Chapter 11:

Tiffany didn't know how long it had been, but Charles still hadn't arrived, one day Eddie would write a letter saying Charles would be a day another it'd be a week. Everyday Tiffany would think about Charles, what lifestyle they'd lead together, she'd giggle when she wondered how he was in bed. But most of all, she thought about how his lips would feel on hers. Whenever she spoke to Eddie, she'd try and find out more about Charles Lee Ray. She'd learned that Charles was thirty-six years old, a lot older than Tiffany but she didn't mind, Eddie had told her Charles could be unpredictable and had an appetite for crime. He'd been locked up for a lot of crimes and he was proud of every one of them, whether it was rape, assault or robbery, he loved to brag about them. When Eddie spoke about Charles, he spoke as if he was Charles' younger brother who idolised him. It was as if Charles was a hero in a comic book, one he looked up to and wanted to be like. Eddie was quite idiotic and silly, but Charles sounded cunning and intelligant. Tiffany hardly knew the man, but she couldn't help but be attracted to the man of mystery.

Leaning out of her window, she glanced at the dark night sky and smiled as she watched how the millions of stars which decorated the darkness glittered and sparkled. She felt a pair of hands on her waist then jumped at the sensation. Her eyes widened with shock and she spun around, then she locked eyes with him. She didn't know who he was at first, then she recognised him, it was Paco. His face was contorting with anger and rage as he grabbed a fistful of her hair, before flinging her across the room. "Fucking little whore" he grunted in his thick mexican accent as she began crawling towards th door. "Not so fucking touch, ay chica...where the fuck is your gun, ay" spat Paco as he followed the desperate Tiffany into the hallway before cruelly booting her in the stomach, causing her to yelp with pain before collapsing flat on the floor. Kneeling beside the crying Tiffany, Paco asked "where the fuck, is my money, ay bitch"

"I don't have it" whimpered Tiffany as he grabbed her bra and tore it off her

"Lying whore" roared Paco as he glared at the topless Tiffany who lied helplessly on the floor

"The drugs, they weren't fucking for me...they were for Lila...I got them for Lila" swore Tiffany as she wrapped her arms around her breasts in a desperate bid to hide them. Paco chuckled sadistically, before snapping "you came for them, it's your money I want" then he added with a grin as he moved her arms out of the way then began to fondle her breasts "if you can't pay with cash, you'll pay with something else". Paco stood her up before he kissed her harshly, while she stayed frozen in his grasp. The bitter memories she'd hope she'd forget came rushing back, her father raping her, her mothers abuse and the shop keeper violating her. She thought of it all.

Suddenly she sank her teeth into lip, he screamed with pain as blood came rushing down from his mouth, before she clawed at his face causing him to stagger backwards. She ran down the hallway and burst into the livingroom, she had to get the guns, she knew she'd die if he didn't. Leaping onto the floor, she grabbed the box that the guns were hidden in from beneath the couch, but before she could even open it, she felt his hand grab the top of her arm and she was threw across the room. "Please...don't hurt me" she begged as she huddled into the corner of the room and cried into the palms of her hands. Paco was now holding a black iron fire poker and charging towards her, he looked demented and furious, Tiffany screamed with horror and closed her teary eyes. BANG.

Tiffany opened her eyes, she let out a startling scream when she noticed Paco's dead body laying in front of her with half of his head blew off and blood oozing from what was left. She glanced down and gulped when she realised parts of shattered skull and brain had splattered across her. Still huddled in the corner, she scanned the room then noticed him standing in the doorway, armed with pistol. He looked exactly the same, he hadn't changed at all, his hair was still as black as a raven with streaks of red, he was still handsome and his face still looked perfectly sculptured. His ocean blue eyes, so serene and peaceful, they still mesmerized her. It was Charles.

"We should get this cleaned up" Charles suggested calmly as he tucked the pistol into the back of his pants, before kneeling beside the corpse, cackling then acknowledging "fuck, that's gonna' stain"

"Charles" tearfully stuttered Tiffany as she stood up and gazed at the handsome man

"I'm Charles Lee Ray, you're Tiffany, Eddie's girlfriend" replied Charles with a charming smile, before glancing down at her bare breasts and chuckling "am gonna' like it here" causing Tiffany to smile shyly and quickly wrap her arms around her breasts. "Is he dead" questioned Tiffany as she stood motionless, staring at the body with a morbid fascination

"Unless he can survive with half a brain" sarcastically responded Charles as he pulled a ciggarette from his pocket and placed it between his lips

"What are we going to do, the police could come, we'd get arrested for murder" panicked Tiffany as her eyes darted around the room as if searching for a place to hide

"Hey, shouldn't you be thanking me, for saving your arse" interrupted Charles before asking "what's a girl like you, mixing with this shit for"

"He's a drug-dealer, Eddie's aunt owes money to" answered Tiffany before she hurried out the room and slipped into an old t-shirt. When she returned to the room, Charles moaned "why'd you get a t-shirt, fuck, I wasn't complaining" with a smirk before he continued "we're gonna' have to get rid of this shit". Tiffany stood their gazing into Charles' hypnotizing blue eyes, as he stood smoking his ciggarette before deciding that they'd stuff Paco's body into a box, then throw it into a lake.

