Free The Eyes Tell No Lies by Marquaylla Lorette

eight-thirty,”
     Arie said.
    “Sure, who is this friend you are talking about?” Kylee asked in a confused voice
     since she knew she was Arie’s only friend.
    “You will see in an hour and a half,” Arie said with a laugh.
    “Don’t forget to wear the red dress I bought you for your birthday. It’s in your
     closet.” Kylee thought she should throw that in.
    “Goodbye, Kylee,” Arie said right before hanging up the phone.
    “We’re all set now,” Arie said as she turned toward Cris and placed her phone back
     in her pocket.
    “So I am going to get dressed now. I should be ready by the time you get back from
     your house,” Arie said as she placed the evidence back into the files and walked over
     to her father’s safe.
    “I have clothes in my car. Is it okay for me to get ready here?” Cris asked as he
     watched Arie take down a photo from the wall.
    “Sure, there is a bathroom with a shower in it downstairs by the dining room,” Arie
     said as she stuck her thumb onto the safe and breathed into a secret compartment.
    Her father had the safe custom-made, only opening if either Arie or her father stuck
     their thumb in the right place and blew their DNA into the secret hidden compartment.
    “Thanks,” Cris said as he stood and headed to his car to get the clothes that he kept
     in the trunk. As he walked to his car, he wondered what kind of safe that was that
     Arie put the files into. He had never seen anything like it in all his years on the
     force. It was like something well above his pay grade. Out of habit, he looked around Arie’s neighborhood as he opened
     the trunk and pulled his bag out the car. From what he could tell, nothing was out
     of the ordinary so he headed back into the house and headed straight for the downstairs
     shower.
    Arie walked into her room and locked it behind her, a habit she had developed over
     the years so her mother wouldn’t just barge in. She pulled from her closet the red
     halter, knee length dress with a tiny slit on the right side that Kylee had given
     her. As she walked out of the closet, she snatched up the boots with a small heel
     Kylee had gotten her last Christmas.
    The wall behind her bed had stained oak wood attached to it and the rest of the walls
     were an off white. She had an oval - shaped king sized bed with red satin sheets, her favorite color. The wood of her dresser matched her wall and had a huge mirror above it.
    Arie jumped into a hot steamy shower and quickly washed with her favorite kiwi-strawberry
     soap. She loved the smell of the kiwis and strawberries combined that she even got
     the matching shampoo. As she washed her hair, she contemplated a hairstyle that would
     go with her dress. By the time she got out of the shower, she had planned her hairstyle
     and makeup. If it weren’t for playing dress up when she was older with Kylee, she
     wouldn’t have been able to apply her makeup.
    She plugged up the Instyler since you could use it even while your hair was damp since
     she didn’t have time to dry her hair and style it. After she wrapped the towel around
     her body, she pulled out her makeup kit Kylee had bought her when she told her about
     the surgery. Kylee was more than a friend to her, she was like the older sister she
     never had.
    After placing the makeup kit into the sink and opening it, she dried her hair with
     the towel before picking up the Instyler and quickly going over her hair. Arie made
     sure to turn them when she got to the edge of her hair so it could slightly curl when
     she pinned it up. Thirty minutes later, she was pinning up her hair where the curls
     hung down without touching her back. She applied light foundation to her face, just
     enough to even out her skin tone. Arie leaned forward as she carefully put on black
     eye shadow with a red accent.
    “There,” she said as she checked over her hair and face before going to slip on her
     dress, then walked to her full-length mirror attached to her