SEEING GREEN
Chapter 1
"Damn it," Ray cursed, as his van gave a final shudder, stopping in the middle of the road. As he climbed out, he noticed the smoke began to stream out from under the hood.
This is just great…perfect ending to an already shitty day, he thought as he proceeded to pull out his cell to call his 'bud', Ted. The bud, who promised only a week ago that everything was fixed with the van and should be running like new.
After leaving a voicemail on Ted's cell, Ray proceeded to ask a couple teenagers lounging on the porch of a house nearby if they could help him push the van to side of the street. Fifteen minutes later and twenty bucks poorer, Ray headed in the direction of home, which turned out to only be about a block away.
Thinking of nothing but taking a hot shower and crawling into his bed, Ray took out the keys to the apartment, only to notice that the door was unlocked.
Weird, he thought Neela would never leave the door unlocked like that. He slowly pushed the door open as fear began to prick up his spine. Praying to find Neela okay, he walked in and noted that the living room was dim and light jazz music was playing from the stereo. He quickly glanced around trying to make out whether there had been a break-in, the place only looked as messy as it normally did.
He breathed a sigh of relief and made his way over to Neela's room to check if she was still asleep. Noticing that her door was slightly ajar, Ray decided to just poke his head in and check. Looking around the clean room, his gaze settled on the bed, which was made up and hadn't looked like it had been slept in.
That's odd, he thought, she only got off a few hours before and had told him as she was leaving for home that she was exhausted and would probably crash as soon as she got in.
Frowning slightly, he turned from the room only to hear a low throaty moan coming from the couch in the corner of the living room. Adjusting his eyes to the darkness Ray walked over to the couch and jumped back in surprise. There was Neela lying partially dressed on the couch kissing some guy…some guy that was beginning to look like….
"Bret!"