Gwen was feeling really tired after an exhausting day of volleyball practice. All around her people were milling towards the multiple exit doors around her; she weakly pushed past them all to get to her locker. When she finally made it to there, she found she was the only person in the aisle except for Brooke.
"Hi Brook!" Gwen tried to say as cheerfully as she could, despite her tiredness.
"Oh! Hi Gwen! Just the person I was looking for," Brooke said as she closed her locker.
"Well, you found me," Gwen said, opening her locker.
"I was wondering if you wanted to come over to my place?" Brooke asked.
"Aw, thanks Brooke, but I'm really tired, and I just kinda want to collapse," Gwen said, stuffing her books in her locker.
"That's ok! Tomorrow is Spring Break! You can rest for the next two weeks! Please!! I really wanted to show you something," Brooke begged.
"Fine, I guess I could last the rest of the day," Gwen sighed.
"Yay! Alright, my mom is waiting outside, she said she would drive you home with us," Brooke said, dragging Gwen along.
"Uh, okay..." Gwen said, just going along, slowly dazing off.
"Don't fall asleep yet, silly! We're gonna have such a fun night!" Brooke told her as they hopped in her mini van.
"I'll try my best," Gwen whispered as she fell asleep on the ride there.
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"We're here!" Brooke said as she shook Gwen awake.
"Huh?? Oh, cool," Gwen mumbled as she sat up.
"Let's go!" Brooke yelled behind her as she ran to the front door of the house.
Gwen stumbled out of the minivan and went through the front door into Brooke's home. They ran up the stairs and turned a right into Brooke's room. It was pretty big for a bedroom, in fact, it used to be the master bedroom. It had a queen sized bed in the center, two walk in closets on the side walls, and and a window seat on the opposing wall. Gwen had always been jealous of Brooke's room. On her bed was a golden retriever lazily napping, oh how Gwen envied him right now. But it was short lived, because Brooke shooed the dog out of the room after the entered. Gwen sat on Brooke's bed while Brooke went to one of her closet and opened it up.
"So what was so important I had to come over today? Gwen said with a yawn.
"I need you," Brooke said from inside her closet, "to help me with a little fashion advice."
Brooke stepped outside and held up three different gorgeous dresses.
"OMG! Are those your prom dresses?" Gwen gasped as she sat up.
"You know it girl! I just narrowed it down to these three, but I can't decide which one of them to wear, I was hoping you could help me," Brooke said and flourished the gowns in the air proudly.
"Of course! You know how much I love picking out dresses, hmmmm, but it is a tough decision," Gwen said, trying to decide.
The three dresses were red, pink and blue. The red was long with lots of ruffles. The pink was short and sassy, with a large ribbon disguised as an extended seam flap. Last was the blue, it was short on one side, but slowly lengthened on the other side until it reached the ground. It had embedded crystals running down it like a sash and latticed sleeves.
"What do you think?" Brooke asked after a while.
"Wow, this is really hard, but I think I'd go with the blue one," Gwen said, sliding off the bed to touch it.
"Yeah, I was thinking the same thing, it just seems kinda special." Brooke said, admiring it in Gwen's hands.
"Girls! Dinner's here, come down and get it!" Brooke's mom yelled from downstairs.
"Thanks Mom! We'll be down in a second!" Brooke yelled back as she put the dresses back in the closet and ran downstairs with Gwen close behind.
"Dinner is Chinese food tonight, sorry your father and I won't be able to eat with you, but we have to hurry and catch our flight to Miami." Brooke's mom said, buttoning up her coat.
"I didn't know you were leaving Mrs. Cleare," Gwen said confused.
"Brooke didn't mention it? Well, I just wanted to let you know how grateful I am you are staying with her until we get back after Spring Break, you have always been so responsible." Brooke's mom finished her coat and grabbed her suitcase.
"Honey! I'm coming!" she yelled to the car outside as she ran through the rain to reach it.
Gwen watched through the open doorway as they drove away through the storm. She closed the door and looked to see where Brooke was. Brooke was grabbing both containers of food and climbing back up the stairs, waving at her to come on with a mouth full of noodles.
"I didn't know your parents were leaving," Gwen said as she reached the top of the stairs.