Sorry that it took SO long to update. I got sick and I've just been so busy with work. But here's this. It may not be the O'Wanda that you want but be patent. Ian's in Washington. They will be united.

Chapter 11 and 12 was Brandon's time with Wanda. Now it's Cloud Spinners turn. And she gets her time while we get a peek at the new people in town. :) O'Wanda's reunion is coming soon. :D

DISCLAIMER: The characters do not belong to me they belong to Stephanie Meyer's author of the wonderful book 'The Host'

Chapter 14: Shopping

"Yesterday was your day with Brandon. Now today is a day for just us girls." Cloud Spinner said excitedly driving towards the more busy shopping centers.

I slumped in my seat and looked at her gloomily, "What's first?" I didn't feel like shopping with her energy and taste.

She either ignored my tone or didn't notice it through her excitement. "A new cell phone." She said giggling, "Your old one was not updated and it's been missing since you went missing." She frowned for a second and then continued, "Besides. You're almost like a whole new you, from what your dad told me last night; so you're going to need a whole new wardrobe."

I groaned, "Mom. I already have an entire walk-in closet full. We'll have to add on to the house soon if I get anymore clothes and shoes."

She looked at me, "Pet you have two rooms remember? And as I recall that other room had quite the spacious closet."

I looked down at my blue sneakers, "I haven't been in there for a while. And I haven't even been in there since before I was…. Abducted."

Truthfully I didn't even remember what it looked like in there. I just had a glowing feeling every time I passed the door. Of course I wasn't exactly sure what was in there. Pet had spent some time in there but it was mostly Carmon who had spent hours and sometimes even days in that room. I don't really remember much but I do remember that wither I was Pet or a very fuzzy Carmon that place was always my escape.

"Well, maybe tonight that's what you should do. Go spend some time in there and maybe think about moving some things. If you don't want to then I suppose we'll have to add on to your room." She smiled and got a faraway look in her eyes. "You know maybe we'll do that. I've always wanted to have a covered patio and maybe we could add on that balcony you said you wanted."

I rolled my eyes. I had said that. A year in a half ago when I was still Pet. But instead of saying something I just nodded and stared out the window.

The sky was clearer today, like it was celebrating something. Though there were white fluffy clouds dotting the sky. I thought back to a week-ish ago.

Ian and I were walking hand in hand along a rocky ridge. It was late afternoon and the sun was setting. We found a nice place to sit and watch the sun go down.

"Are you excited to be going on the raid?" Ian asked as I sat between his legs and he wrapped his arms around me.

I nodded, "Yes. It's about time that I was useful."

He snorted, "You and your need to be useful. Can't you see that you're already useful? You always try to do more than your share of work in the caves even though your body can't handle it. And you always do your best to make everyone happy."

I laid my head back into his chest, "Are you happy?"

He ran his hands down my arms leaving that part of my body feeling very warm. He leaned in closer to me bringing his lips to my ear, "More happy than any man can be."

I felt him kiss the space behind my ear and travel down my neck. I went almost limp at his touch, "I thought we were watching the sun set." I muttered, "That's why we came up here."

"Mhum" he muttered against my skin and kissed his way back to my ear, "But didn't anyone ever tell you that sun sets are romantic?"

I chuckled and leaned in close to him so he couldn't resume his melting of my interior. I got to thinking about if I hadn't come here. I sometimes got that thought, especially around Maggie and sometimes Sharon. I'd start to think about where people in the caves would be if the souls hadn't come to this world.

Jamie, Isaiah and Freedom would be in a regular school for kids their age. Sharon might be a teacher. Doc would have his own clinic. Jeb would be waiting for the souls to come with the support of Maggie. Kyle would have finished college and married Jodi. They might even have had a family. Maybe Mel and Jared might never have met, though my guess was that whatever god or cosmic force was out there would have brought them together somehow. They'd probably be married and be living a great married life full of sex and passion. Maybe Jared would have impregnated Mel and they'd be having a family.

Whenever my thoughts went down this path I always tried to save Ian's alternate life for last. He and I would never have met and he'd be living bachelorhood with some other girls beating each other to gain his affections. Maybe he would have found a girl, settled down, had a family. Maybe he would have gone to college and became a doctor or a business man. Maybe he would have been a professional soccer player, traveling the world and visiting exotic places, meeting tones of different people. Possibly sleeping with different women. No doubt any woman he met would have found him irresistibly attractive.

This was the downfall to thinking about Ian's life without me. I squirmed in his arms as jealousy at the other woman he might have been with if he hadn't met me filled my body from the top of my head down to the bottom of my toes.

"What's wrong Wanda?" Ian asked.

"Nothing." I lied. He'd call me on it, he always did.

