Eve sat on there, under the light of a street lamp after once again staying late at the hobby store where she worked. Her hands carefully moved, in such a quick yet delicate way, moving a needle and colorful thread in and out to create a picture on a piece of cloth. It seemed effortlessly done, but this one blue bird had taken many hours to do, and with the lack of good light she found herself concentrating harder than usual. It kept her mind off of the darkness that surrounded her, frightening her, not knowing what could be lurking in those shadowy crevasses.
However, Eve kept her mind to her work, until a hand fell on her shoulder. Though it was a soft touch she still jumped, letting out a gasp and sticking herself had with the needle. She let out a little yelp when she jumped up, turning to see Mr. Kroger, the owner of the hobby shop.
"Eve, shouldn't you be home?" Eve looked down at her finger, kissing it before answering him softly, "My bus seems to have forgotten about me or something." Mr. Kroger frowned,offering to call a cab for her, but Eve declined the offer. "I can walk. I just take the bus at night because it's safer."
Mr. Kroger didn't like the idea of Eve walking at night. Though 19 she still looked only 14 or 15 on good days, and both knew that though this was a small town there were still some unknown characters out there that only appeared at night.
The two argued for a moment before Eve somehow convinced she would be fine, which led her to start on her adventure home. She walked home, jumping at every dog bark, scurry of cat or any voice of someone out late with others having a good time that night. Half way home was when she started to settle her nerve and let her guard down, and it was also the moment that's David Collin came out of a house.
It seemed like it was a party from the noise flowing from the home, and somehow from across the road David saw Eve. David was a nice enough boy, and in high school he had started many random conversations with her. He was just kind of awkward, and as he crossed the road Eve turned her gaze and just kept walking.
"Eve~!!" He called to her, stumbling over to her, placing his arm around her. Suddenly a strong scent of alcohol hit her hard- he was drunk.
"Hey, didn't you hear me?" He smiled and held Eve tighter, choking her slightly which made her stop moving. "H-Hey David, long time no see....Sorry, I'm in a rush to get home. My dog won't like it if I don't get home on time." David laughed, but in a slurred and confused way. He put his face closer to hers and whispered in her ear- "Why don't you come home with me instead?" Her skin crawled, but she answered as calmly as she could, "No thank you David. You don't seem yourself, so maybe you should have a friend take you home." He didn't seem to like that answer. Next thing Eve knew she was being pined up against the chain linked fence behind her. She started to squirm, David only held tighter to her wrists as he spoke of how he had liked her for a long time, how he was tired of waiting, and how he wanted her to come home with him.
"David, please, just let me go." Eve was so small, so even though she could be wiry, David had left her in a tight position. With her voice as her only chance she started to call out loudly for help. David took both wrists into one hand while the other tried to cover her mouth. But with all she had she continued to wiggle and did her best to be loud. Tears started to form as she realizes no one was going to hear her, David knew the same and moved in closer against her. He was husky boy, not fat but with his shorter stature he looked bigger than most his age, but with all that muscle, fat and bone the little Eve could now hardly breath.