Chp 1

Rain pounded on a little window on the top floor of a cabin. The sky flashed with sparkles of lightning and roared with thunder. Sitting next to the window was a young girl in her teens staring through the water lines. Tears were falling down her cheeks as small sobs were drowned out by the rains melody. She held on to a jacket, simple but had a meaning. This was her boyfriend's jacket and how she longed to see him.
The jacket was dark blue and it had a faint cologne scent. She held the jacket closer to her body and her tears began to fall like the rain. Her hands trembled with every whimper of sadness and pain coming from her mouth. She was alone and scared wondering what will happen next. Where is he? What happened to him? Why didn't he say anything? Questions kept engulfing her mind and wrapping her heart in pain. Today was her birthday and he promised to be there with her.
Each minute she looked at the clock ticking next to her, seemed like days in her mind. Every thought came to her on why he wasn't there. She could picture him cheating on her with some woman that gave him a grin. He could be sleeping with her right now calling his name. His name began to echo through her mind, stabbing her heart with each yell. No! He would never do that to her, he had to be doing something important.
The clock said 10:30 p.m and still no sign of her beloved. She brushed her tears away and looked out the window once more. A man was approaching her door. She ran downstairs as the jacket waved behind her. She fixed her hair and her face before she opened the door.
Slowly it squeaked open and she looked upon the man. It wasn't him, but who is he. She offered him inside but he declined by a nod of his head. When he lowered his hood she saw the silver badge barley sticking out from his jackets v-line.
A cop? What did he want with her? The man sighed and looked to the floor. "Ma'am I have brought you some bad news." Her heart dropped and her face went cold. She tried not to think that it was about her boyfriend. "Marcus Cullen is in the hospital, he was in a gun fight with a robber." She fell to the ground and covered her face, she cried so fiercely that she was heard above the rain.