After a time that seemed like forever, even for a patient person like me, Ms. Frist and Lavender finally came in.
“You see girls,” Ms. Frist and Lavender began, then Ms. Frist took up the sentence. ”Lavender and I have been fashion designers, makeup and hair specialists for over ten years.”
Now Lavender took up the story. ”Well, we were the closest twin sisters you could ever find. We had two small, cozy houses, side by side. But then my sis decided to lead a teaching life. I thought that was a good idea, too, so I followed. We both applied for the same job, even though we didn’t know it. It was a job for an English and homeroom teacher at a small college. Then tragedy struck. Rosemary got the job. When I found out, I was mad indeed! That was when we were younger. I was in such a rage, I started a big fight. I started saying that I should have gotten the job, I was much prettier and smarter. My dear old sis said nothing. She is a very patient person and hard to meddle with.”
Lavender smiled at Ms. First.
Lavender continued. “Well, since she didn’t get mad or get sad, that made me even madder. I moved to America to get a job as a shopkeeper in this very mall. Well, poor Rosemary was sad then. She refused the job and came to America, too, and found a job in a famous college, the one you girls are in right now. She moved into a spectacular mansion and hired a lot of servants. She lived as a first class lady who was kind, gentle-hearted and good, while I was a sad shopkeeper who was waiting to be forgiven.”
After Lavender had finished her story, Ms. Frist got ready to speak. ”Well, now Lavender has agreed to help me train you two. You shall start today.”
“And Rosemary has agreeded to teach me how to speak with a first-class accent,” she winked at us and Ms. Frist sighed.
Lavender brought us to a large room, and told us to stand straight, we did so. She examined me first.
“What a skinny scrap of flesh!“ she muttered. Cordelia giggled as I blushed.
She moved on to Cordelia. “Nothing but flesh, flesh, flesh!” Lavender muttered under her breath. ”The mother must be a pig!” Cordelia reddened. I said nothing.
“Now, go into these dressing rooms and choose which or your clothes you would wear to a nice lunch in Spain,” she said.
I went into one of them and found everything I bought. I dressed in the black dress with the handbag. (Did I mention that on the left side, there was a beautiful satin black flower?) There was a machine with different sorts of buttons. On it there was one that was labeled “Nails.” I pushed it.
There was a bllluuurrr sound and in front of my eyes there was a chair and a tub of water. A mechanic voice instructed, “Sit on the chair and put your feet in the tub of water.” I did so. “Now put your hands on the sides of the chair,” As soon as I did that, the armrest dropped and there two tubs of water in place of the armrests. I put my hands inside.
The machine came towards me. On the screen it said, “Feet or hands or both.”
”Both!” I said.
Instantly, these words flashed up, “Choose your color.” So I said, “Red for my toes and sparkly red for my fingers and pink flowers with a jewel in the middle on my thumbs and big toes.”
As soon as I said these words, two robots appeared, one with two carts and another with two nail polish bottles.
They started painting my nails in a mechanic way, “Arm up, push, pull back,” like that. Soon, they were finished and, the nails were already dry! What a wonder!
Then, I was really excited too get my make up, I hurriedly pushed the make up button, and I got to choose my blush (I chose natural pink, of course!), my eye liner or eye shadow or both (I chose black eye liner), and lipstick (RED, RED, RED!!!!). A robot came in and did my makeup. When I saw how I looked I was very delighted.
Then, I really, really started to get excited. I pressed the hair button and “Whoosh!” The screen asked me to say the name of the hairstyle I wanted. So I said, “Spanish hairstyles” and several hairstyle images showed up. I chose the braided buns over your ears with the big flower accessories.
The screen read, “Put your hair in this slot.” I did as instructed. The mechanic voice said, ”Good, your hair is nice and long. It’s also very thick, which is also good!”
A different robot came in and did my hair. She was done in a few moments. “What color flower do you want?” she asked me.
“Purple on the right ear,” I answered.
She put the flower on me. Then she left. I looked gorgeous! There were other buttons, but I was too excited too try them out. I put on my purple high heels and walked outside. Cordelia was already there, with this lumpy, strapless gray dress.
Lavender looked at me and said,” I see you have discovered our beauty maker! Let me see your toes.”
I took off my shoes while Cordelia glared at me filled with envy.
“Well,” Lavender said, ”the reason I asked you to do this is to find out your taste and because we’re going out to a restaurant that was founded by someone from Spain. So get a bite to eat and we’ll be off.”
We waited in the Employee’s Room while Lavender prepared non-fat cupcakes. I took a bite. Lavender went out and started talking with Ms. Frist. Cordelia was busy making prune juice. You could hear nothing but the blender whirring, my munching, and the low, worried whispers outside.
