Remembered | Book 2 of the Forgotten Series

3: COSTCO

You look down at your phone, lifting the screen to your face. You were sitting at the kitchen table with a bored looking Winter beside you. Since you got that message earlier that day you haven't been able to stop checking your phone. It was fun to have a secret, even if it doesn't last. Chances are the person that texted you will soon find out that you aren't Alice.

"So not too far from here is a Costco. Want to get dinner there and pick up some stuff? Winter asks you.

"Sure," you reply. You stand up, grab your purse and open the door. Winter is close behind you. As you two leave the building he pulls out google maps on his phone and holds it out to you. For some reason Winter can't really figure out google maps. He knows how to search up the place he wants to go and to see how far away it is, but the way it's set up confuses him. He often tells you how he doesn't like the way that the little curser follows the path. He mentions how it isn't right, and how it could tell you to do something that's wrong. He just doesn't know how to use it properly.

You reach the store in about ten minutes and walk inside.

"COSTCO, my dear friend!" You yell, causing Winter to look away, embarrassed.

The smell of hot dogs overwhelms you, calling you towards the food station.

"Anya! Slow down!" Winter called out to you as you started to sprint towards the mouth-watering smell of hot dogs.

"Hurry up, Daniel!" You yell out to him. Daniel was his fake name, and Anya was yours. You had both decided to give each other fake names, wanting to make sure that you didn't really like them since most people didn't like their names.

You finally reached the desk, and quickly ordered two hot dogs. Winter finally caught up to you just as you were paying. Being the very boring person that he is, he didn't run with you, but instead just walked the whole way like some maniac.

When the girl working at the counter saw Winter, her face changed from boredom to something flirtations.

"And anything for you, sir?" She asked in a very wispy voice. It was really fake, but you didn't comment on it.

"I will have a hot dog too, please." Winter replied. She nodded and put it into her machine.

"That will be all?" You nod, and Winter brings out his card to pay.

"Will you be paying for both?" She asked him. He nods, and you swear you see her glare at you. "I haven't seen you guys here before. Are you new to town?"

"Yep. Just moved from Germany." You tell her.

"And you're siblings?" She asks. You shake your head quickly.

"Good friends." She glares at you again before handing you and Winter your hot dogs.

"Have a good day!" She says with a little wave that you know was only met for Winter. You sit down at one of the tables and unwrap your meal.

"What's this?" Winter asks. He shows you a number that was written on his hot dog wrapper. A phone number.

"That girl gave you her number! Why are people always flirting with you, but never me?" You ask Winter. "I mean, it's not like you're hotter than me."

"That woman wasn't flirting," he tells you.

"Ya, and they sky ain't blue. Of course she was flirting!"

"She was just doing her job."

"Dude, that was flirting." He sighs and continues eating.

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Winter's POV

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I couldn't believe what I was hearing when she said that no one ever flirted with her. Men always did! Did she not see them stare at her when she walked past? Or whistle under their breath when she reached up to grab something? Men were crazy for her. And it's not like it's a secret that she was beautiful.

Once we both finished our meals we grabbed a cart and started to walk around the store.

"Can I sit in the cart?" She asked me. I shook my head but she just nodded back. Before I could stop her she had jumped in, pointing forward and yelling.

"Onward!" I took my hands off of the cart and walked over to a display. "My mighty stead? Where have you gone?"

I pulled my hat down and gave her a look, but she just smirked. She hopped out of the cart and started to walk over to me.

"What do you want?" I whispered.

"For you to push me." She says.

"There is no way that I'm doing that."

"Fine. I guess I will just have to eat all of the samples for revenge." She says, and starts reaching for a muffin cup of some type of popcorn.

"Okay! Okay. I'll do it. But just please, don't be loud." She smirks and skips back to the cart. God, she's odd sometimes.

I push her around the store, stopping every once and a while to put something in the cart or to ask Troop where she wanted to go next. Every time she would say the cookie aisle. Finally we get there, and she instructs me on what cookies to buy. We head towards get out, pay, and leave the store.

"Wait a second. I have to go to the bathroom. I'll be right back!" She tells me before running off. After three minutes she comes back and we continue on.

"Well that was pretty successful if I do say so myself." Troop tells me.

"Whatever you say."

"Oh my god! Was that... sarcasm?" She asks, holding her hand to her chest in fake shock.

"Oh, come on." I keep walking, ignoring her when she tries to annoy me more.

We make it back to the apartment. She's sitting at the kitchen table on her phone while I'm unloading groceries. That's when I decide to tell her something.

"Troop?" She loos up at me, a bored expression on her face.

"Yea?"

"I, um, wanted to talk to you about something for a while now." She leans in, intrigued. "So, do you remeber four years ago when we escaped HYDRA and the Red Room?"

"How could I forgot."

"Remeber how we were in Stark tower with the Avengers?"

"Yes..."

"Well I have been in contact with Steve for a few months now and he asked me to move back to the Stark tower with him. For good."