Little Touch of Heaven

8

As MJ pulled away, Peter looked at her with a blush, and moved his hand to his cheek. MJ looked downward bashfully.

"Sorry." she muttered, and Peter shrugged. They kept walking, side-by-side, Ned on MJ's other side, and he kept nudging her with his arm toward Peter, and once he did it too hard and shoved her straight into Peter, but MJ had reached out and grabbed Ned's arm and twisted it behind his back.

"Don't touch me again." MJ said, and as Ned busted out laughing, she tried her best to contain her smirk as well. Walking along quietly, MJ accidentally brushed Peter's hand and she felt him instinctively grasp it, holding it tight, and she smiled. She looked up, feeling a bit more confident, holding her socks bag in one hand, with her backpack on her back, and sunglasses on her face. They walked for a while, until they came across a Foot Locker, and Ned grabbed her elbow and dragged her in, leaving Peter tightly gripping her hand as Ned opened the doors, and the trio walked in. 

Peter and Ned went to the men's section and MJ followed suit and got a little bored just looking at men's shoes, until Peter held a pair up.

"These are Adidas New Hopes! They're supposed to be good for RUNNING and training and all." Peter said excitedly and found his size, and MJ smiled, and went to the women's section, not too far away, and found something called a Nike Pegasus, and found they were even better for running and she found a cool blue pair with white speckles and tried them on. They fit, and she found them to be on sale, so she went to look around some more. 

"Old Skool Platform VANS." MJ whisper-yelled, because she could never find any. And right there were a black pair with small flowers all over it. She pumped her fist and found her size and told herself to contain the excitment. She went to the register, standing in line behind Peter who had found a few pairs of running shoes.

MJ placed her two boxes on the counter and paid in the cash she had been saving up for so long. She took her bag and fished her M&Ms out of her bag and popped a handful in her mouth. She waited for Ned, who had found some Nikes. They walked out of the store satisfied, and Peter suggested they find dinner.

"Yeah." Ned and MJ agreed.

"If we walk back to my car, we can drive to Hard Rock." MJ said and the trio began walking back to the car, taking the longest way possible so they could go into the Hamilton store for Ned.

"Yesss. I bet Betty will love these pins. Or, I hope she does." Ned said, and held them out for MJ to inspect. He had picked out three sets. One was a cute trio of buttons featuring the Schuyler Sisters with their names, the next was a set of Schuyler sisters enamel pins, and the last a King George enamel pin.

"Yes. Yes. Yes. A thousand times yes." MJ said and gave them back to Ned who pushed his way through the bustling crowd and paid for them quickly. He rushed back to them, looking stressed, probably because of the crowd.

"To the car." MJ said, and grabbed Peter's hand and started walking, because a short guy like him could get lost, not because she liked him or anything, haha. They walked through the streets and crossed an intersection diagonally because, miraculously, there were no cars.

"MJ, you're a superhero, you shouldn't jaywalk." Ned said in her ear and she turned to frown at him. She speed walked toward her car and unlocked it. She sat in the front for a few minutes, organising her backpack. MJ placed the remaining candy in the glove compartment, and set her shoe bag in the backseat, and took her long pigtails out and left her hair down, but she grabbed a scrunchie from her bag and put it on her wrist. 

Driving quickly but carefully, they made it so close to Hard Rock they could see the logo. MJ carefully parallel parked (her least favorite type of parking) and zipped up her backpack and stepped out of the car dropping her keys in her bag and zipping it up. She slung her backpack over her shoulder and went inside the small area, finding it to be pretty crowded. The teens were quickly attended to, given menus and gave their drink orders.