CHAPTER SIX
Henry is looking intensely at me, waiting for my reaction.
"I'm sorry", I mutter turning around,"I have to go"
I start moving towards the grand hall's exit. What just happened was againt every moral I grew up with. My body betrays me as I think about the fact that I had just gotten kissed for the first time in my life, by Henry Six-Pack Dalgleish.
"Alyx!" I hear him call my name from behind me but I ignore him, walking straight out into the darkness.
Rain is pounding on the roof of my Fiat when I get in. I focus on the light thump-thumping as I drive home. That's the only place I want to be, curled up in bed watching TV until my beeper beckons me to St Georges.
Of course, my beeper can't do that anymore because St Georges' is no longer my occupation. A tear falls down my cheek making a small wet dot on my jeans.
RING!! RING!!
Caller ID says its a private numer, I press ignore and continue to focus on the road. My mind keeps drifting back to the kiss. His kiss. There is something behind that kiss, something that I don't think I was supposed to feel. Go back! Turn around and go back, Alyx! My subconscious is spilling her guts out screaming at me from the inside. For once, follow what your heart says, Alyx.
But I have never believed in your heart telling you to do anything, it is a vital organ for pumping blood and nothing else. Looks like my logic decided to show up.
My apartment greets me with a whiff of warm air and a familiar home-y scent. If it were animate I would run to it and hold on as if my life depended on it but there is nothing, just an apartment with my belongings safely kept away. My door clicks shut as my back slides down to the floor with my mind propelling with the remembrance that I have nobody here. Tabu is in Denver, Nick is in Malibu and Veronica isn't that close to me. Henry.............he's well, Henry. But I will walk on hot coal before I go back to that hall tonight.
The warm water crusades down my sore, exhausted body a I scrub of everything, the memories, the feelings, everything. I crawl into bed and switch my phone off. Tomorrow is my first day of work at STDI, I had been asked when I wanted to start work and my decision was to start on Saturday. Tomorrow is a new day, tonight never happened if you didn't want it to. What are the chances of you and Henry crossing paths again? I fall into a deep sleep and am awaken by someone knocking on my door.
My hands reach out for my phone, its 08:00. Darnit, I'm late!
I jolt awake and race for the door when I realise I am wearing pajamas. No time to change now. Who the Hell is visiting me so early in the morning?
I open the lock and open the door.
"Alyxandria?" A male voice asks. Its not Henry. My pang of disappointment surprises me.
"Yup. Can I help you?"
The man is slightly taller than I am wearing a black suit and tie, he has dirty blonde hair and brown eyes, he removes his shades and places them in one of the suit pockets. I have definitely never seen him before.
"Hi, I'm Sean. Sean Wyatt" he extends his hand which I shake.
"Hi, sorry I wasn't expecting anyone." I say
"No problem. I am your case agent. Your partner in other words. Dr. Schmidt had told me to pick you up, we received your first set today"
The excitement bubbles within me. My first case!
"Oh! Come in, Sean. Would you like some coffee?"
He walks with a sort of authority, it reminds me of Henry. No! No Henry.
