Hey! So I'm sorry that I took so long to update again, but I got writers block.. I'd only pictured the first little bit, and when I realized that I didn't have much more.. wel my brain went dead. But here's another chapter, and I hope it's as good as the first two :)

"Get up!" Someone smacked my head, and my eyes shot open, as the pain radiated through my skull. Max was standing above me, and everyone looked like they were awake.

"What was that for?" I exclaimed.

"You wouldn't answer the first four times, so I hit you." she shrugged and got up, and walked over to Dylan.

I was aggravated, and I walked over to Fang, with my fists clenched, and my teeth gritted. His eyes widened when he looked at me. "Calm down Leksi." he soothed, rubbing my arm. When I didn't answer, he kept rubbing my arm, but looked me right in the eye. "Leksi, if you don't calm down, you will most likely lash out at someone, and electricly shock them, and you saw how that turned out before."

My eyes widened, and I noticed little sparks on the edge of my vision, and my hair was going everywhere, as if being statically charged. I took deep breaths, and counted backwards from twenty, trying to calm myself, and squeezed my eyes closed, to help my concentration. When I opened my eyes again, Fang was looking calmer as well, and a little more at ease.

"Well now that that was avoided..." Max grinned. "We're going to go to the mall, and buy you some clothes, because these," she pointed to my clothes that were all over the floor, "are completely impractical, and you also need better shoes. And a better jacket. And warmer pants... really a whole new wardrobe... and we also need bigger backpacks, and we need to restock on food... and we need to make you unrecognizable."

"What do you mean by... unrecognizable...?" I asked, slightly annoyed because she'd dumped my suitcases all over the floor- as well as my bras and panties- and also a little scared. My hair was extremely precious to me, and I do not approve of plastic surgery.

"Either you cut or dye your hair, and some of us girls are going to get a piercing too- I've wanted one for ages!" Max replied excitedly, and Kate sniffed- she obviously didn't approve of piercings.

"Let's go!" Maya grabbed my arm underneath the shoulder, and Fang did the same on the other side, and they both ran and jumped out of the mouth of the cave. We dropped slightly, but they regained their balance, and I squeezed my eyes shut. My wings were growing quickly- they were almost 6 feet long together- but I still had a ways to go before I would be able to fly alone.

When we got to the mall I grinned despite myself- I loved shopping. "I know the best stores to shop at, with the best clothes." I urged Fang to come with me, and he begged Ratchet and Iggy to come, so we ended up splitting the group in two- Maya, Iggy, Ratchet, Fang, Kate and Nudge came with me, and the rest went with Max's group. Nudge was in heaven, and she produced a credit card from her pocket, and grinned wickedly.

"Max got us each one- there's three hundred on them." she handed me one too, and I looked at it in confusion.

"When did Max have the time to get one for me?"

"She got an extra. Oh and by the way- your name is Laney Johnson, and Ryan," she pointed at Ratchet, "is your legal guardian, so you're allowed to do anything if he's there." she grinned. "I thought it up myself."

I grinned, and walked into Claire's- where they do piercings- and went up to the front counter. "I'd like to get my belly-button pierced, as well as two right beside each other on the side of my ear." I smiled. I was going to make myself unrecognizable, like Max said to do.

"I'll have to see I.D. from you or a guardian." the girl said. She had more piercings than I could count, and I was sure her colleague had done more than one of them. Ratchet stepped up and showed them his fake I.D. and they nodded, they had him sign all sorts of paperwork, and then had me sit on a chair. They first did my belly button, and it hurt badly, but looked good, with the curvy ring, and instead of a ball with a red crystal in the bottom to match the top, there was a dragon pendant. I then got the two on the side of my ear done, and they didn't hurt- as much, and each of them was done with a gold stud, with a red crystal to match the one's I was wearing in my second lobe piercing. Nudge then got her ears pierced once, and a nose piercing, each with simple gold studs. Maya then got her nose, cartilage (on one side)and lobe pierced with simple silver studs. None of the guys wanted any, and neither did Kate.

We then went to Roots, and bought sweatpants - well... stole three bought four... but who's counting? We also got warm sweaters, and windbreakers. Then we went to a shoe store and bought sport shoes, that were completely practical and fairly tacky, much to my dismay.

