NOVEL NEXT Too many Pockets
**Big thanks to Charlie Puente-Duany**
"what are we doing here again?" Inessa questioned Yelena as she picked out clothes.
"shopping of course" Yelena spoke in a duh tone as she moved in front of a mirror to check out herself with a new dress but frowned as she put it back and went ahead to look for new clothes.
"how could you think about shopping at a time like this?" Inessa asked as leaned against a pillar with her arms crossed before her.
"What wrong with shopping now?" "a whole lot of things considering the fact that the entire red room and that guy in the skull mask are after us!"
"Ehn, that doesn't mean I can't shop" Yelena shrugged as she finally picked up a vest with a wide smile on her face. "what do you think?" she turned around and showed Inessa the vest.
"That honestly look like it has more zip than material." Inessa replied with a deadpan look on her face which Yelena responded to with a pout, "you're just jealous I picked the only one, this is cool".
Hearing what she said Inessa looked at her with an are-you-serious look on her face, "look I could put my weapons here, a knife here and here I could put a phone, yes a phone oh by the way what phone should I get" Yelena tried to defend her choice.
Inessa quirked her brow at her and turned to leave, Yelena soon followed after wearing her new vest. Yelena had a wide grin on her face as she was happy about the article of clothing which she had picked out for herself.
The two girls had walked straight to a food truck and gotten Tacos for themselves as they sat and observed their surroundings. A minute of silence lasted between the both of them as they watched the people around them who had smiles on the face and looked like they didn't have a care in the world.
"so when did you join the red room?" Inessa turned to face Yelena when she heard this question with a look on her face that said, did you really just ask that now.
As she stared at Yelena's face though what she saw was not what she was expecting. Yelena eyes were clear and filled only with childlike curiosity, Inessa was stunned for a moment before she sighed.
"I was nine, an orphan on the streets of Sokovia with Anya when they approached us we had nothing to loose and made the worst mistakes in our lives... what about you?"
"It's always been the red room for me", Yelena responded in a matter of fact tone. Inessa seemed shocked about that and asked, "what about your family? your sister, your father and your mother?"
"They were all Red room", Inessa's eyes widened as she heard that but before she could ask the hundreds of questions that popped in her mind Jeff appeared before them.
"I've got a car let's go" Jeff spoke as he looked at them and noticed Yelena's vest, seeing this Yelena beamed "do you like?" "too many pockets" was all Jeff said to her before he turned to leave leaving Yelena to pout as she followed after him.
Inessa who saw all of this let out a chuckle before following them. They arrived before a Nissan Jeff had borrowed, "I call shotgun" Yelena shouted out before she jumped into the front seat.
"Seriously, just how old are you?" Inessa questioned Yelena who replied by sticking her tongue out. Jeff watched their antics and shook his head as he started the car.
At this moment he noticed someone walking towards them and with a closer look the individual was revealed to be none other than the Taskmaster.
Who pulled out an assault riffle as he headed towards them. The people around who had now noticed the conspicuous villain with the assault riffle at hand, screams and began to run.
"hold on!" Jeff exclaimed to the girls as he pulled the car back and quickly drove on to the streets to escape. Taskmaster of course did not let them escape easily as he began firing at them.
*Ratatata* the sound of the assault riffle as it put bullets into the body of the car was heard. The girls had ducked to avoid the gunfire that had destroyed the windows.
Jeff sped away with Taskmaster still firing at them until they were out of range, when they were Taskmaster held the gun by their side and began to head for their bike before following after them.
"What the hell just happened?!" Inessa exclaimed as the sped on to a highway. " The guy with the skull mask came and started shooting at us" Yelena spoke in a matter of fact tone.
"Thank you, because I clearly couldn't see that", Inessa spoke with her words dripping with sarcasm. "you're welcome" Yelena spoke as though she couldn't detect the obvious sarcasm.
"Check yourselves" Jeff's words interrupted the banter between the two and caused them to look at him with hints of confusion.
"we ditched the old car to throw off the people chasing us yet that guy still found us and also when we were driving away they didn't look like they were in a hurry or afraid they will lose us so one of us definitely has a tracker on them so check yourselves now." Jeff ordered.
Sensing the commanding tone both of them didn't argue and diligently search themselves. Inessa soon found the tiny tracker that was previously hidden on her.
"found it" just as she said that the sound of a bike could be heard as Taskmaster had caught up to them.
"shit!" Yelena cursed as she saw this.
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