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Post by Beff on Dec 26, 2010 20:59:09 GMT
Trotting down the high street, Beth glanced around, this part of town seemed duller than the other, yet she guessed the other part was brightened up by the mocha layout and frills of the café. This part just seemed to be lit by lights from shops, the brightest from the "Fancy Hats Club."
Whilst reaching the start of the shop window, Beth stared in, hoping to find more than hats decorating the window of the shop, many mannequins wearing different styled hats, mostly old fashioned ones at that. Stepping to the doors, Beth reached forwards and pulled on the cold metal handle, swinging the door open, not expecting much to be inside.
A gasp escaped from Beth's mouth as she stared into the store, garments of all colours, and all types of clothing could be seen, just from the entrance, and she noticed stairs and escalators in the distance. A smile was brought to her face as she stared wildly inside, heading in and holding the door back for Valencia, her expression fixated at surprise and happiness to the amazing shop. "Oh...my...God.." She managed to utter, finally blinking after a while.
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Post by Authenti on Dec 26, 2010 21:07:05 GMT
Val shut the door behind them both, mindful of the cold night air, and then turned her attention to the rows and shelves and baskets full of clothes that immediately took centre-stage in her mind.
"Jesus, that's a lot of clothes," she breathed, revelling in the fact that there was apparently no attendant at the counter to keep shoving garments under her nose that she didn't want.
"This is... This is heaven. Let me past," she growled, zipping around Beth and sprinting into the midst of the aisles of clothing, running a hand along the rows of clothes as she went and occasionally pausing to pick out and examine something she thought she might like before moving on.
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Post by FoxyChan on Dec 26, 2010 21:13:54 GMT
Day 2
When Caitlin had finally woken up, she decided to look around the city. She stared in wonder at the various buildings, whilst in a daze. She walked up to a building called 'Fancy Hats Club', intrigued, she pushed open the door and was immediately shocked by the vast amount of clothes and colours.
"...Wow...So many clothes..." Caitlin was floored. She had never seen this many clothes in one place before, the shop seemed to go on forever as she skipped around various racks, stopping on occassion to browse at things that appealed to her. "...This top is quite nice" she pulled a dark green sleeveless top out of a rack and stared at it "Hmmmm...I want it, but do I even have enough money?".
Caitlin put the shirt back and felt around in her pockets, until she came across something she had never seen before. It was a small laptop like device. A frown marred her face, 'what is this doing here?' she held it close to her face and poked it. Nothing happened. "It doesn't seem explosive..." she giggled "Ahh...references...even all alone, i'm still a sad little girl...".
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Post by Beff on Dec 26, 2010 23:30:23 GMT
Beth let out a small giggle and smirked as Valencia rushed down the aisles. Doing the same, she saw it as a competition to reach the end of the aisle before her, and went down the opposing aisle. Skidding at the end, she popped her head round to see Val checking out clothes. Stretching her hands out infront of her, she glanced down at them. "I could do with some gloves.." She muttered, loud enough for Val to hear but more intended for herself.
Setting off, she wandered down a few lonely aisles, soon finding the "gloves & scarves" section. Scanning down one side of the aisle, she turned and came back the opposite way, picking out some small grey coloured gloves, the same shade as her hoodie, mainly fingerless but with a flap to unbutton and place over to make them oven glove-like.
Happy with her gloves, she decided to look for a scarf to go with them, pulling out a plaided-style grey scarf which seemed to go in a set with the gloves. Smiling at her discoveries, she proceeded out of the "gloves&scarves" aisle, and hopped around the store. "This place is great!" She exclaimed, guessing Valencia was somewhere close in the maze of aisles.
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Post by Authenti on Dec 27, 2010 0:05:31 GMT
"You can say that again," she yelled. Val grinned widely as she yanked a pair of beige cargo pants from the shelves. Glancing around, she located the changing rooms and made a beeline for them. She hesitated at the end of the last line of clothes, however, and tugged a yellow long-sleeved cotton shirt from a rack. Armed with these, she hurried into the changing rooms and disappeared behind one of the curtains.
"Perfect," she whispered to herself as she examined the results in a mirror, pondwater-soaked clothes cast to one side for the time being. She ventured out again briefly to throw Beth's hoodie at its owner, hoping she'd hit the mark (a.k.a. Beth's face) and then fled back to the changing rooms again with a black hoodie she found on a hanger.
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Post by FoxyChan on Dec 27, 2010 0:22:04 GMT
Day 2
Caitlin heard shouting in the distance and decided to investigate. She pocketed the strange laptop-like device and ducked in and out of clothes racks, following the noise. A thought struck her 'Oh my god...I'm James Bond' she then started humming the James Bond theme song whilst putting her hands into a gun shape before rolling across the floor.
