A Memory… Nothing More Than A Memory

By: MacchiNightmares

Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblade… Or any of the characters… So STOP bugging me!

Chapter 8: The Mall

When I arrived home, I found Hilary and Julia in my living room, watching TV and gossiping. I looked around and didn't find Ray anywhere. Hmm, I guess he left… Ithought.

"Hi, Serenity. How was the meeting with your dad?" Hilary asked as she stood up.

"Boring. Where's Ray?" I asked.

"Training with the boys. As always." Julia answered.

"Oh. Well, what's up?"

"Well, since you have a date today, and you have to wear a dress, I thought we could go to the mall." Hilary suggested.

"M-Mall? D-Dress? Uhh… umm… I uhh.." I couldn't think of anything to say that would get me out of there. The mall wasn't really me, and going to the mall to buy a dress… now, that really wasn't me.

"Serenity, we're not taking 'no' for an answer. You're going to the mall and that's final." Hilary said as she pushed me out the door. I could've easily gotten away, but for some reason I stayed.

"So, Serenity, is it true that you have a date with Ray?" Julia asked.

"I have a date with Kai, not Ray." I corrected her.

She gasped, "A date with Kai? No way! Did you blackmail him or something?"

"No, we were balding and he bet, if I lost I had to kiss him on the cheek and if he lost he had to take me out on a date and act like a gentleman."

She started laughing, "Kai? A gentlemen? Ha, ha! There's no way he's gonna do that!"

I thought about it and laughed as well, "I know! Ha, ha, ha! Kai, A gentleman. What was I thinking?"

As soon as we arrived at the mall, Hilary and Julia pulled me into the first store they saw had dresses. At every store, they left me at the entrance as they scurried off to find a dress for me. The dresses they mostly picked were pink, baby blue, and lilac colored dresses. They started to get frustrated because I would turn down every single dress they picked.

"Serenity! Would you pick a dress already!" Hilary yelled at me after I turned down the hundredth dress they'd showed me.

"Well, if you'd find a dress that I liked, we wouldn't be looking for dresses right now!" I yelled back.

"What dress would you like then!"

"A black dress and nothing else!"

"Oh, then why didn't you say that before?" Julia asked, trying to calm Hilary down.

"I did tell you guys."

"Oh, yeah… you did. Sorry." Hilary apologized.

"Whatever. Lets go in to one more store to see if we could find something."

Both girls nodded and went into another store, with me following, of course. As I was looking through dresses if felt watched again. My head snapped up to see if anyone was looking at me, no one was. Hilary and Julia saw that I was looking around and wondered what I was doing.

"Serenity, looking for someone?" Hilary asked.

"No. It's just… that… I feel like someone's watching me." I answered.

"Oh, it's probably just your nerves. You're just nervous because of your date with…"

"Oh, shut up, Julia!" I snapped. I suddenly heard, "Oh, man. Almost found out." I thought I was hearing things so I shrugged it off.

"Have you found a dress yet?" Julia asked me.

"No, not ye… hold that thought." I saw a dress that was all black and looked kinda good. I looked at it closer and decided that was the dress… the dress I was going to wear.

"Found your dress?" she asked as she saw me admire the dress.

"Yup, found it. Can we go now?"

"Nope. We need to get make-up, some accessories, and some shoes." Hilary said.

"Aww, but I wanna go home." I said in a kid's voice.

"Well you should've thought of that before you made the bet with..."

"OKAY! Just can it, Hilary, so we can get outta here already!"

Now I heard someone say, "Oh, man." It kinda sounded familiar, the voice… sort of like Ming-Ming's. We continued walking in the mall and thankfully we only there for another 30 minutes. When we finished, I was happy to arrive home. By that time, it was 7:20, 40 minutes before my date with Kai. As I walked in my living room, I thought Hilary and Julia were just gonna drop off the bags and leave, but they didn't. I saw them look at each other, then at the bags, them at me, with smirks on their faces. My eyes went round when I figured out what they were planning. I tried to run away but they caught me and tied me with a rope on a chair. They quickly took everything out of the bags and started working on me. First, they did my hair, then my make-up, they also did my nails, after that they had me put on the dress and boots, and finally they put on the finishing touches.

"Can I look now?" I asked.

"Wait, we still need to finish… there, done." Julia said.

"Now can I look?" I asked again.

"Yeah, yeah. You can look now." Hilary said. I got off the chair and walked to the full-length mirror in my room. I smirked at my appearance, the girls actually did a good job, finally. I went back to the living room.

"So do you like it?" Hilary asked unsure.

"Yeah, it's- Hey. When did Ray get here?" I asked as I saw Ray on my couch, watching TV.

"Hey… wow, Serenity. You look… you look…" Ray lost his words.

"I look weird, right? God, I can't believe they made me wear a dress."

"Actually, I think you look beautiful. Maybe you should wear dresses more often." Ray said blushing.

"T-Thanks Ray. You're sweet." I said while blushing as well. I then heard the sound of a car pulling up my driveway. I wondered who it was so I looked outside from my window. I saw a black limo parked, and stepping out was Kai in a black tuxedo and a navy blue shirt. He looked really uncomfortable in it, and that made me laugh, even though I too felt uncomfortable in what I was wearing. I saw Hilary and Julia giggling like crazy, and I rolled my eyes. I walked outside, and when Kai saw me, he was shocked at how I looked. The silk black dress reached to my just above my knees with a clit on the left side, the boots almost reached my knees. My hair was in a high ponytail with my bangs covering my right eye (like Kevin from the White Tigers). I had black/gray eye shadow, clear lip-gloss, I was wearing a skull necklace and skull earrings. Kai's mouth was handing open, and so would any other guy who knew me and saw me like this.

"Kai? Kai? Kai!" I screamed. It got through him and he regained his composure. He then walked towards me. Suddenly I heard someone say, "All right. Now I know who she has a date with. Looks like Crusher lost a hundred dollars." I looked to were the source of the voice was coming from. I looked to the bushes and saw a pair of ruby eyes. When the pair of eyes saw me, they turned around and left. I would've been able to run and catch them, but with the stupid dress I couldn't do anything. Damn. Stupid dress, stupid Ming-Ming… I thought.

Unknown to me, Brooklyn and Garland were also there spying on me, when they saw Kai, their faces turned red from anger, but when they saw me, their expressions changed to a surprised and lustful one. "Wow…" Brooklyn said, "She looks absolutely…" "Beautiful" Garland finished. They saw when I caught Ming-Ming, and had smirks on their faces. "Leave it to Ming-Ming to get caught. She's so dead when Serenity gets a hold of her." Garland whispered. "Garland, let's go. We'll get Kai tomorrow." Brooklyn said as he got up. Garland nodded and followed.

"Umm… Serenity… Ready for our date?" Kai asked.

"Huh? Oh, yeah, sure."

I walked with Kai to the limo, and surprisingly, he opened the door for me. He smirked at my shock and beckoned for me to go in. I smiled at him and got in the limo, but not before giving a small smile to Ray.

M. N.: Poor Serenity… Having to deal with being in the mall with Hilary and Julia. Ha! They tied her to a chair! Well, please review! Laters!