Untitled Project - Chapter 1
Zoe was leaning against the store wall, watching the rain drop from the night sky while she smoked her cigarette.
She couldn’t believe that she had just said those god-awful things to Derek. She was raging with anger back then and she just wanted to hurt someone, the way she was hurting. Derek was waiting back in their apartment and he didn’t do anything wrong but she had to take it out on someone. He was always understanding of her moods but she wasn’t sure if he would understand this time.
I mean she had promised herself that this time it would be different and she would communicate instead of lashing out but past was hell bent on repeating itself.
Life as she knew it was going to change yet again, her ‘husband’ had found her, the man she been running away from all these years, the man who she had been hiding from, the man who caused her to change her identity and leave her life behind, had accidentally walked in the Coffee shop she worked at.
Seeing him after all these years had shocked her to the bone, she thought he had forgotten about her. Her eyes welled up and all the memories of him that she had repressed came back to her. She froze in place.
He walked up to her with that disgusting, smug smile that she had once fallen in love with and moved his hand to touch her elbow.
“Hi Zoe, fancy meeting you here.”
Her worst nightmare was now a reality, she didn’t know if she should scream or run or throw the coffee on him, but she was just frozen in place.
“Won’t you kiss me hello? I have missed you, there is a lot we have to catch up on.”
She wanted to push him away but she was too shocked. He was about to say something more but just then a baby started crying and Zoe was snapped out of her frozen state, she rushed to the counter before he could catch up, threw the apron and hoped to God there was no one at the back door.