Axel smirked knowing the blond would say that. He walked over to Maria and kissed her on the head. "Have fun and don't be too harsh on the poor boy. He may think your cute but cuteness wears off when a person is piled under bags." He turned to Roxas. "I know you will not run, not with the chance that I would hurt the dear girl here. You should have asked why she didn't invite me though. It wasn't for you. No, I learned long ago that I don't go shopping with this one. She is a true female. You thought I would torture you wait till you get done with her." He smiled and turned waving over his shoulder. As he left he laughed. This will be fun.

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Maria knew Axel wouldn't hurt her. If it had been any other vampire she might have worried but not with Axel. He would be mad if Roxas ran off and she might be punished but he wouldn't hurt her. She pouted as he talked about how shopping with her would be torture. She crossed her arms and watched as he left. She turned to look at Ice and Roxas. "So, ready to have some fun?" A large, slightly evil smile came back to her face.

Roxas had a bad feeling when Axel said that it would be torture. He didn't look forward to this now. But he could handle anything. The blond watched as the redhead left before turning to Maria and Ice. He nodded. "Yeah.. I am.." he said, though he was starting to think that it wouldn't be much fun if he had to carry a bunch of bags.

Maria spun around and quickly led the way out of the cave and to her own room. She opened the door and only then remembered that Roxas had slept there the night before. Without looking at her room she reached to the table next to the door and grabbed her purse. She had her own money, not that she needed it as Axel would pay for anything. She ran outside and started walking towards town knowing the other two would follow. She thought about being mean and heading for her favorite clothing store but didn't. Instead she spun around and started walking backword so that she could look at Roxas and Ice. "So Roxas, you can't remember your past and you didn't bring anything with you so how about we go get you some stuff. It can't be fun not to have anything to call your own."

Roxas followed the girl out of the cave and to her room. For a moment, he felt a bit bad about leaving the room a mess, but decided that it didn't matter right now. He could clean it up later. He followed after her next to Ice and was a bit surprised when she came back towards them. The blond thought about what she asked before nodded slightly."Sure. That sounds fine." he told her.

Maria laughed. Why is it guys never seem exicted about shopping? She looked around at the shops but sighed. "So what would you like to get? I'm not a mind reader."

Roxas thought about it. "I really don't know much about shopping.." he admitted. He couldn't ever remember going shopping. Stupid amnesia. This made things so much harder than it needed to be.

Maria sighed and looked at the shop they were next to; a clothing store. "Well we might as well start here." She pointed at his outfit. "We have out uniforms but we don't have to wear them all the time. Really just when other familes are over. The rest of the time we can wear pretty much anything. So you should have a few more outfits." She ran into the store and looked around.

Axel chuckled as he walked behind the group. He didn't have anything to do so he decided to watch the fun that would come from this trip.

"Alright.." Roxas said. Though he really didn't see clothes as important like Maria seemed to think so. But whatever. It didn't matter to him and she seemed excited about doing this, so there was no point denying her a bit of fun. The blond followed her slowly towards the shop.

Ice smiled seeing that the boy was not excited to be shopping. She walked over to a chair where she could see him and the door and flopped down.

Maria ran off into the store and grabbed several things. When she was done she ran back over to Roxas. "Clothes might not seem important but they are. You need a swimsuit, night outfit, a couple normal outfits, and one nice outfit." As she said each outfit she tossed it to him.

Roxas watched as Maria ran around the store. She apparently knew what she was doing. Which was good, seeing as how he had no idea. As the girl tossed things at him, the blond caught each item of clothing. "I really don't think I need that much..." he said.

Maria laughed. "You don't think you'll be getting it as easy as you have do you? Known of the slaves are kept for looks or just because. Unless you have some special talent, or are like me, then you'll be put to cleaning. It doesn't take long with everyone helping but you'll be glad to have the clean clothes to change to." She walked over and grabbed the stuff back and paid for them. She walked back to them with a bag swinging in her hand. She tapped her chin. "Now what?"

Roxas nodded slightly to what she said, thinking about it. When she put it like that, it made sense. He personally didn't like being dirty. "I don't know... What do you normally do when you go shopping?" he asked. He really had no idea what he was supposed to be doing.

