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Chapter 10

Tina purchased the items, giggling slightly at how amused Thom was with the beeping scanner. Alanna had simply muttered to herself about how it could be impossible to store so much accessible money is such a small curiosity, known as a credit card. The modern world native had Thom and Jon carry the bags because she claimed that the bags were too heavy.

"No they aren't," Jon denied when Tina handed over the bag with Thom's shirt in it. "If you think this is heavy, then don't try out to be a knight. You wouldn't be able to lift a sword much less fight with one!"

Thom was having a little harder time with the six Harry Potter books.

"How come all these books have to be heavy?" He complained. "Why can't you make Princey over here carry them? Why does he get to carry the shirt?"

"Cry me a river, build me a bridge and get over it!" Tina retorted. They all laughed except Thom.

"What does a bridge have to do with anything?" Thom mumbled not getting the joke.

Tina shook her head and answered, "Never mind. Just get into the car. Give me the bags and I'll put them in trunk, so they won't fly away." Thom and Jon both handed her their bags to put in the trunk and get in. Jon opened the door and held it out for Alanna.

"Thank you," She said before getting it.

"Why doesn't any one hold the door open for me?" Thom asked.

"You're not a girl, stupid," Jon commented before sliding in next to Alanna. Tina sighed and opened the door for Thom.

"There, now stop complaining! You're getting me a headache!" When Thom got in, she slammed the door shut and walked over to her side of the car, got in and started the car.

"Does every one have their seat belts on?" She asked while getting hers on. She heard three affirmative responses and started to drive.

It had only been driving for three minutes before Thom asked, "Are we there yet?"

"No."

A minute later.

"Are we there now?"

"No."

Thirty seconds later.

"Now?"

"NO! Now shut up! We won't be there for another ten minutes!"

Two minutes later.

"Has it been ten minutes yet?"

Tina was getting impatient, so she stopped the car to a dead stop. She turned around slowing facing Jonathan and Alanna and politely asked, "Alanna, can you please make your brother shut up?"

"Certainly!" Violet fire popped up out of Alanna's hand and she threw some of it to Thom's mouth. Thom tried to speak but nothing came out.

"Thank you!"

"Any time!"

Tina turned back around and started the car again. The four made there way to the mall again, only this time, within silence.

"Are we-" Jon started.

"Don't you dare start that with me!" Tina yelled not bothering to turn around, though Jon could since her eyes were on fire.

Jon chuckled to himself. Well, at least we know she's related to Alanna, 'cause she sure does have her temper.

"What are you laughing at?" Tina asked. Even though these were cool people, they were really getting on her nerves. Well, at least the boys were.

"Oh, nothing. Nothing at all. Keep on driving." Tina didn't like that answer, everyone could tell, but she said nothing and keep on driving. Though, Alanna noticed, she was driving way to fast. She was zooming passed all the other cars on the road!

"Umm…Tina? Do you think you want to kind of…slow down?"

"What? Huh?….Oh! Crap!" All most suddenly, she slammed on the breaks and if it weren't for the seat belts, they would have taken a flying lesson. She stopped in the middle of the highway.

"I know I've never driven before Tina, but don't you think that was kind of a little too fast?" Alanna asked.

It took a second for Tina to clam down before she replied.

"Sorry." She started the car back up and started to drive again. "I got a little upset back there. Good thing it's three o'clock and there aren't that many cars on the road." Tina then turned to face Jon.

"Don't you ever do that again!" If Jon didn't know any better, you could swear she looked a lot like Alanna. Well, if you took away the long black hair and sapphire eyes and replaced them with short red hair and violet eye, she could defiantly be Alanna and Thom's triplet.

Jon just smiled as an answer. Tina then turned to look at Alanna.

"I wish Thom wasn't so attractive. Otherwise, I would love to date Jon!" When Tina saw the look in Alanna's eyes, she quickly responded, "But I can't because he's yours, Alanna, and the fact he's my great-great-great-great-great or so grandfather and I can't date my grandfather. Just the thought of it, creeps me out, so do you think you can stop staring at me like that? It's also creeping me out.l" The look in Alanna's eyes disappeared quickly as it had appeared.

"Thank you. Now we're almost there, about another five more minutes."

The remaining five minutes was quiet. During it, Alanna swore she saw Jon glance at her every other second.

Mithros, I just love his smile! She thought during one of his glances.

When the five minutes was up, Tina announced they were here.

"Thom, you've been very quiet. Why aren't you talking?" Tina asked.

"Because you made Alanna shut him up. Remember? He was getting annoying," Jon answered.

"Oh yeah! Sorry 'bout that. Alanna, please remove the magic."

"Do I have to?"

"Yes please."

"Fine." Violet fire come from Thom's mouth and floated over to Alanna were it absorbed into her hands.

"I can talk!"

"Yes you can, now shut up," Tina said. She then put on a serious face. "Listen to me and listen carefully. This is a really big building. Bigger then the one we last went too. You must stay with me at all times! Understand? If you start to wander away at least once, I'll have us hold hands."

"Yes, Ma'am."

"Good. Now everyone get out of the car and follow me." They all undid their seat belts and got out. Tina started to walk and the others followed. Jon caught up to Thom and placed a hand his shoulder.

