25- Stranger Danger

I spent the night disarming and building again that "homemade" microscope that I built, just to be sure I get those schematics in my brain.

Finally 6 in the morning arrived. And I received a message.

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-Hi Cecile, good morning.

-Hi Alan, how was the night for you and F.

-Pretty much standard, I... well, I fell asleep when I was checking on her in the night, but from what I'm looking she seems to be fine, she hasn't wake up yet.

-When she wakes up please tell her I say hello.

-Sure thing.

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I then went to have some breakfast as I was dying of hunger. I was hungry just when I got out of Mildred's "house" and I had to endure it until morning, I could have eaten something in the night but that would just mess up my eating schedule, then I'll be hungry every day at 3 am... who eats at 3 am?.

After eating my Cereal that somehow always ends up spilling out of the bowl no matter how little milk I use, I take a bath.

During the stream of barely hot water my mind goes paranoid, I start thinking about all the stuff with Mildred, Specially regarding, how she FUCKING guessed my number.... why?! why does she want to talk to me THAT much?!. Why the need to try and guess a number from 0, even more, trying up to 80 times?! why?!, even a psychopath would have given up at try 5 or something!.

I Really don't know what is wrong with that girl, she seems to... REALLY want me to be her friend... at least I hope she is okay with just friend.

I mean I could clearly defend myself if something...wrong happened but... it's not like I want to take someone's life...

This is... really stupid, and Dangerous, and mostly is just me having intrusive thoughts but... I need to see her again, just so we can clarify things, I don't want to have the need to watch over corners or shadows in my blind spots making sure she isn't following me or... in...my..... house....

-COME OUTSIDE I KNOW YOU ARE HERE!!.

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...

She wasn't... thank god.

I went out of the shower, while drying my hair I look at my phone sitting on the table. Thinking, but not resolving in my head If I should call or not, call ends up winning after my hair is done.

I didn't save the phone number earlier, it is still a strange number... suits pretty well.

I press the call button, i was thinking that most likely she would already be on the other line waiting for me to call her with her phone on her ear already.

To my surprise, nobody answered.

After a couple of minutes I tried once again, this time, after some time, finally somebody picked up.

-Hello?.

-Hi, it's me.

-Oh, hiii (⁠✿⁠^⁠‿⁠^⁠), sorry I didn't pick up early, I was taking a bath but now I am out... and half dry.

-Oh, sorry for bothering in your shower.

-No need to worry silly haha, anyway, did something happen? I didn't expect you to call me (⁠＠⁠_⁠＠⁠;⁠).

-Not much, I was just... thinking of some stuff... I want to... well, talk to you in person, so, remember when you said we should hang out?, I'd appreciate if we can have that as fast as possible.

-Oh myyy, surely!, we can go out today if you want to, where do you wanna go?.

-Well...I don't know, I expected you to know where to go since it was your idea.

- I have multiple ideas! (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠), that is why I wanted to know what do you think, I think something simple would do, do you want to out walking in the park?.

-(we have a park?) Well, surely, sounds fine to me.

-Perfect!, both of us should bring in some food so we can eat at the park, we'll improvise a picnic (⁠◕⁠ᴗ⁠◕⁠✿⁠).

-I uh... yeah sounds fantastic.

-Wonderful, I'll see you then.

She hangs out.

...

... We didn't even agree in the time to mee-

🎵Oh the misery~

-Hello?

-Oh hi I realized we didn't agree on the time to meet haha (⁠•⁠ ⁠▽⁠ ⁠•⁠;⁠). sorry for that.

-Don't worry, when do we meet then?

-Would you like 1 pm?

-I.... well I don't really like the sun you see.

-Oh then we'll meet at night... again.

-Nono don't worry about that, I usually don't go out during the day, but today I kinda... want to see you as soon as possible. (I don't feel safe with meeting her at night really)

- ⁄⁠(⁠⁄⁠ ⁠⁄⁠•⁠⁄⁠-⁠⁄⁠•⁠⁄⁠ ⁠⁄⁠)⁠⁄.

-Mildred?, are you there?.

-Y-yep I'm h-here what's wrong? haha.

-Well what do you think?.

-A-about what? haha (⁠´⁠-⁠﹏⁠-⁠`⁠;⁠).

-About our meeting time.

-Oh y-yeah right... *clears throat* well I think noon or 1 pm sounds good, I can have time to get some tasty food for us and... stuff...(⁠^⁠～⁠^⁠;⁠)⁠ゞ.

-1 Pm sounds good to me.

-Wonderful, I'll see you then HA...HA...

*phone call ended*.

