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INTRODUCTION
Chloe Watson loathed grocery shopping, which is why she had been putting off this particular trip for over a week and now had five plastic bags full to bursting with staples that she would stretch as far as possible until she absolutely had to go grocery shopping again. She walked down the street, cheap plastic cutting off the circulation in her fingers, and reminded herself that this was why she bought the cloth reusable bags two months ago that were sitting in her closet with tags still attached. I will be grocery shopping every few weeks until the day I die, she thought miserably. And I will probably use those reusable bags exactly twice because I keep forgetting them. Fucking grocery shopping. Grumbling to herself, Chloe turned down her familiar alley shortcut and was almost halfway through when she realized that she wasn’t alone in the alley. There was a large silhouette of a man leaning against the wall to her right, and she could just make out the reflections of his eyes. He was watching her.
Her unsettling observations caused a momentary lapse in her coordination, and combined with low lighting and unwieldy grocery bags, she tripped and nearly lost her balance. By the time she recovered, her momentum was gone and there were now three silhouettes of men in the alley with her. Fear skittered down her spine and she froze with inaction. She was almost exactly halfway between the alley exits, so she wasn’t sure if anyone would hear her scream. Or if she was in a situation that warranted screaming. Should she scream? She certainly felt like it, but it’s not like the men were doing anything. They were just loitering. Creepily. In an alley. Three large men to her single average female self… her attention was brought back from her mental rambling when one of the men took a few lazy steps towards her.
“Looks like you’ve got your hands full there,” he said, his voice more nasally than Chloe had been expecting from someone built like a refrigerator.
Chloe nodded, not trusting her voice. She smiled weakly, then ducked her head and tried to sidestep around the man, but he matched her direction and she had to stop or else run straight into him.
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