Maya sighs deeply and overdramatically, clapping Kalim on the shoulder.
"You totally owe me for this though, big guy."
She books it toward the video store and stops right in front of it, right in the view of that video game store. And she waits. And when she hears a car coming close enough, she takes a breath and runs out with her hand out to stop the car, as if she's stopping it on behalf of, say—
"Wait, wait, wait, there's a cat!"
While this is largely a stupid move, it somehow works? The car stops short, and the driver even gets out to check on this supposed cat. Suddenly, there's a commotion, as Maya pretends there was totally a cat here and now it's gone and the folks around her start to take notice.
Even the video store owner comes to check, asking at the door if it was a specific cat— apparently there's a few that hang around the area.
Of course, as Maya swears up and down that it was exactly that cat, she looks around, checking to make sure she doesn't still see Kalim.
dispenses stupidity upon ye
Maya sighs deeply and overdramatically, clapping Kalim on the shoulder.
"You totally owe me for this though, big guy."
She books it toward the video store and stops right in front of it, right in the view of that video game store. And she waits. And when she hears a car coming close enough, she takes a breath and runs out with her hand out to stop the car, as if she's stopping it on behalf of, say—
"Wait, wait, wait, there's a cat!"
While this is largely a stupid move, it somehow works? The car stops short, and the driver even gets out to check on this supposed cat. Suddenly, there's a commotion, as Maya pretends there was totally a cat here and now it's gone and the folks around her start to take notice.
Even the video store owner comes to check, asking at the door if it was a specific cat— apparently there's a few that hang around the area.
Of course, as Maya swears up and down that it was exactly that cat, she looks around, checking to make sure she doesn't still see Kalim.