07. Robbing her is bad idea
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She glanced towards sky that was slowly darkening and pointed at bunch of pads. "How much?"
The two children were stunned and smiled happily. The boy blushed and girl quickly spoke. "One package one point."
Fran had no wish to run around anymore and pointed at full bag of those. "How many you have?"
"Twenty packs." Girl gaped as she took out two ten papers and gave her the bag.
Fran just waved at the two children and rushed back towards the first table and saw the man packing. "How much for ten bags?"
"Fifty points." He really just wanted to get rid of these things.
"Deal." She took out fifty points but saw him stuffing last two bags inside as well and wordlessly pushed the bag towards her.
With bags in her hands and backpack on her back, she rushed towards her home as the night got darker.
She had no light and hunger made her dizzy.
But then remebered that there is canteen that she wanted to visit in the first place.
She was in quiet street with no one around and the bags dissapeard suddenly. There was no need to carry those things in her hands if she had space.
Again in the street where she met Steven, she looked at canteen and saw it was seriously full. But that didn't stop her to align and wait for her turn.
Even from far she could hear or see the prices.
Noodles with bacon and cheese was whopping ten point! Pickled vegetables were five points each! Some strange thing they called meat was even fifty points.
She looked at yellow thing that seemingly were eggs and the only green thing that looked fresh was something like lettuce.
There is do much land. Why is no one planting vegetables? Are they so lazy???
As she loved rumors she stopped forward and heard something it helped her understand.
"I heard again the plants mutated. Only few grew normally. It will be again a year without fresh vegetables."
"It seems some use mutated vegetables as well and just add more seasonings."
"I tasted mutated vegetables. They taste like dust. You eat them, but they have only strange heavy taste and no filling. Two hours later I was hungry again."
"Pfff, you probably just ate few mouthful. My friend is using mutated vegetables for a while and except that they are tasteless, there is no other problem with it."
They argued what is better, but still walked towards the counter where they had the food.
Fran knew that she had to try everything in this world so she ordered everything they had and was about to leave when a huge man stepped on her path.
"It seems you have money. Give it to me." He barked at her.
Fran calmly shook her head. "I spent my money now."
He gave her feroicious glare and waved hand. "Hannah, check her out."
Hanna opened her bag, empty.
Fran pokers... empty.
Her clothes... empty.
"She really spent it all on food. How wasteful." The woman tried taking the good from her hands but froze as she saw her ice cold stare.
Fran glanced at the man and pointed at canteen. "Go inside and try to rob someone else."
He grabbed her hand and was about to pull as he felt knife on his neck. His eyes constricted and he gaped. "You wouldn't dare."
"You dare to rob me, I dare to kill you as self-defense." Fran actually never harmed anyone ever again, but she was one of rare people that spent her free time looking at those old movies.
As her face was covered and only two glacial eyes stared at him, he felt shiver pass his spine. He thought she definitely will do as she said, so he slowly pulled back.
Unfortunately for him, Fran suddenly felt like she should do some payback. "Give me your points or your life."
He glanced one more time into those cold eyes and with shaky hands took out bundle of papers that was on his clothes.
I watched too many movies. He hides more.
She scoffed. ''You think I'm dumb? Give me those you hid as well."
The blade was quite sharp and it cut him tiny bit. A metallic smell of blood reached Fran and she almost gave up, but knew if she doesn't finish this, it would be her failure.
He pushed his hand into his clothes and clumsily threw few bundles in ground.
Fran pushed his head away and then kicked his chin with her knee. "Next time you try to rob someone, he or she might not have just sharp knife like I do. They might just do you worse. You are lucky I didn't put poison on my blade. Or who knows what could have happened to you. No go. Or I might change my mind and use my other knife."
Other knife?
He gulped loudly and rushed away, followed by the woman. But just as she glanced to the floor, she saw pair of child hands picking up the bundles.
"Here, for you." Cute child with big brown eyes stared at her with smile and hands filled with bundles.
Fran took the bundles and saw a woman that smiled at her. With a chuckle she pushed one bundle into child's hands and picked up her food not looking at child's baffled expression.
"Mother..." She rushed to her mother and saw that even she was stunned.
"If she gives, take. There is no such thing as modesty in today's world. Let's go home, your father must be hungry." She took her bag and the girl and rushed back home.
But as they walked, they realized that the covered girl walked straight into their street.
"Mom, look, auntie is living in the same street. I told you I saw her before we left."
The child chirping echoed in the silent street and Fran turned around and glanced at the child. "You live here as well?"
She nodded with big grin. "We are house next to yours."
Next to hers? But all houses were literally looking horrible. Impossible they let those grasses grow that much and not do anything about it.
Right? Right??
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