At the end, they allowed me to go into Garage, and Aritzia, and buy some nice shirts, and sweaters, and some leggings that were fairly impractical, but they made me happy, and so Fang convinced the others to let me, and neither Kate nor Nudge objected- they both got just as much as me. I pushed for them to let me buy a pair of Lululemon yoga pants, which made me happy to have as well. I went to the bathroom, with Nudge, Maya and Kate, and we all changed into an outfit that was less.. well, dirty. I put on a pair of the black leggings I bought, and and a shirt that was short cut, and showed off a little of my stomach, and my piercing. It was blue, and cut in a higher V-neck. I pulled out a pair of tan moccasins that I'd convinced them were practical in the winter to keep my feet warm, and looked in the mirror. I was surprised- I looked fairly different, and I hadn't even changed my hair yet. I wouldn't normally have worn leggings, it would've been skinny jeans, but I could bend easier in these.

The others were wearing Lulu's and a tight V-neck with a different colour for each. I grinned, and they grinned back, and we all walked out of the bathroom together. The guys had all just changed into a clean pair of sweats, and a T shirt, and then put a hoodie on. So, they were all standing waiting for us when we came out, and when we walked out, their eyes widened. We looked good. Fang's eyes rested solely on me, wandering up and down my body a few times, before stopping to rest on my face. I blushed slightly. I wasn't wearing any makeup at all, and I felt exposed.

Ratchet went and started flirting with Kate, who blushed and flirted back, and Maya went over to Iggy, and he kissed her nose and I decided to look away before I lost any more of my mental innocence. I approached Fang hesitantly, leaving poor Nudge on her own, standing awkwardly in a corner.

"You look... fantastic..." He breathed, his dark eyes somehow hiding all the emotion from me. He looked down at me, and made me feel alot shorter than I was, because he was so tall.

"I guess it's time to go get my, or our- hair done." I smiled, and stepped backward one step, linking arms with Nudge, who smiled gratefully. Ratchet and Kate were still flirting, and Maya and Iggy were now making out, making things fairly awkward.

I cleared my throat, and Ratchet and Kate came over, but Iggy and Maya were still in their own world. "Ahem." I said. They still didn't hear. So, I went close to them, and said quite loudly. "COUGH! COUGH!" They both jumped far apart from each other, and Maya was blushing furiously, while Iggy just looked slightly flustered.

"Let's go get our hair done guys." Fang said.

"Let's keep it PG guys." I winked, and Maya blushed harder, at which I laughed.

When we got to the hair salon, my eyes widened. They had alot more to offer than the one at my mall. I ran over to a section that was talking about the different dye jobs I could get, and I looked at Fang. "What should I do?"

"Dye the tips, like Maya's, but just dye them a blue, or maybe put light highlights." He answered, fingering my hair thoughtfully. So, I just dyed the tips an electric blue, and she gave me some really good shampoo to help with keeping the colour in. I payed, and then we left, because nobody else wanted to get their hair done.

We met up with Max's group at the food court, and I noticed how Max had had her nose and her ears pierced. I also noted that she had on extremely practical clothes, and how bummed out her group looked. I hid a smile when she frowned at the sight of our clothes, but then she smiled when she saw the large backpacks we'd gotten. They were as big as suitcases, but were made to put on our backs, and fit perfectly in between our wings.

"This was productive." Max said.

"Yeah I would say that our search was." Said a voice from behind me. I turned and gasped when I saw Jared, the guy that I swear was going to kill me. His white blonde hair was slightly longer than before, but his ice blue eyes were the same. He smirked at me, and motioned for the two figures behind him to grab me. My eyes windened and I jumped- at Jared. Who could possibly be that stupid- oh wait, I know, me. I smacked him with the full weight of my body- which was about 100 pounds, give or take a few- and he hit the ground, and smacked his head back against the tile floor. Fang grabbed me and we started running, with the others following close behind, and Max and Dylan finishing off the people in black.

I turned back and slowed when I noticed that Max and Dylan were getting smacked around quite a bit. "Wait-"

"Run." Fang snapped.

"But-"

"Run."

So I ran.