[ CW ] create a character I feel strongly for ( love/hate/sympathize ) using a monologue from their perspective .

She's walking down the street. 
 
 Alone. 
 
 Again. 
 
 She's always alone, at least she has been for the past seventeen days. Walking four blocks down main street, missed the friendly'walk' signal twelve times, then crossing the street, walking one more block, turning left, walking two and a half blocks before reaching her porch. 
 
 Six steps up the porch. She always take the first step, skips a step, and takes the rest one at a time. 
 
 It's the quirks that make me smile. 
 
 The key turns. She turns it left once, then right, left again, and it finally opens. A turn of the knob, clicking the dirt off of her heels. She tosses her jacket on the floor, slips her shoes off, and closes the door... 
 
 Then she continues up the windowless stairwell to her room. Again takes the first step normally, then skips every other step three times, then takes the rest as she did the first. 
 
 She turns the corner into her bedroom, as always. 
 
 Then I smile at her. 
 
 For the first time.
