In the Big City, the pre-teen tomboy Ronnie Anne Santiago was going into a Candy Shop that was blocking an alleyway.
Ronnie Anne looked around the place and saw the colorful candy-esque decorations, but they looked mildly dark.
"So this is the 'humble' little Candy Shop Sameer, Casey, and Nikki told me about and where they bought that new candy."
"Indeed!" came a voice that slightly startled Ronnie Anne and looked at the counter to see a man in about his early 40s looking at her.
"Sorry if I startled you. I am the manager of this establishment, Drew H. McGee." The man introduced himself.
"What does the 'H' stand for?" asked Ronnie Anne.
"Hook," said McGee, "My parents were a fan of Peter Pan and chose my middle name to based on the villain."
Ronnie looked puzzled but shrugged it off.
"Anyway," said Ronnie Anne, "I heard you're selling a new type of candy. Some friends of mine bought it from here."
"Why yes." said McGee as he took out a container full of tiny rainbow-colored candy balls (think sixlets but colored rainbow). "I made these little beauties myself."
"You don't say," said Ronnie Anne, taking out a dollar, "Well, I thought that I coud try one and they said it was $1:00 a piece so-"
"Oh, I can't accept that," said McGee humbly, "To do your friend's a solid, I'll let you have one on the house."
"Really?" said Ronnie in surprise as she put the dollar back into her pocket and took one of the rainbow candy balls in the container.
"Thanks," said Ronnie Anne as she tossed the treat in her mouth and began chewing it and then left the candy store.
"No problem my dear," said McGee before Roonie Anne left. After she did, he gave a suspiciously grim smile, "No problem at all."
Ronnie Anne was walking back ot her family's apartment, but something was off about her.
She was walking slowly with each step and the sclera in her eyes were sickly green and in her vision, everything was getting blurry and her eyelids were getting heavy.
"Oh man," said R.A. as she sat down on the steps of her apartment and laid down on the bottom stair, "What's wrong with me? I can't be this tired when I just woke up 2 hours ago. Bu that candy sure tasted good though. Maybe Sameer and the rest have some more that we can..."
She was cut off her entire world went black and she passed out on the bottom step and was breathing slowly. Looks like Ronnie Anne has just entered a deep sleep.