False Pretenses

[caleb]

TAGGED: Closed To Catherine Ashby

[W]Language And Violence

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Research and some handing help from the partners aiding him in these searched it was clear he was just far to prepared with this one. Young love, wasn't that sweet? Caleb was slowly growing older and so his love didn't' qualify as young. Though he was slowly thinking it was not even love at all for the young women he did love always denied him. But no this was not time to complain he had focus on his mind. Earlier this eventing of when he was to hatch his plans he already send a letter. Placed it inside of her mail box which he knew she'd check at some point of the day. Which of course in careful hand writing he wrote down rather sloppy so it seemed like the worthless sack wrote it.

'Catherine, I want to see you today. I am writing a letter because it was far too early to call you. Didn't want to wake you up also felt like skateboarding over. I have a surprise for you so met me at the park after three. -Riven.' Also it was all enclosed into a proper white envelope. He was sure she would read the letter before three which is why he was waiting already. Sitting on a park bench looking as innocent as possible with his cup of chocolate ice cream, since the bastard didn't have rocky road. With his plastic spoon he slowly grabbed some of the cold ice cream on his spoon then to his mouth. True it was odd to eat ice cream on a cool day like this but his habit was from Anna. How could be refuse when he walked by the small ice cream shop on the way to the park.

Despite the fact it was cold he was extremely warm for what he was wearing. Dark blue jeans, long sleeved black sweater, over that was a black trench coat jacket, black scarf and black boots. Exactly how one should be dressed for the cold weather. But the park, eh, this was not a place for him really since he was watching some family in the park. Kids playing, there was only two of them with a watching mother, which they didn't seem to mind him there. He was not promoting any threat he just looked like he was waiting for someone. Every other moment he picked up his phone and looked at the time and also thought many times of Anna. Maybe he should call her to see if she wanted anything in the market before he went home tonight. But after staring at his phone for a long while he just pursed his lips then shoved his phone back into his pocket.

He took another spoon full of ice cream then looked around slowly for signs of the female he was meeting. Was nearly three so she should be wondering in aimlessly looking for her boy toy. With a solid smirk on his face he knew this was going to be easy. Sure resistance shall be there for the girl was too sweet but she will soon find out his offers can't be refused. Well she could refuse but it'd be a bad idea for her to refuse what he has to say. Others found that out before, they were not harmed, he'd let them go of course if they still were brave enough to say no. By all means he was not a murder, yet, but he was not too nice of a guy. Another scoop of the ice cream making him innocent then he appears was just a good cover up. His eyes slowly glancing up every now and then making sure he does not miss his target. She wouldn't know she is the target but she was his target for the afternoon.

[cat]

Sweet. It was so sweet, how it all had happened. Like the world seemed to finally realize that she was in tough spot and she needed someone, anyone, to help her out. It was about time they realized what was going on, quite honestly. They must've been blind to miss it for so long, but she didn't care. For once, she was genuinely happy, and she wasn't going to let this pass without notice. She spent her morning working on some things around the house, too restless to sit still for an extended period of time and just plain excited out of her mind, looking forward to the time when she would get to see Riven again. "Mail." she said suddenly, realizing she hadn't checked it today. It was early afternoon, around one o'clock, as she stepped into the chilly world with bare feet, for she intended to dash for the mailbox.

She grabbed the stack of mail from the box and dashed towards the house. She liked this place, she had only recently bought it, but she liked it. Thing was, she needed to find a job soon if she planned to keep on living here. She shuffled through the mail as she walked down the front hall. "Bill, bill....stupid junk mail...useless things...." she was about to discard the stack on the kitchen table when a plain envelope caught her eye. She set the rest of the mail on the table and opened the envelope carefully, extracting the letter from it and unfolding the sheet of paper. She read the words quickly, then re-read them slowly, a small smile reaching across her features. She couldn't help but be happy now, could she? She set the letter down and looked around, glancing at the clock. Quarter after two..she had plenty of time.

