A/N: Sorry for not updating for so long. Had some computer problems the weekend I was about to update. In other words, it crashed. But I've got a new chapter for you people, and both I and Aspiring Elf Girl hope you enjoy this chapter. Happy reading!
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Chapter 6 – A Man's Worst Fear
During that car ride I watched the man sitting next to me. He looked familiar, but I couldn't think who he reminded me of. He looked at me and nervously edged away, he had the same look on him that Kurt had when I tried to 'seduce' him in my room. Then it struck me like lightning – it WAS Kurt! He had the same facial features, just with less hair and more human looking. His eyes were watching me the whole time, as if I was about to pounce on him again. I remember Rose telling me something once about a mutant wearing an image-inducer, and I figured that Kurt must have been wearing one to cover the vampire-fluffiness.
I grinned to myself, knowing that Kurt was still wary of me. I must have REALLY screwed with his head. It was not long before we arrived outside the Mall. We all got out of the car and I finally confronted my favourite blue elf.
"Shit, Kurt!" I stated and he looked at me, the 'deer in headlights' look clearly on his face. "You shaved!"
"Now I know why you looked familiar!" Rose grinned.
"So, are we going or what?" Bobby asked impatiently and all six of us made our way towards the HUGE shopping complex. I listened (for once) to Rose and Jean's conversation.
"So we can have a whole new wardrobe? With any clothes we want?" Rose asked excitedly. Jean laughed.
"Yes, as long as your wardrobe doesn't consist of Gucci dresses."
"Score!" Rose and I said together and high-fived.
"Oh god," Bobby groaned.
"Ve could be here for hours," Kurt added sulkily.
"Make that days," Rose joked.
"Aw, come on kids! It's not that bad!" I smiled.
"We're doomed," Bobby muttered.
"I second that!" said Kurt.
"Men!" Ororo chuckled.
The mall was so huge that it could be so easy to get lost. We have nothing that big in England, and trust me, I could get lost in a shoebox. There were so many shops, all with fantastic clothes and - shoes! Wow, the shoes! Usually I don't go for shoes, but I couldn't help myself. Rose looked just as excited as I was as we ran into the first shop and took what looked like hundreds of clothes into the dressing rooms with us.
"Like I said," Bobby groaned. "We're doomed."
We repeated this with almost every shop. There were many different styles of clothes shops, a shop for girly girls, a shop for posh ladies, and a shop for every type of girl I guess. But the one that caught my eye was a sort of punk rock shop, filled with my type of clothes. Before we went there, though, we stopped to indulge in some pizza. I was starving to say the least and so was rose by the looks of it. While we sat and ate, us four girls had to put up with Kurt and Bobby moaning consistently.
"Remind me never to do this again," groaned Kurt as he rubbed his legs. "My legs are going to drop off."
"Forget your legs, what about my back!" Bobby countered. "Why in Hell's name do we have you carry *your* stuff?" he glared at me. I merely smiled and shrugged.
"You're men, it's all you're good for," I commented and Rose chuckled beside me. "That and sex."
"Oh, are the big strong men tired?" Rose grinned with a wink. This time it was Kurt that threw her a glare. "Man, your glares are nearly as bad as hers," she nodded in my direction.
"Hey!" I protested and light-heartedly punched her on the arm.
"Now, now, girls! No fighting in the ranks!" Ororo reprimanded lightly with a smile. "We have more shopping to attend to!"
With that, us girls stood with the background noise of two weary men groaning. Bobby stood but Kurt refused point blank to come with us.
"I'm not going, I've had enough shopping, I vant to rest!" he folded his arms with a pouting expression on his face.
"Kurt. Come. Now."
I said that in the authoritative voice I could manage, but he still refused to move.
"Kurt stop being a pain in the arse!" I sighed, and then turned to the others. "Go on ahead, we'll find you when I get the elf to move."