"I haven't got a box" admitted Tiffany after searching the apartment desperately

"Fuck, well, this bastards gonna' have to go into something" explained Charles nodding towards the corpse

"What about a sleeping bag" suggested Tiffany with a girlish smile

"Good idea, have you got one" questioned Charles

"Yeah" smiled Tiffany before hurrying into the kitchen and grabbing the sleeping bag which was packed into a closet. "Good idea, Tiff" said Charles with a glistening smile, before dictating what they'd do next "I'll get the body into the bag, you clean up the blood"

"Okay" replied Tiffany before filling up a mop bucket in the kitchen with warm water and bleach then returned to the livingroom. As she crawled on the floor, scrubbing as hard as she could, Tiffany chuckled after glancing at Charles who had packed the body into the sleeping bag and now was resting on the couch. He looked at her and noticed a cheeky smile on her face, before asking "what's up"

"You don't remember" smiled Tiffany

"Remember what" suspiciously questioned Charles

"We've met once before, I'm shocked you didn't remember me, I've always remembered you" admitted Tiffany with a flirtacious smile, before explaining "we had a brief chat, over at a party in New Jersey, small world isn't it...it was Billy Knowles party"

"Fuck, I can't believe it" gasped Charles with a smile as he lundged forward with his hands on his head in a state of shock. After repeating "I can't believe it" several times, Charles wondered "how'd a sweet girl like you, end up with a piece of shite like Eddie"

"I don't know" shrugged Tiffany as she dipped the old dish-rag into the water then continued washing the floor, before she said "I thought, you two were friends"

"Yeah well, he's still a piece of shite" chuckled Charles before acknowledging "you're far to good, for scum like him"

after letting out a girlish high-pitched giggle, Tiffany smiled and explained "Eddie's really sweet, I wouldn't of lasted in LA if I didn't meet him. I would of ended up dead, or hooked on drugs"

"Oh, yeah...he is a good kid, he's helped me with more than enough problems" replied Charles

"Really...what's your story anyway, what took you so long to get up here" asked Tiffany before looking at the now clean floor and smiling "all done"

"I wouldn't know were to start with my story, but, I've known Eddie for a long time. Us boys, we've done some wild things together, even done time together in prison. Once we got out, we went on a wild robbing spree" explained Charles before bragging "we must of hit over fifty stores, cashed in on all the jewellry and everything". Pouring the bloody water down the sink, Charles and Tiffany both then grabbed the sleeping bag which held the vicious drug-dealers body, before leaving the apartment and sneaking down the apartment building stairs and into the car park with it. "Which is your car" Charles asked

"That one of there" Tiffany replied as she nodded to her car and she struggled with her end of the bag. Tiffany opened the boot of her car and they tossed the bag into it, before she jumped into the car into the drivers seat and Charles into the front-passengers seat. "We make a good time" laughed Charles

"We've got to, we've still got to rob the old woman" Tiffany replied before adding "the time you've took to get here, she's probably in another state"

"Don't worry, I checked in on the old bag, she's still there" informed Charles

"What...how'd you do that" spat the startled Tiffany

"I just walked right in there, seen if she was still there, the bitch was" sarcastically answered Charles

"Oh my god, are you serious" Tiffany gulped

"No, of course not" chuckled Charles as he stared out of the window

"Well, we need this money from the old woman, especially if we're going to break Eddie out of jail" explained Tiffany

"Why don't we get off with the cash, let the fat boy rot" suggested Charles with a mischeavious smirk

"We can't do that" Tiffany laughed before she pointed to a lake and asked "is this one okay...is it further away enough"

"Yeah, Tiff, it'll do" he replied as he glanced at the beautiful woman who sat beside him and smiled as she babbled on about Eddie and his dreadful time in prison. The duo hurried out of the car, flipped open the boot and grabbed the body, before rolling it into the lake and into its watery grave. All the two could do, was hope that it'd never be found and linked to them. On the way home, Tiffany listened eagerly as Charles spoke about his criminal background, just like Eddie had once done. She didn't know why, but it made her fall in love with Charles even more, each word he said made her heart race and her eyes flutter, she was like an innocent school girl with a crush. She knew he was the one, her one true love and the man who she could trust with all her heart to protect her and let nobody else hurt her.

When they returned to the apartment, Tiffany yawned "I'm so tired" as she took of her coat and hung it over the banister, then she remembered "Charles, we've got a guest bedroom"

"We're not sleeping together" laughed Charles before Tiffany guided him into the guest bedroom and smiled "this is, where you'll be sleeping".

"Thanks, Tiff" he thanked, before he leaned towards her, pecked her softly on the cheek and whispered into her ear "goodnight"

"Goodnight, Charles" sighed Tiffany before she spun around and scurried out of the room into her bedroom, were she slammed the door behind her and placed her hand over her fastly beating heart. Throwing herself onto her bed, she buried her face into her pillow where she squealed with delight.

Tiffany and Charles were now bound together by a murder, they were bound together by something stronger than a marriage certificate. Nobody knew it yet, but Charles and Tiffany's relationship was special, Tiffany knew already that she adored and loved Charles, she hoped he would her. But they didn't know they'd soon be bringing out the worst in eachother, they brought out eachothers darker side. With Charles' sadistic tendencies and Tiffany's desperation for his love, affection and protection, they'd soon feed of eachother. They were already bound together by one murder, soon they'd be bound by more.

Chapter 11 finished

Authors note: Hope you enjoyed this chapter, please tell me what you think about Charles and how he was introduced as I'd really like to know, and tell me what you think of Tiffany now. Please leave a review, I love reading them.