Karlie, Off On A Trip (Playing The Game)

The petite redhead rushed through the mall. A look of anxiety spread across the soft features of her pale face.

She stopped for a moment, putting all her bags into one hand as she struggled to drag her phone out of her jeans pocket. Then, just as quickly, she stormed off again, staring at the small screen as she tapped away at it as fast as one hand allowed. Had she not been staring quite so intently at her phone, the redhead might have noticed what was in front of her. Unfortunately for her, she didn't notice anything until she crashed headfirst into another mallgoer. The impact quickly sent the phone that had been the center of her attention flying through the air.

''Shit!'' She hissed out as she watched the device slide across the floor, dropping her bags to run after it. As though reaching it quicker would reduce the damage it may have suffered.

Gingerly, she picked it up off the ground and turned it over, cursing almost inaudibly as she saw the large crack that had formed on the screen. Turning around towards her bags, her anxiety was quickly replaced with embarrassment as she saw who she had bumped into.

Next to her bags, a pair of black strappy high heels remained unmoving. Their presence accentuating toned legs left exposed by an extremely short skirt. However, it was the woman's top that caused the redhead to flush with embarrassment.

The woman's pink tank top was soaked nearly to the point of being transparent, a fact the woman was clearly aware of. A look of sheer annoyance painted across her sharp facial features as she looked down, dark hair framing her face.

''Shit, I'm so sorry'' The redhead looked towards her shopping bags, quickly considering the idea of offering the woman a change of clothes, before realizing that nothing she had could hope to contain the woman's much taller and curvier physique

''It's...'' The woman started to speak through a clenched jaw, before taking a deep breath. Steam gently starting to rise off her clothing as it almost instantly dried out.

''Shit! are you okay...'' The redhead started in a panicked tone, quickly silenced by the woman holding a hand up in front of her as if motioning her to stop

The woman seemed to mutter something under her breath before turning to face the redhead directly

''Who are you and why, prey tell, are you in such a hurry?'' The woman said in a stern and commanding tone

The redhead almost wanted to take issue with the way the woman seemed to be talking down to her. However, she found herself automatically responding ''I'm Karlie and I need to meet up with my girlfriends for a road trip...'' She paused for a moment as the compulsion to speak seemed to leave her, before grabbing her bags as mild panic started to set in ''Shit, look. I'm sorry, I've got to go'' Karlie said, as she turned and started to walk again.

''Stop!'' The woman shouted from behind her, causing Karlie to unwillingly come to a halt.

''Shit, shit, shit, shit...'' Karlie started muttering under her breath as she found herself unable to move

Suddenly the woman was standing over her shoulder ''You really seem to like that word'' The woman's voice had shifted to an amused and playful tone, which would have settled Karlie's mind, were it not for the fact she was currently at her mercy

''Shit, sorry... I mean...'' Karlie stopped abruptly as the taller woman's hand came to rest on her shoulder

''Why don't you come sit with me and tell me about these girlfriends of yours'' The woman kept her hand resting on Karlie's shoulder as she slowly walked around to stand in front of her again.

The panic in Karlie's eyes was visibly starting to rise again ''Girlfriends, what girlfriends? It's just me here, nobody else''

''Yes, I'm sure'' The woman said, rolling her eyes ''Now why don't you come sit with me and tell me all about these girlfriends that don't exist''

Against her will, Karlie found herself walking behind the woman, unable to resist letting her gaze linger on her curves as she followed her to a nearby table.

''We'll have two coffees... Make that one coffee and one chamomile tea'' The woman said, glancing toward a nearby waitress, who immediately turned around and headed straight back behind the counter.

Pulling up a seat, the woman leaned forwards onto her elbows, seeming to enjoy the show as Karlie internally rebelled against her body's automatic movements.

''Excuse me, how rude. I haven't even given you my name. You can call me Lucy''

As Karlie finally took her seat, her eyes were darting around, not shouting for help out of fear of upsetting the woman who was puppeteering her so easily.

''You can speak you know'' Lucy said, leaning in across the table

''What do you want?'' Karlie managed to squeak out

''Heh, I love how just a little bit of magic scares the daylights out of you people'' The woman said, leaning back and conjuring a small flame at her fingertips as she watched Karlie's face for a reaction ''I want offer you the chance to play a game''