There stood Mia's little sister. Lisanna.
"Lisanna." She stared at me. I couldn't understand the emotions on her face, but then she plastered on a big grin.
"Big sister Mira said it would be alright if I tagged along on your girls day."
"Oh, yeah. That's really great." I said with a smile equally as big as hers. Then I turned to Juvia. "So can I know the plans now?"
"Mmmmmm… Okay. Why not?" She looked around like a giddy little kid on christmas. "We are going shopping, to a movie, spa, and if we have time this cute little diner on Main Street."
Oh good, nothing extravagant like I envisioned. "That's sounds like fun, shall we go?"
Everyone nodded and started heading towards the gate. At that moment I realized. Now even Lisanna knew who I truly was. Dammit.
"Hey, Lucy. I am sorry I found out your true identity. Mira said you wanted to keep it a secret, but I insisted on coming along." It was like she read my mind. She seemed genuine… enough.
"It's quite alright. Perhaps, I should come out and tell people now. It's complicated."
"I understand." She said as another smile grew on her face. A genuine one.
I smiled back. Mine, too was genuine much to my surprise.
We continued walking until we reached the mall. "Ahh Magnolia's shopping area." Erza inquired.
"Yep. H&Mage, Forever Magical, Magic, Magic, Magic Masterpieces, Brian's Boots. Ohh and my favorite Magnolia Apparel. Eeek!" Mia squealed with complete and utter excitement.
"We have until 3:00 to shop. Then we have the movie at 3:10, luckily the cinema is right in this area. We have to be at by 3 though if we want to keep our plans straight. Remember girls, I got a date tonight with my beloved. He knows the plans so our date does not start until 11:30. Sharp." Juvia gloated. Everyone rolled their eyes and giggled.
"Gajeel and I had plans today, but he understands that Lu-chan needed me. We'll hang out later tonight." Levy said, she seemed quite pleased with herself knowing she made the right choice.
"Luckily, I didn't have to cut off any plans." Erza said with a questioning smile.
"Thank you, girls. You really didn't have to do this."
"I have been shopping in foreva." Mia said with a joking tone. "It's for you, Lucy. Of course we were gonna do something like this."
Tears formed in my eyes and I couldn't help, but smile. Then, Erza pulled us all into a gigantic group hug and I was tearing up painful tears as opposed to happy ones.
"Peopl...People are sta... staring at us." Juvia squeaked out.
She let us go and we all panted until we went back to normal breathing. "Heh! Sorry." Erza said with a big grin.
We all laughed as we walked into Magnolia Apparel. I glanced over towards the graphic t-shirts that were popular around here. As I walked over there, Lisanna followed behind. It was just us and I have to admit, I was kind of scared.
She tapped my shoulder and I turned around, because it would be rude otherwise. "Hi, Lisanna. Do you need something?" I said nice and calm with a smile.
She looked up at me (I was quite a lot taller than her) "I am so sorry." She said as she bowed her head so she was looking down at her animal printed flats that were very bold for someone so innocent looking.
I was confused and shocked. "Wh- What? Ummm why?"
"I… Natsu."
"Natsu?"
"It's kinda hard to explain and I feel Mira staring at us from across the store."
I was curious about what she had to say. She seemed really sad and sincere. "Maybe you can come to my house after everyone disperses. Ya know? Juvia on her date. Levy meeting with Gajeel."
She smiled. "I'd like that."
"LIZ! LUCY!" We heard Erza yell and we kinda jumped and looked over to her holding up 2 lacy bras. "WHICH DO YOU LIKE BETTER? BLUE WITH RED DETAIL? OR PURPLE WITH BLUE DETAIL?"
We were laughing so hard as we walked over to the scarlet-haired woman.
"Purple with blue detail." I said.
"Purple with blue detail." Lisanna said.
We looked at each other when we said the same thing at the exact same time, then we bursted into laughter.
The others joined over and agreed on the purple with blue, except for Levy who like the blue and red.
"No way, Levy."
"Whatever." She pouted and took it from Erza. "I'll buy it then." Erza grabbed it back and put on the rack and grabbed a smaller cup sizes.
"You are not a 36DD. 32A, right Levy?"
She grabbed it from Erza and mumbled as she put it back and grabbed a new one. "34A."
We all giggled as Levy pouted and threw the bra in her shopping bag.
We left Magnolia Apparel at 2:00. We had all bought a bunch of stuff, and even got matching bracelets.
"OHHHH let's go to Magical Masterpieces!" Juvia exclaimed.
"It is a very cute accessory store." Erza added.
"Let's go, gal pals." Mia joked while sticking out her tongue.
