(Apologies to cook. I used the beginning of your chapter to make something a bit different)
Jon followed Karyn out of the shop, still a little worried about her eagerness to use the Assimilator. "You do realize that we forgot to buy Halloween costumes, right?" he asked.
"Oh, I haven't forgotten. I just didn't want to buy a costume from a real magic shop, you probably would have ended up as a French Maid or something," Karyn replied.
Jon blinked. "Wait, why would I end up as a French Maid?"
"Just seems like what would happen. Oh look who just came out Victoria's Secret."
Jon followed her gaze to see a small flock of girls exiting the lingerie store and at the rear of the pack was Sarah McMillan. The snobby cheerleader often went out of her way to make fun of Jon. He seemed to remember Karyn getting the same treatment, even though Sarah had mostly left her alone recently. From the look on her face Karyn felt the same way.
"Wouldn't it be something if Sarah was genuinely nice to you for once?" Karyn said while taking aim. Jon was about to try to stop her and talk some sense into her. But before Karyn could even pull the trigger, somebody bumped into Karyn from behind, knocking the gun from her hands.
It was a little girl, who looked to be about 4 or 5 years old. A man in his thirties came running up behind her.
"I'm so sorry," the man said to Jon and Karyn, "My daughter's got a habit of not looking where she's going. What do you say, sweetie?"
"Sorry," she said coyly, looking down at the tile floor. When she did, her eyes spotted the shiny ray gun at Karyn's feet. "Oooh," she said, quickly picking it up before Jon and Karyn could reach down for it. Jon and Karyn gasped, while the man looked sternly at his daughter.
"Honey, what have I told you about taking other people's things. It's not polite."
The girl just giggled, as though she was ignoring him, "I'm gonna zap you daddy!" she said as she pointed the gun at him.
"No!" Jon and Karyn shouted, while the man just crossed his arms and gave an angry look.
"I'm not going to tell you again, now give-"
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