It was hot. The sun was as high as it could be. That usually means it's around midday. The middle of nowhere can be really tiresome to look at if you're dying of thirst. Barely any green, dry bushes, cactus and shitty brown hills that really aren't that special.
The man was left on the side of the road, abandoned by who he thought were some lousy chickens who couldn't do any fucking thing but follow the head of the group.535Please respect copyright.PENANAfuiHUiov6m
He woke up after some time, his lips were dry and some old wounds open. He sat up and searched his pockets with his hands while looking around. Nothing.535Please respect copyright.PENANAjDcvy1uffd
It was kind of like a desert, and yet it used to be a lake. Funny thing, this shithole of a universe, ain't it? 535Please respect copyright.PENANAmBBpXDg9ed
Suddenly, a wave of relief. they didn't take his cigarettes. Nor his lighter. Praised be the idiots who dumped him. It's already hard enough to find cigarettes, let alone a full lighter, and this one happened to be very important.535Please respect copyright.PENANAUP4SflytDs
He decided, with much willpower, to get up, and start walking. He saw a small example of what the lake used to be, and almost dragged himself to its encounter.535Please respect copyright.PENANAyaCsGJ5I7h
Finally, in its reach, the man let gravity do what it does best, and he fell flat on the floor, with his ugly face submerging in the water. After long seconds in, he lifted his face to breathe. 535Please respect copyright.PENANAeFtjFqhxNq
-Fuck!- The man says with a tone of relief.
He washes his face and his shaved head while thinking to himself "those ungrateful fucks...". He wasn't thinking of getting revenge. He understood quite well why they did what they did. It's not exactly rocket science. It's a funny shitty thing called karma. And this guy got plenty of it coming his way.535Please respect copyright.PENANA8RgGRzZaCc
"I should just get up and go." he thought. But at the same time, where would he go? He didn't have a car, nor food, nor something he could use to carry the water. 535Please respect copyright.PENANAXTh09xVr9e
The man turns around, facing the radiant, annoyingly bright sun, and lets out a scream. He wasn't quite desperate yet. He was only angry. Yes. This was just an angry scream.535Please respect copyright.PENANAbE1252PCPS
But lo and behold! Karma wasn't done yet for today. When he was about to fall asleep under the heat, he heard a cry, it was coming from some dry bushes at the bottom of a hill, not that far from where he was. He decided to go check if it was an animal.535Please respect copyright.PENANAkpfcNES3Qh
"No." He thought to himself. 535Please respect copyright.PENANAy0hxAPiXsz
- No no no no.- he mumbled, with a pained expression on his face, and both hands on his head.535Please respect copyright.PENANALFhFhW2yPN
He approaches the source of the noise and, squatting, sees for himself the mess he just put himself in.
-Just what I fucking needed.- He told himself, looking at the baby laid in front of him. It was very pink (probably due to the sun and heat), and was no newborn. It already had a handful of teeth in its mouth. It seemed like it was around a year old, with a diaper and a blanket around it.535Please respect copyright.PENANAo7c5yVhHbS
He placed his hand in front of his mouth and looked at his surroundings. He was thinking. "I don't have a gun. Those bastards left me my lighter but not a gun. Guess they thought I'd die. But I'm living. Way more then I wish.". His thoughts were interrupted by the sudden cough of this frail creature. 535Please respect copyright.PENANAm2n1g0asTS
He placed his other hand on the baby's neck and thought of suffocating him. "It'd be very quick. No one would even fucking notice. Do it. Just do it. What the fuck are ya waitin for? Ya did way worse to so many people! Go one! FUCKING KILL IT-". 535Please respect copyright.PENANA7UqBSXn549
But he couldn't. He yanked his hand back in disgust, and turned around, walking for a bit. He kicked the small grass around.535Please respect copyright.PENANAYl5tiC8f6K
-FUCK YOU!- He screamed.535Please respect copyright.PENANAAnDCEdJTJm
After letting his frustration out at the nothingness, he fell down on his ass. The baby was still crying. "I could just leave." He thought as he was getting up. "I could just ignore that a baby was ever here, no one would really blame me anyway." He continued his own planning, as he approached the dry bushes. "What would I do anyway? Raise the fucking thing? Me? Yeah right." The man holds the baby in his arms, looking straight at it.535Please respect copyright.PENANAvHU0uwbV4R
-I don't really have any other choice, do I?- He mumbles to the baby.535Please respect copyright.PENANAVyM3s9GfLw
The little one calms down, now in the arms of an adult. The man reaches for the river, and washes the baby off, then places it inside his jacket.535Please respect copyright.PENANAOS2PHZhFnb
-Yeah. None of us shitheads have a choice in this hellhole.- The man says, now walking up to the road, following its trail, hoping the next gas station ain't that far.535Please respect copyright.PENANAt5pPIDGWuv
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