Sunny followed Alice, beaming the entire time with excitement. It was obvious that she was loving this. Sunny shopped all the time, and had gone through plenty of personal shoppers, most of whom were quick to retire after having to spend a day with Sunny, but she didn't really have any friends who'd endure the shopping trials with her. Apart from Ali. Ali was great for it, but they'd known each other forever and felt more like sisters, and it wasn't ever quite like Sunny had seen on TV. Besides, even Ali had her limits, it turned out.

But the way Alice was being? Dragging her off for SURPRISE shoes? It made Sunny squeal with excitement. This was everything Sunny had dreamed of! She was so excited. Made only moreso when Alice made Sunny sit down, and await the surprise. She was bubbling with excitement, and literally having to focus on not floating out of the seat, as she waited for her surprise to arrive.

Sunny even closed her eyes, and only opened them when she heard Alice's voice. Her eyes lit up when she saw them. Gold, strappy sandals! With heels! Sure, the heels weren't quite as sky high as Sunny usually wore, and all of her shoes were, like everything she owned, shades of pink, but the whole point tonight was to own something NOT pink! And gold was TOTALLY cute and the sandals were adorable.
"Ohmigod, I love them!" Sunny quickly picked the right size, she shopped so much she could pretty easily tell just by looking now, and slipped them on, removing her own pink heels. "Ohmigod, they're so cute! I'll take them!" She said enthusiastically to the shop owner, before slipping her shoes back on and beaming at Alice.

"Y'know, like, for someone who acts all... tomboy... you're really good at this!" Sunny beamed teasingly, giving Alice a playful smile on her glossy pink lips.

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Sunny smiled when Alice confirmed that they'd deal with the 'boy problem' when they got to it. Anybody else might have been nervous, or recognised the deflection, but Sunny trusted Alice completely, and knew that she'd have her back when it came to talking to boys. Anyway, it wasn't her fault it was so difficult. She had loads to talk about! It was just... mostly about her and what outfits she was wearing. Which Sunny thought was totally interesting, but apparently not everybody shared that opinion.

"Oh, well, uh, you're like, meant to be picking my outfit, so you pick the store." Sunny replied when Alice asked what store they should get her jewellery from. Sunny didn't mind buying cheap jewellery, if it was cute, but she did usually do her shopping in the more expensive stores. Why wouldn't she when she had the money? But so far she'd really enjoyed shopping with Alice, and didn't want to drag Alice off to a store she didn't want to go to. Besides, she was curious. What kind of jewellery DID Alice wear? It'd let Sunny start to plan for what to get her for her birthday, she figured...

However, the ever-excitable Sunny temporarily forgot all about jewellery when Alice mentioned already having the perfect shoes picked out.
"Oh! Oh! Shoe me the shows!" She paused. "Uh, I mean, show me the shoes!" She said quickly, beaming an excited smile. "Jewellery can wait! If you've got shoes picked out, I just, like, gotta see 'em!" She squealed, almost levitating again with excitement.




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Sunny beamed with glee at Alice's approval, moving from a pose to do a levitating twirl in the air to show off the dress, before suddenly remembering she wasn't supposed to show off her powers as they were meant to be undercover, and dropping back to the ground. She laughed, and even blushed a little when Alice said the boys would like her like that.
"Ohhh, if boys come to talk to me, you GOTTA help me! I'm like, SO totally bad at talking to boys!" She said desperately, her eyes suddenly going wide under her big fake lashes. "Like, I mean, obviously, I've had guys, like, try to talk to me and stuff before, but like, I never know what to say! What do you talk to boys about? They're weird!" She exclaimed, all desperation and confusion. It was true. Sunny Slater was famous, considered beautiful by most, and had been on a few dates. But none that ever went anywhere. She spent her entire time talking about clothes, make-up and perfume, and nobody could stand that. Sunny just had no idea how to communicate with the opposite sex.

Luckily, Sunny's hesitation was forgotten when Alice came over with some clutches for her to check out. Accessories! Accessorising was nearly as fun as picking a dress! She enthusiastically took one each, each time taking it and modelling it. She loved all of them, because, well, Sunny was actually easily pleased, and she walked up and down an imaginary catwalk with each one for Alice, posing all the while, but eventually settled for a tiny, dainty, red one that matched her dress perfectly, and was inlaid with sparkly jewels.
"I like this one!" She declared. She rushed back inside to change into her regular clothes. She wanted to keep wearing the red dress, really, but well, she hadn't had a chance to complete her accessorising yet, and her make-up was done for her pink clothes, so she couldn't possibly wear a different dress!

"So, we gotta get some jewellery to go with it! And like, ohmigod, perfume that isn't for a pink outfit! That's gonna be SO much fun!" Because of course Sunny coordinated her perfume with her outfits. "And like shoes, of course! Then we get to do it all for you too!" She beamed. The one thing she didn't have to look for was make-up. Sunny probably owned more make-up than the store anyway. Mind you, she probably owned more perfume than the store too. Possibly she was wearing more perfume than was in the store. But that didn't stop her wanting to shop for some...


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Sunny was, of course, super excited when Alice asked to borrow a swimsuit. It wasn't that she thought Alice would like any of her swimsuits, it was just that in Sunny's world, anything pink or glittery was perfect, and she couldn't understand why Alice didn't like it. So, her logic was that the reason must be because Alice hadn't realised how great it was. And her wearing one of her swimsuits would be bound to show her! By the end of the day, Sunny was sure she'd love pink.

