Dark Nights and City Lights *Simon Minter*

Chapter 9

Elise's POV

Simon Climbed down the ladder first jumping off 2 feet above the ground; he slid his hand onto my arse and the other onto my back guiding me down.

"I can get down just fine on my own." I giggled focusing on climbing down the ladder.

"I know. I might be doing this in case you fall or I might be using 'In case you fall' as an excuse." I rolled my eyes at his remark as he pinched my arse causing me to jump as I reached the bottom of the ladder giggling making him laugh.

"What type of fun are we talking about?" I looked at him cautiously before he started looking around.

"Anything that gives a little rush." He smirked before running to a garage and unlocking it to reveal masks, guns and other weapons. He handed me a pistol, a blade and a bag. I put the bag onto my shoulder and the pistol and blade into my shorts as he grabbed two hoodies, throwing one at me and leaving the garage again.

"Simon stop!" I spoke in a loud whisper pulling Simon back by his bicep. "He used to ask me to come back to his after doing a job for him, I had to go sometimes to drop things off. He had some sort of obsession with hurting people for his pleasure. He'd beg me to stay and when I tried to leave he would lock his doors." I turned to my side pulling my top up and my shorts further down to reveal a scar hidden by a tattoo. "It's not that bad compared to what happens most of the time but that was the first scar I ever received doing this for a living." I covered myself back up as Simon pulled me into the alleyway beside us, I peered round the corner to see him and his presumable girlfriend walking across the street in our direction. We waited for them to walk past and created a short distance before following. We pulled our hoodies up and covered our faces so they couldn't see our faces. We followed them for a while before reaching a car park that contained only one car. He started searching for his keys before me and Simon walked faster and spun them around just beside their car.

"Don't move a fucking muscle!" Simon shouted as he pulled out a gun. The woman let out a cry as she tried to escape, I pulled her back with her hair dragging her back and tossing her to the floor. She cried from the pain holding her hair as I let out a laugh. I turned back to the guy who was frozen looking down the barrel of Simon's gun.

"What do you want from us?" He whimpered. I threw the bag onto the floor by his feet as he jumped back frightened.

"Put your money in there. Now!" I scowled at them both making them both let out a cry.

"You're a fucking bitch do you know that?" He hissed after they both had emptied their pockets.

Simon smacked him across the face with his gun making him fall back against his car. The woman crawled over to his aid and began cradling him as blood poured from his nose. I walked over to the front of their car opening the bonnet and pulling a lighter out from my pocket. I sparked the flame as it danced in the calm breeze of the night. I smiled at the couple as they started moving away from the car, Simon pulled a devilish smile at the pair before nodding at me, I dropped the flame into the engine and grabbed the bag as Simon shot at it creating a fire. We ran as fast as we could laughing at their faces and cries, we ran around a corner to catch our breath leaning against the cold brick wall. Simon pulled down his hoodie pushing his hair back up.

I looked up taking a deep breath as he moved away from the wall looking around. He stopped as he looked over towards the house party across the road, he looked back at me flashing a smile as I shot a confused look at him.

"Come on, this one is how you ruin a party." He laughed taking my hand in his dragging me over to the front door letting us in.

"Simon! You can't just walk into someone's house!" I whispered loudly looking around hoping no one noticed us. He hushed me heading over to the table full of drinks handing me one. He took a sip from his as I took a sip from mine. I scanned all the people in the room until one person caught my eye once again.

"Can we just leave, please." I looked at Simon frightened of what his idea was. "Please, Cal is here I don't want him seeing me." I begged him but nothing was changing his mind. Cal started heading over to the drinks table beside us I felt a shiver coming over me as I knew Cal would ask how I knew the host.

"Shit." Simon exhaled sharply looking around. He thought fast and shoved my back against the wall placing his hands either side of me keeping his head low, Cal walked past without noticing me, thank god. Simon smirked down at me as I sighed with relief letting out a little laugh. Simon paused for a moment looking down at me with a small smile as if he was hypnotized. He blinked a couple times before moving through the crowd of people, I followed behind him looking at all the people stumbling around to the music. We were in the middle of the living room where most people were. He pulled me close so our bodies were touching his hand remained around my waist, he swayed moving me along to the music.

"It's funny to think all of these people are the ones we fear the most, but I they're just as frightened as us." He was right, we all fear things out of our control, just like feelings. "Put your hood up." He whispered in my ear, I did as he said without question as he pulled out his gun aiming it at the ceiling. He fired 3 bullets as everyone screamed and ducked running out the building. He put his gun back in his trousers as he took a hold of my hand guiding me out of the front along with everyone else. We headed around the corner and into another alleyway. I poked my head out to check that no one was following. I turned back to face Simon who was already looking back me. I smiled looking at down at the small space in between us. He gently pulled my face back up stroking my cheek, his eyes travelled down to my neck at the purple marks as I looked back at his.

"Are they sore?" I asked knowing he would say no, he shook his head smiling.

"I guess maybe next time I'll make them hurt." I smiled playfully making him bite his lip hard and pull me close to him, he pressed his lips against mine, they were soft. I wrapped my arms around his neck as his hands moved down from my waist to my arse. He squeezed it as he lifted me up pushing me against the wall my legs clung on to him and his movements and kisses got harder.

"Simon, I can't I need to go." I mumbled in between each kiss. He kissed down my neck stopping at the bottom of it. He set me down and scratched the back of his neck. I kissed him once more whilst handing him the bag I had been carrying.

"Thanks for tonight." I smiled at him before walking off.