2010 Kimmy Kimm & Lulu Chu Work [LATEST]

Then Lulu burst out laughing. “You look like a junior stockbroker.”

And for two girls with two names that sounded like they belonged on a bubblegum pop album, that was more than enough.

“We were the only ones who had fun,” Kimmy agreed, wiping a smear of cheese salt off her blazer. 2010 kimmy kimm & lulu chu

All they knew, in the summer of 2010, was this: they had each other’s backs, they had a terrible sense of style, and they had a song that belonged to no one but them.

But after the contest, sitting on the curb outside the mall with a shared soft pretzel, Lulu leaned her head on Kimmy’s shoulder. “We were the best, though.” Then Lulu burst out laughing

Their project that July was the mall’s “Teen Talent Meltdown,” a karaoke contest held in the atrium between a Cinnabon and a Spencer’s Gifts. They weren’t singers, but they didn’t need to be. They had a two-part harmony on “Love Story” by Taylor Swift that they’d perfected in Lulu’s basement, singing into hairbrushes while the wall-mounted AC dripped onto a pile of Seventeen magazines.

On the day of the contest, they showed up in opposite ends of the mall food court. Kimmy wore a crisp blazer over a graphic tee that said “Hustle.” Lulu wore a tie-dyed hoodie and a top hat she’d found at a thrift store. For a long, terrible minute, they just stared at each other. All they knew, in the summer of 2010,

In the hazy, glitter-glued summer of 2010, Kimmy Kimm and Lulu Chu ruled the narrow hallway of Westbrook High’s freshman wing. Not with cruelty, but with an unspoken, two-person empire built on shared ringtones and identical butterfly hair clips.