Love in The Shadows (Completed Also Not OC)

Chapter 3

a/n: This is your bedazzled pepper spray lol

y/n's pov

    I started walking home from the office after that conversation I had with april, I smile feeling happy that we might have the biggest story out there and she is letting me help her.
         I yawn, wishing I had a car but not since I have bad pay as i'm an unpaid intern and my coffee shop job is only ten an hour. My mother was also working late. April bikes everywhere I think, I have never seen her use a car before, only the news van, I have walking and my life, I shake my head
  
     "This is my 13th reason" I mutter to myself. It was a beautiful night with the wind blowing through my hair and the awful smell of New York wafting through my nose. I'm used to it, so it doesn't bother me anymore, I look up at the night sky, loving the stars and beautiful they shine
          as I was walking, i feel my phone vibrate, it was a text from my mom, i open it
       "Bunnybear, I will be staying at work all night...again, as they couldn't find anyone to cover gloria's shift so I got stuck with it, I'm sorry love please forgive me, there should be some leftover food from lunch that I made myself earlier today, love you sweetie❤️"
I sigh before I text back, sad and a little frustrated as this was a normal occurrence
     "Love you too, mom, see you tomorrow morning🫶🏼"
      
     I put my phone up, sighing wishing my mom would just find another job, the one she has now doesn't care about her, I sigh and keep going until I stop when I hear something, it was around 9 pm right now, I start looking around,
       I see nothing but my gut instinct was going off and its usually always right, so I walk slowly, my ears on high alert, i grab my pepper spray and hold it in my hand close to my heart 
      
         "God, I hate this city some days" I mutter to myself, I roll my eyes then jump when I hear metal clanking against the pavement, i whip my head to the side and see someone, I aim my pepper spray at the person, my voice shaking
       "W-Who..who are...are y-you?" I say my voice is trembling, scared but trying to muster courage
         The person starts coming closer, chuckling creepily, my hands tremble as I take the lid off, it falls out of my shaking hands, I pick it back up and aim it at the strange man

      "Just..just..b-back up..up o-okay, w-what do you..you...want?" I say scared
The person who I now recognize as a man starts running over, I spray the pepper spray not realizing it was facing me, I groan as I spray it in my own eyes.
"FUCK ME!"
     before I can even see what's going on, my purse gets grab
"NOOOOO"
          The man starts running, I try to run after him but since my vision is so blurry,
     i'm going whichever way accidentally going the wrong way until I realize that the man's footsteps are getting further way, I turn around and start running again as I feel like that officer from a cloudy and a chance of meatballs, i groan

       "Goddamn it" I say out of frustration
I kept running after him until I chased the man into an alleyway, I was about to grab my 3 inch pocket knife out of the holster I have for it under my skirt until I see a blurry green blob, jumping in front of the strange man,
       I stop as I try to rub the pepper spray out of my eyes, trying to get clearer picture of what's going on, the figure was still a bit blurry but i could see them a bit better now, they had some type of red thing covering there eyes, tiny pitchfork looking things in their hands, then I hear fighting, then a groan before a thump on the pavement, I pull my knife out, scared
        
       "Uh.. i-I have...have...a...a...k-knife! And...and I'm not...not...a-afraid to use...use...it" my body trembled, out of fear as I held the knife up, I kept blinking, trying to see what's going on in front of me. The figure looked over at me from what I could tell, throwing my purse a little too hard, as the purse hit me almost knocking me down.
        I heard the figure chuckle before disappearing in the shadows. I sit up and I cross my legs as I rub my face confused as to what the hell just fucking happened.
   
    "What in the actual hell just happened, bruh?"
*I mutter as I get up and try to make sure everything is in my purse, using my hands as my eyes are quite not okay still, I look for my eye drops, I find them and put them in, I blink my eyes, my vision getting clearer, I grab my phone and text Megan
      "Hey" I pause for a moment, thinking as I rub my eyes
       "Hey...are you busy at the moment?"
I send as I look around my surroundings to make sure no one else was around until I feel a vibration, I look at my phone
     "No, why?"
It reads, I immediately reply back, she responds faster this time
"I need to talk to you, it's important"
  "Okay, where should we meet?" 
I take a couple of minutes to think about my reply before I start typing again
"By the subway in an hour"
"Okay"

                   Thirty minutes later

        I was walking in front of a building walking past traffic when I saw the news van, I ran towards it and knocked on the door as they were still stuck in traffic, April opens the door
      "Y/n?......I thought we were meeting in the subway?"
"Me too, but then I saw the news van, and I ran over, so let me in"
April opens the door and I crawl in, I go sit in the back

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