"Okay, so what do you think of this stuff?" Misty sprayed the perfume in the air in front of Dawn and May. They leaned forward and took in the lavender scent. "So? Should I get it?"

"Hmm, I don't know. I've always been more of a lemony-type girl. What do you think May?" Dawn turned to their brunette friend as she mulled it over.

"I'm not sure either," May responded, her head tilting to the side, like a cat deep in thought. "I like it, but I guess it's … Well, I'm not sure, but I don't think it'd be a good choice for me."

Misty shrugged and put the bottle back in the box then on the shelf with the other perfumes. Then when she looked over Dawn's shoulder she said with a grin, "Don't look now May, but Drew's right over there."

May's hand froze over a different bottle of perfume and snuck a glance behind Dawn, while the younger girl turned completely around and saying, "Hey, Drew!" She waved her arm in the air, raising her voice so they could hear her. May flipped and covered her mouth, yanking her and Misty to the floor, hiding behind the perfume shelf.

"If you do that again, I will hurt you severely," May hissed in Dawn's ear. But she just rolled her eyes. Instead of saying anything else though, she just followed behind May, stooped low to the ground so as not to be seen over the merchandise on the shelf. As they were making their way through the store, trying to be stealthy so Drew wouldn't see them, Misty grinned as she came up with an idea.

"Hey May, I dare you to go put something in the basket Drew's carrying," Misty said, pointing over the top of the aisle where Drew was standing near the back, one of the store's grocery baskets hanging from his hand.

May looked to wear Misty was pointing. Her face turned red at the prospect of having to go near Drew alone. Then she looked back at her friends, her eyes narrowing. "All right, but you two have to come with me, then Misty has to do a dare made up by me," she grinned.

Misty frowned, then nodded. "You're on."

The girls snuck through produce, then through the snack aisle until they were just one aisle away from Drew. May looked at the girls, jerking her head in Drew's direction. Misty and Dawn nodded, then tiptoed their way over to Drew. When they were close enough, Dawn tapped him on the shoulder, smiling brightly when he turned around. He grimaced and asked, "What do you want?"

"Oh, nothing. Just wanted to say hi," Dawn said, her smile widening until her cheeks hurt.

Drew raised an eyebrow. "So …?"

Dawn waved. "Hi!"

Misty rolled her eyes and shook her head. All the while, May was slipping around the end of the aisle, hiding behind a person's shopping cart if need be, earning her some odd looks from the shoppers. While Dawn and Misty had managed to get Drew's attention, May had run across the store to the feminine needs department, grabbing a pack of Tampons, which she was promptly going to hide in Drew's basket while he was preoccupied with the distraction Dawn and Misty were hopefully pulling off.

"So," she heard Dawn say, "how's your weekend so far? Ready for the test tomorrow in Math?"

Dawn, May thought, worst subject to even start with. Drew hated Math, or anything to do with numbers. No, he wasn't stupid or anything like that, he just didn't see the need to learn about polynomials and integers, and all the the stuff that included numbers that they were being taught in their Mathematics class.

Drew's eyes narrowed. "If you didn't know, I see no point in learning anything about those polynomials and integers that man you call a teacher is "teaching" us. So no, you can consider me "unready" for the test."

Knew it, May thought smugly. She took the moment as her chance, sneaking up behind Drew and placing the Tampons among what Drew had already picked up. Unfortunately for her, she wasn't able to look at what he had because Dawn started to panic because Misty (who was also panicking) wasn't helping her keep up their distraction, and she had nothing else to say that she could think of, so May ran lightly back down the aisle she had come from, then turned around about halfway and started walking back toward her panicky friends, their last hope in keeping them from blowing their cover.

"Hey guys! Why did you wander off without me?" May faux asked as she rounded the corner where the three were standing. Drew turned around and over his shoulder Dawn shot her a grateful look. "Oh, hi Drew," May said as nonchalantly as she could, giving away her embarrassment by her face reddening unintentionally because of their close proximity.

Drew noticed this and grinned. Just to make her more uncomfortable, he took a step closer to her, May taking one step back. This just seemed to please Drew even more, his grin turning into a smirk. He feels satisfied with making me uneasy, she thought, peeved. Her face now reddened in anger as she stood up straighter, looking the green-haired boy in the eye, steady blue to amused green. "Come on girls, let's get out of here before I do something stupid." Like trying to hit him across the face, she finished mentally. She promptly turned on her heel and started walking away, knowing Dawn and Misty would follow shortly behind, not wanting to be left with Drew.

They left Drew there smirking, but not for long, for when he went to check-out and the cash register saw the Tampons in his basket, she tried not to laugh because that would be rude. Drew noticed her face, then looked down at his basket, his face turning red when he saw the Tampons, then he yelled, "MAY!" which caused the three friends to run through the back entrance cackling.

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