Chapter 5: Sunday Mall Madness

After the movie, the group of friends walked over to the food court. Remember how Ash was saying he was hungry last chapter? Yeah, well he ended up using most of his money on the McDonald's dollar menu, by the time he was done there McDonald's was closed for the rest of the day out of shear shock that a high school kid would eat that much and look that skinny .

"Ash, remind me the next time we do something like this to tell you let's go to a buffet okay," said Gary.

"Sure," said Ash, "I've got no problems with that."

"How do you eat so much and stay thin," asked Flannery.

"I don't know, I just do," replied Ash.

"Ash, how much food have you eaten exactly," asked Brock with a worried face.

"Uh, let's see, I had 25 cheeseburgers, 25 chicken sandwiches, 25 small fries, and 1 extra large drink that had free refills," he said.

"Why do you sound like you take pride in eating all that food," asked Melody.

"Huh? I don't know, I just like to eat, that's all," said Ash shamelessly.

"I second Gary on going to a buffet next time so McDonald's doesn't close again," said Flannery.

"Heh heh, sorry. What can I say though? When a guys gottta eat, a guys gotta eat," said Ash.

"Ash you do realize that what we bought was less than a fraction of what you ate right," said Brock.

"What'd you guys eat then," asked Ash.

"We ate one meal from McDonald's," said Gary, "that's not even a tenth of what you ate."

After the 'conversation' at the food court, the friends went shopping with the girls. I know what you're probably thinking, shopping with girls? Doesn't that normally mean clothes and, well, clothes? Not in this case, since these girls like video games, a guy's best friend. So as you can imagine, they went to Game Stop but what was waiting for them shocked them, especially Ash.

"ZOMG! WHY THE FUCK ARE THE GIRLS FROM CLASS HERE," yelled Ash to his friends.

"Well, it is a mall you know Ash, it's not new that girls are here," said Flannery.

"Yeah but not at a Game Stop," retorted Ash.

"That is unusual though," said Brock.

"Yeah, I thought that those girls would've been shopping at someplace like ROSS, MACY's, Old Navy, someplace like that," agreed Gary.

"Flannery do you think that game was released today," asked Melody.

"Oh yeah! I completely forgot about that. The World Ends With You game came out today," said Flannery.

"Wait, you girls are into that stuff," asked Ash.

"Hell yeah," said Flannery, "you can play as two characters at the same time and you get to use different powers to! Just think of the movie we watched today."

"Oh, so you die in the beginning."

"I said too much didn't I?"

"Yes, yes you did, you just ruined the plot twist for the game," said Melody.

"Oh well, at least no one else heard me right," she said.

"I wouldn't be too sure of that, look behind us. That's not all they're angry about too I think. I say we should start running," said Gary as a group of angry people from the store came out and started chasing them.

"Too the bus stop," yelled Ash, "If what Flannery said is true then we just have to make it there in the next- what time is it, 2:10, 20 minutes and we're home free."

So the gang ran from one side of the mall all the way to the other side of the mall with the angry mob right behind them. Luckily for them, the info Flannery said was true, that the bus did come by every half hour and lucky for them again since they got there right when the bus was leaving.

"Remind me to check when a new game's coming out next time okay," said Flannery, "I don't want to run across the entire mall in 20 minutes non-stop again."

The rest of them had the same response, "Agreed," as they just sat in the bus panting from their long run across the mall.

"Let's go and stay at my house then, I'm sure my mom won't mind," said Ash.

"Alright," said Gary, "but you do know what she'd probably think if we brought the girls with us right?"

"Oh yeah…," said Ash. "Maybe we can sneak them in through the back door."

"And what would your mom say when she looks in your room?"

"They could hide in my closet when we hear her coming up."

"Well, then I guess it's for them to decide if they want to do that."

"You girls okay with that idea?"

"NO," they said quietly.

"Well, I guess I'll just explain it to her then," Ash said.

At Ash's house…

"Oh, hello Ash, you're back early," said his mom, "oh, and you brought friends. If you told me earlier I would've cleaned up the place."

"You're not shocked," asked Ash.

"Why would I be?"

"Because I brought girls over too in addition to Brock and Gary."

"Oh," she said, "well, that's okay; they're your friends right? Not your girlfriends right?"

"Yeah."

"I'll go get dinner ready while you and your friends go hang out in your room okay," asked his mom as she walked into the kitchen.

"Okay."

"Well, that went better than I thought it would've," said Ash.

In Ash's room…

Well as you can imagine, just like pretty much any boy's room, it had lots of stuff lying on the floor and a computer on a desk he had in the right corner of his room. In one corner however was Melody sleeping on the floor.

"Hey, Melody, wake up," said Flannery. No response. "Ash is coming Melody, wake up please."

"Hey Flannery, is something wrong," asked Ash.

"Nope," she said. Except for Melody being knocked out anyway, she thought.

"Oh, well seeing as how Melody's sleeping on the ground," Ash said, "do you mind if I try waking her up?"

Is he going to kiss her to wake her up, thought Flannery, "By all means go right ahead."

"Hey, Melody, wake up before I start tickling you." No response. "Guess I'll start tickling you then."

With that, Ash started to tickle Melody to get her up. Her response, she woke up and flung her head straight up and hit something unexpected…