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 or 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.

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 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, witch 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 to kind to me, I suspected they were only my friends to joke about it to their friends and once I left, no one reacted, confirming that they didn't actually care or think of me as someone worth an ounce of worry.

Regardless I needed to talk 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.

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 store 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 manually open door, which definitely wasn't really common in the City, though the store here had a gas station attached to it. (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 that were big areas dedicated to it. Cattle and other farm animals were less common here, only a few farms had it, but that meant they prioritize the animals and normally have smaller farms.

When I enter the store I had been reminded of it as I saw that the store on the left was almost fully dedicated to crops and next to it 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 in was 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 neck hurts. "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 excitement.

***Download NovelToon to enjoy a better reading experience!***