darling

Target

I woke up at 8:55am with a small headache and figured it would go away if I took a warm shower. So I slowly sat up making sure I wouldn't fall over with my lack of iron. I slowly made my way to Kate's room to see if she was in there. Nope. I took a few steps over and knocked on the bathroom door and there was no response. Not there either? I decided to just struggle it off and go take a shower.

I turned the shower knob a little bit past the middle, leaning more towards hot. I discard my clothes and chuck them on the ground, reminding me of my parents. I miss having a safe place to tuck into at night but I don't necessarily miss my parents. They were good to me but never great, they supplied me with my needs but not my wants, they were my parents not my mom and dad.

I snapped out of it and realized that the water was all heated up to the perfect temperature. I hopped into the show and just stood there while the hot water ran down my back. It comforted me and gave me a tingling feeling that felt like I was at peace. I opened up Kate's shampoo bottle and squeezed some of the liquid out onto my hand. I lather my hair with the cherry smelling shampoo, then I rinsed it out and let the hot water run down my brunette hair. At first I couldn't tell which one was the conditioner and which one was the body wash but after reading the labels I figured it out. I put the body wash down and open the conditioner, only applying it to the ends of my hair. Then, I picked up the strawberry smelling body wash and lathered my body with it. Then I rinsed out my hair and rinsed off my body. I wasn't quite done so I decided to turn the water up a bit more and just stand there. The feeling of the hot water hitting my skin was one of my favorite things. Finally, I decided to shut off the water and step out of the shower.

Crap. I don't have a towel or clean clothe- I looked at the counter and saw that Kate left me a towel and a fresh pair of clothes.

The towel was a pastel pink and the clothes were simple. A teal shirt with a cute little design plastered across the chest and some ordinary black leggings. Obviously she had also given me some brand new underwear, socks, and a bra which I was glad that they were new. Not to sound weird but I think I had bigger boobs than Kate so when I put on the bra I was surprised that it fit.

I walked out of the bathroom to see Kate sitting on the couch.

"Hey Aleah, how did you sleep?"

"It was pretty good, the couch was a bit uncomfortable but I'm not complaining. It's way better than sleeping outside," I said with a slight giggle but it was true. It was way better than sleeping on a rotten wooden bench in the middle of winter.

"Oh- well, uhh- If you want I can take the couch and you can sleep in my bed." She sounded quite taken aback by what I said. But then it hit me, I haven't told her what happened yet.

"Oh no, no, it's ok I like the couch!" I said while slightly smiling.

"Well I made breakfast and I brought you down a plate! I already ate but I was thinking once you are done eating, we can go shopping to get you some stuff?"

"But I don't have any money-"

"I will pay, you don't need to worry about it. You are my guest," she said with a bright smile and patting on the couch signaling me to come and eat.

I quickly walked over to Kate and scarfed my food down because I haven't eaten in what feels like days. She was shocked at how fast I was eating the food she just prepared for me. Then I saw her get a worried look on her face. I didn't know why at first but once I finished it hit me. Maybe she thought I haven't eaten in a while, well it was true but I didn't want her to know that quite yet.

Kate took my plate upstairs and she told me to grab her phone, keys, and wallet. I heard Kate mumbling a few things to her parents but I went and got Kate's belongings and walked to the car.

The drive to Target wasn't too long or at least it didn't feel like it because we were singing songs the whole way there. Kate pulled into the parking lot and we luckily got a spot right by the entrance. Kate got out first and came around the side of the car and opened the door for me.

"Here you go darling," she said while reaching her hand out for me to grab onto. I gripped onto her hand and she tugged on me a bit to help me get out of my seat. I closed the door behind me and we then started to make our way into the shop.

Target smells like my childhood. I used to come out here after school to help out and clean. At the time they didn't have too many workers so I decided to pitch in after school. This was in middle school, so my mom always had to pick me up at 8:15 pm sharp everyday. I think I am starting to miss my family a little bit but I think it's more my sister, Cameron. She was so sweet to me and we never got into too much trouble. I think I might text her back soon to tell her how I'm doing. But, I will not tell her where I am or who I am with because I don't know if I can trust her right now. After everything that just happened, I don't know who I can trust.

"Come on! Let's go!" Yelled Kate from the other side of the aisle. I guess I must have zoned out for a long time because we were already almost done shopping. I saw we had stuff in the cart already like: soap, clothes, deodorant, charger, undergarments, hair products, some of my favorite snacks and some other things that I couldn't really see.

She swiftly grabbed the last few items and we slowly checked out. There was this rude lady in front of us and she seemed so dumb. She even asked for the manager! Like just check out and leave. But finally, we actually checked out and took the groceries to her small white car.

I got in the car as Kate was putting the groceries in her car. I pulled out my phone and pulled up Cameron's contact.

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