Lex stood there with his arms folded across his chest as he waited for some one to answer his questions. Gia held her breath and closed her eyes, he hadn't seen her yet and if the two didn't rat her out then she would be fine until she could work the courage up to tell Lex that she was there herself.
"N-n-nothing Lex." Jack stuttered a bit. He hoped that his stuttering hadn't given him away to hiding a secret. Jack stuttered when he was excited or nervous more then he did in every day life.
Lex looked from Jack over to his best mate Ryan, "Well Ryan?" He asked raising and eye brow. Gia shrunk back more into the corner of the shelves where the shadows fell and clicked off her flash light.
"Nothing really, Lex. We were just talking about how we were going to need some batteries for Jack's invention and I suggested that we steal them from your room." Ryan lied flat out to Lex. He started to make a move to leave hoping that every one else would get the hint and follow leaving the girl they had discovered on her own to come out.
Jack saw Ryan start to leave and headed towards the door as well, "Yeah…s-s-sorry about that Lex. I just need about three double A batteries for my newest invention. You wouldn't mind lending them to me?" He asked as they all walked out of the room.
Lex listened to what he was saying, "What do I get out of this if I give them to you?" He asked Jack.
"Well you get the benefits of using my n-n-newest invention of course." Jack said to Lex.
Gia listened as the voices faded down the halls. She stood up leaning against the shelf until she was sure that the voices were completely gone from near the store. Gia slid down against the shelf and ran a hand through her hair. That had been too close of a call and she owed the two of them greatly for not telling Lex that she was there. Gia would figure out how to pay them back.
She looked out of the window at the early morning sun. It was going to be a long day of trying to make sure no one found her. Maybe she would sneak out of the mall and return later when she knew there wasn't going to be any one looking for her.
Jack, Lex, and Ryan all walked back into the kitchen, "There's nothing there now Will every one stop bothering me about some one being in the mall? Pasty you go and tell Paul that there isn't any one there and if he bothers me or you bother me about this you're out of the mall." Lex growled he didn't like little kids. He thought they were annoying and just another mouth to feed around here. They didn't pull there weight and got all the attention from the older girls that he could be hooking up with.
Amber gave Lex a look, "You can't kick them out of here." She said.
"I'm the leader I can do what I want." He said still getting over that Amber and Bray were the leaders now and he was the head of security.
"I say we just kick Lex out." Salean said as she cleared the dirty plates from the table.
Ryan and Jack sat down at the table and didn't bother to join into the conversation. Jack had managed to get Lex to let him borrow the batteries, now all Jack needed was an invention to use them in. Ryan wouldn't vote Lex out of the tribe seeing as he was his best mate. It was just how things ran around here.
A few hours had past and the afternoon hours were rolling in slowly and the sky had clouded over with steel gray clouds. The threat of rain hung heavily in the air. Gia made her way out of the room watching down the hall incase there was some one coming. She was going to head out of the mall and collect some food. She was running low on food and a few other things.
Lex sat in the kitchen with his feet up on the table and sliding down against the booth so he was comfortable. He held a magazine in his hands flipping through the pages. Amber walked into the café and saw him, "Lex I thought you said you were going out for provisions?" She asked.
"I am babe, right after I finish this magazine." He said looking up over the edge of it.
Amber looked out at the fading sun and walked over to Lex. She shoved his feet down off the table, plucking the magazine from his hands, "No, you'll go now." She said to him, "That's if you all want to eat tonight."
"Fine, I'm going." He muttered, "But I'm not going because you told me to go." Lex walked out of the café and headed for the exit. He knew just where to go to get provisions and start a few fights, The Locos.
Gia had gone down to the Locos' as well. They had everything that they raided and stole from other people a locked into one place. This would make it much more easier to obtain. She was careful not to get caught by any of the Locos seeing as she didn't have any one to help her if she did.
Lex drew closer to the Locos and noticed a girl walking away from the rail yard. He stood back noticing she had a provisions, maybe he'd just take them from her. All was far in the world today. Lex shrank back behind an abandoned train and waited for her to pass, maybe she would turn out to be a loco and he could have a little fun with her.
Gia had gotten in and out of the rail yard pretty easily. Something wasn't right, it shouldn't of been that easy. Maybe they were out patrolling and that's why she hadn't seen any of them around, but it didn't matter she had what she needed. Now just to get back into the mall with out getting noticed. She had done it once; the second time will have to be just as easy.
Gia walked past the train that Lex was behind when she felt some one put their hand over her mouth and pull her back behind the abandon train. She struggled to get free, but the person who had her was too strong. Gia looked over and saw the guy from the mall; Lex was what every one called him. He was being held by two other guys, "You'll never get away with this!"