"Hey, Thom. I was just wondering if you could...um...walk away and get lost?" Jon whispered.

"Why?"

"So Tina will make everyone hold hands. I really want to hold Alanna's hold."

"But then Tina will start yelling at me again."

"I'll make you best man at my wedding if you do."

"What wedding? You're getting married? Does Alanna know you're having an affair with her?" Jon put a hand up to face and slid it down carefully.

"And you're supposed to be a powerful sorcerer? No, I'm not having an affair with Alanna. What I meant was, mine and Alanna's wedding!"

"You and Alanna are having a wedding? Oh, wonderful! We'll be in-laws!"

"We're not getting married yet! First I have to ask her! Now can you please just get lost for a few seconds so, Tina will make everyone hold hands! Please!" Jon was starting to get inpatient with Alanna's twin. Thom thought about this for a moment before answering.

"Yeah, okay. I'll do it. Don't worry about having me as a best man. I really don't want too." Before Jon could ask why, Thom was already running to catch up with Tina. Jon, being the only one behind, ran up as well to catch up with everyone.

Just by seeing the outside, they could already tell that is was bigger then Target. It was much taller and longer. When they got to close to the doors, Thom raced to them and starting to pull them open. It didn't work. Tina noticed that he was pulling and not pushing.

"Thom, you're supposed to push them. Not pull. See the sign?" Tina pointed to the sign on the door that read, 'Push'. Thom turned bright red and pushed. The doors swung open and warm air greeted them was they walked through.

Tina saying that the mall was bigger then Target was an understatement. The mall was like ten times bigger then Target. They couldn't help but drop their jaws.

"Yes, yes. I know it's huge but you must follow me. We were able to find Thom, but if we lost anyone here, it could take a few hours to find you. Now, the place where I work is just over here."

They past many different shops. Some were small, others not so small.

"Do you want to take the elevators or the escalators?" Tina asked.

"What's the difference?" Alanna asked.

"Elevators are big boxes type things that move up and down and escalators are moving stairs that go up and down," Tina explained.

"Moving stairs? I vote for moving stairs!" Thom chanted while jumping up and down.

"Thom, stop that. You looked stupid," Alanna retorted. Thom stopped but gave his sister a glare.

"Okay. I guess we're taking the escalators. This way."

They walked a little bit more and stopped at what appeared to be the 'moving stairs'. Tina stepped on and the step moved down. Alanna and Jon followed. Thom did too, but it took him a bit longer to get used to the feeling of the step moving. An idea stepped into Thom's head. He turned around and made his way up the stairs. The steps just kept on coming so he never got far. He started to laugh and called out to the others.

"Hey Tina! Look! No matter how long I do it, I'll never be able to reach the top!"

"Yes, Thom. I know. Now stop that," Tina said in a motherly way. Thom pouted a little but stopped.

When they all finally got to the bottom, Tina directed them to the store which was only a few feet away.

"This is it! Shirts 'n Writing." They walked in and the first thing they saw was the many shirts on the wall. Tina led them to the back of the shop and told them to wait while she got out the two shirts.

Alanna, Jon and Thom look this time to look at the shirts. They came in many different colors. Red, blue, purple, green, black and many others. Most of the shirts were plain but some already had writing on them. They even noticed that some of the shirts where really thick and had long pocket in the front. They were still looking around when Tina came back with two shirts in hand. She held out the first one. It was a red shirt with the word, Champion, written in gold.

"I thought Alanna might like this one, but I'll need to fix it a bit. I'll do that later." She held out the other shirt.

"This one is for dear Jonathan." This was a white shirt with black writing. They read what it said and started to laugh. Jon wasn't though.

"That's a good one for him!" Thom exclaimed. Alanna nodded but Jon didn't look too happy. Alanna saw the look on his face and said sweetly, "Well, some times you can be a bit of a pain. But not all the time! Just sometimes." Jon seemed to be thinking and finally just nodded.

"I guess I can be sometimes. I'll wear it." Jon reread the shirt and started to laugh. "Yeah, I like it!"

"Good! Cause I was going to buy it either way." She folded up the shirts and walked over the counter.

"Good afternoon, Fred." Tina greeted the man behind the counter.

"Hi Tina. I thought today was your day off?"

"It is, but my friends here," she pointed to the people behind here, "need some shirts, so I can here to get some." She held out the shirts and Fred took them. He ran them over the barcode and said,

"You're total is twelve dollars and ninety nine cents." Tina once again pulled out her credit card and handed it over to Fred. He placed the shirts in a plastic bag and handed it to Tina.

"Here you go. Thanks for coming!" Tina laughed and handed the bag to Thom.

"There. You can carry the shirts now." Jon and Alanna laughed while Thom didn't look too pleased.

They made there way out of the store. Jon was thinking of the shirt. He couldn't get the words out of his mind. The words, 'Royal Pain in the Butt' kept on appearing in his mind. He'll have to ask Tina to add, 'sometimes' on the back.

AN: I feel so happy!! I didn't take me like two months to update!! Yay!! My friend came up with the idea for Jon's shirt and I liked it so I used it!! Thanks Obsessed-Reader!! Please review!!