I do not own the VA series. R. Mead is the owner. I have been working on rewriting this beginning so hopefully it will have less mistakes and make a little more sense. I've only had a chance to rewrite the first chapter.

I decided to start training Mia off today, damn it, it'd have to be first thing in the tomorrow morning. I have some other things to take care of, like SHOPPING! Yeah! I'm so excited I could jump for joy, NOT!

I went to my place to grab a small bag that would contain my toiletries and a couple of outfits. I was supposed to be 'living' with Adrian while I was here. It wasn't like I really cared, it was just odd to have someone else in the same house. I have been living by myself for awhile now.

The amount of Guardians that accompanied us was a bit ridiculous to me but hey I am only visiting. I will still fight along the other Guardians but I was supposed to be a guest. Damn, I hate shopping. That's why I either order online or have a tailor come to me. I had no idea on what type or color dress I wanted so I just sort of followed behind Lissa and Mia. They were both excited about getting out and going shopping. I was going to wait to see what type of dress they were going to pick out. I have only had to wear a dress if it was work related; even than I preferred a suit.

We walked past more than a few stores and they all had dresses. After stopping at store that contained only dresses. I guess they had a point of coming here first. As I walked in I saw someone that made my day. She had her back facing us when we first walked in and her name was Tasha. Lissa was obviously excited to see her cause she let out this high pitched squeal that made me wince.

I stood of to the side and watched the three of them. I noticed that Tasha and Lissa were slowly making their way away from Mia was standing. I don't know whether or not it was because Lissa was scared of me or the fact that Mia had insisted that I came along. At the thought of her being intimidated by me made me smile just a little.

I saw that Mia was looking at a beautiful floor length dress. It was baby blue and it was almost the same color as her eyes. It would like wonderful on her. She looked at the price tag and her the smile that was on her face disappeared. I saw her look at a couple of price tags than stopped really pay attention to the dresses, just kind of moved them around barely sparing a glance at them. I forgot that she wasn't as well off as the rest of us. Lissa would normally have paid for the dresses but she was completely on the other side of the store leaving Mia alone. Just the fact that she would treat her 'friend' that way was enough to piss me off.

I walked up to the first sales associate and for the price of the merchandise in this store they better have personal assistants or personal shoppers, which ever phrase you prefer. I didn't so much as ask as demand that she would be giving me first class treatment and would do whatever that I asked of her. Money wasn't a problem for me and I had no problem buying Mia whatever she needed.

I told the lady, whose name was Elizabeth, that I wanted some water to drink and she didn't even question, just turned on her heel and brought me some. Now that I was sure that I was going to be catered to; I walked over to the first dress that Mia looked at and handed it to Elizabeth. I walked around the store randomly grabbing dresses that I thought Mia would like. It would be awesome if she showed up in a sexy ass dress that made every man drool and every female jealous. This was just a start of her training, even though she didn't know it. I didn't bother with jewelery right now, just walked to the back and grabbed a simple pair of 5 inch high heels. They were just to see what she would look like with any of shoe that she actually would choose.

Elizabeth disappeared for a second and came back and asked for me to follow her. I informed her that the dresses weren't for me but for Mia, so she walked over and asked Mia to follow us. The look of confusion on her face actually made me smile. When we reached the back room that was quite large. The room had a dressing room off to one side and a small raised platform that was surrounded by mirrors on one side so she would be able to see for herself what the dress looked like on her. I sat in a really comfortable chair as she was lead to the dressing room. She walked out in the first dress that she had picked out with a smile. I was right the dress looked really good on her. She was admiring her reflection than had a sudden thought and turned to face me. "Why am I back here? I can't afford any of these dresses let alone being in this room." She looked a little sad as she said this. I raised my eyebrow and said "I can't have people that work for me go without or not get what they deserve or want." It took her a minute to figure out what I had just said. It looked like she was happy but still didn't like the fact that I was spending money on her. "There is no need to feel bad about the amount of money that everything will cost. I have more money than I will ever know what to do with. So just shut up and enjoy yourself today." She smirked at me and started to make two piles of dresses, ones that she liked and another that she didn't. They were all pretty and only one of them was a bit out of the dress code for this type of event. I liked all of the dresses she picked out. I still didn't know what kind of dress I would like to wear to this stupid ball. However, Mia did choose both long and short dresses. I suddenly remembered that I also needed a dress or two. I was glancing around and I found a few dresses that I liked. Although, only a couple of them would be appropriate for most court functions. In the end I choose 8 and Mia ended up with 4. After the first 4-5 dresses that we tried on, we switched our bottled waters for Blue Hawaiians. I tried on maybe 20 dresses and Mia tried on 15. (I am not very good at descriptions so both of their dresses will be on my profile that goes to a flickr page.) Needless to say we both had a nice buzz as we left the back room from all of the drinks that we had while we tried on dresses. We walked to the front of the store to buy the dresses that we picked out and I completely forgot about Lissa and Tasha until I saw them out of the corner of eye. Which was a very bad mistake on my part. That caused me to sober up instantly. They turned to watch as we walked up to the register with 12 dresses. I wasn't even paying attention to how much it all added up too. I looked because I heard Mia cussing under her breathe. Saying things like who in the hell would pay that much for a bunch a fabric. I turned to her with my eyebrow raised cause I normally spent about this much when I bought clothes. It came close to $8,000.00.

Lissa and Tasha walked up as they were putting the dresses in garment bags for us. Lissa and Tasha had 2 dresses a piece and they were both long. Well, I am sort of glad that decided to come up here because now I know that we are supposed to wear a long dress. I don't think I am going to push the dress code just yet...

We were walking to the car when Lissa "forgot" something and Mia had to go to work. I walked off to the side and made a phone call and within five minutes one of the cars that I keep near here was pulling up. The car was beautiful and everyone was staring at it. Well almost everyone, Tasha didn't look to pleased and said "Lissa and I are not riding in THAT." I turned around with a shit eating grin and said "Good I don't want to have to replace anything that you touch." Almost all of the guardians were trying to hide their laughter and the rest had smiles on their faces. Mia and I jumped in and drove away in...

I am very sorry about the long wait. My life has been super busy. Neighbor was stopped in traffic when a tractor trailer hit her going 70mph. She is slowly getting better; however, I am helping with her three kids as well as my two.