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Take off my jacket, even though it's below freezing, and wrap in around her.

I pick her up and carry her, like a firefighter, for about 15 minutes. With a peeled orange in hand, I carry her to the edge of the woods, and rest for a bit. The journey continues until I reach my dusty mint house, unlock the door, and plop her on the couch ad bibrant as the fruit in my hand.

I can't just undress her and give her clean clothes, but since she's wearing a button up, I take that off from under her sweater and slip her into a large crow neck sweater. 

I place her back on the couch and throw a huge comforter over her, as she must be freezing. I decide to leave the rest of the orange and a half empty bag of dill chips for when she wakes up.

I don't want someone with a voracious hunger like that staying in my house.

Should I have even brought her here?

Guess I'll have to see...

She wakes up on your couch. She looks around, confused. She doesn't know where she is.

She doesn't seem to be scared or anything. You might need to explain some things.

"Uhm. Hi. Hello. Uhh..."

I try to find some sort of explanation...

"You fell asleep next to me in the woods... and I thought it would be better if you stayed in a warm place, with food,,,, and clean clothes...?

...

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"This is my house, by the way."

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"Um... what....what's your name?"

"Lina," she says. "My name's Lina. What's your name?"

"Well. Um. Lina. What... Why were you in the woods? Do you need medical help?"

I get up, and quickly rush to my bathroom to grab the medical kit, and rush back to Lina. Just in case, I think.

"Oh boy. Uhm... I'm Ivan." I'm tense, and when I'm tense I tend to fidget with my ponytail.  The band I used to secure it breaks, and my black hair falls in a swath of darkness over my shoulders.

"You can stay the night here, no payment, promises, or deals included. But in the morning you have to tell me what the hell... what the hell you are. There's stuff in the fridge and you can get clean clothes from the basement, by the dryer. Don't devour everything in there, ok?"

I turn, and start walking away.

"..."

".........."

"Goodnight."

She's already slept long enough, so she's wide awake at night.

While you're sleeping, she scuttles over to your room and watches you over the edge of the bed. She doesn't really know what else to do in your house.

The only thing peeking over the edge is her eyes, watching you.

What do you do?

"What so you want now?" I'm still pretty groggy, so all I see are her red eyes glowing from the edge of my bed.

"If you need something to do, then go out for a walk or something. It's like midnight, so no one wi be awake, much less out on the streets."

I up and head out of my room, and grab a heavy fleece lined jacket from a black metal coat rack.

"This should keep you warm enough, and if you put up the hood you should just look like some lump of fabric wobbling around."

I give her the jacket as she's shooed out of my room. I need to get some sleep. But just like Lina, it's impossible for me to keep my eyes closed for long.

You can just wait for morning, I keep thinking. You made a deal that in the morning you'll learn more about her.

And before I know it, I'm opening my eyes to the sun glaring in my face. It's a Saturday, I think, so I have the probably the entire day to spend with that... that girl.

She's sitting crisscross on your table, munching on some popcorn. She waves at you, still on the table.

Are you gonna get her off the table or..?

"Wait... what?" Still kind of groggy from sleep, but I can make out...

Lina, sitting on my dining table, with a bowl of popcorn I was saving for next week during movie night with my friends. Damn.

I walk over, and use a chair as a step to get onto the table. My legs are curled to me tightly. 

I'll try to get some of her popcorn. I reach over and grab a handful.

"We made a deal, remember? Let's talk. Backstory. Now."

I grab her buttery bowl of popcorn and hold it high above my head.

"And you're not getting this back until you tell me everything."

She swallows the last of the popcorn in her mouth, then starts to explain herself.

"My mama and I lived alone in our house. She drank a lot, which made her angry and tired a lot. She was worried that she was gonna lose the house since she had to pay for everything." She wants to start crying, but she holds in all her tears.

"She got really mad at me. She said I'm 'ruining her life' and 'I wish you were never born' to me a lot. She also hit me a lot. Then, she decided to 'get rid of me.' She took me out to the woods and... well, you know." She points to the axe in her head.

Some tears roll down her face. She feels really sad talking about how she became what she is. "I feel like a ghost now, but I don't think that's what I am. I actually haven't had a good look at myself in the mirror after the 'incident' I had with my mama... Can I get a mirror?"

I drew Lina but I have a tendency to make things too cute so I'm sorry if it doesn't fit how you perceived her

oh my god that's adorable

I imagine her just tearing out the axe and hunting people down with it now