You Saved Me

Mini golfing, lunch, movie and then dinner was what consisted of Brittany’s Saturday with Bobby.

And she actually had fun throughout it all.

She felt like a completely different person now that she was able to share her secret with someone and have them take it really well.

Before, it was like she had dirty glasses, and that was how she saw the world, but with the little step of telling someone, it was like she got upgraded to clean contact lens and was finally seeing the world around her with new eyes.

She couldn’t help but smile now, constantly.

Even when Bobby brought up her and Joe’s fight.

Sure, it brought her spirits down a little bit, but that still didn’t stop her from having a great rest of the day.

Until Monday hit and she heard the latest gossip of the school’s ever so famous rockstar.

It turned out that Joseph Adam Jonas asked a girl to homecoming Friday night at the football game.

It was rumored…well it wasn’t really a rumor, cuz it came directly from Steph who asked Joe herself, why he did it.

He made her promise not to tell anyone…especially Brittany…but she did anyways.

It might have looked like she was being a bad friend…but she didn’t think it was right that the only reason Joe asked Courtney…a dumb blonde who’s daddy gave her whatever she wanted, to homecoming because he didn’t see Brittany or Will at the football game. Making him upset…thinking that they were out on a date and when Steph told him that Brittany was with her all night, he instantly felt guilt wash over him.

But that didn’t mean that he was any less rude to Brittany. He still stormed on straight ahead with being mean to her. Which only pushed her more and more away to apologizing to him and actually now made her want to go to homecoming and show him up. It also made her slightly jealous. Hello! She still liked the boy…no matter how dumb he was about all this.

They were feeding off of each other emotions. Making it turn into a huge, who can crack who first, battle.

And neither one of them were winning.

“I gotta get THE perfect dress. Just to make him mad that he didn’t stop his stupid games and ask me when he had the chance.” Brittany vented to Steph as she drove Brittany home after play practice.

Needless to say, ever since their girls night, the two were inseparable from being so open and vulnerable to each other for just the one night.

“Don’t worry. He’s already jealous and beating himself up for not asking you to go with him. You’ve already got him there.” Steph said while she let out a heavy sigh.

She just wanted this to be over.

She didn’t care which one of them cracked, but she really wanted one of them to, just so that everything would be out in the open and could finally be over with.

“But still. Plus I gotta make his date look like nothing too. UGH! This is one reason why I never got close to any boys over the years. They make you crazy! And I’ve only known him for a little over than 8 weeks and haven’t talked to him for almost 2 now.” Brittany yelled while pulling at the ends of her hair to show how upset she was.

“Brittany, you’re gonna look jaw dropping. You always do. And don’t say that you don’t. You know you’re gorgeous.” Steph said while holding up her index finger at Brittany to keep her quiet.

When Brittany closed her mouth to protest to Steph’s comment, a small smirk came across her face before she continued.

“And don’t worry. We got all this week to find you a dress. If you want, we can start looking now. I can call my parents while you ask Bobby.” she said, sending her irritated friend a smile as she pulled up to her house.

Brittany looked out the passenger side window towards her house and then looked back at Steph with a sad face.

“How much do you think a perfect dress could cost?” she asked quietly, realizing just now that she didn’t have any money on her. She had all her money in her bank account and she didn’t want to take all of it out to spend on a dress.

“How about we just look for now and worry about prices later. I’m sure Bobby will give you some money. And I’m sure your parents left you some money too that you could use now and pay back later.” Steph said, giving her a sympathetic smile.

Brittany shot her a quick smile before unbuckling and opening up her door.

“Ok. I’ll be right back.” she said quickly to her friend before she sprinted towards the front door.

She yelled his name twice, thinking that he was busy doing something and when she opened up the door to the garage and only saw her truck there, she decided to write him a short message and stuck it to the fridge, telling him that she was hanging out with Steph, again, and that they were going perfect dress hunting.

“Your parents say it’s ok for you to go?” Brittany asked once she was back inside the car and buckling herself in.

“Yep. The only thing is that they I don’t buy a dress today and that I get my homework done tonight. Not like that’s going to really be an issue. I only have to read a chapter for English and that’s it.”

“Wow. You finished Econ already? I hate that class so much!” Brittany let out in an anguished tone as the took off towards the mall.

“You only hate it cuz of Joe.” Steph said mockingly.

“That defiantly helps me hate the class. But I just hate the class in general. It’s so dumb and aggravating. I hate it!”

“Ok fine. You hate it. I get it. But let’s forget about Econ and worry about homecoming. Do you know how you’re going to do your hair? Or better yet, what color dress you even want?” Steph asked, turning onto a street.

