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"Celery soup. It's been here since the start, you two are very brave." Olivia joked when Carol picked up the can of green soup. Eloise awkwardly laughed at the woman's joke. She was still a little out of it after what happened the last time she was in the pantry.
Carol made Eloise come with her and Eloise was not having it. "Well, I'm hoping the paprika wil mask the soups... celeryness." Carol breathed out. "Then you'll by stuck with something that tastes like paprika. No thank you." One of the other woman in the room, Shelly, sassed and Eloise held back an eye roll but Carol noticed and nudged her in the side before sending a fake sweet smile to the other women in the room. "Well, I figured since we're running low on staples, I'd take the things nobody seems to want."
Shelly laughed. "Is that why you have Eloise?" Everyone in the room froze as the lady continued laughing.
"What?" Eloise croaked, turning around to face the woman. When Shelly realized Eloise was actually hurt by the sentence she shook her head. "Take a joke, sweetheart." Eloise stared at the woman as if she were crazy before running out of the room.
Eloise ran home as fast as she could, running passed Carl who was taking Judith for a stroll but he didn't notice her. She threw the door open as she ran right to the couch, throwing her face into the pillow and luckily no one was home to witness it.
After about a minute of just laying there, the door opened but Eloise didn't look up to see who it was. "Lou. Come on. Get up." Carol said as she placed some stuff on the counter but Eloise didn't move. "Eloise! Get up!" Carol said louder and more demanding, almost in a motherly tone.
"Is it true?" Eloise said but her words were mumbled by the pillow. Carol sighed. "I can't hear you, Lou. Speak u-"
"Is it true?" Eloise spoke up louder, finally lifting her head from her pillow to reveal her red eyes. "Am I just some... some charity case, the girl with no family so you took her in, the kid your stuck with until one of us dies?!" Eloise screamed, tears running down her face and Carol quickly walked up to her, wiping her tears. "Lou, you're not a burden and you're not gonna die, okay? 'Cause only dumb teens get killed in this world, Lou. That's why you're surviving."
Eloise stared at Carol for a minute before nodding her head. Carol smiled at the young girl. "Now how about you help me cook?"
Eloise and Carol walked to the kitchen, taking the ingredients out of the bag as Lou's eyes drifted to the window where Shelly was walking back to her house, smoking a cigarette.
Eloise watched the woman as she swung the bag around with every step until she looked behind her and screamed.
The scream caught Carol's attention, turning to see what was happening.
A man ran over to Shelly, slicing her side open, her guts falling out as she tumbled to the ground. The man stood above her as she cried before he threw his machete down, slicing her head open.
