RUN. I HAVE TO RUN. Two lefts and a right and I'm out of the mall. I hear the two securtity guards chasing after me. Ad if theyd ever to be able to catch up. I guess that I should probably stop and pay the price for shoplifting, but damn it how else am I gonna be able to afford baby clothes!? I already went last week and got my clothes from a Forever 21 but now I need clothes for Annie. She got a growth spurt when we ran so now I need to get the 18 month old some new clothes. I keep running till I go down an alley way. Its cleaner than most, and its not creepy like the ones in horror films. I dash to the back praying that I can make it to the street on the other side. But angel is in charge of prayers getting to God is clearly not doing their job. Because the mother f-ing alley had a 7 foot fence blocking my way to freedom. Great. I turn around hoping that its not too late to turn back and go a different way. But NOPE! Dumb and Dumber finally caught up panting and sweating. And as if that wasn't the best part, I start hearing the distant sounds of sirens. An all too familiar noise. The cop must have been speed because his car pulls up behind the other two in less than 3 minutes.
I almost felt bad for them. I really did. But as soon as infantile dopes went to talk to the real cop, I sprinted over to the fence and prayed that my arms wouldn't fail me now. I jumped high enough so that my arms were grasping the top, and I managed to pull myself up to the top and I quickly fell down to the bottom.
Getting up I see two teenage guys beating the crap out of each other. Boy one had dirt crusted blonde hair as if him and boy two had been fighting here for a while. He was on top of the other boy and punching him square in the face. Boy one was well dressed but in my opion, no guy looks good with another guys blood all over his shirt. Boy two was just laying on the ground taking his beating. It didn't seem right. He wasn't fighting back. He just took the punches one after another.
Not knowing what came over me I went over to the fight and pulled the blonde boy off of the other.
" what the hell!?" He shouted and pushed me to the ground.
" You know where I'm from, picking on a guy who's not standing up for himself is a pretty pussy thing to do." I stood up and looked dead at him. His bright blue eyes seemed cold and empty. He reminded me of one of the evil step sisters in Cinderella who constantly looked down on people. It was sickening.
He didn't say anything to me after that. He just stared at the other boy before slowly walking away. When I was sure he was gone, I turned to the other boy. His face was bloody and he had bruises already forming on his arms and around his eye.
" Are you alright?" I asked and stuck it out to help him up.
" tch. Stupid girl." He swatted my hand away and used a dumpster to help himself up. His black hair clung to his forehead and his noticeably straight teeth were covered in blood. He spit some out and looked up towards me. " What the hell are you still doing here? Didn't I tell you to buzz off?" I was shocked. Why the hell was he being so damn rude? But there was something about him. That I was attracted to. I didn't know what.
I took off my sweater and grabbed a water bottle out of my backpack. I opened it up and dumped some of the water onto the edge if the sleeve. I walked towards him; trying not to shake and trying to put on a confident face. I reached out and gently started wiping the blood off his face. At first I startled him. His eyes opened wide and then relaxed ad if he finally realized that I wasn't a treat.
" I thought I told you to go away." He spoke softly and his tone was lighter.
" Oh well." I kept wiping his face and he grabbed my wrist.
" let me refrase: Go Away." His voice was sterner now but there was no way I was backing down now.
" And let me refrase: I don't care. You are hurt and not the boss of me. If I want to help you I will." I took my hand away and continued to glare at him. He took a step closer.
" Why are you helping me?" He stopped coming closer with less than 3 inches in between us.
" Because I want to." I spoke softly and tried to distance him. But it was to no avail. He a took another step towards me and valid his hand down my arm toward my wrist as he leaned towards my ear.
" And how do you know that i , a perfect stranger, won't just take advance of your kindness. Or you." I felt his hot breath against my neck and I took a sharp intake of air. Though his words were practically a whisper their impact was loud and clear.
" I don't. But I'm willing to take that chance that you aren't a douche bag and that you are a good person." I felt him chuckle slightly and then I felt him trip me and make me fall square on my back. He got down on his knees and hovered over me with one hand holding both of my wrists above my head. I looked up at him and for the first time, I saw his eyes. They had a beautiful red hue although they were bright green. The situation was really inappropriate, but I couldn't help but think of just how handsome he was.
He bent forward, still holding me down. I didn't know nor understand why I didn't fight back. I didn't even struggle. I just laid there and watched his face grow closer and closer. We were so close that the slightest movement upwards for me or do wards for him would result in us kissing. " You know nothing of me." He didnt move back. I got the feeling that he, like me would refuse to show any form of weakness but the closeness also made me realize something else:
He didn't have a heartbeat.
At first I thought it was just me. Because in all honesty, my heart was beating a thousand times a minute. But our chests were touching. I should have felt his heart beating but I didn't. Yet his skin, it was like he had been sitting in the middle of a fire. All this, I thought, and I'm still going to take my chances. I tried to calm my beating heart as I planned my bluff.
" You're right. You're a complete stranger. I know nothing about you except for this: you won't hurt me." He smiled a little bit showing off his arragence.
" And how do you know that?"
" Because if you were then you would have a long time ago. Like right now you are engaging this conversation when you could be hurting me."
" And how exactly do you know that I'm not just planning on how to have my way with you?" His eyes lost their red gue and I could have sworn they grew darker.
" Well for one thing you're practically on top of me right now. I'm sure if you wanted to ' have you're way with me' then you would have done it by now." I looked him in the eye as his smile grew wider.
" I was right." He batted his eyes twice and they seemed to lighten up again. " You are a stupid girl."
He helped me up and I brushed the dirt off of my back.
" What's your name stupid girl?" He looked at with humour written all over him but I could help but glare. " come on now, I'll tell you mine." He walked up behind me and poked his head from behind my side right into view. " Casey Matthews." He offered his hand and I hesitantly took it.
" Elizabeth Heights."
