New York Oddities

6:00 am. God damn it, you know its too early. The day doesn't stop for anyone however, and it's either get up now to afford yourself a coffee, or you don't get your morning chemical stimulants. You find your slender pale legs kicking themselves out of bed. Its cold, your window has a hazy layer of frozen condensation on it and the wood paneling in your trashy apartment bedroom chills the bottoms of your feet. You fell asleep in what you almost always did, a pair of panties and one of many stolen t-shirts from boyfriends long past.

For living in NYC, your life is.. boring! You work a dead-end office job across the city, and only ever have the time for yourself come the weekends. Sure, New York has plenty of places to socialize, but come Saturday you don't even want to.

Oh well, such is life. Might as well get ready.

As the shower runs and slowly crawls to a temperature you can stand, you spend a moment to stare at yourself in the mirror.

You're Alexis Robinson, and you're not the worst to look at. Your skin is pale, save for the freckles dotting your cheeks and shoulders. Your chest isn't anything to write home about, hell, its even kind of small. Never gotten any complaints though.. Your hair is a messy mop of blonde, though your roots reveal you're a brunette. You planned on scheduling a re-dye, but haven't gotten around to it. You could have spent more time staring at the mirror, but it began fogging with the rising steam from your hot shower.

And what an unremarkable shower it was, perfect for what could only certainly be an unremarkable day. At least that's what you think.