“Down. For sure…maybe curl it or something. And either red or blue.”

“Why those two colors?” Steph asked her, sending her a confused look before changing lanes.

“Cuz blue is Jo-” Brittan stopped herself from saying it out loud.

“Blue is what?” Steph asked, a small smirk now finding it’s way across her face from understanding Brittany’s choice in a blue dress.

Joe’s favorite color.

“Well I can tell by that smirk you already know the reason behind the blue dress.” Brittany snapped at her while letting a small laugh escape from her.

“But what about the red?” Steph asked, her smirk falling from her face to be replaced with a confused look again.

“Because in that one song of the theirs. High heels. Red dress. I want him to eat his heart out.” she answered smugly.

“Little morbid are we?” Steph asked, letting a grin come across her face again.

“You know what I mean. He’s gonna crack soon. I can feel it.” Brittany said, straightening up in her seat a little from her confident answer.

“And when he does?” Steph asked, trying to get an idea of what Brittany will do if and when Joe does crack.

“I will apologize to him. He doesn’t deserve it for the way he’s been treating me. So until he takes the inituitive to talk to me nicely, he’s not getting anything from me.”

Steph just let out a little sigh laughter and then parked the car in a surprisingly good parking spot.

“What’s so funny?” Brittany asked, shutting her door as the two of them got out of the car and made their way towards one of the entrances.

“I just think it’s funny how you’re picking out dress colors for a guy who didn’t even ask you to homecoming instead of picking out colors for the guy who actually did.”

“Whatever. I like Will and everything. He’s nice. And a friend. But that’s it.” Brittany said to her, waiting for the car to drive past them so they could make a dash towards the doors.

“Besides, let’s stop focusing on me. What about you? Who are you going to homecoming with?”
“Oh my gosh! I completely forgot to tell you. I was just too excited about it to call you later. I’m going with Kevin.” she said happily, huge smile across her face as her and Brittany made a dash across the parking lot towards the entrance doors.

“Kevin? As in Kevin Jonas? As in Joe’s older brother?” Brittany asked, letting it hit her that Kevin would probably be mad at her since she technically ‘hurt’ Joe after Kevin told her not to.

“Yeah. And I can already see that look of worry on your face. He’s not mad at you. He’s mad at you and Joe and more so at Joe because of the way he’s treating you.” Steph informed her as the two made their way into the air conditioned building.

“Well I guess that’s a relief.” Brittany sighed out.

“Yeah. Now, let’s get cracking on finding you a blue or red dress and myself a green one.” Steph said while grabbing hold of Brittany’s wrist and pulling her towards the nearest department store that had homcoming dresses.

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“This is getting out of control. He won’t even look at me now! I mean, I guess now that he won’t look at me he can’t say anything but still…at least it was some kind of contact. But now there’s nothing!” Brittany complained through the walls of the fitting rooms on Friday.

“Britt, I know that you’re freaking out about Joe and everything, and as much as I like to hear about it…” Steph said sarcastically through her stall, “Shouldn’t you be worried about finding a dress. Homecoming is tomorrow and you still haven’t found a dress.”

“Yeah I know. But he drives me crazy. I can’t even concentrate on anything anymore besides how irritated he makes me. This is ridiculous though. I’ll try to stop…for now.” she answered her friend while pulling of the blue dress she had tried on and replaced it with another blue one.

“Haha. Come over here. You should see this. It’s look hilarious on me!” Steph laughed out through the stalls.

Lucky for her, she found a dress the first day they went dress hunting. Her mom had to approve of it first before she could buy it, so she got it yesterday with her mom. Leaving Brittany only 2 days to find THE dress to make Joe forget all about his date and crack and having Steph come with her to keep her company, and try on hideous dresses.

“Hold on a second. I have to zip this up.” Brittany said irritated at her reflection, already knowing that this wasn’t the dress.

She zipped it up hastily and opened up her door to crack up laughing at Steph who was wearing a zebra striped dress that was really puffy on the bottom with pink tulle sticking out from underneath it.

“That’s something. Kevin might like it.” Brittany laughed out while Steph danced around the little hallway of the fitting rooms in the strapless short dress.

“Yeah. I think I’ll get it now and take back the one he’s in love with.” she said through a spin and then yelled, “NOT!” really loud before running back towards her fitting room to change out of it.

After Brittany composed herself from seeing her Best Friend in the dress, she let out a loud sigh, seeing herself in the mirror.

