A/N: Hey! I'm back! Yeah, I really should work on chapter 7 of Magatama Tsubasa, but I promised to write this for Blue Deity a LONG time ago. So I felt bad ._. Anyway, here's 1 out of 3 drabbles that I owe Blue. The other two to come shortly. (And chapter 7 X.X Please don't have my head)

DISCLAIMER: I'm too depressing and strange to own AA...Now if you excuse me, I must go write some more.

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It was just an ordinary day like any other. Maya and Pearl had come to visit Phoenix and Maya had practically begged Phoenix to take her to the mall to "shop for new clothes because you are my boyfriend now Nick and I want cute clothes!" Whatever she meant by that was lost on the defense attorney…except for that 'boyfriend' part which somehow had convinced him to wordlessly comply and take the girls shopping.

"Hey, what about this one Nick?" Maya held up yet another purple top as Phoenix sighed deeply. If he'd known how bad 'shopping for cute clothes' was, he would've never agreed to this in a million years.

Meanwhile, Maya was still pestering him about the shirt. "Hey! Nick! Do you like this one?" Phoenix begrudgingly gave a quick glance at the purple sleeveless top and answered, "The other one was better Maya."

Maya glared at him. "Are you kidding? This is one is way cuter! WAY!"

And those were the consequences. Not answer and suffer a demanding "Do you even care?" or give his true honest opinion that "That's too skimpy Maya" or "Nah, I liked the other one" and suffer Maya arguing with him.

He gave up about an hour ago and just decided to go with an honest answer so that it wouldn't seem like not caring. It's just…shopping, boring, ugh…No wonder this was what boyfriends dreaded. On a rare occasion Maya would agree with him. Remember, this was a rare occasion.

Suddenly, it occurred to Phoenix that he hadn't seen Pearl in quite some time. Maya came out of the change room wearing a fashionable black ruffled skirt. "Ta-da! What do you think Nick?"

She twirled in a circle so he could see how it looked on her. Phoenix nodded and told her it was great which resulted in an excited squeal of "I know! I'm gonna get it okay?"

Phoenix quickly stopped her excitement and asked bluntly. "Where's Pearls? I haven't seen her around…"

Maya looked up sharply from examining the skirt and immediately called out, "Peeeeeeeaaaaaaarlllllyyyy! This better not be some kind of joke! Peeeeeeeeearlyyyy! Oh my god Nick…We lost Pearly. Ugh, what are the Elders going to say?"

Phoenix stood up and started walking to the entrance of the store. Shortly after, security guards followed and reminded him that he had to pay for Maya's skirt first, and that it was considered shoplifting to just walk out holding an item.

-2 hours later-

A very tired looking Phoenix practically ran into the book store's shoujo manga section and found exactly who he was looking for sitting happily on a beanbag chair reading volume 3 of "Ouran High School Host Club".

"Pearls!" He sighed in relief and picked up the little girl, muttering "Always stay with us, alright? Don't go off by yourself!"

Pearl looked up, puzzled at Phoenix before quickly changing the subject and pointing at the manga. "Mr. Nick! You should act more gentleman-ly like the members of the Host Club!"

Phoenix gulped. Host Club? He sighed. "Ugh, Maya's gonna kill me about this."

Just then, Maya walked from behind him and asked, "Kill you about what Nick?"

*sigh* I'll go type chapter two now. And work on Chapter 7 of MT, because Hiika-chan will kill me. ;A; My own niece/cousin. (see MT for explanation)