I woke up the next morning no longer in Vic's arms, but to the smell of... chocolate chip pancakes. I stretched, got up and noticed a note on my desk. It was from Vic. I smiled as I read it, "If you haven’t noticed by now that I'm gone, well I am and I'm making you a wonderful breakfast. See you soon." I put the note down, and then went to the bathroom to take the quickest shower of my life and threw on sweats,

"I think I hear the hungry hippo." I heard Mike say as I skipped down the steps.

As I made it to the kitchen I smacked the back of his head, "I'm hungry, but I'm not a hippo. Morning baby."

Vic stopped what he was doing to give me a quick kiss, "Good morning, did you sleep well?"

"Yes I did."

"I bet you did." Mike mumbled.

"Hey don't be mad you did get laid last night and I did."

"I hate you."

"So what's the plan for today?" I asked.

"Don't you have a dinner to go to?"

"Besides that Michael."

"Well you need to go dress shopping I assume," Vic said putting a plate of pancakes in front of me.

"You know me all so well. Thank you. Also besides that. Is there anything else, maybe a jam session or something?"

"Oh yeah, we have to practice for the Christmas show. I also called Mitch to ask Chloe if she would like to go shopping with you and should be here by one. So be ready please."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mike are you coming with?"

Mike looked up from his pancakes, "What do I look like to you?"

"Umm my bff?"

"True, but no. I made plans with my tv."

I rolled my eyes and looked at Vic who shook his head.

"So when are the guys getting here?"

"Soon, so you need to hurry up and finish eating. Why do you sleep your days away?"

"It's only ten Mike and we're on vacation so we're going to sleep our days away." Vic said.

"Sounds to me like you’re both just being lazy."

I sighed and we ate the rest of our breakfast in silence. An hour later Mitch and Joe showed up ready to play.

"It was definitely a good thing George and Emily built on this extra part to the house. Man you guys would get so many complaints." I laughed at the memory. "When was the last time I was at one of these?" I asked.

"Senior year, then you blew us off." Joe said.

I shrugged checking out Mike's new kit, "Cute."

"It’s not cute Ker Bear. It’s amazing."

"We have a show to practice for." Vic said picking up his guitar. "We also have to do touch ups for the EP."

I took my normal seat on the right side of the couch while Joe and Mitch tuned up their guitars. For a while I enjoyed the music then suddenly I got bored and I started booing them.

"Keri."

"Vic."

"Stop."

"Make me."

Emily walked in, "Boys you have a guest."

Chloe walled in after her.

"Hi baby." Mitch said giving Chloe a kiss.

"Hi, where's Keri?"

"Here I am! Come help me boo Vic." I said pulling Chloe over next to me on the couch.

"Okay."

"Wait, Chloe, don't do that." Mitch said.

I whispered to Chloe, "Don't pay him any mind."

Chloe laughed.

"Keri, don't you dare."

"Sure, sure."

Chloe and I booed them anyways. After a good half hour the guys took a "break".

"So did my sister tell you the dinner is formal?"

"No. But I figured as much."

"Well it's formal."

"I'm ready whenever you are.

"I'm ready now."

"Alright."

We got up.

"Have fun scooping out guys for me?" Mike said.

"Or not." Vic replied

"You do remember its formal right?" Chloe asked Mitch.

"Oh. Uh, yeah. Of course."

Chloe shook her head, "You better look nice. I'll see you later." she gave him a kiss.

They look so cute together. Like it scared me how perfect they looked.

"Vic. I expect you to look just as nice."

"Somebody really wants to show someone off." Joe said.

I smiled and in the most sarcastic tone said, "But of course. I have to make girls drool over Vic later to know he's mine."

"Oh Ker Bear."

"See you in a few hours!"

Chloe and I walked towards the door, to my houses back door.

"I can drive if you want." Chloe said.

"Sounds good to me."
♫♪♫♪
On the drive to the mall, I told Chloe about the whole situation of no one knowing about Vic being my boyfriend and his new friend Emma. She understood where I was coming from since she was in that type of situation before also. But she also took Vic's side. We finally somewhat dropped the subject when we saw some dresses displayed in a store.

