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Travis's Past

Chapter 3

The day was going particularly well until that hot dog dude saw me. You remember when I first started telling you my story; I was getting chased by a street cop and a hot dog dude, for stealing 4 hot dogs? Well let's just say he wasn't very happy to see me. And also wasn't very discreet about it too.

Conner, Mo, Felix, Danny, and I were sitting down on the grass just hanging out while the girls used the guitars for a song of theirs. Mo and Danny had just finished counting out the money, and we had $7.45. Now that was quite a feat for us so we were all happy about maybe having enough money for an ice-cream after this, since it wasn't even 11 o'clock yet, and we finished at about 7:30 to about eightish.

So anyway back to the hot dog dude. He just walked up to us and started yelling his head off on how we were all rotten children and how we owed him money, and so on. All the others looked confused, and I tried my best at looking confused to, and since they were not looking at me, I think it worked. But all the hot dog dudes yelling had caught the local street cop's attention.

"Ok now, what's going on here?" The cop said putting this thumbs into his belt hoops.

"These rotten kids stole from me" the hot dog dude fumed.

"We didn't steal anything we've been sitting here the whole time without getting up" Felix said frowning.

"Not today you didn't, you twerp, that one did yesterday" hot dog guy fumed pointing towards me, before lunging towards me to grab hold of me.

I squealed and jumped up to the side right into Mo. The cop just sighed.

"Marty leave the kids alone" The cop said before walking away. Who gave that guy the damn job, because if I was his boss, I would have not accepted him… or fired him for that matter The hot dog dude grunted, then noticed the money we had earnt today. He cracked a grin then bent over to get it

"This should pay for the hot dogs you stole" he said.

"Hey!" Felix said taking the money then made a run for it.

The rest of us scrambled up and followed Felix, tripping and sliding a few times on the muddy patches of grass. The hot dog dude shouted then started running after us. We pushed through people, rushing to catch up with Felix, who was entering the mall. Mo, who was right behind him, didn't see this sudden movement and skidded, fell then scrambled back up again, basically flying in through the doors.

Danny was in front of up and skidded to a stop, to prevent crashing into a lady, causing Conner, and I to bash into him. We quickly scrambled through the doors of the mall when we heard hot dog dudes yell to stop us "kids". Well technically we were kids but hey, I didn't like it when people called us that.

Anywho back to the story ahead, we, meaning Danny, Conner, and I scrambled farther into the mall trying to find a place to hide.

We had been running for 5 minutes around the mall, when Danny whisper shouted "there".

He pointed to a women's Boutique shop, where you could just see Mo, temping flight to get into. We ran up to the story, and hesitated.

"Shh!" Mo whispered at us, mentioning us to come in and hide in a rack of 'plain but fancy' shirts that was sort of in the corner of the shop out of view. We scrabbled into the small space just in time to see hot dog dude pass us, looking like a bright red tomato about to blow.

"He, he look at his face" Felix chuckled. It was the first time I noticed he was here.

"Now what was that all about?" Mo wondered looking at me with a suspicious look, and raised his eyebrows.

"Hey Mo, I think ya ey brows are trying to escape again" I said, trying to escape this conversation. Mo scrunched up his eye brows at this.

"Seriously Travis, we could have gotten in trouble, and our money taken away." Mo said seriously. Which was a surprise, because Mo was hardly, if ever serious.

I shied back into Conner, who was behind me.

"Awhh mate, what ya do this time?" he drawled.

"Ahh…" was all I could say before Mo cut me off.

"Well to state the obvious, he stole the hot dogs you guys had for dinner last night" Mo said, suddenly smiling. He mentioned Danny and Felix over and whispered something into their ears. And they smiled to. It was already ready to late, when I realized that their smiles had been evil smiles.

(A/N: I was so tempted to end it here, but I wanted to make it longer since it had less then 1000 words… yeah, on with the rest of the chapter…)

I squealed as I run through racks, and racks of clothes. It must have been a break or something for the clerks, because they didn't even come. I came around a rack of denim skirts just to run into Anna, Shauny, Bobbie, and Broke.

"Meep" I squealed as I felt Mo bash into me. I scrabbled up and ran, and jumped into the box full of bras.

I buried myself deep down, but not too deep, just so I could still breathe and look, but they couldn't see me. I heard, I think it was everyone, sigh.

"Come on Travis, it was just a joke chasing around, just get out of the…" Danny hesitated and I could see Anna, and Shauny roll their eyes.

"Danny, you're not 9, just say the damn word" Shauny said putting her hands on her hips.

"Umm… no comment?" Danny said backing away with a questionable and nervous smile on his face as he chuckled nervously.

"Boys" Anna said while smirking before turning back into to me.

"Come on Travis get out, so we can go back to earning money" Anna said in her nice, but firm, sisterly voice.

I was about to get out but I thought about something first. I smirked and took one of the pink and purple polka dotted bras, and put on before jumping up, making many of the bras that were on top, or on the sides fall down.

Bobbie, Broke, Mo, Conner, and basically everyone else started giggling hard out. Anna, Shauny, and Mo even got the hiccups. Just before I could get out, a very angry clerk lady stormed up to us.

"What do you think you're doing?" she said in an extremely angry voice.

"Sorry, miss, but I was just trying to catch my brother, and he jumped into there" Mo said putting on an innocent facade.

"Humph, well tidy it up then get out of the shop" the lady said crossing her arms over her chest then walking away with her noise pointed up.

"What a stuck up lady." Shauny said sticking her tongue out at the lady when she wasn't looking. "Come on guys lets clean this up, and then head out again" Bobbie said picking up the bras.

I took off the polka-dotted bra and helped pick up the bras.

After we finished picking them up, we headed out laughing about how our day was going. And what I have to say about it, it was going fantastic so far… just another half day of an orphan from the Theatre.

(A/N) hehe what ya think? I would like to thank Fire Opals afain for betaing and helping me piece together the ideas :D

I've nearly finished the forth chapter *yay* then after wards i will have to work on my other stories

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