Chapter 9. Not much to say except that I hope you enjoy this chapter. It is a little (lot) random but so is this entire story…

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Spoiler: It is still AU.

"Caitlin," Anna yelled up the stairs.

"Yea?" Kate yelled back moving to the top of the stairs.

"Are you girls doing something?" Anna inquired. Kate looked at Abby, who shook her head. She had apparently discovered the perks of giving Anna shorter understandable answers rather than really explaining the situation.

"No," Kate called back to her, "Why?"

"Do you want to go shopping Edgartown?" Anna asked. Kate and Abby exchanged another look. Neither of them was much of a shopper, but neither was Anna. They could probably get away with only going to one maybe two stores.

"Yea," Kate yelled back. "It sounds fun. We'll be down in a second." Kate and Abby grabbed their shoes and purses out of their room and headed downstairs.

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Edgartown is a beautiful scenic town. It was near the bottom of the island. It had been a whaling port several centuries ago, and still proudly carried its historic heritage. On the other hand it had not escaped the fate of the other two up island towns. Edgartown was still primarily a tourist town, which was why they had come to Edgartown for shopping. It was also the home of Anna's favorite store.

"So where are we going?" Abby asked as the stepped out of the car.

"There is a lovely little store," Anna told them leading the way, "It is called Fairy Impressions. Look for it on the left. I think you would really enjoy it."

"There's a name that encourages confidence," Abby whispered to Kate.

"What are you saying?" Anna asked them. She was losing her hearing but loved hearing absolutely every word of the conversation.

"We were wondering which left," Kate told her.

"The left," Anna replied as if it were self-explanatory.

"Which side of the street is left, depends on which way you are walking up the street," Kate pointed out.

"She's got a point," Abby agreed, "because this is a one way street you would expect the left right directions to represent that."

"Here it is," Anna announced happily as they reached a brightly colored sign with a picture of fairies on it. Anna walked in, but Kate and Abby waited for a moment staring up at the signs.

"Once again with the confidence inspiring motif," Abby told Kate.

"Oh yea," Kate agreed, "but you know the drill."

"Nod, smiled, and don't find anything I really like," Abby replied nodding and smiling.

"You have this thing nailed," Kate told her before they walked into the store. To neither of their surprise it was pink, purple, and covered in glitter. This store was defiantly aimed for either much younger girls or much girly girls…or both.

"The is some stuff your size in the back," Anna told them, "I am going to wait here." She sat down in a chair near the front window and turned to her favorite sport: people watching.

Kate and Abby meandered to the back of the store and began looking through the rack of cloths their size. Most of it was not their style. Kate could not put her finger on it but she really did not love any of it. Abby chalked it up to the fact that nothing good could come out of a store call Fairy Inspirations. If either one of them was mildly interested in something, they would pick it up and look at the price tag. That would cause them to lose all interest.

"You know those Staples commercials?" Abby asked after a few minutes.

"The ones where the guy is looking at everything and goes 'Wow, that's a low price'?" Kate asked and Abby nodded, "Yea I know those why?"

"Wow," Abby whispered, "That's a high price."

Kate smirked at that. "Get ready," Kate told her, "Anna is coming to make suggestions." As if on queue, Anna walked up to them and began leafing though the racks.

"So did you girls find something that you like?" Anna asked excitedly.

"There isn't really anything here that we really love," Kate told her grandmother.

"Oh that's too bad," Anna said continuing to look. "Did you see this, Abigail?" Anna was holding up a pink skirt made out of what looked like silk or silk substitute.

"I did," Abby told Anna preparing to lie through her teeth, "I though it was pretty but I don't wear skirts very much." Kate was proud of her friend. That was an excuse Lindsey would have come up with. Nine times out of ten, Abby went for the 'I hate pink' excuse.

"Why don't you wear skirts?" Anna asked curiously.

"I don't know they just seem so," Abby looked to Kate as she grouped for an acceptable adjective. Kate mouthed a word from behind Anna's back and Abby said it with out thinking. "Pineapple." Anna looked confused. Kate and Abby exchanged a horrified 'what the heck did you just do?' look. Kate took the skirt from Anna and hung it back out then they started to walk out.

"Stop," Anna told them, "What is pineapple?" Kate and Abby exchanged another look. Neither one was stupid enough to tell Anna it was a spiky fruit.

"It is just a word we made up," Kate told Anna making up her story as she went along.

"Yea," Abby said picking the story up, "You know how sometimes you don't know how to say what you want to say? Well that's when you say pineapple."

"That's really clever," Anna told them, "I will have to remember that." With that Anna walked out of the store and back towards the car.

Kate and Abby were left standing among the pink sparkles. They exchanged at looked and both shrugged. They started to walk after Anna and as they walked Kate turned to Abby.

"Where did pineapple come from?" she asked.

"That's what you mouthed," Abby returned.

"No," Kate told her, "I mouthed 'impractical.'"

"Oh," Abby defended herself, "I can't lip read." There was a pause.

"That was a darn good story though," Kate pointed out.

"Oscar worthy," Abby agreed, "We deserve and Oscar for that."

"Pineapple."

Hehe. I told you it was random. I hope you liked it anyway. Please review and tell me what you think. Thanks.