As they all walked to the food court Ashley couldn't help feeling a little self conscious and awkward like she was a bit too dressed up now compared to the rest of the group. Wearing out outfit that looked like it was for a night out so casually made her feel like she looked sort of slutty. The looks she was getting from other people in the mall gave her the sense she wasn't the only one who thought that way. She was snapped out of her thought as she felt a pinch on her butt jumping a bit and then instinctively slapping him.
"Hey!" she complained before Alex just kind of chuckled and shrugged with a smug look like it was all just flirting.
"Hands off..." she'd say in a mumble moving a bit faster in as her heels clicked to move up closer to Alyssa who was walking holding hands with Will.
Once they got to the food court they found a table and the boys went to go get food for the group leaving the girls to sit in the booth.
"Alyssa! What the heck!" She snapped finally getting a moment alone away from Parker and Alex who had been orbiting her up to that point. Alyssa was checking her make up again after having been kissing Will and then shrugged putting her mirror back into her bag.
"Relax. They go to our school and you'll need to get used to seeing them around... plus they are harmless... mostly." which wasn't that reassuring,
"And what about this outfit? I look like a slut...." she said adjusting her top a bit. Alyssa giggle and then shrugged.
"Yeah maybe a bit, but it does sort of work for you." she said with a big smile causing Ashley to blush and lean in.
"What?! It does not! I am not a slut! Slutty doesn't work for me!" she snapped back getting a little flustered by this.
"Gosh relaaaaax. Ash. I'm just teasing you. You know when I first heard about you I was expecting a lot more work, but you were probably a wimp or gay as a guy right? You're actually a pretty good bestie so far." she said trying to be nice but it also being pretty back handed.
"What? I am not- I mean I wasn't. You got it all wrong!" she said starting to get even more flustered causing Alyssa to giggle. The boys finally returned with some burgers and two salads.
"Wait why do I get a salad?" Ashley asked wanting a burger as the salad was set in front of her. Alex shrugged
"It's just... how it is?" he said not thinking much of it as he tried to slide into the booth before starting to struggle and fight with Parker a moment to get into the booth first and eventually winning trapping Ashley between him and the inside of the booth.
They all ate and chatted talking about various drama and happenings in the town mentioning lots of people Ashley didn't know yet. Alex kept asking Ashley all these things she didn't know how to answer since she wasn't a girl for very long and hadn't been in high school for a while so she was a little out of the loop on certain trends. He also kept trying to put his hand on her leg making her shove him a bit. Eventually he just put his arm over her shoulder and he tried moving in closer.
"H-hey... back off dude!" she complained looking over to Alyssa who was busy kissing Will again. Ashley squirmed in her seat not wanting to kiss him as she leaned in feeling an odd sense of butterflies in her stomach. Just as their lips were about to kiss she jumped and bumped the table making Ashley's water fall over and spill leaking over and getting Alyssa's pants wet. She stopped kissing Will standing up.
"Hey! Damn it... You bitch!" she snapped at Ashley in a catty way.
"I need to go to the bathroom." she said annoyed grabbing her bag and moving. She then stopped snapping at Ashley.
"Uh, hello?" and she realized this was her que to follow.
"Oh, thank god! I mean... I'm coming." she said wiggling out past Alex her butt right in his face a moment as she shimmied out. They got to the bathroom and Alyssa wiped her pants off a bit. She looked herself over in the mirror pushing up her bust and fixing any flaws she noticed.
"It was just water, so its not a big deal but try to calm down a bit around the guys. I know you're new to this but you don't need to be so slutty just cause of your outfit." she said putting a hand on her hip as she talked.
"What? I wasn't being slutty! Plus you chose my outfit!" she complained making Alyssa just roll her eyes. Just then both of their phones beeped and they saw that all events on their schedules were finally crossed out.
"Well that's good. We can do what we want with the rest of our day now." she said with a smile. Ashley felt relieved like she could finally get out of this now and go talk to her parents finally.
"We should go to my place after the mall." Alyssa said with a smile moving to the bathroom exist filling Ashley with some dread as it seemed like she wasn't even done with being at the mall yet.
