Chapter 2

Snow. Brrrr. Frizzy Hair. Uh. Smudged make-up. Yikes! Stepping out of the bus from hell was like stepping into a bloody winter wonderland. I could feel Leia shivering uncontrollably besides me. I placed my hand on her shoulder and gave her a reassuring smile. She was desperately trying to put on her mile long scarf which wasn't easy being so small. I let go of her shoulder and gently wrapped it around her neck. It kept blowing in her face still.

"Soooooo... wh-where we-ee-ee going no-w th-th-then?" I asked shivering and rocking backwards and forwards on my heals. Leia puzzled over a map of where we are now. She kept looking up and then back down at the map, her frown deepening and becoming a permanent line in her forehead. By now I was freezing my ass off! Why did I only wear two pairs of underwear when I could have worn three?

"O-o-okay, l-le-tss say th-at I r-r-ea-d-d th-the map-p-p y-y-eah?" I asked taking the map off her and tilting it around in a circle, looking at it from different directions.

"Ri-igh-t, th-there's a m-m-mal-l-l-ll th-that w-w-way" I said doing a 180 and pointing through the snow "s-s-s-o-oo I s-suggest we-e-e wa-alk th-that way and t-try to-to f-f-find s-someone y-you c-can f-f-feed from a-and I w-want chips, ss-so let's go!"

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The walk to the mall was exhausting. I ended up piggy backing Leia for a quarter of the way. I liked the mall though. There were two floors and a huge fountain that squirt a lot. We stepped in through the revolving door and I heavily brushed the snow off of my coat and trousers grateful for the warmth. The snowflakes dropped to the ground, softly melting as soon as they reached the tiled floor. I removed my earmuffs pleased that I could hear properly again. Out if the corner of my eye, I could see Leia doing the same, but as usual she didn't remove her scarf.

"Where to now?" She asked glancing at me sideways through her short, thick eyelashes. I barely heard her as I looked around the mall. At the giggling teenagers, the screaming babies and at the pitiful fathers desperately trying to avoid their daughter's puppy dog eyes. I envied them. Their normal, happy lives. I couldn't even imagine a life that. A little cold hand gently touched my cheek making me jump a metre in the sir.

"Jeeeese Leia!" I squawked snapping out of my trance. She shrugged it off but I could see the concern and curiosity in her eyes and through the link we had. She did her best to hide it from me.

"I say McDonalds or whatever that says in Russian, and then I can go... you know." She trailed off at the end of her sentence. I put a reassuring hand on her forearm and gave it a squeeze. She looked up at me and I beamed down at her. She returned the smile only sadder and emptier. We started the journey towards the fast food restaurant, my blood-hound-of-a-nose leading the way. I could smell burgers and chips from a mile away. Excited kids bustled around inside McDonalds. The queue was only the length of the whole bloody mall.

"Holey Moley!" I exclaimed, frustration taking over my voice.

"Well, either we wait and queue or we go find a bakery somewhere or whatever!" Leia replied giving me a what-the-hell-do-we-do-know kind of look.

"I'm not going anywhere. MI WANT CHIPS!" I answered grunting and storming off the back of the queue. Leia glanced around the mall quickly but followed after me, dragging her feet behind her. She was getting more and more exhausted every second we waste getting my chips. She needed blood urgently now!

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