"Okie doke," Rose smiled. The four of them headed towards the punk shop and I was left to deal with Fuzz-boy. He had a steely look of determination on his face and he glared at me. Nope, his glares were worse than mine. Okay, I had two choices; persuade him to move or to throw him across the mall. I think the latter would be a bit too conspicuous, don't you? I had to go with 'gentle' persuasion. If seduction worked before, it'll work again!
I walked over to his sitting form and bent down to talk to him.
"Kurt, if you know what's good for you, you'll come with me now," I said quietly. "Do you really want to make a scene?"
He didn't even grace me with an answer; he just turned his head away and looked in a different direction. I sighed dramatically.
"I hoped it wouldn't have to come to this but –"
Without another word and as quickly as I could manage I sat on astride on his lap, in the middle of the restaurant, drawing quite a bit of attention. Kurt finally looked at me. His face showed indifference, but his eyes showed pure panic and horror. My hand came up and stroked his face; under the image-inducer he was still furry, like a big fluffy rabbit. I bent my head to whisper in his ear.
"This can all stop here Kurt, you just have to get up and carry on shopping," I told him. "Either that or I undress you here and now, it's your choice."
That was a pretty empty threat, I know I'm a terrible seducing monster, but that would be overstepping the mark just a little bit. I got a response, but it wasn't the one I wanted.
"In your dreams," he hissed.
"You don't know how right you are," I purred and winked. Oh yeah, he blushed like a tomato. The blush deepened when he noticed everyone was staring. Nope, it still wasn't working. I had to switch tactics, violence is always the answer. I grabbed him by the collar and pulled him forward. "You better get moving now, Elf-boy, or I'll make you wish you'd never been born," I scowled at him. "When I threw you against the wall, that was just a taster of what will happen when you mess with me."
"You vouldn't dare," Kurt replied, but the little squeak to his voice was very reassuring. I 'dismounted' him and stood with my arms folded, attempting to be menacing.
"Try me."
Pulling a rather unbecoming face, Kurt grumbled as he stood.
"Stupid voman, thinks she owns the place."
Usually I wouldn't have been able to hear that amongst the chattering people in the restaurant but it must be a perk to being a mutant. Wow, mutant, sounds cool doesn't it? I am a mutant, a Homo Sapiens Superior. I'll never get tired of saying that.
Lugging the bags that he had previously been carrying, Kurt followed me as we went to catch up with the others.
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We left Belle to deal with Kurt and headed towards the punk shop. Just before entering the shop Jean and Ororo turned to me and Bobby and said that they had some business to attend to at the bank.
"We will all meet in one hour at that fountain" Ororo said pointing to a fountain nearby. "Is that understood?"
"Yes" both of us answered.
"Good. Don't forget to tell the other two" Jean said.
"We won't" Bobby said while I was looking at one of the items that were placed outside the shop.
"Rose, are you listening?" Ororo asked looking at me.
"Yup, meet in one hour at the fountain, tell the others."
After that they left and Bobby and I entered the shop. I looked around a little before grabbing some clothes and headed towards the changing-booths with Bobby following me while he kept complaining about his feet hurting.
"Bobby, mind shutting your mouth? You do know that there's a couch you can sit on while I try on some of these clothes." I didn't really get a response so I grabbed his arm and dragged him over to the couch. "Now sit here while I go change, and who knows, I might even put on a little show for you" I said winking at him.
I walked into the booth and changed into a pair of pale blue jeans and a black top that was slashed across the chest. I looked at my reflection and liked what I saw. I then changed into a pair of black leather pants and a very low cut red top with an open back. The top had a lot of straps hanging and a belt that hung rather loosely on my hips. I once again looked in the mirror and if I might say so myself I looked rather good. I walked out of the booth to only to see that Bobby was sitting on the couch reading a copy of Cosmo. Whatever he was reading he seemed very interested by it because he didn't even notice me coming out of the booth. I was about to say something when a thought crossed my mind and I sneaked closer without drawing his attention to me. I came up behind him and peaked over his shoulder so I could see what he was reading.
