City Lights

Alex looked out across the city from her small balcony. Only three hours had passed. Three horrible, miserable hours. Three hours since Nicole Wallace had practically turned her self in when she left a message on Bobby's answering machine to meet her at the pier, and Bobby had gone. Why pass up a chance to catch Nicole. The only problem came up when she tried to pull him off the pier in a lovers embrace.

"What happened?"

"She tried to take me with her. The nerve."

"Hmuph. You should of played her then pushed her off the damn thing."

"The one person that loves me is a psycho killer. Why does that not surprise me?"

"Your loved by most of the women you meet, Bobby."

"All the wrong people."

"What?"

"I'm loved by all the wrong people."

All the wrong people. Wrong. Short. Dumb. Blonde. Watson. Wrong. He knew. He knew all along and the bastard never said a thing. Why? Why was she so wrong? Did she not live up to his standards? Hmmm...Up.

"So, Bobby, finally admit your defeat with Irene?"

"Yeah. She just wasn't my type."

"What is your type? So, do you have one?"

"Fun-ny."

"I know."

"I like women-"

"Good to know."

"-that are intelligent and funny and tall and smart-"

"Same as intelligent."

"-and make me smile-"

"Counted as funny."

"Are you ever quiet?"

"..."

"Now, why are we partners?"

"..."

"You can talk now."

"Your smiling."

"Whats your type?"

"The same."

"Ohhh..."

"They're just men."

"Good to know."

"Shutup."

She was wrong, and she knew it. She should of known it all along. Why would someone that could have anyone choose her? She looked out across her balcony again. Wrong. Faulty. Defective. Alex dropped the picture of her and Bobby off the balcony. It was her favorite picture. They were at a benefit, and he had one arm dangled loosely across her shoulders. Alex remembered that feeling and let it engulf her. The picture slowly drifted down. A stray wind tossed it up to the heavens and let it fall back down since there was nothing to catch it it fell to the Earth in a spiral of snow and rain. Alex followed.