"Sorry, I'm late," Zoey said, walking into the Victoria's Secret store at the mall. "I was just ..."
"Please, don't tell me what you were doing," Melissa said.
Zoey rolled her eyes. "Whatever. Have you seen Sarah?"
"She's over in the panties section."
"Thanks," she said, heading over to her friend. "Hey, Sarah," she said, once she joined up with her friend and two of the other girls (Amber Levine and Lauren O'Brien).
"Nice to see that you actually got here," Sarah said.
At that moment, Lauren suddenly became disinterested in the sexy thong she was looking at, dropping it onto the pile of panties on display. Then she turned and just left the store without a word.
"We're still waiting on Gladys," Sarah continued.
"That's strange," Zoey said. "Isn't she usually one of the first ones here?"
A few minutes earlier at the O'Brien house, the former Gladys Brewer walked into Lauren's bedroom and began going through the cheerleader's closet and drawers, picking out a red mini-dress and matching heels, with sexy lace underwear. Then she took off what she was wearing and put on the new clothing. And despite her overweight body, the smaller clothing seemed to fit.
Gladys O'Brien then headed over to the vanity and began to put on make-up, trying to make herself look sexier.
But no matter how much make-up she put on or how sexy her clothes were, she knew that she would never be as good-looking as her friends. She was even surprised that she made it onto the cheerleading squad, given the fact that she was so overweight. But she had a feeling that it had something to do with her friendship with Sarah McMillan. She paused, thinking that there was something odd about that thought. Was she friends with Sarah McMillan? It felt like she wasn't, like Sarah even teased her, but that couldn't be true. Gladys and Sarah had been friends for years, right? She shook her head, dismissing the strange feeling.
Gladys figured that enough was enough. Starting today, she was going on a diet. Nothing was more important to her than people liking her and no one was going to like her if she looked like a cow, even a dressed up cow.
She looked at the clock, seeing that it was almost 5:30. She felt like she needed to be somewhere, but for some reason, she couldn't remember.
"She's probably ashamed of how she looks," Sarah said to Zoey. "I'd be too if I looked as bloated as her. But she promised me that she'd try to lose the weight. I remember what she looked like a few years ago, and she wasn't chubby like she is now. If she says that she can lose the weight, then I believe her. Of course, if she doesn't lose enough weight by the summer, I think I'll have to cut her from the squad."
Zoey shrugged, then browsed the selection of sexy underwear nearby.
