Alex appears outside the store

After waiting for a long minute, you suddenly hear footsteps from the outside of the store. You turn around and see Alex face turn the corner. He looks around for a moment before finding your glaring eyes and gives you a sheepish look.

"Sorry, I thought I heard someone outside, so I hid-"

"Outside of the convenience store? Where I was and we could have worked together?" You interrupt him in a barely quiet voice.

"I was near the exit, I figured we would both get caught if I ran to you and someone came after me," he continues, going over to a corner nearby where he left his basket out of sight. Bags of rice and toilet paper poking out of the basket. He adjusts his zipped up jacket before picking up the basket. "So, we got everything we need?"

"...Yeah, for now," you scoff and you both move down the way you came in, both of you carrying the loot in your baskets.

You both decided before you went in that it would be more effective to use these baskets than bagging the stuff you've taken in noisy plastic bags, and you're sort of feeling proud at your efficiency. If the world hadn't ground to a halt for some weird-ass reason, you'd be scared of spending a year or two in prison for robbery, but right now you just felt cool.

Of course, Alex's scaring the shit out of you might have gotten your blood pumping a bit more than necessary, but fine. You're in this together until you're not, and you admit Alex is not the sort of guy that you'd trust to have your back if a crazy **** junkie came at you with a knife.