We arrived at a mobile phone store and we were immediately ushered in by the security guards.
Inside, we were greeted by some of the workers.
"Tentin," One of the workers gushed, her eyes filled with unshed tears as she approached us. She cleared her throat as she stood in front of us, "C-can I help you? I can be of service to you if you want. I mean, I'm willing to do anything to please you."
Tentin grinned and ran his hand through his hair. It was his charm that attracted the woman to him. I could see that she was a human.
Human females tended to fall quickly for a guy that looked a bit average in looks while female wolves rated a man's attractiveness based on his strength.
"What's the latest iPhone?" Tentin asked.
"Iphone 12. Do you want one?"
"Absolutely. Get me one with a green customized colour."
"Right away. Please have a seat."
I looked at Tentin and he sent a wink my way before grabbing my wrist and sitting me down on the beautiful white couch. Now that I looked at it properly, the store was big and very exquisite. K became worried,
"You're not with cash are you Tentin?"
"That won't be a problem," He said, "Apart from owning my own cosmetic store, I'm a model so I'm quite popular. No one can refuse my offer. Just watch."
I sighed. I ran my fingers through my messy light brown hair. I got my hair from my white mom and my brown skin from my black dad. My green eyes were also from my mom. I used to think I was odd but now that I looked at it, it kinda benefitted me. You know, pretty privilege.
The worker arrived, her bob dark hair sticking all over her sweaty face.
"Hello there, beautiful." Tentin greeted with a charming smile. The woman sighed and showed him the package in her hands, it had a green themed customization. It made me feel a bit excited because green was my favorite colour.
Tentin accepted the package and tore it open revealing the high quality phone. My jaw dropped from how pretty it looked. I wasn't too much a fan of high tech but this particular phone appealed to me.
"Pretty, I don't have cash on me right now so I'll have to bother you to contact my secretary who will pay for the phone and leave you a huge tip."
Without thinking, the worker nodded.
"Let's take a selfie together." Tentin offered and turned on the iPhone.
The woman nodded vigorously and quickly fixed her face. I chuckled at how flushed she looked and stood up from the couch before helping her fix her hair. She turned to face me in awe, her cheeks turning an even darker shade of red.
"Tha—Thank you." She stuttered shyly.
She was cute.
"Are you from London? You have quite an accent."
"Oh," She said shyly, "Is that obvious? I'm from scotland."
"Wonderful. What is your name?"
"umm.. Anna, what about you?"
"Jasmine but you can just call me Jas."
Anna smiled, "Thank you. By the way, can I take a selfie with you too?"
"Yes! Of course."
Anna took out her phone from her pocket and took a selfie with Tentin. Then she gave Tentin her phone and asked him to take photos of us.
We took up to twelve pictures with different poses before Tentin dropped her a business card and we headed out of the store with my new iPhone.
I was in the middle of creating an Instagram account when Tentin scoffed suddenly. "I can't believe she was actually flirting with you."
"What?" I asked. Typing my Instagram username as honeypie03.
I choosed Armin's surname as my password and took a quick selfie before uploading it on my display photo.
"Aren't you oblivious? Anna was into me first but when you fixed her hair, she totally became soft for you. How did you seduce her subtly."
I shrugged, not really feeling his words.
"I think she was just being friendly. By the way, I uploaded my display photo. What else should I do?"
Tentin sighed. "Before uploading any photos, choose catchy tags like natural beauty, barefaced etc."
I nodded, "Should I post another selfie?"
"Not when you're dressed like this. Let's go shopping!" Tentin suggested excitedly.
I hesitated. "Armin should have woken up by now, let's go back."
Tentin grasped my fingers and stared pulling me across the road where a mall stood independently.
I sighed and went with him. It wouldn't take long anyways.
"But you have no money, Tentin. I have no money either. Everything can't always go our way, we already got the iPhone and that's enough for me."
Tentin smiled and shoved his hand in his pocket before revealing a black card. I read the name on it. It was Luke's.
It hit me like a ton of bricks. "While Luke and I rushed Armin into the hospital, you stayed back. You must've have found the card by that time."
"Smart." Tentin commented.
"Then why didn't you use it to pay for the iPhone?"
Tentin chuckled, "I have other plans for the card."
The evil in my wolf began to surface and I smiled, "Tell me more."
"Let's shop rot."
I got a little excited and pulled out dresses from the closets. I wasn't even bothered to check the receipts
"Why don't you do your hair while I continue shopping for the both of us."
I agreed. My hair was kinda messy anyways.
In another section of the mall, an hair stylist was waiting for me.
I choosed to get bangs and surprisingly, they stuck and suited me so well.
I got my makeup done too and ordered a milkshake. I sipped it and continued shopping with Tentin.
We took many photos and paid for everything we bought before moving to the food court.
I posted some of the selfies with Tentin and put the caption, Bestie.
The tags included friendship and hangout.
When the waiter arrived, it was with my order, "Stake and potatoes with red wine." While Tentin's plate included spaghetti and an egg with orange juice. It was quite funny.
Tentin gave off a savage flirty bad boy vibe but he was actually a vegetarian, it low-key creeped me the fuck out.
Tentin took a picture of our meals and posted it. We took another selfie and I think he posted it because when I checked my notification on Instagram, I now had four hundred followers and two thousand like on my display photo and five thousand likes on the selfie I took with Tentin.
