Prologue

Jude skated to his table right next to The Big Squeeze. As usual, he was the last one there. But this time Jude had news.

"Dudes! Remember the electronics and comics store Lightning Round, I saw a girl there! Working!" He mused. None of the girls at the table looked impressed, but Jude's main man Jonesy was all ears.

"Wait working like playing video games and or waiting on costumers or working as in working"

"The first one bro. I was gonna say hi, but she was with costumer."

"Is she hot?" Jonesy asked ignoring Jude's words.

"I didn't get a good look at her. You wanna go check her out."

"Let's go my man." So the two boys were on their way to Lightning Round. When they arrived, the girl Jude saw was attaching wheels to her "The Flash" converse. She had long champagne blonde hair in a ponytail and her teal bangs were braided. She was wearing a neon pink tank top and acid wash denim shorts. Her hazel eyes were rounded by pewter eyeliner and mascara. It was obvious how happy she was to be done with her shift.

The girl looked up from her feet at the two boys.

"Um. My shifts over, the Marvel's over there DC's over there, Videogames to the left, anything else ask Tomcat over there because I'm on for lunch."

"Wait, you really do work here and you're a girl?" Jonesy asked the girl.

She rolled her eyes and didn't respond.

"I saw you playing Timesplicers Destiny Perfect earlier. You were playing with the gingerbread man right?"

The girl smiled, "Yes. He's my favorite. I have free Vomit Comet passes; you guys wanna ride with me? By the way, I'm Andi. You guys are Jude Lizowski and Jonesy Garcia. We were voted biggest pranksters back in freshman year. I was a brunette back then."

"Wait, you're the one that let the crickets in Lindall's room aren't you?" Jonesy asked in shock. Without a word Andi nodded in reply.

"Suh-weeet!" Jude accented his one word sentence with a skater accent. The new friends walked off to the Vomit Comet entrance, ready to ride until they…. Well vomited.

Chapter One: We've Got Gadgets And Gizmos A Plenty

Andi's Point of View

I woke up in the morning, my stomach feeling oh so relieved after yesterday's endeavors. The only thing dragging me out of bed was the hope that I'd see the two boys again. I had taught Jonesy some tricks to pick up girls, and they had taught me how to vomit on the Vomit Comet without blowing chunks on me. I crimped my colored hair and put on an oversized GIR t-shirt and black leggings. As usual I had on my Flash Converse with the roller-skate add-ons. I put on my usual make up and was out the door.

I opened the shop up and sat down at my bean bag chair of a desk. I turned on the store's Game Prism and began to play Shario Fare Inc. It was a Thursday so not many people showed up. But at 12:25 right before the end of my shift, Jude showed up.

"Hey Bra, you go on break in 5 right?"

I nodded once again.

"Do you know where The Big Squeeze is, meet me there in 5." I nodded and he skated away. After like 10 minutes and 15 costumers I was on my way to the giant lemon in the food court. I saw a group of 6 teenagers, Jude and Jonesy included.

I awkwardly skated up to the table.

"Hi I'm Andi," I looked at the girl with purple hair whose name I remembered to be Nikki, "I love your Rods and Rings. Where'd you get them done?"

"Rods Rings Needles and Things." She deadpanned.

"Hehe thanks." I replied with a smile.

"Dudes we still on for the movie about the singing and slashing barber from Europe?" Jude asked his group of friends.

"I don't know why we wouldn't be. And will Andi be joining us?" Jonesy replied.

"Definitely, that movie looks like a work of art."

"I'll pick you up at 8." Jonesy said winking.

"Text me. Now I'm gonna go to Wonder Taco and then back to work. See you guys soon." I waved and then skated away.

When I got back to Lightning Round, Tomcat told me I had the day off due to overstaffing. I decided to go to the piercing shop. Luckily it was a Canadian mall so they didn't ask for my age. I got a lip ring, (bottom lip to the left) a nose ring, a Madonna piercing and made a tattoo appointment the next week.

After I was out, I went back to Lightning Round. This was a good thing, because they were understaffed and totally need my swollen face to help. I didn't even have time to take off my skates. And in retrospect, this probably helped more than hurt. Before skating to the center, I pulled my Deadpool lanyard with my store ID on it out of my pocket. It didn't matter what Tomcat said, I was working.

I plugged my uPod into my Mystic Shooter portable speaker and began to play the instrumental of Cloud Sugarsum's cover of "Part Of Your World"

When the time came, I began to sing, "Look at our stuff, isn't it neat? Don't you want your collection complete? Dont you wanna be the one, the one who was everything. Look at this trove. Treasures untold how many wonders can a mall store hold. Looking around you might think, sure we don't have we've got gadgets and gizmos aplenty we've got Comics And Movies galore, you want Video Games we got plenty. But who cares, you want more! You wanna buy what the people buy and you want it for a low price" I think you can figure out how things went from there.

Luckily my song somehow distracted the people enough to get things orderly. I stayed to help customers until there was a reasonable ratio of staff to customer. Then I was off to The Big Squeeze.

All of my new friends were gathered, this time ready to introduce themselves, even if I'd probably already remembered their names.

"Hi," A girl with a short blonde cut said perkily, "I'm Caitlin."

"Jen," A redhead raised her hand and smiled brightly.

"Wyatt." A good looking guy with frizzy black hair and skin the color of the coffee in his hand nodded towards me.

"Nikki," the girl with piercings and purple hair gave me a half smile. "And of course you know Jude and Jonesy."

"Hi guys. Ummm I'm Andi." I replied shyly, trying not to act like a freak.

"Oh we know, Jude's told us about you." Caitilin replied still smiling.

"Not to mention we met her before she got her face pierced." Wyatt added.

I giggled at his mention of my face, which was probably a mess because of the earlier store adventure.

"And we saw her on the JumboTron. Way to Corral those customers Andi." Jen said looking at me. I didn't know anyone was videotaping that.

I gave Jen a nod of thanks, and then skated toward the Gigantoplex, silently praying no one saw me blushing. I was also kind of hoping that no one would notice me or say Hello. Because whatever happened today, would be my nickname tomorrow.