🍬 OUR MUSES discover a bag of abandoned Halloween sweets.
Halloween Starters | Accepting
The newborn past-time of scrounging around through other people’s shit just to find a much needed form of sustenance came easily enough when there was someone else there to scrounge with you. He’d no idea what she came to look for, but the general consensus was that they’d finally found a house that bore some sense of hope for finding things that really mattered for their survival.
They worked along the perimeter of the first room. Despite their differences regarding what to loot within the goldmine of a home, they both decided that one thing would be the most important find of them all: FOOD. Any kind of canned good, or preserved concession would count as fair game to the finder. So say the least, it was a race to whomever uncovered whatever food was irresponsibly left behind.
Finders keepers, loosers die.
He’d felt her quick-moving frame directly behind him when his eyes moved over a partially crumpled paper bag. It featured a faded print of skeletons and jack-o-lanterns covering its dirty exterior. He hoped she wouldn’t notice it wedged between the cushions of a dust-covered couch.
He all but jumped over the back of the couch to reach for the bag. But where his hand should have closed over the soft paper, he only felt the cold, thin outline of delicate finger-bones under soft skin. She’d reached the bag first.
He clenched his hand over hers. “It’s mine,” he growled. “I found it first, now let go!”
Ivakir snarled in close proximity to his face. Abe’s eyes narrowed. “I swear to God, woman, I will break every bone in this Goddamn hand if you don’t let go.”
She laughed maniacally and made to bite at his face. “Fool!” She shouted. “Idiot! You will surely lose!” Her hand wriggled under his sweaty and tightened grip and he struggled in his awkward reach over the back of the couch.
“JESUS!....” A sharp pain echoed in his leg where she’d forcefully kicked him, the brief second allowing her to remove her hand from his grip and run away quickly with the bag of candy. “DIRTY!...” He yelled with a strained voice. “YOU FIGHT DIRTY, WOMAN!!”