The Chaser: A Short Story

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The Chaser After Alan was walking out of the dark neighborhood on Pell Street, he felt better coming out with the love potion in his hand then he did going in. As he was walking in the murky alley, rain was pouring down like a thousand of hooves pounding on the ground. When he was almost to the road, he heard a cat. He peered over to the way the sound was coming from and saw a large, black, cat. Alan was petrified of black cats so badly, that he dashed to get to the open street. When he got to the open street, a sigh of relax hit him. Alan could hear someone calling his name but he didn’t quite know where it was coming from. “Alan. Alan.” a women said. He looked over and saw a faint face which he could make out to be Diana.
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As Alan was pouring her coffee into her mug, he slowly pulled the purple potion out of his pocket, he popped off the cork, and poured the potion in casually. Alan felt someone was watching him but he glanced around him to be sure no one was before he drained the potion into the coffee, from the glass bottle. While he was picking up the coffee Diana came over to grab hers, but instead, she took the wrong one without the potion and Alan didn’t even notice. When they both sat down in the booth to talk, he felt a little funny. He thought it was just his nervousness kicking in but this was a different feeling, one that he has never gotten before. After another fifteen minutes or so of him talking to Diana, he felt the conversation was getting bland which meant it was nearing the time to go. They were the only two people still there drinking coffee. All of a sudden Alan blurts out, “I love you Diana and I will never not love you. I have love you for so long and this love I have for you will be for all eternity.” Diana is speechless. She looks at Alan with a flustered look on her face. Abruptly, Diana speaks out, “Alan, I love you too. I have been keeping this inside of me for a while. I have to act as if I didn’t even care about you but oh dear do I!” Alan then never had to go back to that ominous, dark, alley ever

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