With the small box in hand, Earl walked along the street absentmindedly. He had been feeling slightly less motivated these days and that led to him being in a poorer mood. He had decided to stay at home today but his cousin kept bugging him to come pick up this package for him.
He had refused at first but later, after much begging, he gave in. it was just a short distance anyway. That short distance, however, now appeared to be a huge task to him. Just walking was a tiring punishment in its own way.
He took a turn and went down with his slow pace. He didn't pay attention to his surrounding until he bumped into someone.
"I'm sorry…" he said but stopped when he noticed that it was Alexa!
She too had stopped when she realised that it was him. He thought that she would probably ignore him and leave again but he still brought himself to say, "Hi, Alexa, you're here?"
