The four fallen go shopping!
"What's a mall?" asked Rollan as we were on a sky train. I slapped my forehead. This was the millionth question on this trip they had.
"Kinda like your little market places."
"Great. I'm super excited to go do the groceries," said Rollan sarcastically.
Scarlet and I have no such Idea of how to explain this thing. They have absolutely no technology on Erdas.
We got off the sky train pretty soon after. Scarlet and I have a big surprise waiting for them.
"We have a surprise for you," said Scarlet. "Each of you has fifty dollars to spend in the mall."
"Where did you get all that money?" asked Conor. "Fifty times four is two hundred. Where did you get two hundred dollars?"
"The extra-terrestrial explorer station gave this to us to observe your physical and mental reaction in such situations which needs the alien's mind to make a decision."
I was very surprised that Scarlet was able to say such a scientific sentence.
"In other words, it doesn't matter. It's science."
Abeke raised one eyebrow as to say that she has no idea what we mean. She shrugged and went on with it.
"That is the ugliest dress I have ever seen in my entire life!" said Meilin, pointing to a dress.
"Actually, your clothes are so out of style, y'know?" I said innocently.
"Rollan, please tell me she's lying," commanded Meilin.
Rollan bit his lip. "Well, you see, Essix is in passive and-"
"She's on your shoulder."
"Well, I was about to put her in passive!" said Rollan as he did so.
Meilin crossed her arms and stared at Rollan. She didn't look the happiest. And everyone knew that if Meilin wasn't happy, everyone should beware.
"Anyways," I said, breaking the silence. "I think we should go shopping."
Scarlet and I dragged them (literally!) to the first store. It was a tiring job and people kept staring at us as we walked by. I dragged the two lovebirds while Scarlet dragged the sheep boy and the one from Nilo. When we arrived, I didn't think I smelled very good.
"We have arrived. Thank you for boarding on Alicio's airlines. We hope you had a fun time while we almost died," I said, in a half sassy, half sarcastic tone.
Meilin rolled her eyes at me. I glared at her.
Rollan stood up, brushing his old fashioned pants. So out of style.
"First thing's first, we need to get you out of those," I said, pointing to their clothes.
"I'm going to be as honest as Alicio, and say that they are the most terrible clothes that I have ever seen."
I was happy Scarlet was finally on my side. After so many attempts…
Meilin was not very happy looking when Scarlet said that. "Sorry," said Scarlet in return.
Conor walked happily into the store, unlike the rest of them.
Abeke picked up some shorts. "How do you defend yourself with these?"
Conor picked up a flowery skirt. "What do you think this will match with?"
Rollan chose a tie. "What do you do with this," he said, while attempting to wrap it around his waist.
And finally was Meilin, who came out of the dressing room with Scarlet's advice. It was a beach dress that went all the way to the ground. She spun around, and Rollan had his eyes fixed on Meilin.
"I don't think he'll be fine," remarked Abeke, pointing to Rollan who just fainted.
"Whatever. I'm gonna buy this," said Meilin, looking at the price tag. "Fifty-one dollars? Is there bargain?"
"No ma'am. This store doesn't have bargains. Sorry," said the cashier from the other side.
"Excuse me? This is an alien that you're looking at," I snapped.
"Yeah sure," said the cashier, "prove it."
Meilin shrugged and released Jhi.
The cashier screamed and ran out of the store. "It's an alien!"
"I guess it's free."
Hope you enjoyed!
~Alicio