Can I have some food, please?

Ding! Ding!

"MOM! CAN YOU GET THAT?" she yelled over her shoulder. "NEVERMIND! I FORGOT YOU'RE ON A BUSINESS TRIP. AND I AM YELLING IN AN EMPTY HOUSE. AGAIN!" as realization crossed her mind. "It's probably the Azure Lake Asylum. They finally received a complaint about me and decided to take me away." She mumbled under her breath.

Isobel's doorbell rang again and she looked between her cereal and the entryway of the kitchen. There was someone at the door but there were sausages and mashed potatoes with gravy in front of her. She grabbed the spoon. Food was more important. That was the conclusion she came to.

The bell rang again. "Oh, bloody hell. I'll kill you and eat you," Isobel said, cursing all the way and opened the door. Outside stood a very red-faced Jayden. He was sweating buckets.

"I'm Hank Marvin here and you had the audacity to disturb me!" she said, scolding Jayden lightly. The boy looked like he was going to drop dead from dehydration or something.

"Wah-tuh," Jayden said, coughing a little. Isobel quickly went and grabbed a bottle from the fridge.

As soon as Jayden was handed the bottle he quickly uncapped it and drank half of it. Putting the cool cap on his neck in need to have something cold against his skin.

"Why in the name of all the worms in the mud is it so hot outside?" Jayden yelled.

Worms?

Isobel then put attention to all of his words together.

"Hot outside? It's 80 degrees outside. It's not hot, it's normal. If you had been here a month you'd see. It goes up to 100." Jayde's red face paled. The speed with which it drained of blood was concerning. She ushered him in and sat him on the couch lowering the thermostat.

"I'm going to die."

"We are all going to drop one day or another of heatstroke. Welcome to hell," she spoke in a cheery voice. And went to the kitchen to finish her lunch. "There's pie on the kitchen counter if you need food." Jayden quickly stood up and followed Isobel. He grabbed the cut piece of the pie and put it on a plate for himself. Isobel finally got to finish lunch.

"You never told me why you came by." Isobel asked. Her curiosity gets the best of her.

"I told you, I wanted me to show you around," Jayden answered intently, concentrating on the shepherd's pie. Everything else could wait.

"Maybe if you stop and think for a moment you'd realize what you said."

Jayden took a moment but finally understood what she meant. "I meant to say that you would show me around since I'm new here. It's approaching evening so it will cool down in a while."

"And I told you to get bent," she stated as a matter of fact.

"Please do it. I want to go to the south-east today. Do you really want me, a guy who doesn't know his way around to go alone?"

Southeast side of Merceville was that side every city has. The shady side. Even with quite a few clubs out there, it was still the shady part because a lot of illegal stuff happened there. The south-east could provide you with documents which looked more original than the original ones. From guns to DNA certificates. You could get anything there. If we were willing to pay a lot then they would hack into the system and even put your record there.

They could check you and you would be in the record. No one would realize anything is wrong unless there are two contradicting documents.

"So? Will you now?" Jayden asked with an innocent smile on his face.

Satan in a v-neck. That's who Jayden was.

"Fine." she begrudgingly agreed. She knew it was Jayden's plan but she was not letting him go there alone. Damn this man.

After eating and cleaning up they both went out. Jayden had said that he wanted to take the bus to the south and walk around a bit. A lot is what he should have said. He wanted to enjoy the scenic route. What he did not want to take into consideration was this wasn't one of the best places to consider a scenic route.

Especially when one of these scenic routes could very well become his route to hell as they shot him or probably beat him to death to mug him and maybe sell his body organ.

After all this, he said they will go and do the work he was here for.

Isobel was uncertain about it. It could go a lot wrong but she knew her way very well around the place and the people there. Isobel said that she would be alright until and unless Jayden ran off to somewhere without telling her. She said he was to stick by her and if he pulled up a stunt then she'd be the one to kill before anyone else does.

What Isobel actually was surprised about was the revelation that Jayden had work to do in that place. She thought the guy was just saying that to make her show around the place a bit.

"Okay, mommy." Jayden had said and was now rubbing his back of the head as he could feel the small bump forming. He hadn't expected Isobel to pull off her sandals in the middle of the sidewalk and hit him with. What he also didn't expect was for the sandal to be heeled. Jayden hasn't paid attention to it. If he had, he never would have messed with her. Even if it wasn't that much heeled.

He wasn't stupid. He knew the basic rules for survival like this one. Never mess with a lady wearing heels. Heels will give you a quick painful death.

Unless she hits you in the throat with it, then he would probably die of asphyxiation or choke on his own blood.

He didn't want to die young.

After a much useless discussion about whether they should take the bus or tubes, they finally took the tubes. Why? Because Isobel said so.

Jayden sat in his seat. The cabin was almost empty. "You're insane!" And moments later the train started moving.