Sorry it took a while for my to update…school gets in the way. Anyway, thanx for the reviews hope you like this chapter. It's interesting. Hehehe…guys hate to shop…hehehehe. So enjoy and please review to tell me what you think so I can move on to the next chappie!!

                                    ~Miss Wright~

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Chapter 7: Mall Crawl

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         The SUV seemed overly stuffy to Amara, sitting between Kai and Nicholai. She sat completely still trying not to bump either boy, which was hard considering how close both of them were to her, every corner sent her crashing into one of them. To make matters worse she hated enclosed vehicles causing her to feel slightly light headed and nauseous.

"Amara, are you okay?" Kai leaned over and asked the hyperventilating red head.

         "Uh huh," she managed to mumble, putting on a fake "I'm okay" smile between staggered breath.

         "Whatever," Kai turned back to the window.

         "LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT!" Amara screamed a few minutes later.

"But miss we're not there yet," the driver tried to reason with her.

"I DON'T CARE!!" she screamed back. The driver pulled over to the shoulder and brought the SUV to a halt. Amara climbed over Nicholai and burst open the door. 

         "HHHHHHHUUUUHHHHUUUHH," Amara gasped for air as if she had been holding it in for minutes longer than she should have. The rest of the passengers stared at her from the SUV.

         "Okay maybe it was a bad idea for her to come in the car," Nicholai shrugged.

         "Oh Ams," Kiki jumped out of the vehicle. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have forced you to come with us."

         "It's fine," Amara managed to say between, gasps. "I just won't do it again for a long time."

         "Wow, she hates cars that much," Tyson accidentally thought out loud.

         "I have my reasons," Amara snapped.

         "I didn't mean…oh never mind" Tyson tried to correct his mistake.

         "Whatever, I'm walking," Amara turned and began to walk in the direction of the large mall.

         "Ams, be reasonable," Mico called after her. "Let's all take the sky train instead."

         "Alright fine," Amara agreed.

Lucky for them the sky train station was only a around the corner and would take them directly to the mall. Amara seemed comfortable on the train but her body was still rigid. Finally they made it to their station and Amara was the first one out the door. The rest of the group followed shortly after trying not to push through the crowd of people.

"So…now what?" Max asked once they were inside the large shopping complex.

"We shop," Kiki grinned gleefully. "Meet you guys at 5."

 Without even really thinking about it they all split up. Kiki dragged Amara towards a dress shop, while Mico and Kenny went in search of the nearest computer store.

"Well, I guess it's just us now," Nicholai said to Max, Tyson, Rei and Kai who were left standing with him.

"Any place to blade in this mall?" Tyson turned to look around. "I'm not really a shopping kind of guy."

"Me neither," Max and Rei said in unison.

"Yeah, I think I know just the place," Nicholai walked away, assuming the guys would follow him. They all did except Kai who went in the opposite direction.

~ A Little While Later~

         "Ams, you have to let me see," Kiki stood tapping her foot in front of the closed dressing room door.

         "There is no way I am coming out in this thing," Amara shrieked from behind the dressing room door. "It's DISGUSTING!"

         "What's wrong with this one?" Kiki groaned. So far they had been shopping for an hour and Amara had rejected every single dress.

         "Well for one thing it's pink," Amara answered.

         "Okay so you don't like the color but other than that what's so bad about it?" Kiki asked again, getting rather impatient with her friends unenthusiastic attitude.

         "You tell me," Amara emerged from the room wearing a bright, almost neon, pink dress, trimmed in black ribbon, that had spaghetti straps and a skirt that poofed out just above her knees. To make matters worse it had large red lace roses around the plunging neckline and a large one on the waist. "I feel ugly just wearing this thing!"

         "Okay fine," Kiki agreed. "That one is truly nasty but try on something else PLEASE!"

         "What's the point," Amara whined, flopping onto the bench in the dressing room. "Unlike you my dear friend, I don't care about impressing all the guys at the banquet."

         "Awww, come on Ams," Kiki put her arm around her friend's shoulders. "Don't you want to see the looks on the guy's faces when you come out in a dress?"

         "No, not if it means I have to spend the night in a heinous dress like this," Amara forced a smile.

         "You are not going to wear that," Kiki sighed hitting her forehead. "We'll find you the sexiest dress so you can knock the Blade breaker's socks off."

         "I don't think so," Amara returned to the dressing room.

         "You can't hide it from me Amara Jones, " Kiki called through the door. " You like those guys."

         "Whatever you say Keeks." Amara threw the pink creation over the door, causing it to land right on Kiki's unsuspecting head. "Next!"

