"Wake up!!!!" Donna yelled before jumping on the bed that Andi was still sleeping in at about nine the next morning "We want to go shopping but your pussy-whipped boyfriend won't go unless you do."
"What do you mean pussy-whipped?" Quatre asked, looking at her wide-eyed
"You know, pussy-whipped as in..." Donna made a motion like she was cracking a whip at him "You're mine and you'll do whatever the hell I please or you can forget about getting anything."
Andi just mumbled and threw a stuffed butterfly pillow at them, randomly hitting Heero in the forehead "Go away!" She muttered
"If you don't get up we're going to tear your bed apart and make you fall on the floor." Donna threatened
"Omae o korosu." She replied, rolling over
"No you won't, you love me too much. Donna grinned, "Now get up."
"No."
"Get up!" She said, her voice more threatening
"No."
"Please honey." Quatre pleaded
"Okay." She rolled back over and after putting on her glasses so the blobs could take on a human form.
Donna put on her best death glare and fixed it on Quatre. "I hate you." She said, "May the small people suck the marrow out of your bones and piss on your grave."
"That was mean." Lauren commented "Or at least I think it was."
Donna slapped herself in the forehead "You really know how to ruin an insult, don't you?"
"I'm not going to the mall like this." Andi said, looking down at her cloud pajamas.
"Okay?" Duo said, raising an eyebrow "Your point being?"
"Get out of my room so I can get dressed!" She exclaimed
"That means everyone but you Q-man." Duo said cheerfully, leaving with Donna, Lauren, Heero, Wufei, Trowa, and Jessica.
Quatre blushed and exited the room just as quickly, leaving her to get dressed and to emerge from the room a few minutes later looking more human. "Are you ready yet?" Donna demanded
"Umm...not exactly." She replied
"What now!"
"I still kind of have to brush my teeth and that kind of stuff." She shrugged
"Well, hurry up then!" Donna ordered, shoving her into the bathroom "God, you get harder to maintain by the day."
"Give her a break." Quatre said protectively
Donna looked over at him and started laughing again "God you really are pussy-whipped." She said, holding onto her sides to keep them from shaking.
Within the hour, they were crowded into the two different vehicles. Trowa drove himself, Jessica, Wufei, Heero, and Lauren in their truck and Donna took Duo, Quatre, and Andi with her in her little blue car. "So why are we going shopping again?" Andi asked
Duo shrugged "Do you have any other better ideas of something to do on a Saturday?"
"Sleep?" She suggested weakly, leaning against Quatre who wrapped his arms around her.
"Wimp." Donna teased
"Doorknob." Andi shot back, her head still buried in Quatre's shoulder
"Am not!" Donna shouted
"What's a doorknob?" Duo asked, "I mean besides the things that make doors look pretty."
"Everyone gets a turn." Donna quipped, "Almost the same thing as the town bicycle. You know, everyone gets a ride?"
"In other words, she was calling you a slut." Quatre pointed out
"It sounds better our way." Donna said, glancing into the back seat at the two of them.
"Hey...if everyone gets a turn..." Duo grinned over at her "Come on sweetie, I haven't gotten mine yet." He leaned over and gave her a kiss on the cheek
"DUO!" She shouted, swerving over the centerline and then getting back into her lane.
"You two are too loud." Andi complained, "It's too early for this kind of stuff. At least I think it is. What time is it anyways? You managed to knock my clock off the end of my bed again."
Quatre glanced down at his gold watch "It's about nine thirty."
"Why the hell did you have to wake me up this early?" Andi picked her head up and glared at Donna "The stores don't even open until about 10 for the most part."
"We'll have the mall to ourselves." Donna replied with a shrug "I just wanted to see if there really are people who are willing to sleep there."
"I know I will be." She muttered, settling back down on Quatre
Donna just sighed and kept on driving.
"I'm actually beginning to feel kind of bad about waking her up." Lauren said in the truck, turning around to look at the four people in Donna's car "She's going to be half dead for the remainder of the day."
"She's got pretty good aim for someone who's half dead." Heero commented
"Not really. I don't think she wanted to hit you, I think she was aiming for Donna and missed." Trowa said quietly
"How could she have?" Jessica asked, "Donna was about a foot away from her."
"She didn't have her glasses on. Trust me, it's possible." Lauren laughed
"So what are we going to the mall for anyways?" Heero asked
"Spend money?" Lauren suggested
"There isn't anything specific you guys wanted to get?" Trowa asked, raising an eyebrow
"I'm sure we'll find something there."
