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I'm Sorry. . . Chapter 1

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   "Well, how much does it cost?" Asked Jake, about a stuffed doll that looked like a homemade Raggedy Andy. It wore faded blue denim overalls, black, cracked leather shoes, and a short sleeve, white dress shirt.

   It had a mouth made of tiny, sewn, overlapped X's with black string. It didn't currently have a nose, but tiny holes arranged in the shape of a rounded triangle revealed that it did originally have one. It's hair was a faded dark grey, and was made of frayed yarn. It had no eyebrows, but it did have eyes.

   They were buttons, sewn on with white string. The buttons themselves were a faded electric blue, and they seemed to glow in the dim light.

   "What would you pay for it?" Asked the shopkeeper, and old man with thinning white hair. He wore a navy blue apron in front of faded blue jeans and a white dress shirt tucked into them. Above the apron he wore a bright red bowtie.

   His hunched over figure and wringing hands revealed that it was soon to be his time, and he was going out of business. Jake felt sorry for the man.

   "How does fifty dollars sound?" Jake asked the man, still examining the doll.

   The elderly man looked at Jake with a look of shock and gratitude. He nodded with more energy that he had in years.

   "F-Fifty?!" The man asked. "Why would you pay so much? You don't have to, y'know!"

   "I know, but, it's the best thing I can find in the room, hell, this trip." Jake answered the man.

   After the transaction had been made, and Jake put the doll in the wooden box that came with it into the back of his car, he noticed a slight chill in the air that he could have sworn wasn't there.

   He simply blamed it on the season. It was only late March, after all. In four days, it would be his nephew's birthday, which was the reason for the doll.

   His nephew, Liam, had a growing collection of the things. They filled his closet, his shelves, and some on the window ledge above his bed. He loved them all and treated them each like best friends.

Well, Jake thought as he drove to his house, I hope he's ready for a new friend.
A new thing that I may or may not be working on. If you like it, say you do in the comments and there might be another chapter.

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PimpGranny's avatar
This is very interesting. I vote for more.^^