My Stalker

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The weathers getting colder, leaves are beginning to fall of tree's, I sill remember fall as a child. I miss mama's caramel apples, the pumpkin seeds, the sweet smells of her baking. I would give anything to be back there, back in her arms. 

It has been unusually quiet this last week, there has been no screaming outside on the streets, something I had become very used to. Chances that the crime rate is lowered it out of the question, none of these corrupt cops would dare to put a stop to the nightly occurrence, the quietness is starting to worry me. This means something new is occurring, something that we will likely have no control over. 

This year I had saved up enough to get a coat, my first one in years, the coat was thick and warm. The little things are what makes me the happiest and knowing I will stay warm this winter makes me filled with joy. Then the joy stopped, it happened again, the man I ran into a week ago was before me again staring into my soul just like before. His mere presence could cause me to tremble. 

I lowered my head again and quickly walked off, I had a free day again due to the cities lack of properties needing emptied, come this spring the numbers will sky rocket, especially if this winter is as bad as the previous. I need to spend what I have left of today searching for work. I barely made it last year with doing snow removal, with bills increasing I don't know if I could make it this winter. 

As the darkness started creeping in I had only managed to find three businesses hiring for this winter, if i'm lucky at least one of them will give me an interview and possibly a job. The one that seems the most promising was a little bakery and coffee shop, the smells reminded me of home, and personally i'm a huge coffee fan when i can afford to splurge and get myself a cup. The plan for tomorrow is to get straight there and hope to speak to the owner, with it only being a short 15 minute walk that place would be ideal. If someone else was selected theirs always the factories, their only issue is they don't usually hire women due to us being "weak". I'm so tired of being told what I can't do and i want nothing more than to escape, go somewhere the water flows freely, the birds sing every morning, somewhere the trees whisper as the wind blows.

The sound of my alarm lets me know its time to start my day,  I take a fast shower to smell nice, I picked out one of my nicer outfits, and was ready to head  out for the day. I made great time getting to the bakery and just to my luck I was the first there, I have never had such luck my entire time living in this city, I pulled the door open with a smile on my face. My smile stopped as I saw the owner almost shaking, " Adeline right?" her shaky voice asked "Yes ma'am" "You have the job" as the words came out of her mouth her eyes lowered to the floor. The excitement washed over me, life seemed to finally be on my side for once!