"Interesting, isn't it?" I said with a low whisper. Surprised Bobby jumped up from where he was sitting and turning around to face me, his face going red. That's when he saw what I was wearing. I was leaning on the couch, smiling. "You like?"
His jaw dropped slightly. I stood up and walked over to him.
"I take that as a yes." This time he replied by nodding. And I'm not really sure, but was he blushing?
"You look nice" he finally manages to get out.
"That means that this outfit is worth the money if I get more responses like this." With that I couldn't help myself and gave him a little kiss on the cheek before walking back into the booth.
When I came back out again Bobby was standing sitting on the couch with Kurt and I walked over to the two. Kurt was sulking and Bobby kept whining about there not being anything more manly to read than Cosmo, or that's what it sounded like to me.
"What are you two complaining about now?" I said picking up the magazine I had seen Bobby reading before. He seemed to notice this and his face looked paler for a moment. I simply smiled and winked at him. Kurt who was watching us looked at Bobby and then me.
"Okay, vhat happened? Vhat is going on?"
"Nothing happened, did it Rose…" Bobby said. The looks he was giving me told me that if I told Kurt what had happened he would most likely hunt me down and kill me. Luckily Belle came out of the booth right then. She was wearing a pair of black baggy combats and a black tank top. She did a little twirl and striking a pose she said:
"You like it?"
"Honey, you look good" I said snapping my fingers. She looked over to the guys.
"Guys, what do you think?"
"It's fine" Bobby said not even looking up while Kurt mumbled something that I couldn't hear.
"What's wrong with you guys" I said punching both of them lightly. "Have you never ever shopped with women before? You should know that there's nothing as annoying as someone who doesn't even pay attention to you when you ask for their opinion. How would you like it if you asked us for your opinions and we simply ignored you? You wouldn't like it, that's what. Now say that you are sorry, and say it like you mean it so that we can go on with our shopping."
"Rose, it's okay. Really" Bella said standing by the booth before walking in.
"See what you've done. Now she's upset"
"How can she be upset? She said that she vas fine" Kurt asked.
"Don't you know ANYTHING about women? That meant that she was hurt"
"Oh"
During this whole thing Bobby had barely spoken. I think it might have had something to do about a certain article someone was reading. Oh, well. After the punk shop we went in search for necessities like toothbrushes, linens and things like that. Once that part of our shopping list was done I asked if I could take the credit card as we walked in to yet another store.
"Why?" Bobby said wondering.
"Fine, have it your way. But be warned, we're gonna go buy underwear, so if you don't mind walking up to the cash register with a bunch of women's underwear then be my guest"
He looked over at Kurt before handing over the card.
"Thank you" I said before linking arm with Belle and starting to head for the shop.
"Hey, don't take to long. We have to meet Jean and Ororo in about 15 minutes" Bobby yelled. We simply nodded before we entering the store.
Walking out of the store with a bag in each hand Belle and I headed for the fountain where Jean, Ororo, Kurt and Bobby were waiting.
"Vhat took you so long? Ve've been vaiting a half-hour for you" Kurt said as he saw us approach.
"Well, we saw some bathing suits that we just had to try on" Belle said.
"Ah-huh, that's good. Can we go back home again? My back is killing me!" Bobby whined.
"Your back? How the hell can your back hurt? You've been sitting on your ass for the last couple of hours" I said. Bobby shot me a dirty look, but I simply ignored it.
"Now now, Bobby has a point. It is time for us all to head home" Ororo said.
With that we all headed back towards the car. After putting all the bags in the trunk Belle and I sat together, leaving Bobby and Kurt to sit together.
"Remind me why I came" Bobby said to Kurt as Jean started the car.
"Ve had no choice, mein freund" Kurt replied shaking his head solemnly. "Ve had no choice…"
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