She was always a curious one. Abigail Silver had just got back from work and decided to go for a walk. Abigail had already explored the big city part of Un Ensemble, today she chose to explore the darker side.

Un Ensemble was divided in half; Abigail lived in the big city part where the buildings were so tall it looked as if it could really scrap the sky. The lights of every building were always on, it seemed as though everyone was always busy in the big city, and they shined so bright as if their attempt to mock the stars, but all it succeed in was block them out. Abigail has yet to see the stars in so long. That was one of the main reasons why she wanted to walk the darker side; though it may be dark at least she could see the stars.

The darker side of Un Ensemble was very ghetto. The buildings were gloomy, normal size, and run down. The only lights on were the party lights trapped in a cloud of smoke inside. You could barely see the lights seeping through the widow cracks as if they were trying to escape into the clean air. On the outside the darker side didn't look nearly as spectacular as the big city, but for Abigail it did. She was fascinated how a big city is in the same city as this dark void, how the people there are so close to the big city and yet simply chose not to go there. Abigail wishes to see the stars and the people of this dark corner of her world where she has never been.

Abigail grabbed her black jacket and made sure her knife was in her pocket she never left her apartment without it. She then left and started walking. The night was a perfect fall night, cold and crisp. As she was making her way out of the city she would look at the people walking by. She saw a mother and a little girl walking and holding hands not saying a word to each other just looking straight ahead. Next she saw a tall man on his cell phone talking about business of some sort and looking straight ahead. Then she saw a women that looked about her age with beautiful curly blond hair, she had head phones in her ears and was looking straight ahead.

Abigail was near the end of the big city when she saw a homeless man directly on the boarder of the big city and the ghetto. She put some money in his tin cup and the man replied, "Thank miss not many people would do that. "

She replied, "It's no problem sir. If you don't mind me asking, but why are you on the boarder? "

"Oh well I figure people from both parts of Un Ensemble have the same size heart, but they both have different ways of thinking. The people from the big city think only about business and work and money. While the people in the darker side think only about themselves and survival and money. Either way my chances were low to get some money because they only want it for themselves. So I thought if they have the same heart they would both feel pity for a poor confused man on the border. No one ever begs on the boarder!"

Abigail grinned at this, the man had a point same hearts different minds. The only thing all humans think about all the time is money. Abigail gave the man money because she had plenty and thought he was confused for being on the border and did feel a little pity for the old man, she was a biomedical engineer. Abigail was smart, wealthy, and kind.

"Well I best be on my way, good luck mister." Abigail then walked into the dark. The sidewalk was filthy covered in trash and used needles. Abigail looked up but could only see the lights of the city; she kept walking until the lights went out.

As she was walking she would look at the people around her. She first saw a very angry man who was looking down at the ground. He was wrapped in a thick green coat and was mumbling curse words to himself. Next she saw a woman who was dressed like a prostitute who kept looking up and looked very confused and as if she was trying to think about what this whole world is really all about. The answer to that is easy; it's money she knew that was the one thing in life that can make someone do anything. Finally Abigail saw a man and a woman holding hands. The woman dressed like a skank who just smoked crack, she had gentle eyes though. The man looked like he ran this part of Un Ensemble but you could tell he also cared about the woman very dearly the way he held her close.

Abigail wasn't one for love. She could never find a guy she wouldn't get sick of after a day. Abigail has been told that she was a catch. She had long chestnut brown hair that shined like glistening water. She had sharp blue gray eyes, a curvy body, and she had a way of being a perfect balance of intimidating and understanding. She had many talents: she was a writer, a drawer, a fighter, a leader, and best of all she was herself. She never wore make up and had no priced ears, she did have a tattoo on her back though, and it was of the Egyptian symbol the feather of maat. That represented truth, justice, morality, and balance.

Finally she had come where she saw no light, she looked up and realized it was a cloudy night and she couldn't see the stars just different form of darkness. She leaned against a wall sadly disappointed. She heard a man laugh and looked to her right and saw a very attractive man. He had raven black hair that was fluffy and slightly spiked. He had gray eyes that were surrounded by black mascara and eyeliner. He had a clean shaved face and his lips were a pale red. He had a black coat and black pants with a chain on it. He seemed to be the same age as Abigail.

Abigail asked him semi forcefully "What's so funny? "

"Your face." He grinned at her. Abigail hated those no meaning insults completely pointless.

"Ha-ha you're hilarious." His smile faded

"Why don't you go back to your side of town you don't belong here. Unless you're looking to buy something, which I can help you with."