Trowa raised both eyebrows and then sighed, "Where do I turn again?"
"Turn left at the light and go down Gothem St. until you hit Winslow St. and then make another left. Then you go down that until you reach Holcomb St. and make a right. Then when you reach the intersection where Lady Di's is right across the street, you make a left onto Arsenal St. and that will take you to the mall."
"Isn't there an easier way?"
"Yeah but I don't think you want to brave the Square yet."
"Evil Square." Jessica muttered
"What's the square?" Heero asked
"It's a drivers nightmare." Lauren replied, "It's the worse place in the world to have to do your road test."
"We'll go your way then." Trowa sighed, making the first turn. They rode in silence until they got to mall and then, even though it was only about nine thirty, and most of the stores weren't even open yet, they still had to hunt around for about five minutes to find a parking place. "This is a mall?" Duo asked in amazement, climbing out of Donna's car.
"Yeah, this is a mall." Andi replied dryly, climbing out after Quatre and shaking her head, trying to wake herself up "They have stores here that sell stuff. Some stores even sell black stuff. You'd like that."
"I know what a mall is." Duo shot back, trying to redeem himself "It's just that most of the ones I've seen have been slightly...larger."
"Well...this is all we have." Donna said, taking out her little blue purse and locking the car doors "If you find it that revolting, then you can wait out here while the rest of us spend money."
"So, where to?" Trowa asked, when the two groups reunited
"Let's see what's open since most of the stores probably won't be because it's so damn early." Andi shot another glare at Donna
"Get over it." She replied "Or do I have to sick him on you?" She gestured to Duo who was drooling over a few girls sitting on the stone hedges that were outside the main entrance.
"Mmm." Lauren said, as they walked in "Just what I wanted to smell this morning, chemical X and purified pig entrails."
"What?" Quatre looked horrified
"Mustard and hot dogs." Donna translated "You had to be in Drama to get that one."
"Debs?" Jessica asked, receiving a quick nod from the other girls before they dragged their men to the store with them.
"It's pink." Heero said, wrinkling his nose at the walls and carpet
"It's...girly." Quatre said, trying to be somewhat nicer about it
"Who are the clothes made for?" Duo asked, picking up a pair of jeans "Barbie?" He looked at the tag "Size 0?? How can there be a size zero?" He tossed them at Trowa "Here you go T, they should fit you."
"Hn." Trowa glared at Duo as he tucked the pants back on the rack they had come from
"I hate the color purple." Donna moaned, holding a tiny dress up to herself, "It makes me look even fatter then I actually am." She stumbled forward as Andi punched her shoulder "What? I am."
"Just shut up." Andi glared at her one last time and then walked over to look at the cute socks that she bought way too many of.
"Ummm...we'll be outside waiting for you to get done." Heero said quickly, exiting the store and sitting out on a bench in front of it. The other three joined him, facing the store with their arms crossed over their chests. Andi was the first to emerge "They really don't have anything I can wear." She shrugged "I'm not exactly what you'd call the perfect size seven." She sat down next to Quatre again. Jessica came out a few minutes later, followed by Lauren and Donna who came out dragging three bags with her. "Where next?" Duo asked suspiciously
"Wanna go see a movie?" Lauren asked them "Scream 14 ½ is out now."
"You actually go for those movies?" Heero asked
"Well...not after Scream 4." Andi admitted "Things just got a little bit too weird for me after that."
"What else is there?" Trowa asked
"Well...since you and Jess are the only ones over 17, we can't do anything R-rated." Donna complained
"What does that leave then?" Quatre asked
"You've Got More Mail, Good Will Hunting 3, Pokemon 94: Brock's Funeral, something called Virus Server, and Saving Private Ryan's Brother-In-Law." Lauren grimaced "What's with all the sequels?"
"Let's just go see Virus Server, it's the only original movie out." Jessica suggested
"Whatever you say." They bought the tickets and moved into the dark theatre. "Another stupid hacker movie?" Jessica asked, "We should have just gone to see You've Got More Mail. I hate computers."
Trowa looked over at her and smiled "Let me guess…that other movie is a chick flick of some sort?"
"Well…yeah. But you can't tell me that you don't like a good love story."
"I rather live out one." He replied, reaching over to take her hand, making her blush so red that she swore her face lit up the movie theater.
Needless to say, no one except Wufei paid much attention to the movie and it got so bad at one point that he ended up leaving the three couples and the one almost couple in the room while he sat outside on a bench in the food court.
