It was half a dare, half a bet, and half an adventure. They had pooled their money, 456 dollars for the bet. (Athena didn't want Zoe to know that most of her money had come from the Cheerleaders to give Zoe a makeover. It was easy for them to raise money, and skim a little off the top for fun things like this.) A few weeks before Athena brought up the idea as something she had read in a magazine, it was called "The Gauntlet". You would start at one store and buy an artical of clothing, then work your way down the row of stores, at each one buying something. The goal was to put together an outfit from the things you bought that looked like it should go together. It sounds easy until find the lady foot locker next to a Zales jewelers.
Athena thought it was a great fun idea and she wanted to try it out. How did she get Zoe to go along with it? She talked about it incessantly and INSISTED! that Zoe do it with her. That didn't work, but one night Zoe wanted Athena to come with her to the spiked pitt to see a show and Zoe ended up giving in as sort of a quid pro quo.
The day of the Gauntlet arrived. Zoe thought she was just going to be tagging along for a day of shopping, when Athena dropped the bomb on her. The way the game was played was one person picked out the cloths, the other had to wear them. The only thing that the wearer had control over was which side of the mall they would go down. This was determined by a flip of a coin. Zoe almost backed out right then and there. She trusted the new Athena as a friend, not as a clothing guide, still the chance that Zoe could win could swing the game in her favor and bring Athena a little bit back to her side of things....it all rested on the coin flip. So she said yes.
The coin flipped in the air, Zoe called heads.
