Hellooooooo Readers! ;D

For those of you who have come here from my story, "The Three L's," searching for the new and uptaded version, go no further! This is it! Although it follows similiarly to the beginning of "The Three L's," I assure you, it's going to be different:)

Special thanks to all my faithful readers . . . Butter4Evaz, FrostDragon Boy 318, LloydxSunny, Boogalee99, FoundmyIpod (hahaha, don't know who you really are . . . so, lol), sexyandiknowitninjagirl, Nightfrightpony, and iluvninjagothenextstepgirl, to whom I would have never continued "The Three L's" past chapter 1 without their support! Aaaand would have never posted THIS story in an attempt to fix my old one (grins sheepishly).

Have fun reading^^

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-Lifehouse feat. Natasha Bedingfield

Look around,

There's no one but you and me,

Right here and now,

The way it was meant to be.

"Jade, really?" A feminine voice teasingly chastised. "It's just the first season of Ninjago."

Celery green eyes nearly bugged out of her skull, disbelief etched all over Jade's face. She sputtered once, twice, before she said, "Just "the first season of Ninjago"? She used air quotes, her brow quirking up incredulity. "Who's the one with the crush on Zane, Lizzy?"

"Hey," Lizzy shot back, a sharp gleam entering her eyes. "At least I don't have a crush on the kid." She flicked her honey blonde hair over her shoulder, grinning cheekily. "You're such a pediphile, I can't believe we're friends."

"Oh shut up nindroid lover," Jade snapped back, a small smile tugging at her lips. "He became older with that tea, remember?"

Lizzy rolled her hazel eyes playfully. "Because, you know, that's so much better."

"It is!" Jade cried out defensively.

The honey blonde hair beauty shook her head, "You think so? A kid in an adult's body?" She ran her finger over a movie shelf, nodding sarcastically. "You're right, Jade. It sounds better when I say it outloud."

"Hmph," Jade grumbled, crossing her arms over her chest. "You always manage to make things sound horrible. You know that?"

"It's called, reality. Want me to get you some?"

"Now you're just being mean," Jade pouted, her bottom lip poking out slightly.

She shrugged, finally picking up a movie, "Only because I love you."

Jade watch Lizzy put the movie back before choosing a second one, eyeing it critically. "That doesn't mean you need to be mean to me the whole time."

Lizzy secretly grinned behind her curtain of hair that had fallen forward as she grabbed a third movie. Jade really had no idea how fun it was to push her buttons, "Well, if it honestly upset you, you wouldn't be here with me today."

"Says the girl who didn't want to get her butt out of bed this morning," Jade said, giving her friend a wry smile.

"That's because you kept me awake, making me watch all the Ninjago episodes that have come out on youtube so far, genius," Lizzy snorted, idly touching her puffy eyes covered by a pound of make-up. "I didn't get bags under my eyes from sleeping."

"Right . . . it wasn't because you wanted to watch them with me. I made you." Jade began to wave her arms around menacingly. "Ooo! Better watch out Lizzy, I just might make you buy that movie you're holding in your hands- bibbity bobbity boo!" She said sarcastically, rolling her eyes.

At her words, Lizzy stood straight up, her eyes glossing over. Slowly, she began to walk down the aisle, albeit stiffly at first, carrying a DVD case in her right hand, "Must . . . obey . . . must . . . obey . . ."

Jade laughed at Lizzy's attempt at being a robot, "Okay Einstein."

Lizzy stopped and tossed a smile over her shoulders, giggling, "Aw, come on Jade! That deserved an applause."

To accommodate her, Jade clapped her hands. Moving them in a circle as she gave Lizzy a "round of applause". "Bravo! Bravo, Liz the Magnificent!"

"Now who's the Einstein, wisecrack? Come on, let's go."

"Wait, you're really buying the movie I told you to buy?" asked Jade, recoiling from her friend slightly. "Do you even know what you're holding in your hands?"

Hazel eyes glanced down briefly at the DVD case, "Yeah . . . what? What's wrong with it?"

"Nothing," Jade said, holding her hands up. "You're right, let's just go."

"What?" Lizzy asked confused, following her dark haired friend to the checkout aisles.

But Jade wouldn't answer. She kept her lips pursed tightly, as if doing so could keep herself from Lizzy's prying gaze. Suddenly, the lights in the store flickered off and on. Off and on. Off and on.

The hair rose on both girl's neck as they heard a little girl's wail a couple of aisles away, scared by the flickering lights. Seconds later, a baby's cry joined in. Next thing the two friends knew, a lady's voice was on the store's speaker, giving an announcement.

"Shoppers, we apologize for this inconveni-"

But she never got to finish. Instead, the store's power went out. Instantly shoppers could be heard crying out and giving exclamations of surprise. Jade and Lizzy couldn't see each other, let alone their hands right in front of their face. Startled, they bumped into each other, and promptly fell on their bums.

"Ow, Jade . . . "

"What? You bumped into me Lizzy!"

"It was my foot you stepped on, Jade."

"You grabbed onto me!"

A voice in the next aisle, distinctively male, shouted at the two friends, "SHUT UP! Who cares who fell on who!"

Lizzy and Jade felt there cheeks flush in embarrassment. But it was Lizzy who gave the man a piece of her mind, "We weren't even talking that loud!"

"You talk like a deaf woman . . . woman!"

Lizzy grumbled under her breath, mumbling something about a "clever" comeback when a chill suddenly wafted through the store. It came like death- silent, cold, and bitter. Even the air hurt to breath.

"The hunt is on," a raspy voice echoed through the store's darkness. "We're coming for you Jade and Elizabeth . . . we're coming."

The two friend's mouths were agape. What- how- who-? The whole store erupted into shrill screams from the threat and carts could be heard crashing into each other as customers tried to find their way out through the front doors. The children's cries were louder now, bouncing down aisles, vibrating their voices.

"We're coming for you."

The lights turned back on.

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