"I gotta get up." I mumbled to myself as I lay in bed.
"I gotta get up." I said once again.
"You gotta get up." I said. "Arg!" I said and rolled out of bed and face planted the floor. I dragged myself up and went to the bathroom. I took my shower. I came back to my room and then decided what I should wear. "What to wear, what to wear..." I said as I put a finger to my chin. "I know!" I said and pulled out a pair of black skinny jeans and a blue and white stripped t-shirt. I put a head band with a small blue bow in my shortish brown hair. I looked at myself in the mirror. "Eh, good enough." I said. I walked out my room into the kitchen where I grabbed some waffles and put them in the toaster.
"Why so pretty?" My mother asked.
"Pretty? Pffftttt!" I said and laughed. "This is anything but pretty, and don't you remember I'm going out to the mall with some friends today." I said as I poured myself a glass of milk.
"At what time?" She asked.
I looked at the clock It was ten thirty. "In five minutes." I said.
"What?" She said.
"Yeah we're meeting a couple of friends at eleven so yeah they'll be here in a bit." The waffles popped up. I took them and put peanut butter on them.
"Do you have money?" She asked.
"Yup." I said as I took a bite of my waffle. "Have you seen my shoes?" I asked as I looked around the living room.
"I'm not the one that wears them." My mom said.
"Very helpful." I said.
"I think I saw them outside." She said.
I walked out and found them sitting on a chair. I brought them back inside and glomped down the rest of my waffles and put my shoes on. Then I chugged down my milk.
"Calm down hija." My mom said.
"You're speaking Spanglish again!" I said.
She sighed and was about to say something but the horn of a car interrupted her. "That's them." I said as I hugged her and kissed her cheek. "I'll see you later!" I said and ran out the door.
"Be careful and don't go running off with some boys!" She called out.
"I know!" I said and got into the car.
"Hey buddy." Selana said.
"Heey." I said with a smile. "Thanks for the ride." I said to her mother.
"No problem." She said. We rode to the mall and we talked about what we would do there. We got there withing fifteen minutes and went into the food court. We waited there till the rest of our friends arrive. After five minutes they all arrived. We called this group 'Baka Squad'. We were going to buy some matching clothes for the first day of school.
"So what should the colors be?" Brea asked.
"I think black and white would be the best." Hannah said.
"Hhmm yeah and if you want you can add your own splash of your favorite color but no two people can wear the same color." Fay said.
"I call blue!" I said.
"Red!" Brea said.
"Green!" Selana said.
"I want purple!" Sydney said.
"I'll go with a light yellow." Fay said.
"I'll guess I'll stick with a fiery orange." Hannah said.
"Okay so now that that's done we shall go on our quest!" I said striking a pose.
"Yeah!" Brea said. Soon we all took off, first we went to the big stores. Like Belk, Sears, JCPenney, and Dillard's. There Fay and Selana picked out their outfits. Fay picked out a white summer dress with a ruffled design and a black lace shawl to go over it. Selana picked out a white t-shirt with white flowers on it and a black jean shorts.
"Okay two down! Three to go!" Brea said.
"Where to next?" I asked.
"Hot topic!" Hannah said. We headed to Hot Topic where Brea and Hannah found their clothes. Brea found a black shirt with white hearts all over it and a black flared skirt. Hannah got a white t-shirt with a black smiley face; she said she had pant to go with them. So she bought a bracelet with a fire design on it.
"Alright Addie you're the last one left, we don't have all day so come on and hurry up." Hannah said.
"You can't rush beauty!" I exclaimed.
"Come on child." Selana said as she led me into another store.
"How about this dress!" Brea said holding out the girliest dress I've ever seen.
I glared at her but she continued to smile. "I will bite you." I said. I walked out the store.
"Let's go to Forever 21." Fay suggested. "It's the only store we haven't visited."
"We have a Forever 21?" I asked as I tilted my head.
"Yup, now come one!" Brea said as she grabbed me and dragged me across the mall to the store. She then grabbed all sorts of clothes, gave them to me and pushed me into the changing rooms.
"What just happened?" I said to myself.
"Just hurry up and change!" Brea said.
"I'm going!" I said as I began to strip down. I picked the first thing on the pile, it was the girly dress. "BREA! I'm not wearing thins infernal thing!" I said.
I heard laughter on the other side of the door. I sighed and put that away and picked another. It wasn't till then that I realized that everything in the pile was either pink or more pink. "BREA!" I said even louder as I burst out the changing room.
She didn't expect to burst out so she ran into a pole in the proceeds of trying to run away. "Pole!" she said as she slid down to the ground.
I grabbed her and sat her up. "I'll kill you."
"Please don't, I like living." She said.
"Exactly." I said with an evil smile.
"Hey Addie!" Selana called.
"Huh?" I said as I turned to face her.
"Look at this." She said as she held out a pair of black skinny jeans with several pockets on it. I love pockets.
"Pockets!" I said as I snatched the pants out her hands went back into the changing room and came out a minute later in the pants. "What you guys think? Sexy right?" I said and struck a model pose. They all cheered. "Alright and now I need a white shirt with pockets..." I said and went back into the changing room. I put my clothes back on and began to roam around the store. "Gaspeth! This! This!" I said as I took a white sleeveless hoddie with black stripes on it and pockets! I ran into the changing room and put on the pants and hoddie. I walked out striking a model pose once again. "I'm sexy and I know it!" I sang.
