The Mystery Circus

Chapter 15

I stared around the mall in amazement. There were so many stores! And when there are so many stores, that means there is tons to do! I grinned excitedly still looking around in wonder, along with Raven and Hope, who were standing beside me, also smiling widely.

"Well, this was going to be fun for sure." I thought to myself.

"Where to first?" Raven asked, snapping out of her daze.

"Um... I say we go... Oh! Let's get a smoothie!" Hope exclaimed, seeing a smoothie shop to the right of us. She grabbed both of our wrists, and started dragging us over there.

When we got over there, we saw two girls at the counter, who looked around the age of 17 years old, and they were dressed in a uniform. We walked up to the counter.

"Hello!" the one girl said. Her name tag said her name was Carrie, and she had long blonde hair that was pulled up into a high ponytail, and she wore a bright smile on her face.

"How may we help you?" the other girl asked politely. On this girl, her name tag said her name was Roxanne and she had ginger hair that went down to the middle of her back. She had her hair pulled into a low ponytail, and she had freckles on her cheeks.

"Hello we would like a smoothie." I announced.

"What kind would you like?" the girl named Carrie asked.

"Um... We'll all have the raspberry vanilla smoothie, please." Hope spoke up, smiling.

"Okay." Carrie replied with a big bright smile, and then turned to get the ingredients.

I looked around the room. There in the corner of the room was a chair. I practically leaped over to it, and sitting down on it before Raven or Hope could take it.

"Aw. I wanted to sit there." Hope pouted, while Raven simply just went over to the wall to sit. She slid down against the wall, and sat there, waiting.

"Your smoothies are done." Roxanne announced.

I stood up from the chair, and pulled out 15 dollars, and handed it to Roxanne to pay for the smoothies. Raven and Hope took their smoothies, and started to drink them with a straw.

"Bye!" we called to the two girls as we left the smoothie shop.

"You're welcome!" Carrie replied, smiling.

As we walked away, still drinking our smoothies. "These are good." I commented, licking my lips.

"Yeah." Raven and Hope agreed, with a mouthful of smoothie in their mouths. I laughed at them, chuckling.

"Now, where should we go next?" I asked them.

"Hm..." Raven pondered. "Where should we go now? I mean, there's so much to do."

"Let's go shopping for clothes!" Hope exclaimed.

"Alright." Raven and I nodded, agreeing.

We followed Hope into the first store we saw that had clothes, which happened to be Sears. We immediately started looking around at all of the wonderful choices they had. They had tons of different styles of clothes!

We started walking down the pajama isle. I started to look through the nightgowns section. Eventually I came across a nightgown that I loved. It was a long, dark blue nightgown that reached and ended at my feet. It had white spiraling designs on it. I absolutely loved it. I checked the price of it. Wow, only 10 dollars.

I pulled it off the clothes rack and folded it over my arm. I turned to see Raven in the tee-shirt section, and then I saw Hope in the tank top section. I then walked over to Hope.

"What did you get?" Hope asked.

"A nightgown." I smiled.

"Cool." she nodded, and chuckled. She turned around with two pairs of tank tops draped over her right arm. "Lets go see if Raven has finished picking out her clothes." Hope suggested.

"Okay." I nodded.

"But I'm already done." a voice spoke from behind us. I jumped up and around and landed in a karate position, but then relaxed when I saw it was Raven.

"Dang, you scared me half to death, woman!" I exclaimed, laughing.

"I wasn't trying to." Raven chuckled. She carried a tee-shirt that read 'Soulmates' across the front.

"Mommy, mommy! Did you see the video of the Mystery Circus?! I think the tightrope people were the best!"

I turned my head to the side, to see a little boy walking up to the counter with his mother, all excited. "Yes I did, dear." she laughed.

"Let's go pay for these items." Raven announced.

We walked towards the counter also.

The little boy turned to look at us. His eyes widened. "Look, mommy! There she is! The girl who performed those amazing tricks on the tightrope!" he exclaimed, pointing to me. He let go of his mothers hand, and rushed up to me, hugging me.

I was shocked at first, but then laughed and patted his messy brown hair. His mother came up, prying him off of me.

"Sorry." she sighed, smiling.

"Oh it's quite alright." I replied, laughing.

"Can I have your autograph?" the boy asked with bright blue eyes.

"Sure." I smiled, and pulled out a piece of paper from my pocket and a pen. I wrote my name on it, and stuck the pen in my pocket.

"Gee, thanks miss!" he giggled, staring at the paper in my hands.

"You're welcome. What's your name?" I asked, bending down to his level.

"My name is Jason!" He grinned happily.

"Well Jason. Here's my autograph." I smiled, and ruffled his brown hair as I gave the paper with my name on it to him.

"Thanks!" he exclaimed.

"Your welcome." I smiled, and stood up properly. Raven, Hope and I put all of our items on the counter, and the lady started scanning the price tags.

She put all of our clothes in a bag, and handed the bag to us. Raven pulled out 30 dollars, and handed it to the lady.

"Thanks." I said.

"You're welcome." she said.

We waved goodbye to Jason and his mother, and then left the store.

"Well, shopping was fun." We laughed as we left the mall.

"Yeah. It was." I chuckled.