Adopted

Chapter 15

Jemma's dress in the media.

And happy new year!

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"Try this and this and this," Paige shoved a bunch of dresses into my hands.

I dragged myself into the dressing room, reluctantly trying on  the dresses. We just got here and Paige insisted I buy a dress.

Jace's party was this evening and I was very comfortable with wearing my jeans or something but she insisted I wore a dress and wore a lot of makeup.

We made our way to the mall, immediately we closed from school. Madison and Quinn tagged along too saying they also needed a dress.

I put on the first dress that caught my eye in the pile in my hands. It was a plain black short sleeved dress. I put it on and examined myself I'm the mirror. The dress clung to my body like a second skin. First it is too tight and it isn't my style. It had a little too much of my cleavage showing.

"Come out already," I heard Paige yell from the other side.

I walked out of the dressing room, facing the girls, "what do you think?"

The looks on their faces mirrored mine and I ran back into the changing room. I picked up the second dress in the pile. It was a grey long sleeved dress, off shoulder with a V-neck. It looked like a wrap dress. I put it on and it fit me perfectly fine, it wasn't too tight like the previous one and it wasn't too loose. It stopped mid-thigh and it hugged my body at the right places.

I stepped out of the changing room and when the girls saw me the look on their faces told me that this was surely the dress I was buying. I bought a pair of black heels to go with it.

Paige got a blue dress with a deep back cut, Quinn and Madison gave up and decided to go in jeans. Sometimes they behave like twins.

We finished our shopping and we went over to Maddie's house since it was closer to the party. We had three hours to get dressed and get our makeup done.

Paige decided to do my makeup since I was slacking a lot in that aspect. While doing mine, Quinn and Maddie were getting their make up and hair done. When Paige was done with my makeup she just decided to straighten my hair since curling it would be a pretty bad idea due to the volume and length of my hair.

I only ever curled my hair if I had a lot of time on my hands, And now, time wasn't on our side. When Paige was done with her work on me she instructed me to quickly change my clothes.

I changed into the dress and Paige gave me a pair of earrings and a choker to put on. I followed her orders and only when I was done with all that did she allow me to look at myself in the mirror.

When I saw my reflection I didn't believe that that was me. I looked kind of different, the makeup gave me this kind of bolder look. Normal me without this much make up didn't look this bold and daring.

"You look absolutely stunning, Jasper's going to be totally dazzled." Quinn whispered into my ears.

I turned to her, "thank you." I flashed her a smile and she returned one.

I really wonder if Jasper is going to be at the party like the girls said. Even if he said so, his habit of disappearing at odd times makes it hard to believe him. But there's only one way to find out.

The girls finally finished their makeup  and we all decided to go in Quinn's car since it was a lot more capable of containing us all comfortably.

We weren't so sure we were going to drive there but when we remembered that we'd probably be coming back late at night and we can't really rely much on the security of this area we decided to go with a car. That being agreed we would surely need a sober driver to drive us back so Quinn volunteered herself, afterall it was her car.