That was... weird.

it's... 8 am according to what I think it's my wrist clock, I don't know, I can barely see, I forgot my glasses.

I guess it's my turn to get ready for this.

She said to bring food but... what?.

I mean my "food" is stuff I buy from the supermarket that either require just boiling water or learning how to open a potato chips bag.

I don't think that is something you bring to a picnic, I don't even know what a fucking picnic is. I'd never had one in my life.

*Cecile unlocks her phone and goes to the internet*

What is a picnic?.

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That's it?! it's just eating food!, sitting uncomfortably in the ground and having to deal with insects?!.

WHY DO PEOPLE EVEN LIKE THIS?!?!

Anyway.... the stupidity of these actions is just a minor detail, my goal here is for me to not fear for my life every night, and one of the steps to do it is archiving a friendship status with her, I need to make a good impression.

I was going to say "first impression" but the first one was me getting scammed and possibly brain washed.....I still need to ask about that.

I guess some... I don't know... sandwich?. I still need to go get all the stuff to get them but at least is something I THINK I can do.

Unfortunately, I am not suited for going outside regarding my clothes, I have only 3 shirts and 2 pants. and I only use those pants when I'm at work and when I haven't taken a shower after coming home. I usually just use a random shirt with what ever underwear I find in my closet.

And I already took a bath so... I guess I'll just put on one of my pants to get to the store.

so to do this stuff is mayo and... bread and....

Isn't like everything else optional? I mean I could just buy mayo and forget about everything else.

Then again, that would make me a horrible person.

I guess some meat and idunno, cheese, would do. I'll add some chips too, no sandwich can be complete without a couple of chips inside*

*actual scientific fact

I walked really fast to the store not gonna lie, the sun was hitting the back of my neck and my face felt like it was burning. I really don't like the day.

While I was getting everything from the store I was thinking about... you know, since the sun is hitting my neck, perhaps I could let it grow... I wonder if I would look good with a long hair.

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I wonder if I would look good in any way whatsoever.

After paying all the stuff and almost running to my house coming from the store i finally managed to reach inside my house, the relief I felt when getting some cover from the sun felt so outstandingly amazing I can't even begin to explain it in words.

I was going to prepare the sandwiches but I realized that there was still 4 hours left untill 1 pm.

To spend time, I got back to my closet and looked at my shirts, thinking if somehow one of them actually looked good.

None did

That is one of the other reasons I only go out at night, if it's fresh outside I can just put my sweater on and don't worry about how my shirts look like.

It's hot outside so I can't have my sweater on.

Uuuuuuuuuuugh why do I have to go ooouuuut?!

I have to waste my time until late so I just spent the rest of it reading one of the books I had pending since 3 months ago... I don't even remember what it was about so this should be interesting.

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Finally the time comes, after getting the sandwiches done and wrapping them in a bag along the chips, I look in my phone for where is the nearest Park. I suppose that we only have one so that should be the one.

According to the map it should take me 30 minutes to reach it by walking.... yay.

I finally decided to just go with what I had already on me regarding clothes.

On my purse I just added my eye drops, my phone and some pills for a headache since I know well what kind of situation I'm going to get into.

The walk to the park wasn't as bad as I thought, in the morning the sky was clear and the sun was intense, now, the sky is cloudy and the heats is almost gone, fresh air is coming from the west and it's making me quite.... comfortable... I wouldn't mind if this was the whole day.

I reach the entrance of the park, there's surprisingly not many people around. looking inside the park I can barely see a couple of people just hanging around or 2-3 kids playing with each other.

I thought it was going to be crowded but this is actually... quite nice.

I send a message to Mildred.

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-I'm already at the park.

Just wondering when will you arrive.

-Oh I'm almost there don't worry!.

I'm like 3 streets away!

I'll try to go a little faster, please don't leave.

-I won't, don't worry.

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"Please don't leave"....

Faraday...

I should call Alan after we are done here.

Well... she said she was 3 streets from here, maybe I can see her in the distance?.

I raise my head to try and find something.... unusual, and I find it.

at the distance I can see Mildred running with a basket on her arm, it's moving around all around her arm, surprisingly, it doesn't open.

Mildred is using a white dress, sandals, and she changed her hair dramatically, went from long regular hair to a curly style, she looks surprisingly good.

She sees me after getting close enough, she starts waving at me while still running, she steps on her dress and falls face first to the ground.

I can barely hold my laughter.

-Y-you good?.

-Auchi. yep I'm good (⁠•⁠ ⁠▽⁠ ⁠•⁠;⁠).

She says while her face is red from the fall.

-Let's get inside so we can have our picnic (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠).

-Sure.