The Key Colors

Chapter 11: A Shoplifting Failure

They had walked a mile to get to the mall. They weren't allowed to drive yet, Kairu's bike was thrown into a lake by his sister, Amelia didn't own a bike, Giovanni took Amelia's phone before she woke up in the helicopter, Kairu's phone was somewhere in Washington D.C., and Bailey didn't know what a car, bike, or phone was.

Amelia and Kairu were exhausted. Bailey was not. She was used to walking. Amelia and Kairu wobbled over to the food court. Kairu was anemic which means he has low iron, so he passes out very easily. Amelia was just hungry.

Bailey insisted that she would buy a new outfit on her own. Amelia gave her a 20 dollar bill. Kairu wasn't too sure about letting her go on her own. It was the present day, not 79 AD. Bailey and Amelia eventually convinced (forced) Kairu to let Bailey go on her own.

Bailey went into the store. What did she come out looking like? According to Kairu and Amelia, a nightmare.

During Bailey's time in the store, she saw a boy with black hair covering one of his eyes. He picked up a t-shirt and stuffed it down his hoodie. Bailey knew of thieves. He was surely one. Bailey tackled him. "Put that back, theif!" Bailey yelled at him. "I have a name, Egyptian lady!" he snapped. Bailey replied, "So do I! And it's Bailey." The two were tumbling back and forth on the floor. "Mine's Roy. Remember it. It's the name of your worst nightmare." Roy said.

Roy tried punching Bailey, but she dodged it. She got up off the ground. Roy got up right after her. Clearly, neither one was going to give up. Roy's hands started to glow a neon orange. A blinding neon orange. Bailey lost her vision for a minute. She knew that he had the orange incense. Could her red incense do stuff like that?

Bailey looked to her right. Roy. Bailey looked to her left. A mannequin, something not from her time. She looked at the strange headless human-shaped object on wheels. She had a plan. She got behind the mannequin and shoved it towards Roy. She gave all her strength into that shove. He went so fast that red flames came from the back of the mannequin. Bailey knew now that she could do cool stuff with her incense just like Roy.

The speeding mannequin shoved Roy back against a shelf which fell on top of him. Everyone in the store clapped. The fight had made the memory of the surrounding people and why she was in the store in the first place slip her mind. Now, she was back to reality.

Kairu heard the rumors of a fight in the store Bailey said she was going to. He told Amelia and they were sure that Bailey was in the middle of it. They ran to the store. In the middle of the store was the girl they knew dressed in a red dress with a bow on one shoulder and 2 red ribbons serving as scrunchies for her pigtails. Her pigtails were all the way down to her hips. Bailey looked like an 80's celebrity. Suddenly, the lights turned off.

All power in the mall was off. There was not many windows around the mall so it was pitch black in the store where Bailey, Amelia, Kairu, and Roy were. There was a figure standing on the counter, laughing. Amelia and Kairu could make it out. Giovanni... Then, Kairu, Amelia, and Bailey lost conscience.