29 Going shopping

"Are you ready yet!?" I asked in annoyance. Even with my training this amount of waiting is beyond me. We were getting ready to go to the store to buy some clothes, but she's taking hours to get ready.

I sighed and leaned back on the couch. She ran out the bathroom in the same clothes she wore yesterday since that's all we have here right now.

"How do I look?"

"The same as yesterday, now come on." I said and got off the couch. I went to open up the door with Viviana behind me. We left the apartment and started going to a clothes store.

"Do you know we're one is?" I asked. She looked at me with a confused expression.

"You don't know we're a clothes store is?"

"Well I asked you for a reason." I said. I looked over to the other side of the street.

I was embarrassed to admit it, but it had to happen. I needed more clothes and a robe.

"ERIN!!!"

'I'm going to fucking kill someone. Matrix get the bail money ready.'

[Yes sir]

I sped up and kept walking looking around like I didn't hear anything. Viviana was about to tell me, but I gave her a look saying "don't you dare". She kept walking and then I heard multiple footsteps speed up.

'Great her click is here too.' I sped up more. I had to push Vivianas' back to keep her up to speed.

"Why don't you just answer her?" She asked me.

"She's a crazed stalker. Her and her friends. She can't take a damn hint." My voice was filled with venom and a sneer was on my face before straightening out.

"O..k"

"EREN IS THAT VIVIANA TOO!!!"

'Can someone please kill her.' I thought and at this point I was "running". I made sure to always stay ahead of them though and they surprisingly had stamina.

I sped up and ran around a corner before running back around the building so we're behind them. I saw them turn the corner and just as I suspected it was Nora.

It was a fast escape and I pulled her to the other side of the street not caring about the traffic. We then turned another corner and we saw a store. I rejoiced in my mind and speed walked across the street.

"She can't be that bad right?" Viviana asked with a troubled look.

"Yeah that creepy, stalker, annoying, weirdo is worse." I said in a cold voice. I sighed as we entered the store and I turned to her.

"You can go look around the store for your clothes. I'll pay and meet me at the front when your done."

"Your still holding my hand. I also wanted to get a personal opinion." She said shyly. I released my grasp on her hand and looked somewhere else.

I wasn't blushing or anything,but this was a little embarrassing.

"Why do you need my opinion? Just find your style." I said. She was quiet for a while before giving me a reply.

"I want to know how I look to other people and not just myself. Like, what if I was wearing this and I thought it looked good while other people thought it looked weird?"

"Let me give you some advice. If you think your beaten..then you are. If you think you'll loose..you've lost. Success begins with a persons will...it's all state a state of mind. If you think your out classed..you are. You've got to think high..to rise. You've got to be sure of yourself before..you can ever when the prize. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later...the person who wins...is the one who believes he can."

My hand was on her shoulder and she looked in a daze. I sighed and turned my head from her and continued.

"Long story short as long as you think you look good then you do."

"..."

A few percent who walked past us also stopped and looked at me shocked. I didn't say anything that great. It was just some helpful advice.

'Or society really is too judging.' I thought and began to look around for some clothes that I like. I heard Vivianas' feet walk off to the girls ladies section and we separately looked for clothes.

...

<A few hours later>

"I'm never taking you shopping again." I said walking with Viviana back to the apartment. I made her carry her own bags, because she spent three hours looking for clothes.

We haven't even went to get lunch or shoes yet. I was hungry, but I don't want to walk around a food place with a lot of bags.

"I didn't buy as much as other girls. This is usually my limit." She said casually.

"It's not about how much you get, but how long it took. Three hours. It took three hours to get some clothes and not even that much."

'Matrix, play "Quicksand" by Morray.'

[Yes master]

My song started playing and I ignored everything else till we got to the apartment. When we got back I put my bags in my room and went to go take the sheets, blankets, and pillow covers out of the dryer. I then went to go make up her bed.

"I can do it." She said seeing me about to make the bed. It didn't matter to me, so I let her do it and went to put my clothes up.

'Matrix, as soon as the construction is done but me the entire complex. Make sure the money goes from the anonymous account.'

[Yes master]

I was done putting my stuff away and went back to the living room to sit down. I breathed out and closed my eyes and sank into the comfort of the couch. My body shrank into a chibi version of myself and I went to sleep.

....

"Do you want me to show you some of the pie that my mom made." I heard Vivianas' voice come from in front of me. My eyes shot open and I looked Viviana right in her emerald eyes and nodded.

"For someone who likes to eat so much I wonder how your not fat." She said looking through the cabinets.

"I have a high metabolism." I said immediately. She hummed acknowledging my answer and took down some ingredients for the pie, but suddenly stopped.

"We need to go to the store."

"What"

I have almost everything in these cabinets. What would we need to go to the store for?

"Why?"

"My mom has a secret ingredient in her pie to make the taste of the apple pop out more than the syrup inside."

"What is it?"

"My mom made it. You'll know in a minute, but we need to go first."

We left the stuff out and left the house again to go to the store.

'I really need a car or a motorcycle. Matrix, make me a fake permit and license for a motorcycle.'

[Yes master]

With that we continued to the store.

(Not much happened this chapter, but some development and Alice of life next chapter will have a time skip.)