"Whyyyyyyyyyyy? I don't want to walk! I have to finish Dream Desire!"
A distraught brunette complained to her grandfather as they drove downtown in his aging truck. The older, simple man's crinkled brow expressed every level of irritation, eyes focused on the road. Robbie and his wife Rebecca had taken care of Lindsey for most of her life, only to watch her live a stagnant life. It was a constant cycle of work and those damned Japanese cartoons. Robbie, nearing 76 now, was about tired of it. He wanted to see his granddaughter actually do something with her life other than than drown in her frankly pathetic existence. That was going to start today.
"God damnit, Lindsey. No. You need friends. You're 19, and you've never had a boyfriend." Robbie spoke bluntly. "I'm dropping you off here, and I'll be back later. Go talk to people. Go do things. Live your life, damnit."
Lindsey huffed in anguish, crossing her arms and averting her eyes away from her grandfather. "I can't just make friends just like that, grandpa! People don't like me." she halfheartedly tried to explain, but she knew her words were falling on deaf ears. He never listened to her. "I'm just gonna walk back home anyway." Lindsey could practically hear the old man roll his weary eyes in response.
The beat up, rusting truck came to a stop near Moore University. Robbie reached over and a put a hand on Lindsey's shoulder, his intense, stern visage beating down on her. The young woman scowled back at him, her verdant eyes bleeding a shallow animosity behind her glasses. "I'll be back later. Go talk to people at the university."
"Whatever, grandpa." Lindsey opened the vehicle's door and stepped outside. Not a second passed before the truck zipped off, leaving the girl on her own downtown. This definitely wasn't how she envisioned spending the rest of her day, especially since she had just gotten done working the early morning shift. She was still dressed in her stupid Lucky Stripe shirt! People were gonna think she was a big nerd dressed like this! 'Grandpa, why'd you make me do this? Everybody was, for sure, gonna laugh at her if she tried to talk to anybody, and she was, for sure, going to die. For sure.
"All I wanted to do was get to the part where Koju and Seibaru made out... But nooo! Grandpa ruins everything!" the tiny brunette nearly shouted to herself. A young couple walking by gave the curious woman a judging glare before sauntering off to enjoy their day. Lindsey didn't seem to notice though. 'Oh god, I have no idea what to do now...' Her feet carried her away aimlessly, her gaze to the ground and a hand upon her chin as she tried to remember what all was around here. "Why can't I just be home and snuggled up next to my Akiri..." she mumbled, making an oblivious reference to her Knight in Shining Armor body pillow.
Today was going to be terrible. Just the worst.
