“ Hello-lo-lo-lo… “ Annarose half expected some masked stranger to pop into view at the mouth of the alley way after her echo softened its existence into nothing. She laughed at the unneeded paranoia of her mind- even if someone came didn’t mean they were going to welcome her with open arms. Barely anyone lived in this town, and she was sure of that. Her eyelids felt heavy and the pavement seemed to embrace a few more hours of sleep she knew she couldn’t afford.
Squish squish. Annarose’s soaked maid shoes protested loudy as she rose to a stand, greeted with mini oceans flooding between her toes to which she frowned lightly at heading towards the closest source of food, the forest. The edge of it was no more than a few minutes walk as the forests had been her ways of traveling secretly to put more distance between the murder scenes. A line of thoughts filed into her mind while Annarose hummed Zelda’s lullaby. Wow, I must look like a walking circus, odd sights to see and music to accompany it. Before the slender girl was a few steps from the forest, a large black dumpster brushed by her shoulder. She stopped, squeezing a few more steps in after reassuring herself that only rats dug through dumpsters and it was filled with odd diseases that could probably turn her into a zombie.
Minutes later, piles of trash surrounded around the girl’s feet. Yes, she was really digging through a dumpster. A wave of happiness brightened her face when she believe she picked up a can half filled with food in the darkness, pulling it out into the dim light of the rainy skies.
Her eyes met a can of half present peas and a line of crimson blood running down her hand. The can’s lid cut her, the cut never stung until it met her stern eyes. “ Well, f***. Good thing no one lives here.” She mumbled, of course far from believing what had came out of her mouth. Out of impulse, she sprinted into the forest, one had dripping blood and the other hand dumping some old peas into her mouth. Who knew a can of food was a blessing and a possible death sentence at the same time?