Watching You—Part 3

Maggie couldn’t find her voice for nothing…of all times when she needed it the most, for it to fail her now, she was distraught at the thought that nobody would be able to hear her scream for help.

The figure of the man had not moved an inch. In the darkness of the bedroom with only the glow from her digital clock, he appeared to have an odd cast of light around him. It gave Maggie an uneasy feeling, as did it Midnight too, who hiss and spit again before jumping down and hiding under the bed.

“Do not be afraid, I am not here to hurt you.” The stranger said softly in a slightly peculiar but calm voice.

Thoughts raced through Maggie’s mind- Not here to hurt me? He had broken into her apartment and was standing at the bottom of her bed while she slept, and Oh God, she remembered didn’t have any clothes on…. She pulled the covers up tighter around her neck.

“What do you want? I don’t have a lot of money, if that’s what you are after….” She feared he was after much more yet he still hadn’t moved from his position.

“I am not here for your money… I have no use for such things in my world.” He leaned in a bit and she was able to see his face clearer. A bewildering sensation came over her as she looked at him. He was rugged looking but in a gentle refined way. Nice solid features with crystal blue eyes and nice full lips. He appeared to be very handsome, with dark long eyelashes and wavy hair black as coal.

What was she doing thinking he was good looking…..? The man had broken into her home and invaded her space…yet she was having a hard time focusing and concentrating. She wanted answers and then something struck her. “What do you mean your world?” she asked. “Are you a terrorist? “

He laughed, “No, Maggie, I’m not…”

“Well then, who are you and why are you in my home?” she paused, “And how do you know my name?” Maggie was more puzzled than fearful at the moment, but there was something about this stranger that was calming to her too in a vague way. She wondered if she knew him from somewhere.

“I am Gabrielle, but most call me Gabe and No, I guess you would say I am not from around here…I’ve been watching you for a while now.” He smiled as if that explained everything.

Something clicked in Maggie’s mind. “Were you in the library tonight and then followed me home?” she questioned.

“Yes and no” he replied which frustrated and confused Maggie even more.

“Which is it? Yes, you followed me home? Or, yes you were there but didn’t follow me home?” She couldn’t believe she was sitting here in the middle of the night having a conversation with this man who had obviously broken the law and broken into her apartment. So much for having a secure building…”So what is it?”

“Yes, I was there at the library, but not in the sense of your reality.” Gabe replied.

“What the Hell are you talking about?” She was becoming frustrated again. She gave an exasperated sigh. “I want some answers right now.” She demanded.

Gabe extended his right hand towards her. “Come with me, and you will understand everything, I promise.”

Maggie rejected his outstretched hand. “I will not go anywhere with you until you tell me why you are here. What do you want with me, to kidnap me? You don’t even know me!” she exclaimed.

“Oh, Maggie, my dear… I know you very well, and you will just have to trust me when I tell you that if you just take my hand, everything will become clearer to you. Truly, I wish you no harm. I assure you that I am not doing something as sinister as kidnapping you, nor any of those other thoughts you have rambling around in your head.” He smiled and once again offered his hand to her. “Please… Trust me…” He pleaded to her with his mystical, beautiful, eyes.

For reasons she couldn’t explain, it was odd to admit that she wanted to trust him. That was just crazy… he must have gotten to her food and drugged it somehow before she ate it because she had no other way to explain why she would be sitting here still talking to this strange handsome man, nor would it explain why she was going to put some clothes on and go wherever it was that he wanted to take her.

She couldn’t explain it but there was just something about him…like maybe she did know him from somewhere but just couldn’t place it.

“I’ll turn my back so you can get dressed.” He said as he turned away from her.

It struck her odd that she hadn’t told him that, but maybe she did and just didn’t remember. She quickly slid out from her bed and grabbed her clothes from the chair by the bed and dressed hurriedly. “I need to know where we are going.” She said.

“To a magical place…” he said brightly and stepped towards her.

Now, not only was she crazy for going along with his request but he was off his rocker too, she thought. She would play along and see if she could find some answers and maybe along the way she would remember why he seemed so familiar.

He only smiled at her and asked, “Are you ready Maggie?”

