The Clothing Store

[Nate Brightmore]

Nate opened his mouth to speak, wanting desperately to get out of going with the girls to find bathing suits, but his sister was beating him to it.

"Oh he'll be fine, and I guess I do need a bathing suit.. but I don't know what size I wear.. I haven't had a bathing suit in a few years." She said, and once again tugging on his arm. Nate groaned inwardly, but shrugged his shoulders.

"I guess its alright if I come with you all, I suppose I could use a new set of swim trunks or something... but then we should grab something to eat too. I'm famished." He said.

[Annabelle Ventus]

Annabelle smiles at Nate. "Good, and yeah getting food after this is a great idea..I haven't eaten at all today.." she says looking away, a little embarrased for not eating at all today, she then takes Ala's hand and Nate's. "So we ready to go then?" she says to all of them.

[Alavda Noir]

Alavda nearly laughed at Nate's reaction. She could tell that he was getting a little...nervous.

"Bathing suit shopping it is," she smiled, "And food afterwards sounds good, too," After once again emerging from the dressing room, she looked at the green dress that was draped over her arm, "I think I will get this..." then she felt Belle's hand loop through her arm, "Ah Belle -" it was too late. Belle's hand had made contact with her skin. She managed to pull her arm away fast enough to not see too much of her past...however, she caught glimpses of two men...

"Ah," she looked at a rather interesting portion of wall, "Shall we get going now?"

[Annabelle Ventus]

Annabelle's eyes widened and she looked down, she saw him again, and that was the last thing she wanted to see in her life. All of her happiness had left her and without a word she went back into the changing room, changed, bought her clothes and walked out of the store. She didn't want anyone to see the horror in her eyes or feel the coldness of her heart from what she just had to recall.

She knew one thing that made her slightly want to laugh though. She wanted to get Ala gloves.

[Nate Brightmore]

Nate's eyes narrowed at Annabelle's sudden mood change. His eyes went from Annabelle to Alavda. He was studying both of their reactions to what seemed to have happened, trying to figure out any reason as to why Annabelle was in such a hurry to get away, and acting very stiff all of a sudden.

He knew that certain types of vampires held special abilities, and he supposed that something could have passed between Alavda and Annabelle that could have caused the reaction. He didn't really like the fact that he was already feeling slightly protective of Annabelle already.

"Is she alright?" He asked Alavda.

[Alavda Noir]

Alavda turned to face Nate, she couldn't quite look him in the face, "I, uh...I don't know...it depends on what she saw...you see, when people touch my skin, not only do I see into their past, but they also see it...this is why I keep my distance from people. I don't think it's right for me to know what happened to them in the past," this time, she looked him right in the eyes, "but I can't help it. It can't control it...perhaps I should look into gloves...I just haven't had this much contact with anyone in so long..."

[Neah Brightmore]

"I'm sure that if you tell Annabelle that, then everything will be fine. Though gloves aren't a bad idea." Neah said, and remembered that she still had her training gloves in her purse. They were black leather. She pulled them out.

"I actually have my training gloves right now, if you wanted to wear them until you got some, it would be okay. They'll be a little hot though. For some reason I see you wearing the fancy white clothes that women wear to fancy balls." Neah said.

[Alavda Noir]

Alavda looked at Neah and then the gloves, "Thank you," she took the gloves, "but are you sure? You don't need them?"

Alavda laughed slightly about what the dress comment, "Oh, that's probably because I was born around that era. I thought that that didn't show much anymore." she smiled.

"Well, we should probably go find Belle...I want to explain what happened. But first, I should probably purchase these..." she went to the cashier before heading toward the bathing suit shop.

[Neah Brightmore]

"Oh I'm sure. I always have an extra pair with my gear. They always tell us that good hunters are always prepared no matter what." She answered and smiled.

Neah followed Alavda so that she could pay for her clothes as well, and with that done the three of them walked to where Annabelle was waiting.