"Hey, Wufei…isn't it?" The girl he had met the day before spotted him sitting there and smiled.
"Hai." He forced a smile on his face "Here with friends?"
"Family, Mom and Rose had to do some shopping so I came along for the hell of it. What about your friends? Where are they?"
"Making out in the movie theatre." He replied dryly
"All of them?" Her eyes widened "I bet Andi's mom doesn't know about that."
"Her mom doesn't even know us. All she knows is that we woke her up early this morning to drag her to the mall." He tried to remember her name but he kept drawing a blank. "What's your name again?" He asked reluctantly "I'm sorry but I really can't remember it."
"Don't worry about it. I'm Rox." She replied with a smile and a giggle
Wufei almost felt like slapping himself…he never apologized to anyone. What in the world was in the water up there to make people act the way they did? "I will not get involved." He muttered under his breath.
"What?" Rox asked
"I'm sorry. I just can't. I must…go worship Nataku." He finally replied, walking off quickly in the other direction.
"Well…that was strange." Rox shrugged and walked off to go find her mother and sister. "So what now?" Lauren stretched as they came walking out of the movie theater.
"Is there anything else you guys want to get?" Trowa asked, still holding onto Jessica's hand.
"Bath and Body Works?" Andi suggested
"The Yankee Candle store." Donna smiled
"I need some new earrings." Lauren touched her old pair "Claire's is about the only place left that I should go."
"They just got the Sailor Moon movies in a box set." Jessica spoke up "I already have the movies but I want to see if they'll let me have the box to go with them."
"Let's go to the pet shop too!" Donna shouted, never at a loss for ideas "and Sears, and Spencer's, and that one place with the thing that has the things in the widow with the other things that are colored and the things that talk and you know…those things!"
"Duo…have fun." Trowa smirked heading off towards FYE with Jessica. "We'll meet you guys out in front of Ames in about a half hour, k?"
"Sure." Quatre agreed easily, taking Andi's hand and walking down to the Bath and Body Works.
"Hn." Heero and Lauren walked off in the other direction as well
"Let's go!" Donna took off at a brisk walk, plowing through the crowds of people that had arrived with Duo right behind her. "Yes! They have the Midsummer Night scent on sale!" She ran over to the display and began to fill her arms and Duo's with candles of various shapes and sizes but of the same two scents.
"Why not get a little bit more variety?" Duo asked, struggling not to drop anything
"I like these two." She shrugged "Do you want one?"
"Umm…yeah…sure…just please pick out a different scent. These two aren't all that great."
"Hmm…what kinds of things do you like?"
"Food, blood, machines, and you." He grinned, "That's about it."
Donna sighed but walked over and picked out a large sugar cookie candle "This one is pretty sweet. You might like it." They took the candles over to the cashier and after paying too much money; Donna dragged him out of the store and down to the next one on her list. "I've got an idea." She said stopping in the doorway of Sears. Run around the store shouting out marco and I'll go around the other side screaming out polo. We'll see how many people like to cheat on games like this." She took off in one direction and Duo in the other.
"Marco!" He shouted, jumping around the electronics section
"Polo!" He heard her cry out from the other side of the store so he went off, bouncing around
"Marco!"
"Polo!"
"Marco"
"Polo!"
"Sir…I'm afraid you will have to stop this." A man in a nice uniform came up behind Duo while he was looking around the automotive section "You are disturbing many of our customers."
"Hold on for a second!" Duo waved him away "I've almost found her. Marco!"
"Polo!" Donna popped up from behind a display of tires "That was fun…let's go somewhere else now!"
"Damn girl, you have way too much energy."
"Then you better learn to keep up." She replied, "I love to spend money." She took off running for the pet shop at the other end of the mall. Duo sighed but ran right behind her.
"What do you mean you won't sell me the box?" Jessica demanded, "It's easy, you just take the movies out of the box, price them the same as the other movies on the shelf and then sell me the box that they came in."
"I'm sorry ma'am but it's against store policy. You're going to have to buy the movies and the box if you want it because I'm not able to sell you just the box."
Trowa sighed, digging around in a stack of hard rock CDs. The argument between Jessica and the store clerk had been going on for the past fifteen minutes. He had already glanced around the anime section and not finding much of anything that he was interested in, he had begun to sift through the various selections, CD by CD.
"But I'm a loyal customer!" Jessica protested "I've already bought all three movies from you, why can't you just do me a favor and sell me the box to go with them?"
"I've already told you. We can't sell the movies with the packaging removed from them."
