The house was empty when I came home. My parents were probably still out on their honeymoon. I needed to do last minute Christmas shopping. Ever since Zack came in the picture, I have been distracted from anything Christmas shopping related. Lily was on the top of my list for buying a present as well as my dorm mates at college. It was a good thing I bought presents for my parents so I didn't have to worry about them. In fact, the presents I bought for them were the only presents under the Christmas tree. My parents were procrastinators.

I dropped off my backpack by my desk in my bedroom and took my wallet off my bedside table. When I gazed at the mirror, I was a wreck. My make-up was messed up, my hair was sticking out all over the place, and my outfit…well wearing sweats didn't really look flattering on me, but it was comfortable. I took the towel that was on the table and went inside the bathroom to wash my face up and fix my hair. There was no time to change clothes since time was ticking. Christmas was only in a couple of days and surely enough, the malls would be jammed pack with countless number of people getting anything they would find in a store. It was only nine in the morning so that meant no one was going to be there, especially on a weekday.

I took my keys, phone, and wallet, ran down the stairs (almost tripping over myself) and headed out the door to my newly cleaned car. Right when I opened the door, the scent of alpine trees invaded my nose. Man, Lily over did it with the air freshener. I sat down on the driver's seat and backed out of the driveway. My phone was placed in the drink holders and surprisingly, no one called. I wasn't anticipating for a phone call, but I was expecting Lily to call me about the conversation Zack had on the phone. It was still a mystery who it was. It was either Jack or Alex since Rian was oblivious on what was going on.

Since the mall was only a freeway away, I made it there pretty quickly. The parking lot was empty and my car was lonely in a vast of pavement. I had this gut feeling that something was going to happen to my car, but I ignored the thought. Who would want to vandalize or steal an ugly looking car? I walked to the Sears entrance and entered inside the store. There was a pretty good amount of people here already, but not too overwhelming. My first stop was at Hot Topic since Lily always wanted this Paramore varsity hoodie and I remembered I saw one there.

As I walked to Hot Topic, familiar faces passed me. One of them was from the Maine. I wasn't sure if he recognized me, but he gave me this smirk that creep me out. It was one of those "you are at the wrong place at the wrong time" smirks. I smiled back at him and turned away. More people I recognized came flowing out of the Hot Topic store. Was it a good idea to enter it now? I needed to buy Lily's present so I went in there, taking a risk.

The people were crowding the room and I walked through them just to look around for the hoodie. When I looked back, Lily came in with Jack, who was in disguised so he wouldn't get noticed. They were heading my direction. Oh crap, I needed to get out of here. Maybe a gift card was a better option. I quickly caught a $50 gift card and went to the cashier. The cashier gave me a strange look before scanning my item. I was fidgeting the whole time since the cashier was taking so freaking long. I immediately paid her the $51 dollars and grabbed the card out of her hands. I sprinted out of the store before Lily noticed me.

A flow of relief came through me as I walked away from the store. I was able to buy presents for my roommates after Christmas, so I decided to skip the Christmas shopping before colliding into someone I…

"Jenny!" Cassadee ran towards me.

I forced a smile. Why now? "Hey Cassadee," I greeted.

She stood in front of me with her arms crossed. "What's the deal with you and Zack? Why did you leave him?"

Not this again. "I don't want to talk about it. I just…"

"So you just used Zack for your own liking?" Cassadee snapped.

"What? No!" Why the hell was she getting into my business? "He was the one who used me."

"That's not true, Jenny," she fired back. "He loves you. That's why he's been worried sick on why you left him."

"I left him a note on why I got away and for your own information Cassadee, he was drunk when he said he loved me and I knew that didn't mean a thing to him." Before Cassadee said something back, I ran off. I didn't want to deal with this anymore. I walked out of the mall and went to my car.

This day kept getting better and I learned my lesson for not ignoring my instincts. Someone took out the air in one of my tires. A note was left on the windshield.

We are not going to stop bothering you until you fix this mess up!

By those words, I knew who it was from but why did they have to deflate my tires. I took the car jack from the trunk. Little did they know that I could change a tire by myself. I wasn't sure why I kept that a secret from people, but luckily I kept this a secret or else Lily would probably deflate every tire. I bet Lily knew that I was going to be at the mall today since I told her yesterday that I needed to buy last minute presents. Since she knew me so well, she knew that I was going to go to this particular mall and park near the Sears entrance. Lily knew me too well.

Although it took me a while to change the tire, I did it. I threw the deflated tire with all my might at the trunk of the car. My back was aching, but I needed to hurry before Lily and the guys got out of there. I threw myself in the driver's seat and started the car.

Guitar Center was a few blocks away from the mall and I was pretty sure that Lily was going to think I was heading home so this a good place to stall. I parked the car in the store parking lot and got out. I had to do a few stretches since carrying a tire by me was not the smartest idea.

I walked in the store and saw a couple of dudes lounging around. They all looked too familiar to me. Shit, did I bring myself to another place that was infested by band dudes? I went over to the bass section to avoid the madness. Maybe it was bad luck or some kind of curse that followed me, but when I went to that section, Zack was right there. He sat on the amplifier while he was playing a grey bass guitar. I completely forgot he played bass in the band. Zack looked depress, though. Even though he was playing, he just looked sad. My heart stopped and I felt like I wanted to hug him right then and there. If he didn't care about me, why would he be down like this? My pride got the best of me and I decided not to walk up to him. I left the store and went in my car.

Home was the only place where I was not going to see anyone I know.

Okay people, I am almost done writing this story! If I'm consistant in writing this, this story might be over by the end of the month or early next month! Sorry if I'm not realy active in writing the other stories. I'm just really stuck on writing them. I don't know where to go with it! I have an idea for some, but I'm not sure if I'm sticking with it. Since I'm in a severe writer's block, I will be posting another story after this story is done. I'll try to write as much as I can for this story before it gets taken down! Thanks for reading!