When Love Met Destruction

Drawn On Eyebrows

Crisly was known for it's drug dealers, murders, robbers, loan sharks and much more. In the daytime, it was just a normal city, nothing really went on. People visited the local shops, well the ones that wasn't closed down, and just went on like nothing was ever wrong.

But at night, Crisly was an evil territory. Gun shots, screams of mercy, police sirens. That's all you would ever hear at night if you were anywhere near Crisly. If you were actually dumb enough to go near it. If you actually went into Crisly at night, you were almost guaranteed to either leave with multiple injuries or you leave in a body bag. You'll leave high or you'll leave running for your life.

Crisly wasn't always like that. It used to be a nice town to go into at night or in the daytime. Everyone knew each other and were friends with everyone. But some idiots decided to bring drugs into our town and that's basically where everyone had started. People killed for drugs, sold drugs, did drugs. Gangs began to form, murder happened a couple times a week, somebody got robbed every night or put in the hospital. That's how it was.

Me? I didn't live near Crisly. No I lived in a nice neighborhood, in a nice house, with nice neighbors and I went to a nice school. Everyday was the same. I get up at 6:30, get ready for school, eat breakfast with my dad, go to school, sit through hours and hours of boring talk and lectures. I go home, do my homework and other unconventional things and I go to bed. Then tomorrow it's the same cycle. For 17 years I have done this and honestly, I've grown quite bored with it. Nothing exciting ever happened. I would spend days in school, just hoping someone would come and start killing people. At lease there would be some excitement there. My life is just fucking boring as shit.

Not tonight though. Tonight, I, for the first time, will be stepping foot into Crisly. At Night...And Alone. Why do I feel like this is a bad thing to do and I'll regret it later?

Probably will. But the thrill is amazing.

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Zipping up my hoodie, I turned down a dark alleyway of Crisly, one the many alleyways here. This alleyway was scarier though, it was dark and some how colder. The alleyway was encased between apartment buildings that were mostly abandoned. They were mostly used for drug deals or a place to do drugs, or homeless people would stay in them. Or a murder or two would happen. Not like the landlords gave a fuck. I doubt they even come around here. No one who wasn't a criminal ever came here. Until me of course. I could hear various drops of water dripping from the broken pipes that clung to the apartment buildings and in the distance I could see one pipe that was spraying out what looked like some type of gas. The brick road wasn't even really a brick road. The bricks had either pieces missing or was missing all together, creating an uneven pathway. There was at one nasty smelling dumpster that was pushed up against each apartment building. A few of them made me gag as I walked by them. And what made it worse is that this alleyway stretched a long ways down. I could always turn back but I craving for some action prevented me from doing so.

Coming out here was a stupid idea, there is no denying that but I need something! Something to fill the void before I go insane from boredom. You understand, right?

Looking around, I could see shadows moving around in the various broken windows and a part of me wondered what they were doing. I could hear police sirens off in the distance and another part of me wondered who they were chasing and what for. Then the biggest part of me was wondering who was walking distantly behind me because I can hear footsteps echoing me. Yeah I wanted to freak out but I didn't want to seem suspicious or make a scene because they could be friendly, whoever they were. I ignored the pounding in my chest and the sweating of my palms and kept on walking. I tried to keep my breathing under control before I start hyperventilating. In other words, I was scared shitless and the regret was swarming around me.