Room 132

LA, 8-2
April 2006
Crystal

“Daddy I want that! I absolutely have to have it! Everybody else has it!” There was the brand new skirt in the window of the trendiest shop in New York City. My dad will do anything for me. All I have to do it tell him that I don’t love him anymore and out come the credit cards.
My name is Crystal. I am 16 years old and probably the most popular person in school. I own about 400 different shoes, 3 houses along the coast of California, 8 walk-in closets (4 were featured in “That Girls Got Style”, my very own hair and make-up stylist, about a million accessories, and any other thing I want. Everyone is so jealous of me.
After school today I went to the glamour shop for my perfect dress.
“Hello my name is Kathy how can I help you?”
“Excuse me but my birthday party is coming up and I need the most perfect dress that will make me look like a princess, not like im not one already but you know something th-“
“Yes here,” said the sales women holding up a plain straight black dress dress with a pink bow on the side.
“Oh my god are you kidding me! That is probably the ugliest dress in the world! You are absolutely the worst fashion worker ever.” That lady was insane. She didn’t expect me to wear that to my birthday party.
“Fine then why don’t you try this one? We just got it in 5 minutes ago.” Kathy said sarcastically. The dress was gold with gold sparkles. The top of the dress was a halter with a built in necklace.
“Okay sure I will try it on. But it better look good or I’m moving to a better store.” I was walking over to my usual dressing room but then I saw the sales lady walk by and put up a sign on the dressing room all the way to the other side saying ‘newly remolded’ then she gave me a little point urging me to go in there. So I did. I had to have the best one.
As soon as I walked in I wanted to jump out. The place was so tacky! There were weird colorful buttons all over the place. There was no way that this was newly remolded. I had to get out. I couldn’t stand the ugliness. I started to turn the doorknob but nothing happened. Then I heard a voice say, “now that you’re in their have…” I think the lady hit the door after that. I don’t really remember. All I do remember was a blast of fast lights pressing against my face. My hair was turning every which way. My hairdresser needed to hear about this. I reached down to find my cell phone. My arm now fully extended franticly looking for my purse. I felt the smooth hardwood ground of Glamour turn rocky and then smooth and cold. I could see my reflection. It was weird because my hair was perfect. It almost looked better than before.
I looked up to see that I was outside. That tramp had led me out the back door. I took a look out to see what store to go to next but…they were gone. I knew I was still in New York but the cars were no longer on the ground. It was just like there was an invisible road above the ground. They where flying around. It was so weird to see my New York without all of the people crowded in the streets. They all must have just been in the sky. I had to figure out what was going on so I decided to ask a man on the street.
“Excuse me but is there some sort of party going on.”
“No” he replied.
“Well then what about a makeover?”
“No”
“TV show”
“No! Hey listen lady, this city has always been like this…ever since I can remember.”
“Okay fine. Can you at least tell me what day it is so I can see if I need to watch fashion 101. It’s new every Wednesday but this morning my hair and my makeup people where fighting about what the day was…it was weird.”
“Sure its Wednesday April 2, 2121” and that’s when it hit me. That ugly thing was not a dressing room. I felt so confused lost and alone. So I do what I do everyday that makes me feel better. Shopping!!!
I walked into my first store, which was the only one I could see on the entire block. Infract it was the only one I saw at all. I walked inside to see that no one was in there. There wasn’t even a sales lady. But the weirdest thing of all was that there weren’t any clothes. There were clothes on the models in the window so I knew that there were clothes somewhere. In the back of the store there was this huge TV that covered the entire wall. I knew that I was missing fashion 101 so I had to go turn it on. I found the switch and turned it on but instead of watching my favorite show, a very cute hat fell down from the ceiling and landed on my head. Then the TV showed the cutest clothes and said, “This is what you want to wear. Do you want to buy it?” It was awesome!!! This hat thing just read my mind. It was nothing like the gold halter dress. Instead it was a hot pink mini dress. This was in need to come back into fashion.
“Yes, Yes I totally want to buy it!” Then this thing popped out with a little sing saying ‘put thumb here’. As soon as I did it, it said,
“Crystal. 17. First time to the future.” Wow that thing was amazing I had to get one. Suddenly I looked down and saw that I was wearing the outfit just like on the screen.
“Hey wait miss, your not supposes to be here right now” a man came running up to me.
“What do you want? I am here shopping for my dress; I do not need any help. This thing here has already found it for me” I started reaching up towards the ticket coming out. This ticket would have been the key to my life. This was the new newest fashion. My friends would be so jealous.
“Well I personally think that that is way to tacky! No one has worn that since the twenty-first century. Ewwwww! If you ask me you need this new shall.”
“Threes no way that I was gona wear that thing. It was hideous it was old. It was purple and had this ugly floral design. “People haven’t worn that since like the nineteenth century!” There was no was that he was going to make me wear that.
“Oh come on! Just try it.” He urged.
“No way!”
“Just do it!”
“Therese no way I’m trying that on!!!”
“OK fine then, you give me no choice.” The man came running up to me holding the shawl wide open. He wrapped it over my head. I felt as if I couldn’t breath but that was probably just the fact that the shawl wasn’t washed with Snugles. After a while I lost my balance and fell into a tiny room still wrapped in the shawl trying to find my way out.
I finally got up to see that I was on wood. It was a hardwood floor with clothes hanging up on the wall. I was just lying there staring at the floor. The shawl was completely off. Thank god!
“You done yet?” Kathy’s snarled her whiney voice at me.
“Just a second.” I guess I had no choice but to take the gold dress. I had no more time to look anymore. I had to plan the party. Right after that I went up to the cash register to pay for my dress. I was digging through my purse but I couldn’t find my credit cards. Then I felt something oddly familiar and pulled it out.
It was an ugly purple floral shawl.