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Created on: May 26, 2009
~Path of Hate~
He knew what had to be done as soon as she stepped out of her Jeep and closed the door. At first she stood there looking around her surroundings for any hint of where he might be. But he knew she would not find him until he was ready to reveal himself to her. He sat there hidden behind some brush in the woods as he watched her looking for him. As he watched those long, tanned, and beautifully shaped legs of hers as she climbed the stairs of the cabin to the front door. Those where the legs that he had been admiring for the past 2 years, the legs that kept him awake at night, the legs that kept him sexually aroused, just as they were doing now.
He was deep in thought of her legs when he heard a sound behind him. He quickly brought himself back to the present as he whipped around just in time to see a small fawn walk past him about 20 yards away. "Hurry up and get out of here your varmint, she cannot know of my where abouts just yet." he thought angrily as he watched to she if she noticed the small deer. But luckily the deer and came and gone out of sight without her noticing him. Relieved he put his concentration back on her, back on his target.
"Derek, oh Derek, are you here?" she yelled as she knocked on the door. She waited to see if she could her anyone inside moving around, but she heard nothing and no one came to the door. She then tried the front door knob and found it to be locked. So then she decided to walk around to the back of the cabin and she if he was there or in that barn she saw as she pulled up. She thought it was odd that did not see his vehicle when she first pulled up but then again he could have parked in the barn she told herself.
Derek.......Derek.....Derek, where are you? He heard her holler. Oh the way she said his name, it just rolled off her tongue and sent chills down his body. Patience, he kept telling himself to just be patient and her time will come. She had taunted him long enough, with those pretty blue eyes of hers and that long dishwater blond hair of hers. He remembered how she would purposely wear her hair up just to make him agonize over her long soft ivory neck. He will never forget the first time she walked into the office. She was the new clerk, and she was beautiful. It was like the whole room lit up by 3 notches every time she walked in. It took him 1 year and 11 months to build up the courage to ask her out, and when he did
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