MD Chapter 4
It had been three days and Evangeline still didn't hear from Alex. She wondered if he actually had meant what he said, that they were now a part of each other. Evangeline flopped on her bed and sighed deeply. Her mother was in the hospital, and her father begged her desperately to go too but Evangeline had told him that the intruder had done nothing to her. "Then what did he do?" her father asked angrily. Evangeline had told him almost the truth "He asked me my name, and then he went through my records and apologized for what was happening" but her father couldn't believe such things. He was convinced that she had been hurt just like her mother and that she was just being strong for him.
"How could someone have done that? They must have been twisted in some way" she thought while looking back at the posters on her wall. The ache in her heart had grown by the hours and she kept looking out the window, waiting for something, anything to come along. She had hoped a shadow or a signal of some kind would tell her that he was there, he was waiting for her. Evangeline finally gave an irritated sigh and began getting ready to go out. If he wasn't going to come to her, she was going out to find him, hell or high water. She began throwing her clothes around looking for something that wouldn't attract any gangs to her. She finally found a dress that hit just around the knees and zipped up a jacket since it was getting cold out.
Evangeline walked out of her room and looked around the house, making sure her parents had not come home without her knowing. When she finally felt it was okay to leave she left a note saying she was going to a friend's house and she wouldn't be back till morning. Softly she closed her front door and headed out into the night air. She breathed deeply, for some reason the air reminded her of him and it gave her more courage to wander the streets looking for a figure in white. "Alex what have you done to me" she said almost in a whisper. She walked briskly till she hit the bus station and made her way into the inner city. The streets were almost lit up by the nightlife and Evangeline wondered how she would ever find him. She was dropped off at the milk bar and decided maybe she should stop in for a drink or to maybe find one of her friends and ask them if they would know anything.
As Evangeline passed by the bouncers and saw her familiar crowd, she sat at the bar and ordered a small glass. "And what has my malenky knopka been up to this horrowshow night?" the bartender asked her. "Nothing yet Liam, I was wondering do you know anyone by the name Alex? He runs with his droogs and they all wear white in latest fashion" she asked him privately. Liam looked at her with almost glaring eyes "Now what do you want with that sodding prestoopnick?" Evangeline gave a innocent look "He dropped his effects when he picked me up from old Billyboy and his gang the other night. I would just like to thank him and return it, that's all, honestly" she said with big eyes that could almost melt Liam's heart, even if she was stabbing him in the foot. "Well he should be 'er soon I say. Just wait around a minute love, him and his droogs usually show up around now" Liam said returning back to his less favorite customers.
She relaxed now knowing that he would be found, and found soon. An hour or two passed and Evangeline had her full of milk. The room began to get dizzy as the moloko passed through her system. Her friends began asking her if she was alright and Evangeline steadily tried to make her way to the door. "Hee's noght comin" she said to herself as Liam went around the bar and steadied her up some stairs to his apartment. "Now love, you just need to rest your head. Too much vellocet or drencrom I say" Liam said as he laid her down on his fashionable couch, "You just spat there love" he said as he closed the door quietly and went back to the milk bar.
Evangeline didn't dream as she slept, but when she woke up she had a very relaxed feeling. Why should she even bother with Alex? He had obviously lied to her, and she did feel used, but it wasn't going to get her down. There were plenty of young vecks out there that were a far better match then him anyway. Evangeline got up and found some new clothes waiting by the couch. "Liam is such a good friend" she thought to herself. He had been her neighbor at one point and even though she was much younger than him he still treated her as if she were his little sister. She quickly changed, not really caring whose clothes they actually were, and went downstairs back to the bar.
"I see you've slept well!" Liam said above a little crowd around the bar. "Yes! Thanks for the change!" she said as she went to go sit at a booth to call her father. The phone rang for a long time before she heard her father's voice. "Hello Da, how's mum?" she said happily, but the voice on the other line was sorrowful "Mum's not doing well I'm afraid, the doctors said she is very ill. They don't think she has long." Evangeline scrunched up her face and started to ball up in the booth "Are you alright Da?" she said trying to sound like she was taking it okay. "I'm fine love" Evangeline knew he was lying "When will you be home?"
"Tomorrow probably, they are having a bit of a meet up at the library and I think I might go" she lied through her teeth. "Well, just let me know where you are" her dad said with a bit more energy. "Alright, I'll phone you later, bye Da" she said and hung up the phone quickly. Evangeline sat there for a good few minutes before she realized Liam was standing next to her.
"Everything okay?" he asked.
"It's just my mum, she's in the hospital" she said numbly.
