Eccedentesiast || l.r.h.

Chapter 23 - Modelling

We crammed everybody into Ashton's silver minivan. Yeah, we had to cram everybody up because Ashton's minivan had all kinds of shit in it. Even shit that's not even supposed to be in here (such as a foldable beach chair, an empty suitcase, a portable table, etc.).

Nirvana was playing and I turned up the volume. I called shotgun. Ashton was driving. Luke was behind me, Calum next to him, then Michael.

Okay let's skip to the part to where we arrived at the mall. Ashton dropped us off at the entrance and went searching for a parking spot. We promised to meet at the at the fro-yo shop.

Went up 3 escalators and finally got rewarded with vanilla fro-yo. To be honest, I wasn't much of a frozen yogurt fan. I only said I wanted some so that I could get the boys out, and apparently frozen yogurt was the first thing that came to mind.

I got the smallest cup- "We went all this way so that you could get some fro-yo the size of a teacup?" Calum raised his eyebrow when he got himself a medium cup size.

"A girl's gotta watch out for calories," I told him. "I thought this thing was healthy?" Ashton blinked and took a closer look at his 90% filled fro-yo cup. "Hon, nothing is healthy," I moved Ashton's hand away from the chocolate fro-yo lever.

"He even thinks KFC is healthy," Michael rolled his eyes while filling his cup with strawberry fro-yo. Luke got all chocolate, strawberry and vanilla in his.

I might look like a little lamb at the fro-yo station, but at the toppings station, I was a beast.

Gummy bears, chocolate chips, chocolate shavings, cornflakes, gumdrops, M&Ms and finally, sprinkles. "*cough* fat ass *cough*" Michael coughed beside me. "Asshole," I hit his arm. He laughed in return.

15 minutes passed and we all got our toppings. Not forgetting about how they were running out of M&Ms and Luke and Calum was legit dueling for it. Anyway, we got our cups and had it weighed down to determine the price of it.

And out of all, Ashton's cup was the heaviest. I decided to treat them all and have their fro-yos paid by me.

We ate our fro-yo, I couldn't say peacefully because everyone literally had at least one streak of frozen yogurt on their face. I had one pink streak going down my nose. Michael had two streaks going on under his eyes, like a warrior. Ashton's was on the chin and a chocolate chip pinned to his forehead with dried fro-yo. Luke legitimately coated Calum's eyebrow with pink. Luke was the only one with fro-yo in his hair, going up his quiff like a brown highlight.

"Where to next?" Luke asked, using a clean spoon to scrap off the dried chocolate in his hair. "Hot Topic?" I teased. "No," they all said in unison. "Okay fine," I rolled my eyes. "H&M?" I suggested another apparel shop, this time even more serious. "I need a new crop top."

"Let's go shopping," Ashton exclaimed.

H&M wasn't really that far from where we were. We walked over to the other side of the mall where H&M was. Yeah we ran into a few people from school. The mall was pretty common in the city.

And you'd also have your local creeps that lean next to the washroom doors checking you out. Some might even go up to you to get your two 'N's. Name and number. But there was no creepers creeping up for my name and number that day because literally Luke and Calum was on my left and Michael and Ashton was on my right. It made it look like I had bodyguards and restraining orders to give away.

We entered H&M and it was heaven. I loved that place. I was already on my way picking out a few things I wanted to try out. Within the time span of five minutes, I had one hand weighed down by clothing items.

"Guys, Imma head over to the changing room," I told the four boys who were awkwardly standing, trying to fit in the scene. Calum was legit looking at the prices of bikinis. Ashton was trying on hats (for women) with Michael who had fun with the sunnies (which were also designed for women). Luke was standing in the corner fiddling with his the zipper of his hoodie.

"Okay," they all said together. I began walking to the where the changing rooms were located. They'll be fine. I told myself. They weren't little children.

No, Calum will not end up buying a bikini...for himself. No, Ashton will not literally ask the poor woman next to him who had been staring at him oddly if he looked good in a sun hat for women. No, Michael will not pretend like he was in a music video and lip sync to literally nothing in some sunnies while looking into the mirror. And no, Luke will not end up talking to himself, or even better, the zipper of his hoodie in the corner.

I made the smart move to turn around and say, "Boys, how about you guys follow me to the dressing room and watch me model?"

Hey guysss, I know I'm kinda sucky at updating rn but I legit have 6 finished unpublished chapters rn so ya. Just to shake this off, I found how the whole school not recognizing how Arzaylea and Azalea twins pretty impossible but then I remembered these two YouTubers; Niki and Gabi and when I started watching them, I legit didn't know they were twins or even related. I thought they were best friends living their lives together. But yeah, they're twins and they don't really look that alike, so I hope this helps make things less complicated

Luv, Kya J.