Chapter 13: Flavor

~Friendship blossoms in the most unusual of places.~

"Hey there. What are you two little kids doing out here on the street on this chilly rainy day?"

An elderly man with an umbrella, who seemed to be in his mid sixties approached two scrawny looking kids who were taking cover under a makeshift shelter they had managed to make by an alley.

"Ronnie, that old man looks like grandpa." Little Julie beamed at the old man hiding behind her older brother.

"No Julie, that isn't grandpa." He replied back tiredly, he was so hungry.

Their clothes were torn all over and they had both lost weight.

"Here you go." He brought out two cupcakes from the small basket he was carrying and gave them to the older one.

Ronnie's stomach growled as he stared at the mouth-watering cupcakes, he blushed in embarrassment.

He looked back up at the old man unsure.

'They weren't supposed to accept things from strangers,' he thought.

He swallowed the saliva that had already gathered in his mouth.