~Meanwhile~

       "This totally bites," Kai thought to himself. He had been wandering the mall for the last hour. The only thing he had found interesting was the blade shop. He spent some of his time browsing the shop, looking at the different blades and accessories but soon got bored, which left him roaming the large mall aimlessly.  Part of him wished that he had stayed with the rest of the guys but he reasoned that being alone was less aggravating. He managed to locate the food court and sat down to rest his feet for a while.

         "Did you guys read the paper yesterday?" a girl sitting at the table behind him was speaking excitedly to her friends.

         "Yeah, the Blade breakers are in town!" another girl squealed.

         "Those guys are like so hot," sighed the third girl. "I would take up beyblading just to meet them."

         "Sheesh," Kai groaned to himself, his face hidden under his hood. "Some girls will do anything to meet a guy."

         "The paper said that they were staying with that Amara Jones chick."

         "The one that won the Canadian Championship?"

         "Yeah, and unfortunately she isn't listed," groaned the first girl.

         "Some girls have all the luck," grumbled another girl.

         "It helps when your uncle is in charge of the BBA," one scowled, drawing the attention of all the other girls.

         "I heard he's not really her uncle," one said in a rather matter a fact voice. "He pays for everything cuz she puts out. Ya know what I mean?!"

         "EWWWWY, that's just disgusting," a few of them groaned.

         "Well some girls will do anything to stay high on the social latter," the girl rolled her eyes.

         "Oh oh," one of the girls began whining, interrupting the dissection of Amara's life.

         "What? What's wrong?" the other girls tried to calm their excited friend.

         "Jason works at the stadium," she finally managed to say. The girls stared at her, not sure what this statement had to do with the Blade breakers.

         "Don't you guys get it?" the others shook their heads. "He can get us in!!!!" This caused all the girls to shriek and scream.

         "I gotta get out of here," Kai grumbled, his ears ringing from the screams. He got up to leave with his back towards the group sitting around discussing his team. As he walked away he heard one of the girls behind him call out.

         "Hey girls isn't that…"

~Meanwhile Somewhere Else in the LARGE Mall~

       "3…2…1…LET IT RIP!!!" Tyson, Max, and Rei followed Nicholai through the crowd to the front row. They watched two amateur bladers begin their battle.

         " Aw man," Tyson said, watching the two blades duke it out. "I wanna blade so bad." He pulled Dragoon out of the pocket of his black shorts.

         "You can't!" Rei grabbed Tyson's arm, stopping him from getting too close to the action.

         "Why not?" Tyson whined. "I won't make them look too bad."

         "But you will blow your cover," a familiar voice came from behind them. The four boys turned to see Mr. Dickinson standing behind them.

         "Hey Mr. D," they all greeted the older man.

         "As I can see someone has tried hard to keep you guys out of the spotlight for now and I think they were right in doing so," Mr. Dickinson stated. "I could hardly recognize you in those clothes. Especially you Rei."

         "I know, but seeing them blade makes me want to," Tyson held Dragoon in his hand.

         "Well for now you'll have to settle with watching," Mr. Dickinson turned his attention back to the battle.

~ Back in the Dressing Room of an Unknown Fancy Dress Shop~

       "So what's wrong with this one?" Kiki sat on the carpeted floor of the dressing room, flipping through an out of date magazine that was sitting on one of the small tables, in boredom.

         "Not much really," Amara said as she opened the door of the change room. She wore a short black Chinese style dress with a pattern of small blue flowers all over. The silk clung to all the right places, showing off Amara's feminine attributes.

         "Whoa, you look great! Consider their socks officially knocked off," Kiki gave a cheeky smile.

         "Thanks," Amara blushed, tugging uncomfortably on the short hem of the dress. "You don't think it's too short?" The dress hung slightly above Amara's knees.

" No, I have shorts that are shorter than that dress. Kai is gonna have a heart attack when he sees you," Kiki nudged her friend and giggled.

 "Right Keeks, because my goal is to kill him," Amara replied flatly rolling her eyes slightly. "I saw some shoes out there that I liked, be right back." Amara left the dressing room still wearing the dress.

"You know what I meant," Kiki called after her.

~ Back to the Food Court~

       "Hey isn't that Jason," one of the girls called loud enough for the whole food court to hear. Kai breathed a sigh of relief and continued walking.

         "Yeah I think it is… JASON!!!!" Suddenly Kai was grabbed by the arm and whipped around to face a small brunette, causing his black hood to fall off his head.

