Chapter 2 Dim-light

CHAPTER 2 DIM-LIGHT

" Nora please. Try to understand me. Why can't you see me for my sincerity? I'm truly sorry. We all make mistakes."

The woman covered her face with her hands in frustration.

" Mistakes?" Nora scoffed. "You even insulted and disrespected my dead dad and brother. How dare you! How dare you Dan! What wrong have I ever done you?" A tear stung her pupils.

" This won't happen again, please Nora."

" You're right, Daniel. It won't." She turned and walked out of the room.

"Nora!" Dan called after her.

"If you go after her, we are done!" Said the woman from indoors, but Nora wasn't going to wait to see the outcome of that.

She steeled herself, dragging her legs out of his apartment.

She made it out the front door and reached the staircase when she realized she was barefooted.

She cursed silently in her head and went back, to put her shoes on.

"Nora we can talk about this." Dan popped a dejected face out of the door. "You are being impossible right now."

"We are done Daniel. Go back and keep fucking. You were having a good time. Don't ruin your fun for me."

Her heart split into a million fragments as she spoke, like she was using her owns hands to cut it, with her words.

She needed to stop talking to him, or she'd lose control of the tears she was trying so hard to keep in.

She flew down the stairs and out into the open yard.

It was drizzling now.

The rain which held promise had turned into a sick disappointment for her.

Now all it was doing was upstaging her grief, mocking her.

She should never have come out of her place.

But at the same time, how would she have discovered Dan for the cheat he was if she hadn't stepped out?

How comical could life get?

She pressed her electronic key and her car beeped, unlocking.

She opened the car door and slid in, pressing the electronic start button

Dan hadn't followed her downstairs, and she was thankful for it.

She just might have entertained the thought of running him through. And she didn't want that.

There was little traffic on the road as she drove, giving her ample time to relax into her seat, and allow her thoughts out of their cage.

But it was a deadly mistake.

The tears coursed down now, unrestrained.

Zach's young face and disheveled brownie hair came to her once again.

"You know I'll whoop your ass anytime Nora. We both know who's got the smarts ....come play call of duty with me if you dare." He would smirk at her just before donning his helmet and giving her a thumbs up.

And every time ...Nora would chase him to his bike.

She'd watch him zoom off.

On the way to his death.

'Fuck' She wiped her eyes and shook her head vigorously when the traffic moved. 'fuckkk'

She couldn't afford to have blurry vision, or to be disoriented while driving.

Her phone was on, Dan wasn't calling. Of course. She hadn't expected any other thing than that, than for his dick to rule him. She just didn't know that had been the case all this while.

He probably was rounding up now, cumming inside that cruel lady and then planning to call her later, and play on her intelligence.

Apologizing like the 'pussified man' he was.

She scoffed as she switched her phone off and drove straight home.

The street lamps were lit now, to wad off the dark on this side of town. Water cascaded and rolled off the street into drainage lines as Nora hung her bag over her shoulder, hugging her trenchcoat and her sorrow tighter to herself, doing what she could to shoo away cold.

She had reached her block when she saw a man standing just beside her facade.

His back was to her.

He was tall,brown smooth willowy hair, black suits, and had as much mystery and strangeness as anyone who was backing anyone in dim-light could have.

He was intently reviewing the photo she had stamped on the wall, of a man she was searching for.

Her suspect.

She had stamped that photo on some other places too.

Her heart thumped, just a little. She quickly pulled out a shot gun, from her bag.

She closed in on him.

As silent as a shadow.

"I didn't know murderers still existed in new York City" he said to himself.

'What the fuck?' She thought to herself, pausing.

"Who the fuck are you?" She finally spoke and the man turned.

Nora's mouth almost dropped.

This man was---no. Handsome wouldn't make the cut. He was a what-in-fucking-heavens-is-this-beauty?

Nora's hand almost wobbled but she maintained her grip on the ammunition.

" Easy there falcon. " He said, features relaxed, hands in his pockets. Not even in the least bothered that a woman he didn't know, was pointing a gun at him.

Interesting.

Nora used both hands now to hold the gun. "I said, who the fuck are you?, what are you doing on my yard, why are you staring at a picture I pinned?"

" That's a lot of questions. Which should I answer first?" He asked calmly, undisturbed in the slightest.

His face even gave away the hint that he probably was enjoying this.

" You are holding that gun at a wrong angle. Your grip is slack. I could easily take it from you..if I wanted. "

Nora's nerves zinged with anxiety, with dread." I could watch you try, and watch you end up dead."

He scoffed. " Then you should be pointing to my head, if you want me dead."

She observed him for another brief second, gun still pointed at him.

"Are you crying?" He asks, staring intently at her.

His stolid face wavered just slightly.

" It's none of your business." She blurted out.

" Does it have anything to do with him? Maybe I can get him faster than you can." he pointed to the photo.

She scoffed, lowering the gun slightly" No sir, I do not need your help. Neither do I need your sympathy. I think you should leave. It's evening, everyone is wary of strangers lurking around strangers property by this time."

" You are lowering your gun. Isn't that a careless action considering you are talking to a stranger? Or perhaps you no longer regard me as one"

She shook her head, completely lowering it down now. "Delusional"

He didn't look like the threat she was on the hunt for, she was watching out for.

He raised a brow, watching her."So what if I was a dangerous person? You just made it easier for me to oust you."