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"Come on, wake up."

Bonnibel tugged the warm sheets over her head in an attempt to block out the voice. She knew that it wasn't anything important, probably just the last lingering moment of her dream.

"Bonnibel, oh my god, get up." This time, the voice was coupled with a harsh shove to her side. In an effort to resist, Bonnie hid her face in her pillow. "You're not fooling me. I know you're awake."

"Ugh, go away. Business hours are between ten and five. Any time between that is me time." Bonnie grumbled. She refused to leave the warm sanctuary that was her bed. No way was she getting up.

The laugh that followed did nothing to soothe her. No, that definitely wasn't good. "Good thing it's ten-thirty, isn't it?"

Bonnie scowled and finally rolled over in her bed, shooting Lady her best glare. Although Finn and Jake weren't involved in disturbing her, she still sent them one too, albeit it was slightly less vicious. "What do you want?"

"Really? No 'hey, Lady, how are you today'? God, I'm regretting coming over here now." Lady folded her arms across her chest and exhaled in exasperation. "We're going shopping. Do you want to come or not?"

Bonnibel blinked in confusion. She wasn't used to so many questions on a morning. If she was being a hundred percent honest, she wasn't used to being invited out, either. "Uh... I mean, I guess? I might as well, considering you woke me up."

"Well, forgive me for assuming that you'd already be up." Lady easily shot back. "You're usually very punctual on a morning."

Bonnibel sat up and rolled her shoulders back in a shrug. "Yeah, but it's the weekend. I didn't have anywhere to be, so I figured I'd sleep in."

"Well, hurry up," Lady prompted her, "Elle gets all high strung when we're not on time."

"Elle is always high strung when people don't stick to her schedules." Finn replied. His voice was only at the volume of a mutter, but Bonnie caught it.

Apparently, Jake had heard it too. "Yeah, trust me, you don't want to get on her bad side. She probably already knows every one of your little secrets."

That definitely didn't sound good. Nope. Someone who found it easy to figure out what a person was hiding was usually the type of person Bonnie avoided like the plague. With her, only the people that needed to know something would know about it.

Sarcasm seemed the best route to take for a response.

"That's not very comforting, you know." Bonnie swung her legs over the side of her bed and stood up. She straightened out her nightgown and then walked over to her closet. "What time do we have to meet her by?"

"She wants us to be at the mall for half eleven. We'll go wait downstairs for you to get ready." Lady nodded towards Bonnie's bedroom door, and Finn and Jake both smiled at her before leaving. "Don't take too long, we have a twenty minute drive to the mall from here."

"Aye aye, captain," Bonnie mock saluted her, "I won't take too long. Promise."

-

"Honestly, Lady," Bonnie tried reassuring her friend for the millionth time, "I'll be fine. I've lived here long enough to know where the bookstore is and not get lost."

"Are you sure you don't want someone to go with you?" Finn cut in before Lady could insist on keeping her company. "Because one of us can come along just in case."

"No, really, that's fine," Bonnie quickly shot him down. "I don't want anyone to come. I'll be perfectly fine. I won't wander down a dark alleyway and get mugged. I'm just going to the bookstore and then I'll meet you guys in the food court."