june 18th,
12:42am,
nick's bedroom
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"lani it's prom in a week and you don't even have a dress yet." nick speaks. they've been bickering about prom all day and eventually leilani gave up.
"I don't want to wear a dress." leilani mumbles and nick gasps. "it wasn't a fucking question. come on, we're buying you a dress." nick grabs leilani's hand and pulls her out of his room.
he speed walks to matts room and goes in without asking, "matt we need you to drive us to the mall." nick says. "haha. hell no." matt answers simply.
"why not?" nick whines. "why would I?" matt asks. "because leilani needs a prom dress." nick answers, crossing his arms over his chest with sass.
"oh." matt mumbles, "i'll drive you." matt smiles at leilani. "oh so when it's for her you'll do it?" nick gasps. "pretty much." matt mumbles, grabbing his car keys and leaving his room.
with a scoff, nick follows. leilani giggles to herself as she follows them too. "bye chris." leilani says to the boy sitting on the couch, scrolling through his phone.
"where are you-? I don't even care. bye." chris says back and leilani shakes her head before leaving through the front door.
she gets in the passenger seat. nick was already in the backseat and matt was already in the driver seat. matt starts driving to the mall as nick and leilani talk about random stuff.
"thank you matt." leilani smiles at matt as she gets out of the car. "when do I pick you guys back up?" matt asks.
"in four hours or something." nick answers and matt nods. "bye leila." matt smiles at leilani and she smiles back. "bye matthew." she smirks before closing her door, turning her back and walking in the mall with nick.
"first store?" leilani asks nick. "macy's, duh." nick answers like it was logic, heading to macy's. leilani follows and they enter the store.
after what felt like hours, leilani found a couple of dresses she found appealing. she can't choose between them and she told nick this, to which he answered she could ask matt.
"I'm not asking matt for help. I want him to see it when we're going." leilani answered to his suggestion.
"ask chris or mom." nick shrugs. this is something you guys didn't know yet; leilani has been texting mary lou a lot. leilani has explained the situation with her parents to mary lou and she was extremely comforting.
after the two of them became close enough, mary lou suggested for leilani to allow her to call her mom.
this made leilani extremely happy because mary lou is like the mom she always wanted but never had.
everyone in the family is comfortable with this, knowing leilani really needs this.
"good idea. let me text her the pics." leilani mumbles, pulling out her phone.
iMessage!
leilani
hi mom!
mary lou
hey sweetie
leilani
I need your help on something
mary lou
what is it?
leilani
prom is in less then a week and I have multiple dresses to choose from, but I can't choose and neither can nick
mary lou
send 'em
leilani
these are the ones I can't choose between
mary lou
all of those dresses are delightful
but if I had to choose between one...
I'd probably choose the blue one
leilani
that was the dress that interested me the most but nick told me to just double check
mary lou
I already know you'll look stunning
leilani
thank you
I have to go, I'll text you later
mary lou
have fun sweetie
real life!
"told you she'd choose the blue one." nick smiles as they head to the register. "it's the prettiest one but it's the most expensive one." leilani mumbles, looking at the tag.
"lucky for us, I brought matt's credit card." nick says with the most cheeky smirk on his face you could ever imagine.
"nick no. it's more than a hundred dollars you can't do that to him." leilani refuses. since nick was holding the dress, it wasn't unexpected what his next move was.
he sped up to the register and before leilani could even arrive there, nick took matt's credit card out of the machine and took the bag from the person behind the register.
"you're fucking unbelievable." leilani shakes her head in disbelief as they walk out of the store.
"matt won't be mad. it's something for you." nick shrugs. "still!" leilani speaks.
"it'll be fine." nick shrugs it off as he walks to the next store, "next, makeup." nick smiles as he walks into the sephora.
"matt texted me that he's back to pick us up." nick says as they exit the mall. "we got everything we needed." nick shrugs.
"I think so." leilani mumbles. "I still can't choose between makeup looks tho." she adds, getting in the car. "show me the pics again."
"is that even a fucking question? the third one for sure." nick hands leilani back her phone.
"wait. you have to choose through the nails too." leilani speaks and nick nods, scrolling through the nail pics.
"the second to last one." nick answers before giving leilani's phone back to her. "okay. I'll go to pinterest and search some hairstyles too. I'll ask you tomorrow." leilani says and nick nods.
"can I see your dress?" matt asks, eyes pinned to the road. "you'll see at prom." leilani smirks.
matt sighs and continues driving down the street.
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yeah
I tend to end my chapters with this word a lot
but I love it
BTW if you'd choose anything else than what i chose, I apologize I would too probably but I js have her pics already and I just had to find a matching dress which was the blue one