Reach

She was never exactly what you’d call sure about him.

You’d have to say he was a nice-looking guy and well mannered, most of the time. He’d been sort of flirting with her for several months, before actually asking her out. He did something in the loading bay at the company. She would sometimes watch him from her window. He had booked a table at a swanky restaurant. He picked her up in his car. The place was really posh and he was really polite pulling out the chair for her. It was as though he was a different person here. They chatted away while they ate. It was so much more than the few words that had ever passed between them.

When they pulled up in front of her apartment building, there seemed to be a tense moment between them. She wasn’t sure what told her to dip into her bag and grip the pepper spray. As he turned the ignition off, his hand suddenly when round the back of her neck and he pulled her violently towards her.

The hiss of the spray was loud, but it didn’t compare with his ensuing screams. He was crying as he finally sat dabbing his eyes with the constant supply of tissues, she was handing him. She felt awful. Had he only been pulling her in for a romantic goodnight kiss?

Up in her apartment, he was scooping up water from the sink with his hand, doing his best to drench his eyes, still whimpering a little. When the stinging had reduced slightly, he was given a fluffy hand towel and ushered through to her lounge area to sit. He nodded and managed to croak out a small murmur of thanks.

She was wiping the sink down, when he came up behind her with a piece of rope. As it tightened, her mind began to race; where had the rope come from, in his pocket? The spray! Where was the spray? As the room grew dark, in the fading mirror, she could see it on a shelf behind her.

The most out of reach thing she would ever know.

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