Finding 'x'

•Treading down memory lane•

I walked right into the arms of someone that looked too much like him. Of course it was him. Liam.

Shit.

And he tried to put his slimy hands on me.

"Get away from me bastard! I already told you. I won't let it happen again!" I yelled and desperately searched around for something to bash his head in.

I'd already sworn it wouldn't happen again.

"What won't happen again?" He asked in an alien voice. A voice so foreign from the sinister, gruff voice he used to talk with. Yet it sounded familiar, and friendly. Almost like....

"Earth to Ella!" My vision cleared.

Oh.

It wasn't him after all.

"Hi." I muttered coldly and walked away. I only got as far as two steps before I was yanked backwards.

Not again.

"Don't fucking touch me!" I growled in a level of coldness I didn't know I was capable of, making him flinch and withdraw immediately.

"I'm sorry, I-"

"Just stay the hell away from me! I won't let it happen again!" I started to run away like the coward I was once again but what he said stopped me dead in my tracks.

"You're bleeding Ella, calm down."

'.... I don't care that you're bleeding okay, just calm down.. '

"Why are you here? What happened to you? And why are you covered in blood?" He asked in bewilderment then as if suddenly realising something, he quickly brought out a gun and ran towards the direction he saw me come from.

It took a while to snap out of my daze and comprehend what was going on. I took off behind him immediately I did.

He'd discovered Jide when I caught up, and he was already making contact to someone else via a walkie-talkie device. My eyes widened in realisation.

"Jide is not the killer Sir. He's not involved," I heard myself say in an incredulous voice, I guess it was then hot cop noticed I had followed him.

"Oh my God dear, you're not supposed to see all this. Wait-"

"I bashed his head with the bottle." I finished for him and it was his turn to be surprised.

I dropped to my knees in emotional exhaustion, very far away from the unconscious, probably dead man in his NYSC uniform.

"Ella?" He started with caution, "why would you do something like that?"

"I swore it won't happen again. Not when I can help it." I replied with a voice void of emotions. All I could see was Liam's face as he said the word 'bitch' I hadn't been able to forget it.

Thankfully, hot cop didn't question me any further after that. He simply took me to his own space at the staff quarters, threw me a big shirt and advised me to freshen up and stay indoors before leaving me all alone to make sense of the most recent happenings.

Corper Jide was a typical stereotype of a male corper; handsome, young, agile and a very very very big flirt. He had no limits whatsoever when it came to whoring, he would literally sleep with the plastic model of a skeleton in the biology lab provided that it would wear a skirt.

He had the complex that the female gender of the human specie were feather brained conquests to be conquered and abandoned afterwards and he'd been doing justice to that since he was deployed here eight months ago.