"How about this one?" Chloe picked up a sleek red dress.

"Trust me when I say, red does not look good on me."

"Oh come on. This is the tenth dress you've turned down. Do you really want to buy a dress or is this just an excuse to spend money.

"Who knows?" I picked up a purple dress, then placing it back down, "Dress shopping is difficult in itself. I almost never wear them."

"Let's go somewhere else."

"Okay."

We walked out the dress shop back into the mall.

"You know what the guys need?"

"A mother freaking manager."

Chloe stopped walking.

"What?"

"That's exactly what I was thinking," she laughed.

"Because, it's true. Like damn they can't keep calling me up whenever they need one. Vic swears up and down that he's trying to find one, but I swear he's not. I really think he's keeping me around for his own selfish needs."

Chloe continued to laugh, "Well I don't blame him. If I had a hot piece of ass for a manager, I'd taking every advantage of it I could."

"Chloe you are-." I saw a dress displaying from a window that was calling my name, "I found my dress."

It was a little black dress with rhinestones along the top breast and straps. It was perfect!

"You going to try it?"

"I'm going to buy it!"

We walked in the shop laughing.

A girl stepped in front of us, "Hi, may I help you?"

She was young, about our age.

"Yeah, she wants to try the dress on that's displaying in the window." Chloe answered for me.

"Sure."

She looked me over then walked away to the back of the store leaving us.

"You know I can speak for myself, I've been doing it since I was about one."

"Oh well." Chloe said walking away to look at a sales rack.

That chick. She's like a replica of her sister!

I smiled and shook my head.

"Sorry for the wait, if you follow me, I just have to take your measurements. If you don't
mind."

"I need this dress for tonight; I can't go through all that resizing stuff."

"No, no. Our sizes in the store are kind of difficult to read if you've never been here before. It's not the normal, three, five, seven stuff. So we take your measurements to make sure you have the right size for your body. Also I can have any adjustments done in a hours time. I can't let you walk out with a dress too tight or too loose."

I held back the biggest sigh I wanted to release, "Fine."

"Alright. Follow me."

Chloe was laughing the whole time at my frustration.
I wanted to smack her.

"All I need you to do is remove your clothing, and I'll be back with a dress."

"Okay." After she left, I turned to Chloe who was still snickering. "Will you stop?"

"No, this is beyond funny. I've never seen you so worked up before."

"You've only hung out with me once and that was for spring break, so of course you've never seen me this worked up. This isn't funny."

"Yes it is, you should've seen your face from before."

I rolled my eyes and began stripping, "You suck."

"Woo, take it off, take it off."

I threw my shirt at her face.
The girl came back with the dress, and began measuring me.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I never introduced myself. I'm Emma."

"Hi, I'm Keri and the bimbo is Chloe."

"Nice to meet you."

"How long have you worked here?" Chloe asked.

"My mom owns the store, so since I was young really. I would help her out all the time."

"Oh. Do you go to school?"

"Yup, I'm going to an art school for fashion."

"Cool, I'm pretty sure you have a boyfriend too. A pretty girl like you could not be without one."

Emma looked up at Chloe and smiled, "I do he's the sweetest person in the world. He also goes to school with me."

"What's he majoring in?"

"Some music. He's in a band. What about you two?"

"Both of our boyfriends are in a band too. They're best friends."

"Aww that's cute. Okay all done. I'll meet you at the register."

"Thanks."

I put my clothes back on before Chloe could make another comment.

"How about we get ready at your place since its closer. I'll even do your hair and make up."

"Yay, I feel like being pampered."

I pulled out Dad's card handing it to Emma.

"You said your name was Keri, right?" Emma asked handing me the card and dress.

"Yeah."

"So you must be Vic's friend," She said all cheer like.

I raised a brow, "Yeah something like that."

"Aww its nice to finally meet you."

"Um am I missing something here?" I asked.

"I'm his girlfriend."

Notes

Chapter two has been updated, go check it out if you haven't yet!