Once most of the girls were half done changing and still in the changing rooms the boys came in.
"We're here!" called Duo who was in his Speedo and quite happy about it.
"Huh?" Julie was confused. "How'd you know we were here?"
"Men's intuition," he replied and gazed about at the merchandise. The group sighed.
The remaining girls that were still changing came out of the back rooms each in their swimsuits with towels wrapped around their waists.
"Uh... Duo...?" said Eliza. "What are you doing?"
"Oh! Me... I'm... uh... Nothing."
"Really, what are you doing?"
"Finding you something! Yes! Presents! We all love presents! Here!" The boy randomly grabbed something off a hanger and showed it into Eliza's face. "Happy birthday. Enjoy this gift."
Eliza twitched.
"DUO MAXWELL!! YOU'RE GOING TO DIE!!"
Duo dropped the "gift" and ran- he ran over to Wufei and hid behind the Chinese boy.
"Help me, Wu-man, help me."
"Why?" Wufei asked Duo giving the boy an odd look.
"Um... because I said so... I know! I'll give YOU a gift too!" He pulled something black and frilly off a rack and gave it to Wufei. "Enjoy!"
"KISAMA!!"
Now both Wufei and Eliza were chasing after Duo with murderous gleams in their eyes.
"Hey..." panting Duo between breaths of air. "Why don't... we... take baths now..."
After a while everyone decided to but it took a long time to let Wufei and Eliza to cool down.
* * *
The group took a trip to Bath and Body Works first to get some supplies. Most people agreed to the idea but a few of the boys didn't like the thought of smelling like violets and such.
"Come on, Wufei..." whimpered Eliza. "Maybe apple melon honeysuckle will become your favorite sent of soap!"
"If that ever happened to me, woman, I would let a weakling like you slap me to get that out of my system for that is a great injustice."
"Okay, maybe not..." Eliza said. "What about you, Heero? You'll smell like early morning rose mist for us, won't you?"
Duo made a puppy face to get Heero to feel sorry for him, but Heero just ignored it thinking it was stupid and annoying.
This continued on for a while until everyone decided to would be OK to smell like a type of flower. The group walked down to Mario's International Spa.
They played around in the water; splashing each other and the like until everyone was clean. They got out and dried off as they carried their towels with them down the mall. It felt strange to walk around the empty place in swimsuits and wet towels, but they quite easily managed. The boys went back to the bathroom and the girls departed and headed toward Victoria's Secret once again. The team met all together by Imaginarium.
"Why don't we just look in here because our next thing to do is "play around"?" suggested Lily.
They went inside and poked about examining different objects and such.
"What a sweet stuffed animal!" cooed Quatre. "It's a panda!"
"That is cute!" approved Libby.
"Ha! A small blade!" Wufei chipped happily thinking of Julie.
"I wish they had a gun..." muttered Heero.
Duo enjoyed the dinosaur talons and such. Eliza was having fun shoving three puppet mice in a box towards Lily's face to annoy her only to have Lily remark she's "being ignorant". Everybody loved the store and had enjoyed their time. Sooner or later it got rather late.
"We better get to bed or something," said Trowa.
The troop headed off to Home Comfort. Once everyone was there Eliza stood up to read off the names of who would be with whom.
"OK," she started, clearing her throat. "In that first, yellow bed will be Quatre and Libby." The two people went off to that direction and started getting ready. "In that next, red one is Julie and Wufei." Wufei groaned as Julie clapped for joy and pulled him onto the bed. "In the biggest one is Duo, Heero, and I. Cool group, huh? Well, the last one is Trowa and Lily."
Each person set up his or her bed. Once everyone was tucked under the covers and had closed their eyes each person muttered goodnight. Everybody slept quite peacefully and everyone woke up at about the same time the next morning.
* * *
"Duo," complained Heero, "you kept snoring and talking in your sleep." He sighed. "You can never be quiet. Even when you're sleeping."
