The Evil Within//Stefano Valentini

ch.1 Introductions

     your p.o.v                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The morning was just like any other, I wake up, I eat breakfast, and I get ready for work. Then I leave for work, yeah yeah I know how...exciting my life is. I look around for my car keys, and when I finally find them under some dirty cloths I open my apartment door to find another letter by my door. I roll my eyes at the sight of the letter.'who keeps doing this?' I thought to myself. I pick up the letter and slide it into my backpack. While doing this I noticed I was 20 mins late for my job, at the gallery! I began to run down the stairs, I kept looking down at my watch until I got to the art gallery. My bestfriend {bestfriends name} was waiting for me to get so {their gender} could lecture me on how late I was. "you know you could lose your job for this." they said in a playful tone. "I know I know."I said while laughing. {your bffs gender} looked at me with the 'you know im right though face.' I gave her a small smile fully knowing {their gender} was always right."Oh! Wait new photos were just put into the gallery today, and since your such a harsh critic I want you to go and judge them." {bffs gender} said laughing half way through their sentence. I looked at her in awe, after a few seconds we were both laughing. "Ok ill go check it out." I said as I was walking away from them. I looked ahead of myelf to see where the photo gallery was. Right before I walked into the gallery I heard,"HOW COULD SOMEONE MAKE SOMETHING LIKE THIS, AND DISPLAY IT EVEN!!" a woman said. I looked at her with one eyebrow raised, and a confused look apon my face. After hearing this I walked a little bit faster so I could see what the fuss was about. As I turned the corner, around 10 people walked out with utter horror on their faces. At this point I was very curious to see the photo these people had been looking at. As I walked in a saw a single person sitting on the bench. I was only able to see one of his eyes, the other one was covered by his raven black hair. Though one of his eyes happened to be covered I could see the anger in the eye that was not covered. I drew my attention from the mystious figure, and I looked at the photo. It was stunning, the woman in the photo had her neck slit open, the slit in her neck happened to have leaves and roses growing from it. Her face had stains which had come from her tears. She was wearing a white dress that was stained with her blood, she was sitting on a swing holding a single rose. The thing that caught my eye though were bloody butterfly wings she had, both of the sides matched each other. I was pulled out of my thoughts by the tapping of my shoulder. I turned around to see the man that been sitting down on the bench, he was wearing leather gloves, and a red scarff. Also he was wearing a purple suit."what do you think of the photo, mio cara?" He said in an Italian accent."I think it is amazing! evrything about it is perfect! from the wound to the flowers, and the wings! The photo is perfect!" you said with such enthusiasm. The man looked at you in awe. His eyes were a light blue that you could stare at forever. Under his gaze you felt the blood in the cheeks heat up. You looked back at the painting to see who had made this masterpiece, Stefano Valentini. You then turned back to the man, who was still staring at you, and said,"I wish, maybe someday i'll be able to meet him." You heard the man chuckle and say,"Well im honored you liked my masterpiece." He said and gave another little chuckle. You stared  at him in awe, and stated,"You're  Stefano Valentini, im so sorry I didn't know it was you!" He looked at you with a very hummered face," why mio cara, if I may get your name then I will forget this little mishap." He held out his hand."My name is {your first name},{your last name}" You said as you took his hand."What a very beautiful name you have." he said this and kissed your hand. You cheeks felt like they were on fire when he did this simple action. He gave you a smile."{first name}, are you done looking or-" You best friend stopped mid sentence and stared at you and the man you are with. A huge smile spread across their face, and you knew what she was thinking."It's not what you are thinking."You said quickly, she gave a quick 'how did you know face' then just as fast as you said that she went back to smiling."I'll leave you two she said."After she left you looked up to meet Stefano's eye, he almost looked hurt? was it because of what I had said to my friend? I was snapped out of my thoughts when I heard Stefano say,"would you like to, maybe have dinner with me tonight at my place?" he said to me."Of course!" You said with a little too much acceptance. He gave a small laugh, and said,"When does you shift end, because i'll be back to pick you up." You then replied with,"My sift sould end in about an hour, so, 5:00pm." He smiled at your reply and once more kissed your hand as you said your goodbyes, for now.'I cant wait for tonight' you thought to yourself. It's going to be fun.                                                                            Author's note: thank you so much for reading my first story, well the first chapter, at lerast. I'm already planning out the seconds, so get readdy for that WORDS:1023