She took her time sorting through the mail, and setting things aside that she would have to take care of later. She really didn't have that sort of money right now, straight out of high school, but she'd have to find some way. She yawned widely then stood up and stretched, making her way to the bedroom. She spent a good ten minutes debating what to wear. She knew it really shouldn't matter, he'd seen her in her worst. He'd shown up on her doorstep on one day when she had been in nothing more than a really oversized shirt and sweats. Half asleep, she had opened the door. Course, he had laughed at her for ages afterward, and she tried to block that from her mind for the most part.

She shifted through her pretty pathetic store of clothing a good few times before settling on jeans, a green sweater, and a blue jacket. It was freezing outside, and she didn't want to make the same mistake of underdressing she had last week at the beach. She tied her hair back away from her face, grabbed her Ipod, and went out the door at a little after three. She was late, she knew. She couldn't help it though, it was only to be expected...Cat was never on time, Riven should sort of expect that of her by now. She walked down the park at a brisk pace, a random assortment of songs playing as she walked, her mind occupied quite nicely by the week that had occured since they had established these new boundaries.

She entered the park and looked around for Riven's tall figure. He hadn't said quite where to meet him, so she was left to sort of wander and look, seeing as she had no idea. She made a few laps around the park, wondering if he was late or something. She had forgotten her cell phone, so of course he wouldn't be able to call her and tell her this. She made a few more rounds until she started to get this creepy feeling of being watched whenever she passed a certain part. She paused, looking sideways and spotting some random guy off to the side. Not someone she recognized, so she shrugged and sunk down on a bench, sort of worried. Why wasn't he here, if he had said he was going to be?

[caleb]

Sitting there he was guessing the girl would of been around looking for her sweetheart which he looked at his phone again. As soon as he did look up there she was which he slowly smirked about but then wiped it from his face. He finished his ice cream then threw it away in the container that was near him. His eyes looked to the side seeing the female was aimlessly going on about the park. No she would not find what she was looking for at all and he smirked went back to the bench. Pulled out his phone pretended he was on the phone but in a brief uninterested conversation. He managed to pull out a few 'uhhuhs' and 'okays' just out randomly like he was on the phone. Did not want to look out of place there for some reason and such. His eyes looked up every now and then walking the female walk back and fourth around the park.

Another smirk let him to stay on the phone until she took a seat right next to him and he looked over at her. "Bye." He remarked on the phone then slammed it rather loudly to seem like he was pissed off or something. He sighed deeply then went his phone away into his pocket then he bite down on his bottom lip. Looked as if he was puzzled or hurt which he sighed again more loudly then he dug around for something. Finally from his inside pocket he pulled out a cigarette pack then lighter. His eyes flashed up to the family who's kids were peacefully playing in the park. That needed to change so he pushed into the little boy's mind who was up in the play tower. All of a sudden he screamed like he was being murdered then went down the slide quickly.

Children were so easy for they were fragile and timid also so frighten of the most simplest things. The boy ran to it's mother then bawled babbling about he saw a monster, the bogeyman. Lighting the end of his cigarette he did not make any kind of movement other then watch the baffling family. With a small shake to his head he muttered out loud enough for Catherine to hear. "Children." He put his pack of smokes away and then his lighter away leaned back in his seat. The mother told the kid to hush then collected her other child then was off to go home to settle her children down. Was rather interesting to see them leave so fast but hell he needed to make sure he was alone. He sat there taking drags from his cigarette then made sure to blow them up into the air so that his guest he was siting near would not be disturbed.

A slow thought went into his head as he went pushed into her mind to sort out the fear number one. Easy enough as he thought, he got her fear a long time ago but now he had a vivid and gruesome picture he was going to show. "Looks like your date has ditched you too." He said absentmindedly to her and acting like he was waiting for a date there and she never showed. Once more he took out his phone to glance at the time to pretend he was waiting around. He sighed again deeply then his eyes turned over to her and he let out a friendly smile. "At least I'm not waiting here alone." He was not sure if she can hear him since she was listening to her ipod. Technology, Caleb did not like technology too much but he did praise it. When Anna wanted something new and hip he would make sure to go out of his way to get it for her. Whatever she wanted in this world he always gave to her, obsession, no he just was head over heels in love with the girl.