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Shopping!

Chiara made it to Starbucks with a few minutes to spare. She went to the counter, ordered her caramel frappicino, and grabbed a table to sit down. Moments later Sammy arrived.

"Chiara", she squealed, "I haven't seen you in ages."

"I know, what has it been, a couple months. I'm so glad it's summer." replied Chiara.

"Me too. Now I have a rumor that you might be able to squash."

"Well, I'll try to, what's the rumor?"

"You remember Nicky right?" then not waiting for an answer, Sammy continued " when he went to England about two weeks ago he listened to the radio and swore he heard your voice and then the Host said your name. Was he making that up or were you really on the radio?"

"Darn, I was hopping to tell you this later, but I guess now is better then later. I got a recording contract and for the last two months I've been touring around Europe and the US. I was planning to tell you later in time for my CD release party for Canada. I was hopping you, and some people from school would come."

"Oh my gosh, that is so cool. I knew you had a good singing voice. Since you invited me to the party I'll forgive you for not telling me before. When's the party? What should I where? Who else are you going to invited? Do you want to go shopping together?

As Sammy overwhelmed Chiara with questions, Chiara blanked out for a bit. Touring had been fun, screaming fans, stacked stadiums, but she missed her friends and Dad. Her Dad had recently been doing a lot of traveling for work, and couldn't be there all the time. Her Dad's name was Tom Devinette, most of his work was in London but she didn't quite know. Maybe he was a spy or something because he could never tell her much about what he did. All she knew was his job a lot of traveling and he made a fair amount of money. One of the few reason that it didn't bother her, was they had so much fun when he was home. They would go see movies, go shopping, bowling or just hanging out. One of their favorite places was the Chapters down the street from their house. When ever they went there her Dad would buy her a book. Her favorite book was Harry Potter. She even dragged her Dad to the movie and he made fun of it the entire time. According to her friends, that was normal behavior for fathers. Then Chiara fazed back into the present.

"Uh sure, do you want to go to Bebe and look for dresses?"

"Def, but when is the party?"

"It's a week from now, July 23rd" answered Chiara.

"Let's get a cab, I don't feel like walking. My treat"

"All right"

After three hours of shopping

"I promise this is the last store"

"That's what you said 8 stores ago" replied a very agitated and tired Chiara.

"Please then we can go home. Don't blame me, you bought your dress so quickly."

"Fine, but make it quick"

Chiara's dress was perfect for her, it looked like it was made for her body. It was a pale violet with white. Most of the dress was violet. The dress was a halter on the front and two straps criss-crossed on the back. It had an imperial waste line and below the waste-line the material flowed out, and seemed to move with her. The straps were white along with the waste-line material. The rest was a gauzy violet material.

"I found it, the perfect dress" cried Sammy.

It was a very simple black and blue dress, it was short and strapless.

"This is what took 3 hours!"

"Yes, it's amazing, I'm in love." Sammy said, as she danced around the small store looking fairly stupid.

"All right, now can we go?" asked Chiara.

"Yep" said Sammy as she paid for it.

"You wanna come over and hang for a bit?"

"Can't, gotta look after Micheal, little brothers are so annoying."

"Oh come on, he can't be that bad" said Chiara.

"He really is, 5 is when they start to act up. Damn I got to go, I was supposed to be home 10 minutes ago. See you later."

"Laters"

AN: Hopefully something w/HP will come in the next chapter. Please no flamers. Also you get a cookie if you figure out Chiara's last name in English. Please R&R.