Ruby dragged Liz out to the living room, where Yang was playing a game with Blake watching. The game in mention, was Doom. The most recent remake.
Ruby got caught watching her sister play, completely forgetting why she came out in the first place. Liz looked over the TV, currently Yang was fighting the Cyberdemon boss battle.
Liz looked back over to Ruby and tapped her shoulder, causing her to look over at Liz before remembering why she had come out.
"Oh yeah! Yang!" Ruby called out, letting go of Liz's hand, which she had grabbed to pull her along, and running over to Yang on the couch. Blake, who was on Yangs left, looked over as Yang spoke.
"Yeah?" she said, still fighting the Cyberdemon. Ruby watched for a second again before speaking.
"something special is today! Can you guess?" Yang looked slightly confused and Blake was as well. Her face showed it much less so, but it was still there.
"Uh, no… I can't. Wouldya mind maybe, telling us?" Yang asked, glancing over at Ruby as she finished off the Cyberdemon with the glory kill.
Ruby giggled, grabbing Liz's arm again and pulling her over. "It's someone's birthdaaaay!" she said in a hushed tone, glancing over to Liz a couple times. Blake immediately recognized the hinting and nodded, now understanding. It took Yang a couple seconds however.
But when she put it together finally, she smirked. "Oh I see…" she stood up and tossed the controller down on the couch. Blake looked at the thrown aside controller and then to the TV, sighing as she took it and properly turned off the console.
Yang walked over to Liz, who was now blushing slightly. Ruby jumped up and down slightly.
"We-"
"You… you, wanted this." Liz corrected. Ruby obviously paid no mind to this, as she continued.
"We," she said, with much emphasis on the 'we.' "…Wanted to see if you could get her out, and we could all do something for her birthday!" Liz chuckled nervously, now looking back over at Yang.
"You don't have to do anything, it's-"
"Nonsense, why not do something if it's your birthday?"
"Yeah, we should all celebrate right now!" Ruby said happily. Liz looked around, currently the only one not a part of this was Blake, who was simply watching.
That was, until she walked over, shrugged, and said, "why not, I'll come."
"Yeah!" Ruby said, with an excited sparkle in her eyes. She was smiling widely as she looked back over Blake, Yang, and Liz. Liz was blushing and smiled back as Ruby smiled at her.
"Well then, what are we waiting for? let's go!" Ruby said happily before running off to the door, not without dragging Liz off with her.
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There was a bit of discussion about what they should do for Liz's birthday in the car. Everyone except Liz was talking about where to go on Liz's birthday. If that makes much sense. Though to be fair, she didn't pitch much for a conversation. But when everybody continuously suggested things she would much rather not do, she just had to say something.
"Laser tag? No, let's all get Nerf guns, and shoot each other with them!" was the oh so brilliant idea brought up by Yang, before Liz sighed and cut everyone off.
"If you all really want to do something, I have a perfect idea." Ruby looked over at Liz.
"Oh, what is it? Can we still have a cookie cake?" Liz sighed and smiled at Ruby.
"Yes Ruby, you can get a cookie cake." Ruby cheered and hugged Liz. She blushed before speaking again.
"If anything, why don't all three of you go around the mall or something, and get me one thing. That way it's not much money, and you all get to do something for me since you all apparently want to do something. Honestly I'd much prefer something not big, and simple gifts would suffice." She said, trying to keep it simple. Yang nodded slowly, glancing at Liz for a second before continuing to drive.
"Okay then… I guess that'll work." She said, continuing her driving. Ruby sat up and looked over at Liz.
"Is more than one thing fine?" she asked, to which Liz sighed and nodded.
"If you really want I guess."
"Do you like books?" Blake asked, turning back slightly to see Liz as she spoke to her.
"I read… sometimes." She shrugged, to which Blake nodded and turned back around forward. Ruby tapped her shoulder and offered Liz thirty dollars. Liz looked at her somewhat confused.
