A/N: I know I'm crazy for starting a new story but I was watching a movie and this came to mind. I'm just parking this for now until I get some time to work on it.
Sam sat on the bench holding on to his remaining belongings; an overnight bag and a backpack. He doesn't know how it happened, everything went downhill soon after his unemployment from his architecture firm and this morning his savings was now totally depleted leaving him with only 12 dollars and 75 cents in his pocket. His stomach growled from not having eaten anything since last night. The stress of trying to figure out what to do from this point on and the lack of money distracted him from having a meal. His hand went through his hair as he gave up thinking, his face found itself in his hands as he shook his head still not believing this is happening. He sat up and opened his eyes to something right in front of him. His vision finally adjusted and saw a bunch of daisies, he looked beyond the flowers and saw a black woman in hobo clothing holding the bouquet to his face.
"You look like you need to smile. Daisies always makes me smile, here take it." The plump dark-skinned woman smiled and shoved the flowers to him.
She nodded as Sam took the flowers and quickly left. Sam watched her retreating form noticing her bare feet as she walked through the grass. Sam rummaged through his overnight bag and pulled out his old sneakers before running after the woman.
"Hey!" Sam shouted which made the woman stop and turn around.
Sam ran over and stopped right in front of her.
"They're big but they'll keep your feet warm." Sam held out the sneakers to the woman.
The woman eyed the sneakers and then looked up to him.
"Thank you, but no thanks." The woman refused the gift and started walking.
"Please I insist. It's the least I can do, you don't know what your gesture meant to me." Sam explained.
"I always see you on that bench, but today it looked like you're carrying the world on your shoulders." Sam grinned to himself.
"You don't know half of it, but today was just the worst." Sam don't know what's with the woman but he felt at ease talking to her.
"Well then I'm all ears." The woman gestured for Sam to continue talking as she grabbed hold of his arm and started walking.
Sam gave the short version of his story and found himself sat on a bench in font of the woman's shopping cart filled with cans, bottles and newspaper. There was a small dog inside the shopping cart happily looking over them as Sam spilled his guts out to this woman.
"Well based on your story I say good riddance to your job. It was prohibiting you from doing what you love and finally being happy." The woman commented.
"The real world doesn't run on dreams, money puts food on the table and roof over your head. I can draw all I want but unless someone takes notice of my creations then I'm simply a delusional bum." Sam sighed.
The woman stood up and pulled out a pair of sandals out of one of the plastic bags in the cart. She played with the dog for a little which the dog clearly loved and started pushing the cart. Sam looked at the woman confused and decided to stand up and run after her.
"Hey! So you're just leaving like that?" Sam asked.
"Well it was clear that you have your future stamped in stone. I don't see the point of telling you how you can turn your life around when you're so determined to fail." The woman shrugged and continued walking.
"Please, I need someone to talk to or I'll go insane." Sam begged.
The woman felt for Sam. She saw the defeated look in Sam and she couldn't help but feel the urge to help him.
"Come on, you're staying with me. We need to drop off these at the recycling center and then I'm taking you home." Sam wondered where this woman could possibly live but smiled at the thought of not being alone.
"Uhmmm... Sorry I forgot to introduce myself. The name's Sam. Sam I am, I don't like green eggs and ham." Sam held out his hand to the woman in front of him.
The woman shook her head in disbelief but chuckled at his corny introduction. She eyed his hand before rolling her eyes and taking it in hers to shake.
"Hi Sam I am. The name's Mercedes, but you can call me Sadie just like daisy." Sam smiled and felt somewhat better already.