"Well…use plastic wrap. It's almost the same thing and no one will ever know the difference."
"Miss, if you're not going to purchase the entire box set, then you won't be able to have the box."
"Where's your manager." Jessica demanded "I want to talk to them about how you treat your customers."
"You've already asked one of our sales clerks for the manager and I'm here. There is no possible way that we are able to sell you the box without the movies."
Trowa sighed and set down the copy of the Drowing Pool CD that he had been looking at to walk back over to where they were standing. He took the boxed movie set from Jessica and took it up front to pay for it. "We'll keep the movies, you can have the box." He said, walking out of the store. "Do you need to get anything else while we're here?"
"Do you want a smoothie?" She asked, glancing at him "You probably could use the extra calories."
"Sure, why not. We can look out for the others there. Besides, I don't dare to go back inside to get that CD I found. The manager looks like he's about to blow up."
"I can go back in to get it for you." She volunteered
"No! I mean…that's okay. Let's just go get those smoothies."
"Whatever floats your boat." Jessica shrugged before they walked back down to the food court.
Lauren spun the earring rack for the ninth time as Heero stood by, his arms crossed, waiting for her to find the pair that she was looking for. "Any luck?"
Nope, but I know they're here." She replied confidently "I just have to look harder."
"Wouldn't it be easier to ask the sales clerk so we can get out of here?"
"That takes all the fun out of looking. Shopping is supposed to be an adventure."
"What if you don't find what you're looking for?"
"Well, then we'll kill a lot of time while I look. You don't mind, do you?"
Heero sighed and gazed over at the shelf of crystal necklaces "Not at all. Take all the time you need."
"Thanks!" She went back to spinning the rack, looking up and down each side for something that he couldn't even identify.
Heero walked over to another rack on the other side of the store and began to spin it around. "What are you looking for?" He asked
"Honestly, I don't know. I just figured I'd know when I found them."
He sighed again and began to hold up "various pairs "These?"
"No."
"What about these ones?"
"Too big."
"And these?"
"Too pink."
"What's wrong with these?"
"They're too big for you to use right away." A sales woman came over to him and picked a pair off of the shelf "We don't have many guys that get their ears done here but we do have some nice new male jewelry lines in and this would look good on you." She showed him the silver hoop with the black and blue stone.
"I don't know."
"Trust me it's perfect for you, now just sit down here."
"What are you doing?"
"It won't even hurt. I promise."
Heero sat absolutely still as she picked up the gun and shot the earring through his left ear. "There, you're all set. Just make sure to clean it every day and rotate the ring every few hours. That will be $10.99." Heero paid the woman and then walked back over to where Lauren was waiting in line with a pair of silver hoops.
"I didn't know you were going to get your ear done." She looked at him
"She did what to me?" Heero's hand flew to his ear where he found the hoop stuck in "I didn't want that to happen."
"Don't worry about it baby, it's looks nice on you." Lauren paid for her earrings and looked at her watch "Let's get going, we have to meet the others."
Heero sighed, touched his earring again and then followed her out of the store.
"So when are you going to get the lotion in?" Andi asked the sales clerk
"We just got sold out of it about a week ago. It isn't a very popular scent so it will be awhile before we get in another shipment."
"It's popular with me!" She protested, holding onto the candles, body cream, linen spray, silky lotion, and various other products in the moonlight path scent
"I'll talk to the manager and see what we can do but in the meantime, why don't you try another scent?"
"I don't want any other scent. This is what I wear."
Quatre sighed and gazed around the store. Although it smelt better then the food court did, he still couldn't understand her obsession with that one scent. He had taken a sniff from one of the bottles she was holding and then smelt a bottle of the scent on the shelf below it and he couldn't tell the difference. "We have to get going soon." He mentioned, glancing down at his watch
"I'll leave as soon as she can give me a date in the near future when they'll be getting in a new shipment."
"I told you miss, we won't be getting in anymore for a few more weeks."
"Look lady." Andi glared flames at her "I got woke up three hours before I normally do which put me in a bad mood off the bat. Now you're trying to tell me that you're not going to get in a certain product because all of the stupid bitches in the world don't think it's cool enough for them to wear. If I were you, and believe me, you'd be better off, you'd just walk into the back room, tell your manager a little white lie about how people have been asking for that product all day and get in a shipment quite soon. I wouldn't want to make you face my wrath."
The woman sighed "If I do that for you, will you leave?"
"After I pay for rest of this stuff."
