~Christina's POV~

I took my phone right before I left Bryce's house and texted Belladonna on where we should meet up for that day before we actually spiced things up a little. Making up her mind, we decided to meet up at one of the nearby parks first. I arrived pretty early, to be honest... and had to wait for her to get there, which was really boring, but worth it once she showed up.

"Hi Christina." She said, walking up to where I was with her purse swinging from her left shoulder. "Sorry I'm late... I had to sort out money and all that for when we get there."

"That's fine..." I smiled. "You're the one who's paying this time, after all."

"Yeah, I remember." Belladonna started walking, and I followed her down the sidewalk as the winds blew gently onto the trees around us. "Just don't buy anything too costly... I didn't bring much cash this time around."

"I won't... don't worry about it." I yawned, putting a paw over my mouth as I did.

Eventually, we approached our destination, Persian Mall, which was indeed named after the Pokemon... probably because of how rich most Persian are. The mall was basically normal for a mall in Eromaner, most of them being big and having a wide variety of stores. I'm not joking on the wide part, though... especially since I could've most likely gotten anything I wanted if I just asked someone working there if the mall had that particular item.

Anyway, as you may have guessed already, we went in afterwards and shopped a lot, buying lots of clothes and accessories along the way. Clothes were optional for all Pokemon in Eromaner, sure, but clothes were what separated the rich from the poor basically, which was the reason why I bought a lot of them in bulk, just so I wouldn't have to worry about buying more later.

I chose not to put them on yet, though, seeing as after I was done shopping with Belladonna, I was literally starved, and so was she. Later, we went down to one of the two food courts that existed and ate there. It was good, other than the occasional noise coming from children here and there. Of course, I ordered spaghetti and Belladonna ordered salad. I let it go though, because maybe she just wanted to keep her figure.

We chatted for a bit after eating before we left the mall with tons of bags, calling for a taxi afterwards to pick us up. The ride to Bryce's house took longer than I expected, so I decided to talk a bit more just to use the time wisely.

"So... is Haro still mad at me back at the house or?..." I asked her, really wanting to know the answer even though I shouldn't have asked.

"Hmm... I guess you could say that." Belladonna replied while looking through one of the bags. "He hasn't talked about you since, but he still looks kinda pissed sometimes."

I sighed when I heard her response. I thought that he would've been over me losing by now, but I guess he just... wasn't.

"I know he trained me and everything... but shouldn't he have forgotten about the loss already?" I looked at Belladonna as she stopped going through the bag.

"You of all people should know how complicated Haro is, Christina..." Belladonna laughed a bit. "That being said, he'll probably get over it sooner or later."

Turning back to the window outside of the taxi, I stared out of it and observed the clouds dreamily as they floated by, not even noticing for a couple seconds that we had parked up by Byrce's house already when we did.

"Oh, we're here..." I finally realized, snapping out of the trance-like state and opening the door next to me, making sure to take out all the bags in the back of the car as well.

"Bye." Belladonna waved playfully before I said my goodbyes and closed the door as the taxi drove off seconds later.

I carried by bags up the stairs and knocked on the door to which Bryce opened it, my body feeling a bit drained.

"Where have you been?!" Bryce shouted. "It's like, 5 in the afternoon!"

Like if I needed someone to remind me... psh.

"Ugh..." I groaned. "Just take the bags already."