Running out a time

"Can you tell Jimmy I won't make it to work today?"

"Why?" Jenna stopped.

"Just tell him I'm not feeling well."

Jenna rolled her eyes.

I waited until both she and Cooper left, before leaving as well.

I had a mission to do and I can't let them know what I had planned.

"Stupid lock," I muttered, forcing the rusting thing together.

Even though we had little, that still wouldn't stop someone from looting our place, or Martin might move a new family in.

I walked to a familiar area of the city, one that anybody would stay clear of. But not me. I walked down the piss smelling street to the house that I haven't been in for years.

I cast another nervous glance over my shoulder, after thinking that I heard footsteps behind her in the alley.

'Am I being followed or paranoid?'

I now wished I had never come here, but me being me. I don't listen and continue to be a fuckup.

I heard a laugh coming from