"You're lying." He pulled me impossibly closer, "What's wrong my love?"

I took a deep breath and tried to let the jealousy go. It was stupid of me to be jealous of other girls that he wasn't with. He was with me after all, holding me, kissing me, vowing to only love me for as long as he lives. Why would I need to be jealous of girls who don't even know he exists?

"Ian? What would you have done if the souls never came to earth?" I asked in a small voice.

I felt him shrug, "I don't know."

I turned around in his arms and straddled him. I knew by his face that he wasn't thinking about the question anymore. Mel had taught me how to tell. "Try and think about it."

He smirked, "I'd become an astronaut and search the entire galaxy for you."

I rolled my eyes, "No really."

He shrugged, "I don't know Wanda. That's an entirely different life time." He did try though. He scrunched up his nose and closed his eyes as he tried to think. After a minute he opened them, "I guess I would have graduated college. Maybe tried for a soccer career…." He trailed off.

"And get married?" I asked. I could feel the jealousy creeping through my veins.

He shrugged, "Maybe if I met someone like you."

I stared at him. He would, I was sure of it, he would meet a girl, get married and start a life with her. I grabbed his face in my hands, "You would. You would meet a girl. You'd fall in love with her and you'd get married." I felt tears creeping into my eyes. "You'd move into a house with just the two of you and you'd build a life together. Maybe have some kids. And those kids could run around and play in the streets, completely care free."

Tears spilled from my eyes. "They'd have your eyes. And you'd teach them to play soccer in some park. Your son's would be athletic and run you into the ground. And your daughters would be so beautiful that they'd worry you because you know how boys are and you'd be a very overprotective daddy."

Ian wiped the tears from my cheeks and wiped his thumb under my eyes to take the tears there before they could fall. "But I wouldn't be happy." He said softly, "I wouldn't be happy in less they had their mom's shiny blonde hair and beautiful heart. If my girls were as selfless and caring as their mother and my boys were as hard working and dedicated as their mother would be."

I blinked back more tears. "You'd marry a woman with those traits."

He closed the distance between our faces, "I mean it. I wouldn't be truly happy in less I was with you Wanda." He kissed me once and then put his nose and forehead against mine. "I'd search the galaxies for you my Wanderer. And I wouldn't rest until I found your beautiful soul."

I nodded. "And I'd wait forever for you to find me."

He smiled and kissed me again. We kissed there under the setting sun for a long while until he suggested we take this somewhere more privet. And I'd agreed.

I looked at the blue sky now. Was he searching for me now? Was he driving a car at the fastest speed possible coming to find me and take me away. Or maybe to just sit with me; to hold my hand and kiss me while we watched the sun set night after night on the cliff overlooking the valley of green.

"Pet!" Cloud Spinner said nudging me.

"Wha…. What?" I asked looking over.

"I asked if you wanted to get out of the car today?" We'd arrived at an electronics store the letters over the entrance read 'BEST BUY' and I nodded undoing my seat belt.

Cloud Spinner held my hand as we walked into the store together. She dragged me over to the counters with all of the phones and started to ask the salesman which phone was the best for a teenage girl.

I looked around. It was full of so many interesting things. I looked at the isles that had different phones and phone cases in plastic cases and recyclable boxes. There were isles further down that said they were movies. There were some more movies in glass cases that looked like they were some of the less violent 'before the invasion' movies that the humans had made before us. Most of them seemed to be animated. A little closer to my position were the computers. Signs that no longer held the prices showed customers ratings and the different things that the computers were good at. They were all basically the same but seemed to be in different colors. It was basically the same computer that could do everything but in different colors. Same with the phones it seemed.

The sales man pulled out a big box with all these medium boxes inside. He pulled out one that had 'display' written on it and was showing Cloud Spinner the different features when I caught a voice from the checkout counters on the other side of the wall where I was standing.

"Yes. I'm sure that one person taking three phones and two computers might seem strange. But I assure you they're not for me. You see I'm moving up here and planning on sharing a place with my step brother and sister and her partner. They're in the car; we've been driving for quite some time."

I recognized that voice from somewhere. I was trying to place it when I heard the cashiers reply, "Oh how exciting, where are you coming from?"

I tried to pear through the boxes and caught a glimpse of fiery red hair. "Oh I'm moving from Texas. I wasn't too fond of the heat there so my sister, who lived in Arizona, decided why not move north and try some place with more color and cooler weather."

I gasped, I knew who it was. "Oh well I'm sure you'll love it here. The scenery is very beautiful."

I walked down and around the corner, "Burns?" I breathed looking at the man with fiery red hair and freckles that made him look dark.

He heard me and turned smiling at me, "Why if it isn't my friend Petals Open To The Moon."

