Suddenly, he felt a hand on his bicep and Lia's voice say, "Hey!"
He turned and frowned. She was dressed to the nines with her hair curled, eyeliner done a little excessively, and wearing big hoop earrings. "Well, hi."
"Did you end up getting home last night?" she asked, still yet to move the hand.
He nodded. "Yeah, we made up. She cooled off pretty quick."
Lia hid a twang of frustration behind the layer of make-up. She's got him around her finger like a ring.
Tessa frowned at the exchange, and her gaze slid to the hand on his arm. Seriously? She scowled and went back to looking for some heels.
She looked down at the shoes under his arm, smiling. "And what do you have there?"
"Shoes. Kinda got the dogs out right now, and they're getting cold." He twittled his toes to emphasize the point.
Lia giggled, covering her mouth with her other hand. Runner took the moment to look over at Tess, hoping she was looking and was disappointed when she wasn't.
"Hey, Runner, it seems like you have some free time. Would you like to go to lunch with me."
He flinched slightly. Tess, don't freak out, we're in a store.
She took that moment to sidle up to Runner, placing her hands on his shoulder and resting her head on them. She smiled sweetly. "Hey, Lia! I'm sorry, but I couldn't help but overhear." you're voice is so screechy its hard not to hear you. "Runner and I are actually out shopping together. But maybe the two you could hang out some other time." Her voice was sickly sweet to match her smile.
Lia could barely hide a scowl. "Oh…okay. Bye, ru|Runner~" She then bounced out of there before she was fried to a crisp.
Tess scoffed and got off of Runner, going back to the shoes once again.
He turned to her. "That was….odd." God, he's so clueless sometimes.
She raised a brow at him. "Indeed."
"Why'd you do all that weird stuff? We coulda gotten a free lunch."
((Why not have Kia be a minion to Runner's dad, and is trying to capture him? He does want Runner alive, right?
((And I can never remember the guy's name, ffs
"You could've gotten a free lunch. You're still going to be getting a free lunch." She picked up the sparkly silver stilettos and held the up for Runner to see. "Would these look good on me?"
(Sure. And yes, Agdrin wants Runner alive)
He tilted his head. "It looks like someone melted a disco ball into a high heel mold."
She scowled and put them back. "Fine, what color then?"
There was no hesitation. "Blue."
"Hmm." She searched through the racks and found a pair that caught her eye. "Ooo. Me likes." She pulled out another pair of stilettos, this time a navy blue pair that was made entirely of crisscrossing straps. "How about these?"
"Maybe something like this," he said, pulling off a pair of basic royal blue heels.
"Hmm." She took and inspected them. "I want a new pair of stilettos for dancing, but these are cute too."
He shrugged. "I thought a stiletto was a knife until a few minutes ago."
"It's both. The heel is named after the knife. Fuck it, I'm getting both." She put both parts back into their boxes and took said boxes. "I think I'm done here."
"Don't wanna see what I got?"
"Ooo! Lemme see!"
He offered her the box with the blak sneakers inside.
"Look at that, you do have good taste. Then again, you're with me." She grinned and winked. "Let's check out and head to the mall."
He shrugged, taking the box back. "Ah, yes, the mall."
"Oh?" She raised her brows. "What's that supposed to mean?"
"Noooooooooothing." He walked to th cash register and sat the box down/
Tessa set her boxes down and handed over her card without a second glance. "Oh really? Care to elaborate on nothing?"
"Noooooooooope." He smiled to himself