5:09 • Forever 21
"That wasn't hilarious that fan was chill" I say looking back if she was there still.
"NO I MEAN YOU HID BEHIND CLOTHES FROM A CUTE WORKER"
"I am scarred because of Hot Topic" I say.
"Whatever lets just go shop" She goes to look at some skirts, (btw that's basically all she wears besides sweats at home) and I go look at a crop top high up on a wall.
Since Lyric was close to me i ask her "Hey Lyric do you think you can reach that"
"I'm shorter than you, do you expect me to reach that" she laughs.
I look around not willing to ask anyone after that incident with workers, so I go up to Luke Hem, I mean Luke Hemmings.
"Uh, hello I was wondering if you could get me a shirt on that rack thing up there please thanks" stuttering was included in that sentence.
"No" he said.
"BITC-" I say before knowing I would actually say it.
"Chill, I will get you it, okay?" He smiled.
Honestly the confusion that he would actually say stuff like that, confuses myself and most probably you. You are probably confused on why you are actually reading this story but if you are carry on.
As I walk over the the wall with the crop top on it my phone buzzed.
It was Laylah.
LAYLAH : hey my mom went home and I'm @ the apartment and it looks like no ones is in yours.
APRIL : well, we're at the mall right now, I'm sure you don't want to come 😂
(Laylah despises shopping)
LAYLAH : ughhh
APRIL : we're going to have a sleepover tonight after shopping and a few errands. u want to come?
LAYLAH : like in middle school?
APRIL : yes do u want to come?
LAYLAH : uh, okay
APRIL : okay you should get some pajamas ready.
LAYLAH : okay but what 'errands'
APRIL : lyric & I still need to eat dinner, and then grocery shopping and then movie night.
LAYLAH : all weekend? because remember there's no school monday.
APRIL : one second
LAYLAH : okay
"We should have a movie night for the whole weekend like, do something fun in the day and wind down at night with some shows or movies maybe even bake?" I say once I found Lyric, who was near Luke, who was trying to get my crop top. "I'm asking Laylah if she wants to come"
"Okay, sure" she says but she's probably more into the clothes, but I got her assurance. "She can stay all weekend that would be fun"
APRIL : you can stay all weekend if you want.
LAYLAH : okay, pick me up later I'm packing some clothes RN.
APRIL : okay we'll finish shopping at F21 and we will pick you up.
And the convo ends.
I put my phone away and when I look up his blue eyes look at me again, differently, and hands me the shirt.
I can't seem to take my eyes off of them they look like the ocean.
"Hey" Lyric makes me snap out of the little mini dream I was in and then I look at her dismissing Luke. "My mom says there's a party or something tomorrow, she said to dress nice, and we can bring Laylah if we want"
"Uh, okay, and Laylah is packing for this weekend, and she's coming grocery shopping with us, should we go now, or pick an outfit for tomorrow and then go" I ask.
"Let's quickly pick up an outfit and then pick her up" She says and I reply with an okay.
It seems like the whole time I'm looking at Luke and stupidly smiling at him, but I actually managed to get an outfit.
A black and white patterned crop top that's not fully cropped but shows my belly a bit. (Also the one that Luke got for me off the wall.)
A super thin denim jacket (feels like a polo) that I will put unbuttoned on the crop top.
Some jeans.
And some cute socks.
When I finish I go to the cash register with Lyric and there are now three people at three cash registers. Some guy, some girl, and Luke.
Some. How. I. Am. At. Luke's. Cash. Register. How.
"So did anyone help you today?" He asks me while taking the clothes off of the hangers.
"Some dude named Luke Hemmings who I thought was a murder, he's cool though" I look at his hands and how he's scanning them and typing stuff and whatever.
"He seems cool" He smiles and a simple shows.
WARNING : next line is cheesy and is very cringeworthy.
"He's cool yeah, he's kinda hot though" I cringe at myself and look down.
"You too" The Australian accent makes it better. "Ten dollars"
"But I bought an item that was fifteen? How can it be ten?" I'm confused at everything at that moment. I look over at Lyric who was at the girl cash register.
He smiles, I raise my eyebrows and stare into his eyes, he stares back at mine and his smile somehow extends to its full potential and I am almost laughing, I'm at that smile point of laughing, but I'm not laughing yet.
I take out my wallet and give him a ten, I take my bag and leave.
"Come back again soon" he says and gives me my receipt. There was a smiley face on it.
Cool.
And now enough of that lovey Dover romance cringeworthy stuff, and on to those "friendship goals" nights. Does that make sense? I don't make sense, it's okay if you don't understand.
"ARE YOU READY" Lyric seems excited, I am too, but I cover my excitement with sarcasm.
"No" I say and somehow she laughs. Then, I say, "YES LETS GO" and I jump out of the store, looking back at Luke, smiling.
"Oooohh" Lyric says and looks at me in the smirk emoji way.
If you don't understand me, she looks like this -> 😏.
"YOU ARENT AFRAID OF THAT WORKER" She points.
This is that perfect time to use her own little thing she does against her. "POINTING IS BAD" I say in that 'Lyric Tone' and then slap her hand down playfully.
"Touché, but you like him, huh?" she looks at me.
"Where did we park again?" Ignoring her question. Forever 21 is the closest store near the entrance / exit and parking lot.
"Smh, we parked over there" and she pulls her keys out and unlocks her car.
"We're off to go to pick up Laylah, the wonderful Laylah of OZ" I say in the tone of that song in The Wizard Of Oz.
I open the door sit down and buckle my seat belt. As Lyric starts the engine and starts driving, I replay over and over and over what happened to the few stores we went to. How a stupid worker would actually try to kidnap me at a store with a lot of people, and then how a worker named Luke Hemmings helped me feel better after that incident? Is this reversed karma?
That's all that plays over and over and over again in my mind the whole trip.
I also think about the really cute clothes I'm going to be able to wear tomorrow.
I also think about how I may never ever see Luke Hemmings again but who actually knows? God.
I also check my social media.
So I guess I do multiple things the whole trip back but I mean it was only ten minutes.
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