blue+pink=purple

shinning reflection

It all started on July 23rd, 2022, Wouka was running down the streets of New Orleans. [She lived there ever since her dad got a job and her mom insisted on them going. before that she always lived in the North of Canada, because even tho it was poor and cold her dad used to teach inuit kids ever since she was born. It was all she had ever known even tho her dad was from Belgium and only went to Nunavut to continue his studies for first nations, but stayed longer when he met her mom. Anyways, ever since she got there it was just too odd. She didn't have any friends and lived in distance, because of cultural differences between her and the population of this city. But even though she missed the cold she had to get used to that hot American place.] As always, she was late at her job interview, where her mom did a special demand for her to get in, she would be very disappointed if she knew. Even there, Wouka was tired of it, but used to it in the end.

All of a sudden, as none of our surprise, she tripped over a rock and fell on her knees. When she sat up there was a hole in her jeans and blood dripping out. She started overthinking as to why all of this had to be so stressful yet how life could be so boring. So, out of anger, she took the rock and threw it on the ground as hard as she could, breaking it in the process. As the gray pieces of foundation shattered on the ground, she saw a little shinning reflection coming out of it. As she came closer, she began to see a small purple crystal rolling to her foot. She didn't know what was with that stone, but she felt reassured while she picked it up. So she put it in her pocket and continued running to the mall.

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The interview didn't go very well from her point of view: she came unsuitably dressed, with blood coming out of her knee, looking like she just came from a shower, but with the smell of ten pigs, then proceeded to forget how to speak English and also everything she had practiced with her mom. As you can probably tell, she wasn't in the utmost mood when she got out. Thus, she got out of there with no intentions of going home to a yelling mother. Suddenly, she heard a quiet noise in her left ear, like a discreet breath calling her. Obviously, as a stupidly curious child she followed the wind until she came upon a low key coffee shop that she had never seen before. When she smelled the cinnamon she couldn't help, but to go buy something freshly baked. Therefore she followed her stomach and went to the counter.

After a minute standing in line, she realized how everything was silent, but forgot about it when the barista asked what he could get for her. She casually asked for a cinnamon bun, however the man didn't answer and stayed still looking at her deep into the eyes. After a while she just got creeped out and started to leave, yet before she could he grabbed her harm and said "Don't go for too long or time will catch up with you." Then her vision blurred and she realized the worker was handing her the snack. She was startled, but still paid for it and went back home.