"Okay, we have to assign people to beds now," said Eliza.
"Right."
"Why don't we pick out of "the hat" (being a trashcan)?" she suggested.
"Sure. I'll get the names," decided Heero.
The Yuy boy rooted around the store until he found a blue pen and some paper. He scribbled "Quatre", "Wufei", "Julie", "Libby", "Trowa", "Eliza", "Heero", "Lily", and "Duo" on to the paper and handed the names to Eliza who tossed them in the trashcan.
"Okay..." she pulled out two names and pointed to a yellow bed. "In that one will be Quatre and... Libby." Then directing towards a red one, "Sleeping there will be Wufei... and Julie. In this one will be..." she had patted the one she was sitting on and peeked into the trashcan until she found her name. "It will be, wow, me! With me will be... you! Along with... Duo! Cool! Next one has to have Trowa and Lily."
"Alright," nodded Heero.
"Let's go find the others now, OK?"
"Right. Agreed."
Heero and Eliza set off, calmly walking. After a while they ran into two familiar faces.
"Hi, Lily and Trowa!" exclaimed Eliza.
"Hello!" greeted Lily. "How are you guys?"
"I'm just dandy, you?"
"Fine, thank you. So, what have you completed?"
"Well, we found a place that sells beds. Four beds. We have to share so Heero and I drew names out of a trashcan."
"Cool! Whom am I sleeping with?"
Eliza blushed. About everybody there did.
"Um... You'll be in the same bed as Trowa."
"TROWA?!?" Lily screamed.
"You're correct."
"TROWA?!?" Lily screeched again.
Trowa looked somewhat hurt.
"You don't want to sleep with me, Lily?" he asked.
Everyone blushed.
"Um... It's just... Quatre... Oh, never mind!"
Trowa sulked some more.
"Hey! Why are you so depressed?" she asked accusingly.
"Me? Oh, no reason..."
"Reeeaaaly?" asked Eliza nudging him in the side. "I'm SURE that's not the ONLY reason. Wink, wink!"
Trowa blushed deeply and scooted slightly away from Eliza and a little closer to Lily.
* * *
Duo, Quatre, and Julie had been wandering for almost eight minutes, but with Duo constantly complaining on how he was hungry, it seemed like a lot more.
"I'm starving to death... I'm going to die... Quatre, would you carry my rotting corpse when I collapse or would you just let the rats get it? Do you see Trowa? Is Trowa there? Can I have some food? I'm starving... I'm going to die from starvation! Julie, would you carry my rotting corpse when I co-"
"Quiet for a sec!" said Julie.
"What? Do you see Trowa? Is Trowa there?"
"I hear people... Hm... Stay here."
Julie dashed down the mall and came to two people: Libby and Wufei.
"Wuffi-kins!" she screamed wrapping her arms around him. "I love you!"
Wufei gave a weak smile as Libby headed toward Quatre who was blushing at her.
"Hi, Quatre."
"Libby, I- I got you some flowers."
He handed her two roses, a daffodil, a carnation and three irises. Libby looked like she was going to melt.
"Aww! Quatre! You- you didn't have to..."
"But I wanted to make you happy."
Then Libby kissed him, which made him blush even more.
"This is the sweetest thing someone's ever done to me! Thank you so much!"
He smiled a lop-sided grin.
"You're welcome," he replied.
* * *
The foursome entered the furniture store and then headed toward the back of the room that was where the beds were.
"Yours is the patterned one over there," said Eliza pointing to Trowa and Lily's bed as she went back to bouncing on her own.
"OK. Cool."
Lily had walked over to it and was now lying down.
"Comfy. Come on, Trowa, get on," urged Lily.
"Um... OK..." he blushed.
Trowa slowly got on the bed.
"Uh... Comfy?"
Lily nodded really hard as if she were speaking to someone who didn't speak English. She sort of was...
"Why don't we go find the others?" suggested Eliza.
"Good idea," agreed Lily. She got off the bed and Trowa copied her every move.
The four left the store and started looking for the others.
* * *
After "the troops" had embarrassed each other they decided to look for the others. Once they had moved up one level and were by Abercrombie & Fitch the saw the other team.
"Hi, y'all!" called Duo as he headed over to Trowa. "Know how to cook?"
Trowa raised an eyebrow.
"Of course," he replied glancing over at Lily.
"Can you cook for cute widdle me?" asked Duo.
"Uh... Yeah..."
"THANK YOU!" cried Duo hugging Trowa very closely.
"Right," said Trowa nodding his head and pulling away.
"Okay, people," announced Lily. "Let's eat, bathe, have some fun, and then go to sleep."
"Right!" everyone called back and the gang headed over toward the food court with Duo listing the foods he wanted to eat. The list was extremely long.
Once they got to the food court Duo hopped all around asking Trowa to cook different food from different stores.
"One at a time!"
"OK," said Duo slowly. "It's not that hard..."
"To name different foods! Try attempting to remember them!"
"Alright," sighed the Maxwell boy.
"Why don't we just go to one store so that Trowa doesn't have to remember all of those places?" suggested Lily.
"Thank you!" Trowa replied happily.
After fighting over which restaurant to go to they finally all agreed upon Johnny Rockets.
"OK," said Trowa with a pad of paper and pencil in hand. "Orders."
Quatre started, "Friend Trowa, may I please have a platter of chicken fajitas and a side dish on onion rings?" Trowa nodded and scribbled the order down. "Thank you!"
"Uh-huh. To drink?"
"Oh, milk, please."
"Sure. Libby?"
