MIKAYLA
As I walk back home I can not help thinking about how Luke was walking me home just a little while ago. It was such a wonderful feeling. I remember how he laid his head on my lap and how I played with my fingers in his hair.
It is a shame though, that it was a migraine that brought us to do it, but on the other hand, I welcome a migraine if that means he gets to lay on my lap. My heart feels light and happy as I walk with a spring in my step to my house.
Then all of a sudden I feel something hard pressing into my back and someone whispers in my ear.
"Do not scream. Give me your purse and all your jewelry. If you scream you will never see the light of day again"
I feel like my body is filled with shock and anguish. I want to turn around and see what is going on because my mind can not comprehend what is happening to me. As I turn around to see what is happening to me, suddenly the hard thing that was in my back, which I know now is a gun, is even pressed deeper into my back.
I know now that I am being mugged and with that realization comes a load full of emotions. Fear, anxiety, uncertainty, tension if only to name a few. I feel myself freezing and I can not move a muscle.
"Don't you dare look back just do as I say without making a scene"
I look around me and I see that it is only me in a dark alley without realizing how I got here. My mind was so focused on that time that I had with Luke that I didn't realize where I was walking. I know now that I am in big trouble and that should I make a wrong move this guy might kill me.
"Okay...okay..."
"Hurry up and give me your money and your jewelry!"
As a surgeon, your hands are always steady and ready to react when necessary but in this situation, I feel like a clumsy fool. I reach into my handbag to get my money but my actions are too slow for the mugger.
"Lady do you want to die?! Give me the fucken money now!!"
I do not want this to be the end of my life, dying a meaningless death. I would rather comply with the mugger and do what he wants me to do. I try my best to get out my purse and take off all my jewelry but I can not help as I tremble in every part of my being.
Finally, I got everything and I give it to him over my shoulder.
"Good! Now…you just stand there and don't look back! Or I will kill you! Do you hear me?!"
I do not move in muscle as I do not want to die now. I never thought in a million years that I will get mugged. I've heard about many people to who this has happened and it was always just something bad that happened to somebody. But now that this is happening to me I reevaluate my feelings of how I felt when I heard the stories.
I don't know for how long I am standing still, it feels like hours. But I can't get myself to move as I am too afraid of dying. Then I listen very carefully if I can still hear his voice but it is dead quiet as there is no one in this alley. In my mind, I know that I can move now but my body does not want to move.
I have to force myself to move my little finger just to make my body move a little. And then gradually I move my hand, then my arms, and then I turn my head around. I am afraid of what I might see but it is clear that it is only me in the alley and the mugger is long gone.
All I know is that I need to get out of this alley immediately. So, I ran as quickly as I can towards my home. I open the door and make sure that I lock it behind me. I am not taking any chances. I get into my room and I lock my bedroom door.
There are so many thoughts going through my head. How can this happen to me? What have I done to deserve it? I could have died tonight. I fall down on the ground and then it is like a water balloon bursting. Tears streaming down my cheeks as the emotions is too much to carry in my heart.
I feel angry and afraid. I do not know if I would be able to walk on the streets alone again. I don't know if I would be able to sleep tonight. I don't know if I would be able to do anything ever again. He hasn't just taken my money and my jewelry but also my safety.
The money I can get back. The jewelry I can get back. But the safety...that is something that I will never get back again. I feel as my body starts to get weak from all the crying. I know the medical term for this. It is the adrenaline that is working out of your body and now your body has no more energy left.
But right now my head and my heart conflict with each other. My heart does not want to hear what my head has to say and my head wants to control my heart. But I think in this case my heart will be the winner of this battle.
I crawl onto my bed and just lie there, still crying. It feels like hours have past and then I fall into a deep sleep.
LUKE
I have had probably the worst and the best night of my life. I shouldn't have walked so far but I also got time to lay on the most beautiful woman's lap. Her beauty is completely consuming my thoughts and I wish to spend as much time as possible with her. I can not wait to see her tomorrow night again.