Will Work for Prom Dress by Aimee Ferris

I expected applause to spontaneously erupt at any minute. They leaned toward her like she was some sort of magnet. The faces of the students lit up at the title. Unfortunately, Anne’s ridiculing and snarky jokes throughout her mom’s appearances pretty much made it a wash. Parisi’s evenhanded and thoughtful way of critiquing even the most bizarre designs, not to mention designers, would impress them and let them see her in a new light. I had invited Anne over to watch the show with my parents, who tolerated it so as not to be rude to my friend. True fashion lovers appreciated her historical body of work, but her stint as judge on a popular design-based reality show had thrown her into a whole new category of celebrity. Parisi as she strolled into the room and dropped her bag lightly on the table in front. Each held one student, a pile of fabric swatches, and half-formed dress pieces. The studio was filled with twelve tall tables. Parisi turned up the perfect digital speakers to cover the lack of conversation as we headed down the highway into the city. Parisi’s car always made me feel like I’d peed myself. I wiggled a little as the heated seat kicked in. Parisi ignored her, smiling and patting my knee. I hid my smile at Anne’s unconscious slam to her own manners. She’s respectful to her elders,” Anne said. “It’s not her fault her parents did a good job raising her. She clicked a button on the dash and pulled back into my cul-de-sac. I tell you every time I see you, just call me Victoria. “They’re here! I’ll be back by ten,” I called over my shoulder.Īnne was sitting in the backseat, flipping through a magazine in the dark. This was in revenge for the injustice of having a curfew-a phenomenon that had neatly escaped Anne so far in life. She was currently using the majority of her brilliance to find the most cutting things possible to say to Ms. Anne hadn’t dealt with the crackdown of supervision with a whole lot of grace. Not that I would say that to her right now. I thought she got a lot of other good things from her mom, like her independence and her crazy impressive smarts. She liked to say she got her good looks from her dad and her taste in guys from her mom. Her parents had a onetime fling at a runway show when her dad was just an unknown model straight from the cornfields of Iowa. I was one of the few people in the whole world Anne had let in on her parentage and was under threat of death if I ever let it slip. It can’t be easy having to see the face of your kid’s secret biological father plastered across the cover of the “sexiest man alive” issue of every other publication on the news rack. Parisi did pretty good, considering her history.

Will Work for Prom Dress by Aimee Ferris