"Not sure how much more of this I can take." Abigail uttered out loud, sitting alone in her car outside Roadside Burgers; her only companion being the host on the radio.
As much as she loved baseball, the last week had completely drained her energy and motivation. First, it was the rain delays over the weekend, forcing their scheduled match to be postponed to a later date. Then, it was the "potentially contagious illness" that spread like wildfire through her team, which promptly ended their season as the Saints were unfit to play. Everything seemed to be going to hell, and there was nothing she could do about it.
Thankfully, at least for the time being, there was solace to be found in a good burger and fries. Her morning routine had caused her to work up an appetite, and it'd been some time since she had visited RB. The owners, who were practically honorary Saints for offerring free meals now and then to the team whenever they won a big match, had probably been wondering where she and the rest had been, anyway.
Bzzt. Her phone buzzed as Abigail climbed out of her car and walked towards the burger joint. Pulling her phone from her pocket to read the notification, Abigail was quickly horrified as she read the words on the screen.
OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING IN RESIDENTIAL BALTHAM NEIGHBORHOOD
Conner and Mia were... dead? The words were right in front of Abigail, and yet she struggled to process what she was reading. It couldn't have been real. She had heard of the bath salt epidemic that had gone around, but the dim-witted Conner and beauty queen Mia that Abigail went to high school with never were the type to do drugs. Well, okay, they might've smoked a little weed, but nearly every high schooler smoked weed, and as far as Abigail knew, it didn't cause you to go around eating people!
"Yeah, let's go." A male voice spoke; one that Abigail would run into, distracted and distraught, sending her phone flying out of her hands and towards the ground.