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A Change Of Face - Part One
Date: 2/1/2016, Categories: Novels, Author: SugarKitten
... thinking how great it would be to be called that when we moved to the big city. It sounded exotic to me at the time. Like I was some foreign princess. That hadn't worked out all that well. I said a silent prayer that things would go better for me as Emma. "Emma," she said thoughtfully. "I like that. I wish I could come up with a better nickname for Sophia, but Sophie is the best out of the bunch. Would you believe my mother actually suggested Fifi once?" "Seriously?" I frowned. Who would call their daughter that? "I told her if she wanted to call someone Fifi she should get herself a poodle." Friendly and a sense of humor. Things were looking up. "I like the name Sophie," I offered. She rolled her eyes but continued to smile. I found myself warming to my new roommate despite the fact that she was unplanned. I was still worried that she'd draw too much attention to us, but there was little I could do about that. "Do you need help unpacking?" she asked kindly. Mom and dad took that moment to bustle in with some more of my stuff. I introduced them and we all spent the next twenty minutes setting my half of the room up. I didn't have all that much personal stuff because I'd left most of that at home since it wouldn't mesh with the new me. "I love this top," Sophie said at one point as she helped hang up some of my clothes. I nodded and smiled in thanks, wondering what she would think if she knew that most of what I'd brought with me had never been worn before. Mia wouldn't have ...
... been caught dead in any of them because they were far too colorful and feminine. The funny part was that Amelia would have thought of most of them as not feminine enough. No, these clothes were all Emma. They say clothes made the woman, and they had no idea how much I hoped that they were right. I had more butterflies in my stomach than I cared to think about. I was waiting for someone to see me with my new look and burst out laughing, but it didn't happen, at least not yet. "I like it too," mom said with a happy smile. "I was so glad when Amelia let me take her on a shopping spree for college." "My wallet didn't like it all that much," dad interjected. "But I do like the new look." "Okay, it's time for you two to go," I said, swallowing with some difficulty. The last thing I wanted was for my parents to ruin everything by talking about the changes I'd made this past summer as I got ready to leave home. "I'm hungry and there's a freshman orientation meeting later tonight." "Do you want to go out for dinner? You too Sophie. My treat?" my father asked. That would never do. "Thanks, daddy, but I want to try the food on campus." "Are you sure? You know what they say about college food. Girls don't put on the freshman fifteen by accident, you know." I knew he was teasing me and normally it was no big deal, but right now all I wanted was for him to take mom's hand and leave. "It's not like the extra weight would hurt her," mom sighed. "She's still far too thin." "I like the way I ...