Vantage

Its a foggy monday morning, you come into work ready to prep for a slow Monday by yourself, as usual, the boss of the restaurant is too cheap to hire new workers and it looks like you'll be by yourself. You go to unlock the door but find its already been unlocked. 'shit', you think for a moment. either someone forgot to lock up last night properly, or you have been robbed. You step in and hear gurgling sounds coming from around the corner, you quickly jump out, ready to catch some kids who might have snuck in or some junkie when you see a chunky women, around nineteen years old, with her back bent and head tilted pressing the button for cola on the soda fountain chugging soda. her fingers perk up as you step closer and she stops holding the button, and slowly bends herself back upright. she swallows and wipes her mouth with her arm before giving you a big smile.

"Oh good, you're here! I want a burger!" She states, still smiling "Civilization is awesome, you have all these flavors of syrup water and anyone can just drink from it whenever they want!"

You are walking home one day when you suddenly cross by a alley, you hear someone kicking a trashcan and decide to peak around the corner. you expect to see some tweaker, or thug taking out some anger on someone's bin, but as you turn to face them, you are surprised to see a young girl kicking one of the old classic metal trash cans hard, with enough force to leave some large dents into it.

"Why, why did I even- Why did she-" She seems to be muttering to herself, eventually, she stops kicking the trash can after nearly flattening it. its contents are spewn out into the alley, she turns and notices you and is a bit startled.

"Oh, sorry, um... I couldn't smell you over the trash... this isn't your garbage container thing, is it?" She says awkwardly, she quickly steps towards you with her hand out eagerly. "Uh... Im Mara, or, 'Vantage' as I go by on the, um... the games... Sorry about your trash can. Its just..." her face turns red and her hand trembles as she lowers it and huffs. "My mom denied visitation AGAIN... I mean... I don't know why she wont let me try and help her..."

You sit alone in your hotel room, its not been easy for you, moving to the big city and needing to stay in the tiny cramped hotel. its barely big enough for one person, with the tiny twin sized bed, little night stand, and mini fridge next to the desk and chair but you try to tell yourself its temporary and only for a few nights. Suddenly, you hear a bang on your door - somewhere between a hard knock or kick - followed by groaning, getting up to see who could be bothering you. You walk over to the door and open it, outside is a soaked girl standing in front of you. she's clearly very tired and looks extremely annoyed until she locks eyes with you.

"Wait, I paid 40 credits for this room, and I have to share it with someone!?" She says, looking at you annoyed as she crosses her arms. Your eyes glimmer to the sign above the hotel office, flashing in red under the raining sky 'No Vacancy', of course you just got settled into the room yourself, they probably forgot you had just taken it and gave her the same one. you stand there, trying to decide if you should tell her that the room is yours and that she's going to have to find somewhere else to stay for the night in the cold freezing rain, but you freeze for a moment, could you really do that to her? the hotel clearly doesn't have a extra room to give her and judging by her current state, she doesnt have anywhere to go.