AllFreeNovel
Share Us
People are strange. When you show them yo
ur flaw, they don’t know what to do with you, and finally, they leave you. It’s a good thing I’m used to being alone.
Chapter 6
Past
Age 8
I’m hungry.
I’m hungry, but there’s nothing to eat in the house. My mom hasn’t gone out shopping. She’s been so busy praying in her room. I drink some water and decide to go out.
Lying down behind the blackberry bushes, my usual place, I look at the sky. It’s grey today. It’s always raining when the sky is grey. I don’t like rain so much, especially if there’s thunder.
I watch the clouds and eat blackberries. They are tasty.
“My mom says you shouldn’t eat anything before washing them,” a boy says behind me.
I turn to face him. I saw him once in the house across the road. I hear his laughter, and I don’t like him because of it. He always sounds happy even when I’m not.
“My mom doesn’t say that,” I protest. I don’t tell him my mom doesn’t even know that I’m eating these or that I’m sneaking out of the house.
He nods and walks closer to me. “Wanna eat some?” he asks, stretching his hand out.
I smile when I see the chocolate. I haven’t eaten chocolate for so long. I look at him, half hoping he’ll take the chocolate back. He grinds his foot on the floor like he’s embarrassed. I smile at his shy expression. Maybe he’s not a bad kid. I nod as an answer and take the chocolate he’s offered.
“Thank you,” I murmur and lay down to the grass to keep watching the sky.
“What are you looking at?” he asks after a while, lying next to me.
“The clouds. They look angry, and they’re chasing each other.”
I feel him looking at me, but I don’t turn my head away from the clouds.
“Sometimes I look at the clouds, too. When it’s sunny. They look like animals then,” he says.
I nod, even though I have never seen a cloud that looks like an animal and put the last piece of chocolate in my mouth. It tastes so good, even better than I remembered. Sucking my fingers into my mouth, I devour the taste. I hope I can eat it again sometime soon.
He tears another piece of chocolate and gives it to me.
I shake my head. “No, it’s yours,” I say, even though I really want another piece.
“My mom doesn’t let me eat all of it by myself anyway. It’s good that I’m sharing with you,” he says, smiling. One of his front teeth is missing.
I finally take it and smile at him. He seems nice, he can be my friend I think. I don’t have any friends.
“What’s your name?” I ask.
“Nick. Yours?”
“Veronica.”
He grins. “That’s so cool. I’m Nick, and I can call you Nikki.”
I think about it a little. I like that. I nod and beam at him.
“We can be best friends, Nikki,” he says.
