Girl Power

I know!!! I haven't updated in the longest time…but school and life have been so packed. I haven't had a peaceful day in weeks! BUT now Im sick, so no more going out…I can't even talk anymore…yea..I lost my voice. So know I have all the time in the world to update. That's pretty much all I do lol; sleep, cough and update. :)

Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight.

Chapter 4: Friday Night Shopping

Thursday night we received no creepy phone calls or letters, so we decided on not calling the police. We enjoyed our evening in a pizza place with out closest friends- Scarlett, Melanie, Angela and her boyfriend Fred (our number one guy friend). We joked around and I felt as if our 'secret admirers'-or anything besides this night mattered. School went by uneventful; lunch was rather quiet- no more letters. But as I sat in lecture hall #5 listening to our Medical and Health Science professor drone on and on about the side effects of giving a diabetic patient a normal meal while they had a pancreatic infection, my pocket-or most likely my cell phone- buzzed. It read:

Let's hit the shop after classes :)

-The Queen

I rolled my eyes- how does Rose come up with these signatures? I asked myself. Wait! If we shop that there will be a mall, which means Alice will go mad, which means she'll buy lots of clothes, which means only one thing…oh no! Bella the human Barbie! That thought stopped me dead on my tracks.

Unlike my very fashionable roommates, I detested to shop- or anything to do with word for that matter. And over these past few months I've learned to dislike it even more. I have been dragged time after time to the mall and been bought many expensive and unnecessary items. They have made me try on countless outfits. Every single time I have tried to rebel, but they can be so persuasive!

Maybe I should hide, Im sure they can take care of everything without my help and if I hide long enough they'll forget; I would only slow them down anyway. I thought to myself with a spec of hope as I started to devise my plan.

I was lost in thought when two tiny, pale hands pushed into a canary yellow porch. So much for hiding, I thought bitterly.

"Ready to shop till we drop, girls?" Alice chirped joyously once she sat in the driver's seat.

"You know it" Rose answered excitedly- she had shotgun.

I only grumbled a few complaints that myself couldn't even understand.

Let's look at the positives, I bargained with myself. One, Alice was thankfully at the wheel. Not that she drove at an acceptable speed, but at least it wasn't Rose. She is a maniac at the wheel; however, Alice kept the speed UNDER 100 mph. We arrived at our destination in no time, but it wasn't the mall…we had arrived at Target.

"Girls, we are here on a mission" Alice said in a serious tone.

"Um…Alice?" I started a little confused; so we're not going to torture Bella?

"Silence, Clumsy Lamb" Alice shushed. "I am not Alice, I am Commander Shopaholic. And this is The Queen. We need to use codenames to keep our cover; operation Thong is about to commence."

Alice was always an oddball and always invented the weirdest games- Rose once said she was just like her older brother...what was his name Emmy, Emmett, Eli; it was something with an E.

Anyway, I decided to just play along; who knows? Maybe it'll be fun.

"Clumsy Lamb, you are our strongest soldier. You are the only one that won't get distracted by the shiny things, so you will be getting all the chips cookies and dip; that is next to the make-up aisle and adjacent to the women's section."- She turned to face Rose- "The Queen, you will be getting that plastic forks, plastic wrap, and toilet paper for our…future mission. And I, unfortunately the weakest link, will get a cart will be picking you up from your stations."

After she explained 'Operation…Thong' to us we made a circle, put our hands in the middle- "ready? Break!"- We threw our hands in the air and separated to our different destinations.

Alice was right, the make-up and women's department held no interest to me. The food, however, had a different effect on me. The aisles were full of different types of chips: spicy Italian, sour cream and onions, classic and wavy and SO much more…Next to the chips was the candy! Oh my gosh! The Gummy Bears, and Sour Gummy Worms, and Gummy Worms, Milkyways, Skittles, Jelly Beans, Starbursts, Twix, Reuses Pieces! Oh my! The cookies and sugary drinks. Alice forgot to tell me to get the liquid candy, how dare she? Maybe she did say something about soda…

Just looking at the treats got me all hyped up. I runned up and down the aisle; I had a little trouble on what to choose first.

"Clumsy Lamb, stop running up and down the aisle like a little freak and get out treats. I'm becoming weak- must get shiny things" Alice- I mean Commander Shopaholic said.

I grabbed as many chips run to the cart and dumped it in the cart. I proceeded to get double the candy and gummy treats. Then I grabbed three six soda packs of Root Beer- my favorite-, Orange soda- Alice's favorite-, and Black Cherry Cream soda- Rosalie's favorite.

