Always Alone

Goiania

then go out the back and hide in a poor and discreet neighborhood, in a house with several exits, but this time my loss was great and I have a strange feeling, my intuition, it never deceives me and never brings good news. It is not safe to go back home, yesterday I had the impression that I was followed here. I don't even realize that the cute guys are talking, a little further on, sitting on their skateboards. Ta they are much young

er, skin

board, take the sandwich from his hand, take a big b

e good one

gh and Vitor

t's a

my mouth fu

this life, but a lad

ways softly, in his us

ouse, his mother won't be

an invi

on their faces. I can't help feeling... I can't

k movie. And this movie is great, a lot of killing, shooting, fighting and stuff like that. You have a

s Vitor's mach

, just sto

ecturi

Lipe no

or

then? The husky here

arts talking about how all Keanu Rivers' characters are conne

creepy th

sne

nse

or

t night it's a hotel for nerds, Lipe and

at Vitor

e beer in the

't pour beer on anything or

or keeps talking on his elbows, he is an endless source of subjects and this has its charm, his beauty is not on the surface, but looking well you can see the fleshy mouth, the perfect smile and he is always smiling. His black hair is always impeccable, whenever I catch him looking at me he looks away and gets ridiculously embarrassed and says whatever comes to his mind, Philip is the opposite, you almost never hear his voice, he expresses himself through his eyes. His beauty is obvious and a bit ou

my birth

It was with that son of a bitch that everything really started to go wrong. It was with him that I discovered the worst i

guys. I have a li

oks at h

, drinks now onl

ley is very fas

oday is my birthday,

y. In the avenue near the entrance to

to pass through t

aby, nobody's goin

shape of a car miles away, the passenger window opens and I see the furious face of the Vult, we are at the e

nge tingling takes over me, without thinking I grab two bottles with one han

st

Vult. My aim remains impeccable as always. I hear shouts and footsteps behind us as I can hear the car start up. They will surround us for sure,

o you

out of the

rrounded us, how

runs to a corner of the

on,

nd to his face and shoulder. I grab him by the shoulders and force him to keep running, when I look back I see Lipe with his pants caught in the grate trying to get free, I leave Vitor and come back to help, I h

lace have an

with his vo

one we use

of something, but it is very dark. I

rezzer

are guided by Lipe to a huge white iron door. Lipe pus

zy? There's

phone flashlights randomly illuminating al

t ge

noise. I hear the sound of more shots, now surely coming in our direction. The door clo

the door, they're goin

ing Vitor

he inside, this thing is made of concrete and steel. It'

cries

pocket turns on the flashlight and il

hurt ba

n't k

hone light and crou

and, let me

n and other superficial cuts across his cheek. His shirt is soaked with blood on his shoulder, I take

look serio

pocket turns on the flashlight and poi

leg,

myself on t

at his own shoulder and smiles. What do you mean he

s so f

s Laura want to leave

ne of us really. The same

ter

no way they ca

's no

is it

rmetically se

wh

ught of that. I an

If we stay here too l

cont

e, the longer the air will last

sho

it

lence we sit together

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ember where from. I take a deep breath and my face goes numb, there are two other points of light also illuminating from the floor to the ceiling, the rest is darkness. I look for my cell phone in my pocket and understand that the mysterious light in front of me is my

ra,

is lying under the lock, he mumbles something, but doesn't move. I drag myself and kneel over him, holding the latch, but I don't have the strength to pull, he moves and I am left hanging holding the lat

h

el the door getting lighter and see Lipe's hands on the door. The door finally open

a wak

s dragging Laura, I help h

are the

and see a jeans jacket. I'm still a little dizzy, but I have the impression that this is the jacket that the crazy guy who was shooting at us was wearing. Laura gets

you w

ve been quiet

e crazy guy's face, how could you hit a bottle that far away? Why did you do that? What kind of people are these guys? Do you know those guys? What the fuck

olds m

athe

n. Laura surely thinks I'm the

n know what

ks serious

all

ess with people,

Psychopath

three words you used also serve, my last busi

ho call

the fucking

or

t. Somehow he found me and got what he got. I didn't want to get you guys i

slowly toward the exit. A smell of smoke is in th

u smel

answ

ing from

aws he

wo beh

look at Lipe and c

s up c

lk all the way hom

ly pair of snea

look

ke it up

eyes give an impression hard to explain, it's almost evil what I see in her eyes, t

is gettin

anyone, the prize for the fearful of the year is already mine. We wal

go a

the gun and

Black Widow? I'll go

be silent, but can

may c

l as I leave the building, it is

snea

pants are still attached to the

at no nincompoop c

e Vi

ng's wro

y approache

do you

e only way

nly wa

t messing with the pants and sneakers and t

gun to the entr

et out o

the railing, I go through and then hold the railing for him to pass, Laura comes out last, always

t's on both exits, the gu

yells

get out the way we

he alley, Laura goes in

uc

ilding sheds in the back, slab-on-grade houses, until the whole hill became one big pile of buildings. And what we see now is this same heap of buildings completely in flames, not one house or two, but all of them together, the whole hill. The fire is two hou

iremen? Why isn'

un away and hold

e, let's go to the highway

from where we are explodes and throws debris, fire and smoke everywhere, I can only hear a strong buzzing in my ears, Laura takes me from the ground, it's