On a Summer afternoon in the sunny town of Porto, Marie Tours, the 37 year old housewife, just finished tending her back-yard garden. Marie stepped inside for a drink of cold water when she heard the sound of guns, rockets, and grunting. Cocking an eyebrow, Marie investigated her daughter's room.
Marie creaked open the door to see the state of her daughter's man- er, "woman-cave". The room was almost pitch-black if it wasn't for her daughter's computer and a shred of light bleeding through the window curtains. The floor was caked with old clothes and her bed was unmade with its sheets in a pile. Finally, her underwear-clad daughter was one-hundred percent focused on her desktop computer. Marie walked over to her.
"Charlotte?" Marie asked in an attempt to get her attention.
"Huh?" Charlotte replied with little interest.
"What are you doing without your clothes on?" Marie asked with a slightly more aggressive tone.
"Half-Life."
"Charlotte, please, we've talked about this."
"Hold on." Charlotte hit escape on her keyboard and turned her chair around. "What?" She said. Charlotte's pale body really showed at this position. While she definitely wouldn't be classified as an anorexic girl or even scrawny, she really didn't have much meat on her bones. Though she was very untoned, giving Charlotte a tinsy-tiny potbelly.
"It's alright if you want to spend most of your summer relaxing, but your going against our agreement."
"Which one?" Charlotte avoided making eye contact.
"The one where you go out and socialize and try and make friends while in return, I'll be less reluctant to giving you money."
"Oh, yeah..." Charlotte said, scratching her arm.
"Listen Charlotte, I don't ask much from you, and the things I do expect from you will only benefit yourself."
"I know, mom." Charlotte rolled her eyes.
Marie took thirty dollars out of her wallet and gave them and her car keys to Charlotte. "C'mon and spend some money, make some friends, and come home happy." She said, trying to be encouraging.
"Alright, alright, I'll go out, ok?"
"Good! That makes me very happy." Marie gave Charlotte a kiss on the forehead and left her cave.
"*sigh*, guess I gotta get dressed."
Charlotte quickly through on black jeans and a tight black T-shirt with some pale makeup. She ran out to the garage and took her mom's SUV to the mall.
Charlotte didn't visit the Colony mall very much; especially when compared with most of her peers.
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Charlotte entered the Colony mall at 4:00 pm; where does she go?
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