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Mandy reached for the curtain. “I told you it was no good.”
“Stop.” Bailey gabbed her hand. “Have you even looked at yourself, Mandy? You look amazing.”
Turning, she looked in the mirror. Her legs seemed longer in the black jeans, like she’d grown several inches in the last few minutes.
“Man, you have a nice butt. And who knew your boobs were like that?”
“Rory,” Mandy sighed. But she couldn’t take her eyes off the mirror. She looked like a different person.
Bailey unclipped her hair, and suddenly she saw the person she could possibly be. The one who had been hiding for so long.
“I know they’re only clothes, Mandy, and that it takes more than that to make a person, but damn, girl.” Bailey whistled.
“You look hot,” Maggs added.
After that, she let them do what they wanted. She tried on dresses, skirts, shorts, and tops. It was fun, and she felt giggly with excitement when finally they walked out of the shop.
“I hope I didn’t spend over budget?”
“You didn’t,” Rory said, swinging one of the bags she held. “Shoes now, and makeup.”
They dragged her from shop to shop. She even got new underwear.
“You package those girls right from now on, Mandy.”
“I wear bras.”
“They were not bras.”
She had a makeup lesson in a store and ended up buying far too many cosmetics. Dazed, she called a halt to it after that.
“I don’t think I can take much more.”
“Excellent. Now let’s have lunch,” Rory said, dragging them into a cafe. “I’m starving.”
Another layer had been stripped off today. Her transformation was slowly happening.
You’re strong in here.
“How was it last night in your new apartment?” Rory asked as they sat down to eat.
“Amazing, liberating. Incredible,” she finished with. “Ted bought me a fern. I found it on my doorstep this morning.”
Looking at the faces of her friends, she thought that maybe she should have kept that to herself.
“What’s the deal with you and Teddy Bear?” Maggs asked as she crunched on a fry.
“No deal. We’re friends. He’s been helping me.”
“Helping you how, exactly?” Rory asked. “I mean, don’t get me wrong, I like the guy, in a be nice and don’t poke the bear kind of way. But he seems different with you.”
“Ted’s a nice guy.” Mandy found herself defending him. “He’s no different with me than he is with others.”
“Jack says that, but he’s not exactly approachable.”
“He’s not good at expressing how he feels,” Mandy said, still defending him. She really needed to shut up.
“How would you know that?” Bailey asked.
