Chapter 3 Innocent yet beautiful

Millie's POV.

I've decided that enough is enough. I needed to make a move on Zack. No more scaredy-cat Millie. Alison's birthday party was coming up this Saturday so I will see him and have the perfect opportunity to show him that I'm not a little girl anymore.

"I know! How about we go shopping and you buy a really sexy dress to wear at the party, I'll bet that will impress him," Alison said.

"I don't know...I don't think Zack's into stuff like that," I said.

"Oh please, he is a guy and you are beautiful," Alison said reassuringly.

"Then how come he treats me like a little sister?" I asked.

I already knew the answer. That's because he was too nice and felt protective of me. That's why I couldn't give up on him easily.

"Okay," I smiled. "Let's buy a sexy outfit. I needed to buy some new clothes anyway," I said.

"Yay, shopping!" Alison chirped.

"There's just one problem, I have no money." I frowned.

"Well convince your mom that you need back to school clothes or something," Alison suggested.

"Ali, the school's been out for two weeks already," I rolled my eyes.

"Well think of something, this is gonna be so much fun!" Alison said.

I smiled at her enthusiasm. I was pretty excited myself. After begging and pleading for two hours, my mom agreed to give me money to buy a new dress so the shopping was on!

The following day, Alison and I decided to go shopping at a boutique. She was going to pick her birthday dress and I was going to find something that will show off my curves in all the right places.

"Oh my god, try this on!" Alison said after we spent twenty minutes trying things on.

I looked at the dress she was holding. It was a red bodycon dress with lace sweetheart cutout at the front. Very sexy. I put it on and came out of the fitting room to show Alison.

"Whoa...that looks hot!" Alison squealed. "He wouldn't be able to take his eyes off of you," she said.

"Are you trying to impress him or do him?" Someone spoke all of a sudden and we both turned around.

Hayden was leaned against the door with a devilish smirk on his face. Great...he had to come and ruin my mood.

"Don't be a disgusting pig Hayden, she is not trying to sleep with him. Well not yet anyway," Alison said dismissively.

"Well, in that case, that dress is all wrong," he said and pointed at what I was wearing. "It is way too sexy," he added.

"I still don't see why its a bad thing and why are you here again?" Alison inquired.

"I happened to be at the motorcycle supplies store next door and saw this clown show when I was passing by," he smirked, that jerk. "Don't get me wrong, you look great Mildew, but that dress is all wrong for big bro," he said.

"And how would you know?" I spoke up finally.

"Because I've known him since birth and he is a total goody-two-shoes. You will need to wear a dress that's sexy yet gives out the certain 'good girl' vibe, you get what I am saying?" he asked.

"I hate to say this, but I'll have to agree with Hayden," Alison said thoughtfully. "Zack does like the sexy good girl type."

"Okay, I guess the search continues. By the way, why are you helping me?" I asked Hayden.

"Because I am tired of watching you drool over Mr. Perfect so I've decided to get you laid once and for all," Hayden said matter-of-factly.

I sighed. As much as I hate to admit, Hayden was right. I was tired of it too. And since he was a guy, it wouldn't hurt to get his opinions.

Hayden walked to the clothing rack and went through the clothes. He took a dress out and threw it at me.

"Here, try this one on," he said. "This one's gonna make you look innocent yet beautiful."

"Um...knowing you, you probably intentionally picked a dress that will look like a potato sack," I said and looked at the dress suspiciously. But it looked like a pretty dress.

"Just try it. I've been with enough females to know what looks good on them, so I can make anyone look sexy, including you," Hayden winked.

"Eww...I'm a teenager, pervert!" I said.

"So? You are turning 18 in a couple of months, so it's a fair game to lust over your body," he said and ducked as Alison threw her water bottle at him. Such an imbecile.

I rolled my eyes and went inside the fitting room to put the dress on. I don't know why I was listening to him anyway. I must've gone crazy.

I looked in the mirror and was surprised to see how good the dress looked. It was a light pink chiffon skater dress with a deep V-neckline. The wrapped waistline hugged my waist and the top half accentuated my breasts perfectly without revealing too much.

Innocent yet beautiful, I repeated Hayden's words in my head. Guess he knew what he was talking about.

"Wow Millie, that looks really good on you!" Alison chirped.

Hayden stared at me intently for a moment. "I told you I knew what I'm talking about," he said then avoided my eyes. What's that about?

"I like it a lot! You think Zack will notice me?" I said and did a little twirl.

"He would be crazy not to," Alison said reassuringly.

"Yeah, who can ignore that fat ass hiding under that dress?" Hayden shrugged.

"Don't you have somewhere else to be?" I glared at him.

"Yeah yeah, I'm outta here. Good luck getting laid this weekend. I got better things to do than hearing about your teenage bullshit," he said and waved us goodbye.

"God, how can he be so different than Zack? Are you sure he is not adopted?" I asked Alison.

She laughed. "Unfortunately not. He has always been like that. Obnoxious and mischievous. Mom had to try extra hard to keep him out of trouble."

"I'll have to admit, he does have good taste in clothing," I said and looked at the dress. I couldn't wait to wear this on Saturday.

"There's only one problem...." Alison said hesitantly.

I raised my eyebrows. I didn't like where this was going. "What's that?" I asked.

"Melanie is coming too," she said.

"Ugh why, why would you invite her?" I grimaced.

"Well, it's not like I had a choice. She is Zack's best friend whether they are together or not. It would've upset him if I didn't," she said.

"It's whatever, hopefully, he will realize that she is the wrong person for him," I sighed.

And then he will realize he belonged with me and we will live happily ever after.