𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑨𝒔𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒏

𝑹𝒖𝒏

"𝑯𝑬𝒀  Thief! That person stole my wallet!" A man who appears to be in his late 30's yells at an unidentified passerby in a hoodie through a crowd of busy people

'𝑰𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆, 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒊 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒍, 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒌𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒎 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒂 𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆'

The random 'thief' takes off the hood and it looks to be a young 15-18 year old girl, she looks confused and distressed "Me?" "Oh...." Says the 30 year old man "...No, no not you it's probably someone else, has anyone seen a wallet around here?!" Yells the man, searching stressfully for his wallet "I hope you find it, have a good day sir" she says in a calm tone

'𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍, 𝑰 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒃𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒊 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒚 𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓.'

She starts to walk away, rearranging her headphones and throwing up her hood.

'𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒓𝒖𝒍𝒆, 𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒃𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒚𝒔.'

Her face is plastered with a sly grin as she takes a wad of cash out of her hoodie pocket, counting the newfound income

'𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒐𝒚, 𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝑰 𝒂𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒅

She walks into an alley that she's familiar with, she looks around and reads a sloppy sign that reads 'take this homeless bitch!'. She shakily goes to the dumpster, filled with more trash than yesterday "fuck..." she exclaims under her breath angrily "The fuck did I do to them now?!" she throws down her hood and look in the horribly full garbage "hate this shit" she looks left to where she entered the alleyway and decides to abandon her usual hiding place

'𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒉𝒆'𝒍𝒍 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒔𝒐 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒚𝒆𝒅 𝑰𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆,'

She puts her hood back on as she walks to the other side of the alley where she finds a conveniently parked bike branded with the name Marcus "Yes! Thank you whoever you are Marcus!" She attempts to grab the bike but is stopped by the bike lock securely chained to a handle bar attached to the 3 stairs to the brown mahogany door

'𝑰'𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆'

She pulls out a hair pin from her mildly tangled hair and begins to pick the lock, the lock pops off as she has a small silent celebration "yesss!" She whisper yells in triumph

'𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆'

As she hops around quietly, the dark brown door hangs ajar, Elle takes quick notice and immediately stops her mini party,

'𝑯𝒆'𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒖𝒑 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒊 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆'

The door stays open containing a boy in his teenage years

'𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒇'

Brown curly hair and worn hands, his jaw is defined and  the tension in the air, oh you could cut it with a knife, or shoot a bullet through it!

'𝑴𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒐 𝒃𝒂𝒅.'

He was horribly attractive, maybe if she wasn't robbing him of his transportation right now, She could strike up a conversation to know him better, but...His...His...

'𝑩𝒖𝒕....'

His eyes were dangerously malicious and cold, but they were also warm and safe, but Elle wouldn't fall for that, she knew she couldn't trust him, there was a reason that the store owner was yelling at him to get out and never come back, but all She could focus on were his deadly eyes piercing through hers, those eyes looked like they could unravel all of Elle's deepest secrets, but, they held their own secrets that She felt she needed to know, his eyes were seductive and made Her knees weak, she felt as if she couldn't move, couldn't breathe, couldn't speak, she was trapped in his gaze

'𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒅𝒂𝒎𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔, 𝒔𝒐 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒚 𝒊 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒄𝒓𝒚, 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝑰, 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒉𝒚𝒑𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒅?'

"You want to put my bike back?" Elle could feel herself holding a feeling of guilt, but come on, you think that ever came close to stopping her?

'𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔, 𝒊𝒅 𝒅𝒊𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔, 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆''

Elle decided something then, she was gonna get this bike no matter what, but why not have some fun with it? "I don't know, do I? Let me think..."

Her music stopped suddenly as she scratched her head in thought, playing with her next victim but her game was ended as soon as it began

"Yes..." he stepped forward, his voice was loaded with bad intentions and revenge for a crime in the process of committing "...you do." He placed a hand on the hand that Elle had resting on the handlebar as she tensed up and stepped back

"So I'm just taking a wild guess, you're names Marcus?" She asked, knowing the answer "Yep, and that is my bike, it's not for rent you know?" She gulped, why was she nervous? "I realize that, I thought it was my cousins bike, it got stolen a couple weeks ago and his name is Marcus, sorry for the misunderstanding but I'll be on my way" "yeah sure it is, I saw your little celebration, I know you were gonna steal it...don't lie to me." He exclaims as Elle on the other hand, could barely get out a breath, wow, "Yes sorry about that, I really should be going!"

Elle nearly starts walking away before the idea popped into her head, can't take cute boys bike? Take his wallet! She trips as Marcus catches her in his arms, Elle snakes her hand into his pocket seamlessly and props herself back up "Sorry for that, I'm very clumsy!" "It's fine" he says coldly as she walks away, wallet in hand

"WHAT THE FUCK!" She hears it in the distance when she's about 30 yards away, run dumb bitch, she hears heavy and fast footsteps the way she went as she begins to run and takes a bunch of zigzag type turns to keep him disoriented and away from her position

She ducks behind a separate alleyway as he dashed past her, not looking back, she sighs a heavy sigh of relief and thanks Marcus silently for being an idiot and not seeing her

She turns to the right side of her and checks if it's free to leave the alleyway, it's clear for her to dash across the street so she takes her chances and a couple cars whiz by her just in time for her to make a clean escape, she pulls out the wallet and begins to  count the money

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...7 dollars? Elle can only feel like she's the one that got ripped off here, she's stopped in her thoughts when she hears heavy footsteps behind her, but she's too slow to react, let alone fight back, the rag is already on her mouth as she slowly loses her consciousness, she scratches punches and slaps at her attacker but it's futile, all she can remember is two mens voices, booming through her mind as she slowly falls asleep

"You sure it's her?"

"100% No doubt Gaia is wrong, he can't be...right?"

AUTHORS NOTE!!
I'm so tired rn I'm supposed to be asleep, also this chapter is still undergoing edits so bare with me, this is also my first ever book so criticism is welcome!
I apologize that it's taking so long to update I've been super busy and am in the middle of battling a huge writers block , so please forgive me for my inconsistency