my black army boots. We finally all got into the car and headed to Portage Place Shopping Center. "Ah! I'm so excited for tommorow!" I exclaimed. I know! I can hardly wait!" Steph yelled above the stereo that blared out "Where's the Love". We arrived at the mall and jumped out of the car. "Call ya later," I yelled to my mom as we ran into the mall. "hmmm....where first?" Stephanie asked me. "Well, I started, I say we find outfits first, so we can co-ordiante everything with what were wearing." I said expertly. Stephanie nodded in agreement. We walked into "Frenzy" and began brwsing through the racks. "How about this?" I said holding up a black shirt with brown trim around the neck and sleeves. "Nice!" She said in much agreement. I held onto the shirt and eventually found a Zac like pair of brown pants with thick dark orange strips that went down each side. Stephanie finally decided on a little green army tee and black satin "SilverX" jeans. My outfit suited my black doc style work boots perfectly. Stephaie found a really awsome pair of platform runners to give her some height. Something I didn't really need at almost 5"8. "So....now that that's done where to?" I asked. "How 'bout makeup, then we grab something to eat and by that time it'll be time to get the manicures." Stephanie suggested. I nodded in agreement, "oh, yah, and before we leave we gotta find bathing suits". I added. We went into the drug store and began searching through the makeup asiles. After searching for a while I decided to get black liquid eyeliner, revelon "jelly" lipstick and a matching jelly lipliner. "I think this is all I need", I said," cause I've got other stuff at home. "OK....which one?" Stephanie asked me holding up a gray eyeliner and a more silverish one. "Definitely the silver one, it'll go better with that lipstick" I told her, pointing to the silver tinted lipgloss she was holding. Stephanie found whatever else she needed and then we paid for our purchases and left. We went up the elevator to the food court. I paid for a super soft taco and drink from Taco Time, well Stephanie got NY fries and a drink. We aat in the food court for a while talking and eating," this sis pretty cool," I said. "Were shopping and doing fun stuff, well everyone else is doing math." I said smiling. "You kow what really sucks though?" I said, "is that they won't be doing an autograph session.I said sadly well finishing off my taco. "Yah, that does," she agreed, "but the concert is going to rock!" She said looking on the bright side. After luch we attended our schedualed manicures and both ended up wit hnail polish that matched our makup. "OK, now all we need is bathing suits!" I said walking into a sports store. We both went throught the racks grabbing a suit here and there to try on. We went into changing rooms so we could find out what looked best, and as ditzy as it may sound, I knew the main thing on both of our minds, "what would Taylor like." We'd try on the suits and come out modelling them We'd say alot of "oh that looks so good!" and "we'll that looks ok, but the one before looked better" and, well, you get the picture. Finally we each picked one. Steph picked a nike bikini one, with little shorts, and I picked a takn top style one, that went just above my belly button which also came with little black shorts, both of my pieces had a silver stripe down each side. We paid for them and left. We both started out with alot of money, and now after all that shopping we didn't have much left. Just enough to pay for the hotel. "Geez, I'm so broke!" I exclaimed. "I know!" Steph agreed, "but hey, it was all worth it." She said with a smile. We left the mall in high spirits. We called my mom to come pick us up and we went home.
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