Trace and Me Only!

"No, just do it..." she said after her moment of sentimentality was gone "I'll look like her again someday...but now I need the change."

The stylist nodded and went to work, talking about her kids and the silly things they did to make her being a single mother all worth the trouble.

She smiled, "That sounds a lot like my nephew."

She smiled. "Aren't kids the greatest," she asked, clearly a doting mother.

"They are pretty amazing sometimes."

She smiled nodding. "And we're done! A whole new look," she smiled, turning her in the chair so she could see.

"Wow!" she smiled and couldn't help but fondle her hair., "It's amazing."

The stylist smiled. "I'm glad you like it," she said cheerfully.

"Yup." she walked to the desk and paid her for her services and walked out arm in arm with the girls, "Where to next?"

"Clothes," Lilli grinned. "Shopping spreeee~"

She giggled and smiled "Shopping it is!"

Jess laughed as Lilli dragged them to every clothing store on the block, grabbing clothes for every possible time of day. Formal clothes were purchased, bed clothes, even lingerie.

Soon afterwords they went to starbucks for something to drink. Bethany knew that her sister frequented this place, but she didn't want to run into her, and yet she did. Lo and behold she was sitting there in the corner on her laptop, and on her phone, probably to her boss.

Jess smiled at Bethany. "What do you want, sweetie? Pick anything you like."

"Just a strawberry n' creme."

Bethany's sister, Jamie looked up, the voice was off in a distance, but she recognized that voice anywhere, "Beth?" she this woman talking but...it looked nothing lik her. She started to walk towards them pretending to grab a napkin from the counter.

"You're not hungry at all? I'm famished from all that shopping," she chuckled. "And Kade would kill us if we didn't get you something to eat," she giggled.

"Fine, I'll be fat today, piece of Velvet Cheese cake and a cookie." she sighed and then laughed.

Jamie looked at her sister and did a double take, it looked like her, yet it didn't. "Bethany..you..."

Bethany jumped a little and looked at her acting a little shocked, "Jamie...I uhhh...."

"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!!!?!?!? Did you have a one night stand again!?! I mean, At least call, and...what did you do to your hair?!?! Who the hell are they!? You were reported missing!!!!" she started to freak out and cry, which was starting to draw attention.

"Listen, shhh, we can't talk here..."

"TO HELL WE ARE!"

"I'm sorry, excuse me," she said politely and all but dragged the sisters outside, Lilli close behind, canceling their order. Lilli already had the phone in hand, calling her mate. "Honey, we have a bit of a problem..." she murmured, facing away from them.

Jess smiled at Bethany's sister. "Hi, my name's Jessica. You can call me Jess. We met Beth, here, and just had to take her own on the town and spoil her. She's such a sweetheart!" She was mostly distracting the girl so she didn't hear Lilli's phone conversation, just kept rattling on and on until Lilli put her hand on Jess's shoulder to shut her up.

"One of the boys will pick us up and take us home," she said cheerfully.

Not five minutes later, and expensive-looking SUV pulled up with heavily tinted windows. "Here's are ride~ Come on," Jess smiled, ushering in Beth and her sister first, not giving them time to argue.

"But my laptop! What about my son!?!?" she demanded. "Who's going to pick him up from daycare?!?! Beth what's going on!!!?!?!"

Kade was the one in the driver's seat, wearing sunglasses. He cursed. "Your sister's even noisier than you are," he muttered to the woman who he'd unknowingly claimed. He parked in a parking lot not far from there and reached back, putting his hand over Beth's sister's eyes, putting her in a trance. "Go back to the coffee shop and continue working on your computer. You never saw Beth or her friends or any of this," he murmured and evaded the sunlight streaming through the door as she walked out, not seeing any of them.

Jess quickly shut the door so Kade wouldn't get burned. "Thank you, Kade. I'm sorry you had to come out so late."

Kade only shrugged, looking at Beth before turning back in his seat and driving them back to the compound with all the goodies that they'd gotten from shopping.

Beth just sat there quietly, stunned. She was too afraid to say anything. She didn't know that her sister would be there at that exact moment, she was supposed to be at work... She was way too frightened to look Kaden in the eye.

Kade helped the girls carry the many bags inside. Once he and Beth were alone, he frowned. "Our secret is of utmost importance. You and your sister nearly blew it in front of a whole crowd of people," he said, not happy, though he wasn't yelling. He was trying to control the annoyance and anger he felt.

"She was supposed to be at work when we went there. She never has a Monday night off..." She said quietly sitting on the bed. "When I saw her she approached me, not the other way around..."

He looked at her and sighed, then sat down next to her and hugged her with his arm, knowing she was upset. "No harm was done," he murmured. After a while, he glanced at the bags. "Did you have fun?"

"Yeah, I had fun." she smiled halfheartedly and looked at him "Do I look ok?" she asked referring to her new hairdo.