Familiar Faces in the Oddest Places

The Mall

I woke up to someone screaming in my ear. It was a normal occurrence whenever I slept over at Sasha’s house. Sasha tended to get up at the crack of dawn while I liked to sleep in. Sasha was not a very patient person and couldn’t wait for me to wake up so she usually woke me up. “Sage get up!”

“Come on!” I opened my eyes and then went back to sleep.

“Saaage,” Sasha whined.

“I’m getting up, chill.” I lifted my head ready to get up before I slammed my head back into the pillow and went back to sleep. I woke up a few minutes later when someone dragged me out of the bed.

“Sasha, leave me alone. Why can’t you ever let me sleep?” My feet were being dragged of the end of the bed as the rest of me was following.

“It’s already nine o’ clock you should be up.” Her voice sounded far away like she was standing in the door but that would be impossible because she was dragging me off the bed, right? I quickly opened my eyes to look up at who exactly was pulling me off the bed but before I could look I fell off the bed and onto the floor.

“Oww.” It didn’t really hurt it was just one of those times that called for an ow to be said. Then I looked up and saw that none other than Alistar was the one who dragged me out of bed.

“You’re mean,” I pouted to Alistar. Then he smiled down at me and mumbled something that sounded like “Yoor Coot.”

“You got Alistar to drag me out of bed. You couldn’t just let me sleep for an hour more.”

“No, I couldn’t. We have to go do something. We have to go back to school tomorrow and I don’t want to spend another day in this house.”

“Fine.” I got off the floor and stretched while rubbing the sleep from my eyes.

“I have the perfect idea too. Alistar go get your keys.” Sasha said turning to Alistar.

“Why?” He asked.

“Because you’re driving us, duh. Now come on you two hurry.” Sasha shooed Alistar to get his car keys while she ushered me to get dressed. Soon after we were all in Alistar’s black jeep heading to…

“Where are we going again?” I asked

“Yeah, I’m driving shouldn’t I know where I’m driving to,” Alistar said.

“We’re going to the mall,” then Sasha said really quickly after, “And before either of you complain. Don’t, we’re going and that’s final!”

Sasha may be my best friend and we may enjoy to do a lot of the same things and we may be alike in some ways but our views on going to the mall we’re completely different. While Sasha loved to walk around the mall and go to all the different stores, I did not and Alistar totally agreed with me on it.

“Sasha you know I hate going to the mall.” I told her.

“Yeah and I’m going to have to carry all of your guy’s bags, I hate doing that.” Alistar put in.

“I told you both not to complain, we’re going.” Sasha knew we wouldn’t not go. We both complain, yeah, but Alistar’s still driving us to the mall and I’ll still buy a few things when we get there and he’ll still carry our bags for us. But Alistar and I had to let it be known that we didn’t like the idea. But since we both cared about her we’d still do it.

It was about a twenty minute ride to the nearest mall when you took into account the traffic. Alistar put in a CD while Sasha and I were talking about what we were or mostly she was going to get at the mall. Soon I realized that the music coming from the speakers sounded really familiar.

“Where have I heard this before?” I asked out loud, trying to place where I had heard this before. It was really interesting.

“This is the CD I had you listen to the other day, remember?” Alistar said and then it clicked. The day he’d first kissed me this was the CD that he had put on for me to hear.

“I think it’s hard for her to remember anything from that day except for your tongue down her throat,” Sasha put in. My blunt best friend everyone. I felt the heat in my cheeks as I quickly looked out the window. Once I cooled down I looked back.

“Well I am an excellent kisser,” Alistar boast. “So now that you can concentrate on the music,” he trailed off on another train of thought, “you can never seem to concentrate on anything when I kiss you, can you? I mean first the CD that you didn’t remember and then the forgetting and burning the popcorn,” Alistar laughed.

“Yeah do you see what you’re doing to my best friend. You’re making her stupid,” Sahsa said.

“Hey, I’m not stupid,” I defended, “I get good grades.”

“Yeah but when Alistar kisses you, I bet you can’t remember what two plus two is.”

“I could so.”

“So back to what I was saying before we were discussing how stupid Sage gets around me, I mean who could blame her, do you like the CD then?” Alistar asked me.

“Yeah it’s amazing. I’ll have to borrow it sometime,” I answered.

“Sure thing.” We soon arrived at the mall. Alistar parked the car and we all walked to the entrance.

Once we got inside the mall Sasha started pulling Alistar and I to the nearest store. Sasha went around flitting across the store, looking at everything on the racks that caught her attention. Alistar and I followed her around. She had me try on a couple different things and she did as well.

“Sage you have to try this on.” Sasha thrust a little black dress into my hands. Then she shoved me into one of the changing rooms. Sasha got into the room next to mine. When we both came out Sasha in a sexy red dress and me in the black dress, we modeled for Alistar.

“So how do we look?” Sasha asked.

“You both look beautiful.” Alistar said as he was looking me over.

“I look better though, right?” I joked.

“Yeah, that dress doesn’t make her butt look too big?” Sasha asked nudging me in the arm.

Alistar then carefully inspected my backside as he said, “It makes her butt look perfect.”

That was my que to go back to change. After that we went around to some of the other stores. I bought a few things and so did Sasha. We soon got tired of shopping and decided to leave.

Alistar was lagging behind us with his hands filled with our bags when we went back to the car.

“Why did you guys have to buy so much stuff and then stick me with the bags,” Alistar complained, “I knew this was going to happen.”

“We all knew this was going to happen,” I said.

“Hey, Sage. Could you grab the keys from my pocket? My hands are kind of full and the doors locked.”

“Which pocket?”

“Front, Left.” As we came upon the car I reached my hand into Alistar’s front pocket and retrieved the keys. I unlocked the car and then popped open the trunk so Alistar could put the bags in there. Once he had placed all the bags into the trunk I threw the keys at him yelling, “Think fast.”

Alistar being Alistar didn’t even blink as he swiftly caught them in his hands, a smirk on his face.

“No fair,” I pouted. We all got into the car and headed back to Sasha’s house.