The face of destiny

She thought long and hard before doing so. She knew she would be alone and would not have the support of anyone to carry out her idea.

Need

It was an ordinary day, only the adrenaline circulating throughout Alicia's body made it different.

“That would be my beginning, the beginning of my life in another city.” Alicia thought.

She planned it for a long time. Late at night, she would take her only sweater and the two pants she had bought that year with her effort: the blouse she was wearing and a spare. In addition to the few intimate garments, he had been allowed to have in those long 5 years living in captivity.

-At least that's what this dreary place, misnamed a boarding house for children and adolescents, should be called.”

-I would never look back and go far away, in search of my destiny.

That night after slipping into the shadows as stealthily as he could, he stepped out into the dark street.

Walking awkwardly but heading to the place he had already thought of. The train would be passing in a few hours. By the time they noticed at the boarding house it would be too late, he would be crossing the border to his destination.

Things were not as she had thought, after spending several days in that city, new to her, she noticed that people were not very supportive. They walked very fast on the sidewalks. They had the countenance of those who have so many tangles in their thoughts that they end up having them written and drawn on their foreheads.

• I have to get a job as soon as possible if I don't want to die trying.

• I never thought my life would change so much these days.

• I went from being in such a despot place with everyone in the boarding house to being in a place of open space and everyone being a despot to each other.

Suddenly the idea of repeating what he had done one day in the town he had fled from came to his mind...

-I'll start helping people who are in trouble and wait for them to pay me for it. That way I can at least start to afford a good room with a bath to keep me going.

This is how pretending to get money, she entered an area where gangs already had their way of operating in the streets. Seeing this new girl who was trying to do something for which she had no approval, the gang confronted her, insulted her, and tried to minimize her, but Alicia did not let them intimidate her. She stood up to them...

The last thing she remembered was a cold sensation that ran through her body in a few seconds and then all was darkness.

The next morning, Alicia was in the newspapers headlining the tabloid headlines:

“Young small-town girl succumbed to the evil of area gangs, believed to have come to the city alone trying to improve her quality of life, and boy, did she improve it. Peace to her soul.”

I am @gertu from Venezuela to the world.