Dark Like Me 3: Open Up

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Yuri, Charo, I, and Jordan are sitting in the massaging chair's getting our toes down. It's so relaxing, however, I don't like it when people touch my feet. I just got used to Shiriki touching them when he wants to randomly massage my feet.

"After this we can hit the shopping mall," Yuri suggest to the group.

"As long as you don't run off and buy more cooking supplies," Jordan teases with her eyes closed.

"If there is some on sale, I have to buy it. Especially if it's something I know I need."

"You don't need any more cooking stuff." Charo chimes in. "You have almost every cooking machine known to man."

Jordan opens her eyes to look at her sister, "What else could you possibly need that you don't already have?"

"A dough hook," Yuri says.

"A what?" Jordan questions.

"A dough hook attachment," she repeats. "It goes to that mixer mama bought me for my birthday."

"Ugh," Jordan lulls her head on the chair, "I'm not dealing with this today."

I just sit there and listen to the three of them go back and forth about a dough hook. I find it rather amusing.

The first store we hit in the mall is the baby store, of course. Jordan pushes the buggy as Charo and Yuri put things in the buggy. None are gender specific, though. Things like bottles, bids, twenty packs of diapers of all sizes, little baby shoes to hang from the rear view mirror; I never understood the point of that, and a playpen.

"Do you think you'll need a baby gate?" Yuri turns to me.

"Thinking long-term, I see."

"Yes." She put the box in the buggy. "Onwards to the bottle warmers, bath toys, and booby pumps." She raises her arms in the air and marches.

We march that way. I don't protest to the silliness or the fact that they want to buy me all of these things for the babies.

After the buggy is full of baby things, we finally leave and do some actual shopping for ourselves.

Jordan and I go to JCPenny's and Charo and Yuri go to Dillard's.

"Yuri is so annoying about her cooking thing," Jordan complains as she wrinkles her nose.

"Yea, I can see that. Jordan, this is something Yuri loves and she tells you because she wants you to be proud of her. You are her older sister, she looks up to you."

"She does?"

"She does."

"Gee," Jordan hangs her head, "I never thought of it that way."

"Right. She's not trying to be annoying about it. She just wants you and everyone else to be proud of her."

"I guess I can try to let up on her a little bit."

"She'd like that." Being around them made me want to fix things with my dad even more. I also need to call Andy to make sure everything is going alright with her along with Visellia.

Since I've found out I was pregnant and got that 'promotion' I've just forgotten about things back at home and my other friends.

I turn to Jordan, "I've got to pee."

"I'll sit and wait for you." Jordan finds an empty table and sits there as I go into the bathroom.

I go into the bathroom, use it, and wash my hands. Upon exiting, I bump into this dark skin girl. Her complexion is quite like mine and she looks like the girl version of Sequan, who I need to call as well.