Two long days later, Brennan practically dragged Angela out to lunch a half an hour before any of them usually ate. Once they were seated at a restaurant they rarely visited, Brennan said urgently, "I made up my mind. There's no way I can avoid seeing Booth and my distraction has just gotten worse in the past few days. I need your help. I've never deliberately set out to attract a guy."
"You've come to the right person," proclaimed Angela, trying to contain her excitement.
Over lunch Angela helped Brennan lay out a plan. It took a lot of coaxing on Angela's part, but Brennan finally gave in to her superior knowledge.
"I'll see you at 5:30 sharp. Be ready to go," Angela said as the two headed towards their individual offices. Brennan groaned and nodded.
All afternoon Brennan tried to work, but no matter how hard she tried she just couldn't seem to focus. So when 5:30 rolled around, she had been standing outside the door to her office impatiently waiting for Angela for five minutes.
Booth said, "Whoa, you're leaving before six? This is one for the record books!"
Brennan looked down the hallway the other direction and saw him walking toward her.
"Bren, you ready to go?" Angela asked as she walked up.
"Yes. Let's go." Brennan practically dragged Angela toward the exit.
"Bones, wait. I need you to look over these papers." Booth's voice followed her down the hallway.
"They'll have to wait until tomorrow, just put them on my desk," Brennan called over her shoulder.
Booth started after Brennan, puzzled by her odd behavior.
Two hours later, Brennan's feet hurt. "Angela, I need a break. These shoes are killing me. Let's stop and get some coffee."
After receiving their drinks, the two friends sat down. Brennan looked at the mountain of sacks they had acquired. "Are you sure I need all these clothes? I think we might have purchased everything in the mall."
Angela laughed. "Oh no, sweetie, we still have half the mall to cover."
They shopped until the mall closed, but Angela still declared there were a few pieces missing from Brennan's new wardrobe.
Exhausted from hours of shopping, Brennan dropped into bed. 'I'm not looking forward to more shopping tomorrow, but if this is what it takes…' she thought.
It was a week before Angela was satisfied with Brennan's wardrobe and then she insisted on spending hours suggesting outfit combinations, telling Brennan which ones would show off different aspects of her body.
Although it annoyed her in some ways, she found certain aspects of it educational. 'I'll never think about clothes the same way again.'
Angela was set to start the next phase of her plan right away, but Brennan insisted she needed a few days to catch up on all the work she had been neglecting. Angela suspected she was stalling, but let it slide. Things were about to get really interesting.