Chap.15 Hello There
Lying on a small mattress on the floor was a woman who appeared to be in her early twenties. The room she was in was a mess. There were clothes scattered all over the floor, some dirty, some clean. The room looked like it hadn't been cleaned for quite some time. Yet there was no food or garbage lying around. The door to the room opened and a three year old boy walked in. He was dragging a multi-colored blanket and despite the condition of his home, it was obvious that he was in excellent health. He approached the bed and proceeded to climb over the woman's body, occasionally stopping to poke at her head.
She began to stretch. "I don't wanna get up." She whined. "It's way too early. Go back to bed." A giggle was the boys only reply.
She slowly climbed out of bed and headed to the bathroom to give her son his bath, after which she took a shower. Heading back to the bedroom she began digging through one of the piles of laundry. Grabbing items one by one she got dressed and headed to the kitchen to make breakfast. Once she had fed her son (oatmeal) she began assembling the stuff they needed for their day out. It was time for the festival again and while it bored her she had to admit that her son enjoyed it and she even found something worth buying every once in a while.
A knock on the front door caused her to stop what she was doing. Opening it she found her sister and mother ready to go downtown. She went back to grabbing stuff as her family walked in and shut the door. Alex, her son, ran to hug his grandma.
"When's the last time you cleaned?" Her mother, Lucille, asked. "There are flyers all over the floor."
Liss looked at her mother. "I dunno. I kinda forgot about it. At least there's no food or garbage kicking around." It was the same every time her mother came over. Turning back to the bag she mumbled. "What was I doing?" Quickly going through the bag she decided they had everything they needed. "We're all ready to go." She said.
Her sister, Kirsten, sighed. "You forgot to dress Alex."
"Oh." Liss headed for her sons room and grabbed an outfit. She got him dressed and grabbing the bag and the stroller they all headed for downtown.
During the walk her mother offered to take Alex for the day. Liss agreed. She rarely got time to herself because she was a single mother. The group headed towards the park as they passed the street mall Liss decided to see what was for sale. Waving goodbye she headed into the crowd.
Making her way through the crowd she contemplated the mess that was her life. She had been an unplanned pregnancy that occurred when her mother was twenty-three. Unfortunately her mother had not discovered the pregnancy until she was almost four months along and had been drinking and doing drugs during the first three months of the pregnancy. The result was that Liss had mental disabilities. Yet she looked perfectly normal. All in all Liss felt she was doing fairly well despite her mental shortcomings.
Within a few moments she had gone from one end of the mall to the other. She stopped to look around and noticed a group of males and a lone female walking towards the booths. The youngest male looked to be in his early teens which meant he was probably around Seventeen. He had extremely messy black hair, the greenest eyes she had ever seen and was deep in conversation with the blond female.
Her eyes shifted to the remaining males, who were watching the teens with amusement. She looked first at the shorter of the two remaining black haired males. Slim but with well defined muscles he looked like an excellent lover. Meaning he was a male that when you looked at him your first thoughts were of a candle lit bedroom. Taking a closer look she noticed that he reminded her of rock singers from the eighties, the type who wore tattered jeans and leather jackets. The male beside him gestured drawing her attention.
His hair was a rich golden brown shot through with silver grey strands and his eyes were pure amber, rich, warm and full of laughter. Despite being the shortest of the three older males (by about an inch), his shirt rippled across well defined muscles giving the impression of hidden strength. Looking at him she instinctively knew that he was a dangerous man to cross yet she was only thinking one thing. 'Hello dessert' He just seemed to be sweet. Finally she glanced at the tallest male and was left short of breath.
He was tall and slender with blue-black hair and he had the darkest eyes she had ever seen. Eyes so dark it was like she was looking at an obsidian mirror. What would have been an extremely large nose on any one else looked well suited to his face, aristocratic even. The only thing that marred his figure was a strange black and green tattoo on his left forearm. At least she thought it was a tattoo. To her eyes it seemed to be some kind of gang symbol; however she was aware that she could very well be mistaken. Whatever it was, it seemed somehow appropriate on him.
As she watched his friends disappeared into the crowd leaving him standing alone. Without thinking she approached him.
"Looks like you've been abandoned." She said. Then he turned and the world disappeared.
A.N: I've hit a really big case of writers block and my life is pretty hectic so I don't get at the computer all that often. I'll try to write more soon but I'm not promising anything.