Chapter 8: Chapter Eight

**Alexandria**

Before I even have a chance to walk away back towards the fitting room, she has to open her big mouth and start in with whatever she thinks will make me feel bad about myself. I am beginning to think she goes out of her way to find me just to mess with me.

“Look girls, it's the freak. What do you think you're doing wearing that dress? You know you could never pull anything like that off, you are too fat, and you look just hideous.”

Does she ever stop? She is such a bitch.

“Nice to see you too Jackie, as you can clearly see the dress fits me better than it could possibly fit you, it’s not too tight and it’s not loose. So, if you’ll excuse me, I have to change so I can purchase my dress.”

“You think I’m going to let you get away with buying that dress? Ha! Over my dead body.”

I’m not sure what her problem is but I am not going to let her get to me. Not today. I’m having a great day, I found my perfect dress and I have had a lot of fun with my mom and Annie and I refuse to let Jackie ruin this day for me.

“Whatever you say Jackie, your just jealous because you could never pull off this shade of blue.”

“What did you just say to me?”

“I said, your just jealous be—”

but before I could finish the saleswoman comes over to see if we need any assistance.

“Is everything okay over here ladies?”

Jackie is quick to plaster on a fake smile.

“NO! It’s not, this girl here is wearing my dress!”

This bitch, is she for real?

“I’m sorry miss, but you must be mistaken this dress was in the window and this nice young lady has come in to try it on for a possible purchase.”

I like this lady she looks like she isn’t about to take any of Jackie’s crap.

Jackie looks like she is about to shit a brick with the way this saleswoman just spoke to her.

“NO! I think you're mistaken; my father called this morning and spoke to you about this dress, I. WANT.MY.DRESS!”

“Miss, I assure you, I haven’t spoken to anyone this morning about this dress, and I have been the only one here all day, if you like I can check my storeroom for another dress or maybe even one similar to this one, if you like.”

Jackie looks livid. She has never been told no a day in her life; she also looks speechless. Then Jackie turns to look at me.

“No need, I would never be caught dead in the same dress of this fat cow at MY Blue Moon Ball.”

I simply roll my eyes and walk away back to the changing room to put my street clothes back on and make my way to the sales counter to purchase MY dress.

As I make my way to the sales counter, I am unaware of what happens until it's too late, I am mere inches from placing my dress on the counter when I hear a horrifying RIIIIP. I’m stunned into silence as I turn around and see the train of the gown laying on the floor under someone’s foot, when I look up to see who it was, I’m not surprised, I look up to meet Jackie’s eyes when I can see she has a sadistic smirk on her face.

“OH! I’m so sorry I guess I wasn’t watching where I was going.”

My mother and Annie rush over to see what happened and I’m on the verge of tears, but I will not let Jackie see that she has gotten to me. My mother rushes to my side and wraps her arm around me because she can see how upset I am.

“Oh Alex, it’s alright we can get the dress fixed. You know I can fix anything; it will be good as new.”

Meanwhile, I can tell Annie is just seething next to me giving Jackie the death glare, if looks could kill Jackie would be dead and six feet under by now. I regain my composure and manage to say something that I was surprised it came out as strong as it did.

“Your right mom, you are a miracle worker, and I know you can fix anything with your eyes closed and one hand tied behind your back.”

Jackie looks shocked to not get any sort of rise out of me, all she manages to do is huff out a breath turn on her heels and stomp out of the store.

We manage to get the dress packaged and paid for and the Saleswoman gives us a small discount on the dress for the damage that was done to it even though it wasn’t our or the stores fault. After the sale is taken care of, we make our way out of the mall and back to our house.

Lunch was amazing and dress shopping was so much fun...except the whole Jackie incident.

We make our way back home and Annie decides she wants to make tonight a girls' night, so we hang up our dresses in my closet and head downstairs to talk to my mom about her staying the night.

“Hey mom, is it okay if Annie stays tonight since it's a weekend and all?”

“Of course, honey, as long as her mom is okay with it as well.”

“Okay mom, can we also order pizza for dinner?”

“Sure sweetie, I’ll go place the order now and have your dad pick it up on his way home.”

“Thanks, mom, love you.”

“Love you too Alex.”

We Make our way back upstairs to my room and start to pull out different options for movies to watch tonight.

Right in the middle of the movie I hear the front door open and then close then I notice the wonderful smell of pizza, Annie and I make our way downstairs to greet my father and grab our pizza.

“Hi daddy, thanks for the pizza.”

As I kiss him on his scruffy cheek. His smile shows how much he loves when I do that, me being a daddy's girl and all.

Annie shows her thanks as well but with a quick hug and thanks of appreciation.

We make our way back upstairs and to my room to finish our movie marathon, We have a bunch of blankets and pillows thrown all over the floor, I like to have movie nights a lot while I am in my room, over the years my parents have invest in a lot of different shapes and sizes of pillows for me, I used to want to sleep on the floor while watching movies instead of laying in my bed as a kid, so hence the reason for my millions of pillows, once Annie and I are situated on the floor with all my pillows adjusted just the way we like I push play again on the movie and we continue our movie marathon.

Then the next thing I know we are waking up in my bed with the sun shining on my window and the birds chirping outside. Today is going to be a Sunday of relaxing and just hanging out with my best friend, then tonight I will have to prepare for another glorious Monday at school tomorrow.