Welcome to Scary Story Podcast.

Two people meet, they fall in love.

But sudden dreams begin to threaten them, both.

My name is Edwin, and here's a scary story.

My friends had just left them all for a movie they were going to watch together. Something Elena and I both agreed we were going to skip, even though we didn't know each other,

and were desperately searching for a time to talk alone.

We were trying to drift away from the pace of our friends along those same stores, the

ones that seemed to line up every mall ever made.

We would fall behind, match our steps, ignore each other for a bit, and then speak our first

words.

Oh, I need to get some new shoes.

I didn't, but wanted to sound like I had other reasons to be there with everybody, but the most boring place on earth.

Do you want to go to Kim's? she asked. I need a few things from there too.

Kim's was like an off-brand reseller, sort of like Payless at the time, but I had gotten most of my shoes growing up from there.

I was relieved to know that she was like that, normal, someone

who I didn't have to play pretend with. She probably also wanted to skip the movie because it wasn't

worth it. You can watch movies for free and so many other places. For me, it was half I want to talk

to her and half I don't want to pay for a movie. And it was at the food court when we started talking.

Everything seemed to match.

I guess during that stage everything seemed simpler than it will be.

But she wasn't afraid of saying things how they were.

Almost to a level of brutal truth, both to herself and to me.

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