“She sure made my morning better” I thought to myself. The power of our senses though, I was captivated and hadn’t even seen her face. Only grac...d with her alluring aroma, and yet my day was already looking up.I‘d be lying if I said I wasn’t looking for her low key after I made it through the gates to wait for the train. I couldn’t make her though amongst the swarm of people. I turned on my music and proceeded to wait on the tram to come. I looked at my watch, I noticed it was running a few. ‘Shots fired. Officer down. Send an ambulance as fast as you can,’ he blurted into his radio. His eyes stayed on Kay’s. He tried to limit the bleeding by pressing his arm down on the wound, but it was of no use. The blood flowed out relentlessly. ‘Don’t you die on me now, Kay,’ he wailed, feeling her warm blood flow onto his hands. ‘Hang in there.’ ‘It’s okay, Shawn,’ she said with a smile. ‘There was nothing you could do.’ She coughed horribly, expelling more blood from her mouth. Some of that. She paused again, tears flowing down her face in black streams, colored by her makeup. Guilt and sorrow came up in me and I leaned in to hug her but she pushed me away saying No, I need to tell someone this, I trust you, dont ask me why. At first I hated it, I hated him but somehow I came to enjoy it, he made me feel special you know. When I was fourteen he let one of his friends fuck me and soon after another one of his friends did the same. She was sobbing now, her arms wrapped around. I did put my one hand over my mouth to cut down on the noise…and prayed that they would knock, find no one home and leave. That would have been too easy.They did do that but then I heard the sound of footsteps in the gravel of the driveway. Although the main garage door was closed; the man-door to the workshop was open. Brutus was laying it to me, growling a little and the hand wasn’t doing a real good job of quieting me. I heard a younger mans’ voice say, “I think there’s someone in the garage.