"Like, of course you two can totes borrow my swimsuits!" Sunny beamed, obviously loving the idea. She knew instantly the suit that Alyson was referring to, even though had she not been with Alyson to buy it it might have been harder. Narrowing down Sunny's collection of anything was surprisingly difficult, there were only so many objectives you could use before everything blended into 'pink and girly' as a description of her clothing.

"It's okay, I like it when it's strong!" She answered in terms of Alyson's description of the new scent. Which anybody standing within a ten meter radius of Sunny already knew. But she couldn't wait to try it!

"OH EM GEE! COTTON CANDY! AH-MAZ-ING!" Sunny beamed at this suggestion. She got regular manicures and pedicures, even moreso than most. Being a superhero, it turned out, wasn't as easy on her flawless nails as she'd like. She thought about adding some nice pink gloves to her costume, but then she wouldn't be able to show off her nails, and that seemed a shame.

"You can take your pick from the swimsuit room." Sunny told Alice as she led her towards the car. Yes, Sunny had a room dedicated just to swimsuits. "C'mon! I can't wait! I'm so excited!" She said, bubbling away with joy as she slipped into her car. She waited for Alice to join her, went to leave, and immediately stalled. Of course.

Eventually though, she got the car going properly, and they were off. Even if they went very slowly. And Sunny kept nervously slamming on the breaks...

***

Eventually though, she pulled into the luxurious driveway outside of her vast mansion, excitedly pulling up. Her arrival was pre-empted by a long-suffering looking thin man with thin greying hair and a pink tuxedo.
"I texted ahead, so Simon was on hand to look after us!" Simon being, of course, her butler. She assumed Alice understood this. Who didn't have a butler right? "Take my car around to the garage, and then pick up Alyson's. Oh, and then go talk to Chef ask him to prepare us a light lunch. Then we'll be taking a house call to get our nails done out by the pool, so be prepared for visitors." She instructed with a bright smile, full of bubbly enthusiasm. She wasn't rude, but it was obvious she was used to having things done for her.

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Sunny followed Alice around the store, although several times she got distracted by outfits she deemed cute, and it took only what Sunny considered Herculean feats of self control to return to Alice's side. She wished she had those blinder thingies they put on horses. So she could only look forward. That would help.

She looked at the dress Alice had picked out, and was a little impressed. She hadn't expected Alice to have much taste in fashion, but it was definitely a nice outfit. Figure hugging though. Sunny looked a little uncomfortable. It was perhaps surprising for a girl who spent so long in the spotlight, but she had her 'cute, girly' style and she stuck to it.
"It's really nice, but um, it's a bit sexy. I don't.... I don't... really, do sexy." She said, feeling a little silly. Was she nervous about showing off her figure? About being a sex object? Maybe. Or was it just that her self-image of being the cute girly girl had been so drilled into her that she was scared to step outside of it.

"But, uh, red could be fun! Ohhh! I could try a red lipstick! And like, a smoky eyeshadow!" She seemed to get excited at the thought of adjusting her make-up. Maybe there was something to this wearing different colours? Maybe if she didn't wear pink all the time she could try new outfits and looks out with more variety?

Nah, that was crazy talk. Clearly pink was still the best.


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People who didn't know Sunny exceptionally well, but only knew her by reputation or first impression, might have assumed she'd have turned her nose up at the suggestion of H&M or Forever 21. After all, it seemed natural that somebody of Sunny's wealth and style would only be interested in designer outfits. But truthfully, Sunny didn't think that way. She liked 'cute' outfits. She didn't care where they came from. If they were pink and they were cute she was down for it.

"Ohh, they do some cute outfits sometimes!" Sunny beamed when she mentioned those shops. There was no judgement from Sunny. She was spoiled, yes, a ditz, yes, vain yes, but not judgemental. Especially when it came to potentially cute outfits. "Hot Topic's not REALLY my scene but sometimes they do cute Disney outfits, and I did a signing of Gravity Girl pops in there once!" She went on cheerfully. Truthfully she'd avoided Hot Topic for a while because of it's reputation as a 'goth shop'. Not snobbishness, just, 'goth' meant black and not pink, so she had no interest, only to learn it had transmuted into more of a geek mecca in recent years, and of course that meant lots of Disney outfits.

"Maybe I can find you an outfit in there as well!" Sunny suggested, although it was definitely not going to be as glamorous as the dress she still had on. In such an expensive cocktail dress, she was attracting attention of course, as they headed into the mall. Although that might have just been the overwhelming perfume that naturally turned people's heads whenever Sunny walked past.

They made their way towards Forever 21, although Sunny did stop in her tracks to stare at a perfume shop as they passed and had to be pulled away to carry on moving, like she had no will of her own. Sunny had a big smile on her face the entire time, even if they were shopping for an outfit she'd hate. Just the idea of shopping with a friend was incredibly exciting to her, and she was clearly enjoying herself. It was the kind of fun life Sunny had always wanted.

"Okay, okay, you start, 'cause like, otherwise, I'm gonna have NO self control!" Sunny suggested, still beaming, taking in all the clothes around her with excited, sparkling eyes. Clothes shopping made Sunny so happy, and she was even happier to be doing it with a friend.


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