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[color=yellow]"Omega"[/color][/center][/b][/h1]

Just as the females departed, Omega had realized something Shiver had said. [i]The mall? Wait... she took Jess to the mall?![/i]

His mouth hung open as his eyebrows furrowed. He really wished life could pause for him right about now, so he could rethink what he just heard enough times to come up with something different. He wondered if Shiver would actually try to hit him under the table by doing something he wanted to do. [i]If I take this personally, things won't be good... If she wants to play that game, then I have to play it better. First I need proof of her intentions behind her interest in Jess.[/i]

Omega went to the gym to work on simulations after a while of just staring intensely at the television. He hadn't been watching, because he was trying to turn all the hamster wheels in his head.