Hi!!!!!!! This is my first fiction so please review and let me know what you think. Some of these may sound weird, but I am Irish and just can't bring myself to say stuff like "prom" and "cell phone"! Be glad I'm not going on about the debs and the craic instead!!!!!!! Hehehe! Well, read, enjoy and review! And all constructive criticism accepted and if you like it….. YAY!!!!!! I'm just gonna warn you that I don't know how often I'll be able to update seeing as my internet is broken. I'm doing this off someone else's computer. So, without further adieu, here it is.
BPOV
"We have to go to Kim's next. That is the best shop ever!" Erin really did love shopping. Why on earth did I let her bring me here?
"Come on! It's nine o'clock! Please let me go eat something!!!!!" I begged. We had been shopping for over five hours now and I have to say, I hated every moment of it. (except when I was trying on that blue dress. It looked GORGEOUS on me!) I finally realised why I had given up on these people many years ago, but I just couldn't resist when Erin invited me. I thought it might just be sitting down for a coffee for a while and then we might go to maybe one or two shops. Not this, of course. I would have preferred to have been doing gymnastics in front of the whole school rather than this! (Well, maybe that's stretching it a bit too far) Me being me of course, felt too rude to try and make up an excuse to go home.
"Ok," she agreed reluctantly, "but you have to let me take you out again some other time. This was so much fun! I don't know why we haven't done this before!"
Maybe because you're such an irritating little daddy's girl?
"Ya! It was so much fun." I don't know how I actually managed to pull it off. Usually I can never lie. Her phone rang and I felt a wave of relief that I wouldn't have to talk to her for much longer.
"Hi mom. Sorry I'm out so……. Sorry but……. I know, I know I said that I'd be home by……. Alright already, stop yelling! I'm on my way home"
" Listen Bells," grrrrr I hate that name, "I'm sorry, but I have to go home. My mom is blowing a fuse cause I told her I would be home already to watch my brother. I feel so bad just ditching you, but she will literally kill me if I don't get home right this minute."
YES!!!!! No more mindless droning about shoes and clothes and stuff that I am not the least bit interested in! I do not want to hear anything else about your rash or how your boyfriend has one now as well. Wait, don't let her know that I'm so happy. Disappointed. Disappointed. Disappointed. God! I should have paid more attention in drama!
"Don't worry about it. I'll just go ahead to the restaurant and then walk home."
"Oh, thank you so much Bells," if you call me that one more time, I swear to God I'll…. "you really are brilliant. I'll call you sometime tomorrow" she called over her shoulder as she sprinted away.
Sweet, sweet freedom! Finally away from that devilish form of torture, I headed home. To hell with the restaurant. I have a tub of ice cream in the fridge that will be a whole lot cheaper than paying $20 for a tiny meal that I won't even like seeing as mom will just replace it.
Mom. I was so delighted when I found out that Phil had finally gotten a good job right here in phoenix. Just the day before I was going to tell mom about my idea of going to live with Charlie. I love him and all, but now I wouldn't be keeping mom away from Phil. She loved him so much. I just wouldn't have been able to bear the look on her face without him. She would never leave me to go with him on his frequent new jobs. He may play baseball for a living, but he does not do it that well.
Why didn't I wear my flats? Now I have to walk all the way home in these! If only there was a shorter way…….. Actually, if I went past this block, I could take the back alley and cut the time in half. Making sure that I still had my pepper spray in my bag, I set off. I really shouldn't be going through there. It's dark and who knows what could be lurking back there. Even though I put up a very good argument to myself, I still couldn't walk all the way home in these shoes. Not after walking so far today in them.
Turning into the alley, I really started to think that I shouldn't be doing this. I was about to turn around, but I saw a shadow fall over the entrance to the alley. Not even considering what to do, I walked farther to the alley.
It really shouldn't be this long and I'm pretty sure that there wasn't supposed to be any corner in it. As I rounded it, I realised my mistake. I shouldn't have gone down this alley. The right one was another block down. This one had a dead end.
I turned, hoping to god that it had just been someone passing by that had made the shadow. Nope, now that I had stopped, I could hear the slow, menacing footsteps. Reaching for my bag for the pepper spray that I had checked on not so long ago. How had it managed to get to the bottom of my bag?
"I wouldn't do that if I were you honey." No. the footsteps had sounded much farther away. He couldn't be standing there in front of me. Slowly, I raised my head to look at him. He was the kind of man that you would pass on the street without looking twice at him. Completely ordinary. Nothing remarkable about him. Hard to identify. The perfect criminal.
"D-d-don't come near me" I stammered out. I knew that this guy was gonna do something to me. Hurt me, rape me, kill me. There was no way of telling which. The alley way was so narrow, there was no way I could get past him if he could put his arms out at all. Right. The only thing that I could possibly do was to defend myself. Think Bella, think! What's that thing from Miss Congeniality? SING. Stomach, instep, nose, groin. Wait. That's for if your grabbed from behind. Oh, to hell with it! Guess I'll just have to skip three steps.
"What you gonna do to me darlin'? Scream? No one's gonna hear you. It's just you and me out here at this time of night. It wasn't that smart of you to come out here. All alone. No one to help you. Now, you're gonna do something for me and then you won't ever be able to tell anyone ab-"
I screamed as a sudden force blew my attacker past me. Turning, I saw the man with his head at an impossible angle. There was no way that he could still be alive. As I looked up, I saw what must be the source of this. The angel sent down from heaven to rescue me. Deathly pale, incredibly beautiful, I looked upon the face of my saviour. With his bronze hair and his puzzled expression there was no way I could look away. Then, I finally notice his blood red eyes.
"Run" he said in this voice that seemed to be singing. While with all my heart I wanted to stay, my brain and my feet thought otherwise and did as he had commanded. How did I actually manage to do that? I wanted so much to walk over and touch the face of my angel to make sure he was real. But I had to get home. I ran the whole 10 blocks. Coming to the door, I let myself in as quietly as possible. My watch showed me that it was well past the time that my mother would have gone to bed. Thinking that that wasn't such a bad idea, I went straight to my room. Collapsing onto my bed, I finally realised the full scale of what had just happened to me. That villain would have hurt me, but I got away. I could have stayed with that angel, but I left. I cried myself to sleep with tears of both relief and regret.