Him and Me

Him and Me-3

Ashley

I see the silhouette. I see my hope. I can literally feel as if God himself has come down to help me. But as I’m running towards my saviour I realise he’s none other than The Mystery Man himself! I rush towards him, push him towards me so that he faces me, and forget everything and hug him.

I hug him with all I’ve got.

“Thank you God! Thank you so much! Thank you, thank you, thank you God!” I feel an overwhelming feeling while I hug him, maybe because I was on the verge of getting groped by psychos or even worse, getting raped. Even thinking about it brings chills in my spine.

I finally stop hugging him and look at my saviour’s face. “I have never in my life have ever been so happy to see someone like right now when I saw you!”

He turns around to look at the chaos, and see the tattooed weirdo and the other guys who were following me. Somehow looking at him, then all turn back and go away. I breathe a sigh of relief.

“Hi, I’m Ashley, Ashley Evans, and you?” Yes, finally the ever awaited name of the Mystery Man is now about to get revealed, I wait in anticipation holding out one of my hands.

“I’m Jake.”

Jake, ah doesn’t really seem to suit the Mystery Man image, but whatever, it’s not like I’m going to confess that to him anyway.

“Now back to the point mister. You are the one who has created all this mess! Neither had you mysteriously got out of the train nor would I have had to follow you out, and neither would I have had to miss my train! You have created all this mess.”

“Now you are the one who’s going to take me to the next station so that I can get all my luggage and travel all the way to Las Vegas! And that’s final; you are not allowed to pass out from this.”

I start walking away and taking three steps I see he isn’t following me, “Common you can give me all the sour looks while walking anyway so there’s no point in just idly standing there.”

He starts walking with me. Okay at least now things are falling into place. Well I believe God has planned everything according to the best way possible. So yeah, nothing could go wrong now, could it?

Jake

Wow, I hadn’t expected this in a million years that I’d be roaming around in the lanes of Barstow in the middle of the night, with some crazy beautiful girl and still not refusing to do this.

I never planned this!

How does she trust me to take her to travel all the way to the next station when she barely knows me? Well I did see the stupid weirdoes following her when she came and hugged me.

She hugged me.

It’s been a long time since someone hugged me. I’d pretty much considered that I was not huggable, if that is a word even.

But she hugged the un-huggable.

It was such a warm embrace. I actually felt for a second that I’d never let go off her. I’ll hold her there in my arms and that will complete my life. They were really unknown feelings to me.

I felt a pang of loneliness when she let go.

“Hi, I’m Ashley, Ashley Evans, and you?”

“I’m Jake.”

I don’t elaborate my name. There’s a look of confusion on her face and then she says all about how she wants me to take her to the next station so that she could take her luggage and head off to Vegas.