Burleys. Dirty, trashy and crowded with undesirables. If you weren't carrying some weapon on you, you had high chances to be robbed. Emma always carried pepper spray in her purse. She had used it one time when she was on her way to her building apartment. A man had come up to her and tried to rape her. She struggled with the man until she was able to take her pepper spray out of her purse and spray the man right in the face. As soon as he felt that hot, burning sensation over his eyes, he wailed and she kicked him in the penis. Then, she ran and called the police, but like everything in Crave City, the police arrived like three hours later and the individual was gone. It was no use to call the police if they weren't available when she needed them, so she constantly carried her pepper spray wherever she went.
Her building was color lime. It had graffiti all over the walls, and it wasn't even good artwork, it was just black crap sprayed on the walls. It looked like a Kindergartner had painted and damaged the walls, which was probably the brain maturity of the morons who sprayed it like that on the first place. The graffiti just made the place horrible and there was also a stench at the edges of the building that really hit the nose in a bad way.
Four losers were at the entrance of the building. These were, unemployed adult men that schemed the system and pretended that they were on some sort of disability, but that would then be at their apartment all day watching T.V. or jerking off. Then, when it was mid-afternoon and night, they would hang out right in the middle of the stairs in the very entrance of the building because they couldn't seem to hang out no elsewhere, but in everyone else's way. Women particularly had to go in with caution because these idiots would throw kisses and whistle at them as they got in. Sometimes, they might even be frisky and slap a buttocks. A woman had to run away unless she wanted to get hurt. They laughed at all women and then pretended that it was their fault for wearing a skirt. It also happened to Emma when she arrived at the building. They were so annoying. She wished she didn't have to go through them to get into her apartment, but there they were being the assholes everybody knew they were. The worst thing about it was that they were actually proud, as if their annoying presence at the foot of the stairs accomplished anything.
Their names were Carlos and Juan, those two were brothers. Jeremiah and Kano were the other two, not related, but they had all gone to school together since they were kids. Carlos had short, trimmed curls. He had a set of thin lips, hooded eyes and a squared jaw. If he wasn't such an idiot, he may have been considered cute. Juan also had short curly hair, but his lips were bigger and so was his body, he was brawny and liked wearing a cap in reverse. Kano was white as snow, he had blond hair, blue eyes and bad breath. He looked like a huge baby and his hair was cut in a short flat top. He liked chewing gum and then there was Jeremiah who was half black and half Asian. He had hooded eyes and an oval shaped face. His hair though was very straight and black and curtain shaped short. Emma, who still wore the skirt that climbed upwards didn't feel the same tonight. Tonight, she was confident and careless. Tonight, she was not going to take anyone's shit.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" Juan said as Emma reached the front stairs of the building.
"Get the fuck out of my way," Emma said. His brother Carlos laughed.
"Woah… we have a fighter over here. You want to die tonight, bitch?" Juan said.
"Do you have the balls to kill me?" Emma replied. Now it wasn't just Carlos, but also Jeremiah and Kano who joined in the laughter.
"Burned," Kano said laughing. It was so hilarious to them that a woman defended herself that they held their trembling bellies and tried to hold in their piss.
"Hey, if you give me a kiss, I'll let you pass," Juan said.
"How about you fuck off and I pass," Emma said. The boys laughed again, but Juan wasn't enjoying this interaction. He felt humiliated. He grabbed her by the collar and pulled her to him.
"Bitch, I will fuck you up," Juan said and then Emma did the unthinkable. She kicked him in the nuts. He fell off the stairs and the other men went to him to pick him up. Emma ignored the whole thing and simply walked up to her apartment. She could hear Juan moaning and screaming about her as she walked up.
"I'm going to kill that bitch. I'm going to kill that bitch!" Juan said. Emma smiled. Go ahead asshole, make my day, she thought to herself. She was done with bullies and humiliations. She was done with nonsense and she was now ready to fight for what she wanted and as she reached the fifth floor, where she lived, she turned the lock and opened the door.