Chapter 9. Shopping

Martin sleeps in the morning until afternoon. He waken up by Maria. She asks him to get up from bed and go shopping with them. Of course, Martin just follow along with what she just told.

"Martin, you should wear more bright and fashionable cloth, you know. Look at Lina, doesn't she looks good with her." Maria said about Martin's dull fashion cloth before points at Lina who has a good fashion and pretty cloth.

"Eh? Aunt, you just good at flattering me. Especially, what I wear is not particular good too." Maria does has pretty good fashion. She wears a short jean with a little thread on the edge of and pair it with a leather jacket with white T-shirt beneath it.

"Well, just lets me wear like this then. I really don't have any better cloth than this." Martin told them. He wears a dull pant and shabby T-shirt.

"Humph, what a incompetent brother!" Jane said in disdains while looking at Martin. She currently wears a blush short skirt and a blue blouse with her.

'What wrong with her again?' Martin whispered in his mind while looking at Jane while frowning.

"Martin, how about you wears my other cloths? Sound good right?" Lina recommended to Martin.

"Yes, Lina, that sound good. Since Martin's physique's sizes quite look the same with you, Martin shall fit with your cloth." Maria told her approval with Lina recommendation.

Both Martin and Lina is speechless with Maria words. It's resulted Lina to shy with a red face.

"Ah, I don't mean it! I just mean positive way, Lina, Aunt really ain't mean anything bad at your physique, you know?" Maria realized that the atmosphere standstill where Martin and Lina fell embrace as soon she said those kind of word to both of them.

"Lina, I'll borrow your cloths then. Em, Your physique, that's my type."Martin said to Lina calmly.

"Tha...thanks. I'll get T-shirt for you." Lina said before rushes to bedroom to get the cloth for Martin. She becomes proud at herself while her face is blushing.

Both Maria and Jane look at Martin in surprised.

"Hey, Martin. You've got a talent, you know?" Maria elbow at Martin stomach with her coy expression while bats her eyelashes playfully.

"Disgusting!" Jane uttered the word while glaring at Martin disdains.

"I just told the fact." Martin just muttered the word before heads toward his room.

Martin finally chances his cloth with Lina cloth. Although its look a little feminine, he didn't care about it appearance.

Both of them all starts their journey to one of supermarket for a shopping. The supermarket amazed Martin, who never experience it for himself. However, he just hides his feeling and just follow along the others.

"Martin, we'll shopping for your cloth too, you know. It's not like you really want to wearing Lina's cloth, for every time you going out, right?" Maria declared while giving another stuff of paper bag to Martin to holds.

"Hmm. But I think, Lina's cloths quite suit for me." Martin's said for me.

"What nauseating word! Truly a pervert for worthless brother." Jane said while use her right hand to covers her mouth and act like puking in front Martin.

Martin's vein at the temple is throbbing in irritates. He truly hates her who always wanted find a chance to provoke him.

'Endure, I've to endure. She just a little girl.' Martin soothed himself in his mind. When he return home in the morning, he thought she turn to better. He never thought that she will start provoking him aggressively as soon he waked up till now.

"No. Ain't you shame wearing those cloth? People just look at you strangely, you know." Maria acts stealthily looks around while whispering those word to Martin. She wants to persuaded Martin to shopping for his clothing, since it's been years they never shopping together.

"Well, lets do as you decided then." Martin blushing and look the people around him before said those word.

He finally knows that wearing a feminine T-shirt will resulted him being a pervert. So he immediately take the bait and agree with Maria.

"Martin, don't shy. Aunt just lie, no people are watching you, it's alright." Lina said while patting Martin's back in comforting way.

"Let's go shopping for cloths!" Maria said in excitedly while risen her right hand to the air in with full of spirit and lead them all to clothing section.

All the woman and girl was excitedly go choose their own cloths before test it on. Of course, they don't forget about their purpose to lets Martin try on the cloth they just choose.

