CASSY's POV I skipped class. Ditto. See if I care. I made a beeline to the State Strip, which is basically a long block of road with stores squashed to each other. I headed for Top Shop, which was useless, since I was broke. "Zy!" Only one person calls me that. I stopped on my tracks and spun around. My eyebrow raised up when I saw who it was. "Alice." I said. She caught up to me, "You walk like a maniac, Zy," she huffed, giggling. I didn't smile. Or twitch. She noticed my emotionless expression, "What's up with you?" "Excuse me?" I said, "What's up with me? I'm not the problem here." She stared at me confused for a while, then it seemed to dawn to her what I was so pissed about, "You still mad about the Peter thing?" "A point to Einstein," I said sarcastically. She rolled her eyes, "Guys don't come between us." she linked arms with me. Then why'd you let a guy come between us then?? I wanted to say, but I held my tongue. I wanted a friend. I needed a friend. And it seems like Alice was the only one there for me. "Anyway," Alice declared, "Let's go shopp-ing!" I let out a giggle, "Top Shop ba-BEH!" Alice grabbed my arm and led me into the shop. "Oooo!" she fawned, "I like that red dress! It'll look so cute on you!" "Umm.." I walked over to it, "The price?" She laughed, "Have I not taught you anything?" she grabbed the dress and pulled me into a dressing room. She bit off the tag and handed me the dress, "There. Aaaaaall yours." I stared at the dress, as if it was poisonous, "You want me steal it?" "Shhh!" she put her finger to her lips, and whispered, "Remember the Lipgloss?" "But that was LIPGLOSS, Alice! Not A DRESS." She waved my protest away, "Oh, whatever. Same ****. Just. Get. It. I'll distract the guards while you sneak out, mmkay?" I nodded, and the next thing I knew, Alice shoved the dress into my hands and walked out. Helpless, I stuffed the dress into my backpack and shuffled out. My heart was pounding as I inched closer to the exit. And my breath caught when I passed the door. Nothing. I let out a breath, relieved that I hadn't been caught. Suddenly.. alarms sounded. -- My hands were shaking as I gripped the arrest warrant in my hands. No no no. "Miss?" a gruff officer said. I looked up, "Y-Yes?" "You can go." he looked at me like I didn't deserve to be let out, "This is your first offense. Also, you can't enter Top Shop anymore." I nodded quickly. As much as I wanted to shoot out of the chair and out the door, curiosity was tugging at me, "W-Who bailed me out?" I stammered. He peered at the papers in his hands, "He's waiting for you in the lobby." He? I thought it was Alice who bailed me out. I made my way to the lobby. And saw who bailed me out. I wanted to turn around and hop into the jail booth. It was better than this. It was. Zander. Holy smokes! So I'll be gone from Tuesday till two weeks after so I'm not sure if I can update! So here's an update! Thanks to ThisIsJoycee for giving me the idea for this update!