"Wait, I don't-"
"So you can get something for yourself… and you're not refusing it." Ruby glared at Liz jokingly, and Liz nodded. She took the money and put it in her jacket pocket smiling.
"Well then thanks…" Ruby nodded and smiled.
"You're welcome!" she smiled and sat up straight, looking forward.
The car ride was silent for about another minute, when they made it to the mall. Everyone got out and Liz briefed them.
"Okay, let's say… we all meet back in the food court at Subway in about four hours?" Liz asked, to which Ruby and Blake nodded, but Yang brought up an inquiry.
"What if we run into you before then, and we have the gift?"
"then we run into each other, and be on our ways after." Yang shrugged.
"Fair enough I guess." With that conversation over, they entered the mall, and all parted. Liz decided to stay at front for about thirty minutes to let everyone be on their way, before getting bored and starting to walk around.
Why did I say four hours? That's too long... Is it? No it isn't… yes it is… fuck, I just need to make up my goddamn mind. she shook her head as those thoughts raced her mind, about the entire situation in general as well.
"Might as well start looking at places…" she mumbled to herself, walking over to read the directory in the middle of the hall where she was.
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Ruby had first decided to run off to find somewhere she could get a cookie cake. After the thirty minutes, she still hadn't found anything. Yet, anyways.
She pouted, looking over all the signs everywhere to try and see where it may be.
"I know there's one here, I've been there before…" she mumbled to herself, also convincing herself she didn't need the directory that she was standing right next to.
She looked around for a bit more before glancing over to the aforementioned directory, and sighing. She walked over and started looking it over.
I guess if I have to… oh, it was there! She looked off down the hall to her right, seeing her end destination.
She sighed and started walking off in that direction slowly. All I needed to do was just keep walking… god damnit. I guess that record of knowing where everything was is gone… Ruby thought as she walked, saddened by the fact she couldn't keep up with her own set goal.
"I wonder where Yang and Blake went off to…" she mumbled to herself as she walked up to the small cookie store on the corner.
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Yang was on her own little journey, trying to find something for Liz. The part that made it hard was the fact that she had no idea what the smaller girl would want. Speaking of her, she had walked past Yang just then with a pretzel, rushing forward at a much faster speed when Yang tried to get her attention.
"Hey, Liz- hey, wait up for a second!" Liz looked back slightly but continued on, slowing down once she was roughly two or three stores away. Yang sighed.
"Whatever… I can figure it out…" she said to herself, looking around at the area she was in, trying to see which stores were around. Seeing as the area only had a Build-a-bear, a children's clothing store, a small candy shop, a shoe show, and a vacant store, she decided this wasn't the area.
She sighed and began walking off again, in the direction she was going from the beginning. Around the corner at first was the pretzel place Liz probably got her pretzel, and the most notable for Yang: a yellow motorcycle in the middle of the floor, surrounded by ropes, and signs advertising what it was:
A motorcycle raffle.
She immediately ran over. It was as if she forgot all reasons she was in the mall in the first place. She quickly signed up for the bike and smiled as she looked over it.
"Oh, you're gonna be mine…" she mumbled to herself as she looked around, remembering why she was there in the first place. "Oh yeah!" she looked over all the stores in the area, sighing as there wasn't anything much better than what was before.
"goddamnit. I'll just leave and find some store somewhere else. I got time to kill." She shrugged and walked off.
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Blake had found a bookstore she thought she could find something Liz might've liked. One thing she didn't expect was seeing Liz in that exact bookstore looking over manga.
She was walking around, and saw Liz down one row. She realized she was noticed and quickly ran off blushing, setting the manga she had back. Blake chuckled slightly and walked over to see what caused such a reaction from Liz.
She picked up the manga, and saw exactly what it was. A lesbian hentai. One that Blake had even read. She smirked and took it. "If that's what she's into..." She mumbled as she looked over the other manga near there.
"I'd also recommend these…" She found a couple that were hentai like the one Liz was looking at, and promptly walked off to buy them.
