Chapter 9
The team decides to start moving throughout to mall.
Alyssa sees an escalator not do far away.
" hey guys why don't we do our running man challenge going up the elevator and see if we can get any strangers to do it with us"
It's a great idea and the team moves into action. Hope sets up at the bottom of the elevator. Alyssa had found a group of young boys willing to them help out.
Alyssa goes first followed by a boy then Cap followed by the next boy that pattern continued until everyone got off at the top of the escalator.
Hope records the video and saves it with the other completed ones.
It turned out great and they took selfies with the group of boy who were nice enough to help the girls out.
Next they had to complete the group plank.
They came up with the idea to go to the food court and pretend that there was a earthquake. Which lend into them planking on top of and under tables for protection. The video turned out really well with shaky camera work really selling the earthquake along with help again from strangers in the mall. It was silly and bond to give the normally serious group of girls an edge against their competitors.
After completing everything they needed to together they decided to split up to complete the rest of the tasks. As a team they decide it would be the funniest if when they split up they all completed the pose in a window display task.
Hope and Cap go off to collect the map of the mall, a limb off a mannequin and the clothes hanger. Along with a great idea for their window pose.
Hope had spotted a window display with a poster of Kelly in it outside of DICK’s sporting goods. Cap agreed that it was a funny creative way to complete the task. So they set off on their way.
Alyssa and Becky team up to complete the “lap in a pool” and to find as many “buy one, get one" free coupons they can find.
Once Hope, Cap, Becky and Alyssa turned and left.
Ali turns to Ash “I guess you’re stuck with me”
Ash smirks “Don’t worry princess you were my first choice anyways"
Ash looks at her phone and says “I guess we have to take a selfie with a fish and get the job application. Along with the window pose”
“No problem I have an idea for the window pose already” Ali says and starts walking towards the Disney store right behind them.
Ali walks into the store and goes right to the princess accessories and she puts on a matching tiara, necklace and sparkling dress.
“Ash can you take my picture from outside the store”
Ash loves seeing this side of Ali. When she’s not afraid to be slightly childish and cute as hell.
Ash snaps the picture and sends it to Hope. Hope is in charge of collecting all the team pictures. In return Ash gets a picture back from Hope of her posing next to a huge portrait of Kelly in an Under Amour ad.
After Ali came out of the store and Ash showed her the picture she had received from Hope.
“We have to find a nail solan”
“I think I saw one over there” Ash says pointing to where they had entered the mall.
They walk into the salon. Ash walks up to the front desk. “Hello I was wondering if I could get a job application”
The older lady immediately becomes frustrated. “You are the third person to ask for one today. How do I know that your worth an application. Do you even know how to paint nails? am not just going to wasting one of my applications?”
Ash smiled bringing Ali forward “I can paint her nails and if you think I am qualified then will you be willing to give me an application”
The short old lady look skeptical but nodded that they had a deal. Ash asked if she could sit at a table and barrow some paint.
Ali follows Ash to the table and whispers over her shoulder. “I just repainted my nails two days ago so you better know what you’re doing”
Ash just smirked.
Ash picked out three colors. A pink to match the one Ali already had on her nails. A gold/yellow and a purple.
Ash got to work taking off Ali’s nail polish and filing/smoothing Ali’s rounded nails. Trying not to focus on how nice Ali’s hands felt in her own.
Ali was sitting on the other side of the table having nothing else to focus on besides the feeling of Ash’s hands on her own.
They are so gentle…. And warm……… and huge… and soft. I wonder what it would feel like to actually hold her hands.................... We could walk around holding hands and she would open doors for me and take me out to din……
Ali’s thoughts were broken by Ash asking for her other hand. She shakes her head to try to get out the thoughts of her and Ashlyn together.
Ash ended up repainting all of Ali’s Nails with the same color pink.
“Alex do you mind if I add a design on a couple fingers”
Ali once again broken out of her thoughts of how cute Ash’s face is when she is concentrating on something.
“Yea sure. Whatever you want to do”
Ash finishes and turns to the older store women who had been watching her the whole time. Ash had added gold tiaras with little dots of purple at the top of them on both of Ali’s pointer fingers. Ali was extremely impressed she didn’t know that Ash was that artistic. The women seemed impressed as well because she handed Ash an application. (Task 6 complete)
Ali kept looking down at her nails as they walked out of the store “Ash I didn’t know you could do this”
“Just because I don’t pain my own nails doesn’t mean I don’t know how to do it.......... I also like to do some art stuff in my free time”
“I would really like to see some of your real work sometime”
Ash raises her eyebrows in surprise “I think that can be arranged”
“But first we need to find a restaurant that has a fish we can take a picture with”
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Becky and Alyssa are brainstorming ways to make the lap in the pool creative.
“What if we both do a lap not just one of us?”
“What if we do a relay race kind of thing”
“What if we cannon ball into the pool”
……………..“What if we use the kiddy pool?”
“That’s great. we are definitely using the kiddy pool”
“Becky have you ever watched synchronized swimming?”
“YES and yes we are going to synchronize our lap in the kiddy pool. This is going to be great”
“And we can just get one of the hotel people to film it for us”
The video turned out great with them creating a quick routine of synchronized kicks and jumps in the middle of the kiddy pool. Before they both broke off and completed a lap around the pool.
The Eagles meet up in the lobby of the hotel to cross everything off their list. They completed all the tasks and had brought back everything listed. Including some extra. Becky had gotten a job application at the bookstore when she went in for coupons.
Becky and Alyssa had brought back 7 coupons all from different stores they had even found one in the drug store with Alex Morgan on it advertising tampons.
Cap and Hope had brought back 5 hangers and a mannequin hand that had 6 fingers.
Everyone was impressed with the nail application. They had heard from other teams that the only nail place wasn’t giving anyone applications.
After checking to make sure they had everything they walked into the conference room. Surprised to find it empty beside the coaching staff. They were the first team to finish but they hadn't rushed through that competition. They were slightly confused to where the other teams where and why they weren’t racing against another team to the finish line.
Coach told them to come to her table and show her the proof of all the tasks. The coaching staff loved how creative they got and awards them extra points for almost every task.
The eagles sit down as other teams start to filter in. they have no idea if their point total is going to be enough to win but with all of their extra creativity bonuses and the bonus for finishing first. Another team is really going to have blown away the coaches to take first place away from them