You go into the mall and through Mervyn’s. You decide to get Diana’s things first. Then you walk through the mall. You and Taylor had your arms around each other. You stop in front of Spencers and Zac asks, "What’s this store?" "Only the best in the mall! They have all kinds of gags and dope stuff, you’ll love it!" "Cool!" says Zac, walking inside. You walk around the store and Taylor says, "I feel stupid for asking you this but how old are you?" "I just turned 12," you tell him. Taylor’s eyes get wide. "Relax," you tell him, "I’ll be 14 on May 9." He sighs with relief, "Oh it’s coming up." "Yup," you say proudly. Zac looks through all the practical joke stuff. You and Taylor look through the posters and get bored so you wait for Zac to purchase his stuff and you leave. Next you go to Miller’s Outpost.
In Miller’s, you walk over to the South Park stuff. You look at the boxers and laugh and say, "This has gone way too far!" After looking around for a while, you decide to leave that store too. Taylor says that he is hungry do you go to the food court and Taylor pulls you…where else? Mc Donald’s! He gets his food and you steal a fry. You pull him over to Subway you get a turkey sub. "You aren’t getting anything to drink?" he asks you. "Nope," you say, "I’ll just steal yours." "Oh OK," he says, smiling. You eat your sandwich and wait for Isaac and Zac to get back. Isaac had Mexican food and Zac had pizza. You talked and ate and then Taylor brought up the subject of, "It feels good to go out publicly and not get mobbed." "Yeah," Isaac and Zac agree.
Zac says he wants to go to the arcade and Isaac goes with him. "Don’t you want to go?" you ask Taylor. "Nah, I’m not in the mood right now." "OK it’s a crappy arcade anyway," you tell him. Taylor yells to Zac and Isaac that you’re going to Hot Topic and Sam Goody’s. You point in the direction of the stores and then get up, dump your trash, and stack your trays. On the way out of the food court, Taylor stops at the Dairy Queen. He orders a medium blizzard and you get a small one. Before you can get your wallet out, Taylor pays for it. "You didn’t have to do that," you say, shoving your wallet into your back pocket. "I wanted to," he says. "Oh then feel free," you joke. He laughs. "That’s one of your best qualities," he says. "What is?" you ask. "You can make me laugh." "Really?" you ask shyly. "Yeah," he says.
You turn into Sam Goody’s and look at the Top 20 Albums. Taylor picks up the Natalie Imbruglia CD and you say, "You like her?" "Yeah," he says reading the back of the CD case. "I love her," you say. "Cool," he says, obviously not paying attention. "Yeah and I’m leaving you to have Marilyn Manson’s baby." "Cool," he says again. You look at him with wide eyes. He smiles a little. "Oh so you are paying attention." "Yes I am, how could I ignore you?" "Awww," you say, slipping your arms around him. "You gonna get that?" you ask him. "Yeah." "Cool." You pick up the Backstreet Boys CD and go over to Taylor who was in line. "You gonna get that?" he asks you. "Yup," you say. "Cool."
The woman helps Taylor and he grabs your CD and hands it to her. "Taylor Hanson!" you yell, "I’m gonna get you back for that!" He smiles. You walk out of the store, when people started staring at Taylor, you were finishing the last of your blizzard. He still has a lot more. He pulls you over to the pay phones and puts his ice cream on top of one of the germ infested phones. He puts his arms around your waist. He inches closer and closer to you and then pulls away. He gets closer and stops. You feel him slightly shaking, you could tell he was nervous. He gets a little closer and you say, "Are you gonna kiss me or not?" He laughs and says, I’m getting there. You put your hands on his shoulders and pull him closer a little bit at a time. When the space between your lips was almost non-existent, you feel him shaking very hard. "It’s OK," you tell him. You pull his head to yours and kiss him.
For a second, Taylor wanted to pull away. This isn’t so bad, he thinks to himself. He squeezes you tighter and then you hear, "It’s possessed!!!" Zac falls to the ground and stares at the guy standing outside of Hot Topic. He had bright pink hair and a pierced eyebrow, nose, and tongue. You had to laugh. Taylor takes a bite of his ice cream and feeds you one. You walk over to Isaac and Zac. Zac stands up and hides behind you. "Hi Jeff," you say to the freak outside the store. He nods his head. You walk into the store, pulling a hesitant Taylor Hanson in with you. You go in, buy your Sailor Moon wallet and a Sailor Moon sticker for Tiff. When you come out Zac says, "You’re alive!" "Yeah Zac, I go in there all the time." Taylor had bought Raven’s Revenge and was eating it. "Look Zac, demon dust!" "AAAHHHH!!!" Zac screams.
On your way out of the mall, you and Taylor get your picture taken in the booth outside the food court. You get the background that says AMERICA’S MOST WANTED. You put your heads together and smile. You get two copies of it so you each get one. Then you try to fit everyone in the picture and get the SPACE SHOT background (for Zac). You buy two of those too. The you walk back to the motorcycles. You stuffed the bags of stuff in your backpack. You hold Taylor tight and drive back to his house. You grab your rollerblades and put them on. Taylor skates with you home. "How long are you here?" you ask him. "For the next week." "Cool, where’s the rest of your family?" "With my dad in Tulsa, they’re coming tomorrow which reminds me, wanna come to pick them up?" "Sure," you say.
Before you know it, you’re at your door. He leans in and kisses you, more relaxed this time but not the deep kiss you had hoped for but you knew he’d get over his shyness in time. You swing your hands back and forth slowly and were smiling at each other. At long last he kissed your cheek and said, "I’ll pick you up around 10. Bye." "Bye."
Across the street a jealous Kurt Walton watched silently. Kristin and Taylor were rollerblading up the street hand in hand. Taylor walked her up to her door and leaned in and kissed her. At that moment he regretted ever letting Kristin go. They looked into each other’s eyes, He finally left after kissing her again. Kurt suddenly despised the guy he’d met the night before. He regretted being so mean to Kristin. She had acted like she was happy to see him but he could see it in her eyes. She was pissed at him beyond belief.