Disclaimer: I'm bored with this thing. Clearly Max isn't mine.

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Max POV

We were in the van, on the way to the mall and my mom was sorting out the operation very carefully. "We will break into groups. The three boys will be one group, Ella and Max will be together, and I will go with Angel and Nudge. We will have two hundred dollars per group except for the boys who will have three hundred. I am trusting you kids, so I better get back all of the change. We will have three hours until we meet in the food court. Do not disappoint me. Ella, you have complete control over Max. Get her some sensible clothes. Max, that means that I should be able to tell yours from Fang's."

I snapped, "Easy. His are black and mine have color."

Of course, she didn't reply. Total piped up from under the seat, "Hey! Which group am I with?"

"The boys." I assured him. "You and Iggy are going to do your seeing-eye-dog charade."

Mom parked and we filed out. Ella dragged me off immediately. Everyone one be starting in J C Penny's. After that I could get away from being embarrassed in front of my flock. Ella and I went to the juniors department where she pulled everything I disliked off the shelves, explaining, "You might not want to admit it, but you have quite the body to show of. I understand that it has to have a full back, but we can compensate by getting shirts that are low-cut in the front."

I would have banged my head against a wall if we weren't in public. I protested, "I don't think this is what she meant by sensible!"

"She gave me complete control over you. Now, go try them on."

"Fine."

"And I want to see how they look on you."

"Fine!" I went into the changing room and put on the first pair of tight jeans and an extremely girly blouse.

That's just the beginning. She inspected everything with great care and right there in the middle of the store. On my third outfit Ella was just saying, "This one shows off your butt really well…" When three guys from school came down the aisle.

I cried, "Let me go back in the locker room, now!"

Ella said, "Why? Hey, those guys go to our school. Two of them are in your grade and the third is in mine." Duh, that's why I need to escape.

She grabbed my wrist and twisted it around behind her back, saying, "Act normal, so they don't know we saw them coming."

I informed her, "Normal for me would be knocking them unconscious and then snapping out my wings and flying away."

Ella gave a fake laugh as if I had said something funny. Little flirt.

The three boys reached us and with dismay I recognized Darrell. He said, "Hi Kate! Fancy meeting you here."

"Hi." Fang's way seems to work pretty well. I'll try it.

"So, I heard you were involved in a massive fight at my soccer game."

The other ninth grader said, "I saw that fight. You were totally winning, too. Looked as if you had practice."

I told him, "My friend Nick and I fight each other a lot."

The boy from Ella's grade exclaimed, "Wait! You're that girl? Everyone's heard about that fight by now. You don't look as tough as they said."

I snapped, "Come closer and I'll prove it to you."

"Never mind," He muttered. He whispered to Darrell in a voice an ordinary human wouldn't have heard, "Let's go!"

Darrell said, "Well, we have to get going. We're meeting another guy."

"See you around." So much for not saying anything. Not to mention, these people were now thoroughly convinced that this is what I liked to wear.

Fang POV

We moved very quickly and efficiently. We were going to have a lot of time to wait in the food court, but when you eat a minimum of 3000 calories a day that was a pretty good way to spend time.

I took three plain black shirts and on Iggy's insistence, a black polo shirt. Ig and Gazzy each grabbed three shirts and a polo. Each of us got a pair of jeans and cargo pants. With that we were done. Shopping is easy. I don't understand what Max complains about.

While I was paying Gazzy suddenly asked, "Hey, where did Total go?"

Great; we lost the talking dog. I finished paying and lead the way back through the store. We soon discovered that he was not in the men's or boy's departments. This meant we would have to venture into the girls department. Crap.

Iggy didn't realize that this was where we were going because I conveniently forgot to tell him, so he led the way. It took us five embarrassing minutes, but we finally found him with a pair of underpants on his head.

The idiot said, "Whatever is on my head does not appear to fit quite right." I ripped the underpants off his head, grabbed him and ran. Remind me again; why did I agree to let this bundle of heck come with us? Oh, yeah. I didn't have a choice.

We took the little rascal with us and found a place that sold sleep clothes. That took about five minutes, so now we were on to the food court.

We looked around in a mixture of wonder and horror. On one hand, we had Sbarro's pasta and pizza, burger king, McDonald's, Wendy's, Taco Bell, some Chinese place, a salad bar, and a sweets stand. Then, there was the claustrophobia fact of being surrounded be roughly 200 other people. Max was not going to like this.

I took orders before leaving Iggy, Gazzy and Total at the only table we could find. I was looking forward to a long wait in line and an even longer wait for our pile of food to be prepared.

Meanwhile…

Iggy POV

With Fang gone we were free to discuss a bomb plan. This school would regret giving members of our flock detention! WE wouldn't explode a big one, or even a harmful one, but it would certainly cause ripples in the pool. Speaking figuratively of course. Unless…

We told Total that he was free to roam so long as he didn't talk and came back in five minutes.

Fang POV

I was just on my way back to our table, balancing two trays that were filled to the breaking point when I saw Max and the other girls approaching from the opposite direction. I was half way there when a large commotion caught my eye. There was a very tall, round man chasing a small dog. You can imagine my surprise when I realized that the dog was total.

I ran the rest of the way to the table, hit Iggy and Gazzy, and then joined the chase. A moment later Max was right behind me. We overtook the big guy and a minute after that, I grabbed a hold of Total's tail. He gave a muffled yelp. I held him up to find out why and found his mouth was full with a cheese burger. Thankfully the beef was keeping him from talking.

Max pulled the hamburger out of Total's mouth and began apologizing to the man. She wound up giving him money to buy a new one and he stalked away.

After that, things calmed down. I just don't see how it's possible that we can't go anywhere without incident. Surely, there's one place that we won't mess up in. Right?

Sorry the wait was a little longer than usual, but I went riding and out to dinner and I'm reading a new book.

Do you want me to do Sunday or skip to Monday?

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