We walked in and Erza immediately ran over the chain accessories. Levy ran over to the cute bags. Juvia ran over to anything that was blue. Mia and Lisanna ran over to anything that look like shoes, And me? I slowly and gracefully, unlike my friends, walked over to the scarves.
I looked at all the different kinds of starves. Purple. Floral, Chiffon, Knit. I don't know why, but looking at the scarves reminded me of Natsu. I snapped back into reality and grabbed a knit black scarf. It was so soft and warm, and I didn't own many scarves. It wasn't because it reminded me of him, no. That's why I got black as opposed to his white scarf.
I walked over to the Strauss sister to see what they were doing and they had already like 14 pairs of shoes. "Omg, guys?!"
"What? Shoes are life, Lu."
"That's very true." Added Lisanna.
I laughed and looked at the shoes they bought.
Lisanna's Pile:
1. Zebra heels
2. Red flats that were sleek with a leopard pattern inside
3. Leopard vans
4. Slippers that were black and had "Wild Child" written across the toes
5. Another pair of slippers that were green and had "Animal Lover" written across the toes
6. Cheetah heels that gradually got darker with a blue toe tip
7. Black booties with gold detail (finally a non-animal designed shoe)
And…
8. Red velvet flats
Now Mirajane's Pile:
1. Velvet blue booties
2. Orange vans
3. Mint green converse
4. Green 4" heels with blue details
5. Tan crochet oxfords
6. Neon yellow sneakers with a blue pattern
7. White mary janes
8. Lavender slippers
9. Black knee high riding boots
10. Coral heels
And…
11. Light pink heels with a cute little bow
"You guys got a total of 19 pairs of shoes? Really?" I said while rubbing my temples.
"LUCY! You need to buy 1 pair of shoes and we'll pay for it. We only want these and the sale is 20 for the price of 15." Mira beamed.
"Hmmm okay, you can give it to me for my upcoming birthday." I said as I smiled
"Deal!" Lisanna says.
I gazed over the shoe collection as the Strauss Girls hovered over me.
"They have to be $45 or the deal won't happen." Mia reminded me.
"Okkkkkk." I walked over to the $40-50 dollar shoe collections. I found the cutest black lace vans. "I can even wear them to school!" I said as Lisanna and Mia shook their heads in disappointment.
"This is why you don't have a boyfriend." Mia joked.
"Hey I like school. Might as well look fab for it. Shoot me." I giggled as I stuck out my tongue.
Erza ran over with a large shopping bag labeled Magical Masterpieces. "I am done. You girls might want to check out it's 2:34."
"Oh and I still have to run into MAC to pick up a new matte lipstick." Lisanna said.
"You go and buy that and pick me up my primer." Mirajane said throwing Lisanna a debit card. Lisanna caught it and ran out at the store and across to the MAC Makeup Store.
"Oh. I am gonna go pick up so bows along with this scarf." I said gesturing towards the knit scarf.
Mirajane smiled and said, "A scarf, eh?"
I was confused by her comment, but walked over to the billions of bows. Blues. Purples. Rainbow. Floral. Clip-ins. They may like shows, but bows. Oh my! I grabbed 10 bows, mainly because the sale was 10 for the price of 8. I grabbed 4 different shades of blue bows. I grabbed 1 black lace bow. I grabbed 4 floral designed bows. My final bow was a blue, white, and black bow.
Everyone chatter in line as we checked out. Juvia and Levy finished buying stuff early and ran to go get Starbucks for everyone. Just as we all checked out (Erza, Lisanna, Mia, and I) we walked towards the door. Lisanna ran in with a small little black bag with the letters "M A C" across the front. Just as we stepped out of the store. Juvia and Levy ran up. Empty-Handed.
"Where is… the coffee?" Erza said with an evil tone. Her eyes lite up and her aura turned negative.
"Please don't hurt us, Erza." Levy whimpered.
"Levy-chan and Juvia were hiding out behind fake topiary near starbucks. We saw certain people and so we hid." Juvia managed to say while panting.
"Who?" Mia said with genuine curiosity.
Levy looked at us, "Natsu and some blue-headed guy."
Erza's eyes widened. "Jellal?"
"No, no. I know Jellal. I don't know this blue-haired boy though. He looked young, very very attractive, hazel eyes with yellow details. They were drinking espressos from Starbucks. You girls have any ideas?"
"None." We all said in unison.
We all looked around at each other and then near the starbucks and started to slowly walk.
"None. But we're going to go find out." Erza said.
Erza always got what she wanted and found out what she wanted to know. "Let's go." I said quietly to myself.
Go Time.
