Free On the Edge by V.E. Avance Page A

love like that would be so amazing.  What am I thinking?  I have a love like that.  Tommy loves me and would move Heaven and Earth to keep me safe.
                  “Ok, Abigail, your turn,” Katherine tells me.
                  Oh, Katherine looks lovely.  Her skin looks so flawless with a light bronze on her cheeks.  Her eyes are absolutely stunning.  She has a light green eye shadow on with a trace of glitter in it.  Her top eyelid has liquid eyeliner that slightly pulls up at the end of the lid.  I believe I’ve heard her call it a ‘wing.’  She has false lashes on that make her lashes look longer and fuller and she has black eyeliner on her water line.  Her lips are glossed with a rosy tint.  “Now, remember, Katherine, I don’t want a lot of make-up on,” I remind her.
                  “Shush!  Sit down and let me work my magic!” she orders.
                  I do as I am told and let her have her way with me, or my face at least.  It doesn’t take her long until she’s done.  I look in the mirror and I am speechless.  She has applied a light amount of foundation to hide my blemishes and added a light pink blush to my cheeks.  I have a light beige eye shadow covering my entire lid with a modest amount of mascara on my lashes and light eyeliner on my bottom eyelid.  My word, Katherine does fantastic work.  “I love it, Katherine,” I say, holding back tears, “Thank you so much.”
                  “Anytime, love.  Now, let’s get dressed.  We don’t want to be too late.”
                  Katherine slips on her prom dress first.  It’s an exquisite strapless, floor length mermaid dress.  She picked a light green dress embodied in green beads in a diagonal fashion along the breast area.  Her shoes are white, open-toed heels that increase her height by four inches and accent the dress brilliantly. She puts her diamond studs in her ears as I clasp her single diamond necklace around her neck.  I stand back and gaze at this beautiful woman standing before me.  She is absolutely astonishing.  “You look amazing, Katherine.”
                  “Do you really think so?” Katherine asks.  When someone gives her a compliment, she always fishes for a bigger one.
                  “Yes, of course I do.”
                  “Thank you,” she says as a huge smile creeps across her face.  I love this girl to death but she really needs to be able to see herself for what she is; a beautiful girl with potential to become anything she puts her mind to.
                  I fish my dress out of its garment bag and slip it on.  Katherine helps zip me up.  My dress is a sophisticated column square sheath that reaches the floor.  I decided on a champagne color embossed with rhinestones under my breast.  I slip on the same white heels that Katherine is wearing and put my diamond drop earrings on as Katherine clasps the matching necklace around my neck.  I turn to face myself in the mirror and the reflection is overwhelming.  I look like a princess.  For the first time in my life I feel beautiful.
                  “Well, Abby, what do you think?”
                  “Oh, we look so beautiful, Katherine.  I have to agree with Michael, we clean up nicely!”  I give her a hug and hold back my tears of joy.  As we are releasing each other we hear a knock at the door.
                  “Come in,” I say
                  “Wow!  You two look amazing,” Michael says sounding rather shocked.  He is more focused on Katherine and she does take notice to this.  She looks quite surprised that Michael can’t take his eyes off of her.
                  “Thank you, Michael,” she says
                  Mike walks up and, first, gives me a kiss on my cheek and then Katherine.  I think I see her eyes dance a