Monstrous Love [Shizaya (Sequel to Psychopathic Love)]

Chapter 5: New Clothes

The next hour and a half literally consists of Iskra and I going in stores, leaving, and going into other stores. Out of the 10, 942 stores we've been to, she has only bought 5 outfits.

"Shizuo!" She calls from a changing room.

"What?" I call, not really paying attention.

She appears in front of me. "How do I look?"

She's wearing a flowy orange shirt and denim shorts. She moves from side to side to model different angles.

"Fine. Are you going to get it?" Hopefully she does because it will be hard for her to reuse five pairs of clothing over and over again. I mean, I wash my own clothes everyday, but it might be hard for some people.

She huffs and storms back into the changing booth. I give a confused glance at the door. Why is she so upset? I only asked a question.

After a few minutes she comes back out holding all of the clothes she had tried on from this store. She puts them all back on the rack.

"What are you doing? I thought you liked the last one."

"Well apparently some people think I look horrible," she says bitterly.

"What are you talking about!" I exclaim. "I said you looked fine!"

"Don't you know that in girl talk 'fine' means 'awful?'"

"How the hell would I know that! I'm a man!" Seriously, why would I know that?

"You just should. 'Fine' in your terms would equal 'great' in our terms," she tells me.

"Iskra, I can't tell you you look great. I feel like that would be wrong of me to say."

"Because I look awful?" Tears form in her eyes.

"No," I deny right away. "It's because I have a boyfriend and he is the only person in my mind who can look amazing!"

Silence fills the air and she gives a blank expression. "What?"

A few more seconds pass and I can practically see the gears turning. Then her face grows desperate. "Wait! What!? Seriously!"

I open my mouth to answer when my phone rings. I look at the caller ID. "Hey, Iskra, stop for a second. I need to take this." I click the answer button and put it to my ear. "Hello?"

"Hey, this is Shinra. What's up?"

Iskra grows impatient and starts rambling on, but I tune her out. "Nothing, what's happening? Why did you call?"

"Well," he pauses. "Wait, who's that in the background? Who are you with?"

"Oh, that's just Iskra, Varona's sister. She's staying with me and I took her shopping. Now why did you call?"

"What? Why is Varona's sister staying with you?"

"Varona doesn't have room in her apartment, so she's staying with me until Varona can find a new place. Now what happened?"

"Shizuo! Answer me!" She starts poking me to get my attention.

I turn to her and cover the speaker of the phone with my hand. "Stop it. I'm trying to have a conversation. Please, it'll only take a minute."

"Fine, but you better talk to me when you're done," she huffs.

I nod and put the phone back to my ear. "Sorry, now why did you call?"

"I can't just call my friend to see how he's doing?"

"You can, but I hear beeps in the background so I know you're in the room with Izaya. Did something happen?" I'm eager to know what's happening. Even more so because he's putting it off.