She nodded and reached out to take his hand. At the precise moment their hands touched a force of energy and a rush of adrenaline coursed through her body, so much that she had to take a deep breath and close her eyes. The feeling was intense and almost took her breath away.

When the sensation passed she opened her eyes and could not believe what she was seeing. She closed them and reopened them again. Her eyes must be deceiving her. How else would it explain…
They were outside in a forest filled with beautiful flowers and plants. She could see colorful birds flying through the air and could hear a waterfall nearby. The colors of everything were not only beautiful but vibrant and almost like they were alive and breathing. In fact if she looked closely enough she would see the unfolding of flowers in bloom as they spoke. This was indeed a magical place.

Maggie was overwhelmed with emotion at the mystical beauty around her. “Where are we?” she asked still in awe at her surroundings.

Gabe chuckled, “Welcome to my home, Maggie.”

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PolarB 2006

Watching You- Part 2

“Here let me get that for you.” a deep voice said as he opened the door, nearly causing Maggie’s heart to jump right out of her chest. She turned to face him. Recognition registered and she breathed a sigh of relief.

“Dave, you almost gave me a coronary! What in the world are you doing sneaking up behind women at this time of night?” she inquired as her breathing slowed down and she tried to get her heart rate under control.

Dave looked sheepish and a bit embarrassed, “I didn’t mean to startle you, Maggie, I went to my truck to get my ladder to fix the light over the door. I’m sorry if I frightened you...”

She tried to ease his mind with a halfhearted chuckle. “No, actually I am just glad it was you… I thought…” She trailed off. “Did you see anyone else a few minutes ago?” she asked.

“No, I heard a car door and saw that it was you, so I was just going to get the door for you.” He blushed. She nodded and started to say something else but changed her mind.

Secretly, Dave harbored fantasies, sexual ones; about Maggie although he would never tell her that nor would he ever have the courage to ask her out on a date. She wouldn’t want to go out with a maintenance guy he thought, so he was content to keep his little secret and savor these brief stolen moments with her. Later he would replay this in his mind over and over but in his fantasy, he would invite her into his apartment in the basement unit, where she would do a seductive strip tease and lap dance for him driving him to the brink and then she would surrender and let him have his way with her in every conceivable position possible. Just being near her made him hard and he was thankful she didn’t notice as she stepped past him and went up the stairs to apartment 301. He caught a whiff of her perfume, Sunflowers, he knew the scent well, even went as far as buying a bottle and spraying it in his bed so he could imagine her in it with him. He wondered for a moment what her reaction would be if she knew she had that effect on him.

He got his ladder into position and climbed up to the light socket and tightened the bulb that he had unscrewed earlier in the day. The brief moment with her would fuel the fire for the next several days until he needed a fix again and then he would find some other way to have an encounter with Maggie as he had subtly done for the past six months. He walked slowly back to his truck and put his ladder away then eased into his apartment quietly as he reached down and touched him self lost in his ecstasy already as he closed the door and went inside.

Maggie was glad to be home and really glad it was the weekend where she could unwind and relax, maybe get caught up on some reading or better yet do some projects she had been putting off, like the scrap booking she liked to do but never found the time for.
Midnight jumped up on the counter to nose around the carryout carton and see if it would yield any good things for him, purring as Maggie stroked the length of his back.

“You are such a handsome boy Midnight, but I don’t think you want any of this Chinese food Mister … but I’ll give you your snacks early, how about that?” she picked him up and set him down on the floor. “You know you’re not supposed to be up on this counter top.” She reminded him as if he cared. Not that it would make a difference anyway.

Midnight just gave her an indignant look and strolled into the living room to take his perch up on the back of the couch. She would join him in just a few moments as soon as she traded her work cloths for a pair of worn comfy sweats, her usual at home attire. She quickly changed, grabbed the food and plopped down on the sofa. She flipped the television on and scanned the channels.

“Ah, here we go Midnight, a new movie just started a half hour ago.” Maggie loved the Lifetime Channel and she could always count on a good movie going on about overcoming great odds of love or some tragedy that the heroine comes out stronger than she started. She loved the love stories most of all and the characters who made the true to life stories seem more real for her.

