Cinco Parte

The smell of stale popcorn sneaked into Kalenna's nose as she walked to the carnival that had arrived in the town. The smell thickened as she got closer and closer to the carnival and gave Kalenna the feeling of vomit sneaking up into her throat. It could have been one of the worst things she had smelled in her life. Kalenna walked into the carnival thinking the whole thing had to be a joke; all the rides looked cheap and like they had been used for hundreds of years. Because of that she did not have any interest in getting on any of the rides, but instead she walked over to the animal cages. The dirty smell of he animals soon mixed in with the stale popcorn smell as Kalenna got to the cages, making her feel like the smells could burn the hairs out of her nose. While looking at the animals locked behind the cages, a flashback of the strip club the night before wondered into Kalenna's mind.  She believed the girls employed at Second Chances lived the same lives as the animals in the cages at the carnival, the life of having to be the spectacle of people's entertainment, and exposing themselves in every which way. Kalenna couldn't imagine how those animals and girls could live such a life, but she began to become envious of the attention they received. She did not like to admit it, but Kalenna did love to be the center of a man's attention. She had always been the main girl for the boyfriend she ran away from in Mexico, and she loved that feeling. Kalenna asked herself would it be so bad to work at Second Chances? All that attention from all those men. Didn't sound like such a bad idea.

The next day was Sunday and Kalenna had an urgent need for some inspiration and guidance to figure out what the next move in her life would be. She got up early to go to church to see a popular pastor in the town that she had heard many of the townspeople praising. When Kalenna arrived at the church, Pastor Dan was already preaching, so she took a seat in the back of the church next to a mother and her young child to keep from disrupting the pastor at work. One of the first thoughts that crept into her mind about Pastor Dan was how attractive he was. Forget what he was preaching about. He was probably one of the most attractive men Kalenna had seen here in America. As she began to listen to him, his intelligent words of encouragement made him even more attractive. But who was she kidding? A man like that would never have any interest in a woman like her, Kalenna began to think to herself. So she just sat back and admired him from her far away back row seat, which was the way her admiration should be kept.