Emma giggled as she glanced at the photo the camera had just dispensed, spotting the bunny ears Lexi had put up behind Emma’s sister Gloria and Tina’s heads. Tina had turned around, meanwhile, and swatted at Lexi’s hand. “Really? You had to mess up the photo?” She groaned.
Emma interjected “It actually looks pretty decent, come take a look!” and the other girls crowded around her. The photo showed four girls smiling at the camera. The color contrast and lighting was actually really good, surprisingly so for a photo taken with an old camera in the mall during the middle of the day. Emma would have had to go through, like, six different filters on her phone to get the same kind of result on Instagram.
The photo showed her older sister, Gloria, on the far left. Gloria, like all her friends, was 21, a senior at the local college, and(although Emma would never admit it) incredibly pretty, just like all her friends. With her platinum blonde hair and big blue eyes, Gloria had cast a long shadow at their high school, and Emma had always felt herself being judged by the standards(and rumors) her sister had set. She was wearing a pink top and a shirt skirt, and nodded approvingly when she saw the photo.
Next to Gloria was Tina. She had long, dark hair, a product of her Cuban ancestry, and wore an Aerosmith t-shirt with jeans. Tina and Lexi had met Gloria and Jessica at incoming freshman orientation and they’d all hit it off right away, discovering that they all lived within a thirty minute drive of each other. Tina was also deeply in love with her boyfriend Sergio, a medical student doing his residency at the town hospital. She only briefly glanced over at the camera, immediately going back to her phone to text her boyfriend. Apparently he’d canceled their date tonight it, saying he was swamped with work at the hospital and had to work late, and she wasn’t real happy about it.
In the middle was Lexi, a mischievous grin on her face as she held up bunny ears behind her friends’ back. She was wearing a camouflage tank top and jean shorts, her auburn hair pulled up into a ponytail. Lexi was a bit of a prankster and enjoyed teasing her friends, but she knew when she was going too far with it, which stopped her from annoying her friends...too much, anyway. She grinned as she saw that she’d timed it perfectly.
Finally, on the far right was Jessica. She had curly blonde hair and was wearing a green shirt and a white skirt. She also had a pair of sunglasses perched on top of her head. Jessica was looking around the room with a bit of a dazed look on her face, which Rhianna quickly noticed. “Hey Jessica, are you, like, feeling okay?” She asked.
“Oh....yeah. Just confused for a second I guess?” Jessica replied with a giggle.
Having taken the photo of Gloria and her friends, the girls decided....