Zayope chronicles

Chapter 7

The next morning, I woke up from my bed feeling both exhausted and excited.

It was Derek's birthday

Him and my aunt have been living together for like 12 years. His turning 32 today so my aunt is throwing him a birthday party.

Derek's like my older brother. He always looks out for me and cares for me a lot. Us too really get along each other.

On his big day, I planned to give him a birthday present and do my part besides  assembling his birthday party with my aunt.

I called my best friend Angelica to help me pick something nice for him. She's the only friend I have after I moved here.

As soon as she arrived, we went together to the nearby a store and checked on something's.

"Excuse me, how much is this briefcase?" I politely asked to the owner of the store.

"Its 520$, fixed price. But if that blondy could show me some of her booty moves, I'll consider it again and it might drop to 400$" he said and glared at her.

"Hell no" Angelica exclaimed rushing to the door. We both went out of the store since the guy was very weird. Plus I heard he leads his life by selling drugs to the teenagers in our school.

"Quick let's check on that shop" I  glamoured as I came across a huge shop.

We went in there and our jaws dropped. We we're staring at the huge shop like two little kids watching Barney.

"Whoa" Angelica exlclaimed. "This place is huge" I added feeling relieved.

I quickly started grasping whatever catched my eyes like male deodorants, body lotions and others.

I told Angelica what we really needed was a perfect T-shirt to buy as a gift for him. After that we split up to find and pick some of the t-shirts.

After an hour, we met  at the changing room to see what we both picked.

"I like this one" I joked pointing to the red shirt I picked. It had a dick picture and at the top it was quoted 'Can't kept it in!'.
"Hey!" Angelica shrugged her shoulders and handed me another T-shirt.

"I think Derek would like this one, don't you think?" She commented.

"Yeah your right. Black and white t-shirts have always been his thing. Lets just grab some of this and get the hell out." I uttered and walked to the cashier.

But I felt someone grab my arms  and turned me around forcefully.

"Dude let go of me." I cried as his fingers dug into my skin.

"Hope, leave this shop now. It's not safe for you here." the man responded still holding my arms tight.

"Wait, how do you know my name?" I asked curiously.

A little smirk appears to his lips. "Are you seriously doing this tight now? You should be running or your life screaming for help by now" he retorted and let go of my arms.

He sounded serious for some reason.

"She's not going anywhere." Angel entered into the conversation.
"Hope, he's just messing with you. This is what they do, feel your head a with lies. But this time it's not gonna work" she raised her voice, "Get out of her scumbag. "

"Don't say I didn't warn you hope." He grinned and headed out from the shop.

"Are you.. okay?" Angel asked shocked of my icy face.

"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" I faked a smile to make her get off  my shoulders.

"Isn't it a bit strange though?"