It was getting dark out.Jenny waved goodbye to her closest girlfriend,Heather.Heathers' tall willowy body seemed to become absorbed into the night as Jenny watched her friend disappear.She turned slowly and lowered her arm.With a white knuckle grip she clutched her hand purse.She hated being left alone,but it couldn't be helped,Heather had to go on another drug run.Jenny fingered the clasp of the black clutch purse nervously.She wondered just what she had gotten herself into.She was supposed to be on the lookout,for a sign,some flashing lights.All she could see was the broken down tenements and surrounding neighborhood.She saw activity in the distance and she heard what sounded like a scuffle,not too far from her position.She crouched further back into the shadows that became long and formless as the sky darkened from the dusk.Flashing lights was what she wanted to see.She scanned the horizon again.A rat scuttled over her feet causing her to startle . She stifled a small frightened gasp and bruised her back against the concrete structure she was standing next to.She cursed softly and watched the vermin scurry to parts unknown,into a void.She thought she saw a male figure running into the streets quickly enclosed by the old apartments that leaned and hovered like sleeping vultures.She heard the wind blowing through some of the empty hollow buildings.Temperature was dropping,Jenny could feel her skin growing goose pimply and she shivered a little.Hot days cold nights,she could never get used to the dramatic changes in the weather .
With some resolution and more than a little determination Jenny began walking forward.She did not know or care as to where she was going,she was leaving this area.Lights be damned.After a few twist and turns around debris and rusted cars and general bric a brac of refuse ,Jenny stumbled.It was dark around her now and her senses heightened immediately.She scrambled about headlong trying to find her balance.In the end she had fallen and she sat somewhat breathless facing a dead body.She could touch the body with her feet.She kick its proximity away from her ,taken aback,but not dumbfounded.Jenny scrambled to her feet and began to run towards the tenements,away from the body.
Just then a bright light flashed in her eyes effectively blinding her.In an instant she raised her arms over her face,frightened by this sudden illumination.She felt a sting on her neck that made her cry out.As she swatted at the location of the pain she noticed her legs were beginning to feel wobbly and she was quickly losing sensations about her body.Everything seemed to happening in a hurry.The activity was confusing and Jenny began to lose consciousness.
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