Upgrade U by Ni-Ni Simone

Author:Ni-Ni Simone [Simone, Ni-Ni]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, General, Girls & Women, Social Issues, Adolescence
ISBN: 0758241917
Google: KG-Cbd4hW3cC
Amazon: B004IWR374
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2011-03-01T10:59:55+00:00

16

Everybody pay attention

This right here is my pretty girl swag …

—CIARA, “PRETTY GIRL SWAG”

Be clear: I may have felt like the world had ended, and like all I wanted to do was crawl under my covers and cry until the end of time, but make no mistake I placed my tears on pause and repped well for all the fly girls. There was no way I could stay in the dorm and drown in my sorrows.

Inside of me was a war, but I did all I could to hide bombs dropping from my heart to my stomach … especially since I knew if I confessed to my friends I would be a bumbling mess by the time it was all over with. And I wasn’t ready for that.

So, instead I fought against everything in me to act carefree during our pre-party ritual. Cherish’s throwback “Do It To It” played on the radio while—in between doing spontaneous dances—we huddled shoulder to shoulder in the sole wall mirror and put our Cover Girl faces on.

“Look at you, Seven!” Khya said as she stood back and admired me. I was dressed in a passion purple, spaghetti strap, and fitted dress. The dress fell midway down my thigh and was simply too fabulous for words. My makeup was tight and my hair was straight. I slid on four-inch pencil heels and was ret’ta go.

“Flyness will do it for you every time.” I hunched my right shoulder forward and started to get my Naomi Campbell on.

Shae and Khya laughed. After I was done strutting back and forth across the room I looked them over and said, “Divalicious as usual.” Khya wore a fitted miniskirt with a rhinestone-trimmed halter, wedge heels, and a fake tattoo of a blooming rose on her thigh. Shae wore a pair of black leggings with a strapless top that rode her body like red paint and three-inch stilettos.

We were so fly that calling us cute would’ve been an insult.

My stomach felt queasy but I kept a smile on my face. “Let’s roll!” I said, excited.

“Yeah, bey-be,” Khya spat. “ ‘Cause I got a wall to catch.”

“Shh,” Shae whispered. “Maybe if we ease out we’ll be able to leave Courtney. ‘Cause I am so not in the mood for him tonight.”

“You know what, Shae?” I said. “That’s a good idea.”

“Then we need to slip our shoes off so he doesn’t hear us creeping out,” Khya suggested.

We each took our heels off and held them in our hands as we slowly crept into the hallway, softly closed and locked our room door. Thank God Courtney was nowhere in sight.

“I think we’re safe,” I said, looking around.

We eased onto the elevator and once the doors closed we cracked up laughing. We laughed so hard that we cried at the vision of Courtney running around looking for us. “Okay, okay,” Shae said, “we have to calm down or we’re going to mess up our makeup.”

“You’re right,” I said, wiping the corners of my eyes. We

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