His breath is running short. Has he lost him? Kevin begins to relax. The adrenaline stops circulating. “Phew… that was close,” he tells himself. As he walks back out on to the street, his body stiffens, there in front of him is the parking official. Kevin springs away.

     Kevin is eating a very sweet cupcake as he is walking back to his dormitory. The taste lingers in his mouth. Do I need this much sugar. He asks himself. And of course, the answer is always no. Any person watching their weight could tell you that. The cupcake is chucked in to the nearby forest. Kevin turns his head and sees a parking official walking toward him with authority in his stride. Kevin listens to his gut and begins walking faster.

     The parking official makes the first move and starts the sprint. Kevin runs as fast as he can, cutting corners and making sharp turns. This parking official is pretty rotund, but he can run like a horse. In his mind, Kevin is laughing as he sees the big guy waddling behind him. This however, only continues for a few seconds and then Kevin realizes that the blob is catching up. Is this humanly possible? There must be some sort of law of physics that this huge man is breaking. There is no way that he can move that fast. Kevin is forced to run along the sidewalk carefully dodging the ducks. The parking official dodges them with ease.

     Kevin knocks over a trash can which occupies the big guy long enough for Kevin to get out of sight. Kevin jumps into a bush and hides for 10 minutes.

     As Kevin is once again running from the official, he dodges few people, who are frightened and spill there coffee. There is a dead end in front of him. The official panting slowly approaches Kevin. “Don’t litter, now go pickup that cupcake. Let this be a lesson, you need to exercise.”

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