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Chapter 10

-Honk- -Honk-

I opened my eyes and read 7:30AM on my clock. Who is honking that early in the morning?

I say early because during the weekends, I tend to wake up at around 11-12pm.

As I open the window, I see a blue Ford in front of my house. Next to it is Ryan.

"Hey Chels"! His voice echoed.

"Shut up, you will wake the whole town up"!

"Sorry...". Now we both started to whisper.

"Come down quick, I wanna take you somewhere."

"Where?"

"It's a surprise!"

"Fine".

I closed my window and headed for the bathroom. I still can't open my eyes due to all that eye bugger I have.

I got dressed within 10 minutes, wearing cloths, lotion all over my body, straightening my hair and shoes. Then I got outside.

"After you". Ryan opened the car door for me.

"Thank you...".

We both are in the car and ready to go.

"Say, who's car is this? If its yours I'm going to kill you."

"Why?"

"What do you mean why? I always drive you home and school. You could have done that yourself with this car."

"Well sadly, this car is my dad's. I'm only borrowing this for today...with his credit card."

"Why do you have his---"

"We are here!"

I looked up from the window. Looks like it was only a 20 minute drive to the mall.

"Why are we at the mall?"

Ryan gave me the poker face.

"You know what. You ask too many questions. Let's just go in and have fun. Well first, let's have food!"

"Ugh, the typical Ryan." I have him a warm smile.

We entered the mall. Every store was open but empty. There were only a few people in the mall. Most of them are families.

We headed up towards the food court.

"Alright. We are officially in the food court. What do you want Chels? It's all on me!"

"Ok, I would like a chicken teriyaki, 2 boxes of shrimp sushi, a big mac, large fries, two pizza slices, a bowl of pasta, garlic bread, ramen, a bucket of fried chicken, hmmmm...."

"Damn girl! Just because I said its on me, doesn't mean you gotta go all out!"

"I'm just kidding with ya. I'm not a fatass and you know that. Just get me cheese slice with garlic bread and soda."

"Alright. Please wait little princess!"

When I heard the word princess, I gave him a I-will-kill-you look. Princess as Girly stuff aren't my thing and he knows that.

After a while, Ryan came back with my pizza and he got himself a big Mac with large fries and a vanilla milkshake.

I began to talk. "So why are we here?"

"Birthday shopping".

"Who's? Your birthday is in January. Which passed. My birthday is in May, which is now...Oh!"

"Yep".

"So what are you getting me?"

"First let's plan! What do you plan to do for your birthday?"

"Take close friends on a cruise."

"Are you sure you can do that?"

"Ahhh no."

"Plan B?"

"Pool party."

"That would be realistic! Ok. Where? When?"

"Where: Leman park pool.

When: this weekend."

"Leman park. Nice choice. I will make reservations now!"

He took out his phone.

"Oh right, how many people?"

"Hmmm. How about you, me and the whole student body president team? They can be fun to be with. Plus, I don't mean that in a nerdy way."

"Sure! Ok so it's Cathy, Roxy, Michael, Jack, Alexis, Kevin, Carmen, McKenzie, Emily, Alan, Daisy, April, Diego, Derek and Leon."

"Wait! Why Leon?"

"Come on Chels. Don't be like that. He is a new kid that we know since back then. Let's catch up with his and all be friends again."

"...Fine..."

"Seventeen reservations for the girl turning 18!"

"I'm so old!" That was me sounding depressed.

"If that's the case, then what am I?"

"True."

"Now that we are done with our food, let's go shopping."

The first thing we did is we entered Nordstrom. Ryan looked for new shorts while I looked for a bathing suit.

I was looking for something sexy. I can show off my body figure since I have no baby fat, plus maybe I can attract the hot lifeguard.

Ok, the lifeguard and showing off was a lie. But I want to have the most sexiest bikini out of all the girls. Well, who's the birthday girl? Ain't I right?

Ryan approached me.

"I don't think this will do. There are barely any good looking shorts here. The best one is the Elmo all over shorts. Can we somewhere else?"

I scanned the aisle to see if any of the bikinis attract my attention. Some did.

"Hey look! Ryan come look! Which one eh?"

I picked up 3 bikinis.

1. Batman logo on the panty and batman comics on the top.

2. Pink cotton candy like cottons on the top and pink lacy panty with a bow.

3. One eye on each side of the top and a mouth on the panty.

"What do you think?" I put the three of them on me one by one.

"Ok, 1. If you aim to be the sexy one at the party, that won't work.

2. It looks more like a sleepwear than party wear.

3. What the hell are you aiming at? A sex toy?"

He made good points. The best one was the batman bikini. I will keep that as plan B.

We went to 5 other stores after Nordstrom. We went to Hollister, American eagle, aeropastle, A&F, and JCP. The problems were either they didn't have our size, the clothing design is childish or they had nothing we liked.

"One more store then we are OUT!"

Ryan sounded like he is going to pass out if we take another step.

"Ok the last resort, Spencer's."

Yes Spencer's. The so called "porn" store. Honestly that's just a small section of it. They have cool hats, bags, jewelry, clothing and posters.

We entered and separated ways because of our gender. I looked through hot looking bikinis while Ryan looks through cool looking shorts. After a moment, we both gasped.

We knew what that meant as we looked into each other's eyes.

As a duet, "Perfect!"