MORE OF CH.3
Well, here I am again, ed thought to himself as he was walking down the stairs of his apartment. No friends. No girlfriend. Nothing. Who brought you here? Gaia. How? She brainwashed his mind in order to make him fall in love with her all over again. She actually didn’t do it herself. He did it. He was the one who fell back in love with her. He was the one who broke up with a perfectly normal girl- NORMAL- mind you, because he fell in love with the mystery girl again. Where did Gaia get that right? Who gave her permission to jump into his heart and mind and switch everything around? Who had given Sam the right to tell him everything? To make Ed fall in love with her again, knowing she did nothing with Sam than help him? Oh yeah, he gave Sam that right. All he could think about was how pissed off he was at her. but when he walked outside the door of his building and saw a tower of blonde hair resting on a pair of sweatshirt-clothed shoulders shaking up and down, all he felt was guilt. What was she doing here? She lived on the east side. She must have taken a bus.
“Gaia?” ed asked. The form sprang up from her position, wiping the tears shed from her eyes.
“What are you doing here?” gaia asked him.
"I live here." ed said.
"Right."
"Um…I was just…uh…sitting…here.” She said through sniffles.
“you wanna take a walk?” he asked her.
“um..actually I better get going…..”
“Come on….” Ed persuaded her.
They walked along the sidewalk, and after only a few steps did Ed say something.
“so what’s wrong?”
What am I supposed to say? There’s a million things wrong. My dad is crazy, I’m in love with two people and someone’s trying to kidnap and kill my dad? I don’t think ed can take that right now. But before gaia could even say two words, she saw a man standing right in their pathway. He was holding something in his front pocket. Gun? Knife?
“Gimme yurr moneey” he said in a slurred voice. Alcoholic and a junkie. Nice touch.
Before her fighting instincts took place, her most important ones kicked in. gun or knife- ed- danger. She looked over at him. There was most definetly fear in his eyes. But there was mostly a recognition. Perfect timing- the answer of his question will wait till later.
“go ahead.” He said calmly. She turned away. Now was the fun part. She started off with a round-house kick that made the knife fly out of his hands and into a nearby bush.
“What the…” she then pulled back her arm and delivered a punch to his ribs- must have broken a few. He was on the floor then. He was curled up in a ball and he slowly uncurled. She then kicked him in the crotch. Just for fun. “You beetch!”
“what did you just call me?” she asked him.
“nothing nothing!”
He was curled up in a ball again. She looked over at ed. It looked like he was feeling this guy’s pain…curled up in a ball- just getting a kick in the balls from a super-zeus/goddess.
“Ouch.” Ed said.
“So are we done here?” gaia asked him.
“weyre dunn plees don’t hurt me” the guy said.
“Good. Because…” she didn’t even get to finish her sentence before she dropped onto the ground.
“Gaia?” that was the last thing she heard before she fell into a deep sleep.
