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2024-10-29 19:42:56Painting.
Wide eyed scary paintings that look like they are staring at me from all corners of the room was the first thing I noticed when I opened my eyes. Of course, they were blurred as my lids momentarily closed and opened again. All I can agree with was that the paintings were scary and shapeless with bulging eyes. The bed I was asleep on was too comfy and I knew instantly that it wasn’t mine. It was soft and hard all at once and I felt so relaxed just being on it. My subconscious was questioning the possibility of me being in my own house. Then voices. Faint whispering voices I couldn’t figure out where they were coming from but they were too loud to be just silent whispers. "You should have allowed me to take her to the hospital, you're no doctor Alice" That voice was familiar but I was yet to identify whom they were coming from. But Alice? Who's Alice? And whRelated chapters
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DANGEROUSLY WANTED: The criminal next-door CHAPTER SIXTEEN-Wanted:Found!!!
Coffee will forever remain a beautiful work of art.Starting from the glowing brown beans that are granulated into fine powder in the process and sieved with sparkling water with such tender carefulness and talented expertise to form an amazing dark colored drink of goodness that can be served at a preferred temperature with creamy milk and sugar to taste; it's an undeniable delight.Those were my thoughts as I sipped from the heavenly goodness of my instant coffee-the only kind my company could provide and not the one from a café and blended by a bartender that I can't stop thinking about.Not that I didn’t have anything else to think about, but that morning sitting in my cubicle and trying to arrange the simple stories at my desk ,I decided to bury myself in my work with the mantra: Work stays at work and Home stays at home though I tell you , I wasn’t looking forward to home and what it holds.
DANGEROUSLY WANTED: The criminal next-door CHAPTER SEVENTEEN:False Alarm
We've all had moments when it seemed like time took a brief stop to let us reflect on situations we find ourselves and chances we had to solve them. Times when it seemed like the whole world was crashing and you are in the middle of it. For some people, it might have been once--a near death experience mostly, and for others, it might have been so much that now it's countless. Be it the latter or the former, it doesn’t fail to leave you broken each time.Somehow, I keep finding myself in the category where I have lost count of the times I have found myself in that kind of situation and each time, I loose the will to blame someone other than myself for whatever situation I find myself in. The first time I ever felt like that was at the company's dinner night. The night that changed my life and brought me to where I was now. Situations like that don’t prepare you, it all starts out fun and the next thing you know, someone is getting drunk and babbling
DANGEROUSLY WANTED: The criminal next-door EIGHTEEN-A Date And An Angry Man
Waking up the morning after felt like an extreme sport.I wanted to remain cuddled in my bed, with no will whatsoever to communicate with humans today or even step out my door. Asides from the fact that I didn’t want to get out of bed and do all of these, I also didn’t get much of a good sleep the night before. Frankly speaking, I was only able to shut my eyes at the wee hours of the morning and when I opened them, the sun peeked brightly through my windows. Even though the night was torture as I couldn’t get a good sleep, I prayed for the impossible. I prayed that the night shouldn’t end. Making a very big mistake and unashamedly embarrassing yourself could do that to you.Last night was a horrible mistake.I almost cursed at myself the moment I walked into my apartment that night. I was a complete fool to just put myself out there for grabs. The truth that I couldn’t control myself a
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"it's Sunday today , you should come have dinner with us"My father's words rang in my ears as I stood in front of the door at the front porch. I knew my father and what does words meant. I knew we would be doing more than eating today and I wasn’t looking forward to it. I knew he had something to talk about as he rarely called me unlike my mother who does at any chance she gets.There what had me worried wasn’t why he called but what he wants to talk about. No kidding, lying and keeping secrets can be so bothersome. In the end, you might be the one affected by the whole situation. Now I'm fretting at the chance that my father already found out what brought me to Riverdale.I pressed the door bell and my mother's "coming!" rang from inside the house. Her feet slap on the floor till they reach the door and she opened it."Charity my child!" she called , beaming a smile.
