Chapter 3

It took a few days, but I eventually got the living conditions not so bad and most of the musky air out of the house. It kinda bummed me out the fact that even after 3 days, no one has answered to the site I set up for renting out the room. What did I expect though? It's a small town and normally people just pass through, or they work on trade at the market, what good would renting one room be? Especially when you have to pay a months worth at a time. Every night I wake up in a cold sweat and have no idea of what I dreamt about or I dream of nothing and constantly wake throughout the night.

Today I decided to go out and get groceries, I wasn't living off anything but ramen and some snacks I brought like granola bars and chips. It wasn't exactly the most healthy these couple of days...but what am I to do? Those few days were solely spent on cleaning, airing out, and getting rid of anything that I dIdn't want, wich was pretty much everything except for most of the furniture. I decided to sell all the stuff in good condition. I toss the stuff worth selling in the garage.

 The garage wasn't something I often went in, so I didn't focus on cleaning that much, already drained from the travel and lack of motivation in my life right now. It's not like I had much to hold onto anymore, I had friends back in the city, but they weren't too kind to me, I suspected they were only my friends as a joke since they never contacted me about anything but favors and often made fun of me when they thought I wasn't listening. The fact the were unfazed by my moving out of state only confirmed my fear.

Regardless I needed to stock up the house, the fridge was as bare as the pantry, well, after I cleared out all the expired items and just stuff I didn't trust to not kill me. There is surprisingly not very many bugs, as far as I can tell there wasn't too much damage to the house, at least I hoped not. There were a lot of spiders and some ants so far, and I think I've heard a couple of squeaks from above but if I'm going to be honest, I've been putting off entering the attic. I know it's important to check every room for things that could be dangerous since it's been so long, but I just can't bring myself to do it...that room has a lot of memories linked to it and in my opinion I should wait until I'm more calm and stable before opening that can of worms. it's not like I don't have plenty of work as it is without that right now anyway.

I didn't have a car yet, not trusting the old one in the garage I had to get rid of, the sight screaming that it was a danger just to turn it on. I decided it was a lot safer just to Walk there, the street wasn't that far away anyway, only like a street away, and I needed the fresh air and exercise anyway.

When I get there the parking lot was surprisingly small with only a few cars in it, it surprised me because I've lived in the city for a while now and their parking lots to the mall and stores were huge. This parking lot could maybe hold like 20 cars, and the store had barely anyone else here. It was a Wednesday though, so it makes sense I guess...

I walk inside, the door a manual one. The store was partially a gas station (Not much of a use to me obviously). The store was a normal size, not huge but not to small. They obviously specialize in the fresh foods like vegetables and fruits since there were a lot of people with gardens and a few farms scattered around, cuts of land dedicated to it. Cattle and other farm animals were less common here, only a few farms had cattle, but that meant those farms prioritize the animals and normally have smaller plant sections.

When I enter the store I had been reminded of this towns majority in plant production as I saw that the store was almost fully dedicated to crops and in the back was the smaller section of meat. The other foods were close by, the stores made it easier. From the left to right it goes from produce, to pantry and spice items, to cloths, then a few decorations. Drinks were near the frozen isles to the left. Although the store had a weird set up, it was by far more simple to find things just by me looking at it from here.

I grab a cart and trudge along to the left, deciding to start with food and make my way to more home stuff to replace the old things later. After I get all the stuff I needed from the food I go to the cleaning supplies then to home items. I get some scent spray of strawberries and something else too, so I can hopefully fix the scent, and a back-up candle that smelled of a forest-ish.

I eventually leave with a full cart and light wallet. I had to carry all the bags home and by the time I get there my legs are killing me. I get inside and take a while to sort and make sure everything is where it should be.

After I'm done with that I managed up the stairs and plop into bed before looking to the side and realizing I had left the computer open and on. Right before I close it I noticed that there was a response and sit up so quickly my back cracks. "O-Ouch.....but there's finally a response!" I click the button to open it, the excitement stirring in my chest and I can't help but smile with hope that this person can at least fill the dead, painful silence that has plagued this house.

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