When Amber got the reply from Lia, saying that she and Lory were at the mall, she decided to go and look for them.<br/><br/>The thought of just hanging around the house til band practice thoroughly depressed her.  Her father had recently started seeing a new woman, and she was at the house all the time, and as much as she loved to see her father happy, the closer he and this woman got, the less time he seemed to have for her.<br/><br/>She was glad to have someplace to go where she knew people.