"Oh, thanks SO much. Your kindness is overwhelming. I was having a nightmare last night and now you're just making fun of me. I'm so crushed..."
"Awww... It's okay, Duo. I care." Eliza sent a dark look towards Heero as the group all got out of bed and headed to the food court.
"See," started Duo, "in my nightmare these people were-"
"Duo..." trembled Quatre, "you're scaring me. Please stop..."
"Oh, sorry, Quatre." Then Duo cast a look at Heero. "See, Dr. Evil, I don't make fun of people or be intentionally cruel to them. Hmph."
Duo and Eliza walked faster together down the halls. Once everyone was together they decided to go to two places: Coffee Mill and McDonald's. It was rather hard for Trowa to manage nine orders and go back and forth from the two stores. After about half an hour or so he was done with preparing breakfast. The troop used two booths to eat at and conversed within their own table.
"These pancakes are really fluffy! What did you do to make them so delicious, Trowa?"
"Well, Libby, I just added a little more flour and they weren't frozen or anything. I just made them so the freshness might also be affecting the taste. I also didn't stir them too much, but enough to mix up the ingredients. That's about it."
"This is pretty good java," said Wufei.
"Thanks," replied Trowa.
They talked on and on until every person was full and bored. Each person cleaned up his or her own mess and then decided to do something for fun.
"OK. Trowa and I are in charge of entertainment around here so we're going to plan something really fun. I think some people might like the Pottery Barn, or People's Pottery. Who wants to come with me and check out these stores and some other fun ones?"
Quatre, Eliza, Duo, and Libby joined Lily and they walked off in that direction.
"Alright," said Trowa. "We can go... where ever... Does anybody have any ideas?"
"I know!" cried Julie. "Why don't we go clothes shopping? Can I pick out some outfits and get you guys to try them on?"
Heero, Trowa, and Wufei had weary looks on their faces.
"Uh..."
"Goody!"
She pulled on all of their wrists to drag them along. They entered GAP first.
"Okay, guys, take a look around. I'm going to find the cutest clothes for each of you!" she squealed with delight. Each boy shuddered. "I'll meet you back here in fifteen minutes. Stay within reach of a clock!"
Julie then left and headed off to find "cute" (disgusting, clashing) clothes. The trio sighed.
"We're free," breathed Trowa.
"At last," Wufei said as he lay down on the ground since his legs hurt.
"I've never been more afraid of my opponent," murmured Heero. You could tell he was terrified.
"Who knew a weak woman could be so powerful..." agreed Wufei.
All of them were scared of her. You couldn't blame them, really. She was horribly scaring. Even if she was a "weak woman".
* * *
Lily, Quatre, Libby, Duo, and Eliza were having a grand time (the contrast to Wufei, Trowa, and Heero) exploring cool stores and finding neat products.
"This is the cutest seal!" declared Libby gaping at the small figurine.
Quatre nodded. "Do you like the dog clock?"
"That's sweet!" agreed Libby and inspected the clock for a while.
"Duo, isn't this cool?" asked Eliza.
"Wow! Uh... What's it do?"
"It's a pen that lights up. See? It has a laser pointer and all of these other gadgets attached to it."
"Neat!"
"I know!"
Trowa was having a great time playing around with freeze-dried food. He obviously liked the ice cream and the strawberries since he took a good number of those to snack on. Lily was rather fond of a couple of CDs and she had found a CD player from Record Town as well as the CDs.
After a while everyone decided to move to other stores since they were tired of the one they had been in. Quatre and Libby moved to Zales Jewelers. Lily decided to check out some sporting gear while Duo and Eliza went to Sweet Factory. Trowa decided to go to Books Away. He sat down by an aisle and just grabbed random books from the selves and read them.
* * *
Libby was hovering around by the rings in the store.
"Oh, Quatre, this diamond ring is beautiful!"
"Do you really like it?" he asked.
"Oh, yes, but not as much as I love you."
Quatre blushed.
"You're so sweet," she cooed and kissed him.