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━━ chapter sixteen definitely not macy's ( piper )
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(please no hate comments, thank you. i love her, you can hate her, but i just don't want the negativity around her character in my comment section. thanks loves!).
━━Piper wanted to run for the elevator.
Her second choice: attack the strange princess now, because she was sure a fight was coming. The way the lady's face glowered when she heard Jason's name had been bad enough. Now, Her Highness was smiling as if nothing happened, and Jason and Leo didn't seem to think anything was wrong. When Piper saw that Sav shuffled closer to her, looking very alarmed and confused, she resisted the urge to cry in relief. At least she wasn't the only one who thought something weird was happening.
The princess gestured towards the cosmetics counter. "Shall we start with the potions?"
"Cool," said Jason.
"Guys," Piper interrupted, "we're here to get the storm spirits and Coach Hedge. If this━princess━is really our friend━"
"Oh, I'm better than a friend, my dear," said Her Highness. "I'm a saleswoman!" her diamonds sparked and her eyes glittered like a snake's━cold and dark; sly and cunning with a plan right up her sleeve. Usually, Piper admired people who could think like that, but right now, she was more scared than anything. "Don't worry. We'll work our way down tot he first floor, eh?"
(No, Piper does not want to work her way down to the first floor. She honestly thought about just running for it down the escalators, grabbing Coach Hedge and the storm spirits, then whack the boys over the head with Coach's bat━that thing had to be useful for something).
Leo nodded eagerly, "Sure, yeah! That sounds okay. Right, guys?"
Piper did her best to glare daggers at him: No, it's not okay! Hoping that perhaps her power of persuasion could work through glowers, but it didn't seem to work. Sav seemed as if she was trying something very similar. Her thumb hovered over her ring, but she couldn't do much with a broken arm. Piper would have to protect her, as well as the boys. Sav hates fighting, she hates chaos after a life full of it. Piper will protect her from it, no hesitation. Even if she knew Savreen was capable in her own way━she couldn't help it. Sav was her close friend, and after everything, Piper latched onto her tighter. She was one of the few things (like Leo) that were concrete and real after so long being lied to by the gods.
So, Piper and Savreen had no choice except to follow.
She hated department stores━mostly because she had got caught stealing from several of them. Well, not exactly caught, and not exactly stealing. She had talked salesmen into giving her computers, new boots, a gold ring, once even a lawnmower━though she had no idea why she wanted one. She never kept the damned things. She just wanted her father's attention. The bigger the object, the more expensive, the harder it would be to take, Piper surged towards it because then her father had no choice but to talk to her━to pick her up, to scowl at her, heave with disappointment. But at least it was something.
