Nelly sighed gently as she felt a light hit her eyes, she felt slightly hazy as she slowly began to open her eyes, one chocolate brown at a time, momentarily getting blind by the bright light. Though she wasn’t much of a morning person, she knew that she was more likely to be up earlier out than Billie would, probably due to the lack of coffee...and because it was still only 7pm.

“Right, up and at’em!” Her voice was husky, still showing signs of tiredness, but her dark eyes sparkled with excitement. She had to admit, when Billie told her about a cheap small shop that was going for sale, she had her doubts. How exactly were two twenty two year olds possibly be able to run their own business? Could it possible? I mean, sure, they had a dream that they would own a boutique...but that’s when they were younger, when they still believed in ‘the one.’

She chuckled gently to herself as she finally heaved herself from her comfy bed, ‘the one,’ wasn’t that such a bag of nonsense, though she knew she shouldn’t say it out loud otherwise her blonde friend would give her a lecture about ‘they will find out, one day our princes will come!’ She could almost hear her voice now.

“Highly doubt it, she’s probably still sleeping!” She murmured gently, though she felt herself smile. As her legs carried her towards the closet, she wondered what she should wear today. The shop has no officially been open for a whole two months and they were doing pretty good considering that they were the ‘new girls in the business’ which apparently got a lot of competition. Her fingers trailed the silky fabric of one of her all time favourite dresses.

She carefully plucked it off the hanger and rushed to the bathroom, which was surprisingly pretty big. Nelly then carried on with her morning routines, taking a quick shower, brushing her teeth and everything else in between. She let herself slip into the nude dress which was decorated with blue, brown, yellow and orange patterns, small and delicate flowers and leaves. As her gaze fell upon herself in the large mirror, she grabbed a normal skinny brown belt and tied it around her waist several times before loosely tying it up into a bow. She wondered if she should wear her thin layered cardigan, but quickly just decided to put it on as she loved the feeling, and didn’t exactly want to leave all of her arms bare. Nelly then padded out of the bathroom and into the bedroom, slipping on her long brown socks with peachy rims that just stopped below her knees, finally she mumbled to herself about wearing her brown suede shoes with the outfit for finishing touches. [outfit]

Finally happy with herself, she strolled towards her bedroom door, pushed it open and walked out and along the corridor, she checked her small and old watch, and grinned, “7:30” she thought to herself and stopped right in front of a door which was marked as simply ‘Billie’ in italic writing. Leaning in, she knocked loudly on the door. Her breathing quietened as she tried to listen for any movements but of course, like she predicted, the knocking did not walk her dear friend up. Shrugging her shoulder, she pushed the door knob and the door slammed open.

The noise still didn’t wake her up and so quietly, she tip toed in and to her friend, who simply looked happy in her sleep. ‘Probably dreaming about Ryan Gosling’ She mumbled aloud. As she leaned in, her lips were now directly in front of her friends ear. “Billliiieeee” She whispered gently.

“BILLIE, GET UP NOW! I’M MAKING PANCAKES AND COFFEE WILL BE READY!” She screamed.