Alienated [✔] » k.th

10.

Joey

"I think this shirt looks really good on you" he stared at himself in the full body mirror.

"I think so too" he looked over at me. "Can I keep it?"

"Yeah, you can" I pulled another shirt off of the rack and handed it to him. "This looks like it can fit you, try it on."

I found a some black pants and a suit jacket to go with it. "Try these on with the shirt."

"Yay" he said under his breath and hurried to the fitting room.

I pulled out my phone and began to text Ricardo.

After a while I realized V hadn't come out of the fitting room yet.

"V, are you alright in there?" I asked.

"I'm fine!" His voice was kinda muffled.

"Is it ok for me to open the door?" I pushed the door open and hit V with with the door. He tumbled to the floor.

"Ow!" He exclaimed. "That was excruciatingly painful."

"Shut up. I just hit you with a door. What's taking you so long?"

"I had some trouble getting my pants on" he stood up and zipped up his fly. "Ok, now I'm done." He smiled.

"Hmm" I nodded. "You look nice."

"Really?"

"Yeah." He looked himself up and down in the full body mirror.

"Woah" he reached towards the mirror and touched his reflection.

"C'mon let's go buy it" I gently grabbed his arm, escorting him to the check out line.

We stood in the line and waited.

The automatic doors opened and a guy came in wearing all black. I did find him a little suspicious but a lot of people wear all black and walk into department stores.

He plucked something off of the rack and stepped into the check out line next to ours.

"What are you looking at?"  V looked over my shoulder to see what I was staring at.

"Nothing" I shook my head and swiped my credit card.

I paid for the outgit that V still had on his body and we headed towards the exit.

I don't know what happened by V suddenly grabbed my arm and said with such aggression, "We need to go now!"

"What?"

He started walking faster and I walked up too to keep up with him.

The guy that walked in wearing all black jumped on top of a still convey belt and yelled towards us, "Don't you dare move V!"

Then everything happened so fast. I was snatched behind another check out counter and red rays of light began to fly past my face.

"What is going on?!" I exclaimed, a nervous wreck.

"Shh" He placed his finger over his lips.

"Did you just shush me?"

He looked over the counter and still red rays of light were flying past, not hitting us. Not even once. "Who is that?"

"It's-"

"Is it another one of your brothers?"

He nodded. "How many brothers do you have man?!"

V looked over the counter again. "And why is he shooting at you? Doesn't he care that he could hurt you?"

"No" he scoffed. "It's a stun gun!"