“Maybe I should just get that one from yesterday. It was pretty….” she asked, trying to make herself think that it was the perfect dress for homecoming when she knew all to well that it wasn’t.

“No. You’re gonna find one Britt. Trust me. Do you want me to look out there again? She heard Steph ask from her fitting room.

“If you want to. I’m not gonna make you. I have two more dresses left. Another blue on and a red one.” she said, unzipping the dress and hanging it up quickly on the hanger before putting the short red sequined one on.

“Alright. And I’ll come back with you’re perfect dress. I think I saw it earlier, but then that ugly orange caught my eye.” she said with a laugh.

Brittany laughed too, reminiscing the orange dress that Steph tried on, making her look like a giant pumpkin as she examined herself in the short red dress.

It was cute and defiantly looked like a homecoming dress…but that was the thing. It had to be more than a homecoming dress and more than cute.

This was the first dance she ever went to. The first dance she was ever asked to go to with someone. She didn’t care if she had a Cinderella dress or not, it was important to her because it was her first and she didn’t care how over-dressed she looked. And the best part about having Steph with her, she seemed to support Brittany’s thinking.

She looked at herself in the mirror for a few more minutes to examine the dress before determining that it was a thumbs down and took it off, replacing it with the last blue one that she had.

“Britt?!” she heard Steph’s excited voice from the other side of the door ask while she flattened out the dress to her and situated her hair so that it wasn’t all over the place from the constant moving of it.

“What?” she asked back, examining herself in the mirror and actually liking what she saw. It was a little bit more dressy than what she wanted for homecoming…which made it perfect…but she didn’t get that feeling that it was THE dress. But if she didn’t find one that did give her the feeling, this would have to take it’s place.

“I found it.” Steph said in a rather serious tone which caught Brittany’s attention immediately.

“What do you mean?” she asked as she opened her door and caught her breath from seeing the dress that Steph was holding out for her to take.

“It’s your size, it’s red, and look at it. It’s frickin’ gorgeous. Plus, it’s only 145 bucks which this dress should be more like a thousand. This is it.” Steph said, pushing it into Brittany’s hands and shutting the door on her, trying to get her to try it on faster.

Brittany stood there in shock, staring at the red, strapless dress.

It was too perfect. Which meant, that there had to be something wrong with it.

Watch, I’ll put it on and it’ll make me look fat. Or it’ll be too long for me, or it won’t fit right. There’s gotta be something wrong with it. It’s too perfect.

She slowly hung it up on the hook and practically ripped off the dress she was wearing, forgetting that fact that it was the best one she’d came across so far this past week and eased the red dress on slowly.

“Holy!” was all that escaped from Brittany when she looked at herself in the mirror.

“Let me see! Let me see!” Steph whined from outside the door and yanking on it hastily.

She tore her eyes away from herself to unlock the door and watched as it swung open to reveal a hysterical Steph.

“Oh my goodness. It’s perfect. Who cares if Joe doesn’t cave. I’m sure every guy there will forget about their dates when you walk into the room. I’m afraid to go now cuz Kevin might forget I exist.”

Brittany let a laugh from Steph’s last comment and took a step out of her dressing room to look at herself in the three-way mirror at the end of the fitting room hallway.

The dress was flawless. Not holes, no rips, no snags. Nothing. It fit her like a glove. Showing off every curve of her body. And then she looked at the price tag.

$300!

There’s the flaw.

“Well, I guess I’m getting the blue one.” she mumbled out while sparing herself one last glance in
the mirror to see Steph looking like she was seeing her daughter off to get married.

“What do you mean the blue one? This one’s perfect!” Steph yelled at her, her mother expression gone now to be replaced with a shocked look.

“Besides the fact that it’s $300!” Brittany shot back at her.

“No. It’s 60% off. It’s like 140.”

“More like 120. But with tax it’ll be…128...give or take.” she said slowly, calculating it in her head.

“Math wasn’t my best subject…but dress shopping is. You’re getting it!” Steph said as if it was a command.

Brittany couldn’t help but smile from hearing her friend say that and let out a soft laugh.

“I guess I’m getting it then!” Brittany yelled out loud after a couple of seconds and ran back towards her fitting room to take it off and purchase it.

“Great. And I’m thinking silver for your accessory color. I saw really cute silver heels that were like 20 bucks at the other store and I’m sure we can find some cheap silver jewelry that you can wear that won’t cost more than 10 bucks and if anything…you can borrow some of mine.” Steph went into accessory mode while Brittany ignored her, staring at the dress as she changed quickly.

Joseph Adam Jonas…eat your heart out.