Lipstick and the Events that Followed

Ashley

This piece was written by Nicole Antoinette from More is Better.  It is an excerpt from Lipstick and the Events that Followed.

Sophie had an alter ego named Kiki who wore pink wigs and liked to flirt with disaster. The months leading up to their death were more like a fragmented sequence of movie clips than real life.  It started with red lipstick.

“Come on Sophie, come here, just let me put it on you,” Lily laughed.

“You’re nuts, that lipstick is way too dark, I’m going to look ridiculous!  I never wear colors like that!”  Sophie pulled away from her best friend and studied herself in the mirror.  Pressing her lips together, she tried to imagine being one of those girls who wore fake eyelashes and had big, pouty red lips.  Absolutely not, she thought.  But Lily persisted.

“It’s a 1920s themed party, you have to look classic and smolderingly hot, and what better way is there to do that than by having red lips?  Did Marilyn Monroe teach us nothing?”

She could always rely on Lily to use Marilyn Monroe as a means of persuasion.  Sophie had a thing for certain celebrities, not really a crush, but not really not a crush either.  Marilyn was one of them, James Dean was another; Sophie loved all things dramatic and classic, anything with a history, especially an illicit history, fascinated her.  That was why she was drawn to New York City in the first place, because she liked how everything seemed to be a combination of history and crazy.  She felt confident that something remarkable or something insane could happen at any minute, and this fueled a desperate, dizzy part of herself that she had never been able to fully satisfy before leaving Vermont.

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