It turns out rolling around on the floor wasn't such a good idea, as Caitlin ended up knocking a rack over. Ignoring what just happened, Caitlin switched to a commando crawl, which didn't fair any better. Heaving herself of the floor, she brushed off the fluff from the floor and proceeded to continue her 'mission'.
Still humming, Caitlin darted around the store, hoping to find the source of the noise, but to her dismay it had quitened. She sighed and made her way towards some changing rooms "Maybe if I climb up there, I could get a better look at the store." Just as she had spoken a hoddie came flying out of one of the rooms and hit her on the face. Shocked, Caitlin tripped backwards into a rack, knocking the various items of clothing onto the floor. "Ouch...". She peeled the hoddie off of her head and glared at it. Her glare turned into a frown "I recgonise this...but where from?" Caitlin cradled her head in her hands, sorting through her memories to find out where she had recognised this hoodie from.
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Post by Beff on Dec 27, 2010 0:37:37 GMT
Scouraging through clothes, Beth stayed close to the changing rooms incase she was to evaluate Val's new outfit. Staying in the aisle adjacent, she sorted through the different colours of t-shirts they had. "Woah they have every co-" Her comment cut short as she heard a song being hummed in the aisle next to hers. They were filled to the brim with clothes, so she couldn't see who and what was on the otherside.
Tensing, she grabbed the closest item to her, thus being a pole which was obviously part of one of the shelves, to connect it which had fell off and was leaning against the side. Holding it up in her right hand, she held out her left as she tiptoed to the end of the aisle. Listening to the tune more closely as she did, she thought she recognised it, "Wait, is that the James Bond theme?" she thought to herself, shaking her head to regain her stance as she reached the end of the aisle.
Beth heard some speech before a throwing sound, a crash bang and then a solemn "ouch." This caused her to tilt her head, "What the hell!" She thought, "Maybe they attacked Val! It didn't sound like Val..just go and check!"
With that thought, she burst out from the aisle, running towards the girl on the floor who seemed to be holding her hoodie. "WAAAAAH!" She yelled intimidatingly, as she ran towards her, pole arched above her head ready to strike. A few paces in, she started to recognise the girl. Slowing down, she slowly lowered the pole, and stopped at the girl's feet. "..Caitlin?" She called quietly, not really taking it in as she looked down at her hoodie, "What are you doing here? And where did you get my hoodie?" She asked, nudging it with the pole.
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Post by Authenti on Dec 27, 2010 0:52:45 GMT
Meanwhile, Val rustled around in the changing rooms trying to find the part of the hoodie that her head was supposed to go through. She'd made the mistake of leaving the hood flopping over the neck-hole, leaving the inside dark as she struggled against the fabric and staggered outside in her new clothes.
Finally shoving her head through, Val took a rasping breath of fresh air and panted dramatically, feigning a movie-star swoon.
"I got lost!" she giggled, in case Beth was listening. Glancing over to her friend, however, she realised that Beth seemed to be having an intent conversation with what seemed to be an old friend due to what Beth was saying.
"Do you two know each other?" she gasped, bounding up to them and standing on the sidelines while they greeted each other.
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Post by FoxyChan on Dec 27, 2010 1:08:52 GMT
Day 2
"Beth!!" Caitlin jumped up and pulled Beth into a tight hug "I thought I was hallucinating from all the alcohol, but then there was this robot and apartment and big shop and I don't think I got drunk!!!" she blurted out. Beth looked like she needed to breathe, so Caitlin released her from the Hug Of Doom.
A girl walked out from the changing rooms, bounding up to them and asked them if they knew each other Caitlin nodded her head "Yeah, Beth is my husband".
Caitlin turned back to Beth and explained that when she had heard noises in the store she had decided to check them out. Caitlin started giggling when she told Beth that she had felt like a secret agent and started humming the James Bond theme.
Caitlin turned slightly so that she could face Beth and the other girl "So tell me, how did you two end up here? And where is here anyway? All the robot told me was that this place is called the City of the Lost...doesn't exactly ring a bell". Caitlin mused up her hair and closed her eyes sighing, "This all seems like some cheesey horror film" She changed her voice to sound dramatic "Teenagers disappearing, only to find themselves in a place that nobody has heard of...only to be killed one by one" She laughed "Is that what's going to happen? We're going to mysteriously die one by one" Caitlin snorted "Well, if that is what's going to happen, can we get drunk first? Any pubs around here?"
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Post by Beff on Dec 27, 2010 1:22:18 GMT
Beth regained movement after the hug, placing the pole against the side of a rail before turning back to Caitlin. Turning to look as Val emerged from the changing room, she smiled, "This is Caitlin, and Caitlin, this is Valencia, we met here in the city-" She introduced, stepping back so they were in a triangular formation.
