Abby's Diary #002

2014/04/26 Day 1 - afternoon [...] Abigel has been reading the poster over and over again. In truth she did not see the letters, just struggled to keep the tears dropping from her eyes, blinking repeatedly. [...] She stands and stares inside the pizza place, her head swaying from hunger. She looks at the people that come and go with the delicious slices of heaven and swallows hard. [...] She keeps staring at the pizzas through the window, her last 5 dollar bill getting crumpled in her hand as she holds it tightly, tears gathering in her eyes as she rocks back and forth. Maynard Selby (allacarrd) only took passing notice of the woman staring into Pizza Slut. There was a time when he would have gone over, being for all purposes a rather nice boyscout-sort. But the time in the city had made him develop a sort of callousness... not yet outwardly malicious for no reason. He was just no longer interested. He'd continue on to the station. The girl wipes her eyes with an absent move. Her head swaying from hunger she finally enters the pizza place, softly talking to the server. She brightens up and gets to keep her money, walking outside with a free pizza in her hand and a wide grin on her face. The pizza lasts for five seconds and she exhales slowly as she looks around, wondering how to start the search for her grandfather. ---