The frisbee bounced off of Colin’s head with a hollow THUNK.
“Ow!” He said as he rubbed his forehead.
“Sorry!” A guy shouted as his dog ran back to him with the plastic disk in its mouth.
“I tried to warn you, yah big goof.” Luan giggled.
Her lovely ginger locks shimmered in the sunlight as the brim of her sunhat flopped in the breeze.
“Yeah, sorry about that Luan.” Colin laughed, “Guess I got… distracted…”
All of a sudden Colin heard a bell chiming from down the path.
“Oh hey look they’ve got shaved ice!” Luan said as she pulled Colin by the arm.
Luan sat there lapping at the rainbow colored hunk of ground ice as Colin started unwrapping his key lime creamsicle. He ripped the package open so hard that the popsicle splatted on the pavement.
“Want some of mine?” Luan asked as she held out her shaved ice.
Colin stood there silently.
“Colin?” Luan asked again.
He was standing there completely breathless, a genuine sense of fear in his gaze.
Luan wrapped her arms around his chest and felt his heart racing.
“What’s wrong? Colin?! COLIN?!” Luan shouted as she hit him in the back.
“Huh wha- Luan?” Colin asked. “Oh, I-It’s nothing, really…. just zoned out there….” Colin awkwardly laughed.
Everyone was staring at the couple as they walked past, unaware of the third figure whistling to themselves in the distance.
“Are you sure you’re okay?” Luan asked.
“Relax, I’m completely fine!” Colin smiled.
“Colin….” Luan said said she gave them those big soulful eyes.
“I guess I’m still a little shaken up after what went down with… Willow’s… mom?” Colin said as he looked away.
Luan noticed what he was looking at: an open supply shed with a trail of flower petals leading into it.
“What the hell?” Colin mouthed as he slowly walked down the petal trail.
“What are you doing?” Luan asked, “That’s park property, we’ll get in big trouble!”
“I’m not going inside I’m just taking a quick peek…” Colin said as he looked in the doorway.
“What the actual fuck?”
Luan looked over to get a look for herself,.
The sight made her spout, “What the shit? I mean- no actually, what the shit?!”
There was a huge heart shaped heap of petals right there with an open sketchbook on a desk behind it.
“We need to go, I’ve got a really bad feeling about- COLIN!” Luan whispered.
“This is probably just one big misunderstanding.” Colin said as he took a peek at the sketch work.
“Nothing weird here…. ducks, an old church, a massive ball of pink light, a-“
His heart skipped a beat.
Next to the scene of a giant pink orb of light flying towards the park was…. him… in rather intimate detail, down to the last hair on his chin.
He flipped through another twenty pages, all of them of him buck ass nude, across as much of the pages’ surface as humanly possible, and all of them dated within the last couple of days.
“Luan, we need to get out of here.” Colin said as the shed door slammed behind him followed by a heavy CLUNK.
The hairs on his arms stood on end as he heard whistling…. his whole body shuddering as he turned around.
The dim light of a dirty window shone across a naked woman with pink gleaming eyes whistling that tune… that nightmarishly calm song she kept up as she slowly walked up to him.
He frantically beat on the window like a lunatic, pounding and pulling and yanking as he screamed for help, until a rotten hunk of the window frame gave way. He ran out of the hole in the wall screaming his head off.
“Colin!” Luan called out as she heard something hit the ground.
It was the very sketchbook Colin held in his own two hands… but there was no one else there…
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Sam looked over the sketchbook as Luan finished her story.
“I don’t know who, but someone’s after Colin.” Luan said, “What are we gonna do?”
“We could take this to the police…” Luan said.
“First of all, your and Colin’s fingerprints are all over this thing, and secondly that’s a one way ticket to April finding out about this whole relationship!” Sam shouted. “We just need to stay calm and really take a good look, maybe there’s a clue we missed in all these pages.”
“What, like how much this bitch loves Colin’s ass?!” Lucy said as she flipped through the sketches.
“Who can blame her…” Alya grinned with flushed cheeks.
Lucy shot a death glare at her.
“Sorry.” said Alya.
“The sketches BEFORE all of that, Lucy.” Sam said as she snatched the sketchbook and took a few pictures, “Okay, we each have a page, let’s split up and see if we can’t match these buildings to places in town.”
The ladies went out the door as Luan sat on the couch next to Colin. He laud his head in her lap and fell asleep as Alya shut the door…