3 The Bear (1/2)
”Come on █████, I saw him around here,” I said to my friend █████ as we run through the streets. I left my mother's grocery bag by the local fruit vendor for just a few minutes to talk to some friends, and when suddenly, it was gone. It's been two hours since then, and I have been searching around the market, asking the clerks if they've seen a light blue shoulder bag with the logo PINK around. I also started asking my friends if they have seen it. Luckily, █████ saw someone carrying that bag by the basketball court.
While we were at the court, asking the people there for my missing bag, I caught a glimpse of a man carrying the exact bag I was looking for. I chased after him. █████ followed close by me. We kept running after him until he turned a corner. As we make the same turn, we were met with an empty street. We stopped running, trying to catch our breath. ”Are you sure that... that was your bag he was carrying?” He said to me.
”Yeah. It was light blue and had the brand name PINK on it.”
”There's like, a bunch of bags with the name PINK on it.”
”Yeah, but that one is special. The side where the pocket is has a hole. A hole that I fixed with duct tape.”
”I don't think that fixed it.” I turned around to look at him. He crouched down to pick up something. It was a piece of duct tape. I looked at the ground and noticed a trail of coins heading straight to an alleyway. We followed it.
As we enter, a sudden gust of wind blew my face. Then a sight of a fist headed straight to my face. I dodged the punch by weaving to the left side while █████ started backing up. I tried to counter with a front kick to the stomach, but the man caught it with his left hand. He lifted my leg high up in the air, and I fell crashing down to the ground.
My friend tried to tackle him, but instead, he ran straight to a pile of garbage bags as the man dodge the tackle by seemingly gliding in the air. I grabbed a two by four next to me and stood up. ”Fucker! Give me back my bag!” I yelled as I charge at the man. I tried to hit him with a downward swing, but he blocks it with his right arm. Then he slammed into me with his right shoulder, causing me to lose my balance. My butt hit the floor. ”Your bag? What makes you think this is yours?” He said, taking the bag off his shoulder and lifting it with his hand. ”If it was yours, then your name should be on it? I don't see it anywhere here.”
”it's because you're looking at the wrong places.” I noticed █████ sneaking up behind him. ”I wrote my name on the straps.”
”Really now. And what's the name exactly?”
”Doesn't matter!”
”Huh?” █████ grabs him by the waist. That's my queue. I got up as fast as I could and sprinted towards him. I reached out to grab my bag, but it disappeared. Instead, the bottom of the man's foot was there.
*SMACK*
My face went numb from the kick. My butt also went numb after hitting the ground for the 3rd time. Before I realized it, █████ was lying on the floor. ”Nice try kids, but you're not stealing this bag from me. I found it fair and square.”
”Just because I lost that bag, and you found it doesn't make it yours!”
”Hey! You're the one that lost it! I... Hahaha!” He started laughing. ”I just remembered, back in the old days. That's what our enemies would tell us.”
”What?”