Chapter 7 - Banana Card
As Kim and Monique continued their journey to the Middleton Mall for the sale bonanza, Kim was continuing to grind her teeth nervously about this. Even though she knows that Monique can keep a secret, she still had fears of wearing her overalls out in public, especially what had happened to Ron last night.
"Monique, I just don't want to see my popularity fade away if I do wear this to school!" Kim complained, tugging at her right overalls strap concealed by her jacket.
"Kim, remember what I've taught you at CB a few weeks ago: It's not on the outside, but on the inside that counts! You should know that!" Monique said in offering up her advice.
Then she turned to another important subject, "Beside you still have your CB card, right?"Kim surprisingly gave a grin, took out her wallet from her handbag and flashed the Golden Rewards Club Banana Card, her only hope of buying new clothes and out of this overalls sitch. "Of course, Mon, I never leave home without it!" "Sweet!" Monique squealed with excitement, "Girl, you could buy yourself some new clothes and you could get out of this overalls prob for the week!""Aww….Mon, you're the best friend ever, well….uhh….next to Ron, of course!" Kim smiled but began to stutter as a reminder of her primary friend.
"You're always welcome, Kim! Besides, you have the expert of fashion on your side!" Monique said in giving confidence to Kim, still with her hands on the wheel.
They finally reached the mall's parking lot and chose a parking spot somewhere in the middle. Kim took a deep breath
They knew the first store to strike at within the 140-store mall: Club Banana, the place for her to buy some new pants.
"Oh great!" Kim slapped her hand on her face.
Monique exasperated, "What is now, Kim?"Kim blushed again and groaned, "CB is also where they have the Blue Star overalls! Since I am obsessed with overalls, I don't know how to handle the temptation before!""You gotta fight it, Kim! There are plenty of clothes besides overalls!" Monique reassured her.
Yet, even with those words from her fashionista friend, Kim could face up against overalls temptation in front of people for the first time.
They walked into the mall, hopeful that Kim's CB card could set her free.
Ann and the Tweebs, meanwhile, reached the other side of the mall and found a parking place. She was the first to get out of the car to carry her purse, with her baggy overalls still undone, the straps clinking wildly behind her, and still miraculously fitting her on the waist. However, the overalls began to sag off a little bit and the back pockets were now on her thighs and the bib was slightly lower .
She sighed and pulled her overalls/pants back up but didn't reattach the straps due to the fact that they would come off anyway.
"Okay, boys, time to come out!" Ann said in opening up the car door to let the Tweebs come out.
"Ahhh, yes……." Jim began to breath in the air.
"……..a perfect day to buy games!" Tim excitedly finished up his brother's sentence.
"Now remember, boys, no M-rated games!" Ann warned with her famous wagging of the finger.
"We know, we're only 12!" both brothers replied with a smiles on their face.
Believing that they would keep their promise, Ann nodded her head as the three began to walk to the entrance of the mall.
As she walked into the front entrance, the overalls were sagging again and the back pockets resumed their place on Ann's back thighs. Ann groaned and pulled her overalls back up slightly, straps clinking.
I wish if I could buckle them up but the buttons are just a bit too small and the buckles would slide on through! She thought to herself.
Still, her overalls continued to sag and the back pockets were reluctant to leave their position from her upper thighs, and continued to have a baggy appearance and appearance to nearly fall off, despite her overalls-fit body.
The three then came upon a wooden bench. Needing somewhere to rest up, Ann sat down next to her hand bag as the metal of her overalls straps touched the wooden part of the chair. Her overalls bib now rested on her lap as she tugged the article of clothing up.
She unzipped her handbag and gave $40 each to the Tweebs.
"Now can you meet up here at around 6:00? I'm gonna have to return to the house to cook the fried chicken when your father comes home!" Ann asked the request to the twins.
"Okay, Mom!" the Tweebs responded before heading off to the video game store.
With their mother out of sight, the Tweebs snickered and laughed with joy. Their plan of humiliating Kim was going so well.
"So after we buy the game, we're going to put Phase 2 of our plan into action!" Jim sneered with an evil smile.
"Yep, it's going to be soo explosive once we get back to the house!" Tim added with exhilaration, as if the boys were enjoying the game of seeing their sister angry.