"Fine. The product should be in within a week." She rang up the products and then Quatre paid the $57.98 and walked out of the store
"I almost felt sorry for that woman." He said while they were walking back down to where Jessica and Trowa were sitting
"Sleep deprivation can be a dangerous thing. Now you know what happens when people wake me up before 11." She smiled up at him "Do you want a smoothie?"
"Sure, why not." He sighed and nodded at Wufei who had come out from the electronics store.
"What did you end up buying?" He asked, wrinkling his nose at the scent of the bag
"Everything that a moonlight path could offer minus the lotion." Quatre replied dryly "I think that this is the last time I'm going to go shopping with a group of girls."
Wufei smirked and shook his head "We might as well get out of here." He commented "At least before they decide that the need something else."
"What the hell?" Heero stood up and stared at Duo who was trying to hold onto a huge cage with a brightly colored bird inside "What did you get?"
"My Henry bird died awhile ago and these had these ones on sale so I bought a new one." Donna declared proudly "Meet Caesar."
"Get your smoothies to go." Heero told the rest of them "Let's just get out of here now."
"What's your hurry?" Lauren asked them "We haven't even gone to the toy store or JC Penny's or anywhere else yet. Are you in that big of a hurry to go home?"
"Yes!" The five guys exclaimed in unison, finally agreeing on something
* * *
"So, what do you think about the music?" Donna asked Duo, practically yelling
"What?" Duo shouted over the roar of the speakers
"Are you having fun?" She shouted a little bit louder
"I left my gun at home." He replied
"No, are you having a good time?" She yelled
"I can't hear you!" He answered
"Never mind." She replied, shaking her head and rejoining her group of friends who were dancing in the middle of the floor.
"Where are your friends?" Rox walked over to them "I thought they'd be here?"
"They're in the corner sulking because except for Duo, none of them seem to be able to dance." Lauren giggled a little
"They'll dance. We just have to make them." Andi shrugged and walked over to pull Quatre to his feet
"I told you, I'm no good at this." He protested
"Just relax." She replied "You're a white boy, if you sway back and forth and nod, they'll think you belong in a boy band."
"What's that supposed to mean?" He asked
"Just that it's a basic fact of life that white boys can't dance."
Quatre shook his head but did as she had directed and then found out that he had a better sense of rhythm then what he had originally expected.
"Not bad." Rox's older sister, Rose, commented "Maybe there is hope for you yet."
"I guess it's not as bad as I originally thought." He shrugged and went back to what he was doing
Heero and Lauren were basically joined at the waist, just grinding together no matter what the beat was. Trowa and Jessica were talking with a few of her friends, basically ignoring the music while Wufei just stood slightly away from the group, gazing in as the music changed tempo and they all began to sway together. He spied a few girls gazing at him out of the corner of his eye and was obviously relieved when Rox grabbed him and pulled him into the crowd of dancing couples. "Not much of a dancer?" She asked him
"No, not really. I just didn't feel like staying at home so I came with the rest of the guys."
"Don't dance, don't shop, don't date. What do you do?" She asked
"Who said I don't date?" He asked, "I will once I find the right girl. I'm just not one for pursuing a meaningless relationship just to say that I have one."
"That's probably the smartest thing to do." She replied "But what about me?"
"What about you?" He asked, the slight smile fading from his face as he studied her a little bit more intently
She had to shy back slightly away from his dark gaze "I just was wondering. From what I've noticed in school over the past few weeks, other then those five, I'm the only girl you willingly speak to and I think we've come a long way. I know I'm beginning to feel something for you and I was just wondering if you felt the same."
He studied her for a moment longer "I haven't felt like this about anyone for quite some time now but I wasn't going to say anything until I was certain. I knew that you had feelings for me, you made that quite obvious so now what do you want to do about it?"
Rox seemed incredibly taken back "I-I-I wasn't quite expecting that answer. I'm not sure about what I want now."
"When you're sure, then come back to tell me." Wufei released her as the song ended "If you're strong enough to come to terms with your own emotions, then you're strong enough to deal with me. If you can't even deal with what you're thinking, then how do you expect to deal with the emotions of another person?" He glanced at his watch "I'm going to get going home. There's no point in my staying around here any longer." He hesitated and then gave her a quick kiss on the cheek before making his way out of the crowded cafeteria.
"Who was that guy?" Rose came up behind her "Why would you let him kiss you?"
"What do you mean?" Rox asked
"He's not cute or anything, I'm surprised you're interested in him."
"He's hot." Rox replied with a smile "And besides that, he's smarter then any guy you'd ever be able to get."
