2 Jake and Mia.

After Jake left the hospital he headed back to his temporary home at the camping goods store. Once he arrived he went straight to the gun and hunting section at the back and picked up a sidearm. Although he had never fired a sidearm before, he had used a hunting rifle and a bow before and was really good with them. He couldn't exactly walk around with a rifle though so he picked up a side arm, some ammunition and a holster then hailed a cab to the apartment building he was evicted from before.

Once he arrived he paid the driver then went inside. He didn't even look up from the ground once as he walked up the stairs with his hood pulled over his face. He walked straight up to the top floor where the landlord resided and knocked on the door. It was nearly midnight at this point and Jake could hear muffled moaning and groaning sounds on the other side of the door, the landlord had probably hired an escort as no one would willingly fuck that lump of lard without some kind of incentive.

No one answered the first time so he knocked again and again until the moaning was interrupted by an exasperated yell of "ONE MINUTE!" before the moaning continued. Jake however didn't wait, once he confirmed that the voice was indeed that of the landlord he opened the door. It wasn't locked so he walked right in, he saw the large naked lump of a man tirelessly humping away at someone that he couldn't see due to the man's enormous body blocking his view.

The landlord hadn't heard him come in but the woman had and she peeked at Jake from around the side of the man. Jake quickly pulled down his hood and made his way to the back of the landlord and placed the cold steel of his newly acquired gun to his head. The feeling of a gun pressed against the base of his skull made the landlord stop what he was doing and freeze in place.

He started to tremble before he opened his mouth and asked what his captor wanted. Jake replied with a wry chuckle and said the words that had been playing on his mind for the last few hours.

"I'll see you in hell you fat bastard."

*BANG*

He pulled the trigger and the man's head had a new hole, from the base of his skull to the top of his big, bald head. Blood gushed out like a fountain for a moment before the man slowly collapsed onto the young woman in front of him.

Jake was sure that the woman would shriek but she didn't, she looked at him with fear in her eyes before quickly looking away. He was surprised, he didn't have any beef with this lady so he pulled the corpse off of her with quite some effort then turned around to leave. "You can call the cops." he said before leaving without looking back. He walked out of the building hailed another cab then went back to the store.

He put the gun back on the shelf after taking the bullets out then grabbed a thick length of rope and a Bushcraft knife from off the shelf. He put the knife on his belt then left the store and went to a nearby hotel and got a room.

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He stood on the chair with the rope in his hands, he cut it to a good length then tied a noose and hung it from the ceiling fan.

"It was 1989, my thoughts were short my hair was long

Caught somewhere between a boy and man"

He took out the phone only to realise it wasn't his alarm going off but a call from his boss, he had left her a note thanking her for what she had done for him and told her call the police and say that someone had just checked into the hotel across the street to commit suicide. He didn't want some nice cleaning staff's day to be ruined when they found his body dangling from the ceiling like some grotesque chandelier.

He answered the phone and activated his call record option on his phone, he figured it wouldn't hurt to hear her voice one last time before he left this plane of existence for good.

"Jake? Are you serious about this note you left? You're gonna kill yourself just like that? What the hell is wrong with you?!!" she started questioning and yelling the moment Jake answered the phone. He showed a wry smile on his face before replying to her in a soft voice.

"I am truly grateful for all that you have done for me Mia." he said "But I've just killed a man who wronged me, and I must go next. I told him I would meet him in Hell so how stupid would I look if I didn't go down to meet the bastard?"

Mia was speechless on the other side of the call. She had started to take a liking to this subordinate of hers; the compassion and drive he showed in his work even when he was in such a miserable state, the knowledge he showed about almost every item in her store wowed her, not to mention he was quite easy on the eyes. She was even considering asking him out once he was back in his feet but apparently fate had other plans.

"Jake please don't do this, you will just serve some prison time for killing that evil bastard, you still have time to turn your life around. It's not over yet!" she had started to sob on the other end of the call, she didn't want him to die. Although they had only known each other for a few months at most, she had become somewhat attached to him.

As Jake listened to his sobbing friend over the phone it was as if he was sobering up after a whole week of being shit-faced. What was he doing? He didn't want to die! He had his whole life ahead of him! How could he be so stupid?

Jake suddenly felt like he was hit by a fucking freight train as he realised he had just killed a man. He felt no pity for him, he was a disgusting, evil little shit head who deserved to die for what he did to Jake, and probably countless more hapless souls before him. What hit Jake so hard was that he would probably have to spend the next 20 years of his life in a cell.

Mia was still sobbing on the phone so he hung up, took down the noose and headed back over to the store across the street. As he opened the door his phone rang again, however before he could look at the screen he was hit in the chest with a still sobbing Mia.

She started to shout at him through the sobs as she wrapped her arms around him and buried her head in his chest. He couldn't understand most of the words she said but he heard a few like 'idiot' or 'how could you' and stuff like that.

It was at this point that even he couldn't hold back his tears and started to cry alongside the sobbing girl as he apologised.

"I'm sorry Mia, I just didn't know what to do. I wasn't thinking straight, I mean just look at what he did to me." he said as he pulled down his hood and and looked Mia in her eye.

She looked startled for a minute before she held a resolute look in her eyes and did something Jake didn't expect at all. She kissed him.

It was a short and tender kiss followed by them looking into each others eyes for a minute before Mia spoke again with a smile.

"I think men with scars are sexy." she said with a rosy face.

Jake smiled for the first time in three weeks and pulled her head up by her chin before planting another kiss upon her rosy lips.

Mia was a real stunner with her long brunette hair, deep emerald eyes, rosy lips and clear, white skin. She was incredibly beautiful and was quite the shy girl which was just Jake's type, she even had a secret ferocious side of her which kind of turned Jake on when he saw it for the first time when she yelled at a Karen who was trying to cause trouble in the store.

They stood there in silence for a few minutes before Mia spoke again "Please don't die." she said while looking into his eyes.

He looked back into hers before answering with a smile "Don't worry I'm not dying anytime soon."