The mall was packed. There were 3 majors sales on at 3 major stores.
Amanda made her way through the crowds to her favourite store. Joselyn hurried after her.
They reached the shop and observed the front window display.

“Ewww! The manican is naked!” cried Joselyn.

Amanda giggled as she noticed three familiar people having a bit of a perve at the bare, female dummy.

“Don’t make it too obvious!” Amanda said helpfully to the boys, as she came to stand beside them.

“Huh?” a confused voice said, looking to see who had spoken.

“Never seen a female body before, eh?” she said cheekily.

“Well, this particular one has bits and pieces I didn’t even know were there!” a little blonde kid spoke up.

Startled, Amanda responded with a sickly sweet laugh.

“Oh, he’s funny!” she exclaimed.

The little blondie looked up, confused.

“I wasn’t joking” he said seriously.

“Oh,” was all Amanda could manage.

Then Taylor recognised her.

“Oh, you’re the girl I ran into yesterday” he said

“Ha ha, yes that’s correct” Amanda replied.

“Sorry, again” Taylor said

“Oh, that’s alright! Think nothing of it” Amanda assured, flashing her most charming smile.

“But....I ....thought....” Taylor started.

“So this is the girl you were talking about” Isaac interupted.

Taylor shot him a look. Amanda pretended to blush and smiled shyly. “Well...I AM usually noticed a lot! he he!” Amanda said cheekily.

Joselyn had been standing next to Amanda silently. She had gone now, and Amanda couldn’t see her anywhere.

“Where‘d your friend go?” Isaac asked.

Amanda shrugged, she didn’t really care.

“God she’s fat!” Zac commented.

Amanda laughed sweetly.

“Yeah, well...she looks absolutely NOTHING like me, that’s for sure!”

“Yeah,” Taylor agreed “She looks like an elephant, whereas you look more like a...walrus...”

Isaac looked at him.

“What the hell is that supposed to mean? That’s makes absolutely no sense!” he said.

“Well.... I don’t know.... she looks more like a dog...” Taylor said.

Isaac looked at him again, with an ‘what the hell are you talking about?’ expression on his face.

“An up-herself dog..” Zac muttered under his breath.

“Um...what was that..?” Amanda asked Zac, clearing her throat.

Zac looked up and raised his voice.

“I said, more like an UP-HERSELF DOG!” Zac repeated.

A few people turned to stare. Amanda was flustered.

“Ike! Don’t pick your nose in public!” Taylor scolded.

“SHUT-UP!” Isaac whispered roughly to Taylor.

Amanda stiffled a giggled.

“Tay, shouldn’t you warn this dog here, about not licking herself in public? It might get embarrassing”

Zac advised.

“I am not licking myself!” Amanda defended.

Zac walked up to her, stuck his face in her face and shouted “WOOF!!!” really loudly.

“Not yet” he said, turning to walk away. “Come on guys, let’s go”

Amanda was shocked! What an insensitive, rude little boy!

Zac and Isaac started to walk away, but Taylor was still staring at the manican.

“Hmm.....I think her tits are uneven....” he said thoughtfully.

Uh! What a pervert! Amanda turned on the sweet treatment again.

“Maybe the manufacturer had some technicalitys” she considered aloud.

Taylor looked at her.

“Maybe not?” she suggested.

“Whatever” Taylor said carelessly “Hey, you wanna go get an icecream?”

“Icecream?” Amanda questioned “Well.....I guess I could stoop to that level...” she said with a smile. [Author’s note: Everytime Amanda smiles,imagine it as a fake, flirty (sickening) smile. K?]

Taylor smiled.

“Awesome, dude!” he exclaimed.

“Yeah, sure, awesome” Amanda said.

She followed Taylor to an icecream parlor a few shops away. They got served and sat down at a table.

“Uh! You’re eating Strawberry icecream...?” Amanda pouted at Taylor.

He looked up and nodded, blothes of pink-red strawberry icecream around the edges of his mouth.

