"Here we are!" Emma announced, throwing her arms in the air. Manny looked around with one eyebrow cocked up and a small grin plastered on her face.
"This is where you were so excited to go, Em?" Manny question. "The mall?"
Emma sent a glare her way. "Yeah, we're getting Evan's pictures done today."
Emma skipped along happily while pushing the stroller and Manny followed behind her reluctantly. It was Sunday so the mall was pretty much dead except for them and a few other people Manny vaguely remembered seeing at school.
"Do you want to take the stroller in?" Emma asked Manny when they reached a place called Photos "R" Us. The window display was predominantly filled with newborn babies and women in fluffy white wedding dresses.
"Uh, lets bring it with us." Manny said as she glanced at the people behind her.
A ring sounded through out the store as they three of them entered. A short, very skinny man in what appeared to be his mid-30's walked up to them almost immanently.
"Hi, you must be Emma Nelson!" He greeted Manny while shaking her hand.
"No, I'm Emma Nelson!" Emma said beside her. The man got flustered a little and shot an apologetic look in Emma's direction.
"Sorry, Miss Nelson." He said and took her hand. He looked down at Evan in his stroller and smiled. "Well this must be the little cutie that's getting his first photos done."
Manny had to suppress her laughter with her right hand. She was friends with Marco and this man was still the most flamboyant person she had ever met. Looking to her left, Manny saw Emma doing the same thing.
"If you girls follow me we'll look through a theme book before we get started." The man, who the girls now knew as Chance after reading his name-tag, walked towards the back and they followed. He bent down behind the counter and came back up with a gigantic scrap book with papers falling out of it.
Emma and Manny poured themselves over the book trying not to laugh as they saw most of the themes. It took them a good then minutes to decide and Manny thanked god Evan was to preoccupied with the toy Chance gave him during that time.
"I like this one." Manny pointed to the plane one where the baby was just sitting on a blue carpet. Emma pretended to gag.
"Whatever, plain Jane. I think this one is the best." Emma pointed to the one where the little kids were dressed up like they were from the Victorian era.
"You girl can do both and pick out the pictures you like best." Chance said as he took a break from cooing at Evan.
"Okay." The two of them agreed at once.