"Mike is smart." Rose protested, "He's got a job at least."
"So he works in the woods, big deal. Wufei has more brains in his bellybutton lint then Mike could think about having in his entire body."
"You stupid little bitch." Rose spat at her "You wouldn't know anything about a good guy to begin with."
"Obviously I know more then you do." Rox replied, walking away from her
"So you two hook up yet?" Lauren asked
"Not really. He said something about my having to realize my own emotions before I would be strong enough to deal with him."
"He has a good point." Andi spoke up, walking over "Just think about it."
"I have been ever since he said it. I really like him but I can't figure out what he means and I won't be able to do what he wants until I understand him."
"Just keep thinking about it." Quatre wrapped his arms around Andi "You'll figure it out eventually. You're not stupid, if you were, he wouldn't have given you the time of day."
"Gahh!" Rox screamed, covering his ears "My brain!"
"You have a brain?" One of her friends bounced over to her "I have a penis."
"Can I play with it?" Rox asked immediately
Alisha grinned "Maybe later. It's 8 feet and 2 ½ inches long. You won't be able to handle it."
"What color is the sperm?" Another blond girl came over to them
"Duh Lindsey, sperm is always blue. It has to be, it's like a rule or something."
"Nuh-uh!" Andi yelled from across the room "What about the purple sperm? You're always discriminating against purple sperm."
"It doesn't exist." Alisha yelled back "Sperms always have to be blue, it's a fact of life or something."
"You guys are weird." Lindsey shook her head and started to laugh.
"I need to figure out what he means." Rox shook off that conversation
"Why? Is he that hot up close?" Lindsey asked excitedly
"He has a penis. That's good enough." Alisha smiled
"He's not like the guys around here." Rox tried to explain to them "He's different somehow."
"Well…yeah…they're all different." Lindsey pointed out to her "That's what makes them so cool."
"Guys, I'm going to go home and try to figure this out." She replied, saying goodbye to rest of the people there that she hung out with before leaving the building and walking down the street. "Come to terms with myself. Isn't that just like knowing who you are and if it is, then why didn't he just say it that way. I know who I am, that's pretty hard not to do. At least I think I do." She paused for a moment, "Maybe that's what he meant…all the questioning. I don't remember ever thinking something completely solid. It's always a might or a maybe. That has to be it. Until I can make a decision for myself, then I won't know who I really am and if I don't know who I really am, then how would I know that he's the right guy for me. Wow, this thinking stuff isn't as hard as it seems."
"It can be kind of fun once you start." Wufei stepped out from behind a tree in a yard "I had a feeling that you'd understand what I meant as soon as you got away from your bubble headed friends. You're getting there and I have more faith in you now then what I did an hour ago." He took her hand in his "I'll walk you home and we'll figure this out some more. It always good to have someone who's willing to walk with you down your chosen path."
"Wufei, we missed the turn to my house." She reminded him
"We're going to take the long way home." He replied with a smile* * *
"Viem be voyte vya mugno wetu." Duo sang out happily in chorus a week later.
"Finally, he's on key." Donna sighed, "It only took three weeks of remedial chorus
Mrs. Dawson smiled happily from behind the piano. "Sounds good, Duo. Keep it up!"
"So he does have a decent voice." Andi commented, "If I didn't just hear it, I wouldn't believe it."
"Maybe she should hold the entire class after school some day. If she can work a miracle on him, there's nothing saying that she can't do it for the rest of the people." Lauren flipped through the sheet music, looking for the solo she had been given.
"The only difference is that he wanted to sing, the rest of the people here are mostly just here for the grade or because they needed the credit for something." Amanda spoke up from where she was filling on an application for a college.
"Why are you doing that already?" Andi asked
"I want to do my last year of high school and my first year of college combined, it's a practical use of time at least." Amanda shrugged
"But you're not even a junior yet." Lauren pointed out
"I need to practice filling out the application now so I don't mess up on the copy that I actually end up sending out." She replied, writing in her social security number.
"I honestly can't see you in college." Andi replied, "You're too optimistic, they'll all end up eating you alive."
Amanda just shrugged and kept on writing.
"Great job!" Mrs. Dawson stood up from behind the piano and started to clap. "This may be our best concert yet if we can get those harmony parts to mesh a little bit better. Let's try I've Got A Home In a Dat Rock now."
"I've got a home in a rock 'cause my life really stinks." Lauren started to hum off key
"Can't you see?" Andi added
Quatre and Duo just smiled and shook their heads in the back of the room.
