Chapter Six

Mona Goes Shopping

It was about four hours prior to our previous chapter that we find Mona Sanderson dialing her friend Becky's number.

"Hello, Becky? It's Mona."

"Hi!" said the voice on the other line. "What's up?"

"Not a whole lot," Mona replied. "Well actually, Wario is throwing a huge party tonight, and I have no clothes or shoes to wear. Want to go shopping?"

"Excuse me? When don't I?" Becky said with a laugh. "Jane is here, can she come too?"

"Absolutely," Mona replied. "Just to let you know though, I have to bring the twins with me; their mother is going out of town and I'm the only one she could get to babysit."

"Not a problem!" sang the other voice melodically. "See you in a few!"

As Mona hung up the phone, there came a knock on her front door. "Who is it?" she called, but received no response. She went to the door and opened it, but there was nobody to be seen.

'Huh… that's strange,' Mona thought to herself, and then all at once she was tackled head on by two tiny figures, who knocked her to the floor and glared at her menacingly.

"Mona, we meet again," said the girl with purple hair, menace coating her words.

"We are under direct orders from our sensei," said the other, with orange hair.

"Oh no!" Mona wailed, pretending to be frightened, "What are you going to do?"

The girls looked at each other, and grinned. "We are going to… TICKLE YOU!" and they proceeded to begin a tickle fight.

"Ah, ha, ha! Oh no!" Mona cried, laughing as the twins wrestled around with her. "Oh please stop! Aaaah! Ha, ha, ha!" After the sisters were all tired out, Mona said, "Are you two ready to go shopping?"

"Can we look in the pet store?" asked Kat, the purple-haired girl.

"Yes, pet store please?" begged her sister Ana. "We want to see all the fish and the bunnies and the doggies…"

"Don't forget the turtles, dummy!" Kat snapped, poking her sister.

"I was gonna say turtles next!" Ana snapped back, responding with an equal poke.

"All right, you two," Mona said, scooping the girls up in her arms. "Let's go meet your aunt Becky!" Becky of course wasn't their aunt, but she was Mona's best friend, and it just kind of caught on.

"Yay! Aunt Becky!" the girls cried in unison.

Mona snagged her purse, which was hanging on the kitchen chair, and walked out the door, the twins following behind her.

"Hey girl!" called Becky, who was walking up the driveway. She looked a bit like Mona, except she had brown hair that was in a ponytail, and she was taller. Behind her was Jane, a natural blonde wearing a pink T-shirt that read "Luv Me".

"Aunt Becky!" squealed Kat and Ana, and before Mona could greet her friend, they ran up to the brunette and attached themselves to each of her legs.

"Hey girls!" Becky said, patting them each on the head. Then she looked up with a grin. "So, Mona's going to a party! First time in HOW long?"

"Oh, please," Mona said, rolling her eyes. "Besides, this one is very special."

"Why is that?" Jane asked, the edges of her mouth forming a smile. "Is there a man involved?"

"Yes," Mona said in a low voice, dragging out the "e" sound just a bit for emphasis.

"And, who is he?" Becky asked, putting her arm around her friend and poking her. "Surely not…"

"Yes, it's him," Mona silenced her. "I don't know what it is… but I can't stop thinking about him."

Jane made a face. "Personally, I'd rather go out with Fronk." (A/N: see note at bottom of this chapter)

Becky shook her head. "What can you possibly see in him? I mean, come on, girl to girl."

Mona smiled. "I don't really know. He makes me laugh, he makes witty jokes… he's just a fun guy."

"Yeah, that's what Peach said about Toad," Jane said with a snicker, and she and Becky cracked up.

"I don't get it," Kat said, looking up from where she was clinging to Becky.

Mona laughed. "You girls will know what it feels like once you meet that special someone. Now come on, we've got shopping to do!"
"Hurray!" they all cheered in unison.

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Some time later, the group was walking up Sparkle Avenue, Diamond City's main road. So far, Jane had bought a pair of shoes and a new jacket, and Becky had bought a new purse and two T-shirts. Mona, oddly enough, hadn't bought anything.

Shortly, they came to Barks 'R' Us, the local pet store.

"Girls, why don't you go look in here for a little while?" Mona said to Kat and Ana.

"Yay!" they cried, and dashed into the pet store at top speed.

"You're just going to leave them in there?" Becky asked quizzically.

"We'll only be a little while," Mona said. "The store I'm going into is right next door."

Becky and Jane cast their eye to the hanging sign of the adjacent building, which read 'Dora's Dress Apparel,' then looked back at Mona. "Dress wear?"

"Uh, yeah," Mona said. "I want to look nice for the party."

"Mona, it's a party, not a wedding," Becky said.

"Just stop it, all right?" Mona snapped. "Now come on, let's go in."

Twenty minutes later, Mona stood in front of a mirror wearing a stunning green gown, which was cut on either side up to the bend in her leg, and had a neck that was low, but not too low.

"How do I look?" she asked her friends, twirling around and letting the gown swirl about her feet.

"You look awesome," Becky answered. "If there is one man who could resist you now, it isn't Wario."

"I know!" Mona gushed with delight. "He's going to fall head-over-heels for me!"

Jane looked at her watch. "It's getting a little late," she said. "We should get back to the twins."

"All right. Miss?" she called to the saleslady. "I'm going to take this one."

"A fine choice," the saleslady said. "Please go remove it so I may wrap it up."

And so it was that Mona bought the gown and proceeded to trek back towards her house, with her two friends behind her and the twins in tow. As they walked, Mona looked up at the sky, which was starting to turn the colors of sunset. Soon enough, she would be at the party. It would be then that things would begin to fall into place for her. She smiled and held the box with the gown tighter under her arm.

The guests began to arrive.

(A/N: Fronk is the small yellow guy that looks vaguely like Spongebob. In the first GBA game he was given a few games such as the one where you had to avoid being stepped on, and "Find My Behind". In WarioWare Twisted, he was given his own small set of games and was renamed Frantic Fronk. My source at the Corporate Alliance told me that Fronk doesn't appear in WarioWare Touched. But, that's who he is.)