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"Red or black?""Duhh!definitely the hot one, red!!""Slit gown or bareback?""Definitely Slit gown, shows more sexiness""Pencil heels or wedge?""Pencil heels accentuate slit gowns, adds spice to the sexiness"Red. Slit gown. Pencil Heels. Definitely something Shayne would wear to a dinner or wedding party with the hopes of hooking up with a dripping hot guy. I should have known that her profession could only suppress her slutty instincts not completely curb them."I'm going to a dinner party and not thinking of getting laid Shayne"I said finally flinging off the clothes I've been showing to her on the screen one after the other and having had enough of her terribly inappropriate choices."That place is going to be swarmed with old men and women, besides, I have to look
DANGEROUSLY WANTED: The criminal next-door 21-Intense Bombshells 2
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DANGEROUSLY WANTED: The criminal next-door 22-That Night With Him
WARNING!!!!! SEXUAL CONENT BELOW. SKIP IF UNCOMFORTABLE!!! OR SCROLL TO THE LAST IN CASE YOU FEEL YOU'LL MISS SOMETHING IMPORTANT!!!!They say, good things come to all those who wait.It is not entirely true or false in my situation. I did wait. Painfully.But I wasn’t sure if this was a good thing that came to me because I waited or if it's bad and I shouldn’t be doing it. Either way, I was kissing Dwyer back with the same urgency and tremor as he placed me flat on the wall by his door with his hands flushed on my waist and drawing me in so close that it felt like there was still enough space left in-between us. His soft lips were just as I imagined a couple of times and they fought against mine , not for dominance but in perfect sync and harmony and with the right amount of hunger that threatened to tear me apart. My senses were clouded and the only ones worki
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DANGEROUSLY WANTED: The criminal next-door 60-The End.....?
*DAY ONE*Darkness. Pitch black . Nothingness. Emptiness. Coldness. What are these feelings? Am I in hell? Is this what hell feels Ike? Never been burned before but I'm sure this is scarier than a fire burning with brimstone. The darkness is sickening. Frightening. I want to get out of it. I desperately want to run out through the closed doors that shut me out and away , into this world of nothingness. In the darkness, I searched desperately for the light switch. The lamp. A candle. Anything to light this place up and bring with it the warmth I need. There is no lamp. In the same darkness I search for the windows. Why is there no window? Then I searched for the doors. Light suddenly creeps In. Did I find the door? The light was one-sided at first and then another floods from a different angle and it was almost blindning. The doors open and close momentarily. I came to realize that the doors were my eyes. And the darkness was from having them closed
DANGEROUSLY WANTED: The criminal next-door 59-Alice...... Alyssa?
CHARITY(Author's note: Though, these are my character's thoughts, the first few paragraphs stem from my own sentiments about life, unexpected twists and turns and Determinism (a concept that states; what will be will be "QUE SERA SERA")"Life is so unfair"That very statement. It has been so overly used that it has lost its meaning and purpose. It has lost the drive that makes us feel the intensity of the statement. Before we get to the point where we voice out that statement,we would have asked ourselves so many questions we got no answer to. Why did it happen? Why did it have to happen to me? And why did it have to happen at this particular time? Why me? Why not someone else? Why did he have it so easy? Why didn't she even break a sweat while I went through so much to achieve this? In the end, we go back to the same statement: life is so unfair. That's justWhen things take an unexpected twist and turn and we're met face to face with a shocking r
DANGEROUSLY WANTED: The criminal next-door 58-Alice....2
CHARITY*My phone wouldn't stop ringing as I drove as fast as I could to the given destination. I ignored the incessant ringing knowing who it was. The detective really has to wait. Answering his call could give away my location and I don't need him ruining my chance to actually meet Alice.His calls keep going into voicemails and they all played one after the other. Each one longer and more aggravating than the last. Boy! Was he angry."Pick up the damn phone Charity! Where are you""I can't find you on any of the roads that leads to your home Charity, where are you?""I told you to stay!!! I told you not to leave no matter what and now you won't answer my call? For God's sake answer the damn phone!""Please Charity! You don't know how worried I am right now. Are you okay? Just answer the phone please"The last one was calm and he sounded less annoyed but frustrated at the same time. I felt really bad for ignoring him a
DANGEROUSLY WANTED: The criminal next-door 57-Alice.....
