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Jade's heavy combat boots scuffed loudly along the empty aisles of the warehouse as she wandered down towards the toy section. She had already passed Robbie and Andre in the scented candle aisle and had witnessed them inhaling the sweet aromas of the brightly coloured candles like drug addicts.
Her crystal blue eyes swiftly moved over the tall shelves as she approached the large toy department. A smirk appeared on her lips as she eyed up a few dolls that she could potentially decapitate later on in the night. Maybe she could stuff the heads in Vega's bag when she wasn't looking. That's entertainment waiting to happen right there.
She knew instantly when she was approaching Beck and Cat due to Cat's loud giggles and excited gasps. Jade rounded a corner and found Cat's arms filled with several stuffed giraffes and other various kinds of stuffed animals including a pink hippopotamus with a bow on its head.
Cat gasped loudly as she spotted Jade rounding the corner into the toy aisle, "Jadey! Look at all these toys! Aren't they amazing?!"
"Yeah, they're fantastic," Jade replied dryly as she came to stand beside them, folding her arms across her chest. Cat giggled and nodded before running and taking off down the aisle, struggling to hold onto the mass of stuffed animals in her arms.
Beck chuckled as he watched the redhead take off before he turned to Jade and slid an arm around her waist, "Aren't you too tough to be standing in the soft toys aisle?" he teased, his fingers tickling her waist playfully - making her wriggle beside him.
She scoffed and rolled her eyes, "Totally," she smirked as they began to walk down the dimly lit aisle, following the path Cat had taken - knowing that if someone didn't look after Cat, she would only end up causing trouble in some way or another.
Just as if someone had read their mind, Cat's high-pitched scream suddenly came from a couple aisle down. And it wasn't her usual excited scream, this was more of a terrified scream. Beck and Jade looked at each other for a moment before rushing to find Cat - neither of them knowing what they would find.
As they ran into another aisle, they found Cat weakly beating her fists against the arms of Robbie and Andre who were in fits of giggles. Jade sighed and planted her hands on her hips as she stormed over to them with Beck following her.
"What is going on here?" she asked, raising an eyebrow.
"They scared me!" Cat cried, whacking Robbie's arm again with as much strength as she had - which wasn't a lot given her tiny size. She pouted and Jade allowed the redhead to have a quick hug, knowing how scared she must have been.
"C'mon, little red. We're just messing with ya," Andre told her, squeezing her shoulder.
"You made me drop my stuffed animals," she pouted against Jade's shoulder.
"Tori, this is the millionth unitard you've shown me. Yes, they're very nice, now lets go somewhere else!" Trina whined after Tori pulled out yet another brightly coloured unitard from the rack in front of her.
"But-" Tori pouted, looking at the rainbow coloured unitard she held in her hands.
"No, come on," Trina grabbed the material from her sister and threw it back into the rack before yanking Tori away from the unitards and out of the aisle. Their shoes clicked along the clean floor of the warehouse as they wandered about, peering down each aisle as they passed them.
Tori had whined when Trina pulled her into the high heel section near the back of the store. She knew that they would spend forever there while her sister gazed at the rows and rows of shoes that surrounded her. Tori took a seat on the cold floor and did her best to patiently wait for her sister to have her moment.
As she sat on the floor and looked around at her surroundings, she suddenly jumped in surprise as something caught her peripheral vision. Her head immediately turned in the direction and she slowly looked around, frowning as she found that nothing was out of the ordinary. She shrugged and turned back to Trina, fighting back an amused laugh as she watched her sister struggle to balance herself in the ridiculously high heels that she was currently trying on.
But just as she began to relax again, something else caught her eye - a shadow of some kind. She frowned again and stood up to get a better look around. Trina turned and a look of confusion crossed her face as she found her sister peering out the end of the aisle.
"Tori?" she questioned.
"I thought I saw something," Tori whispered in response as she moved closer to her sister, glancing behind her again.
Trina slowly removed her feet from the death contraptions she was trying on, "Don't, you're scaring me."
The younger Vega sister was silent for a moment before she shook her head, "It's probably nothing. Lets head back to everyone else."
The sisters quickly made their way out of the shoe department and began walking back up to where they had began in the storage aisle. As they walked, Tori only began to feel more uneasier - like someone was watching her, or like someone else was there... hiding.
"Tori, calm down. You're freaking me out," Trina told her as they rounded a corner.
As Tori opened her mouth to reply, she jumped in fright as she almost walked right into Andre who had been standing on the other side of the corner. She breathed a sigh of relief and fell into his arms, instantly feeling safe as his arms wrapped tightly around her waist.
"What's wrong?" he asked, stroking her hair.
She shook her head and pulled back to look up at him, "I'm just freaking out. I keep... I don't know... Seeing things."
Cat spun around at Tori's confession, her eyes wide as her hands grasped onto one of the stuffed giraffe's she had collected, "What?" she whimpered.
"It's probably nothing, don't worry," Tori assured the redhead with a tight smile - trying to assure herself at the same time. Silence fell over the gang for a moment before Beck spoke up, breaking the slightly eerie silence.
"C'mon, let's go find somewhere to chill for the night. I'm thinking tents," he said, looking up at the signs hanging from the ceiling to see if he could find a camping section.
"Oh! Tents are fun!" Cat cried, her mood instantly changing.
The teenagers made their way out of the toy area and headed off to hopefully find a camping department where they could relax and maybe even sleep for the night.
Tori wasn't sure if she would sleep. She felt way too on edge for sleep. Her eyes darted around as they walked and she knew she had to relax before she completely freaked out.
She was probably just being paranoid.
Right?