"Come along now girls. Fashion waits for no one!" Twanky declared as Nicole and Shannon fell in step behind her in the parking lot of the Corinth mall. It wasn't a huge mall, but it did have a nice variety of shops for people to browse through.
" We'd better hurry up, we don't want to keep Ms. Bustle Britches waiting." Shannon scowled and Nicole elbowed her in the side, "Ouch!"
"Keep your voice down. Do you always have to be so rude?" Nicole responded, "What is your problem today anyway?"
"My problem is that if it weren't for you we would be at the movies right now with Chris and Ryan." She responded rubbing her side, "But no, here we are shopping with this....this crazy woman."
"It was very generous of the Widow to offer to take us shopping. We can't be rude to people just because you can't keep your hormones under control."
"My hormones?!" Shannon started indignantly.
"Yes, with the way you were drooling over Chris I thought we were going to have to build an ark!"
"Oh, you're just jealous because he was looking at me." Shannon replied.
"Then I better call for an appointment tomorrow."
"Appointment?" Shannon questioned.
"Yeah, to get your eyes checked. You're obviously nearsighted."
Shannon's face turned red as she stopped and turned towards Nicole. She opened her mouth to say something but before she could get the words out of her mouth the Widow spoke, "Oh girls! Do keep up. We mustn't keep the shops waiting!"
"Oh brother!" Shannon rolled her eyes and Nicole elbowed her in the side again, "Ouch!"
"Coming Twanky." Nicole smiled and joined Twanky who had entered a department store. A few moments later Shannon followed her with the unsaid comment still hot on her lips.
Twanky led them through racks of clothing and finally stopped. She picked up a slinky blue dress and held it up to Nicole's neck, "What do think of this one, dear?"
"Well, uh, it's nice, but I don't think I would be very comfortable in something so fancy." Nicole pushed the dress away another rack of clothing, "What's wrong with those over there?"
Twanky looked over to where Nicole pointed and her face went pale. She put her hand to her chest and leaned on the clothing rack, "Jeans? Oh goodness, no. You're a woman and you should let it be known as thus. You won't find yourself a husband walking around like a farmer."
"But they are on sale."
"Sale?" Twanky whispered as she closed her eyes and looked up towards the ceiling in what looked like a silent prayer. Finally, she looked back at Nicole, "Well, if there is one thing that I do possess, it's patience. Don't worry dear, I'll have you whipped into shape in no time at all."
"You know what?" Shannon broke in, "I think I'll leave you two here to try and work on the fashion disaster that I call my big sister. I saw some really pretty lingerie over there that I would like to look at." She gave Nicole a wicked grin, "You never know when I'll have occasion to wear it."
Shannon turned around and found it hard to suppress her laughter. As she walked away she could hear Twanky's voice above the crowd in the store, "Now repeat after me: I am a woman, hear me roar!"
Scene 6:
"Wow. What a woman!" Chris exclaimed as he and Ryan stood in line to buy tickets for Mortal Kombat 2: Annihilation.
"No kidding. She was beautiful, wasn't she?" Ryan sighed melodramatically, "Once I saw her I lost my appetite completely..."
"I was wondering why you didn't finish your plate of Wonder Weenies." Chris snickered.
"I could no longer sleep..." Ryan continued.
"Good, you snore anyway." Chris retorted.
"I knew then that I could die a happy man because I had once gazed upon so fair and beauteous a creature." A huge smile had crept across Ryan's face as he looked over at Chris to see his reaction.
"If you don't cut out the melodramatics, I'll grant that last wish of yours." Chris cut in.
Ryan started laughing, "Seriously though, I thought she had the most awesome, blue eyes."
"You mean brown eyes." Chris said.
"No, I distinctly remember that they were blue."
"Are you completely colorblind? Nicole's eyes are definitely brown."
"Oh, you were talking about Nicole? I was talking about Shannon." Ryan laughed.
"Boy, that's a relief. I thought I was going to have to drop kick you to keep you away from her." Chris answered.
"Is violence the only answer to your problems?" Ryan started to smile, "Can't we just all get along?"
"Why do I even bother." Chris rolled his eyes.
"Hey look. Isn't that Dean over there?" Ryan pointed to the curly, blond man standing near the front of the theater.
"Yeah it is." Chris waved in Dean's direction, "Hey Dean! Over here!"
Dean turned around and slowly walked over to where Ryan and Chris stood, "Do you two losers have to follow me everywhere? My mom does let me cross the street all by myself now. I certainly don't need any chaperones."
"We're not here to chaperone you, we're here to warn your date that you are the one her mother warned her about."
"Speaking of which, where is this mystery date of yours?" Ryan scanned the area where Dean had been standing.
"She's in the bathroom, do you mind?"
"Yeah, sure." Chris looked at Ryan, "We've heard that one before."
"We're your friends, remember. You don't have to go around making up imaginary women just to impress us." Ryan started to laugh.
"Spoken like true Neanderthals." Dean said sarcastically, "Now if you don't mind there's my date. See you two clowns later."
Ryan and Chris were shocked to see a stunning, dark-haired woman emerge from the bathroom and wave at Dean.
"That's your date?" Chris asked.
"Yeah. Her name is Lucy. Isn't she's great?" Dean waved back at her.
"That depends, how much did you have to pay her?" Ryan asked.
"Ha, ha, very funny." Dean replied, "She told me that she has many skills, so don't wait up for me...chumps." Dean walked away and joined Lucy, leaving Chris and Ryan staring at them in disbelief.
Suddenly, Chris noticed they were next in line. '"Now Ryan, are you sure that you want to see this movie?"
"Yeah, why not?" Ryan answered.
"The best character dies at the beginning of the film. What a waste of talent!" Chris shook his head in disgust.
"You mean Johnny Cage? Good, that guy always bugged me anyway."
Scene 7:
"You can stop laughing now." Nicole said to Shannon as they stumbled through their front door loaded with shopping bags.
"I am woman, hear me roar?!" Shannon just made herself laugh harder.
"Turn on the lights, will ya? I can't see a thing."
"With some of those clothes Twanky bought you, that's probably a good thing." Shannon started giggling again as she tried the light switch, "That's funny, the light isn't working. I thought you put a new bulb in today. Oh well, I'll go turn on the hall light instead."
"Thanks." Nicole said as she managed to find her way through the living room and put her bags on the couch, and then sat down to take off her shoes, "I can't wait to get to bed tonight. I'm so tired that I could just...."
Nicole wasn't able to finish her sentence because she was interrupted by a blood curdling scream coming from the hallway that Shannon had just disappeared down. Nicole shot up out of her seat and ran to find Shannon.