I stared at him, he must have been talking about Ian, Mel and Jared. Which means they're near. Which means that Ian has come to find me. They must have told Burns to address me as that or he would have addressed me as Wanderer.

"If it isn't Burns my old friend." I said trying to sound more polite than relieved, "How have you been."

He shrugged still smiling at me, "Oh same old same old. I see you came back home to Seattle. You here to buy electronics as well?"

I nodded not trusting my voice. I wanted to run into his arms and have him tell me exactly where Ian, Mel and Jared were so I could run to them.

"PET!" Cloud Spinner's voice shouted.

Oopse. I thought, "I'm right here mother. I found a friend."

Cloud Spinner walked around the corner and glared at me with kindness, "Don't run off without telling me. You know how much that scares me, especially now that I have you back."

She pulled me into her arms and I saw the sales man looking at us confused.

I pulled away from her, "Mom. This is Burns."

She looked at Burns and I saw her eyes immediately check wither he was a soul or not. Since I was suppose to have been kept and knowing only humans for the last few months. But when she saw that he was a soul she didn't seem as worried, "Oh. Nice to meet you."

Burns inclined his head, "Nice to meet you as well ma'am." he said with a slight southern accent but more polite than anything.

"Where do you know Pet from?" She asked curiously but with a hint of suspicion.

"We met each other at a store once when I was visiting my sister in Arizona." Burns said without flinching. I almost believed it myself if I hadn't been there when I met him and his human's.

"Oh." She said surprised, "Well she's home now. Safe and sound."

He nodded, "We'll have to get together some time before I leave on my business trip." He said smiling at me.

Business trip? Oh. He must be here to help Mel and the others set up their place and then he'd be going back to Arizona to keep our families fed and safe.

"How's your family?" I asked. Meaning Nate and the other humans he lived with.

"They're fine. Though they miss me I expect."

I nodded, "I'm sorry." I meant that I was sorry that he had to come and help Mel and the others in their rescue attempts for me.

"Oh don't be. I'll be reunited with them soon." He said walked forward and hugged me. "Ian sends his love." He whispered briefly before pulling back. "You know. I should give you my phone number. And I know you briefly saw my sister so I should give you hears as well. I'm sure she won't mind."

I nodded and he turned to ask the cashier for a paper and a pen. She handed them over and he wrote two numbers with a B next to one and an M next to the other.

I took it from him when he was finished and thanked him. "Make sure to call any time." He said waving to me and nodding his head in acknowledgment to Cloud Spinner.

I took a deep breath and turned away from him as he walked out the door, "So mom, where's my new phone?" I asked excited, I had a contact to add.

It had been four hours since Cloud Spinner and I had left the electronics store with a new phone and a red laptop computer. I was very excited to get onto the computer but more than that I'd been excited to get onto the new phone and text the phone number that Burns had given me for Mel.

But four hours after leaving my phone was still installing updates and making sure everything is working properly. The sales man had said that it should take between one to four hours so I was hopeful that it would be done soon.

But of course while the phone was doing its thing Cloud Spinner had kept me busy. We had been to four different stores and I'd gotten lots of clothes, shoes and accessories.

I now saw how Pet had become very into these types of clothing's and how she had acquired the giant closet of clothes. After I retreated to the comfort of her SUV I vowed to only go shopping with Brandon from now on.

Shopping with Brandon was infinitely better than shopping with Cloud Spinner. Cloud Spinner seemed to view shopping as a way to make the body you wear look beautiful. Brandon on the other hand seemed to view it as a way to cover up the body and make it look nice but seemed more focused on having the soul wear what made them feel comfortable.

And so far the miniskirts, strapless dresses and shirts weren't my style and I did not feel comfortable in them. Of course I did find a way to bring my taste into the shopping trip. In one of the stores they had a 'winter' collection. I wondered over there while Cloud Spinner was looking at 'prom' dresses. I got really excited when I felt the fabric of a sleeveless hoodie. I grabbed four different colors and immediately fell in love with them when I tried them on. I snuck them past Cloud Spinner who made a face when I pointed them out to her.

But while I was shopping I kept getting the strangest feeling that I was being watched. I felt really self conscious after the third store and by the end of the four I was feigning exhaustion so Cloud Spinner would take me home.

Once I thought I caught a glimpse of Ian with his black hair and blue eyes staring at me from across the street. My heart had risen and started to fly. A bus had passed in front of my view and by the time it had passed Ian, or what I thought was Ian, he had disappeared.

But I knew since Ian was in the same state and city that I was in, I'd be able to see him soon.

Alright. There you have it. He's there, in the same state and city. Now all he has to do is find a way to be alone with her right?

Review and let me know how you want to see them get together for their reunion.