Loki, Mulan and Kitty walked onto the barber shop together. Loki sat in the chair, felling slightly odd about cutting his hair, but the girls said it'd make him more handsome, so he sat still while the two girls debated styles to change his hair to. They picked one and showed Loki, who just nodded.

Mulan and Kitty told Loki on the way there that they'd first work on his appearance- that meant shopping for more clothes, and a haircut. Then they'd work on his-what they called "Social moronic-ness" and finally they'd go over the similarities him and Eli shared.

"This will be fun Loki. After this, let's go to the mall or something." Kitty said as the barber's razor began to buzz.

Loki said nothing. This better work. Chasing after girls took more than the thought it would. According to Kitty and Mulan, girls were things that needed to be respected, and treated with care and caution. Loki felt after all that had happened lately, he had taken the caution part to heart.

"All done." The barber smiled and left. Mulan and Kitty giggled in delight.

"Loki you look great." Mulan rubbed her hands together while Kitty handed him a mirror.

Loki took a deep breath, he never was too wild about the haircut idea, but this was for Eli. She deserved the best form of Loki there was, and he vowed to show her it. Loki looked down in the mirror. It was much shorter than before, and it made him look more sophisticated. He liked it. "Good. What's next?" He asked.

Loki soon found himself in the dressing room of a clothing store. Mulan and Kitty had picked out a mountain of clothes for him. All this time in New York, Loki kept his usual outfit, but sometimes wore a t shirt and the first pair of jeans he saw in a store. He didn't have a wide variety of clothes, but that, he figured, was about to change. The first thing he tried on for the girls was a pair of light- colored jeans, a black and blue plaid shirt with a black v-neck under it.

The girls clapped and told him he looked great when he came out. "Blue is one of Eli's favorite colors. She'll love that shirt." Kitty said.

"It really makes your eyes pop." Mulan told.

Loki nodded not sure what that meant, but figured it was a good thing.

"Next outfit." The girls ordered and Loki hastily tried on tons of outfits. By the end of their journey they had bought a purple polo, a red t-shirt, two plaid button up shirts, 3 pairs of jeans-one light, one dark and one medium colored. Also he had gotten some button up shirts and a bow tie, because bow ties are cool, and a t shirt promoting American Idol, because Loki enjoyed watching that show.

"Okay, so you tweaked my appearance, what's next?" Loki asked the two girls as they walked down the street.

"Well, let's practice talking to people." Kitty suggested.

"Fine." Loki agreed.

"Okay, go talk to that girl over there." Mulan pointed to a woman sitting on a bench, holding a small dog.

"She's fat though." Loki whined.

"Loki, sometimes in life you have to talk to fat people. They are people just like you."

"There is no-one like me. I'm a God, and she might eat me."

"She's not going to eat you! Now go!" Mulan ordered

Loki sat next to the woman on the bench and tried his best to smile at her. "Hi, I'm Loki."

"I'm Abby." The woman answered, not looking like she minded a stranger randomly talking to her at all.

"Uh, so," Loki racked his brain for something to say. This was stupid. How could he expected to talk to someone you don't know? "Uh, what have you been eating lately?"

Abby seemed taken aback. "Just food, nothing special." She eyed Loki, now looking suspious of him.

"That's a nice dog. I'm sure it'll make a great feast soon."

Abby got up and quickly walked away.

"She didn't like me." Loki told Mulan and Kitty.

"Of course she didn't, you said her dog was food." Kitty spat.

Loki shrugged.

"Let's go home. We'll work on you more tomorrow after school okay?" Mulan said. Up at the apartments the trio said goodbye. Loki went and watched TV, like he usually did, and in the morning he wore some of his new clothes as he patrolled the area for kids who were skipping.

He found a few, all tried to lie at first, said they graduated, but Loki always would receive a copy of the school absence list and none of the kids were smart enough to give fake names. Loki found himself excited to return to his apartment at the end of his shift. He was excited to be the perfect guy for Eli and actually enjoyed Mulan and Kitty's company. He knocked on their apartment door and Kitty answered.

"Oh, hi Loki. My Dad said we can't help you anymore. I'm sorry."

"Wait, why?"

"He thinks it's odd and dangerous to be around a grown man he didn't know."

Loki could understand that, he had watched the News enough to know it was a messed up world. "No, can't we work something out?"

Kitty shrugged. "We really want to help you Loki, but, we can't." Kitty shut the door.

Loki's shoulders slumped. Their Dad had no reason to worry; he wouldn't let anything to happen to them. Loki couldn't accept this. Those two girls could be the only chance he had. He couldn't do it himself. Suddenly, as Loki settled into his favorite chair, a light bulb went off in his head. Then he couldn't help but look forward to tomorrow.

Thank you to those who reviewed last time, it made me very happy. I hope you all like where I'm going with this.