Shopping Problems
Stepping on to the airship and heading down to Vale's transport hub, the team walked in a clump with Coco leading them at their head. Strolling through the busy streets of Vale, Coco knew exactly where they were heading to and the others followed. Velvet stood in the centre of the group with Fox and Yatsu on either side of her like bodyguards.
"So Coco? Where are we going?" Yatsu asked softly, Coco smirked and pointed ahead of them.
"To the best store in the entirety of Vale" Coco stopped outside of a large clothing store, the windows were high and displaying the finest modern styles. Silks, fancy fabrics and intense colours shined from the window. Fox stood in front of the window and pointed to a large red body glove.
"That is nice piece but look at that price tag, its expensive. It all looks expensive"
"Oh it is, this place is one of the most expensive shops in the entirety of Vale." Coco explained and entered the store followed by Yatsu and Fox, leaving Vel stood by the door looking inside. She took a deep breath and entered the store.
The trio had wandered off and were looking at selections along the walls and on the racks. Coco was looking at a selection of berets, Fox was looking at a very nice red vest while Yatsu was strolling through the robes. Velvet saw a very nice dress and walked over. Everything was so pretty, so beautiful and… wildly expensive. The dress she saw was brown knee length dress, a formal dress that one might wear to a fancy ball, or a rich mercantile meeting party. It was something some rich girl would wear.
"You, Out!" A voice called across the store, Velvet did not know what was going on, she heard it again. "Out!" Turning to face the voice, she saw it was an older gentleman, dressed in a fine three piece suit with tails on the suit jacket. His moustache and Beard was fine trimmed and as white as snow, he had the air of a rich man.
"Excuse me?" she asked meekly, she did not know if he was talking to her.
"You, out!" he pointed right at her, looking over her shoulder and then back at the man, he was right in front of her now. Looking up at the man, Velvet turned left and right to see what had gotten him so rilled up.
"Out" he told her again.
"W…w…w…w…why? I… haven't…dont anything" she stammered shyly.
"We do not take well to thieves in this establishment" he told her firmly and actually grabbed her shirt, lifting her up a little and turning her to walk her out.
"Hey, get off me! I haven't stolen anything!" she began to struggle, when a loud crash brought both their eyes to a set of racking thrown down on the ground.
"Get your filthy hands off her" A stern voice snarled out as Coco made her way over, pushing things out of her way like a train steamrolling through snow.
"I will do no such thing, this girl will be thrown out of my store, we do not take light thieves in this establishment" he told Coco. "And you will be thrown out too for destroying property! The police will be called on both of you" He instructed as he pulled his scroll out with one hand. The device was quickly taken from his hand and thrown across the room with a clatter. "Hey! You will pay for that!" the man snarled just before a fist connected with his face and knocked him to the ground.
Stood around the man, Fox and Yatsu cornered him while Coco stood towering over him.
"You do not treat her or me like that! She did not steal anything" Coco told him firmly but the man was already on his feet.
"She was going to, her and her kind are always like that!" he snarled and Coco began to laugh.
"So this is because she's a Faunus? You discust me" she hissed and turned to the others. "Come on guys, we're done with this shop. You will never see any business from me, my friends and my family ever again" she told him and turned, put an arm around Velvet's waist and pulled her along.
"Why would I care if your family do business with me?" The man laughed, allowing Coco a moment to stop, turn and face him. "You might want to check the brand names on almost all of your stock" She smirked, pulled out her scroll and pressed a button.
"Hi there, can you put me through to my father?" she spoke into her scroll and smirked at the man. "Yes, this is about a store we sell to, yes I want it stricken from our stock list, why? Because the owner is a racist fuckwhit who just crossed the wrong family" She glared at the man over her sunglasses.
She passed the scroll to the man, who stood for a moment, giving out a simple "Yes… yes… no…yes…" after his brief outburst on the phone. He handed the scroll slowly to Coco who put it away and turned to the others.
"Come on guys, lets find a new store" she turned and walked out with them.
"Wha…what… what just…happened Coco?" Velvet asked nervously.
"Look here Velvet" Fox spoke as they stopped at the door, pointing to a large designer jacket, worth over a grand, it had a designer label sewn into the side. 'Adel Co.'
"My father owns one of the biggest and most prestigious clothing brands in the entire world, I hate to admit it but I am the rich girl at the school right now" Coco laughed to herself slowly, "but that does not make me any less of an ass, people like him should be out of business" she hissed over her shoulder at the man, who was now on his knees crying; he'd lost everything with one simple phone call.
"No one should be treated like that, Faunus or Human, we are all the same. My father is one of the most vocal in Faunus Equality and I will not have my best friend being bullied by some no good racist" Coco told Velvet firmly, smiling as she took her hand and began to walk to the nearest store. "That one looks nice, what you think boys?"
Velvet was grinning to herself, grinning so wide her mouth hurt; witnessing her new friends feelings, her 'BEST' friend's feelings… defending her like that! Being from a rich family and still interacting with a low poor girl like herself… Velvet wanted to cry but knew it would not be right.
"Yea it's nice" Fox grinned and winked at Velvet, Yatsu shook his head.
"Not my style but I will have a look" the giant put his hand on Velvets shoulder and gave it a squeeze.
"Yea, lets have a look, I promise not to steal anything" she joked softly and the four laughed as they entered the store.