The others cheered at me finally choosing out something to wear.
"Now go an and pay for it before we die of hunger." Brea said and pushed me back into the changing rooms. I changed back to my clothes and paid for my new clothes. Afterwards we headed to the food court. We decided to take up the giant circular table in the middle of the food court. We all sat with one seat in between us just to take up space.
"Oh! Oh! Who wants to go to Fye!?" I asked. "They has anime stuff we can look at!" I said.
"I'm in!" Brea said.
"But we has no money." Fay said.
"Who doesn't have money?" I said. "I do... for a change."
"We can still go even if we don't have money, you know just look at stuff." Selana said.
"Yeah and then we can cry over it." Hannah said.
"Yeah!" Me and Brea said. After we finished eating we all wandered into Fye. First we looked at the graphic tees.
"Oh I have one of these!" I said as I pointed at the shirt with Len and Ren on it. (They're Vocaloids for you clueless children :D).
"Lucky." Selana said.
"Very." I said with a smile. I then wandered to the section where they had all the Anime plush toys. "Oh mer goshes! It's a Ichigo!" I said as practically ripped of the hook. "He shall be my Ichigo and mine only." I said. I looked back and some other characters. "It's a Sebastian!" I said I took that one off the hook. "And a Kakashi!" I said. Each time I can here they would have different characters on stock. I've been able to get one and that was a gift, it's a Ciel plush. After freaking out over all the stuff they told me I had to hurry up and pick one because we were about to leave.
"Come on Addie!" Selana said as she tried to drag me away.
"No! Wait let me get on thing." I said.
"Fine." She said and let me go. I stood in front of the plushies. "hhhhmmm." I said as I tried to decide. "Sebastian or Ichigo?" I said as I looked between them. I picked them both and examined them closely. The Ichigo Plushie was holding Zangetsu over his shoulder and had that little smirk face on that I adored. The Sebastian pulshie was dressed in a pink cow outfit with that annoyed smiled face, it was adorable beyond adorable. I didn't know which one to pick.
"Come on Addie!" Hannah yelled.
"Uhm... Uhm..." I said.
"Addie!" Selana said.
"You have five seconds or we're leaving you here." Brea said.
I made a last second decision and went with the Ichigo plushie. "Okay, okay! I'm going! Jeez!" I said as I marched up to the cashier and payed for the plushie. When we walked out of the mall it was already evening. I didn't realize how fast time went by. We all said our goodbyes and went our separate ways, well when our rides got here. I hitched a ride with Selana back home.
"Today was fun." I said.
"Yes, yes it was." She said. There was a bit of silence. "So are you ready to wake up early tomorrow?"
"Nope but you know it's better than band camp." I said.
"Mmmhhhmmm." She said. "Well at least we'll get to eat food."
"I liek food." I said.
"Everyone does."
"Haven't met someone who doesn't but I did meat a girl who didn't like candy. Poor child." I said and shook my head.
"What kind of person doesn't like candy?" She asked.
"Apparently her." I said.
"Oh lemme see your plushie." She said and pointed at the bag.
"Sure." I said as I took out the plushie out the bag and handed it to her.
She looked at it with a serious face then poked it. "hhhhheeeee~~~ it's soo cute." She said.
"No you're not allowed to call him cute." I said and glared at her.
"Whyyy?" she whined.
"Because you don't watch or read Bleach." I said and the plush back.
"Mean~" She said.
"And proud." I said with a smile. Finally I arrived home and I thanked them for the ride. I knocked on the door a couple million times before the door opened. "Hola mami." I said as I went in the house.
"How did it go?" She asked.
"It was fun, I got clothes." I said.
"Really can I see?" She asked.
"You'll see them tomorrow but for now I want to go to bed." I said as I dragged myself to my bed.
"Okay, buenas noches." She said.
"Night." I said I closed my door and switched the light on. I changed in my pjs which consisted of a baggy t-shirt and some shorts. I laid down in bed and held the plush toy up and looked at it in the dark. I sighed and snuggled with it and rolled to face the window. I looked up at the stars and saw the one that I claimed as my lucky star. It was a very small one, but it was bright, it was just under the moon. I remember why I picked it.
When my dad lived with us we would go look at the stars and he would tell me "If you wish on a star it will come true but it has to be a star that calls out to you." I would look up at the sky trying to listen for them to actually call me. "I can't hear them." I would say. "Well then just wait." He would say. A moment of silence would pass until he spoke again. "You see that small star." and I would strain my eyes to see it."It reminds me of you." I looked at him with a confused expression. "How?" I would ask. "Well it's smaller than the others but it outshines them. Just like you. You might not be the tallest in your class but you show them out anyway." He would gaze up at the stars and I would watch him. "Daddy you're weird ." I would say not understanding him. He would laugh and hug me "And you're a cow girl." he said. "No I'm not!" I said. He let go of me and out a finger to his chin. "That's right! You're just a girl who looks like a cow." He said. "Daddy!" I said.
I smiled at the memory. I looked at my little Ichigo plushie again and cuddled it. "If you were real maybe you could take my pain away." I mumbled as I drifted to sleep. "I wish you would become real."
That night it the star shone brighter any other night.
It wouldn't be till the next morning that she would realize that what she was told was true