Wind keeps on blowing more violently with each passing moment, and my stomach keeps tying itself into a smaller and tighter knot. I feel like I swallowed a lighter how much I feel my entire body burn! A cheap lighter, one of those dirty plastic ones you would find in dry mud in the middle of nowhere! Completely abandoned by everyone and everything, that’s what hurts me the most. I do not enjoy admitting it and I would never admit these words to anyone but myself! If only Lucky was still here with me, maybe my days would not be as dark and pitiful! Oh how much I loved that pretty little animal, I would do anything to just hear him bark again, just one more time. I would lift his dirty paws and kiss them, the whole world would bear witness to the intense loyalty I felt for him!
But he was taken away from me, all because of that ridiculous woman! The woman that cursed me, the fool I was to think it was a blessing! Full of kindness, was what I thought of her, what a beautiful and stunning woman! She wore entirely dark brown attire, from her brown boots to her brown gloves. She blended in with the season nicely. I blend in the world nicely too, I thought. Even without any expensive clothes, I fall into the scene so nicely that nobody bothers noticing me! When she slid down five dollars in my shuddering lap, I felt immediate desire to run after her and promise her a monument but I found myself at loss for words and the only thing I could hear was Lucky barking at me, his eyes looking up to me in pure happiness that only he knew how to portray even in our lowest moments.
I immediately rushed to the nearby supermarket and as I looked up to the blue shining neon lights, I felt each one of my steps slowing down as I found myself breathing harder, as if a barricade suddenly found itself lodged in my diseased old lungs! Stepping inside the supermarket, I left Lucky in front of it and told him to wait, he simply looked up to me in understanding and we ended our conversation there. Shelves were full of food and that’s when it dawned on me that I could purchase enough supplies for myself to last me more than tonight. Lucky would have to understand that in dire times, we need to make sacrifices! Survival of the fittest, my friend, he-he-he!
Fruit and water is what I need, I need to keep my body healthy and alive until I get blessed one more time by another kind and beautiful stranger! There is still some love left in the goodness of people, and I just need patience and I won’t have any patience left if my body ends up rotting away! Approaching towards the cashier, my tired red eyes fell on a chocolate bar. I haven’t tasted chocolate in years, something so sweet and lifting! I could buy these fruit or enough chocolate bars to keep my spirits up, and spirit matters more than body! Oh what foolish, desperate thoughts went through my mind, but I couldn’t resist dropping the bags of fruit and picking up the chocolate bars! Just imagining the taste of them is enough to make my mouth water even now.
When I stepped out of the supermarket with my pockets full of candy bars, I couldn’t see Lucky anywhere. I tried calling him with my rusty voice while feeling the candy bars greedily with my fingers buried deep inside of my pockets. That dog was smart, I thought, he no doubt sensed the impending betrayal and he wouldn’t stick around with such a selfish and spiteful person with the knife hanging out of his back! I fished out the candy bars and threw them on the wet ground before stomping them with my old, muddy, and torn boots, tears gushed to my eyes.