Spring Break didn't exactly feel like Spring Break when Leanne lived at home in the one city she went to college in. The campus was filled with students leaving for their dorms and others studying on the dry lawn. It was the first warm day of the year and the freshness, the stillness in it made Leanne happy as she straightened her tan pea coat and adjusted the dark leather brown messenger bag on her shoulder. She turned her wrist, raising it before her so she could glance down at her rose gold watch.

Damn, she thought. Daddy will be waiting. Essays and projects she had to finish over break filled her messenger bag as her ankle boots slapped against the concrete sidewalk that lead into the main part of the city so she could pick up the four cupcakes she had ordered last week. He better like them, she soon thought, her mind reeling to the Happy Birthday card sitting in her desk in her bedroom.

The city was busy today. Students off school and the perfect day for city street shopping had brought out pretty much all of the population as taxi cabs and bus horns echoed through the wide streets between the tall buildings lining the streets of the city. Her eyes were already set on sight of the bakery just fore blocks away, its big and bright LED donut sign beckoning her over.

Her only challenge was crossing the street to the other side where the baker was.

She waited minutes upon minutes. Thanks to the traffic, it was difficult for anyone to go across the crosswalk, which was why each side of the crosswalks held a huge pile of people all looking impatient.

Do something daring, echoed in her mind. Her art professor had said that to her water colors class on the first day of college. Finding it her queue as a group of black cars creeped up to the backed-up lines of honking cars and buses before the traffic lights, she leaped across in front of the cars stupidly.