Save Me

two

I knew what I had to do, and it kills me every time I do. My parents raised me as a good child but what am I supposed to do? I will die if I don't eat.

I had to steal.

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[Olivia's POV]

The warm summer air blew against my face as I stepped outside my foster house, summers in New York were so lovely.

John and Trish own a small house just a 20 min walk from the city. Normally on a weekday the streets would be less busy because of all of the children at school and adults are work but it being Saturday the streets were filled with cars.

I passed by my school, City High School. Weekdays were wonderful, I was distracted by school work so I hardly felt hunger pains and was away from home for 8 hours. They didn't give me lunch money so I didn't have a chance to eat unfortunately. Saturday was still somewhat enjoyable because John and Trish still had to go to work, but I was at the house and I never felt comfortable there.

I felt another pain in my stomach, I needed something to eat fast. I decided to go to a place in the city that had a large variety of foods and was a big enough store that stealing a meal would be easy to do.

I passed by lots of interesting buildings on my way there, it seemed like there was always something happening in the city.

I walked down the busy streets until I reached a local store with a self serve restaurant in it. In this place you could walk around and buy food to take and eat at little tables outside. It was called the 'bread garden'.

It was busy this time of day, everyone was buying cold drinks and salads to keep cool on the warm day. I didn't care what I got, as long as it was something.

I traveled to the back of the store and found a large variety of sandwiches wrapped in saran wrap. I grab one labeled 'chicken and provolone'. I shoved it in my pocket hoping the bulge wasn't noticeable and began to walk down the isle with my meal.

I was almost at the end of the isle when I heard a man's voice say.

"What are you doing?"

I stopped abruptly thinking I was caught. What would John and Trish do if they found out I was stealing food? I already began to imagine all of the bruises and injuries I would get from their beatings.

I slowly turned around to see a man with long dark hair walking towards me. A few things surprised me about him. First, he wasn't an employee. Second, his face didn't look angry, concern was plastered into his eyes.

What was he going to do to me?

hello everyone, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. sorry it was so short I wanted to leave it off on a cliffhanger. Who do you think the man is? Although it is fairly obvious by the description of his hair (;

What do you think is going to happen to Olivia? Will this main turn her in, or let her steal the sandwich, or any other ideas that you guys have?

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