Thursday Taster 8: Rainbow Catcher

Hello and Welcome to Thursday Taster again. Talented writers from all over the blogosphere gather together to give readers tasty parts of their work in progress, you can find the list here. 

As I'm currently working on the edits of Rainbow Catcher, that's the project I will be presenting until it is ready. As it's under editing, if you see anything funny, hit me on the head in the comments.
Thank you for the comments on last week's taster, I really appreciate it, especially with the recent feedbacks. Yes, Rainbow Catcher was rejected in Pitch Wars! Even though it's not a surprise, it's a bit... blah you know.
So plan B it is! More work for me, lol. As a result, you may have to comment on the cover picture, hopefully by the end of the month.

The fat man pulled up his jacket’s sleeve to look at his watch. It was almost 1pm, he needed to hurry out of here.

“Hum,” he cleared his throat. The gaze of this sick child was really making him uncomfortable. He hated sick people, being around them was making him feel sick.

“I’m going to the toilet,” he said as if needed to explain himself to her.

He wondered why he felt that way for a second, then grabbed the bag filled with Jason’s money. Clarissa was angry, she knew he was lying, but she just looked at him without saying anything, holding tight on the blanket as if it could protect her.

The fat man walked backward to the door and passed his hand in his greasy hair unable to sustain Clarissa’s eyes any longer. He tweaked to find the handle and disappeared as quickly as his huge body allowed him.

Clarissa fixed the door a bit longer to make sure he was not coming back before going out from under the blanket. She approached the case containing her rainbow slowly she could feel the coldness coming from it.

“You have to be careful when refrigerating the rainbow,” Everett Cooper had said. “If your fingers go frozen by the liquid Helium, they would just fall off.”

Clarissa refrained from touching the box looking at her fingers.

The door opened, letting Jason and doctor Marshall enter.

“Where is he?” Jason said.

“He said he needed to go to the toilet,” Clarissa answered.

The doctor came toward the box, putting his thick gloves on.

“Step back a little,” he said to Clarissa. “It will be really cold.”

Clarissa moved just a little bit, she wanted to see her rainbow. Jason put the blanket back on her shoulder as the doctor opened the box. The liquid Helium started to evaporate in the air with a white smoke. As doctor Marshall looked in the case, his face lost all expression. Jason and Clarissa approached slowly to look in as well.

“I’m sorry,” the doctor said.

The box was empty.

End Of Chapter one. It was initially a bit longer with Jason's reaction, but I'm still hesitating about including it or not and about the chapters cut in general. You'll get more next week anyway.

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