The movie started and they sat normally again and watched the cartoon.
After the movie, it was around 6. Daniel showed Violet how to work the shower. As she did that, Daniel cooked dinner. He let Violet have a t-shirt and sweat pants that Lily had left over at the house a long time ago.
1 Sometime Karl and Lily would stay over and before anyone knew it, it would be 2 in the morning, and they just end up staying the night. Lucky for Violet.
Violet let the water run down her back. It’s been a while since she could relax, since she could laugh, since she knew she was getting food.
Warm nice food that would soon meet her belly, and she couldn’t help but to wonder if she had actually died in the ally way and Daniel was just an angel. It all seemed too good. It all seemed like it wasn’t real at all.
She started to sing in the shower:
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You heartbreaker654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJBQV4Jw9mL
Where ever you're going I'm going your way654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD4cd3raBir
Two drifters off to see the world654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkDrATCeDiN
There's such a lot of world to see654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeaCDankJWv
We're after the same rainbow's end654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJIPQIFHSjy
Waiting round the bend654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvxbMDyEwJi
My huckleberry friend654Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbIxFyk7teY
Moon river and me
Standing outside the bathroom door, Daniel heard Violet’s voice. He felt as though his heart had stopped. He came to knock on the door just to tell her about dinner being ready. He just stared. Her voice was nice, soft, and just simply breath-taking.
He knocked on the door. “Violet, dinner is ready.”
He heard the shower head stop. “Ok!” she said. Daniel went back downstairs and put the steam veggies in a bowl and the bake potatoes on a paper plate. Violet came down the stairs, with a towel scrubbing her hair.
The clothes looked loose and as if they were about to come off. He didn’t realize how skinny she was. Lily was small, but poor Violet was just bones.
“Food!” she screamed and took the plate. “I mean, thank you.”
He smiled. “It’s no problem.”
She stabbed the food and started chewing away. Daniel found himself studying her. She didn’t look like she had a problem eating food. It looked like she had a problem with finding food. How could he let her go back to the cold streets again? How could he let this little girl just end up in the same place weeks later.
“The snow is melting,” he said looking down. They both sat down at the kitchen table. When Violet heard him, she stopped eating so fast.
“Yeah,” she mumbled.
“Where will you go?”
“I’ll find a place.”
“You sure? I can help you find a place. What about your family?”
She shook her head. “No family. If any blood related, they are back in Colorado Springs I suppose. Horrible place to grow up in if you’re poor.”
“You were poor?”
“Poorish,” she said taking another bite.
“Well, it’s horrible to grow up poor anything.”
She shrugged her shoulders. “I suppose.”
“Do you have any family?”
“I don’t know.”
“Do you miss them?”
“No.”
“Why did you run away?” he asked.
She looked up. “Who said I ran away?”
“Did you?”
She smirked and nodded. “Yeah, I did.”
“Why?”
“Just wanted to be my own person, ok?”
“How old were you when you ran away?”
She paused. “13,” she said.
His month dropped. “13? You’re telling me you’ve been homeless all these years?”
“No, not all those years, I couched hopped, I had foster families, I had places. I was okay. It was better than where I was.”
“Where you . . . . abused?” he asked.
She narrowed her eyes. “What’s with all these stupid questions?” she asked.
“I just want to know what’s going on. I just want to help,” he said.
Violet looked him in the eyes for the longest time. She seemed to give a smile. “You’re one of the good ones. I can tell. You’re a good person.”
He smiled. “Thank you.”
“But you don’t need to help me, okay? I’ll be okay. I’ll be fine. You don’t need to worry about a little homeless girl. No one does anyways,” she said. “But I am thankful for you helping me.”
He nodded. They ate their dinner without any more deep questions. They went to small talk. Asked about views on little things. What type of books they liked. What type of foods they wished they could have. Just the littlest of questions.
“If you had to live on one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be?” Daniel asked.
She seemed to smile ear to ear. “Jellybeans. You?”
“Cherries.”
“What an odd couple we are, don’t you think; Jellybeans and Cherries. Why Cherries, Doc?”
He shrugged. “I just like the taste,” he answered. “What about you Miss Jellybean?”
She smiled, looking down, as if she was lost in a memory. “My grandmother use to give me jellybeans all the time when I was little. When I was scared, I would hide in a closet, or under a desk, and I could take the jar of jellybeans and I would eat them. They relaxed me, they gave me a tiny bit of joy in my life, even if it was just for a few seconds.”
Daniel half smiled, and gave these sorry eyes. “Why were you scared?”
“Parents. They always fought. Screamed at each other actually, and when you’re a little kid, you just don’t understand why the adults in your life are doing that.”
He nodded. “I hate yelling.”
“Me too.”
“So you like jellybeans?”
She nodded. “The yellow ones are my favorite.”
“Gross, I hate the yellow ones.”
“And that’s why I will always side with the yellow jellybean,” she said laughing. “Because no one else what’s to be their friend.”
“Uh?”
“I feel like the yellow jellybean a lot of the times,” she said looking down. She shook off the thoughts.
“Don’t worry, I do too,” Daniel said. Violet gave a smile and nodded. “You like cherries?”
“No.”
He raised eyebrow and asked, “Why not?”
“Because I knew a little girl who died and her last name was Cherrie.”
Daniel stared for a while. He wasn’t sure how to reply. “So, are you going to watch another movie?”
Violet shook her head. “I think I’m going to go to bed early tonight, I am so tired.”
Daniel nodded. “Me too.”
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