stranger

one. the mallboy

"What doesn't kill you simply makes you.. stranger"
-the joker

Brown hair hid half of her face, but he could see she was smiling. He just made a lame joke when he scanned the things she wanted to buy. She had looked sad so he tried to be as cheerful as he could. As he scanned the cigarettes he beeped and looked at her with mocked suspicion
"are you sure you are really eighteen?"
He already asked her to show her ID three times, with every beer can. She smiled again. "I'm pretty sure, need to check my ID?"
"Well.."
"you serious?"
"Underage smoking is a pretty serieus problem miss."
He tried to sound angry but seeing her smile made him laugh too. She said
"well then, could you put the cigarettes back please, it's a bad habit anyways"
Now it was his turn to say
"you serious?"
"Yeah, I should quit"
"who are you?"
He said, suddely curious. She reached him her hand, which he shook and she said.

"Hi, I'm stranger"