She really is hungry.
Oggetto
| wondering what to do with life |
.
Cotton candy that makes fingers sticky blue, warm buttery popcorn, corn dogs sizzling hot from the deep fryer and –
"Candied apple?" She asks, raising the stick upwards.
"Candied apple?" The Shinigami repeats, puzzled and yet reaches with greedy fingers towards the sugar coated fruit. She nods her head and watches as the Death God takes a generous bite.
"They have some with caramel also." She says, reading the sign. There's red apples covered with white chocolate and green ones drizzled with caramel. When she turns her eyes back towards Ryuk, the apple is gone.
The Shinigami offers her a grin and then floats towards the back of the stand, where they keep the apples. She pities the two workers there who'll probably have a heart attack from watching apples float away on their own.
"I thought people came to Spaceland to go on rides." He offers, still holding her cotton candy and a half-filled bucket of popcorn with some stars and spaceship plastered all over it.
"Food, also." She explains, paying for another apple, this time drizzled with chocolate. "And getting ripped off playing those games to win stuffed animals."
"Is that why you agreed to come so easily?" He seemed genuinely surprised when he proposed the amusement park and she didn't put up a fight.
She shrugs her shoulders. She likes amusements parks, she always has. There's something about stuffing your face with too much food and then going on rides and puking your guts out afterwards that just appeals to her, but there's also –
"I figured I might as well tag along." She tells him, chocolate cracking under her teeth. "You obviously didn't want to come to Spaceland just for the rides."
He's been restless lately. Ever since Ryuk announced he was being followed one afternoon while trailing home after her.
She thinks he might do something reckless, something that will get him caught.
He doesn't deny it.
"You've noticed it too." He makes a head movement, subtle. "We're being followed. He's been following us all day."
She doesn't need to look. She already knows.
"I thought Kira only killed criminals." She says and swallows another mouthful, this time hitting some apple. "The man is only doing his job, what's criminal about that?"
"I can't have people following me around, Eden." His face has hardened. "I'm sure you can understand why."
"I think you should have people following you around." Some pieces of chocolate fall on the floor.
"Are you saying I should do nothing and let them try to catch me?" He doesn't understand.
"Yes." She nods her head. "That is exactly what you should do."
Whoever that man is, whoever sent him, they have nothing but a good hunch and you can't prosecute on a hunch, her brother taught her that much.
He mulls it over. She can see the gears turning in his pretty little head, puzzles pieces removed and then replaced. Finally, he raises an eyebrow at her.
"Why do you care so much?" He asks and she wipes her hands clean with a napkin she takes from the stand and throws away the stick that one held her apple. "Didn't you tell me once, that everyone deserves to die?"
She takes a step forward and then another, she steps forward until she's very close to him, so close she can smell the detergent his mother uses and the tiny bit of aftershave he uses probably mostly for show.
She reaches forward and grabs the cotton candy, smiles.
"Are you hungry? I'm a bit peckish." There's a second where he obviously wants to say something and then wisely keeps it to himself.
"How can you be hungry? You've spent the last hour doing nothing except for eating snacks."
"Snacks aren't food." She rolls her eyes at him, like he should know this. "They are the things you eat before actual food and I want actual food now."
Ryuk reappears with an inhumanly large grin just as he rolls her eyes at him. She takes a piece of candy and shoves it in her mouth.
She really is hungry.
a/n : i'm finally out of the hospital, so here's a new chapter. thanks for sticking around, hoped you enjoyed the read and let me know what you thought. thank you for reading.