NEXT DAY -

Alexis sat alone in the cafeteria sipping at her cup of coffee, letting out a deep sigh as she drummed her nails on the table and looked around bored. When she'd got up that morning she did her usual thing of going around annoying people, but they soon all started to go off and do something (or someone), leaving her more or less on her lonesome. She groaned and looked into her cup, seeing the dull coffee glaring back at her. So much for May's 'girls have the best fun' statement.

"There you are!" A shrill voice suddenly blared from the silence making Alexis jump.

"Christ Ebony" Alexis gasped out staring wide eyed, as she recovered and kept tight grip of the mug.

"We've been waiting for you, I knew you'd forget" she tutted and stalked over.

"We? Waiting? Forgotten?" Alexis looked dead confused.

"Shopping trip" Ebony stated raising her eyebrows and watching Alexis's eyes widen.

"Hey I told you, I'm not"-

"You've got to come Lex it's a girl's day out!" Ebony said and Alexis gave her that look.

"I'm not"-

"Ah shut up, you got nothing better to do, and do you really want to pass an opportunity to spend Bray's money?" Ebony smirked holding up his wallet.

Alexis blinked. "Well when you put it like that", the chair scraped up as she followed after Ebony.

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"I can't believe I'm doing this" Lex muttered to herself, rolling her eyes upwards as she dawdled behind the group of other girls.

"They better still have that skirt, you know the green one?" Trudy was saying to May.

"Ooh that was nice, but are you sure they had it in your size?" May asked.

Trudy narrowed her eyes, "I am sure"

"I'm hoping to get some nice jewelery" Ellie smiled to Cloe.

"Oh that stall we saw last week had some nice bracelets" Cloe enthused.

"Yeah there was this nice pink beaded one I saw" Ellie replied.

"Dear God I'm going to die a slow painful death surrounded by you lot and I'll slowly drift to what I think is the light at the end of the tunnel, but will probably actually be something like a mirror ball gleaming in a changing area" Lex muttered to herself.

"Oh cheer up Lex, it'll be fun. You can get some nice new outfits that actually fit, and spend Bray's money, and"-

"Ooh wow I simply must squeal with delight at the prospect of clothes shopping with you girls. Honestly you have no fashion sense" Lex rolled her eyes and Ebony snorted.

"To tell you the truth I can't stand to shop for ages, and some places get a bit claustrophobic. I just wanna go in, grab a garment, pay and run you know" Ebony told Alexis.

"I know. Really? I expected you to be the kind of person who'd kill anyone in their path with like a blow torch or something to get to the sale area" Alexis blinked at her.

Ebony laughed, "whatever. I believe them lot might see heavens gates whenever they see the word sale" she nodded to the others.

"Really? I thought it was some kind of hypnosis thing" Alexis smirked.

"You two hurry up! We wanna get to the clothes shops at some point" Salene called to them.

"Ha, if she thinks I'm hurrying in these heels she got another thing coming" Ebony muttered and Lex laughed.

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Lex stood being quiet, looking somewhat bored, afraid and embarrassed as the girls rifled through the rails at this shop they walked in, and squealed and got enthusiastic and stuff. She shuddered. Some Christina agu- sumthing or other that sounded like iguana was playing. She felt she had somewhat walked into a hell zone as she saw flashes of Barbie pink, PVC, something furry, and a pair of leggings. Yep, she'd gone into an 80's Barbie house hell zone. She wouldn't make it out of the shop alive.

"Does this suit me?" Cloe turned with bright green lipstick on.

Alexis's eyes widened as she stumbled backwards in horror into a rail.

"Come on Lex, dig in, you might find a bargain" May said appearing behind Alexis making her jump, before May ran past holding a pair of green denim trousers.

"What do you think?" Amber asked turning around and holding a top up to herself in front of Alexis. "Too showy? Too tight? Think it looks slutty or cute? Or cute slutty huh? Maybe its too small"

"Um.uh." Alexis's mouth opened and shut a few times as she looked around desperately, "Oh hey I think I see a garment that looks like it hasn't been skinned off something alive" and quickly dived behind a rail.

"Boo"

"ARGH!" Alexis screamed, and felt horror at the realization the place had fallen into sudden silence. She whirled to see a grinning Ebony. "That wasn't funny!" Alexis pouted moodily and poked Ebony in the ribs.

"Hehe sorry, I thought you looked on the verge of tears, you wanna wait outside with me?" Ebony asked.

"There is a God" Alexis whispered and pretended to do a little happy dance.

"Ooh this top is so funny" They heard Trudy suddenly giggle, "it says 'talk to the face cos the tits aint"-

"OH MY GOD!" Alexis squealed, stumbling past rails, getting a coat hanger caught to her sleeve as she made a mad dash to Trudy. "GIVE IT!" She snatched the top out of Trudy's hands and shoved her aside as she held the top up and looked at it.

It was black and sure enough had in purple print, "TALK TO THE FACE COS THE TITS AIN'T LISTENING". "Dude I found it! The top that explains my new life" she hugged the top to her chest.

"What the"- Trudy said as she looked angrily at Alexis.

"I was thinking this exact sentence the other day and thought hmm I have to get that printed on a T-shirt and what do you know, Fate loves me at last!" Alexis was grinning and squealing as she bounced up and down, "letmebuyitletmebuyitletmebuyitletmebuyi

t!" she repeated in a matra not stopping for breath and the others were like crying with laughter.

"Ok ok seeing as you love it so" Amber laughed.

"I found it first" Trudy snapped moodily.

"Yes but the top is relevant to moi, I mean there's nothing there on you" Alexis poked Trudy in the chest area and the others snorted as Alexis shoved Trudy out the way again and walked past. "Ebs hun, you giving me the money?" Alexis tilted her head and grinned sweetly.

"Sure thing Lexy" Ebony followed after her waving Bray's wallet in the air.

"Hey that's Bray's money! Damnit he couldn't lend me any cos she nicked it" Amber pouted moodily.