Red River Avenue

Chapter 1: The change

Leaving from my hometown has been quite the experience. I had to change my number, switch colleges, find another job (which I haven't had any luck with), move into a new house. All of this just to hide away from my stalker. This guy has been stalking me for two years now, I've just moved into this small brick house on red river avenue. I haven't seen the man in a red mask since I moved, but that doesn't mean he's gone. I still don't know who he is, I've been doing research after research and it hasn't gotten me far to revealing his identity.

Ever since the move, I haven't had any luck with friends, I'm still trying to gather everything at once with my situation, but I need people, I need to find my people, starting today with my first day at my new college I get to meet my roommate. Yes I know I have a house and I live on campus but I'm using this for when we go on breaks to have a place to stay at. My parents are 5 hours away and gas is hard to afford nowadays, so its better than spending so much money for traveling. I can just come here, stay and have myself some me time and sleep, I hated the drive here, but now that I'm here I don't plan on leaving anytime soon.

I walk into campus to look for my room number. 455 I see on the dark brown wooden door. I open the door and theres a woman with dark brown hair, purple jumpsuit, her hair isn't long but it touches the back of her, she has black glasses on, with silver butterfly necklace on her. She walks towards me " hi, I'm Sarah, I'm you're roommate, you must be Mary.", "Hi, it is so nice to meet you, are you from here?" I reply, "yes, actually, ever since I seen you've just recently moved here, I was thinking once you finish getting settled in we can go to my favorite coffee shop, unless you're not a big fan of coffee" she says,
im very confused, is she just being nice or does she actually want to get coffee and have small talk. "Yes, love love love coffee, could you help me grab a few boxes before we leave, I've already got my clothes", I say hoping she helps because there are so many stairs here, do people not know anything about elevators.

We finish taking all my stuff into our room, I'm getting ready to leave, I have no makeup on and I look like a homeless crackhead. So, i head to the bathroom and open my makeup bag to touch up my face. I grab the concealer and I apply concealer to my face to brighten up my skin tone, I then apply black mascara to my left eye, then I finish towards my right eye. I use a finish touch with red lipstick. I curl my long blonde hair, I then put on a blue sweater that I bought at target, then I grab my black jeans with holes on the knee caps. Sarah walks out of the bathroom, "are you ready" Sarahs jaw drops. "oh my goodness you're gorgeous, I love the touch up with you're lashes, how do you get them so long?", She asks. "I just added an extra layer of mascara, and thank you, I love your jumpsuit, I was gonna say that earlier but we were busy", we both laugh and agree. We hop into our cars, i follow Sarah to the coffee shop. We pull into the small parking lot, i find a spot to park, and I turn off my car. We get out of the car, and the parking lot is all gravel, with reserved parking for "The boss", who cares, we all wanna get coffee, and were all parking at the same place, why do you need your own parking spot,gosh im spiraling again. Sarah walks towards the coffee, "this is it," she said. "the worlds most decent coffee shop in this small little town, im excited for you to try this" Sarah said with a great big smile.

We walk into this small, vintage building with a grey painted building, the entrance door is just a window with a doorknob. We open the door, and the smell of coffee just hits my nose, it smells amazing, I've never been in a coffee shop with this strong of a smell from coffee grounds. We walk to our seats, the table isn't big, its small like the others, but its big enough for two people to sit at and still have room to eat. "Hi, I'm James, ill be your sever this afternoon what could I get you ladies started with.", he asks, he's really tall, his eyes are very pretty, they have green with a touch of blue, his hair is dirty blonde, and he smells very good, like really good, and his voice, don't even get me started on his voice, its so deep and sexy, I want to say fuck the coffee lets go to my car, but were in public and I just met him. I reply "this is my first time here, what do you recommend?", I ask.

"I recommend the sugar cookie iced latte, it's remarkably good, one of my favorites", He replied, "ill have that, that sounds good" I say back with enthusiasm. "I'd just like an americano with light ice", Sarah states. He writes down our orders and heads to the back. As he walks back into the back to get make our orders, I catch myself just staring as he walks back, he has large arms, and great biceps, the ones that almost rip the arms of the sleeve of your shirt, I have never seen this man in my life, but god damn does he make me want to risk it all and let him bend me over this table.

"So, I see your very easy to convince", "normally I'm not, but James is fine as fuck and whatever he wants, he can get girl", I say proudly. "Ask him for his number, I'm sure he'd give it to you, you're hot who wouldn't want to give out their number to you",did Sarah just call me hot?. "I cant just ask a stranger for their number, or even give them my number, im shy, what if he's a serial killer, or he has a secret collection of Star Wars lego's just laying around", I'm serious, I hate Star Wars. "Oh don't be ridiculous, I saw him checking you out the whole time you were giving him you're order, Mary just step out of you're comfort zone and live a little."

"You know what you're right, what's the worse he can say, no I'm in a relationship, or I'm gay, ill write it down on the check when we get ready to leave", I reply. James walks to our table with our drinks, They look pleasing, well mine does, I don't know how Sarah can just drink black coffee. "Here you go ladies, if you have any issues with you're order let me know and I can fix them to please you're taste" , oh you can please my taste sexy. "Thank you" Sarah says nodding her head to give him the hint to leave. We take a sip of our coffee and the taste of my latte is remarkably delicious,i t's bitter and sweet but, just a touch of that bitter coffee taste. You can taste the sugar cookie, the sweetness just gives it that power.

"So why did you move to New jersey?", "well not to get deep or anything but, I've been having issues with someone stalking me, this random man has been doing this nonstop for two years, he just stands in front on my window and takes photos of me, he just wears a black hoodie and a red mask." Sarahs jaw drops open, she looks very concerned. "Oh my, Mary I'm so glad you got out of there, that's horrible, I hope you don't have any issues with that here, I haven't heard any stories of people stalking here, but there has been a few girls going missing on ruth b street", she states, "but I'm sure we will be fine, were in a solid room on campus, and i'm sure if there were to be a creepy man standing out front security would be called immediately, speaking of campus, theres a party this weekend at Jeremy's frat, do you wanna come with, it'll be fun I promise." Do I want to go to a party, yes, do I feel like getting shit faced and blacking out after a Terrible two years of my life, yes, I look up at Sarah after taking a sip of my latte, "yes, I've never been to a party before , I normally just drink alone, but from the sounds of it, ill go."

We finish our small talk and i take the last sip of my coffee, James walks to our table to grab our empty cups, he lays down the bill on the table, "take you're time, theres no rush, I hope you ladies have enjoyed you're drinks, have a nice night", he's so sweet, ok now its my time to give this man my number, I write down the numbers on the bottom of the receipt and lay my card on top to pay. He takes the bill and Sarah just stares at me like I just won the lottery. "What, he probably wont even use it, it'll just be embarrassing", I state. "Girl look he's coming back" Sarah states.

"Here's your change, have a nice night ladies, come back whenever I still work at this hell hole", we all laugh at his charming joke of this place. I hope he put my number in his phone, he'll probably just throw it away, oh well it's not like i'm in love with him or anything. I'm tired and ready to start school tomorrow, plus I have to unpack and then call my mom to let her know I made it. Hoping he texts me tonight is one top priority i have.