"He stands in the shadows, like always. He's not the kind of person you mess with: not if you want to keep your face intact. That's his speciality, see. The Chelsea Smile. He heard about it a couple years ago, so they say, and he's made it his signature move. They call him 'Chelsea' behind his back, but never to his face: it's a girl's name, and they know he'd never hold with that. No one wants to become his next victim. They say you never want to smile again after he's finished with you, but you can't help it.
No one can."
Jacob held his breath. The girl was holding a switchblade ready, and if she was fast, he wouldn't reach his own in time. He wasn't prepared to take that risk. She was a girl, sure, but he had learned a long time ago not to underestimate the female gender. He used to. When you had a chauvinistic father and a mother who believed she was worth crap, that way of thinking kind of got ingrained into you. But he never talked about his family; not if he could help it.
The girl was still glaring into the shadows, completely guarded. He didn't recognize her; he wondered if he should. A brief scan through his memory banks did not bring up any name to match to her face, and for him that settled it. If she was anyone important, he wouldn't have forgotten, because Jacob always remembered.
He wasn't fool enough to take chances, though: not with someone who had whipped round so quickly at the sound of the lightest footfall. Therefore, he moved out of the sanctuary of the shadows slowly and carefully, with his hands in clear view. That shouldn't give her motive to stab him, but he knew that if it had been the other way round, he would have attacked without thinking about it. Of course he would. It was the way he worked. But Jacob didn't ever run from anything, least of all a possible confrontation. His pride was impossible sometimes, but that was just the way things were.
"Are you going to stab me?" he asked, his quiet voice mocking. He was bigger than her, even though she seemed to be tall for a girl. In his experience, height helped. It made you more intimidating. He was over 6'0", maybe around 6'3" or 6'4", and his messy black hair somehow gave him a more dangerous look. It grew wild from his head; outwards and downwards at the same time, and it was too long. At the moment, it came halfway down his neck at the back, brushing against his skin, which was a curious, red-brown shade. His dark eyes surveyed her mockingly as he leaned against the wall of the alley mouth, waiting for a reaction of some sort from this unknown girl.
my girlies;;
laurenn ;; larii ;; laurie ;; charlie ;; becky ;; beth ;; illy ;; sessi ;; rachael ;; kiers

may i waste your time too?