It had so many comments and many were positive, it was overwhelming.
Even when I placed my phone on the table, i heard my new phone beep continuously which meant I had new likes or followers.
"This is insane!" I started, "Getting a lot of followers on Instagram Is actually pretty easy."
"If you are pretty and know a celeb or two, you can become really famous." Tentin added.
I nodded and checked my followers again. Seven hundred and fifty one.
I hadn't read the comments yet I was getting more likes and followers. It was crazy.
"There's a downside to fame though. You'll have to deal with hate comments from jealous people, you'll also meet some crazy fans in real life. Handling creepy ass fans earns you points."
"What points?"
"Loyal fans who will stick for you when other influencers try to throw shade at you."
"Why would they do that? If anyone don't like me I can just duel with them and if they lose, they'll have no choice than to not throw shade at me."
Tentin face scrunched up, "That's not exactly the way it works."
"Oh?"
"Yeah. Since social media is not real anyway, you'll have to adopt a certain persona. Do you want to be cute and nerdy or hot and sexy? If you choose cute, you'll have to respond to hate comments kindly and with Grace but if you choose the other one then it means you'd have to be like savage and stuff."
I nodded intensely, then said, "I can do both."
Tentin smiled, "Right."
We ordered some takeouts and decided it was time to go back to the hospital.
When we arrived at the hospital, I felt Armin's and I bond grow stronger. He was awake. I could feel him.
As we moved down the hallway to where Armin's room was situated, we received quite a number of stares because we were dressed in the most flashy way. I kinda liked it.
As soon as we entered Armin's room, my heart exploded with joy when I saw that he was eating some salad by himself on the bed.
I placed down the shopping bags and looked at Armin who looked quite indignant about something.
"Babe," I grinned, running towards him and throwing my hands over his neck as I embraced him tightly.
I felt his hand caress my back and I hummed, loving the way it felt.
"When I woke up, I feared you'd been badly injured." He said sadly.
I kissed Armin's cheek and pulled away from the hug. "I'm not as weak as you guys." I said teasingly, "The small dose of poison cannot kill me."
Armin sighed and took another spoonful of salad.
"I'm so useless, how could I let you face danger like that?" Armin sighed, his face sad.
I was annoyed.
"You were poisoned, it couldn't be helped. Even Tentin couldn't have done anything in that situation—"
"—Excuse me," He cut in, "You were the one who insisted I take Armin to safety. I could've beat the weird ass blonde."
"Even so, you would've died of poison because you're not immune to poison like me."
Tentin scoffed, "At least, I'd be useful unlike some people."
"Enough," A voice cut in.
A small scream erupted from my mouth and I hid behind Armin on the bed.
Luke's face was filled with fury, it was really scary. Even Tentin looked scared as fuck.
"What happened?" Armin whispered to me over his shoulder.
"We went shopping with Luke's black credit card."
Armin groaned, "Without me?"
I smiled and kissed his neck, "Don't worry, I bought a lot of goodies for you, my love."
"YOU TOO?!" Luke looked at Armin, his red eyes filled with betrayal and disbelief.
"You've always borrowed money from Tentin and I since we were kids and you never once paid back. This is payback time now," Armin laughed.
I smiled and placed my hands over his chest as I embraced him. He was always a proper man and seeing him joke like that brought tears to Luke eyes while he held back a smile before cursing, "Bastard!"
"Weirdo." I shot back, keeping my hands tightly wrapped around Armin's chest.
Even if he wanted to, he couldn't attack me with Armin being here. He was that overprotective over Armin. Sometimes, I wondered if Luke had secret feelings for Armin. It looked like it sometimes.
Armin kissed my wrists, snapping me out of my thoughts.
I grinned and kissed his ears while watching Luke beat the hell out of Armin. It was quite intriguing.
I also didn't want to risk my neck and save Tentin. It was his idea to go shopping after all.
"You're so cruel." Armin said through the mindlink.
I chuckled. He was listening to my thoughts.
"I know." I said through the mindlink as well.
"I want to kiss you." Armin said through the mindlink.
"I don't want to tire you," I said, disengaging from the hug. "You should focus on recovery."
"I am recovered." Armin said through the mindlink.
"No, you're not." I shot back and got up from the bed and to the take out bags.
I had had a waiter quickly wrap up some healthy vegetarian porridge when I was ordering food.
I also got some braised pork and beans for Lucas, it was his favorite meal.
After handling Armin the porridge and making sure I was utterly close to him, I said, "Luke, I have your favorite braised pork and bean sprouts!"
Luke landed one last punch on Tentin's face before looking at me, then to the takeouts in my hand.
With inhumanly speed, he snatched the take out from my hand and pinched my cheek.
Before Armin could say a word, Luke was casually leaning against the wall, eating his food.
"I'll take back my money from you two no matter what." Luke vowed before disappearing behind the door.
Tentin struggled off the ground, his face pink. "I don't mind getting beat. For some fun with you, it's worth it."
Armin looked at me, "What is he talking about?"
Tentin immediately ran out of the door, not forgetting to close the door. I groaned at the serious look on Armin's face.
I had some explaining to do.
"Well," I started. "Not much."
"Tell me every detail." Armin said intensely.