Behind red tinted cellophane14
Reject walked down dreary street that she had traveled many times before, admiring every moss filled crack in the sidewalk. The sky above her threatened bad weather and further proof of this came when the wind blew harshly through the street.
Reject gripped her coat firmly around herself but it wasn't doing much against the cold wind. Soon enough Reject came upon the local convenience store just before the rain began to fall.
When she got inside things had not changed at all, the store was still eerily quite and the clerk was reading porno magazines more the watching the shop. Reject rubbed her hands together stared out the window at the street.
The rain was coming down fiercely as it flooded the street and pounded on the windows of the store. Reject had always love rain as a child, she didn't enjoy being in it but she did love to watch it, the sound of the rain was like natures symphony to her.
"Oi! You there!"
Reject lifted her head to the man behind the counter and it was obvious that he was talking to her.
"If you not gonna buy anything then you're gonna have to leave" the man behind the counter said harshly.
"Oh come on! It's pouring out there! can't you just let me hang here until the rain dies down?"
"Sorry no can do, store policy says no loitering" the man said without a hint of sympathy in his voice.
"Ok fine…" Reject huffed walking down one of the isles. She gazed at the shelf for a while until she finally decided on a jar of peanut butter. She came back to the cash walking slowly hoping to take as much time as possible.
"Ok is that everything" the man grunted in an annoyed voice and Reject rolled her eyes. Then suddenly the door to the shop opened, but Reject didn't pay any mind to it. It wasn't until she looked up at the clerk, whose eyes were widened with horror.
Reject turned around and saw a partially soaked man with a gun. He was wearing one of those masks that you would normally see at Japanese festivals and what made it scarier was that it resembled an ancient Japanese demon.
"Ok listen up! I know this gonna sound very cliché, but hand over the money and nobody gets hurt" the masked man said pointing at the terrified clerks head. Despite how scared she was Reject remained perfectly calm even when the masked man turned to point his gun at her.
"You, hand over your wallet" the man barked at Reject. Reject didn't move not out of fear but more or less out of defiance and she only gave in to his wishes when she heard him cock his gun.
Reject slammed her wallet down on the counter and glared as the masked man quickly stuffed it into his pocket before turning to the clerk again.
"Ok, now throw in a couple jars of jam and you won't get a bullet in your skull" the mask man threatened and the clerk quickly made a dash to the other side of the store and came back with an armload of strawberry jam.
The man grabbed the jam and the stolen money and walked out. Reject was mad, beyond mad, she hadn't felt this angry in a long time and so grabbed her peanut butter and started toward the door.
"Hey! Where are you going? You haven't paid for that yet"
"I'm taking this as compensation for your inability to defend your shop or your costumers! Now I am going to go get my god damn wallet back and kick the guy's ass!! YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT!?!" The clerk looked even more scared now but he didn't say anything.
Reject when outside into the cold rain and she quickly spotted the man turning a corner down an alleyway and she took off after him. As soon as she entered the alley she was grabbed by the wrist and pushed against the wall.
Reject was getting even madder and she fought back by throwing her foot up and kicking her assailant. The masked man stumbled back a bit releasing Reject from his grasp but she didn't run, she charged at him again throwing as many punches as she could.
"Jesus Christ! Take it easy" the man shouted dodging 90% of her attacks. Reject held back breathing heavily and glaring at the man who reached up and pulled his mask off.
Reject gasped with eyes wide as dinner plates at the man before her. There stood in all his smug glory was B looking a tad haggard from the fight and Reject wasn't sure if she should feel glad or pissed off about this.
"Ok, so you won't dare challenge me but you'll take on someone with a gun" B said smirking and pulling out Reject's wallet and handing it to her. Reject yanked it from his hand and quickly stuffed it into her pocket before turning back to him.
"Alright, so you robbed a convenience store and humiliated me in front of the store clerk, what's next on the agenda?" Reject said sarcastically and B just smirked at her.
"Well, we'll have to go back to our hideout and continue with the plan of course" B replied shoving his hands into his pockets.
"How are we supposed to do that? We can't go back to the apartment its crawling police and investigators" Reject said sounding annoyed while B laughed.
"Don't worry I found us a new one…one that's far away from this wretched place" B looked up and smiled at Reject reaching his hand out toward her.
"…Let me show you" B said softly and Reject reached up and grasped his hand.
It would take Reject a while to figure out that B didn't have the car anymore...