The Hearty Mini Dress (now available in pink) [Wednesday]
I know this is my own post but like hear me out:
Wednesday is investigating something alone that she really, really shouldn't be and her clothes get nuked. Mud, someone else's blood, torn to the skin at almost every seam. Torn to the point that if the Sherriff arrested her for public indecency – even with his grudge against her – no one really would have been able to say it wasn’t justified.
A clearly outcast goth teenager who looks like her clothes were finely minced and julienned before she put them on? No one is letting her in their store. Except one – Hawte Kewture.
The woman working there feels awful for this poor girl. Wednesday doesn’t exactly correct her when she assumes that Wednesday has been attacked by some other unsavoury outcast. Wednesday even manages a distraught-sounding sob.
And hey, it was just dance season and in a small town they don’t carry a huge surplus of stock at a formal dress store. They only have a few dresses and the only one Wednesday has enough cash on hand for and that wasn’t 3 sizes too small, is an absolute monstrosity.
Still, Wednesday cannot lie, the way this perfect stranger told her she looked like a girl that men would die for was kind of nice. Still, she would be burning this dress as soon as possible. She just had to wear it through town and to her dorm room. Pugsley had left a grenade on Family Day, and she couldn’t think of a better use for it that sending this dress off to hell.
The flush of pleasure at that thought caught the eye of the woman, who leant Wednesday some makeup wipes to help her clean up a little more and reassured her that she looked beautiful.
It meant more when Tyler had said it.
After parting with almost all her on-hand cash, Wednesday threw the remnants of her uniform into the skip behind the store. Then she took a sharp turn and walked off into the woods, deciding that the extra hour of the detour was worth it to avoid even the chance of Tyler seeing her in this dress. She wouldn’t want him to think she’d been possessed by some truly wicked creature.
So, it’s nearly dark when she finally makes it back to campus.
Enid tells her that most of her ‘friends’ (the existence of which is news to Wednesday) are still out, looking for her after she had vanished. What does Enid mean that Tyler is on campus right now? Then she pauses, like everything south of Wednesday’s neck had only just caught her attention. Then, Wednesday heard Xavier exclaim from somewhere to her left.
What are you wearing?
