We fell into a well called love and only you were able to get out
-Unknown-
The afternoon sun blazed down with fury.A lonely figure stood on the sidewalk looking to hail a cab.Her mind full of sweet painful memories that refused to fade.How could it? When he was everywhere, Billboards, magazines and even subway ads.The object of her past and present affection.Love is foolish.So foolish.His voice,the sound of his laughter.His woody scent....How his bow lips curve when he smiles.His burning touch and kisses.The way his eyes sparkle and gleam when he is happy.It has been three years but she remembered them all.He did not need to move on because he never loved her.She was alone in their relationship.He went back to living his best life as the 'universe charming prince' while she still carried the weight of their---her love in her heart.
They annoyed her.The memories, the love and everything they shared.
...And yet,if she could go back in time,she would chose to meet him again, to feel all of that despite knowing it will not end happy.That is how stupidly in love she was with him.A part of her was happy about his scandal and thought of it as his punishment for breaking her heart.
The sound of her phone buzzing awakened her from her reverie.A message from her landlord.It was so routine that it didn't make her feel bad like it used to.That is what happens when you are too broke.Stone broke.Bad is an understatement to describe her life.
She got into an empty cab.Heading to her apartment to pick up a few things before she goes to stay with her sister in the hospital. she did not have any part time jobs to juggle as she took a day off from all of them.
Raina paid the cab fare when she reached her apartment.Delibrately choosing to take the unending stairwell instead of the elevator as she did not want to run into the landlord.
Her apartment was shabby and Small and messy.She did not mind having to live there as all that mattered to her was Baileys health and her career everything would automatically fall in place when those two gets settled.
Soon she was jogging down the stairwell,clothes changed, with a tote bag hanging off her shoulder.The hospital was quite far but in Raina's eyes it was a trek able distance.If the agency was not very far from her apartment,she would have trekked it also.She needed to save every penny she got.
She walked into a shortcut alley and caught sight of a group of boys smoking up ahead.
Danger sign! She quickly turned on her heels to sprint but the boys saw her too.They quickly caught up to Raina surrounding her like a pack of hyenas.
"Check that out." One boy whistled,hands reaching out to cup her breast. "Don't touch me you bastard!" Raina cussed, slapping his hand away.Disgusted.
"You quite sassy for a lowlife actress." Another one said. 'Actress?' these guys knew her? There was one guy in front of her just few inches away,Raina raised up her head to get a good look at his damn face.He was quite tall.Hair dyed fiery red.A gnarly mark crossed his face from his left side head to his right ear.Tattoos,piercings and a dirty smirk,his whole appearance screamed bad-boy-terror.
Her gaze went between the three guys behind her and the red haired in front of her.Real fear began to kick in.Four men to one woman? Dangerous ratio.
"She is an actress? Wow,so befitting of the sexy face and body."
"Yeah,a lowlife one.But still a scrumptious desert!" Another added.
A wave of disgust wash over Raina at their crude comments.
"Get out of my way you jackasses!" She attempted to throw a punch at the red haired guy.He caught her hand easily.Tightly holding her balled fists with pressure like he wanted to crush them.
Unwilling to give up fighting,she threw a backward kick.One of the guys behind her groaned as he didn't see it coming nor did he expect it to hurt the way it did.
"You bitch!" Her face was whipped to the side.She saw stars spinning.Her hair was being yanked roughly.Too roughly,she felt like her hair would come off her scalp.
She tasted blood.Her lips seemed to have broken from the slap. "Seems this bitch wants it rough!"
"Let go of me you idiots!" Raina was being dragged like a bag of vegetables by the men,they were taking her further into the alley.
Raina reacted by latching her teeth into the wrist of one of the two guys dragging her along.His was the most vulnerable and accessible.Raina bit hard into his flesh, not letting go even when she tasted blood.The others fought to remove her teeth from the guy's wrist.
She was shoved to the ground.A kick to her stomach.The red haired guy raised his hand to hit her.She quickly closed her eyes, expecting the hit.It never came.She opened her eyes and saw someone who wasn't there before, fighting the red haired guy.The others ran to save their minion, surrounding the strange guy who seemingly appeared from nowhere.It all happened so fast that the next thing she saw was an outstretched palm and a bright handsome face. "Are you alright?" Asked the stranger.
Raina was thrown into a bedazzled state as she stared at the guy's face.His exquisite features all shaped in perfect harmony and balance.With a sun-kissed caramel tan skin and inscrutable dark orbs that reminded her of someone she well knew.God! He could easily give most male models a run for their money.