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// The Last Weekend Day 1-6 
// Story: The Girls 
// by Chelis 
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We made our way to the food court; all eyes were on me. They all looked at me as if I was hiding something. Sadly, they were right. But no way in hell was I going to let that cat out of the bag, especially after all the time, pain, and sacrifices that came with keeping that secret.

I wasn't hungry, so a shake was all I had for lunch. The rest of the girls got whatever they wanted, with my cash of course. Even when they got their food, their eyes were glued to me, trying to figure out what on earth I was hiding.

"So are ya going to tell us what that was really about?" Applejack asked, forcing the issue even further

"I thought he was going to hurt you, AJ," I said after having some of my chocolate shake

Please just drop it. Pretty, pretty please.

"Is something the matter, dude? You're acting strange," Rainbow asked herself.

"Nope, everything's fine Dash. I'll be right back, I must use the restroom."

With that, I made my way out of their sight. I continued past the restrooms, and down the elevator while checking every other second to make sure I wasn't being followed. I soon found myself in front of the spaghetti capital of the retail world: Hot Topic.

That godforsaken shit hole, Hot Topic.

I made my way inside and began to fill a shopping basket with any and all pony merchandise I could find. Shirts, bags, vinyl figurines; the works. I managed to pile them up in a few shopping baskets, which considering the size of the store might of been a quarter of their stuff on display. Walking up the register, I noticed the fedora sitting on the cashier's head, as well as his untamable beard.

Son of a fuck..

"Wow, that's a lot of merch! You like my shirt?! It's 20% cooler now that we sell these," He said as he pointed to his black "DJ-Pwn3" shirt that was not big enough to cover his muffin top.

I blinked, at the same time looking at his punchable grin.

Just let your body do the talking.

No argument here.

My fist suddenly found itself buried in his face like a hatchet, and he went down for the count. Powered by the sudden lack of fucks,  I hopped over the counter and ripped the front of his shirt off. I lifted the two baskets and made my way to the back of the store, but was stopped five steps in. I turned around and began to think.

Fuck it.

I sat the baskets down and leaped over the counter again, this time taking the guy's raggedy shoes for the trophy collection back home. A quick trip through the Hot Topic back gave way to the outside of the mall, and to the large dumpster with luckily no one in sight. With an unceremonious heave, the deed was done, and the merch found its way into the trash. 

Phase I: Done. Good work. 

I walked back inside as if nothing happened. The guy was still on the ground, moaning in pain. I guess I didn't know the power of my punches. Anyway, I walked back to the court to face the girls again as if nothing happened. As I came into view of the girls, I took a look at my phone to gauge the time.

Only 6 minutes?
… Not bad.

I calmly sat down with them, as if nothing had happened.

"Sorry about that, now where were we?"

"We were talking about how you stampeded that there guy," Applejack answered.

"Like I said, I thought he was going to hurt you."

"That still don't explain why he knew mah name."

"I seriously couldn't tell you how he knew AJ, either a lucky guess or he's a mind reader."

"Like me!" Pinkie screamed.

Yes pinkie, like you.

AJ continued to stare me down, like one of those western movies she saw this morning. At that point, I no longer was in the mood for that shit today, so I shot her a calm look back, unflinching. She tried again to read through my lies, but failed in the attempt.

"We're still going to Hot Topic."

"Fine, let's go right now," I said as I got out of my seat It was either all hell was going to break loose or I would escape the city with the secret intact. 

Either way, this was not a day to write home about. 

The rest of the girls were unsure what to think. Either AJ was crazy or I was hiding something from them. All I knew was I could feel Rainbow's eyes burning into the back of my skull.