Eloise awoke the next morning with a small cold. Sniffling her way out of her bedroom and into the kitchen, she grabbed something for herself to eat. She decided upon cereal since that was basically the only food they had in the house.
She heard laughter coming from El's room, along with her stereo playing 'Angel'. She laughed quietly to herself when Max begun singing out loud, making El laugh as well.
The curly haired girl washed her bowl out in the sink and set it off to the side to dry, she made the walk back to her room and started getting ready for work. Today her outfit was a white spaghetti strap tank top that had a lace, that was an off white color, trailing the chest part. She wore a long green skirt, that was flowy, it covered the top part of her Chuck Taylors.
Realizing the time, she grabbed her brown zip up and keys, hurrying out of the cabin. Eloise tried getting to the mall as fast as she could without crashing or getting a ticket.
The brown skinned girl finally arrived and rushed into the mall, she walked past people trying not to bump into them and basically running down the escalator. Eloise had to pass Scoops Ahoy to get to GAP.
Robin saw the girl pass, quickly running after her so the curly haired girl could go with the two dinguses while she figured out the rest of the code in silence.
Eloise whipped her head around when someone wrapped their hand around her wrist. She exhaled realizing that it only was Robin and not some random stranger.
"Hey," Robin breathed out. "I need you to come with me." She began dragging her crush over to the ice cream parlor.
"Wait, Robin, I'm late for work." She chuckled and started apologizing for every person they ran into. Either Robin couldn't hear her or just chose to ignore her, the short haired girl continued to walk.
Upon arriving to Scoops Ahoy, Eloise was slightly irritated, mostly because she didn't want to go 'Evil Russian hunting' with Dustin and Steve, but also she just wanted to be alone, knowing she couldn't do that anyways. Eloise agreed to chaperone the two boys, glaring at Robin when they left the parlor.
"Have fun, be back before dark!" Robin cooed out to the three teenagers before putting her headphones on to listen to the code for the millionth time.
Dustin, Steve, and Eloise sat behind some fake plants. Steve was holding up binoculars to his eyes even though you could see everyone perfectly clearly without them. Eloise huffed out in annoyance for they have already been sitting there for well over ten minutes and all they've done is argue.
"You see anything?" Dustin asked, peering out towards the crowd.
"Uh, I guess I don't totally don't know what I'm looking for." Steve replied.
"Evil Russians." The young boy clarified.
"We don't even know what evil Russians look like, Dustin." Eloise said looking at him.
Dustin only rolled his eyes. "Tall, blond, not smiling." he answered as Steve just hummed. "Also look for ear pieces, camo, duffel bags, that sort of thing."
Steve nodded his head. "Right, okay, duffel bags." He moved his head over to look in a different before lightly gasping. "You've gotta be kidding me."
Dustin perked up as well as Eloise, wanting to know what he landed his eyes on.
"Anna Jacobi's talking to that meathead Mark Lewinsky." He puffed out.
"Dude, if you're not gonna focus, just gimme the binoculars."
"Aw, Jesus Christ, whatever happened to standards."
Eloise snorted. "You literally act like you don't look and act the same as him."
Steve removed the binoculars from his face and looked at the curly haired girl beside him. "Wow." He exaggerated before putting them back of his face. "Lewinsky never even came off the bench!"
"Dude, you're the worse spy in history, you know that?" Dustin said the jealous boy. Eloise smiled at the two with amusement tracing her face as Dustin tok the binoculars away from Steve. "Besides, I don't even get why you're looking at girls. You have the perfect ones in front and quite literally beside you."
Eloise rolled her eyes and shook her head, Steve looked at Dustin then at Eloise. "Seriously, if you say Robin again," Steve got cut off by Dustin.
"Robin." He continued to say it as Steve tried to stop him.
Eloise got lost in thought while they did that. Did Steve seriously like Robin? I mean, hell, he had a better chance with her than she did, Eloise thought. Even if Robin happened to like girls, Eloise would definitely not be her type, with her being moody all the time and her witty remarks. She simple isn't girlfriend material.
But Steve definitely is boyfriend material.
The curly haired girl was brought out of thought after hearing Dustin say 'target acquired'.
"Where?" Steve and Eloise asked looking for a tall, blonde person.
"Ten o'clock. Sam Goody's." Eloise moved her eyes towards the place Dustin said the man was.
Steve tore the binoculars from him. "Shit." He mumbled. Eloise also spotting the man and mummering out a curse or two. "Duffel bag."
The three looked at each other. "Evil Russian." The two boys said as Eloise just nodded in agreement.
The group quickly scrambled up from their spots to follow the so called 'evil Russian'. Steve followed the man quickly, not being so discreet as Dustin tried to tell him to slow down.
"We're losing him." Steve mumbled.
"You're getting too close." Dustin warned.
Steve accidentally ran into some random person. "Watch it, dickwad!"
The tall, blonde man stopped in his tracks and began to turn around. Steve pulled Eloise over to the balcony as Dustin went over to the pay phone. Steve started saying random words to which Eloise just nodded to, Dustin greeting the 'person' on the other line.
The man started to walk away, Steve pulling Eloise along with Dustin. The three peered out from behind a pillar, with Eloise crouching down since she was on the bottom. They watched as the man entered a jazz studio called 'Jazzercise".
"All right, everyone, listening up!" The tall man called out to the group of ladies. Eloise stifled her laugh as he's already knew who they had confused to man for. "I just have no question for you." He unzipped his bag. "Who..is ready to sweat?"
The women in the class cheered as Eloise let her laughter out, the two boys were so invested in it. They continued to stand there as the women and instructor shook their hips. Eloise had her mouth slightly opened as she looked at the women in the class shake their hips. Dustin catching her and she was quick to put on another expression.
The three entered the ice cream parlor bickering about who thought that the man was a Russian. Robin rushed past the three of them and out towards the big fountain placed in the middle of the mall.
Eloise walked over to her, hearing the short haired girl mumble the code over and over while looking all over the mall. Eloise smiled up at the girl, meeting her eye after realizing she cracked the code.
"Robin, what are you doing?" Steve asked as the two boys walked up to them.
"I cracked it." Robin replied with a smile on her face.
"Cracked what?" Steve still asked.
Eloise looked over at him with unamused eyes. "The code, Steve. She cracked to code."
The two boys eyes lit up in acknowledgement, smiles coming across their faces as well.
"Holy shit." Dustin put his hands on his head as he breathed out.
Eloise then let out a big sneeze, ruining the moment. "Sorry." She mumbled as the three looked at her.
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