Buy some new clothes

According to the weather report, this trip is going to get a little colder than you guys had originally planned towards the end of the weekend, and with the exception of your coat (which Lacey seems to have run off with) the four of you didn’t really bring any warmer clothes. With that in mind, you and Claire begin walking towards the nearby outfitting shop to search for more suitable wear, chatting all the while about this and that, and dwelling more than once on the sexual encounter you had in the car with Lacey. If you didn’t know any better, you’d say she was jealous, and maybe even a little intrigued…

Before you can explore the situation any further, though, the two of you arrive at the store and you both go your separate ways to search for clothes. She goes off to the left, looking for any aesthetically pleasing garment available, while you stick to the plan and begin searching for sweatshirts and coats. It isn’t long before you find 3 long sleeve jackets for the girls, a couple unisex sweaters, and a package of hand-warmers along with some of those cheap knit gloves to keep them in. On your way past the counter you also grab a small booklet on how to avoid bears.

It only takes you a few minutes to find Claire in the store. After all, nobody else in the building had such a large number and wide variety of shirts, skirts, and pants piled up in her arms. You can barely even see her underneath the large mound of bargain garments.

“Are you actually planning to buy all of that stuff?” You ask hesitantly. You aren’t sure how much money she brought on this trip, but your guess is that nobody really expected to spend a fortune so far away from civilization and any corporate outlet.

“Of course not, dumbass,” she snaps back. “I just got carried away and grabbed a little of everything. I haven’t even gotten a chance to try any of it on!” You look at some of the stuff she’s assembled, deciding just at a first glance that you wouldn’t even need to try some of those things on to know they wouldn’t fit any normally proportioned human being. But, since you want her to find these things out for yourself, you lead her over to the changing rooms and sit down outside, flipping through the bear book and stopping shortly on the section titled “How to Tell If Your Best Friend is Really a Bear” (something tells you this book might not be the most credible source on outdoor survival).

After a couple minutes, you hear Claire calling out to you from the dressing room. “Hey, Alex? The mirror in here is broken. Would you mind coming in here every once in a while to tell me how certain outfits look? I’ll let you choose what I wear…” You roll your eyes and grin to yourself. From that last sentence, it’s pretty clear to you that she just wants you to see what she’s picked out and compliment her on her good dress sense. However, it’s always fuin to have people model for you…