It takes a few hours for them to conclude the cloths they want to buy. Moreover, all the Martin cloth is chosen by the women and the girl too. He had no word to rebuked what they decided when all the women and girl will look at him in cold glare which discomfort him.

"What a busy day! Hey, let's have a dinner at a restaurant there, Okay?" Maria gives a suggestion to them.

"Mom, Lina and I want it. But, certain someone, I don't know." Jane said while looks at Martin direction whose hands full of shopping paper bag in happy.

"Tsk, just go." Martin uttered the words. He truly mentality tired and has a bad mood. He never thought that following a women to shopping was so difficult. Especially with group of women, where a man will be servant to carrying their back.

'I'll not go shopping with them anymore.'Martin secretly though while following them to the restaurant.

"Good evening. Welcome to Mami Restaurant, may I help you?" As soon they entered the restaurant and have they sit, the waiter immediately comes and greet them.

"Yes, we'd like to have a dinner." Maria replied to the waiter.

"Would you all like a starter?"

"Wait. Hey, what would you all like for the starter?" Maria said before asking toward them.

"Jane and I would like a salad" Lina told.

"Martin, how about you?" Maria asked Martin.

"Chicken soup."Martin uttered the starter he wanted.

"Three salad and Chicken soup please" Maria informed the waiter.

"And what would you all like for the main course?" The waiter maintains his smiles and listed what they wanted.

All of them ordered the dinner together as they want. While eating, a gang of thugs suddenly entered the restaurant.

"Eh-uh? Hey! isn't that the kid who makes big Bro's little brother got into juvenile center?" The bald man said to his two fellows gang before they head toward where Martin are.

"Hey, kid. What's up? Don't you miss us, you cause us trouble just yesterday. How do you gonna pay us with huh. Yoo-hoo, so there a beauties with you, how about lets us play..." Before bald man even finishes his word, he immediately lost consciousness.

"Hey, Bald head! What happened with you?" The man with tattoo on his face exclaimed.

"Kid! Did you the one doing the trick? I kill you!" A tall and skinny man shouted before rushed toward Martin with a small knife.

'slump'

The guy unknowingly too lost consciousness and fall heavily on the floor limply.

"What the hell happened! You, you..." The tattoo man stuttered while point at Martin and family.

"Leave!" Lina coldly uttered the word to the tattoo man while giving off a cold aura of killing intent.

'Shriek'

The tattoo man immediately cry in terror and immediately carry his two fellows gang to get out from the restaurant.

"Lina, you alright?" Maria asked in concern.

"Aunt, I'm alright. Don't you all scared by me?" Lina asked in sad. She don't want scares them all. She knows that she just release a killing intent, although the killing intent not to direct to them, they still may get scared by it.

"Sister Lina, you so amazing! Not like certain someone who only knows to cause trouble." Jane said in amazed to Lina before looks at Martin with disdained glare.

"I'm not scared, I just concern about you, you know? Yes, Martin! Explain, when do you provoke those thugs." Maria said to Lina. She immediately looks at Martin after she recalled that thugs head toward them was because of him.

"That..." Martin immediately has a headache.

'If I were have implant a seed of fear toward all of them at that time, this won't happened to me.' Martin thought to himself.

"Humph! You better have good excuse, or I ask mom the punishes you." Jane told with deadly glare. Although she just scares when the thugs walking toward them early, but she's more angry to the one cause the thugs to coming at them.

"I will." Martin said to them.

He recalled all the thing started while telling them how he got framed and finally got the evident for himself. It's only takes him a few minutes to told all the thing happened to him for the past two days event.

"They deserve it! Thanks god, nothing happened to you." Maria said in grateful while Jane stealthily looks at Martin with concern expression.

"Next time! If anyone cause you trouble, just tell me." Lina said along with cold gazes.

Martin just nods his head and gulp a mouthful of saliva when Lina just looks at him with that kind of gazes. He wonder why, but it makes him fells uncomfortable.