In a little town of Little Flower, Maine lives five best friends by the names of AJ Thomas, Mandy Ramirez, Mauricia Jones, Molly Perkins and Jenna Dale. These girls were inseparable and one day their whole world changed. One dark and stormy Friday night A.J. Thomas was sitting in her room attempting to do her calculus homework, when suddenly her cell phone beeped. She reached over to check it, to find out she had received a text message from her best friend Mandy Ramirez. The text said "hey girl wyd tomorrow?" A.J. unlocked her phone to type out a response. Due to the rain going on outside a flash of lightning caused the lights in her house to go out. She screamed and started panicking. She was always afraid of lightning. The lights came back on and she had received a response from Mandy "we should go to the mall, Totally Cute is having a sale and I need new skirts" A.J. smiled and ran downstairs to ask her parents if she could go. Her mother was in the kitchen getting dinner set up. A.J walked in "mom do you have a minute?" "Why do you always come in here to talk to me whenever I'm busy!" her mother said. A.J. had look of disappointment on her face and said "I'm sorry, I was just going to ask if I could go to the mall with Mandy tomorrow" her mother threw the pan on the counter and yelled "WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS GOING TO THE MALL? YOU KNOW WE DON'T HAVE MUCH MONEY!" A.J. calmly said "but YOU'RE the one giving me money every time. I don't need money you know!" Her mother said " going out requires money! You can't just go anywhere you feel like without a penny in your pocket." "yes I can!" A.J. snapped back. "enough with this conversation. You are not going to the mall tomorrow. Now go finish your homework." AJ turned around and stormed up the stairs " AND BY THE WAY I'M GOING TO THE MALL TOMORROW" she stomped into her room and grabbed her phone to text Mandy. She responded almost immediately "awesome! See you tomorrow girly". A.J. plugged in her phone to charge and went to sleep. The next day A.J. got up at nine o clock to get ready to go to the mall with Mandy. She hopped in the shower and made herself some breakfast. Her parents were still asleep, A.J. took a peep in her parents room whispered goodbye and closed the door. A.J. walked back into her room and grabbed her cell phone, she called Mandy to tell her to come get her. 10 minutes later Mandy beeped her car horn to alert A.J., she ran out of the house and hopped in the front seat of Mandy's Magenta Jaguar Convertible. They sped off to the mall. The girls finally arrived at the mall when A.J. spotted a tall dark figure with sunglasses, she pointed him out to Mandy. Mandy said " whoa, talk about mysterious" Overhearing Mandy's comment the tall figure nodded at the two girls and kept walking. They both giggled and ran inside. The mysterious man decided to follow them through out their mall adventure. While AJ was standing in line at the hot dog cart she noticed the mysterious man through the corner of her eye. She gave him a half smile and darted off the line, he ran after her. AJ was running so fast she didn't even notice the jewelry cart in front of her, she crashed into it and fell to the floor. The manager of the cart yelled "MY CART! UGH YOU LITTLE BRAT! COME HELP ME CLEAN THIS UP!" AJ noticed the guy still running after her and got up and ran, "I'M SO SORRY" she yelled while she ran. The mysterious man was still running after her, he was really catching up to her. AJ started looking for something to get him off her tail. She spotted Mandy by the iPhone case cart and made her way towards the cart. Mandy said "hey girl, why are you running so fast?" AJ said "hey no time. Mysterious guy is running after me, I need to get him off my tail, quick hand me a few phone cases." Mandy gave her a handful of phone cases and AJ threw them on the floor by the mysterious guy. He tripped on the cases and tumbled to the ground. AJ and Mandy ran towards him. AJ said "hey! Why have you been following me all day! What's the deal!" The mysterious man said "I can't talk here but I need you to meet me on the rooftop of the Daily Buzz building at midnight." Aj looked at Mandy and said "uh okay I guess." The man said "great" as he got up and shook both of their hands. He left the mall. Aj said "well today was surely an eventful day" Mandy nodded in agreement and the girls decided to walk back to her car. Aj said "wait, Mandy. Do you hear like a ticking noise?" Mandy shook her head no. AJ said "do NOT get in the car!" Mandy said "but why I want to go home!" AJ said " I know, so do I but do NOT get in the car I'm serious. Just back away!" Mandy started walking towards the car. AJ yelled "NOOO MANDY GET BACK!" Suddenly the car exploded just as Mandy opened the door. The force of the explosion sent Mandy flying into AJ. The girls fell over and Mandy said "wow I really should have listened to you" AJ said "yeah but the important thing is that you're okay, but who put the bomb in your car?" "Mandy said "maybe it was the creepy guy we kept running into today." The girls got up to dust themselves off, AJ said "but why did he want to meet us at midnight?" Mandy said "I don't know but I have a few questions for him!" Aj nodded in agreement. Mandy said "wait a minute how are we going to get home? AJ said "wait, we're right by the mall so maybe we can crash at Mauricia's house?" Mandy said "oh yeah her house is down the block. Let's go." The girls started walking towards Mauricia's house. The mysterious man was watching AJ and Mandy from a rooftop near by and smiled down upon them. He knew there was something special about them.
