A/N: Gah, and here's the Rachel chapter you've all been waiting for. I absolutely can not wright Rachel. I think I made her extremely out of character, and did an awful job. But you tell me what you think. Oh yes, and for anybody wondering, I am aware that bestfriending isn't a real word ;D I just couldn't think of anything that would would suite this chapter as well.
Bestfriending Rachel
Rushing stampedes. Summer sales. Fifty-percent off mall-wide.
I was so there.
My name is Rachel.
And right now I was in the middle of a very tough decision on whether I could go to the new Guess store, or scope out The Gap. Either way, I was going to have some serious shopping time. Especially with the hundred bucks in my pocket. Babysitting has it's rewards in the end, I guess.
Everybody was going for Guess. Must be some good deals. Without a second thought, I joined the stampede, pushing and shoving my way to the front. Nobody was going to beat me.
As the stampede entered the door, I spotted them. Sitting on the stand, with some kind of imaginary light illuminating from them, were the most awesome pair of shoes ever. Not a single pair of shoes I have owned could have ever lived up to what was in front of me.
I made a dive for them, before any of my fellow shoppers discovered them. The exact same second that my hands closed around them, so did another. I looked up to see my competitor. She was about my age, and surprisingly looked a lot like me. Just, minus the hideous dress she was wearing.
I snarled, hoping the girl would get the message and back off. She didn't.
"I saw them first," I growled, "So let go, and nobody gets hurts."
The girl was about to reply with some weak comeback, when she stopped herself. Her eyes widened and she stared and me in some weird, blank way. I ceased the moment, and yanked the shoes out of her hands.
"Thanks, bye."
"You're Rachel."
I turned around. "What did you call me?"
"Rachel." The girl gasped, but then her astonished expression turned into a cheesy grin, "You're Rachel."
"I think we've already clarified that," I said, and was about to make my way to the counter when Hideous Dress Girl interjected once more. With a loud, girlish scream.
"What is your problem?!" I demanded. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed the queue at the cashier was getting longer and longer by the second.
"Give me five, gal friend!" She held her hand up high, as if she expected me to high five her or something. Of course, I didn't. Who on earth was this girl, and why did she have to bug me during my mall-time?
"Cut the crap. Who are you, already?"
"Dang girl, you don't recognize your own best friend forever?!"
"I know who my best friend is, and it certainly isn't you."
"Oh, forget about Cassie! She isn't even worth the trouble!"
How...how did she know about Cassie? Was she some kind of stalker? I wasn't planning on staying around her long enough to find out. For her sake, I hoped she backed off before she really made me angry.
I turned and headed for the cashier. This time, my so-called best friend forever didn't follow me. Perhaps she wasn't as stupid as I thought she was.
After I had paid for my awesome pair of Guess shoes, I made my way towards the exit of the mall. My wallet had gotten enough of a workout for one day.
And, what would you know, just as I was a few steps away from exiting the mall, Hideous Dress Girl stepped in front of me.
"Oh Rachel," she said, just as I was contemplating whether I should ram her over and be done with it already. "I've read all your books! You're the most awesome, coolest, powerful-est, super duper coolest girl evarrz! I've like, read all off your books! And once, I wrote this piece of fanfiction, and we were best friends. And we did everything together! And we talked about boys! Also, we worked things out with Tobias! It turned out, in my fanfic, he didn't mind having two girlfriends at all!"
Nothing prepared me for what I was about to hear. Seriously, I would have been more prepared for the sky falling. I stood there, hating that I had let down my guard, but not knowing what to do or how to react to her sudden outburst.
Tobias? Two girlfriends? Nobody even jokes about that. I considered slapping her. But then I thought about what Jake would say. It would probably go some like, "Hey Rachel, I know you're upset. But take a moment to think about everything before you do something stupid."
But heck with it, Jake wasn't here.
My hand hit her cheek, with one powerful blow.
Nobody steals my boyfriend. Even...even if he is a hawk and is only human a few hours a week.
This is the freaky part. Her head recoiled. She stared at me, cracked her neck, and simply grinned. "Good thing my Sue-Power is that I can't feel pain," she said happily, "and that I can talk at speeds of the same rate that Garatron talk at. Want to hear?"
"No," I replied honestly.
This was seriously bad. This Yeerk/Andalite/Alien/Human/Whatever she was...it was like she knew all our secrets. I don't know how, or why. But with a big mouth like the one she had, out secrets weren't going to stay secret for long.
"Well that's okay! We can go and get face masks instead. Then, we can paint each other's nails, then, we can play truth or dare, oh, and then..."
Oh crap, this girl would just not shut up.
"Oh, and I'm Kat-Sue by the way. That's short for CopyKat-Sue. What was I saying? Oh yeah! After truth or dare, you can come back to Cassie's barn and meet all my Sue friends! Maybe we should do that first. Your friends are there right now! Last time I heard, Jackelyn-Sue super-glued herself to Jake."
And then, for once in my life, I was completely left without words.
