Chapter 1
âAhhâŚAhhâŚleave me aloneâŚlet me go, pleaseâŚâŚAHHHHHâŚâŚ.â screaming of a woman in the dark alley.
âWelcome to âMorning Newsâ, last week's missing case âMargaret Jonesâ has found dead at The Alley Downtown on this morning. It is the six cases that girls missing and found dead within a week. The police are still investigating of the cases connection. The police are aware of men not to go out in midnight time and if someone finds any suspicious person nearby your house or anywhere, please inform the police immediately.â
Vroom...vroomâŚvroom, on road, car moving. Some people are moving thing to the apartmentâŚEveâs carrying a box with a bunch of books in the elevator, and she tries to press the button.
Suddenly, a voice says, âWhich floor are you going to?â Itâs a male voice, she turns around following where the voice came from. A tall and handsome man standing there and looking at her.
âHuh, oh, its 7th floor, thank youâ, she responds quickly.
âSame floor, huhâ he said while smirk.
Eve slowly starts a conversation with him, âSo weâre same floor, then we might be a neighbour. I heard a bachelor, tall and good-looking guyâs my neighbour, so I guess it is you.â
âIs that so, are you moving alone here?â he asked.
âNo, Iâm moving in with my momâ she said.
âHmmâ, he responds.
âI think he donât want have conversation with meâ, Eve mumble.
Ding...Ding... the elevator door open, we get out from the elevator.
âAnyway, welcome to the new apartment, my lovely neighbour. Glad to meet you!â he said with a small smile on his lip.
Maybe I judge him too quickly, Eve thinks she misjudge him. She replies to him with sweet smile, âGlad to meet you too! See you around.â
Itâs good to have a nice neighbour, oh! I forgot to ask his name. Eve chucked with a smile. I think we got more time to introduce ourselves after on, weâre neighbour anyway. KnockâŚknock, a delivery man knocking the door.
âMiss, this is the last item. Iâll leave it by the cornerâ said the delivery man.
âYes sure, thanks for the help,â said Eve. Then, the delivery man leaves after putting her items as he said. Eveâs looking around her new apartment and said to herself, surely, got many things to arrange, huh, thank God tomorrow I off work.
The next morningâŚâŚhah Iâm really tired after arranged all my stuffs. Iâm hungry, let see what I got to eat. Oh my god, I only have snacks, SNACKS, and SNACKSSS. I need to buy some groceries and fill up my refrigerator, but I donât know where the grocery store is.
âMom, Iâm going to out to buy groceries.â
âOk dear, be safeâ, said Eveâs mom.
Eve is new to the city, and she donât have many friends around here. Never mind, let use the mobile map to go there. Eve is getting ready for grocery store and get out of her apartment. When closing her apartment door, she saw the man, the neighbour who helped her yesterday at the elevator, also standing there.
Both got eye contact, Eve greeting him with a smile, âGood morning.â
He also greeting her, âGood morning, are you going out now?â
âYes, Iâm going to grocery store. Are you going out too?â
âThatâs great Iâm going to the grocery store too. Are you going alone or with someone?â He asked as he is curious to know her reply. Why he asked many things today, yesterday he was like no time to talk.
Eve replies to him, âNo, Iâm going alone, I donât have many friends around here.â
âIf you donât mind, I can give you a drive to grocery store.â
âSure, thanks. Weâre going the same way by the way.â
Eve is wating at the entrance of the apartment, he drives the car and let Eve know to get in the car. Eve feel awkward to be in silent during the drive, so she decides to listen to the radio.
âWould you mind I turn on the radio?â Eve ask as to ease the awkwardness.
âSure, Iâll help you to turn it on.â
âOk, thank you.â
The radio is on there playing music.
âOh wow, do you know this song? Itâs my favouriteâ, Eve said excitedly.
âMaybe I could have hear it before, I donât remember, and I wonât listen to music much. Here we come to the grocery store, Iâll drop you here and go to park the car.â
âSure, Iâll go purchase the meats first, you come and join thereâ, said Eve. Eveâs go start purchase the meats and decided to treat him as thanking him to drive her to grocery store.
âSo, youâre still choosing the meats huh?â
Eve saw him standing beside her and help her choosing the meats.
âYeah, I need to treat a person, who help me to get her to buy groceries items. So, I need to buy a good quality meat to treat him rightâ, Eve said while smirk.
âThen, I must help you with it, ha-ha.â
After purchase the groceries, both back to their apartment and waiting for the elevator. Buzz buzzâŚbuzz⌠âOh itâs my phoneâŚâŚok, Iâll back in 30 minutes. Yup, ok bye.â DingâŚboth enter the elevator. He didnât speak until both, come to their apartment door. âSorry, I canât have dinner with you. I got called from work.â Eve a bit upset but itâs a work call.
âItâs alright, Iâll treat you another timeâ, said Eve.
âThanks for your understanding.â
He leaves his groceries items quickly and about to leave.
âWait a second!â
He saw Eve there, âYes?â
âSorry for hold you up but can I know your name? We didnât introduce ourselves yetâ, said Eve with a nervous tone.
âTrey Lincoln, you can called me Treyâ, said Trey with a sweet smile.
âAnd Iâm Evelyn Brook, you can called me Eve. Nice to know you Trey.â
âUntil then, byeâ, Trey said his goodbye and leaves.