Knocking.

Silence.

Knocking again.

I start to growl.

"Will you finally wake up?"

Knocking again.

"River?!"

"Calm down, River... Calm dow-"

"RIVER?!"

I suddenly sit up.

"Damn it... What? WHAT?!"

"Yaay, you are awake! Come on, let's go.
It's shopping tiiiime!"

"Oh dear god, no... My day is already doomed", I say smashing my face back on my pillow.

"River!"

I hear how Isabelle starts bumping at the door while screeching my name.

"Fine. Yes, I am coming. Give me a moment, please."

"Hmpf. Five minutes."

I sigh and get up to get ready.

"I could swear something is dead wrong with that woman... This behavior can't be normal anymore.
Nevermind."

* * *

I put my hood over my head and Isabelle greets me as soon as I enter the kitchen.
"Good morning, sunshine. "

"Yeah", I answer cold.

"What on earth is so good about this morning?"

I sit down and pull the piece of fabric at my mouth slightly down to eat the cereals, which are placed in a bowl in front of me.
I unobtrusively examine the room.

"Something feels odd like I missed something out... I can't remember. Did something happen?"

"Uhm. Where is Feycal? And what time is it anyways? "

"He is already at work and it's...", she takes a look at her watch and answers, "Ah. It's ten past six... Pretty late though."

'Ten past SIX? And LATE? Is this woman crazy?? I mean... For real?'

"This was a joke... Right?"

"Erm... No? Now hurry we need to go now."

"But, but...hhh nevermind."

* * *

I might be regretting eating the cereals in a rush...

"I am even incapable to eat food without hurting or attempting to kill myself...
Like, how am I supposed to be a ninja or whatever..."

Right now Isabelle is driving the car like a maniac while I sit in the back seat and get hurled from one site to the other.

In short:
I am suffering right now.

"Don't say that. Everyone has his own strengths. You have to be proud of it."

"What on earth is so GOOD about that incapability of eating properly?"

"You know what... It's a part of you. Either you do something about it or deal with it.
Just like with me now.
You are stuck with me."

"Oh yeah thank you for reminding me about that... Missy"

After an hour of driving on the country road which felt like a painful decade Isabelle parks in the wood behind a small house.

That woman grabs me by the hand and in the next moment she shoves me in the house.

It was pretty dark.

Like literally black.

I was about to turn around when I felt how someone nudges me from behind.

And the next moment I was falling down into the blackness itself.