An old friend from high school

"Kayla!?" Lauren was shocked.

She had not been expecting anyone, but she had especially not been expecting her old friend Kayla to be at her door. Kayla had been Lauren's best friend for years until she moved their sophomore year of high school and lost touch.

The Kayla before Lauren now stood at approximately 5'6" with 2inch heels on. She hadn't really grown much in height since sophomore year, and she was definitely short, but in a cute, feminine way. She was nowhere near as short as Lauren's 5'0" that's for sure, and in her heels it wasn't really noticeable anyway.

A defining characteristic of Kayla was her thinness --she had always been quite skinny. In junior high when Lauren and Kayla met, Lauren had started wearing training bras, while Kayla remained flat chested. In 8th grade, Lauren still only needed the training bras but fed up with her lack of development she started wearing padded bras as Kayla naturally blossomed to an A-Cup, that freshmen year gradually became a 32C and rivaled Lauren's fake chest.

"Lauren!" Kayla exclaimed back and immediately stepped forward to embrace her. Lauren didn't give this much thought until Kayla's chest was pressed against her cheek due to their height difference. In a way this was a good thing because if they were of equal height their chests would be pressed against each others and it would be obvious how lacking hers was in comparison. However, it really made Lauren very conscious of the fact she was only in a towel.

"This is crazy, and I can't believe after all this time you're at my doorstep! It's great to see you and we have so much to talk about...just let me go get dressed very quickly, I had been taking a bath." She gestured for Kayla to come in and closed the door behind her. "Make yourself at home and I'll be right back!"

Except Kayla started following her and said, "Oh don't be silly! I'll talk to you while you get dressed. My plane literally just landed forty minutes ago and I came straight here to see you. I just couldn't wait. I'm so glad you were home. I would have been absolutely crushed if I missed you."

Lauren stopped and took a moment to really take Kayla's appearance in. It had been so long since she saw her last. Her short, dark hair seemed to be styled differently. Maybe she had gotten it layered. It was hard to tell because she had it curled, which wasn't typical of the Kayla she remembered. She did look very nice with it. Truly, it suited her. It also seemed she'd gotten more refined in her makeup application since they saw each other last. Kayla used to apply really thick eyeliner, but her look today was much more subtle and mature, and it gave her deeply dark brown eyes a certain gleam.

"I love what you're doing with your hair these days, by the way." Lauren said as she started walking towards the bathroom again. She figured Kayla would just wait outside the door.