Alexander will take back the ones we didn’t like.” She frowns at me when I reach to stroke the satiny, teal fabric of one of the rejects. Alexander, her stylist, is clasping the matching necklace around her neck. The giant, teardrop diamonds she has dangling from her ears look too big to be real, but they probably are. Not like the frizzy, messy bun I’m sporting, but you know, nice. Her platinum hair is twisted into a knot at the base of her neck. Mom’s size six figure is wrapped in Spanx because she thinks she’s getting fat and poured into a long, pewter sheath that flows over her molded curves like liquid metal. The bed is strewn with rejected gowns, and empty hangers dangle from the wardrobe rack that Alexander brought over. I pad down the hall and poke my head in my mother’s room, gagging on the scent of hairspray and Chanel N★. I can’t go onstage looking like this, and I’m totally clueless when it comes to that kind of thing. It’s not like I’m going to the Golden Globes. Of course, I had to wait till she was done with them. There is a fairy godmother, of sorts, but she’s been tied up with my mother and sister all afternoon while I’ve been practicing my lines, patiently (or maybe not so) waiting for my turn. I squeak and check my appearance in the mirror like I’m hoping maybe a fairy godmother came while I wasn’t paying attention and Poof! turned me into a princess. Somebody remind me why I decided to do this? “The limo will be here in 30 minutes!” Dad announces from downstairs, and my stomach turns into a gelatinous pile of goo. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Rather than use a trademark symbol with every occurrence of a trademarked name, names are used in an editorial fashion, with no intention of infringement of the respective owner’s trademark. Trademarked names appear throughout this book. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except in the case of a reviewer, who may quote brief passages embodied in critical articles or in a review.
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