"Oh! PLEASE CREAMCLOUD!" Coldstar meowed, "I really, really, really, really want the silky red ones, not the black one!" The trio was in Victoria's Secret (Although it's not much of a Secret anymore since that everyone knows about it!) and they were looking at the silk undergarments and pajamas. (Not that any of them would ever need such things anyways.)
"We'll consider getting it for you for your birthday… or something." Creamcloud meowed, beginning to regret ever taking the usually self-contained tom into these stores. She had to admit, she WAS expecting to be able to watch her leader cower away from the pink and then also at the female undergarments, Coldstar's enthusiasm and enjoyment in this shopping made Creamcloud a bit disappointed.
"But I really would like to have them now very, very, very, VERY much!" Coldstar whined giving Creamcloud and Stormpelt a look of sweet, wide-eyed innocence, a look that would be expected from a kit, but not from a tough clan leader.
"AWWWW! Come on Creamcloud!" Stormpelt mewed moving next to Coldstar and giving the deputy a look that mirrored Coldstar's, "Can you really say no to a cute face like his?" Stormpelt purred as she rubbed her head against Coldstar's to add to the cuteness and dramatic moment.
Creamcloud glared at the two, making sure they saw her disapproving look, "Come on you two. There's something that I want to do first," she meowed and led the way out of the store and led the other two past a few shops and around a corner.
Rainfur and Swiftpaw sat down with their ice creams at a table with a pointless pink umbrella that shaded them from the artificial light.
"This is really good!" Swiftpaw mewed as she licked her chocolate ice cream that looked dull next to her light brown fur.
Rainfur nodded her agreement as she tried to catch a few stray drops of her multicolored vanilla ice cream from falling onto the tale, but missed and ended up licking the drops up off the table cloth, getting some blue smeared on her pink nose. The two cats laughed as Rainfur rubbed her nose clean on a paw causing her paw to also turn dark blue. Rainfur and Swiftpaw attracted the attention of nearby people as the two gothic looking cats enjoyed their treats like children would, which confused the onlookers because of the fake piercing and spiked chains. So to anyone looking in at them from the outside, their physical appearance would make them assume that they were usually the kind who act rebellious and are punks, but what they saw was childishness, definitely the opposite of what most would expect.
"OUCH! BRAINFREEZE!" Swiftpaw meowed loudly in pain.
"Thornclaw! I can't do that! No, you can't make me do it! NOOOO!" Whiteflower meowed overdramatically as Thornclaw dragged her into a yoga room.
"And why exactly is it that you can't?" Thornclaw meowed calmly. "You'll learn quickly that I CAN make you do it!" He paused and then added with an amused mew, "it's not exactly what you think it is."
"Then what EXACTLY is it?" Whiteflower meowed giving Thornclaw a suspicious look.
At camp… No one notices as Sunrisekit, being extremely curious and adventurous, had snuck away from camp and found her way to the mall. 'This is awesome!' she thought. She knew exactly what se was going to do. Sunrisekit located a good looking book with lots of colorful pictures and took the book out of the book store and found her way into a comfortable place in a furniture store for a good read. Little did she know that someone, or should it be phrased someones, were coming her way.
Coldstar and his group were walking, still being led by Stormpelt, when they passed a furniture store, The Cozy Corner, and Coldstar noticed a very comfortable looking beanbag chair. Coldstar ran into the store, imagining himself running through a field of flowers on a spring day in slow motion just as the movie characters would do it. Once he was in the store and had stopped daydreaming he excitedly meowed, "this would be so perfect for my den!" He gave the red beanbag chair an approving nod. He took a closer look and noticed a familiar looking heap of fur next to an open picture book in his favored chair.
"Sunrisekit? What are you doing here?" He asked his daughter sweetly.
"Coldstar! Um, what are you doing here? I just thought it was a nice day to read a nice book." The kit answered nervously, knowing that if not with her father, then she would be in big trouble with her mother.
Coldstar looked at the kit at first feeling disappointed that she cad come without permission and she wasn't even old enough to be an apprentice even, and because she had come here all alone. On the other paw, he was relieved that she had made it this far unharmed and that it was his group to find her first, and though he wouldn't admit it out loud, he really was happy that his youngest kit had come. "Come with us Sunrisekit. Creamcloud promised to take us somewhere for a surprise," he purred comfortingly to his kit to calm her nerves.
So, the larger group finally left The Cozy Corner, after Coldstar kissed the beanbag chair once more and promised to return for it as soon as he could, then the four of them walked on.
Creamcloud led the other three into Glamour Shots, a kind lady agreed to work with the group. "Okay Stormpelt, you and Coldstar do that innocent, wide-eyed begging kit look you gave me in Victoria's Secret," Creamcloud mewed. The cats had their photos taken and enjoyed the camera's attention as they posed for another blinding flash and picture to be taken.
"Swiftpaw, stop acting so silly," Rainfur teased in a tone of mock authority as she choked back a laugh while she watched her apprentice making faces into a video camera and watching herself on the nearby television that the video camera was connected to.
"You were right when you said that we'd have a blast at Radio Shack," Swiftpaw mewed as she moved on from the video camera to play with a toy rocket 'Three, Two, One Blast off' a male voice coming from the toy rocket said and then it broke out into blasting sound effects and accompanied by flashing lights all over. Swiftpaw stared at it with wide eyes, amazed by its wonderfulness.
To be continued in chapter 5.
A.N. Group One's time at the mall is longer than I had thought it was, so I'm going to stop this chapter here and continue in the next chapter to keep the chapter from getting too much longer. I'll post the chapters as quickly as I can type them!