CHARITY*I couldn't move a muscle from where I stood watching my father. I watched as his face turned pale and his expression, hard. He told me to leave but I don't know why I stayed. Normally, I feared my father and respected his commands but right now the only fear I had was not from him but for him. I feared for my father because I have never seen him so disoriented and whatever it is that has him like this, it has something to do with Alice, Dwyer's sister.The name sounded so familiar but it was like a chip off a distant memory. I tried to make a replay in my head of the places I've been and people I've met. If the sounds familiar, then I'm sure I've seen whoever bears that name.Nothing came up in my brain. It was totally blank. Why did the name have such a powerful effect on my father?"Dad". I called out with a voice so small I could hardly hear myselfThe steaming atmosphere between us was far gone replaced by a c
DANGEROUSLY WANTED: The criminal next-door 56-The truths that resolve it all
DWYER*After a few minutes of consultations and discussions that seemed to me like hours, Roman finally came back into the interrogation room with a phone in his hand."What took you so long? I didn't Know being a policeman required so much paperwork too" I taunted. He only shook his head at me and threw the phone on the table in front of me."I'm only doing this because it's you. Besides, there isn't enough evidence asides from the footage. That's the only thing that points towards you for now"I rolled my eyes at him. "What other evidence is more than my testimony and my admittance to my crime Romy?" I said and continued "I might not be educated or savvy like you are but I do know things too"He looked everywhere but at me. I Know why he's doing this. He was giving me time to refute my own claims and to confess who the true criminal is but once again, I've gone too far to just stop now. By now, Alice should be out of the town on her
DANGEROUSLY WANTED: The criminal next-door 55-Somethig Bigger than a Jar Of Cankerworms
*CHARITY* The news was blaring. The town was rowdy. My phone was ringing incessantly. But all these sounds only faded into the background of my own thoughts. I was so lost in them that I lost the will to do anything other than to stare into open space. Shayne is seated across from me , eyes fixated on me as if my next move would determine her own reaction to it. I don't blame her. I filled her in after returning from the police station about everything that happened. If she was shocked or disappointed in me, she didn't show it. All she did was pull me into herself and enveloped me with her arms. I welcomed the gesture as I had no choice. Each time the news comes on, Shayne moves to turn it off but I stop her each time. I needed to know what was going on since I wasn't allowed to see him. The police still haven't released an official statement yet and everyone wondered why. I wondered why too. What is holding the detectiv
DANGEROUSLY WANTED: The criminal next-door 54-Where is she? Where is Alice?
"where is she? where Is Alice?!!" The intense look in Roman's eyes when he said those words reminded of the first time I heard him say them,15 years ago. Although I hate going down the memory lane of those years, I couldn't ignore the urge to remember the years we spent together as best friends, a part of our memory and our lives that we have both decided to keep a secret--like it never happened. A part of my own life that makes my heart clench whenever I think about it. Roman was the most serious one of us both. The one who never missed classes. The one who topped the class in every subject. The one who just happened to be the favorite of every teacher. The one who went on competitions and won fabulous prices and awards for the school that I'm sure still adorns the hallways of whatever is left of the local Riverdale high school. His social life was amazing too. He made heads turn and he broke a few hearts while he wore his on his sleeves. I really lost count
DANGEROUSLY WANTED: The criminal next-door 53-DWYER(Romy and Dwyer)
DWYER."You should stay away from her. She's a fucking reporter! You said you wanted to keep me safe but that doesn't mean I can't keep you safe too and being with her is dangerous for you both, don't you get it? It all went wrong the moment she saw you"Those were the longest words my sister said to me since we moved here and they pointed to just one person: Charity. The day after the murder, I had gone to see my sister knowing she would be shaken up by it all. I had called her therapist to tell him about it and yes I left out the part that his patient killed her rapist. No one has to know that. Just like I thought, she was going crazy. She had taken tons of pills that the therapist had given her at the first few years of her which she relied on too much. She only Stopped taking then months ago when her therapist said she was fine without them and now it seemed like they were the only thing that could relieve her of her pain. She mumbled incoherent words as tears stre
