Alexander Read and Lacey Black

Something Fishy

C2

We arrived at the store about 5 minutes after we chatted for a while. She had asked me where I lived and I said pretty close to you actually. As you can tell, I don't trust many people. Especially not out here where I barely know anyone.

We both went in at the same time, noticing there had been a lot of homeless and adults outside doing chess. There was one person who stuck out between the homeless, it had been the same man that tried to touch Lacey in a very set way that I hate.

We were now inside of the store, and I could tell it was probably going to be out of business soon. The walls and floor had been vandalized, the roof was barely keeping bugs out. But it was still manageable.. If you get me?

"Here's this milk..." I heard Lacey shout at the back.

I followed her voice and saw her standing by the cereal section with the dairy products behind her.

"Good thing it's right next to you.. Wouldn't want that guy sneaking up on you again." I said, not knowing I said that out loud.

"H-hey! I can take care of myself a little.." Lacey said, glaring at me with her cheeks red.

"Then should I stop trying to protect you?" I said, getting the milk mom had asked for. Only medium sized is fine I'm sure. I don't drink milk much, and we'd only use it for cereal and oatmeal.

"N-no.. I just thought you would've run away.." She said, kneeling down to get a box.

I looked over, and saw she had been looking at all the boxes one by one. Guess she's having a hard time picking one..

Does she like all of them?

I closed the door with the dairy products, turning outside the window next to us. Only being seen by the same man that touched Lacey again. He was right in front of the glass window, although he wasn't looking at me. No, he was looking down at something. I tried pinpointing where the guy was staring which lent my eyes down at Lacey's bottom.

"Hey! Can you give me a hand.." I heard Lacey shout, waving her hand towards me. She turned her head and saw me staring at her, which made me feel totally awkward.

Being frozen in place, I totally thought she was gonna punch me. But she didn't- she just stared at me.

"Hey! What's wrong? Are you gonna help or what-?!" She yelled at me.

"Yeah, yeah. My bad." I said, jogging towards her. Bending down on my knees to get a better view at what she was looking for.

"Soo, what cereal do you think looks good..?" She asked me, now facing the cereal section. What's weird is the fact that the furniture looks nice, but the building itself looks run down.

"Uhh.. I'm not exactly sure..?" I said, looking at ones I thought Lacey might like.

"Is there.. A type of cereal you like?" She asked, looking straight at me.

"Hm.. Lemme see-." I said, looking for cereal that I had at home.

I then came across what's called "CoCo Crunch." It's made by SurCoDev Inc. I heard they make all types of Factories and businesses, and they make good food. Exactly the type of cereal you'd want, it's kinda like sweetened oatmeal with chocolate and berries inside.

"This one." I said, pointing at the box of CoCo Crunch. There were only 3 varieties of it, but in total there were many flavors and different boxes, about 20 in total. In total that is, but what they have here are Red and Pink Berry flavor, Marshmello and Yellow Grain, and All Blue Berry Cream. I picked out All Blue Berry Cream, it's pretty good. It has small balls of crunchy cereal, with blueberry cream inside of it.