         "Bugger," Kai mumbled Amara's curse word under his breath.

         "Oh sorry," the girl gave him an apologetic smile. "I thought you were…" Her words trailed off as she stared at Kai's surprised face.

         " That's okay," Kai said quickly, removing his arm from the girl's grip and returned the hood to his head. She was looking at him too closely and to make matters worse the girl's friends were coming closer to where they were standing. "Bye" Kai turned to leave again and began to speedwalk away from the group.

         "THAT'S KAI HIWATARI!!!!!!!"

         "Oh BUGGER!" Kai turned to see the group of girls start to come in his direction.

         "GET HIM!!!!!!"

~ And Back to the Bey Battles~

         "Wow, that was an awesome battle!" Max exclaimed.

         "Yeah I guess watching isn't so bad," Tyson finally admitted.

         "Do you guys hear something?" Rei asked his face strained as he listened.

         "No…" the other guys stared at Rei.

         "Wait…" Nicholai listened as closely as he could. "It's hard to hear much of anything over all that pounding and screaming."

         "Oh yeah I hear that too," Max agreed.

         "That's the sound I'm talking about," Rei laughed a little. "It started so suddenly." They continued to listen as the sound grew quickly louder as if it was coming closer to them. Tyson stood up on the bench that they were sitting on to look over the crowd.

         "Uh guys," Tyson nudged them with his feet, his eyes locked on something behind the crowd of people.

         "Not now Tyson," Rei shooed him away, still trying to listen.

         "No, you gotta see this."

         "What's so important? Can't it wait?" Rei, Max, and Nicholai all stood up on the bench beside Tyson. All Tyson could manage was to point.

         "Holy crap!" Nicholai's jaw dropped.

         A hooded figure was dodging shoppers while running for his life away from a massive swarm of girls. The girls were all screaming in excitement, not caring who or what they knocked over on their way. As the mayhem got closer the guys soon realized who the hooded figure was.

         "KAI!" they all became aware at once. Kai ran passed without even noticing his friends calling to him. All he could hear was the screams and pounding of feet, which kept him moving as fast as he could. The herd of girls were gaining on him fast.

~The Dress Shop Again~

       "Can I get these in a seven?" Amara asked holding up the black strappy shoe for the sales clerk.

         "Of course, I'll be right back," the clerk left Amara sitting on the bench in the shoe section of the fancy dress shop.

         CLUNK! AHHHHHHH! OOOOOOHHHH MY GOSSSSSSSH!!!!!!!

         "What the hell is that?" Amara turned to look out the glass wall of the store.

         KKKKKAAAAAAIIIII!!!!!

         "Kai?" Amara peered through the glass. And sure enough she saw Kai being chased by a stampede of teenage girls. "Oh bugger!!!" She rushed to the front entrance of the boutique. If Kai came around the corner and turned left she would be able to grab him.

         "Please turn left Kai, please," she chanted under her breath. She stood by the door watching through the glass. As if Kai had heard her plea, he got to the junction and chose to turn left.

         WHOOSH! Next thing Kai knew he was up against the wall with a protective arm across his chest and the herd ran right past where ever he was. He looked at the back of a girl in a short black dress. "WOW!" He continued his over view of the girl and when he got to her hair he knew exactly who had saved him.

         "Amara?!"

         "Kai, you are so lucky, those girls were ready to rip you apart if they caught you…What are you staring at?" Amara's hands were now on her hips as she studied Kai's face. His eyebrows were furrowed, making it difficult to tell if he was mad or shocked.

         "Do you have a problem," Amara snapped, crossing her arms over her chest.

         "What?!? No!" he snapped back feeling a little embarrassed that he had been staring at her.

         "Hey Ams…oh hey Kai," Kiki smiled to herself, seeing Kai and Amara stare each other down amused her. "Decided to join us in our dress hunt eh?"

         "No," Amara answered for him. "I just saved him from the vultures."

         "Right…so Kai what do you think of her dress?" Kiki smiled devilishly.

         "What would I know about dresses?" Kai answered, refusing to play her little game. "I'll see you girls later."

         "You can't answer my question with another question and then leave," Kiki called after him.

         "Whatever," he waved without turning around.

         "ARUGH! The nerve of that guy," Kiki grumbled. "He may be hot but he really pisses me off."

         "Well maybe you shouldn't piss him off," Amara reasoned.

         "Whaaaaaa…" Kiki's jaw dropped. "You're siding with him over me, your BEST friend? That's just wrong!"

         "Whatever!" Amara turned her back to Kiki and disappeared back to the dressing rooms.

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