I'm going to engage in a suicide mission and I can't stop smiling, my cheeks hurt while my mouth refuses to relax. I was hungry and sad, I don't know exactly what happened in my heart since I started repeating myself that I will go to a private masquerade party in Las Vegas with my best friend, but I feel happy and that's enough to make me keep taking some stuff from my bedroom and put them in the suitcase. When it's full, I manage to close it and I take a look at my room: it's pink, clean, empty. My mother never let me decorate it and she cleans it everyday, that's probably why it seems uninhabited. It makes me a bit sad looking around and realizing that this room never had a place in my heart, I won't miss my home. I sigh and I write a note to my parents: Don't worry, I'm 20 and I'll survive in Las Vegas. I'll come back with a surprise! Kisses, Katrina. P.S. Nora, you are my sister, I love you. I hope that the surprise will finally let you see me as an adult. I promise that one day I'll make you proud of me, big sis. If Gabi was here, she would have torn up this lovely letter saying that my sister is a "bad girl". I laugh at the thought.344Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡskYegUGSC1
I open the window and the cold wind of the night caresses my skin. I shiver, trying to wrap my pink coat around my body tightly. I sit on the edge on the window, my feet slipping on the frozen roof. I must jump. The silence and the darkness are suggesting me to go back to my room and stop this crazy adventure, so I take my bag, I stand up and I skate on the ice, losing the balance and falling from the second floor on the cement. I groan. Before I can open my eyes, the bag falls on me.
«You need much more to stop me.» I whisper to the world, chuckling.
Sometimes movies give you great ideas. I look at the little house of my bestie. I can't stop thinking of my life compared to her: I want my house too, but in the bar I work the tips are more generous than the salary. I look at the window of Gabi's room, the light is off. I need to wake her and, as movies taught me, there's only one way to wake up your friend for an adventure in the middle of the night. I run to the door, I take a big stone down there and I walk back to aim at her window. I throw the stone and... yea, I have a good shot. I broke the window, the piercing sound of the glass breaking echoes in the street. Well, I made a mess, but I achieved the target. Gabi appears at the window with an angry face. I wave to her with an ashamed expression. She disappears in the room and I get close to the door. She opens it and I smile.344Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQQpxRKpg6l
«Why did you throw it at the window?» She asks, now bored, looking at me like I'm an idiot with the rock in a hand.
«I decided to come with you.»
«Why didn't you open the door and came to my room?»
«With which key?»
She turns the rock and opens it. There's a key inside. «This key, genius.»
I stay silent, the only words that could come out of my mouth now are insults towards me. I swing backward and forwards on the heels with a childish smile, waiting.
Gabi sighs. «Come in.»
I let out a little scream of joy.
The uniform of the hostess is the most elegant clothes I could imagine on my weird body. I can't stop watching the beautiful, poor woman that is attending us and admire her.
«I know what you're thinking.» Gabi gives me a bored eye.
I know she knows. «You don't.»
«My body is weird!» She mocks me. «Give me a pizza for my friend, please.» She orders to the poor hostess. If she keeps going like this, soon the airplane kitchen will be empty.344Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡulCOk5LEe7
«I'm not hungry.» I say, trying to ignore the group of old people that watches us like criminals, their anger seems to grow at every Gabi's order.
«You are, you didn't dine!»
«Gabi, I'm fat!»
Gabi looks at me, her mouth wide open. «When did you start worrying about your belly?»
«When you invited me to a prestigious masquerade party in Las Vegas. With two fake tickets.» I nervously articulate every word of my last sentence.
«Don't be so nervous, those tickets are perfect copies of the originals... and you're not fat.»
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Before I can protest, the hostess comes back with the pizza and all the other food Gabi ordered.
«Take a sip of this.» She hands me a cocktail.
I smell it and cover my nose with my arm immediately after. Gabi drums her fingers on the table, waiting.
«I hate you.» My confession makes us smile both. I take a sip and as I feel the taste of this disgusting liquid I spit it on a sleeve of my t-shirt.
Gabi laughs. «Don't do this at the party, unless you don't like who's flirting with you.»
«Damn, I don't know how to flirt.»
She lies on the table, moving her hands slowly, one messing her hair and the other caressing her breast. «It's simple, remember that men can't resist our bodies.»
I try to imitate her and she gives me an embarrassed look. «I suck, right?»
«Uhm, no. You just need to practice. A lot.» She sits, keeping her shoulders back, and I imitate her. «Take the cocktail, like this.» I wrap my fingers around the cocktail as she does. «Good. Now take a sip and don't move your eyes from mine.» I look at her, moving my head to find the sexiest angle of me. «Don't move that much. Now take a sip of your Mimosa and...» I spill the cocktail on my leggings. I facepalm. «...and you're too clumsy to be sexy.» She ends, giving me a napkin.
The party will be a disaster. I will be a disaster. Well, this is a rare opportunity, I can't fail. Tomorrow this disaster will change my life, or I'll find someone that will do it for me.
My terrible thoughts are distracting me from the eyes on me and Gabi that is snoring on her seat. It's night, I want to sleep, but the anxiety keeps my eyes wide open. I feel like I'm jumping from a roof of a two-storied home with a parachute: I've not enough time to save myself. I couldn't steal a heart in a single night even if I was the most beautiful girl in the world.
A voice announces that the plane is going to land soon.
I shake Gabi. «Wake up, we have arrived.»
She stretches, looking around. Suddenly she looks shocked.
I immediately worry. «What's wrong?»
«Look for yourself!» She points at the window without moving her eyes from it.
Confused, I look out and for an indefinite time my dreams blend with reality. I'm getting close to a city of colored lights, the night here seems way better than the day. As we get closer, I see the streets full of people. Las Vegas is awake. I wonder where the party will be. When the airplane is landed I'm still watching out, my eyes impatiently waiting for new wonderful things to store in my mind.
«I definitely won't miss Flint.» I chirp.
«Flint sucks compared to Vegas. Take your bags, honey, we have to go to Caesar Palace and book our room! We have just some hours to get ready for the party.»
I take my bags and I switch on the telephone: there are thirteen missing calls from mom and dad. My enthusiasm fades like my smile.
Gabi obviously notices it. «Ignore them.» She says, stealing my phone.
I glare at her. «I can't. And you can't stop me, yesterday I already risked ending our friendship because of your stupid idea to come here and...»
«Shut up, you needed a holiday.» She interjects me.
«My mother closed me in my room saying we were no longer friends. All for this not necessary holiday.»
«That motherfucker...»
«Hey, she's my mom!» I yell.
«Yea, your motherfucker mother.» She agrees calmly.
I roll my eyes. «Give me the phone, Gabriela.»
She pauses, the silence annoys me but I wait.
«Did you just say that she closed you into your bedroom?» She tries to hold a laugh, I can clearly see her lips trembling.
I sigh. «Yea. I came out from the window and I jumped off the roof.»
She bursts out laughing.
«This isn't funny, I could have broken my bones!» I protest, but a smile gives me away.
«I'm sorry, I'm imagining your fat ass falling from the roof!»
We fight with our bags, walking to a famous hotel, not even knowing where it is.
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