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After Liz had ran out blushing she promptly started looking for a store to hide in. She was obviously unsuccessful as Blake had caught up to her. She set a hand on her shoulder and turned the smaller girl around to face her, holding out the bag.
"I think it would be best if you didn't show these to Yang and Ruby, hence the reason I'm giving it to you now." Liz didn't question but took the bag and looked in, immediately blushing and looking away.
"N-Now, you didn't have to get these…." She chuckled nervously.
"I saw you looking so now I think I have a rather good idea of what you're into… other than the one you were looking at, the other three are ones I recommend." Liz blushed further.
"Thanks…" she mumbled under her breath. Blake nodded. She then smirked.
"If you ever want to read any other books, I can give you recommendations. Whether they're that type or not." Liz nodded and looked down. "I'll leave you to do what you were now." She started walking off and Liz nodded. She quickly turned off in the other direction, still looking down.
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Ruby had gotten her cookie cake, and was now looking for something simply to give to Liz.
"What would she want?" she mumbled to herself, looking over all the stores. There weren't any ones she figured Liz would like. She sighed and continued walking, hoping she'd eventually find a place.
After a while of searching, she saw something she figured Liz would've liked. Taken into consideration Halloween was right around the corner, there was a costume shop near by that opened yearly for October. Well what did she get? Something she felt fit very nicely with choker Liz had gotten: a realistic looking cat ear headband and cat tail. One that clipped onto say, a belt. Because I know what everyone was thinking. You lewd minded fucks.
She decided to get that because it was nearing Halloween. Liz would definitely need a costume. She also got herself a costume, essentially the same thing except dog ears and tail.
She of course walked out of there happy, also going across to an electronic store across the way. She also got a cat ear headphones set, the best part being the ears had LED lights with quite a few colors, and they even had a setting to go through all of them.
She smiled happily as she bought them too, and walked out of the store, going to the food court where they were all told to meet. Blake was already there sitting at a table fit for four, and she had gotten a sub and was eating it while reading one of her own books.
She sat in the seat across from Blake, and looked around. "have you seen Yang yet?" Blake shook her head and looked over at Ruby.
"No, I haven't." Ruby sighed and took out the cookie cake she had bought, setting it on the table.
"what did you get Liz?" she asked. Blake held up a bag of books, manga to be exact. not hentai, but regular manga. Ruby nodded and set her bag of stuff on the table. Blake looked at it, the clearer bag making it easy to see what was in it. she nodded at Ruby and Ruby smiled.
Ruby took it off the table and set it underneath, waiting for something, anything to happen and break the silence at the table currently. after a couple minutes, Yang came in and sat at the table with a bag.
"so, we waiting now?" she asked, letting the bag stay by her side. Ruby nodded. after a bit more, Liz came by, and sat down in the only available seat at the table.
"okay, everyone good?" She asked. Yang sat up and handed her the bag she had. Blake put her book down and put her bag on the table as well as Ruby doing the same.
Yang's bag had a laptop and mouse in it, now meaning Liz actually had a use for the headphones she got. They did normal birthday things, eating the cake, or in this case giant cookie, presents, and a little celebration.
it was a fun and pleasant evening, and Liz especially enjoyed it. so when the day was over, they got their stuff, Liz hid her hentai, and Ruby actually managed to convince to stay up and camp out with her in the room.
They had fun, and Liz warmed up to Ruby even more than she already was.
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Oh fuck, i had to rush this. so, I accidentally deleted the entire chapter... yeah... luckily I was able to get about half of it...
but yeah, sorry about the rush. also, im on a road trip, so yay. going to Ohio for my uncles wedding... wish me luck i guess.
Anyway, I actually have to go soon, you know the normal things i say, suggestions, constructive criticisms, etc etc.
ANYWAY,
I'll see you all next chapter, story, whenever... This is JustAnotherDeathclaw, signing off.
PS. I love my name