"Rise and Shine!" My dad shouted, opening all the blinds from my room. The sun shone in, blinding me. I threw one pillow at him and then used one to cover my head with so I will not be woken up.

"Ally, come on, we have a busy day today! School shopping!" He pulled the blankets off my bed.

"You're taking me shopping?" My voice was muffled and sounded more like 'Ore takng meh shoping?'

"No, Amber and Mara and maybe Patricia is. And she will be here about...now." He said, pulling me off the bed. He pushed me into the freezing shower, which I quickly changed to a more better temperature, brushed my teeth and got dressed. My dad kissed me on the head gave me a banana and then I was out the door.

"Allison! You remember me right? I'm Amber." Said the perky blonde who was in the driver's seat of a silver car. There was two other people in the car. I assume Mara and Patricia.

"Um, kind of." I said, picking out Patricia and Mara.

"Hello Ally." Patricia smiled and I waved. I climb in next to her. Mara turned around to smile at me.

"So, excited to be going to the same school of us?" Mara asked, I nodded.

"Okay, what first? Oh! I know, shoe shopping!" Amber turned the car, we all turned to the side and the pulled in to a shop with Pink and White sign and almost no cars in the lot.

"Can't I just wear Converse?" I asked her. She looked down at my shoes and screamed.

"No you cannot wear those!" She said pulling me in. I looked back at Mara and Patricia, but they just laughed and followed.

"Okay, too high, too low, too black, too brown, too last season, too 50's..." Amber went on going down the aisles that had high heels and flats. I looked in the very small tennis shoes section.

"Ally! I found the perfect pair!" Amber called from 8 aisles over. I sighed, but went over. The shoe was a flat, thank god. It was black with little gold flowers on the toe and other than that it was boring. She had my size, I tried it on and she loved it. She paid for it and we are back in the car.

"Okay, now school stuff. What do you already have?" She asks me, pulling out of the lot.

"Nothing yet. But I brought my school list." I said, handing it to Mara who was waiting for it.

"Okay, we can get these and you are lucky since you wear a uniform. No cloths shopping." Mara said, but Amber eyed me in the review mirror.

"Mara, Mara, Mara she needs cloths to change out of. At least two or three outfits! Please?" Amber begged me. How could I say no to a person I barely know?

"Alright. But, jeans and tees." I told her. She nodded then we pulled up to a Target type store to get my school stuff.


"How was it?" My dad asked me when I got home. He is in the kitchen making himself a sandwich.

"I got five new outfits when Amber only said two or three, 6 new pair of shoes because as she said and I quote: A girl can never have enough shoes. And all of my school stuff." I said, dropping the bags near me feet on the floor, then going to the refrigerator and opening the freezer to open up a pint of Ben and Jerry's Phish Food ice cream.

"Yeah, I should have told you, Amber is a shopper. She owns like three or four stores and designs a little." He said, shrugging.

"Was she always like this?" I asked him, and he nodded.

"She tired me out. I'm going to bed." I told him, before I walked out he stopped me.

"Your mother called...She has a business meeting here or it is on the way or something and she wants to meet up with you. If you want to of course." He told me.

"Really?" I asked him, and he nodded.

"I'll think about it...no wait. I'll go if you go." I told him. I smirked knowing that he wouldn't.

"...Okay." He said after a while of opening and closing his mouth.


So, did you guys like it? What do you think is going to happen between Nina and Fabian now that Allison is in the middle?