A Little Late (Open.)

[Charlie Becketh]

Charlie had a small list in her hand as she paraded through the mall, her dark brown eyes scanning the various things in the shop displays. Eleven days left before Christmas and she still had to buy gifts for friends and family. Something for each of her four sisters, her niece, her brother in law, her parents, and perhaps something for Spencer. At that particular moment she passed an underwear shop and couldn't resist imagining Spencer in one of the gaudy pieces in there.

Slipping into the shop Charlie let her fingers pass over the various silks and different colors of each piece, before she spotted a rack of man thongs. She nodded approvingly - they were on sale, perfect. She held the underwear and looked at the other do dads in the shop. Her eldest sister had always loved body wash and that kind of crap so she took three, since they were on special for buy two get one free. There wasn't anything in here that anyone else on her list would enjoy, so she paid the cashier and left the shop with her small bag.

Her next stop was a chocolate shop for her mother, who couldn't get enough of the stuff despite how bad it was on her arteries. Charlie had told her countless times to be more aware of what she eats but the older woman was just as stubborn as all five of her daughters.

At that moment Charlie received a text, and while looking down to answer it, the usually very agile and precise girl tripped over something and was sent sprawling to the floor in the mall. Her small bag of 'goodies' shot out a few feet away from her and into the two feet of someone else, Spencer's red man thong spilling over on the person's shoes. She could only imagine what they would assume of her as she scrambled back up to her feet and approached them.

"Ah," she said with a forced smile, "sorry about that, I fell." Thank you Captain Obvious she thought to herself.

[Delilah Grande]

Delilah would be leaving Hammel soon so she was preparing to do some shopping before she left and what better way then to go out ten days before Christmas which would technically be the second day of Christmas and hit the mall while it's still fairly empty. Lucy wasn't around to go shopping with her and she doubted very much that it was Sidra's style. Robbie seemed to be bouncing around the Danicca girl she'd seen around him lately and Jared was... well... too much cuteness for her to handle. She wanted to gag almost all of the time.

Turns out he was even more girly when she was. A boy was more girly then she was. Lily felt just slightly ill by the concept. Nuh uh. No Jared around her for more time then she'd actually alocated for him on a daily basis. Besides, Jared had people who adored being around him and was probably busy with them to... Yes, That's the reason she didn't ask him on her shopping trip. She simply assumed he was a busy boy. Lily wrinkled her nose at her train of thought. Busy boy? Sheesh. She entered the mall, which was delightfully, not as full as one would expect for the second day of Christmas.

Everywhere she looked, she saw sparkly lights flickering back at her. She was utterly shocked at how much effort the Americans put into Chistmas. Everyone wore Santa stuff in the shops. Santas even stood to get charity for the underprivaledged. There was so much to see. So much to do in the mall. Her senses were too haywired to even do something clumsy so when she caught someone tripping and falling over their own feet her eyes shot toward the bags that came flying toward her. Lily squeaked, ducked and covered her head.

Wow, so this was what it was like for other people. When nothing hit her, she blinked in suprise, slowly lowering her eyes to the girl who was scrambling to her feet. It was then that she noticed something on the ground, on her feet. Delilah's eyes widened at the object and a bright red blush washed across her face. Oh God... a thong. Delilah quickly scooped it up and glanced around. People were staring... Her eyes turned to the girl who had come up to her and she quickly shook her head at the apology.

"Oh no. It's fine. Don't worry about it. Here... this belongs to... uh... you?"
Lily held out the thong. The thong? She was holding underwear. Lily Eeped again, flailed and sent the thong flying into the air once more. Her hand flew to her cheeks as she tried to cover her embarressment.
"Oh god. I'm sorry. Here...."
Lily scrambled to get the bags for the girl accidently kicking one of the shower bottles to send it straight into someone else's path who slipped and fell on it, landing straight on their butt...

"Oops..."
Lily froze, staring at the other person, her own incompetence not far away, aparently.

[Charlie Becketh]

Charlie took the garment out of the other brunette’s hand with a slight grin, “For now,” she said, stuffing the thing into her jacket pocket. At least she was as embarrassed as she was during this whole thing. But then the thong was flying again and Charlie reached out to try and catch it, but it slipped through her fingers. Well this would end up being a very annoying shopping trip. An already irritated Charlie watched the girl kick her bottle of soap into another oncoming pedestrian, knocking them over.

She smirked at the mildly amusing scene.

“You’re not really helping,” she said to the girl, reaching down to collect the thong and put it away, once and for all. Spencer was totally not worth this kind of trouble. Charlie went to the other person and helped them up without apologizing and stuff the little gifts back into their assigned bag.

Looking back at the girl, Charlie noticed the red thong on her shoulder, and she shook her head. “How the hell did that get there?” She asked, digging through her pockets. The underwear wasn’t there. She grimaced and went to the girl and plucked the gitch off her shoulder. “Stupid thing,” she muttered, her dark chocolate eyes looking at the other girl, “Christmas shopping should not be this difficult.”

[Delilah Grande]

Delilah winched and slowly let her eyes flick to the girl who was approaching her in slight fear that she was about to get attacked for her own incompetence but then her eyes flicked to the underwear on her shoulder and she nearly flicked it away like it was a dirty bug but the girl had managed to snatch it up before she could do such. Delilah sighed and slumped where she sat glancing from the trouble she'd caused the other shoppers to the girl hovering over her to exclaim how bad she was making the shopping experience.

Slowly Lily got to her feet mouthing an apology to the shopper she'd called to fall before she turned her attention back to the girl, her pale cheeks flushed bright read. How was she supposed to fix this? She had to think quickly.
"I'm so sorry. I really didn't mean any ill. I'm just chaos on two legs. I'm SOOO sorry. Have you eaten yet? I can buy you some lunch? Or or... coffee? "
No... coffee was a bad idea.

Coffee burned when another accident hit. She motioned uncertainly to where the red thong had disappeared to.
"It's uh... nice looking. In uh... Spain woman wear red underwear on new years eve for good luck. Did you know?"
Stupid fact. She didn't know what else to say. If only she could be a normal girl. Just once. Like Lucy or this girl.

Then again... how much would Sidra like her if she were just normal...