"How did you know I was from the big city part? And no I don't want to buy any drugs"

He looked her up and down and replied, "Everything you wear looks untouched." She looked at her coat with no holes or rips and then at her brown boots which had no stains. He then said "Just get out of here you stick out like a sore thumb. "

Abigail was upset by this she didn't like it when people told her where her place was. "Well I always liked being different. Besides I just wanted to see this part of town, I've never been here. And I don't need some guy who doesn't know me telling me my place." The man had a confused look on his face. "Why do you look confuse? "

"Well you're definitely different never heard a big city girl come this half by herself on curiosity, and not call me trash. Listen you're a pretty girl, bad stuff happens to pretty girls here who don't have anyone she knows to help her."

"So if I was being raped right down that alley", she pointed to the alley next to the man, "you wouldn't do anything? "

"Probably not. I would just think its two crazy kids having a good time."

"With the girl screaming her head off?"

"A really good time" we both grinned at this. Abigail looked him in the eyes for the first time and saw a person who was sad, confused, and worried. But he was too strong to let that show long and hid it very well. Abigail was intrigued and would do anything to know all about this stranger. He had a face that looked chill, sad, and worried all at the same time.

Abigail then said, "Well my name is Abigail Silver, I'm twenty-five, single, live in the big city, and I work as a biomedical engineer. There you know me now you would have to save me, but then again I wouldn't need your help I could probably take him." She said with a sarcastic over confidence in her voice and then cracked her fingers. The man laughed at that.

The man said, "My name is Saint Jimmy, I'm twenty-six, complicated relationship with myself, live in the present, and work wherever the hell I want. And nice sneak in with you being single" Jimmy smirked and Abigail blushed, she always gets embarrassed when guys says stuff like that to her when she was just trying to start a conversation.

Abigail asked, "Yeah well I'm sorry to hear about your complicated relationship with yourself, having trouble getting the little guy up?" Abigail smiled after saying this and Saint Jimmy looked surprised that a girl like her would make a comment like that.

"Well you certainly don't talk like one of the fancy girls in the big city."

Abigail laughed and said, "Not a thing like them they are boring as hell. And wait your name is Saint Jimmy like the character in Green Day songs?"

"Yep."

"Isn't Saint Jimmy the representation of the alter ego that everyone has inside?"

"Yeah."

"Well then what's your real ego?"

Saint Jimmy smirked and said, "Saint Jimmy is the only ego I have."

Abigail then asked, "Well saint Jimmy I need to ask why are you in the darker side of town? You seem like you could have potential in the big city with that kind of attitude and determination."

"What is this, an interview? You don't want to know how I ended up here kid. That's a story only for me to know." Jimmy touched his cheek wiping off a rain drop and turned his head back to Abigail and said, "Hey you should be heading back looks like it's going to rain."

"I'm not afraid of water and it's not an interview, I just want to know more about you. What can I say I'm a curious girl and I 've had a pretty messed up life too."

Saint Jimmy looked at her puzzled, "No big city girl cares about us besides the only way I would talk is if someone paid me."

Abigail was at first puzzled that he referred to the people who live in the dark side of Un Ensemble as us like they really were a family. Then Abigail smiled and said, "Well okay I'll pay you fifty bucks for every story you tell me. It has to be a true story that isn't pointless like one day I caught fireflies the end, has to be good get my money's worth."

Jimmy grinned, "Wait my story is worth more than fifty bucks make it a hundred. And let me see it to make sure you got it for real. "

Abigail reached into her wallet and pulled out a hundred, "There okay I'll have to stop by the ATM to get more for the rest of the stories, but this is enough for one so start talking. "

Jimmy said, "Okay it's your money sucker. Let's see my dad was in the navy, my mom was a stay at home mom, I had a lot of siblings we all use to fight a lot but we get along just fine. We had to move around a lot for my dad's work so I felt like I never really had a home. And my dad was overseas a lot so I didn't really got to know him, but I got very close to my mother she loved me so much. Some days she would get mad and call me a bastard but I let that go eventually because I knew she had a lot of stress taking care of kids with no husband around much. Then she got cancer when my Dad was away in Afghanistan, and I was little so I had no idea what was going on. Then she got cancer a second time when I was in sixth grade, I remember being in the hospital her staring straight ahead with that dead look in her eyes. Soon enough she died and I was never the same. Okay that's one hundred bucks."

Abigail was in a trance during the story and woke up finally and handed him the hundred bucks looking shocked and suspicious.

Saint Jimmy asked, "What is it too sad for you?"

"No it's just, the same thing happen to me as a kid, my dad in the navy, no real home, lots of siblings, my mother having cancer, never really knowing my dad, never being the same. That's really weird. I'm sure it's just a really extreme coincide. Tell me another please." Saint Jimmy looked at her as though she was a rare animal, like he has never seen anyone so interested in him and yet so similar to him.

Jimmy said, "Wait you need more money. There's an ATM right down that block. "

Abigail replied, "Okay don't go anywhere. " Saint Jimmy nodded.