An hour and a half later, with her belly full and Midnight curled up by her side, Maggie could not stop yawning. She realized just how tired she felt from the long week and she didn’t really want to get involved in another two hour movie, so she decided to call it a night. She didn’t even both to clean up her mess, she would do it in the morning when she did her Saturday morning ritual of cleaning the apartment.

Not that anybody would be coming over but still she cleaned her place from top to bottom every Saturday without fail… God forbid if her Mother decided to drop by unannounced and chastise her for having dusty shelves… or better yet cat hair from the “animal” as she called Maggie’s little fur ball. Her Mother wasn’t fond of cats or dogs or anything really in Maggie’s opinion. This is why Maggie got a cat in the first place, just because she could and because her Mother was highly allergic so she didn’t visit much.

Maggie checked the door one last time making sure the deadbolt was secure and flipped the light off as she headed toward the bedroom. She shed her clothes and crawled into her big comfortable queen sized bed and pulled the flannel sheets up as she relaxed her body and breathed a sigh of contentment. It wouldn’t take long for her to fall asleep, it never usually did. Midnight jumped up onto the bed and settled at her feet in his usual nightly spot. Within five minutes Maggie was breathing deeply and was sound asleep.

The clock on the nightstand said 2:25 and Maggie turned over from her side onto her back. She wasn’t usually restless… it must be a full moon or something she thought groggily. A sound caught her attention and she though maybe it was Midnight roaming around. She open one eye to discover Midnight was alert and on the bed beside her, he had obviously heard the sound too because he was looking towards the doorway.

It was probably nothing, being in an apartment building you often heard sounds from the other tenants. She closed her eyes and tried to relax again. Something in the air changed and Maggie felt it instantly. Midnight let out with a hiss. That brought Maggie wide awake and she opened both of her eyes to see the shadow of a man standing at the foot of her bed. She tried to scream but nothing would come out.

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PolarB ;) 2006

Hey bloggerworld! Are you ready for a good story?? I've been simmering in some creative juices so to speak so I wrote a little something for ya... I hope you enjoy it!

WATCHING YOU-- Part 1

Maggie parked her car at the curb in front of Hilltop Manor, the apartment complex where she lived. It was after ten in the evening and the bone chilling winter winds made the streets seem all the more desolate. Even though she had drove home with the heat on full blast a chill still went up her spine. She couldn’t shake the feeling that something was not quite right. Call it intuition or whatever, she had the feeling she was being followed.

The feeling started in the library where she was employed and had just completed the late shift on a Friday night. About fifteen minutes before nine she made her rounds putting the last stack of books away when she felt the hairs on her neck stand up. It startled her so much that she spun around sure someone was standing only inches from her, yet when she looked nobody was there. In fact the library was completely empty except for herself and Amanda the part time student who had been hired recently.

Maggie rounded the corner behind the checkout counter and ask Amanda if someone had just left. The young student told her no that they had not been busy for the last hour and could she please hurry up and let her go because she had a date with Jimmy Barnett who was the cutest guy on the swim team. Maggie told her sure and walked to the door with her so she could lock the doors as Amanda hurriedly left.

So Maggie finished up with some paperwork and closed the computers down and by nine-thirty she was out the door too on her way home. She had almost forgotten about the feeling of someone watching her in the library until she was driving her little Honda and again she thought for a moment that she felt warm breath on the back of her neck. It gave her an uneasy feeling. She checked the rearview mirror and saw nothing. She knew nobody was in the car with her because she always had the habit of locking the car doors and checking the back seat before she got in. It was a habit well ingrained from her Mother who was constantly watching and fretting over the news of the crime in the city where Maggie resided and reminding Maggie relentlessly to lock her doors, look both ways, wear clean underwear, and on and on…

She decided to drive by the fast food Chinese takeout place for some combo fried rice and an order of wontons, her favorites, that way she wouldn’t have to worry about fixing something to eat when she got home and she could just settle in with a good movie and her takeout. Maggie didn’t have much of a social life. She tended to like her solitary life and she loved working at the library too where it was quiet and calm for the most part.
It wasn’t that she was anti-social, it was more that she just enjoyed her own company.
So she was planning to do what she did most Friday nights and that was watching Lifetime movies on the cable channel. Just her and Midnight, her black silky cat cuddled up on the couch together, yeah, that was her idea date night.

