Walking into the mall with my mom, I didn't know what to expect because I have never done this before. And I mean I've never gone clothes shopping with my mom. I always went by myself or with my brother or Devin. I know you'll ask why I always went with boys instead of my mom or any other female. With Kevin and Devin that actually rhymes! I made them wait in the car for me while I went shopping by myself.

But with my mom, she'd insist on following me which means that she'd want me to take what she thought looked good on me which was what I didn't want, well until now. When we reached the door of the mall, a man helped us hold the door and we entered. My mom turned to thank the man and he winked at her. My mom and I cringed at the same time but we continued walking.

"So where to now?" I asked my mom.

"Well, we're going to a place where you'll get beautiful and cute dresses," she said eyeing an ice cream vendor who was standing about two meters away from us.

"We'll get ice cream when we're are done, mom," I said pulling her away from there and walking to a shop where I saw cute dresses.

"Let the shopping begin!" I declared and we ran into the first shop that we saw.

Four long and painful hours later.

"Oh God, mom. I'm so tired. I'm going to get blisters in my hands from carrying so many bags." I said. I was so exhausted from all the shopping. Mom too looked tired. I'm pretty sure that we went to every shop in the mall. My feet hurt like hell and I just wanted to sit somewhere. We were walking towards the car when my mom saw an ice cream vendor.

"I have to get ice cream," she said. She dumped all the bags on me and I groaned.

"Not cool, mom!" I yelled after her but she didn't even look back. Now I'm all left alone with all the bags and she didn't even leave the car keys. Groaning out loud, I decided to move away from the way but as I was doing that, I bumped into someone and everything I was holding came tumbling down on the floor.

"Oh my God!" I said getting up from the floor. The person I bumped into was a very cute boy. He had dark brown hair and blue eyes. He was dressed casually in a black t-shirt and khaki shorts with flip flops. He got up and dusted his clothes. I bent down to pick my clothes that were strewn all over the floor. The boy bent down too. I thought that he was going to help me pick up my clothes but he just dusted his flip flops and stood up.

"You thought I was going to help you? Pick them by yourself" he said. I got up and walked towards him.

"How rude! You were the one who bumped into me! The least you can do is to help me pick them up" I said and folded my hands over my chest.

"You have two hands, Merida, use them. I have two hands, I'm going to use them to do something useful like walking away." the rude cute boy said and left me with my clothes all over the floor.

"Merida?! That's not even my name." I screamed. He didn't reply or even look back. He just did a mock salute with his back facing me and disappeared into the crowd.

"What just happened?" I asked myself while staring at the boy's retreating back. Curse him! Rude child. I was overly annoyed but the clothes weren't going to pick themselves and besides they were my clothes so I decided to pick them up myself.

"What in the world happened here?" my mom said with a mouthful of ice cream.

"A boy bumped into me and all my clothes fell on the floor and he didn't even help me pick them off." I picked the clothes and stuffed them into their respective bags.

"That's sad," mom said taking another spoonful of ice cream.

"Yup," I said to her. It took me about 5 minutes to gather everything. When I was done, my mom was still eating her ice cream.

"Where's mine?" I asked her. "I thought you didn't want any," she said. I was so frustrated with everything, I felt like pulling my hair out.

"Who in this world wouldn't want... Let's just go home" I said. I carried all the bags and I started walking towards the car. "Are you interested now?" she called out to me. I didn't even look back at her. She finished her ice cream, threw the cup into a nearby trash can and ran to meet me at the car. She unlocked the car and I threw everything to the back seat and went to the front passenger seat and sat down. She got into the driver's seat and started driving.

I took out my bag of skittles and I started stuffing them in my mouth to ease up the anger that had built a mansion inside me. How dare that good for nothing boy bump into me like that! The nerve! He didn't even offer to help me! Arrogant cow.

"Did you hear anything I just said, Kelly?" my mom said. I snapped my head towards her with a hand full of skittles. She looked at my hand and shook her head.

"Were you stress eating?"

"Erm, no?" It sounded more of a question than an answer. She tore her eyes from the road and gave me the knowing look she always gave me when she knew I was lying.

"Okay, I am," I said almost immediately. How did she know everything about me?

"Want to talk about it?" she asked drumming her fingers in the steering wheel.

"How about later?"

"Promise? Pinky promise?" she said and brought out her right pinky finger while she used her other hand to drive. I brought mine out and linked it with hers. "Pinky promise." I smiled and she smiled back. I out the skittles back in the glove box and turned to my mom.

"What did you say that time?" I asked her. I licked my fingers to get off all the residue candy on my hand. She gave me a dirty look and she handed me tissue paper and a hand sanitizer from her bag. It was as if she kept everything inside her bag. I'm sure if you asked her for a birthday cake, she'd bring it out of her bag with all the candles lit.

"I asked you if you wanted to do your hair and nails," she said after she made sure that I had cleaned my hands. I looked at my chipped nails and my hair that looked so frizzy and dry.

"You bet, I do"

"To the salon then!"

At the salon, for the first time in forever,I cut my hair into a bob or should I say it was more like a lob which is a Bob that's long. I didn't dye my hair of course because it was unique just like I was. I did my nails into an oval shape and painted them white. My mom just sat there waiting patiently for me. After a while, I noticed that she wasn't sitting where she was anymore.

Perhaps she went to buy something I thought. After a while, she came back with the biggest ice cream come that I had ever seen. I could tell that it was vanilla and mint-flavored which was my favorite because it was green and white. She walked up to the chair that I was sitting in and handed it to me.

"Sweetie, I got this for you. I know that you were upset that I didn't buy for you at the mall so here is my peace offering. I hope we are cool now" she said. I licked the ice cream and it was delicious.

"This is wonderful, I love it, mom. We are totally cool and I love you." I said. What would I do without my mom?

"I love you too, baby" she replied and went back to her seat. As the hairdresser was doing my hair, I ate my ice cream and observed my mom through the mirror. I loved her so much. Apart from Devin, she was my best friend. It hurt me that she wouldn't live forever. I'd always need my mom no matter what.

After about one hour later, I was done with my hair and nails and we got into the car and headed home.

Dad was already around when we got back and he was more than happy to find out that I wanted to change how I dressed and all that. He told me that I looked good in my short hair. We had dinner together and then I went to bed to sleep not before having my bath and calling Devin. When I was done talking to Devin and sleep was about to carry me away, I thought about that rude boy at the mall and how much I wanted to kick him in the face.

Tomorrow was going to be a good day, the day that I'll come to school looking like the queen that I am.

I went to sleep that night thinking about the look that will be on Devin's face when I walked into the school's double doors. "I bet it would be priceless " I mumbled to myself as I slept off.

Thank you so much for reading this chapter. I'm sorry that this is coming very late. I was quite busy but now w I'm back. I'll try to be updating regularly. Thank you once again. Please check out my other books FALL and winter.

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