You silently glared at the passers by. You hated being out in the open with all these consumer whores. The mall was just a pointless construct to you. We have home delivery now right? Couldn’t everyone get their stuff brought to them so they wouldn’t be here too bug you?
Well, there’s one good thing to come out of it. Had you never stepped foot here you would have never met the love of your life, Sarah. Sarah was by all accounts one of the typical preppy girls who you were normally repulsed by. All overly enthusiastic, and cheerful. Yet something about her unwavering optimism and intrigue towards you somehow rubbed you the right way.
You were polar opposite’s. She wore frilly skirts, you had baggy grey pants. She wore tube tops, you had a black hoodie. Her blond hair was done up in a pretty ponytail, your black hair was long with bands that completely covered one eye.
Speaking of which, there she was waltzing towards you with a lot of pep in her step. “Heeey Aaaamy!” Your name was Amethyst but she insists on giving you this pet name. It irked you but like everything about her it made you feel… something unfamiliar.
“Hey Sarah…” You said quietly as you pulled up your hoodie. It still felt embarrassing to be seen with her. “Soooo, guess who got you a present!” “Again?” You asked. Sarah always liked to spoil you, and honestly you couldn’t complain. Part of the reason why you were even dating her was because she did things you didn’t want to do yourself. If you didn’t want to get up for something, she’d get it. You didn’t want to do housework, she’d do it for you. Someone looking from the outside could assume you were taking advantage of her kindness, but you were already letting a preppy date at all right? It’s only fair she pull her own weight in the relationship right? Besides, she seemed to have a need to mother people. If anything you were helping her out.
“Soooo… your going to tell me what it is right?” Sarah giggled to herself. “Not yet! Lets talk at the food court first!” You roll your eyes and groan but that made her giggle more.
At the food court you waited in line for your food. This is why you hate the mall, people in front of you, people behind you. You were trapped. These assholes, can’t they tell you have better places to be? Like home at in your room. You can listen to your music as loud as you want without anyone giving you the stink eye for it.
You finally made it to where you could pick out your food, though of course that had to be a chore too. All these little things like someone standing too close to you, or taking too much of the thing you liked. Of course as usual people weren’t to fond of how you acted out, as if you were the one causing problems. Fortunately Sarah was there to hear you rant about it.
“And he was talking, like, all the chicken wings! Fuckin’ unbelievable!” Sarah giggled and nodded. “Some people.” She replied jokingly. Sarah had always enabled your rude behavior. It was cute to her. Like a kid getting angry for not getting what they wanted. When you acted like that to her she never took it personally. It was just you being silly little ball of angst.
“Oh that’s right, you’re present!” She handed you a blank black book. “Jeez Sarah I’m still… wait… come on Sarah, don’t tease me!” You knew what she was trying to give you. Rumor had it back in the day the town mayor used to have a black book that he’d write whatever command he’d think of and people would do it. Got elected that way, bought up every business, got married to the most beautiful woman in town. The idea of just telling the world to fuck off when you wanted was just too appealing to ignore and, from what Sarah seemed to believe, this was the real thing.
“Look, I’ll humor you… but it not reall…”
You wrote down…
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