"Come back Commander! Stay away from the shiny things!" I run to her and pulled her away from the lip-gloss spot. "Let's pick up Ros-" Commander Shopaholic gave me a death glare and I instantly corrected myself. "I mean The Queen." She can be so menacing sometimes.

"Alright, come Clumsy Lamb!"

I get the feeling she just likes calling me that…

We runed to the aisle where The Queen was getting our 'mission gadgets'- as the Commander put it. We saw her run to us with her arms full of plastic fork boxes, plastic wrap but no toilet paper.

"I am too weak! I am too weak" The Queen yelled as she came to us with her eyes closed- she was really getting in character. We looked at her, she saw our questioning looks and explained. "The aisle next to this one is the accessories aisle and the toilet paper is all the way down."

"How are we going to get the toilet paper?" Commander Shopaholic asked in distress.

"Um…we could get it from Fred…?" I said.

"Great idea, Clumsy Lamb" The Queen praised.

"Time for operation Starbucks" Commander Shopaholic said.

I remember when we first met Fred, we met him during lunch one day when he was about to fight the sleazebag we call Mike- apparently he had said a few inappropriate things about our friends Melanie. We pulled him off of Mike and instantly became friends he is the funniest guy ever- with the brightest smile. He is also a great listener and would give awesome advice. Once he told us why he fought Mike and we knew instantly he liked Melanie- Alice always claimed she knew they would end up together. He tried to deny it many times but the blush on his cheeks and stuttering betrayed his lie. Back then Melanie had a crush on him too, but they never seemed to tell their feelings to each other. It was a miracle when they could be able to have a normal conversation. Usually it went like this, Fred would blush like…well me and Melanie would have a loving smile and played with her shoulder length brown hair. In the end, they told their feelings for each other in a rather dramatic way and are still together.

But the only thing that matters now is the Fred owed us know, BIG time, we were the ones that played cupid and got them together so he had to budge.

We pulled over to Starbucks and went inside

"Oh Freddy-boo! We need you help" Commander Shopaholic said to him. It was his break right now so it was our lucky day.

"Alice-"

"That's Commander Shopaholic to you" Alice- or what's her face corrected Fred.

"Another crazy game?" Fred asked me- the sane person in this trio.

"Another crazy game" I repeated in an answering voice.

"We need you…special help" The Queen interrupted us "Where's your storage closet?"

"Over there" he pointed to the door in the back of the room that was labeled 'Storage Room'. How smart are we?

"But why would you care?" we didn't listen to a word he said because we opened the closet and stuffed our arms with rolls and rolls of toilet paper- we had obviously made a scene, but it didn't matter; it was our mission.

"Wait! What are you gonna do with that toilet paper? It'll come out of my paycheck!" Fred yelled after us outside. We were already stuffing the trunk of the car with all of our stolen woods.

"We need to finish operation Thong" The Queen said. Fred seemed as confused as ever.

"We're going TPing" Commander Shopaholic explained when we were all in the car and drove off before Fred could oppose to anything else.

"Clumsy Lamb, hand me the gummy bears" Commander Shopaholic said to me and looked at the back seats.

"Here," I handed her the gummy bears and saw her staring at me. "Commander! Watch the road!"

"Calm down, Clumsy Lamb" The Queen said to me. "She's driven like this for ever and has never gotten a ticket; unlike you."

"So I crashed a car…or two. Big deal" I said. It was only my big red truck from back in the High School days; nobody had died or gotten seriously inured. They has just gotten some boo-boo's."

"More like three!" Commander Shopaholic giggled and The Queen joined her soon after.

-0-

"Ah, home at last" I said when we parked in our driveway. "Let's unload the groceries. Hey, now that our 'mission' is over can I go back to being Bella?"

"I don't know. I kinda liked being called The Queen- and I LOVE calling Bella Clumsy Lamb." We laughed at Rose's comment.

I knew it!

We dumped the groceries on the living room carpet. We put our plastic forks, plastic wrap, and stolen Starbucks toilet paper rolls on the small kitchen table we rarely ate at.

Ta-dah! Haha four straight pages! I am so proud of myself haha; oh by the way Twilight movie! Aren't you so so SO excited- I am!!!!

P.S. you know what would really help me get better and FINALLY get my voice back? Some very yummy reviews, it's like medicine.