Beauty by Daily Lisa

Author:Daily, Lisa [Daily, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781101571880
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2012-05-09T22:00:00+00:00

It’s Not Lying If It’s Acting

MY PHONE WAS buzzing as I grabbed my bag after rehearsal, still on a high from performing. I had two new texts, both from my mom.

Dear Molly, the first one said. Dad and I want to have a family dinner tonight, before we leave for the weekend tomorrow. Be home by six? Love you, Mom

The second one had come just a few minutes ago.

Dear Molly, Hurry home! There’s something here I think you should see… . Love always, Mom

Something I should see? What did she mean by that? But the question was quickly pushed out of my head by a far more pressing one. How was I going to get through a whole dinner without my parents seeing my face? I could just imagine the havoc it would wreak if they caught a glimpse of the newly rearranged me right before they left. They’d cancel their trip for sure. Then they’d probably spend the weekend dragging me to a whole slew of doctors, trying to figure out what mysterious disease could have possibly done this to me. And how, if it was up to my mom, we could be sure it was permanent. There was no way I wanted to go through that, not when Hudson had hinted just that day that he wanted to hang out this weekend.

I was spiraling fast into full-on freak-out mode when Judith, our head costume designer, approached me with an armful of clothes. “Do you maybe have a minute, Molly?” she asked, her voice squeaking a little on my name. I didn’t know much about Judith, just that she was a freshman, and it was a huge upset when she beat out senior Lana Bleau for the job of head designer. “I would love to fit you for Cinderella costumes, since Margot was a little bigger than you.”

I looked back down at my cell phone. My mom’s words stared back at me. Hurry home!

I tossed my phone back into my bag. “Sure,” I told Judith. “Take your time.”

“You were amazing today,” Judith said shyly as she took my measurements. “You were so believable, I almost forgot it was you up there and not Cinderella!”

I laughed. “I don’t know about that, but thanks. It was kind of fun.”

“I can’t imagine performing in front of hundreds of people. All those eyes on you …” She cringed. “I could never do it.”

“I used to think that too.” She lifted my arms up, measuring around my chest. “But then today, it didn’t feel like that at all. It felt kind of … amazing.”

Judith nodded, putting away her measuring tape. “I guess if I looked like you, I’d want to be up there too.” She cleared her throat and grabbed a costume from the pile at her feet. It was the maid uniform Cindy wore before meeting Prince Rella, a rich New York banker, at a masquerade charity ball. “I’ll take this one in for you at the waist, but are there any other changes you’d like me to make? Margot liked to weigh in on her costumes.

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