How to Disguise a Goblin King

"Okay, first things first, he needs some clothes." Natalia said looking down at Jareth. "What's your dad got hidden in his closet?"

"Come on let's go look. Jareth you stay here." Sarah said walking towards the door to her bedroom.

"Already ordering me around." Jareth said in a joking manner to his reflection in the mirror.

"God Sar! Your dad has no cool clothes! He can't wear any of these to The Scorpion Room! And he definitely can't go in that sweat suit you gave him!" Natalia stated, obviously frustrated.

"It's my dad, what did you expect?" Sarah said in a matter of fact tone.

"Your right. Do you think we can borrow the car and take Jareth to the Mall or something?"

"Yeah, come on let's get him." Sarah said leaving the walk-in-closet.

"Who's car are we going to take? Karen's at the hospital, Shane's gone and if we ask him to come back then he's going to be really mad, and my car broke down." Natalia said even more frustrated.

"We'll take mine."

"What?"

"You'll see. Jareth! Come on were taking you shopping!" Sarah said calling up the stairs.

Sarah walked over to the second garage on the opposite side of the house. Jareth and Natalia were following right behind her now.

"Well guys, this is my baby." Sarah said opening up the garage.

"Where'd you get this thing?" Natalia asked. She had never seen Sarah drive before. She just always figured she didn't have a license yet. She always road to school with Shane.

"It's my car. I got it for my 18th birthday."

"Then who don't you drive yourself to school?"

"Shane and me had always road together since he got his license and I don't know, I guess we didn't want that to change."

"Oh." Natalia was already getting into the car. Jareth was just standing there staring at the car. "Get in Gobby."

"It's JARETH and no. I am not getting in that thing. I've seen many accidents with those things involved. It's not safe." He said looking terrified.

"Jareth, come on. Get in. I'm driving and it will be fine. I promise you. If something bad happens, I'll do anything for you. Okay?"

"Fine! But don't say I didn't warn you." He said getting into the front seat of the car next to Sarah. Natalia sat in the back seat trying not to explode with laughter. Then she noticed something.

"Sarah! Give me a hair band! We didn't do his hair!" Natalia was scared someone might see him and think of him as one of those gothic people she saw in the mall all the time.

"Oh, crap!" Sarah said taking her hair out of the ponytail she had put it in. "Here, you do his hair." Jareth watched as Sarah's hair blew in the wind. Since the windows were down, it looked fine in a matter of seconds.

"Oww! That hurt!"

"Sorry! I didn't mean to pull your hair." Natalia said, again trying not to laugh hysterically at him. "There, I'm done." Jareth looked in the mirror. His hair was pulled back in a loose ponytail. None of it was out of the tail. He looked, like a mortal.

"Alright guys, we need to make this quick. Run in, go to American Eagle, buy a couple shirts and a couple pairs of pants. And get out. Maybe while were here we can get a pretzel."

"A what?"

"Yes, were definitely getting the pretzels." When Sarah said this, Natalia burst out laughing. Sarah couldn't keep a straight face either.

"Sorry if I'm not familiar with aboveground things. What is it? A piece of clothing?" Another large amount of laughter came from Natalia, and Sarah hit her hard on the shoulder.

"No, its food." Sarah stated simply, trying not to laugh.

The threesome went up the American Eagle where Jareth found 3 pairs of jeans, blue black and darker blue, and 5 shirts, black, blue, red, black, black. He looked really good to both Sarah and Natalia. They checked out and started towards the food court. "Oh, Jareth your going to love this!" Natalia said handing him a cinnamon sugar pretzel from Auntie Anne's. He tried it and said.

"This is delicious!"

"We told you!" Sarah said obviously happy that Jareth likes some type of mortal food. Just then her cell phone rang. "Hello?"

"Sarah, where are you?"

"Oh I'm at the mall with Natalia, Karen."

"Oh, well they want to keep Toby here for a few days. They said that hitting the rock could cause him to go into a coma up to a week later. So they want to keep him here for a little over a week. What are your plans for tonight?"

"Well, I was going to go to The Scorpion Room with Natalia and Shane, but it looks like I should come up and see Toby…"

"No! Don't you dare cancel on your friends. I was going to go shopping to get some food for you while your there alone, but I don't want you to cancel your plans with your friends just for that."

"Thank you Karen."

"No problem. By the way, are you going to the prom this year?"

"I don't know, hold on let me ask," Sarah then put her and over the speaker and said to Natalia and Jareth, "Do you guys want to go to prom this year?"

"Yeah, sure."

"What's a prom?"

"It's like a ball, kind of, not exactly like the one you stuck me in, but that's the only way I can really describe it to you."

"I'll go if you want me to"

"Yeah, Karen, were going to the prom, why?"

"Because I was wondering if you wanted to go shopping for a dress while I'm here. You can take some money out of the pot on the top of the freezer. Take about $200 and buy a nice dress with shoes and a purse to go with it."

"Thank you Karen."

"Don't mention it. Hey I have to go now okay."

"Okay Karen, bye and tell Toby I love him."

"Will do. And Sarah,"

"Yeah?"

"Natalia and Shane can stay at our house tonight so your not alone."

"Okay, Karen. Thanks." And she hung up the phone.

"What's going on?"

"Nothing. She told me to take $200 and buy a dress and shoes and purse for prom. Oh, and she said you and Shane can stay over tonight if you guys want to."

"Okay."