The rest of the day, as weird as it seemed for our goddess, went by fast and without any problems worth paying attention to. Kira managed to avoid Feryl and her idiot friends, say hi to everyone who came to her party and see Marik over lunch. The young goddess smiled happily to herself as she made her way to her locker. Spinning the combination around three times, she opened it to find all of her normal things scattered about. Grabbing what she needed, Kira left the school, to find Marik standing in the parking lot with Malik and Mai.

Kira quickened her pace a little at the sight of her three friends.

"Hey Marik!" Kira said cheerfully. The bleach blonde vampire smiled and held his hand out towards Kira's.

"How was football practice?" she asked, leaning on his firm shoulder. Marik made a sound that somehow came out as a Ômeh' and made a move to get Kira off his shoulder, so he could get in the car.

"Well then, what are we doing?" Kira asked, getting in the backseat beside Mai. Marik turned towards Kira and handed her the letter she had received the night of the party.

"Well, maybe we should take care of this." The blonde suggested, pulling his hand away to turn on the radio. Malik glared at Marik, instantly turning the radio off.

"Who said you could touch that?" Malik asked, flooring the accelerator and booking it out of the parking lot. Marik remained calm out of this whole suddenly speeding up ordeal, while the two girls in the back were wide eyed and pushed back in the seats as far as they could go.

"I did." Marik said, and turned it on again, this time slapping Malik's hand away as it came to turn it off once again. After a while, Kira was beginning to wonder if they should drop the letter off or not. She tapped her boyfriend on the shoulder lightly. Said Ôboyfriend' turned around, his head lightly bobbing up and down to the music.

"Do, do you think we should drop this off?" Kira asked, motioning to the letter in her hand. Marik let his eyes glance at it, and then shook his head.

"No, the place is probably half way across town. We've got two months, why not do it later?" he asked, turning back around. Kira contemplated Marik's words, and decided to go along with it, even though something inside her was warning her this wasn't going to work.

***

The group of four decided to head for the mall, finish their homework in the cafeteria and do a little shopping after. While Kira and Mai went to find a table, Marik and Malik wandered the food stands, looking for a smoothie selling one. Malik sighed in annoyance.

"What the hell is a smoothie anyways?" he asked, jamming his now clenched fists into his beige cargos. Malik shrugged. He knew it had something to do with fruit, and squishing it all together.

"I have no clue." He admitted, stopping a passing lady to ask her what this Ôthing' actually was. The lady was pretty old, and Marik should have known better than to ask her, as she looked literally scared out of her pants. Malik chuckled as the old woman left, shaking slightly. Marik eyed her strangely.

"Well, at least we now what it is now." Marik said.

Kira sat at the table, twirling her pencil between her fingers. Mai was chewing on the end of hers. Finally, the fed up goddess slammed her pencil down in utter exasperation.

"This is so STUPID!" she exclaimed. Mai looked up form her paper, eyeing Kira's. She then pulled it towards herself and quickly jotted down a few numbers and returned it to a now drop-jawed Kira. She held the paper as if it contained poison.

"Wha- how did you know how to do this?" Kira asked, many other questions coming out of her mouth. She had previously attempted working on the problem for nearly the entire math class, but Mai had done it in matter of seconds. The older blonde girl smirked.

"Hey, my family's elf blood doesn't just help with looks honey. Mai said. Kira looked up at her friend again, this time in fascination. Mai was an, elf?

"You're an elf, man, you're lucky." Kira said, crossing her arms on the table, totally forgetting about the current homework issue.

Mai smiled genuinely and was about to answer Kira when along came two disgruntled vampires.

"What on earth is a hoochie? You asked for a hoochie?" Malik said, his arms would be flying about if it wasn't for the drinks in his hands. Marik shrugged and looked over at his yami sheepishly. Kira, overhearing this, raised one delicate eyebrow. Marik came and sat down next to his girlfriend, who still had that look on her face.

"Well, you find the smoothies all right?" Kira asked. Marik shook his head. This was difficult.

"Uh, no. We accidentally asked an old lady what a hoochie was, and well, it wasn't a drink for one thing. Marik handed Kira just a plain old coke, and one for himself as well. Malik gave Mai a root beer.

"A smoothie though? Sounds like a facial cream." Malik said, and the two blonde boys burst into laughter, leaving Mai and Kira to endure it and all the stares they where receiving.

***

Marik crossed his arms in annoyance. This was about the seventh store the girls and dragged his unwilling self into, and he was getting grumpy and in dire need for a nap. Malik looked the same, and was sitting on the benches outside. Marik was about to join him, when a sudden hand got a hold of his tanned arm.

"No way mister, you're coming with me, and you're not going to complain." Kira said, dragging him into the dark abyss, leaving Malik all smug and comfortable on the bench outside. Kira led him towards a chair in front of the change rooms.

"Now, you know what to do, just tell me if I look good or not." Kira instructed, and left to pick out some clothes. The only thing Marik had decided to not comprehend in his mind, was that this was a swimsuit store, and Kira was going to be trying them on. Soon enough, Kira came back, about ten suits in tow, followed by Mai.

"Ok, I'll be two seconds, just sit tight." Kira said, and wandered into the change room. Marik sighed, still not realizing this was a swimsuit store. He glanced around the room, it was hot and stifling in there. The blonde Egyptian shifted uncomfortably in his chair, trying to find a better position, when he froze over completely. No, not by actual freezing, but by a certain goddess, who did indeed, resemble a goddess.

TBC

Lola: aren't I mean? This took a long time! Well, actually the writing didn't but the getting good ideas part did. Well I hope you all enjoyed it! Remember to review! ^-^