Let's live a little bit longer [SET IT OFF]

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"Do you want something else?", questioningly looked the Teenager at me, whose career began at McDonalds and will probably end here. I love it when this happens. You can see this despair in their eyes. Glorious.

"No, that's all.", Smiling, I nodded to him as he finished my order and I took the two large cups of milk shakes in my arms. Nothing helps better than a milkshake at ... I suspect  lovesickness. That would make the most sense with him.

So I left him alone in the alley when he had calmed down a bit and went to the nearest fast food store, that seemed familiar to me. It shouldn't surprise anyone that it was McDonalds. I don't quite know if it was a good idea to let him alone, but I was only five minutes away from him. I hope he hasn't got a panic attack in the few minutes or turned on the phone again.  It only pulls him down even more.

"Okay, that's all, good evening," I jerked briefly as the boy pushed the two bags  of food over to me. Halfheartedly, I gave him a short smile and said goodbye, North German as I was, with a short nod. Which made him nod in confusion. 

I left the store again and looked to the sky to the cloud cover that had come. Maybe it would have been better if I had taken him with me. At least it didn't smell like rain and the clouds passed by relatively quickly.
 " A little bit of rain would fit perfectly to his mood," I murmured to myself and didn't really trust the whole thing. It will probably rain by my luck.

I arrived at the same alley a few minutes later, where I had left Cody behind, but for my big surprise he wasn't there anymore.

"That ... I'm going to kill him!" I put down swearing the two bags and checked to see if he hadn't hid somewhere. I looked even in the dustbin! Unfortunately, he wasn't there, but I think his dead body will fit in when I strangle him.
I lost Cody Charles Carson in a small town while he has a down phase ... I am delivered. The others will kill me. You trust him so much that you leave him alone for a few minutes and what does he do? He disappears! 

I looked around the alley for the last time. Maybe there was some clues where he would be, but here was just garbage and the old sofa.
Well, he broke one of my rules already. Maybe he also disobeyed that  thing with the phone. Hastily, I rummaged my phone out of my coat pocket and had an unread message: "I'm on the playground by the swings.".

I still kill him.

In those few minutes of panic and the run to this playground, I burned at least so many calories that I could easily start  as a Victoria Secrets Model in few days. That's how I felt at least as I tried to get through the last few yards to the playground. How could I run ten kilometers nine years ago?

 Panting and at the end of my strength, I approached the swing, where Cody was sitting and gently rocking back and forth.

"Tell me ... a good reason ... why I shouldn't kick you off the ... swing." For those who try to be angry, but at the same time have just run a marathon, that doesn't work so well. So I stood with my hands on my hip in front of him and gasped for air.

 Guiltily, he glanced up from his white sneakers and stopped swinging, "Sorry ... I ... The alley was too depressing for me at some point." Still angry, I crossed my arms in front of him, but he was right with what he said. So I relaxed them and went to the swing next to him, sat on it and gave him his bag.

"It's okay ... You were just suddenly gone and I didn't know where you were." Coughing picked I up the milk shake and drank from it.

"I didn't want to worry you ... That was not my intention."  He smiled embrassed at me briefly before he opened the bag and took out the cheeseburger. Almost ten years ago and I still remember he would kill for a cheeseburger.