“That’s right, Justin. Good friends will do anything for each other. I’ll be there in an hour.”
* * * * *
I looked up when I heard Sam’s car pull up and getting off the couch walked over to let her in. When I opened the door, I was surprised to see Sam wearing the long black leather coat she had gotten for Christmas.
Granted, it was April and it had cooled down quite a bit, but it wasn’t that cold. The second thing that caught my attention was that her long brown hair, which was usually in a braid or a ponytail, was down.
“Hey, Justin!” She held up a bag. “I grabbed a couple of oldie, but not so goodies. I got the Alien Dead and Ghost House. I figured they would be good for some laughs. Got popcorn, too!”
“Um, okay,” I said as she pushed past me.
I was surprised when I smelled perfume. I wasn’t sure what brand it was, but it smelled pretty damn good.
Sam walked into the living room. At the sound of something clicking on the floor. I looked down. “Wow, what’s with those shoes?” I asked, staring at the red heels she was wearing. They were high enough that I wondered how she could walk in them, and had straps that wrapped around her ankles.
As I stared at the shoes, it dawned on me I could see her calves. “Are you wearing a dress?”
“Maybe I felt like dressing up.” She turned to face me. “It is Saturday night, after all.”
“But you’re hanging out with me,” I said, closing the door behind me and approaching her. “Usually, you’re dressed in—” I stopped and stared at her face, taking in her deep red lips.
“What’s the matter?”
“You’re wearing make-up!” In addition to her lipstick, Sam’s eyelashes looked longer and thicker than usual, she was wearing eye shadow, and her cheeks had more color to them.
“So?”
“Sam, were you going out tonight? Because if you were, you don’t have to hang with me.”
“Maybe I dressed up for you.” She unzipped the top of the jacket, then slipped it off.
“Wow!”
Sam was wearing a red dress that was not only low-cut enough to show cleavage, but calling the skirt short would be doing it a favor. The hem barely reached her mid-thigh. I wondered what she would do if she dropped something and had to bend over.
The dress featured black buttons in the shape of hearts that went down to her waist and staring at the top button, I couldn’t help notice how tight the dress was, hugging her small breasts and pushing them up.
“Is that a good ‘wow’?” She gave me a big smile.
“I … yeah, you look great.” I told her and wasn’t kidding.
Sam’s smile widened. When she reached up and pushed her hair back over her shoulder, I noticed that her fingernails were painted the same shade of red as the dress.
“Thank you.”
“Why are you wearing that?”
“Oh, I don’t know. ” She shrugged. “Maybe I’m tired of your tomboy jokes and wanted to show you I can be a woman when I need to be.”
“A woman?” I laughed. “You’re eighteen.”
She rolled her eyes. “Justin, you are one step forward, two steps back, sometimes. You give me a compliment, then you say something stupid.”
“Sorry.” I pointed at the bag she had tossed on the couch. “You want to give me the popcorn and I’ll heat it up while you put the movie in?”