Ruby

~Chapter One~ Alarm Clock

"I don't know. What ever colors you girls want to pick out."

"Sweet."

"Do you still have money left over?" The brown haired women said as we walked toward the front door. My mom also has blue eyes, like me. My father has red hair with brown eyes, which is where I got my red hair. I also had a few small freckles on my cheeks. Aunt Susie is the one who always mentioned how "adorable" they looked on me. I didn't really like them, but I always liked my red hair which had a slight wave in it.

"Ya." I answered.

"Probably not enough to buy a warm enough coat for Hannah."

"Don't worry Mrs. Calletoff. I have plenty of money with me." Hannah said.

"Okay then." We entered through the heavy doors and into the giant mall. It was 3 times larger than the theatre.

"Where should we go look for a coat?" I asked. We walked to the middle of the first floor, and both looked at the spacious interior of the mall. There were two floors which had escalators and elevators leading up to it. On the top floor, all of the railings were made of glass. Right in the center of the bottom floor though, was a large fountain that had two statue dolphins that were sculpted to look as if they were jumping out of the fountain. Clear, rushing water splashed around the statues. The fountain had a circular, wide rim around it which multiple people who sit on. Many complicated engravings were on the side which probably took a while to carve them all. Some light were also seated on the rim and faced the dolphins. Their bright shine made the fountain even more pretty then it really was. On the bottom, below that many pennies, dimes and other coins, was a tile floor. Most of them looked blue, but I wasn't quit sure. The tiles were placed together in a way that made it look as if the fountain floor was the bottom of the ocean with tan tiles as sand, red and orange tiles making a starfish, and green and yellow ones making fish and other sea creatures.

"When I have my own house," I said to Hannah as we sat on the edge of the sculpture's rim. "I want a fountain like this in my home!" Hannah laughed.

"Dream on, Ruby. You need a lot of money to pay someone to sculpt this." I agreed with her. My mom had already gone into a store to buy aunt Susie a gift. She had informed us to meet her at the fountain by 3:30, which gave us about three and a half hours to go shopping, since Mom knows that Hannah and I would go buy more than just a coat and nail polish.

"You know what I always wanted to do?" Hannah asked.

"No. What?"

"I always wanted to just walk into every store in the mall, just to see what everything sells."

"Why would you want to do that?"

"Just because. We have two hours to go shopping anyways. We have to look at all the shops."

"I don't think we'll have time for every store. This place is huge!"

"How about every store we find interesting?"

"Fine, but lets not buy something at all of those stores we're going to visit. We should have a limit."

"You're right. How about we don't spend more than $20, not including the coat and nail polish."

"Alright then captain, where do we sail to first?" I smiled at my humor. Hannah liked my joke too.

"How about that little island over there?" She pointed to a jewelry store that had a big sign above it which was in the shape of an oval. It was white was a pink rim around it. In the center of the oval were the words Beauty & Beyond which were also in pink. We sat up and walked into the shop. The walls and doors were glass. The door was ajar and held that way by a door stopper. When we arrived to the store, I opened the door all the way open and let it close behind me, but the door jam prevented it from shutting completely. Inside, there were many racks of bracelets, necklaces, and earrings. The more expensive jewelry were in glass cases. Everything wasn't as valuable as those other accessory stores which had fancy wedding rings and heavy watches.