Chapter 2

Dressing Against Time

"Vivi! VIVI!!!" a scream ripped through the interior of the mall located in the Tram Commons district of Twilight Town. Olette who had primped herself special today for the Pradas store grand opening was frantically looking for a black mage in a big, big hat! Last we checked with the girl, she had bumped into little Vivi and they dropped their munny pouches on the ground. Olette took Vivi's by accident which only had 500 Munny in it. Back to the story, Olette raced through the mall trying to look for Vivi. It was a good thing that it was the morning, not that many people had visited the mall yet; which meant that Olette hasn't totally embarassed herself. The people who were already there just looked strangley at the girl as she continued to run around the mall looking for the short black mage.

"Vivi!?! Where are you?!" she called. The Prada store would open in less then three hours! She needed to hurry up and find Vivi so she get her money and claim her spot back in the non-existent line in front of the Prada store. The line is probably swarming with people by now! Olette decided that if she continued to run amock like this, she'd sweat and look like crap by the time she got into the store. Stopping, the brown haired girl tryed to act calm as she tryed to think of where Vivi was off to...Lets see...Something about his grandfather...He snapped something...A broom! He went to go buy a broom! Inside the mall was a grocery store, Vivi probably went in that direction. Olette knew the mall like the back of her hand, she sprinted in the direction of the grocery store, hoping to find him before it's too late.

Inside the grocery store Olette quickly power walked through the many aisles hoping to find Vivi somewhere. Knowing him, he probably bought some groceries for the house or something while getting his broom. Unfortunatley the small kid couldn't be found anywhere. The girl wasn't a bad person at all, she just wanted her Prada purse; she wanted it so, so, so, so bad. "Why here?" A serious girls voice came from behind Olette while she was searching the snacks and candy aisle. Turning around the brown haired girl faced Seifer's two partners in crime, Fuu and Raa. "Olette, what are you doing here, yea know? " Olette's nerves singed at the sound of Raa's voice, she couldn't stand the constant 'yea knows', it drove her completley nuts! "Fuu! Raa! Do you know where Vivi is?!" Olette went up to them, her emerald eyes filled with worry and paranoia. "Please, you have to tell me where he is!" Fuu raised an eyebrow and folded her arms across her chest. "Why tell?" she asked. Her tone as deadly as ever; Olette just widened her eyes at her. Oh great, is she willing to screw around with me now? Today of all days!? She was getting more and more heated as the clock ticked away the minutes counting toward the grand opening.

"Please I'm begging you!" Olette flailed her arms and dropped her knees to the floor, in a hopeless position. She was desperate at this point; inside, her stomach began churning violenty, acid waves crashed into muscle tissue while anxiety began to bubble within her. Raa placed a finger on his lip as Fuu looked at her unmercifully; "Maybe we should tell her Fuu, yea know?" The light blue haired girl put out her arm in front of Raa as a signal to not say anything. "Shopping. Now." she simply stated. Olette blinked her emerald eyes, a little confused by what the girl was asking. "She means she wants you to help her shop, yea know?" Help her to shop...? Fuu didn't look like the type who would waste her time trying to find the perfect outfit. The brown haired girl came to the conclusion that although Fuu didn't hang out with any, she was a girl. Girls have a tendancy to want to go shopping every so often, even if it's someone as boyish as Fuu. "Okay, okay I'll help you! One outfit and you tell me where he is, deal?" Fuu looked at her sternly, but she nodded her head as she turned around and began leading the group out of the grocery store and into the malls main plaza. "What were you doing at the grocery store anyways?" "We, were getting some snacks for later on. Seifer's having a horror movie night at his house, yea know?" Horror movie night? Well that definatley sounds like Seifer for yea... Olette twitched as the time passed, people were probably in line already! She needed to pick something fast for Fuu, look what she's wearing now! It can't be too much of a challenge!

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Olette felt like she was about to die as she sat on one of the benches placed outside of the dressing rooms. Who knew that Fuu was actually an intense [ipicky[/i dresser!? It just didn't make any sense to her!! The girl always wore her signature [plain zip up vest and a simple pair of kahki shorts. Does it really take this long to actually pick an outfit for her?! Raa was outside counting the steps of the escalator while Fuu dressed up in her billionth outfit that Olette picked out for her. Finally the brass knob of the dressing stall opened and out came the light blue haired girl wearing a pair of sky blue plaid shorts with a long sleeved navy blue sweater; zip up of course. Olette's ears perked up as she sat up in her seat, wiping the drool off of her face; "Well? What about this one?" The girl's emerald eyes sparkled anxiously as she awaited judgement to be passed on the outfit. Looking in the mirror, Fuu checked herself out; her expression didn't give away anything she was thinking. Olette prayed that she would like it, she was so tired of buzzing around the store; grabbing random things off the rack and throwing it at Fuu so she would hurry up and dress. Wow, that girls tough to read... "No."

The brown haired girl felt her sanity shatter into a million pieces as Fuu began to go back into the dressing room to change into her regular clothes. No... Olette opened her gross Gap purse and reached in for her cellhpone. Opening it, she looked at the time; What!? It's already been an hour!?!? One hour had passed, leaving only two more until the Pradas store grand opening. She couldn't sit here and watch Fuu go through a warehouse of outfits, there just wasn't any TIME! Getting up, Olette walked foreward and blocked Fuu's entry way into the dressing stall. Fuu looked at her with a puzzled expression while Olette just sent out a vehement glare. "Litsen, I don't have time to sit here and watch you dress up like a freakin Barbie Doll! I need to find Vivi, and if you don't tell me I'll go look for himself myself! I don't need to go through this!" she yelled. Olette gulped, she had never yelled at anyone like that before. What was happening to her? Was the essence of Prada and good fashion making her loss her mind? Was she becoming a complete monster?

After this little stunt Olette was probably going to go on the most wanted list of the Diciplinary Commitee. But it didn't matter, she needed to find Vivi and get to the store as quickly as possible! She didn't care if she acted like a wild animal, she just wanted to get her hands on that damned purse! The brown haired girl stormed off toward the exit of the dressing rooms when she heard Fuu's serious tone again; "Food Court." Turning around Olette raised an eyebrow in confusion as to why Fuu ended up telling her the black mages location. Especially since she yelled at her and didn't complete her part of the deal. Maybe it was because the brown haired girl finally showed some backbone for once. After all it was usually Hayner and Roxas that did all the confronting; Olette shook her head and uttered a small "Thank you." as she sprinted out of the clothing store. Two hours! There was still enough time! She would stalk the foor court, track Vivi down, jet all the way back to the Prada store, and live a happy life. Two hours... Those two words rang through her head as the girl continued to race against time in order to make her dreams come true...