“You are really foul! It’s common knowledge that icecream makers, or whatever they’re called, use stale-ish milk in strawberry icecream because the flavouring is so strong. Therefore, you can’t taste the stale milk through the strawberry flavour!” Amanda stated.

Taylor looked at her blankly, as a big blob of strawberry icecream dripped from his chin.

Amanda coughed in disgust.

“Don’t you know anything?” she pouted.

Taylor was dazed for some reason.

“No.......not really....” he answered. Amanda shook her head, but suddenly remembered she was meant to be sucking up to this idiot.

“Oh, you probably just seem dumb compared to my level of intellegence” Amanda soothed.

Once again, she was answered with a blank stare. Amanda giggled.

“You have a bit of strawberry icecream on your face” she said with a sickeningly sweet laugh.

“I know,” Taylor said flatly “I missed my mouth”

Amanda giggled again, afraid that she would suddenly crack and tell him exactly what she thought of him.

There was a loud slurping sound as Taylor sucked the remains of his icecream out of the cup.

“Lovely....” Amanda muttered under her breath.

“Ok, let’s go,” Taylor announced, getting up from the table.

“Where did your brothers go? I really wanted to say goodbye to that little one, he’s adorable!” Amanda said -mentally vomitting.

“Shit!” Taylor said, slapping his forehead “I don’t know where they went”

“What a shame! Maybe you better just go home by yourself...” Amanda suggested.

“No! There they are, with your fatty friend” Taylor said, pointing through the crowd.

Taylor grabbed her hand and pulled her over to where they were standing.

“There you are!” Isaac greeted.

“Amanda! Do you know what time it is?” Joselyn confronted her.

“Yeah,” Zac contributed “You might miss your appointment at the ‘how to be obnoxious’ clinic if you don’t hurry!”

Amanda looked down at Zac.

“You know, why don’t you just SHUT YOUR CHUBBY LITTLE MOUTH!” she snapped at Zac, not able to keep-up her act.

Shock was the reaction. Taylor looked at her as though he’d never heard someone say ‘shut-up’ before, Isaac frowned at her, Joselyn looked down - not daring to challenge Amanda, and Zac simply blinked slowly and dramictically, looking up at Amanda with an amused expression on his face.

“Well, well, well...” Zac said smugly “Sweet, sweet Mandeeee finally snapped!”

Amanda felt her face redden. Never, never! Had she been so humiliated, especially by a 12-yr-old kid!

Zac was still grinning smugly. He turned to his brothers.

“Come on, can we go?” he asked “Haven’t you already seen enough of her putridly ugly face for one day?”

Taylor was frowning at her as he followed his little brother away from Amanda. Once they’d gone, Amanda was furious. She was seething with hatrid for the little boy who’d just lost her the chance to be famous - Taylor’s date for some music awards.
Joselyn had said nothing. No comforting praises, no comforting ‘he’s such an asshole’ comments to ease her ego. She looked at her friend. Joselyn seemed somewhat...guilty.

“Um...Amanda..?” She said timidly.

Amanda looked at her suspiciosly, Joselyn wasn’t on their side! Was she?

“They’re not that bad, really, maybe you just need to give him a chance...” Joselyn said bravely, awating Amanda’s response.

Amanda smiled on the outside, scowling bitterly at the traiter on the inside.

“Of course not!” she said sweetly “I really like them, especially that Zit kid - he’s cute”

“Actually, it’s Z-a-c. Zac” Joselyn corrected. “...and...um..shouting at him wasn’t that nice...”

Amanda nodded.

“I know, I feel terrible...” she whined, desperately trying to squeeze her eyes to the point of insincere tears. It didn’t work, so Amanda had to substitute with ‘sad’ and ‘regretful’ facial expressions.

Joselyn continued.

“Well then, if you don’t have a problem with them, I suppose you wont mind me going to the music awards with Zac” she said proudly, smiling.

Amanda glared at her, eyes wide.
Joselyn didn’t wait for a response, she turned around and skipped off. Amanda was left standing alone with the only comfort of that if she happened to suddenly burst into tears - for real, she was wearing her waterproof mascara.

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