Second Chance

Chapter 6: Makeover

Lenny sped down the road, I had no clue where we were going, but I knew we had to get away from those police cars chasing us.

Lenny took a sharp turn and into an alley. And I heard the police cars bolt right past us.

We waited about a half hour before Lenny began backing the car out of the alley and began in a completly different direction.

She drove for a while she pulled up to her house.

"OH MY GOSH, FLOWERS!" Velvet squealed when she got out of car, she ran up to the small garden and leaned down to smell the honeysuckle, tulips, lavender, hyacinth, peonys, orchids, roses, sunflowers, daffodils, marigolds, irises, lilys, azalea, hydrangeas, and daisys.

"I've missed this garden!" My sister says. Then looks down at herself and grimaces. "Okay, time for a makeover." She grabs my arm and pulls me inside after Lenny.

"Velvet, we don't have time!" I say.

"Actually, you do." Lenny walks over to us. "You both need showers, and we need to change your looks so that nobody will recognize you."

"Okay. So what's your plan?" Vels asks.

Lenny clears her throat. "Alright, here's what we're gonna do. You're both going to shower, then I'm gonna cut your hair, dye it, recolor your eyes, and get you a new and unstylish wardrobe."

"HELLO?!" Vels exclaims. "Girly, what'd you mean an 'unstylish wardrobe'?!"

"As in, sweatpants, jeans, cargo shorts, sports shorts, tank tops, T-shirts, hoodies, sneakers, and normal boots. Which means no: crop tops, short shorts, skirts, dresses, sholder pads, platforms, heals, fancy boots, flats, jewlery, or makeup." Lenny lists off everything.

Velvet's jaw dropped to the floor as she gave Lenny a pleading look.

"Nonononononono!" She whines. "I need my makeup and jewleryyyyyyy! I'll go along with the rest, but please let me keep my makeup and jewlery!"

"Nope." Lenny says unapolegetically.

Velvet pouts and Lenny just smirks.

"Oh yeah, and by the way, I have a little something for you." She snickers. Oh no.

"Really?" Velvet pirks up.

"Mhm." Lenny walks closer to us. I knew exactly what she was gonna do.

Velvet's face lights up as mine scrunches into a ball preparing for the sting that would come after Lenny's little present.

Lenny raises her hand, and brings it across both our faces.

"OW!" Velvet hisses.

"That's for breaking my siblings fragile little hearts." She spits with venom.

I rub my cheek where she'd slapped me. I didn't blame her for it, after all she's only being an older sibling. Vels always did the same exact thing for me when we were kids.

"That was deserved." I mutter.

"I guess." Velvet grumbles.

"Alright! Now that that's out of the way, GET IN THE SHOWER! Y'ALL SMELL LIKE DUMPSTERS!" Lenny pushed us down the hallway where there were two bathrooms.

"Okay! Okay! Geez." Vels heads into one of the two bathrooms. "Veneer, you use the hot water kay'?"

"Okay." I murmer.

I shower off and wrap a towel around my waist. "Uh... so is there anything we can wear?!" I call.

"Here." Lenny came and handed me a T-shirt and jeans and I disappeared back into the bathroom.

When I walked out, I saw Lenny helping Vels dry her hair.

"Uh... hi." I say as I lean against the wall. I saw Ritz looking away from me, I didn't know what he was thinking about but I decided not to say anything.

"Hey. Here." She hands me the blow dryer. "You dry your hair and I'll work on Velvet's."

As I dryed my hair, Lenny began rubbing the dye into Velvet's hair, turning it a deep purple.

She finished up on it and pulled out another chair.

"Sit." She motioned to the chair and I sat down.

I felt her rub the cold liquid throughout my hair, turning it the same deep purple as my sister.

"It had to be purple eh'?" I heard Ritz say.

I realized exactly why he said that as Lenny says: "It's the only color we got. So suck it up sweetheart."

He seems to grumble something under his breath, but doesn't say anything after that.

After a while me and Vels wash out our hair and step out of the bathrooms.

We looked... interesting. Definatly not how we usually look.

Velvet was wearing a plain gray T-shirt with black jeans, and dark blue sneakers. I was wearing a simular shirt, except it had Bugs Bunny from Loonie Toons on it, and I had on regular blue jeans and red sneakers. Ew.

It just didn't feel right, but you gotta do what you gotta do I guess.

When we step out of the hallway, Lenny smiles proudly at her work.

"OH MY GOSH!" Orchid squeals. "Lenny I can barely recognize them! You did so GOOD!" She wraps her sister in a hug, I look at Velvet to see that she had a look of longing on her face. I felt so bad for her.

"Alright," Lenny says. "Time for eye color and hair styles."

She looks through some different pallates, and grabs a set and tells Vels to sit down and hold still.

Lenny puts the contacts in and Velvet blinks. She stands up, and I see that she now had a lilac purple color.

"Your turn." She says to me. I sit down and let her put the color in, or, try to.

"UGH! Ritz, can you do it, my hands are sweaty no!" She grumbles.

"Why's it gotta be me?!" He hisses.

"Because you're better at it!" Lenny says as she hands him the set of contacts.

"Ugh. Fine." I heard him mutter.

He squats in front of me and holds open my eye as he puts the contact in.

"There." He stands up and steps back.

"Alright. Now for hair styles. I already know what I'm gonna do." Lenny grabs a pair of scissors and starts on Velvet's hair.

She cut it until it was a simple short cut with a few strands of her hair a bit shorter as they framed her face.

"Perfect. Now for you Veneer." She says.

She basically does the same style for me as she did for Velvet, but tied mine back into a ponytail.

"There! Perfect! Now nobody will recognize you!" Lenny smirks proudly.

Me and Vels look at ourselves in the bathroom mirror and I gasped.

I barely recognized myself. Lenny really did do incredibly. I noticed that she'd put a simular eye color as she'd done for Velvet for me. It was a nice warm purple.

"You did great Lenny. Thanks." I say.

"My pleasure." She says pridefully.