Playing With Fire

Chapter 7: The Past Is The Past

Jhene:

"Ok now Jhene and Alana I want you both to go and try on these dresses and then come out and show me what it looks like" Annette said handing me and Alana two brides maid dresses to go and try on, "And Stacey, Leanne and Erica I want you to try on these ones" she said handing her two sisters and 1st cousin the same dresses

We'd been out shopping the whole damn day with her and her wedding planner for the perfect dresses, for her day. And let me tell you, between Annette and her annoying ass wedding planner Paula I didn't know which one I wanted to punch more.

Annette was such a damn perfectionist when it came down to EVERY damn detail. If the length wasn't right, it wasn't the dress, if the seam in the side wasn't stitched to her satisfaction it wasn't the dress, if the fucking sequin didn't sparkle in the right way, it wasn't the damn dress. Like how the fuck does sequins not sparkle correctly? And then on top of that we had her annoying wedding planner, Paula tagging along. I could swear this bitch thought this was HER wedding; she was like some sort of Anna Wintour she demon. I couldn't wait to get the fuck out of here, shopping was something I was addicted to but after this, my ass was considering a new hobby.

"I swear I'm going to knock your mother the fuck out" I gritted to Alana who had a permanent scowl on her face all day

"Jhene, please don't tempt me, if this bitch makes me try on another fucking dress I WILL hit her!" she snapped back as we made our way over to the dressing rooms, we was in a store called, Vera Le'Bleu some French store who didn't know how to make dresses for black women or the average size woman for that fact. Every dress we'd tried on so far either didn't go up one of our asses or didn't zip up in the back, but Annette was hell bent on getting her bridesmaid dresses from here, because it was simply 'the best' so here we was trying on the 8th dress since we'd been here

"Ay come in my dressing room" Alana said pulling me into her dressing room with her, the size of the dressing rooms were stupid, I could make a bedroom out of it, that's how damn big they were,

"This dress aint even all that" Alana said hanging up the turquoise coloured floor length dress on the hook

"Let your mom hear you say that, she'll knock yo ass out!" I laughed

"I'll punch her back" she laughed.

Once we'd dressed in the dress we all came out of the dressing rooms roughly the same time to face the she demons, Paula made us all line up next to each other whilst her and Annette examined the dresses thoroughly, after what felt like hours of us standing in front of her, Annette's face broke out into a big smile

"I absolutely LOVE them!" she squealed clapping her hands "Aww there just beautiful, look at that material. And the way the bottom waves! It's perfect!"

"I totally agree, and It goes perfectly with the wedding scheme colours!" Paula added in

"Thank fuck, you like them because I weren't trying another dress on" Erica Annette's younger sister said cutting her eyes, we all laughed and nodded in agreement.

"Mom are we done here? Because I got places to be!" Alana said with attitude

"Ok, yes were done for the day. Go take of those dresses and PLEASE be careful!" she warned, "They cost a fortune! And I would hate for anything to happen to them!"

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Once we got back to the house, we all went our separate ways, Alana went out on some date she had, Annette continued to shop around with Paula for wedding stuff and the rest all went home, I was bored as hell though, Tae was somewhere out with Trey, Tikira had gone to her Lamaze classes with Bow and Asia was upstairs taking a nap so I was basically left alone to do nothing, I trudged slowly down the hallway into the kitchen to kill time, where I could hear people talking my soon dad came walking out the kitchen laughing and pulling up his coat,