Maria winked at Roxas. "I don't. I go shoping once a week but come on no one needs that much stuff. I might go to a store and get a new book or something but I don't really do any shopping. I pay a girl to go around and buy things off a list. And I go to the movies or bowling or go out dancing." She had only gone shopping heavily that time with Axel to drive him off. She liked him but she enjoyed the alone time, even if Ice was always there.

"Oh.. I thought that you went out and bought a lot of stuff..." Roxas said, completely confused. Axel had said that she bought a lot. If she didn't do that, then why had the redhead told him that she did? The blond figured that the 'master' must have just been messing with him. Or Maria was. He couldn't tell which just yet.

"I only buy a lot when Axel comes with me. You have to agree it is a good way to make sure he doesn't come with me anymore. It isn't like he would care that I go out bowling. I just like the occassionaly freedom. And he is full of it. All that shopping was nothing. I went to the bookstore, and the craft store. That is not a lot of shopping." She turned towards Ice. "Anyways Ice likes to come. She gets away from Mr. Hot Head and beats me at bowling everytime." She turned to look at Roxas and winked. "So what would you like to do know? Go do some more shopping or go do something?"

Roxas nodded a bit to what she said. It made sense. Though the thought of more shopping made him frown slightly. "Can we go do something else? This is boring.." the blond asked. He really didn't like the idea of shopping. Much less actually going out and doing it. It just wasn't much fun for him.

Maria turned and ran out of the store. She looked around then walked next door. It was a very nice bakery. She walked inside and dug a list out of her purse. She handed it to the young lady behind the counter then gave her a stack of bills. The girl was her shopper and would go out and buy all the stuff on the list.

She grabbed a cookie from the sample platter and walked back outside to Roxas and Ice. "So what do you want to do?"

Roxas watched Maria run off while he waited for her return with Ice. Though he felt a bit awkward being left alone with her. The blond was relieved when the other girl returned. He thought about the question for a moment. "I don't know.. What would you like to do?" he asked her.

"Well, there's the movies, bowling, clubs, we could just walk around town, or go look at the new slaves." She shrugged as she didn't really care. She had just been to town a few days before.

He thought about it. The blond really didn't want to go look at slaves or just walk around. And he couldn't remember bowling, clubs, or movies. But which one sounded more interesting? "Hm... Can we go to a club?" he asked.

Maria smiled. "Sure give me one minute then." She ran back into the bakery and went to the back. Their was a small pantry that she walked into. A few minutes later she came out of the store in a new outfit. She was now wearing a short black skirt, a tight hot pink tank top, fishnets, and black boots. If she had been alone she could never had dressed like this but with Ice it was different. No one bothered her with Ice standing there. "Ok, I'm ready." She led the way towards a building that had loud music coming from it.

Roxas nodded at her request and waited with Ice again. And it still felt awkward to be with her. When Maria came back, he was surprised by her outfit. Where had she gotten that? It made him feel a bit under-dressed, but he wasn't going to say anything. He followed her to the club.

Maria smiled at the bouncer outside and walked inside. She liked the danger of being in a place like this. There were always vampires here and even with Ice it was slightly dangerous. It woke her up from the life she had fallen into. She spun back around and beamed at Roxas.

Roxas followed her in, his eyes darting around. He didn't like it in here. It didn't feel safe. And he liked feeling safe. But he trusted Maria, so if she thought that this place was alright, then he would believe her. He smiled back slightly at her.

Maria laughed at how nervous Roxas looked. She looked around to see who all was here then paled. There was a member of Fang's family and where one was others would be. She slowly walked to Ice and whispered in her ear. She turned to Roxas and pulled him to the door. When they got outside she leaned over to him and whispered very quietly. "We need to get home. There were undesirable people in there." She thought about her stuff but decided to leave it. One of the vampires could go for it. While Ice could protect them it would be best not to complicate things.

Axel watched as Maria changed clothes. It certainly was interesting that she wore those kind of clothes outside. He laughed when he saw that instead of shopping they were going to the club. He was even more suprised when they came back out of the club in a few moments.