Who: Alex Renshaw, Dee Waller What: What do you do when the world turns upside down? You go for a walk. When: Friday afternoon. Where: Park. Rating: PG-13 for language Status: Complete
The sky was dark - overcast was the word they'd used on TV - but it beat the inside of Gil's apartment. As sleek and expensive as that was, any interior felt dark and suffocating and Delilah welcomed the opportunity to escape for a while.
She lit up somewhere between the bus stop and the park bench and by the time Alex got there, she was already on her third. Cancer sticks. At least if she had control of her own death, they couldn't take it away from her.
For a second, she wondered if she looked any different. Did she have a flow chart of where she'd fallen and what she'd lost and how lost she felt - was it tattooed to her forehead? Branded like cattle. Fuck, they were cattle. They just didn't know it.
What did it matter how he saw her? In the end, they were all going to end in the same pathetic way. And if they were really lucky, they'd get some asshole to put their picture up on a wall.