Criminal Love

Helpful And Not-So-Helpful Hands

Lifty wandered the aisles for a few minutes, trying to pinpoint where Flaky had gone, but after going down several aisles he saw no sign of the redhead and started to call out her name in hopes she would hear him.

"Flaky! Where the hell are ya? Flaky!"

Flaky, however, didn't hear the thief's calls and instead caught the unwanted attention of a green and yellow-haired boy who giggled and twitched as he made his way over to the shouting man. Lifty frowned in annoyance as he saw the giggling man approach him.

"Nutty, get the hell away from me."

Nutty ignored his request and instead continued to stare at the taller boy, "Oh, oh! But I just heard you yelling! I don't really like yelling, it hurts my ears. Are you yelling cause you're sad? Do you have any candy? I really like candy, it's ssoo tasty and-Wait what was I saying before?"

Lifty let out a slow exhale and glared at the boy, "What the fuck do you want, sugar freak? Is the store outta candy? Is the fuckin' town on fire? If your answer to either of those choices is no, I'm going to ram your face into a shelf."

"That's not nice. You're mean."

"And you're a sugar-addicted moron."

"That's rude!" Nutty whined, increasing in volume.

"Tough shit!" Lifty snapped back.

It was lucky for Lifty that the two's arguing got louder and louder as they continued because Flaky heard the commotion from the other aisle over and came over to see what all the noise was about. She saw Nutty and immediately wondered how close Lifty was to exploding on the boy, seeing as the thief was red in the face as the two shouted. She pushed her cart over to them and went over to Lifty's side. He noticed her, ceasing his yelling and looking absolutely relieved to see the girl as he sighed.

"Thank God, you're here. Get this fuckin' parasite away from me."

Flaky turned her gaze at Nutty, who stopped his own yelling as she arrived. He gave her a big smile and pulled her into a rib-crushing hug, causing the girl to yelp in surprise as he wrapped his arms around his friend. He let her go as he started to speak way too fast for such a small person.

"Flaky! I missed you! We haven't talked in forever! How are you? Why are you here? Are you gonna make this meanie leave me alone? Do you have any candy?"

Flaky took a moment to soak in the tidal wave of words that spewed from the sugar addict's mouth before stuttering out, "W-Well, I heard you guys yelling and thought I'd better s-see what's going on."

Nutty nodded, but it was obvious he didn't hear a word she said as he noticed Lumpy pushing a cart of something shiny and colorful down in one of the other aisles, running past the other two, calling out to them, "I gotta go! Bye Flaky! Bye meanie!", and then he was gone, laughing as he sped away.

Finally rid of the annoying sugar addict, Flaky turned and noticed that Lifty was empty-handed. Frowning she gestured towards his hands, "W-Where's the flour?"

Lifty froze as he realized he totally forgot about it after his whole confrontation with his brother left him sorta out of it, only things crossing his mind was when and where would Shifty strike his vengeance. He knew he couldn't let Flaky know about Shifty and what he now knew, so he just shook his head as he plastered a fake grin on his face.

"Ah, crap! Sorry, but I didn't know which one you wanted. So I tried to find you so you could help me."

"Oh, well that's fine. I d-don't really need it," Flaky shrugged, "Let's go check out, cause I g-got everything else I really needed."