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"What?" Jalon snaps, catching her watching him out of the corner of his eye.
"Nothing. You just seem... interesting," Astrea replies, still studying him.
He turns, propping his head on his hand, a mischievous glint in his eyes. "What's so...
"Girls, there is breakfast downstairs, I am going to work," Antheia says, on the other side of Strea's room door.
"Ugh, my head hurts, Hanuni, let go of me," Cat says, trying to get out of the cuddle death grip, Hanuni had on her. "Can we lay for a little longer, Strea's floor is really comfortable," Hanuni, whines with her eyes still closed.
"Fine, but don't get mad when I pee on you," Cat says, making Hanuni let go of her instantly. "Thank you, ma'am," Cat says jokingly as she gets up walking into Strea's bathroom to do her business.
As the girls on the floor in front of Strea's bed huddle closer together, to stay warm, Strea wakes up to Lada breastfeeding her baby. "Gosh, you look like shit Strea," Lada, says chuckling as she looks at her friend with dark circles and bags under her eyes. "I could say the same about you too, Lada," Strea says back making the girls laugh.
Opening the bathroom door, Strea, and Lada look up to see, Cat with bags and dark circles under her eyes. The girls look at each other and start laughing, "God, you both look like shit," Cat says, walking over to the girls on the floor, to sit on the bed with the girls. "We can say the same thing for you, Cat," Lada says chuckling.
"Would you guys, shut up, up there, I am trying to sleep," Hanuni says. "Get up, we got stuff to do today," Cat says throwing a pillow at the girls on the floor, making them groan. "Five more minutes please," Aalina says.
"Nope, get up," Cat says throwing more pillows at them, making them sit up with annoyance on their faces. "If you weren't my friend Cat, I would have beat your ass," Hanuni says with annoyance. "What are we doing today?" Aalina says leaning upwards, with her eyes closed.
"Today, we are going shopping, and we are going to that party tonight," Cat says with excitement. "Um Cat, did you forget we have bean? what about Lada?" Strea asks confused. "I got that figured out, my mom can watch her for the night, she's a retired nurse, so she happily agreed," Cat says.
"Cat, when did you have time to do this?" Lada asks with surprise. "I did it just now in the bathroom, I texted her while I was on the toilet," Cat says with a matter-of-fact tone.
"Ew, we didn't need to know that Cat and Lada might not want to go, why would she want to be away from her baby? and no offense but with a stranger at that," Hanuni says confused. "I didn't think about that, Lada if you don't want to go, we'll stay with you," Cat says embarrassed. "I can go, but we might have to leave early if that's okay, I don't want to be away from her, for too long," Lada says. "That's fine with me, I don't want to be there too long anyways," Cat says.
As the girls, one by one, brush their teeth and change into clothes the Strea provided, they head downstairs to get breakfast. "Damn this kitchen is to die for," Hanuni says with her mouth agape.
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"What do you guys want to eat?" Strea asks ignoring Hanuni's compliment. "Eggs, are okay for me," Aalina says, the girls agree muttering that they would also like eggs.
"Strea, do you have any yogurt?" Lada asks walking towards her with her baby at her hip. "Uh I think we have gogo squeeze banana flavored yogurt, in the fridge, you can look it should be in the door on the left," Strea says pointing to the double white doors next to the microwave and oven. "Okay, thank you," Lada says opening the big fridge doors, and taking out a gogo squeeze.
As the girls finish eating breakfast, they get ready to go to the mall, making sure all the doors and windows are locked. Strea set the alarm and locked the front door.
"Okay, so which mall are we going to Cat?" Strea says turning around to look at her, "Uhm, I think we should go to Beltline Mall" Cat replies back looking up from her phone.
"The one going off Whiteto Highway next to the Blitz grocery store?" Strea asks
"Yeah, that mall usually has more stuff," Cat says, as Aalina puts in the address, Strea gets out of the car and walks to Lada's car, knocking on her passenger window.
"Hey Lada we're going to Beltline Mall, do you know where that is?" Strea asks, "No, I don't send me the address and I'll follow behind you guys," Strea says a quick okay, and walks back to Aalina's car, getting in and telling Cat to send the address in the group chat so Lada can follow behind them.
The girls start driving heading to the mall with Lada following closely behind. "So, Strea has Kio texted you?" Cat says popping her head in between the passenger and driver seats wiggling her eyebrows.
As soon as she asked the question, Strea's phone buzzed. "What the hell, it's like he knows we're talking about him," Strea says weirded out.
"Kio"
(Kio) "Hey Strea, are you and the girls coming to the party still, or not?"
(Strea) "Yeah, we're coming"
(Kio) "Do you need the address?"
(Strea) "Kio, you sent me the address, yesterday remember after study hall"
(Kio) "Oh yeah, haha sorry, okay see you at the party then :)"
"What's he saying? did he ask about us?" Cat says excitedly, "He wanted to know if we were going to the party still and I told him yeah we are," Strea says to the girls. "I still can't believe one of the hottest guys in school has your number, Strea you must be a god," Cat says in awe.
As the girls reach the mall, they park next to each other and in the front row parking space. Walking into the big mall.
"So, what store do we go into first?" Hanuni asks the girls, "Let's go into that one, I think they may have cute outfits in there" Aalina says. The girls start to walk towards a store called "Exotic Siren" they search around looking for clothes, "Did you guys see anything you like?" Strea says walking up to Aalina and Cat.
"I found this cute outfit, and I already paid for it, but I won't show you guys till we get to your house," Cat says excitedly, "Omg I just had a thought we should all, not show each other our outfits but tell each other the colors and do each other makeup," Cat says to the girls even more excitedly.
"Cat, tell the group chat so everyone knows, I like the idea, I think that would be fun," Aalina says. "Yeah, I agree I like that, it sounds fun," Strea replies also.
With both the girls agreeing Cat texts the group chat.