Abigail walked down to the ATM got 300 bucks and while she was walking back she was thinking over about how can two people have that much in common? Then she felt a hand grab her shoulder and turn her around. It was the man she saw earlier with the green coat who kept mumbling swear words to himself, he had a knife up in her face and said in a very shaky and raspy voice, "Gimme your god damn money I saw you at the ATM. "

He sounded like he had a little pride in his voice for being so clever. Abigail felt the cold filthy metal of the knife touch her neck. Abigail raised her hands up and said "Okay I just have to reach into my"

She slapped his arm out of the way the knife fell out into the streets. She kicked the man right in the crotch and he fell down. She went into the street and grabbed the knife and threw it into the sewer.

She then said forcefully into the man's ear, "Don't ever touch me or any girl ever again! " At this time Saint Jimmy ran next to Abigail and said "You did this?" Abigail nodded and Saint Jimmy told the man, "If I see you touch her again I will cut you off. " Abigail was shocked that Saint Jimmy was defending her.

The man looked scared and said, "Okay I'm sorry I won't touch her again for the love of god. "

Abigail and Saint Jimmy walked back and Saint Jimmy said, "Nice moves you got potential on this side too." They then reached their spot again and Abigail said, "Thanks not all big city girls are fragile ya know. "

"Not all dark side people are thieves and druggies ya know. "

Abigail said seriously, "I know. Well anyway I need to hear that next story. "

Saint Jimmy nodded and said, "Well let's see where were we. Right my mom's death, well after that death I got depressed, angry, just hatred for the world. My dad started staying home more often, so I got to know him better. He would always drink a lot and date plenty of women. Then my sister got pregnant as a senior in high school, she kept the kid married the baby daddy. My other sister went to college, and my grandma died. My dad was the only one who went to her funeral; he said it would be too inconvenient to take me and my siblings. I got so pissed that's when I started rebelling I started sneaking out to parties that he said I couldn't go to. It was hard to rebel when he wanted to know where I was of every second of the day, but I got really good at lying. Since my sister got pregnant he never trusted me. Oh but how he trusted my brother letting him do whatever he damn well wanted.

Anyway I started hanging with the burnouts at school I felt like they were the only real people there. Eventually I started smoking pot and I started selling of course I can't smoke what I have to sell. I found out business was better here so here I am. Your total is hundred bucks."

Abigail looked speechless she was still trying to comprehend the story. She finally said, "That is insane. The same things happen to me. My dad drinking and the several women, my sister a teen pregnancy, my grandma died and not allowed to go to the funeral, rebelling, no trust, started smoking, I didn't sell of course, but I came to Un Ensemble for better money too. How is it that complete strangers who have had nearly the exact same lives come to two completely different sides of the same city?"

Saint Jimmy gave her a suspicious look and said, "Are you lying to me about have the same lives so you can get in my pants?"

Abigail blushed a little then said, "First of all that's ridiculous. And don't you believe me at all?"

Saint Jimmy took out a cigarette from his back pocket and said, "It's not that ridiculous girls have done crazier shit to get with me. And I guess I do believe you."

He said it so seriously it took Abigail aback for a second. He then lit his cigarette. Just then thunder cracked the silence and rain started to poor down. They both looked at each other with a look that said what comes next, and then Abigail smiled and laughed.

Saint Jimmy asked, "what is it?'

"Oh it's just that I came to this part of the city to finally see the stars and the clouds were in the way. I also came to find out how there are basically two different types of people living right next to each other and yet never know anything about them. But it turns out we are pretty much the same person. Same hearts different minds. We both came here for money; money is really the only thing that connects everyone minds together other than that there is no similarity between people's minds. "Abigail looked up at the rain and stuck out her tongue to catch a drop of the heaven and earths water. She then said, "Well I think I got my fair share of stories thanks Saint Jimmy."

"Hey Abigail do you want to have a beer with me? I got nothing better to do all my customers have come and well I want to hear more about money makes me sleep good at night. "

Abigail laughed at this and said, "Sure I want to hear more about how the business is treating you."

"Cool you're buying though. " He said it like he didn't care about anything in the world. But she knew he was just as intrigued of her as she was of him.

The both walked together to the bar had a couple drinks and talked until closing time. They then went outside of the bar it had stopped raining. Saint Jimmy looked at her and said, "You're a pretty cool chick for a big city girl. So it's getting late you should head back home."

Abigail felt sad she didn't want to leave Saint Jimmy. But she decided she would come back tomorrow night to see him again. She asked "Will you be in the same spot tomorrow night? "

Saint Jimmy smirked and asked, "Ya you trying to stalk me or something? "

Abigail blushed and said, "No just want to talk to you again you seem like a cool dude for a dark side guy. "

Saint Jimmy smiled and said "Okay I guess I'll see you tomorrow. " Abigail nodded and started walking home and looked up to the sky and she finally saw the stars. They were beautiful specks of light the shined through the darkness of the universe. Where there is darkness there is light. Abigail smiled and made it home. The next day Abigail wasn't sick of Saint Jimmy and she never will be.