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.545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLzRJNLr0Y7
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.545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqnm40DCWaW
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? 545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNJE7siuUDf
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.545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡipf20UEnoV
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.545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Lw3DkWhPC
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. 545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJtVsV962E5
-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.545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh5ETB53g4j
"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. 545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhjcKAlHWX4
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.545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN9usnbC2fg
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.545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2wAFvXEeOe
"No." He thought to himself. 545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ35TcoBC0xp
- No no no no.- he mumbled, with a pained expression on his face, and both hands on his head.545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1NceieBVkt
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.545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS7IKO8pFYc
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. 545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5vLICDmzNZ
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-". 545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJKXDFQvWeq
But he couldn't. He yanked his hand back in disgust, and turned around, walking for a bit. He kicked the small grass around.545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhJS5z6IF9A
-FUCK YOU!- He screamed.545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR5thwd4IfH
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.545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxFusdSinYx
-I don't really have any other choice, do I?- He mumbles to the baby.545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuEsPm5Niam
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.545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoxlYEcGmTf
-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.545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcU8BY9pv3c
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