"Shit," mumbled Skylar, bending over to pick up her house keys. The blonde girl had just stepped out of the café she had been working at in the middle of Gotham City. The petite college grad had only been living in Gotham a few months, but she had already bought an apartment only a brief walk away from the café. Anyways, before Skylar's could pick the keys up, they had already been swooped up by a pair of thin hands.
"Ma'am," said a voice. Skylar straightened up to look into the brown eyes of a tall, lean young man dressed in a police outfit smiling down at her.
"Thanks," muttered Skylar as the cold autumn wind blew by. She tightened her long tan trench coat.
"No problem," he said. "You should be careful around these parts, you know," he continued. Skylar rolled her eyes.
"Thanks Officer Blake," she said, reading his name tag, "but I'll be fine."
"Please, call me John," chuckled the officer, revealing a pair of dimples.
"What an honor," muttered Sky, she had seen these types of guys before. Sweet guys who underneath were actually horny monsters.
"Well, can I drive you home?" he asked her, ignoring her comment, but noticing the way she kept pulling her kaki colored coat closer.
"I'll be fine, thanks," she said, rolling her green eyes. Honestly, she could walk home herself, she didn't need any charity. And with that, Sky walked away, unknowingly causing a man to fall in love with her. Two men actually.
While walking home, cutting through alley ways to get out of the cold faster, Skylar felt like she was being followed. The apartment building was in sight, but Sky was a more fight rather than flight person. Clutching the pepper spray tight, she whirled around to see the police officer walking slowly a block away from her. Rolling her eyes, she popped into a closed store over hang and waited for him to pass by. Just as he was, she called out.
"Stalking me?" John whirled around and looked at the blonde.
"Maybe ma'am."
Rolling her eyes, the petite woman responded. "I can walk home by myself you know, I'm not five." John chuckled.
"Yes ma'am." Annoyance shot across Sky's face.
"Stop calling me ma'am." John shrugged.
"Alright," he didn't more, just stood there looking at her. Skylar raised her eyebrows.
"My house is right there, you can leave now," she said bluntly. John just laughed, saluted her, and walked away. Rolling her eyes for the 50th time today, the green eyed girl walked up the rundown apartment building and climbed the fire escape up to her room. In the shadows outside, another man who had falling in love with the girl watched the building, licking the insides of his mouth.