Chapter 5

Hours had trudged by and boredom had hit our Heroes and Heroines. So, in a moment of brilliance on Sadie's part, they jumped in Tommy's hummer and went to the mall.

Instantly there was chaos, Speed, Wally, and Kyle went running off to god knows where, Kwest and Sadie hit a photo booth and Jamie and Kat…disappeared…in the back of Spencers… Jude sighed and raised her eyes to the ceiling.

Could this day get any weirder?

"Yes, it can." Tommy replied.

"AHH!" She cried, "Are you reading my mind!"

"No, you said that out loud, dumbass."

"Shut up…buttmunch!"

"Clever." Jude punched him in the stomach and started to walk away. Tommy grabbed her hand and pulled her back.

"It's not nice to hit boys."

"Since when?"

"Since I deemed it necessary." The pair walked together through the mall and eventually started to assemble their group back. Sadie and Kwest were giggling over the small, black and white strip of pictures, Kat was holding a big bag from Spencers, a small smirk on her face, and Jamie just looked amused. The SME boys were nowhere to be found.

Fearing the worse and the obvious, they headed to Victoria's Secret. The boys were all in the window, feeling up the mannequins. The group stared at them in horror, along with twenty other bystanders, and one security guard with a camera.

Jude, Sadie and Kat rushed into the store and pulled them out of the window and away from…most of mannequins. The rest of the men walked into the store and pretended not to be interested by the skimpy night attire.

Jude lined Wally, Kyle, and Speed up in a row and decked them all.

"God! Grow up!" she cried, "What did you think you were doing?"

"Well…" Speed said, matter-of-factly, "We were trying to find out the Secret of Victoria!"

"Did you figure it out?" Kwest and Tommy chimed in.

"Nope, but give me a few more minutes and I think I'll get it." Speed said, walking further into the store and towards a large display of lacey varieties of panties. Jude sighed.

"Men!" Kwest and Tommy nudged each other and pointed at Kat and Sadie, who were going through a display.

"Women!" they said in unison.

"I'm surrounded by testorone!"

"That's your own fault." Kyle spoke up from behind her, carrying a mannequin.

"Uh, Kyle, put that down before you're arrested." Jude said.

"But—But---" he pouted.

"No. Put. It. Back." Kyle whined and walked away. Tommy laughed as Jude walked away to join her sister and Kat, who were over by the corsets.

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Two hours and two hundred dollars later, the group finally left Victoria's Secrets.

Kat, Sadie, and Jude all had bags full of items that the boys were all curious about. Jude's stomach growled, alerting her that food was a necessity.

"Anybody else hungry?" she asked.

"Not everyone's a bottomless pit, like you." Tommy said. Jude's mouth dropped open in an outraged "O" of unhappiness.

"For that, you're buying me lunch." She shoved her Victoria's Secret bags into his arms, grabbed his hand and pulled him away, kicking and complaining.

The rest of the group waved good-bye and hurried off to the book store. In the food court, Jude ordered food from three different stands and footed Tommy with a 30 dollar bill.

He grumbled and complained as he moved around the large pink bags that he had been forced to carry to get to his wallet. After paying, they sat down at a small table and Jude began to eat. She shared some with Tommy, who had started a mild game of footsy under the table.

Jude, who could only concentrate on one thing at a time, focused on eating.

Tommy grumbled in annoyance and stole a few fries from one of her trays. Jude got mad, fully intending on eating everything she ordered, and threw an egg roll at him.

Unfortunately, he caught it and began eating to spite her. Jude promptly chewed her food and stuck out her tongue.

"Sexy." Tommy said, giving her see food in reply.

"Wildly attractive." She replied swallowing her food before she choked. Tommy snorted and smiled at her. Jude felt all girly and smiled back at him. She leaned forward, carefully avoiding putting herself in her food, as he leaned forward as well. They met in the middle of the table, their lips almost touching when:

"HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!"

A fog horn was pressed by Jude's head and she lost her balance and fell into her trays of food. Tommy rubbed his ears as Jude picked herself up.

Speed laughed insanely between them as the group approached. Jude pouted, unable to get her shirt clean. She kicked Speed in the shin and pushed him away from them.

"Put on one of the tanks you got at Vicky's." Sadie suggested.

"Sounds like the only option." Jude grabbed her bags and headed into the bathroom with Sadie. Kat sat down in Jude's seat and picked at the remnants of the food that wasn't smashed.

"So." Tommy drawled, "Where did you guys go?"

"Well, we went to the bookstore," Kat started, "And we found the pop-up Karma Sutra and…" she dove into a bag and whipped out the book, opened to a page and pulled a tab, "Look! They look like spiders!"

Tommy, unnerved, yanked the book from her hands and closed it. He put it in his lap for "safe" keeping…

"Then:" Wally added, "Kat introduced us all to the wonderful world of smutty romance novels." Tommy looked horrorified.

"Are you gay?"

"Nope, but I'd make the exception…" Tommy jumped to his feet as Jude and Sadie approached the table. Seeing the look of fear/horror/nauseous-ness on Tommy's face, Jude looked over at Wally.

"What did you do to Tommy now?"

"I did nothing." Wally said, "I'm innocent."

"Says the boy with the sex tape." Kat muttered. Tommy grabbed Jude by the hand.

"We're getting out of here. Now."

"What about them?"

"They can hitchhike. Though, I don't know who'd be crazy enough to pick them up." Tommy bolted out of the mall, pulling Jude with him as the group realized what was going on and began yelling:

"Wait for us!"

"Not in this life time!" Tommy yelled back, leaving the mall with Jude laughing like a lunatic.