Second Chances

Chapter 9: Buying & Blackmail

"Well," Sarah rubbed her chin. "It's not bad."

"And it's not good." I giggled walking to the waiting room.Their stares were unreadable.

"It's nice." Stacy said walking up to me and touching the silky fabric.

"You think?" I smiled.

"You should get it." TJ smirked.

"No. She shouldn't." Shane disagreed . "It's not you." He nodded his head slowly.

I tried on three other dresses, a purple one, another dark red one and a light green one and still none of them were me. And Taylor kept encouraging me to get the ugly dresses. The next dress I tried on was a fierce red color that had a plain sweetheart neckline, but the dress's main attraction was the back, it had a beautiful cutout that was the perfect size with silver detailing.

"This color is beautiful on you." Sarah commented. "Shane's gonna love it." She said pushing me outside.

Shane eye's quickly went from dull to sparkled. Was Shane Carson speechless?

"Don't you think it looks slutty?"TJ asked.

"I-It looks great." Shane stuttered.

"Wait. There's one more dress I think you'll all love." Sarah said pulling me back inside.

"This one's the one." Sarah exclaimed handing me the dress.

Once I slipped it on, it felt so comfortable. The dress was a v-cut, but it wasn't too deep, it was just right and it had silver sequins going down the v-neck all the way to the waist, but what made it flow nicely was that it had a nude see through mesh that was still appropriate,there was also a high slit opening on the ride side of my leg. The best part it was all on another fiery red fabric.

"You are getting that!" Sarah grinned.

"Is it alright?" I asked hopefully.

"Let's show the others". Sarah said walking before me.

When we reached outside, Stacy was smiling from ear to ear, Shane's face expression did all the talking and TJ's face had full on jealousy which put a smile on my face.

"Well what do you think?" I asked doubtfully.

"You look so pretty Alli." Stacy complimented.

Shane walked up to and took my hands and spun me around. "Well?" I muttered.

"You look beautiful." Shane half smiled. And omg that half smile! On point!

"Ok. I'm getting it!" I announced clapping quietly.

I stripped the dress off and slipped on my regular clothes before heading out the dressing room. Sarah held all the dresses I wasn't getting and hanged them on the rack while I handed my perfect dress to Shane as he went to the cashier.

It'll be $125.00." The cashier said. Woah! I didn't even know a dress could be that expensive.

I looked to Shane as he handed the cashier a credit card.

"ID please?" She asked. As Shane handed it to her, she checked it over and handed both cards back to him. When the purchase was done, she put the dress in a dress bag and handed it to me.

We left the place and put the dress safely into the car. That was when we decided we get something to eat before buying my shoes and accessories.

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After lunch, we were looking for just the right shoe store. Well Sarah wanted the perfect shoe store. I would've been happy with any shoe though, but Sarah wanted me to look perfect and I was fully appreciative of her help. As we looked for the right shoe store, Shane and I were holding fingers. Yeah not hands, but fingers. He was close to me, but our hands weren't connected, just our fingers. He held my index and middle finger while I held his two fingers. Our grasp was so light that it would've been easy for someone to break it.