"Well, I woke up in the middle of a road-" She explained, realising no one had asked her before. "I was asleep on my sofa one minute, and the next in the middle of some road! Thankfully there were no cars, and I just trapsed around looking for people, then I found Val here!" She said cheerily, nudging her arm.
"A robot?" She asked after Caitlin's explanation, "I ain't seen no robot. And don't be so childish!" She laughed, "I haven't seen a pub, and even so, we're not going. And we're not going to die. Sheesh, with talk like that you'd cause panic in people." She lectured kindly, smilng after with an amused grin.
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Post by Authenti on Dec 27, 2010 1:29:51 GMT
"Oh, neat!" Val laughed, happy that her friend had found someone known to her. She tugged at the bottom of her hoodie, straightening it out from her struggle with the thing earlier, and listened quietly to the two girls' conversation. As Caitlin began harping on about being murdered, however, Val shifted from foot to foot and looked kind of nervous.
"That... won't happen. Right? Why would that happen?" She nodded and smiled at Beth's retort, trying to agree wholeheartedly. "I mean, a whole city, just for some murderer to, uh, go on a rampage? Nahhhh." She chuckled nervously and turned away to browse some more clothes. It was impossible, of course; no way were they all going to die. Beth had said so.
"Still... it is strange that so many people have just appeared here without any clue why..." Valencia sighed deeply and shook her head. It just didn't make sense.
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Post by FoxyChan on Dec 27, 2010 1:53:19 GMT
Day 2
Caitlin felt guilty that she had made Valencia nervous, she was only joking about "Yeah you're right Beth. But seriously I swear there was a robot hovering over me when I woke up...it was actually quite cute...but anyway, what are we going to do now?" She played with a strand of her hair "I mean, the only people I've seen are you two...I don't really count that as a lot of people"
Caitlin started pacing "What are we going to do about food and drink? Is there a shop for that here? What about my medicines, where would I get those?" Thoughts flew around her head and she started getting distressed "What about our families? Oh god...they must be so worried, have we no way to contact them?". Tears built up in Caitlin's eyes as she worried about her family and the effect her disappearance must have made.
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Post by Beff on Dec 27, 2010 2:03:42 GMT
"Hey...hey..HEY!" Beth exclaimed, her voice raising in a crushendo as she reached forwards to pat Caitlin on the shoulder. "Don't worry, alright? We'll find a shop. There's got to be a food shop, I mean, we're in a clothes shop, and food is more essential than clothes, right?" She said, looking down and realising she didn't have the scarf and gloves anymore, thinking back to when she picked up the pole, she came to the conclusion she'd dropped them in panic.
"As for your family, I don't know about you but I don't have my phone. I just have this laptop phone thing-" She explained, pulling it out of her pocket and waving it infront of her. "You've not been gone that long, and hopefully we'll get back before we make a lasting effect.." She sighed, trying to calm her friend. "Come on, lets go find a shop" She said finally, picking up her hoodie and swinging it on before leading down the aisle she'd burst from, smiling to herself as she saw the gloves and scarf on the floor where she'd predicted.
Scooping them up, she turned back to the head of the aisles and shouted out for Val, "Hey Val, you done? Lets go see if theres a shop around here, a food shop I mean. I'm not hungry at the moment, but it'll be good to know where one is."
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Post by Authenti on Dec 27, 2010 3:02:16 GMT
"R-right..." Val mumbled to herself, still browsing clothes. She glanced at Beth, watching her pick up the scarf and gloves, and felt a shot of envy that she hadn't thought of that. She quickly skimmed the nearest shelves and found a woolen scarf, testily tying it around her neck and glancing across to a shop mirror. She scowled. It didn't go with her outfit at all.
"Bugger this." Val yanked the scarf off and shoved it haphazardly back on a shelf, then turned to trot after Beth. "Coming!" she called, drawing level with her friend and slowing down to match her pace.
"Where do we pay?" She felt the spanish money in her pocket and sighed. "How do I pay?"
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Post by FoxyChan on Dec 27, 2010 3:13:48 GMT
Day 2
Caitlin glanced around, there seemed to be no check out area or even staff "Strange...you'd think they'd have some staff around..." She raised her voice "HELLO? ARE THERE ANY STAFF HERE?" her voice seemed to echo throughout the store.
Caitlin turned back to Beth and Valencia "Would it be wrong if we just 'took' some clothes...I mean there's no one around and no way to pay, maybe it's a kind of 'take what you need' place..." Caitlin picked up a thick dark green jumper and put it on. "There's no labels or prices, so it would be the most logical explanation."
She mused her hair again, it was a nervous habit that she couldn't break "But then again, wouldn't that be stealing?" Caitlin gave a sigh of fustration "This place is so damn confusing, it's starting to irritate me...and what the hell is with these laptop thingies anyway? Why do we even have them?"
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