In the Shadows of Love: Billy's Romantic Odyssey.

1 || Lady in Red.

One jungle hot summer day, Nathan was stuck in waiting lounge of the metro station fervently awaiting his eon with his eyes agog to who knows what, feet thumping as if little god was walking on earth.

Little did he know the night will mark the rediscovery of him in the form of a familiar unknown!

He was handsomer and a lady-type of person except that the next expedition was unearthly and more beguiling.

It wasn't his usual commotion to this place as it was from the furthest and most uncanny of the cities he lived in - so quite so lonesome!

Boom!

A rush traveled around the station as he laid his petrified eyes on a slimmer of a lady wearing the sexiest of a dress he had never seen, still, spotted a bright gamine shoulder of her lingering away in the rush, an elfish.

The magical hour stroked so fancy that Nathan thought he was in his little merry wonderland as she seemed to be so enchanted to him. Endearing. Even his eyes were glowing like supernatural candlelit. But who in the world was this strange 'fairy girl' as he labeled her in the most perplexing of moments?

She softly took a sharp shift and sunk a golden warm smile at his wide, blank and stargazing face-like. The moon came down on earth with a galaxy of stars. Angeles paraded on the ground.

A splash looking super-metro attendant in black slit mini-skirt and daisy white blouse for a top smacked confidently. She bit her lips and winked lustily. Taken aback by his manly brown eyes.

"Sir, your train has just arrived."

The queer, melodious sound shocked Nathan from his thoughts.

He alighted wrapped up in a series of romantic, hopeless epic thoughts.

In his mind, he couldn't help but wonder about the lady in red who had captivated him so. Until he knocked into a stump on the bend leading to his Private Drive home. He realized all he was left with were his lingering fanatics.

As he walked on, all his papers and a package of pizza fell off the pathway, just a block away from his apartment. He was so confused and startled, almost as though he had encountered a ghost.

Dread filled the hollow on his neck, that he was completely covered in sweat when he arrived at his door.

He had been so lost in his thoughts that he didn't even realize his hands were completely empty when he entered his apartment, his door-keys clicked on a storage tray.

He sunk back on the couch, stomach growling like thunderbolt. Then he phoned his folk from home.

Nathan is a mere sophomore at the local university in a nearby Tuna town, studying law and having just turned twenty-one the previous week. He's been an aspiring lawyer since his childhood and had done exceedingly well in his high school history scores, and so he decided to pursue law and become the great lawyer of the times; in stark contrast to his single-parent father, Sir John. In his opinion, Sir John never liked the law system, especially that of the previous decades.

"Don't you want to look forward to something more intimate and endearing, son?"

They debated over this old issue almost every single sunset and moonlight.

As an adult, his thoughts continuously dwelled on the disconcerting state of tranquility that had persisted for over half a decade.

It was only until one day, in broad daylight, that he had a revelation about why his father had chosen to subvert the legal system.

Despite this realization, he yearned to change this reality for the better. As the old saying goes, A snake remains a snake, untamed. He could never distance himself from his father's charisma and enchanting, romantic disposition.