By the time she got her order and made her way through the windy streets it was nearing ten o’clock. She pulled into her usual parking spot which was on the street in front of the three story building in a little suburb of Chicago. She had not seen a car following her but still she had that sixth sense that made her take another quick glance in the mirror before she got out of the car. She gathered her keys and purse along with the carryout carton and hurriedly got out of the car. The light was out again over the stoop, she would have to notify the super about that. She made a mental note to call him in the morning. He was okay, never really bothered anyone much, Dave was his name and he seemed to be a loner too, so they got along great. Hilltop Manor was a secure building so she got her key ready to unlock the door. She thought she heard footsteps as she walked up the sidewalk and as she neared the entrance she turned her head slightly to look over her shoulder and she stumbled a bit and dropped her keys.

“Damn!” she exclaimed as she bent down to retrieve them. She saw a shadow out of the corner of her eye as she got her keys and hurried to get to the doorway. She felt panic rising up within her and her hands became clammy as she fumbled to get the right key in the lock. She sensed a darkness coming nearer and it made her heartbeat pulse quicker. She just needed to get inside where it was safe. As she heard the click of the lock a hand reached out from behind her and took hold of the handle.

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PolarB ;) 2006

Well, I noticed several bloggers have been posting their truths so I have thought about that for a few days and decided to give it a whirl.

Here are a few of my truths...

Although I am friendly for the most part, I am shy in unfamiliar situations or with people I don't know.

I blush easily and hate the fact that I do.

I have a very loving heart and am a natural born nurturer.

I could sit for hours and hours upon end alone in nature just taking in all that energy that feeds my spirit. I've had a connection with nature since I was a small child.

I would have made a great mother and I mourn the loss of my only child. I lost a baby through miscarriage at age 13 and although it was for the best, I would have loved the chance to know and be a mother to my child.

Snakes and bugs give me the Booga Boos. I've had way too many close encounters with em and don't wanna do it again.

I love the smell of leather and men's cologne. Hmmmmmm... Don't go there..!

I have experienced things in my lifetime that no man woman or child should ever witness, experience or be a part of ever.

I am one hell of a good cook and I enjoy the process.

Most people see me as sweet and innocent, but if cornered, I will pull a nasty little bitch out on your ass and believe me she is extremely scary. It rarely comes to that but if needed, I will kick ass with the best of em.

I am honesty amazed at my creativity and frankly sometimes it is hard to believe it comes from within me.

I am a very passionate woman and I love with all of my heart.

Finding my true mother is something I have wanted and needed all my life and it means absolutely everything to me to feel loved and be loved by such an amazing momma. Words just cannot expressed how special that is to me.

I love humor and often crack up and laugh until tears run down my cheeks when something tickles my funny bone.

I love the silence and the quiet- I would love to go on a week long silent retreat.

Just before dawn as the sun is rising is my favorite time of the day.

Once trust is broken with me, it is almost impossible to regain. Trust is extremely important to me and most times people only get one chance. I've played the game before and life is too short to have people in your life who are into betrayal. Homey don't play dat!

I've seen my guardian angel once but not her face. I felt her calming peaceful energy and presence wash over me and it is a peace like no other.

Just once in my lifetime, I would like to try a naturalist camp...

In fact I am sitting here right now in my birthday suit! Just kidding folks- I am not really naked- it's too cold right now!
Simmer down now!

So there ya have it folks- I'm sure there are lots more but my brain is tired so I am off!

Later!
PolarB ;)

A teacher noticed that a little boy at the back of the class was
squirming around, scratching his crotch, and not paying attention.
She went back to find out what was going on.

He was quite embarrassed and whispered that he had just recently been
circumcised and he was quite itchy.

The teacher told him to go down to the principal's office. He was to
telephone his mother and ask her what he should do about it. He did it
and returned to his class. Suddenly, there was a commotion at the
back of the room. She went back to investigate only to find him sitting at his desk with his penis hanging out.

"What in the world do you think you are doing? I thought I told you to call your mom!" she said.

"I did," he said, "And she told me that if I could stick it out till
noon, she'd come and pick me up from school."

(Giggling)I made ya at least smile didn't I?
PolarB ;)