"Um... I'll have the chicken fajitas too only with French fries on the side and to drink a strawberry milkshake. Did you get all of that?"
"Yeah. Next person. Wufei?"
"Hn. Coffee."
"Java?"
"Sure, whatever."
"OK. Julie?"
"Huh? Julie looked up from glomping Wufei. "Oh, food. I'll have a chocolate malt, a hamburger, and a glass of water to drench Wufei with. Make sure there are a bunch of ice cubes to put down his back too. I want to really bug him!" she said smiling a rather freakish grin.
Trowa smiled and shook his head while muttering, "Cruel. Next?"
"I don't need food," muttered Heero.
"OK... Lily?"
"Oh, can I have a glass of milk, a plate of onion rings, and a plate of fries?" she asked.
"Sure. I'm having water, a sub sandwich, and fries. Duo?"
"To make it easy for you, pal, anything that you think I'd like."
"Oh, gee, thanks a lot!" said Trowa.
"You're welcome," Duo piped back, completely ignoring the sarcastic tone in Trowa's voice.
"Right. Eliza?"
"Oh, Trowa, can I have onion rings, fries, and a chocolate milkshake?"
"Sure. I'll start cooking."
Trowa headed into the kitchen to prepare the food, fixing his apron and chef hat before entering.
"So," asked Eliza, "what does everyone want to do tonight? Let's go around the table in a circle! I'll start. OK. I want to have some fun. Kind of dumb, I know, but that's OK... Duo?"
"Thank you, 'Liza," he said smiling. "I want to eat... lots and lots of food..." Duo proceeded to laugh insanely so Lily decided to go.
"Riiiiiight... I want to be entertained tonight. Yeah, I guess "having fun" will do. Heero?"
"I want peace and quiet and anyone who annoys me will get..." Heero felt his spandex shorts. "Where's my gun?"
The whole table turned to Duo.
"What?" he shrugged. "I don't have it! Heero must have... forgotten it or something!"
"I don't "forget" my gun," Heero retorted.
"Oh, sor-ry!" Duo apologized sarcastically. "Moron," he added under his breath.
"Anyway," said Julie rather prissy-like, "I believe it's my turn. I want to have a fun-jolly time bugging my Wu-wu-chan!" She smiled at this and then glomped him to prove her point.
"Urgh," Wufei groaned. "I just want to kill her. Damn you, Heero, for not bringing your gun."
"Now, you don't mean that, do you?" whimpered Julie.
"Of course, woman. Now, silence," he snapped back.
"Right..." said Libby. "Anyway, I too, want to have fun, Quatre?"
"Yeah," he agreed. "I also want to have fun tonight along with all the other times we're together. Oh, hello, friend Trowa! Is the meal you're so kindly preparing for us almost done or something of the sort?"
"Yeah. Dinner's served."
Trowa was carrying several carts and he passed out the food to all but Duo.
"Hey, chef boy," interrupted Duo.
"Huh?"
"Where's my food? You didn't forget me, did you?"
"Your food's on those six carts," Trowa said pointing.
"Woo-hoo!"
Duo sprang up and away to gorge himself on his plentiful amount of food.
* * *
Once Trowa had cleared the dishes away and washed them the group left the diner to take baths.
Lily took the floor, "OK. Who are the bath people?" Duo, Quatre, and Julie raised their hands. "Alright, you guys get to lead us through this."
"Um..." sputtered Quatre.
"I'll handle this," said Duo calmly smiling, although rather smugly. "OK. We have our bathing suit store: Speedo Authentic Fitness. Everyone can pick out a suit there. Let's start with that."
The group headed over there to get their suits.
"Wuffi-kins!" called Julie standing by the boy's Speedos. "You'll look darling in this blue, tight, reveling one!"
Wufei blushed.
"WOMAN! I don't need fashion tips from weaklings!" He took it any way as Julie grinned proudly. She took her own pink suit, a bikini and also rather reveling.
Quatre was in a state of shock and horror.
"What's wrong?" asked Libby.
"Um... Uh... Um..."
"What?" she asked.
"I DON'T WANT TO WEAR A TIGHT, REVELING BATHING SUIT!" he screamed. Libby's eyes widened.
"Okay... You know, you can wear a towel over it..."
"I can?" he brightened. She nodded. "I can! Yay!"
Quatre grabbed a white towel and a Speedo from the shelf. Libby took a yellow suit, one piece and rather plain.
Trowa sighed and took a Speedo from the shelf, as did Heero. Lily had a purple, plain suit that looked much like Libby's.
Duo smiled.
"Duo..." said Eliza curiously. "What are you doing?" She gave him a look that made her appear sort of smug.
"Me?" he asked innocently.
"What did you do now?"
He sighed.
"Heh heh. You know me too well."
"Great," she smiled. "Now take your swimsuit and run before I find out what you did."
"Yes, ma'm."Duo dashed over to the rest of the boys and Eliza smiled.
"What the heck are you two talking about?" Lily asked.
"Oh, never you mind."
"OK..."
"Right. Changing rooms. Bathrooms?" suggested Eliza.
"Sounds great," agreed Lily.
"Hey!" called Julie. "Guys! We're all going to change in the bathrooms, okay?"
"Sure!" piped Duo and they all headed down.
Once they got there the boys were able to get in easily, but the girls' bathroom was closed due to construction.
"Great. Now what do we do?" asked Julie.
"Someplace the boys won't go..." thought Libby aloud.
"Why not Victoria's Secret?" suggested Julie.
"Sure," they all agreed and headed off.