"And we have the chemicals to do it!" Jim finished up their evil plan. Though it wasn't bent on world domination, they would make their sister's life even more miserable than before.
_Meanwhile, Bonnie, in her white convertible and wearing another one of her finely pressed clean blue dresses, found a parking spot in the mall: the very front row.
The Queen of Middleton High smirked as she got out her digital camera from the front seat, ready to take pictures of her humiliated rival cheerleader to win the competish on Wednesday. She already had one piece of the puzzle complete, and all she needed to do was to snap a couple of photos to prove Kim's hillbilly side to the entire class.
"Mmm….I know K would be here because she would never miss out on a CB sale." the Queen smirked as she looked at her digital camera "I'll make sure that this trip today would be a humiliating one for the wannabe!" She walked into the mall, confident that she'll have the pictures in hand.
_As Kim and Monique walked into Club Banana, she took in a deep breath. Her curse of wearing overalls could end, thanks to the CB Gold Rewards card that she still had. Of course, she looked stylish in her Blue Star overalls, but she cannot go without wearing a variety of clothes from CB.
"This is it, Mon! This is the place where I'm gonna buy my capri pants there and, maybe a few shirts." Kim proudly declared, holding the card in hand in triumph.
"Whoa….slow down there, girl!" Monique urgently replied, trying to calm her down. "you so need to get a hold of yourself. You're letting it go to your head!""Don't let it be the drama, Monique!" Kim calmly said, "I can get out this overalls sitch faster than…….""Jinx, you owe me a soda!" the both of them said the message when they first became friends.
"So let's buy the clothes I so need!" Kim exclaimed with a seize-the-day mentality.
Once the two went inside, they began their search for any clothes worthy of them to wean Kim out of overalls.
However, they did not count into the fact that Bonnie also entered into the store, with the small digital camera concealed into the handbag.
And another fate also befell on Kim, for a familiar article of clothing tempted her.
While searching for one of her favorite capris, Kim then came upon a sign where all the Blue Star overalls were at: 50% OFF! $25
Meanwhile, Monique was at the other end of the store, failing to notice her friend falling victim to her could not resist such a deal!
"Must………get………overalls……." Kim said at a fast pace, dashing up to the overalls area, and felt the soft designer denim on her face. "I should so buy at least three pairs of them!"She was so enamored with the overalls that she not only neglected the other clothes that she was going to by, which were a couple of capri pants and green shirts, but also of the fact that the Queen moved behind one of the shelves and snapped a quick photo of her, minus the flash. Kim closed her eyes and embraced the denim of the overalls warmly, even though that she was 10 feet from her rival taking a photo of just like that, Bonnie went out of the store slowly walking with a sexy smirk on her face, ever triumphant that Kim's secret of being a hillbilly was true after all, without any notice from either Kim or Monique.
Kim, in the meantime, put around three pairs of the Blue Star overalls, which were her size, into the bag.
When the two fashionistas came up to the register, all the merchandise they had were in the bags.
First, the cashier rang up Monique's merchandise and effortlessly rang it all up. Monique easily paid for the clothing items with her own CB Gold Card.
"And thank you, Monique!" the female cashier smiled.
"You're sooo welcome!" Monique replied with a blush. Then she turned to Kim, "Kim, you're so going to be free, I don't know……………."Then she heard, to her horror, the cashier saying "Blue Star Overalls" three times.
"Kim, what happened to you! I thought you could overcome this!" Monique exasperated in sheer disbelief.
"Uhhhh……………" Kim nervously chuckled as she gave the cashier her own CB Gold Card. She tried to slide the card through the card reader around 11 times. And all 11 times, it said "DENIED!"
The cashier said the bad news to her, "Sorry, Kim, but according to the card reader it says that your card expired three days ago, you've used up all the credit in there, and due to the over use of your card, you owe the store about……$800." The cashier then retracted the merchandise from Kim.
"Oh no………." the red-haired cheerleader realized now blushing beet red in her cheeks, "Humiliation Nation is so going to await me!"And to make matters worse, she felt a vibrating in her cell phone. It said the following:
Can you meet me at the BN Express in the food court? - Ron Stoppable.
It was just like that this horrible sitch could not end for Kim.