"Well come over to the bar and have a sit with me if you like, I could use a little help back there" he said putting his hand on her shoulder.
"I think I just might" she said giving him a big smile.
Liam walked away back to the bar and started doing tricks with glasses while Evangeline just sat at the booth and relaxed herself. Suddenly four figures walked into the bar, all with white shirts, pants, and suspenders, black hats and boots, and one walking with a cane. Evangeline's breathe caught as she looked at the one with the cane. The same hair, the same smile, and those eye's that almost seemed to pierce right into your soul, or in this case, Evangeline's heart. She quickly backed against the booth so he wouldn't see her just yet, and thankfully they passed by her right into the back of the bar. Evangeline ducked her head out to catch a glance and saw that they were all sitting together and ordering drinks. Evangeline quickly went to the bar and ducked down next to Liam.
"What in Bog's name are you doing?" he asked and then suddenly realized who had just walked in. "So what are you doing to do love?" he asked her ignoring people ordering drinks. "Let me just think" she hissed at him and suddenly one of the bar maids came next to her. "Ello E. How's it hanging, or should I say squatting?" the bar maid laughed as she saw Evangeline scrunched up behind the bar. "Nat you twit! Can't you see I'm trying to hide" Evangeline said to her but suddenly saw her bag and a little pop-disc of Tchaikovsky. "Nat! Did you just get those orders from the lot in the back that are wearing all white?" she quietly asked her. "Yea they ordered the moloko special, why you ask?" Nat said now bending down to Evangeline's level. "Take this to the one in the middle with the cane" Evangeline told her as she handed over the pop-disc. "Alright I'll get over there in a jiff" she said happily taking the pop-disc "Is he a little crush of yours?" she asked as Evangeline blushed almost instantly. "Well…..yes" she said hesitantly. "Ooh you better be careful love, I heard he's a horrorshow sodding criminal" she said as she grabbed the glasses and headed out.
Evangeline peeked over the edge of the bar and saw Nat giving the drinks to Alex and his droogs. As soon as Alex's eyes hit the pop-disc, his eyes went wildly around the bar looking for her. Evangeline couldn't help but smile as she ducked back down and hugged her bag tightly. "Oui he sure did almost lose his gulliver when he saw that pop-disc!" Nat announced when she returned but Liam gave her a finger to hush up in case Alex should hear. Alex caught what she said almost instantly and saw Liam look over at him with wide eyes. Evangeline nearly bellied under the bar past Liam as he hurriedly gave her small kicks to get out of the bar. Alex had already made his way halfway across the bar when Evangeline tailed out of the door on her knees.
She ran around the corner into one of the alleyways and hid behind a dumpster. Slowly her body relaxed and she gave a small laugh about how ridiculous she must have looked. Why was she avoiding him but yet wanting him to know she was there? She guessed it must have been her trying to get under his skin for not talking to her for three days. Looking down at the borrowed clothes she thought about what Alex must be doing inside the bar. She twisted the fabric of the skirt she was wearing as she wondered if he would confront Nat, or worse, do something to Liam. The thought made her jump up and run around the corner to stop Alex from doing something to either of them, when suddenly hands wrapped around her waist and flew her up in the air.
Her feet slipped on the wet cement and her body flew backwards taking the person holding her with it. The ground hit her head hard and she gave a loud moan as she looked up to see who had nearly clothes lined her to the earth. Two big amused eyes looked right back at her and she caught herself almost whispering "Alex." He got up and dusted off his pants and adjusted his hat back on his head "You certainly know how to surprise a droog that's for sure" he laughed and handed her his hand. She took it and gave a grunt as she tenderly felt the spot where her head was bleeding. "Well that won't do" Alex said as he produced a small cloth from his shirt "Wouldn't want your sladky malenky gulliver hurt now would we?" Evangeline took the cloth and sat herself on the curb to try and stop the cut from bleeding out. "Where have you been?" Evangeline asked him. "I've been busy trying to get the millicents and my pee and em off of me. I didn't mean to be gone so long" he said sitting beside her "I planned on coming to see thee very soon."
She looked back at him, for some reason she knew he was telling the truth. "So what are you doing tonight? More horrorshow of the ultra-violence?" she said looking at the cloth, her head seemed to be recovering quickly. "Would thou like to come with thee?" he said giving her a big smile. Evangeline smiled back "Alright sounds good to me." Alex took her hand and led her back into the milk bar. Liam gave her a worried look but she waved to him that everything was okay and her head was fine. Alex led her by hand to the others and gave them a formal introduction. "Brothers this is our malenky sister Evangeline, and she will be joining us for a horrorshow nochy!"