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ironkurtain:
I will do that. I am not posting it here

ironkurtain:
I will be deleting it on Sunday evening.

ironkurtain:
I did so, but it's been almost four years since I had written anything. So I'm kind of feeling very rusty cos I just keep writing and deleting. Anyway I would like to drop some kind of a DEMO. So I want you guys to read and pls be honest in your critics. I want to know if I should continue or still stand by my decision not to write a third installment.

samebony1.

yungbanks.

ashatoda


DEMO 1.


The three men came over and stood close to the edge of their table. Eric regarded them with a benign smile while Lisa gave no attention to their presence. He took a quick note of their faces and saw that the short one wasn't handsome either.

The short man gave Eric a brief stare with an indifference that showed a clear disregard for his presence and turned the somewhat cold beady eyes of his at Lisa.

"Hello young lady", he began at Lisa, his lips curving into smile that made his face look worse. "Good to see you again my dear", his lips parted to show his clean white teeth.

Lisa sucked her teeth, remained still for a few seconds and then looked at short man. "Hi", she began with a quiet noncommittal tone of voice.

"How are you doing?",

"Just minding the business that i'm having with my boyfriend".

Eric's eyes moved from the short man to the other two men that flanked him. Both of them were standing with their hands in the pockets of their jacket, chests puffed up with the stance of men that had spent alot of time in the gym lifting irons. They were staring down at him with a blank expression and poised as if they were having the intention to start something very unfriendly with him. Perhaps they were trying to intimidate him into not getting between the discussion the short man was trying to start with his female friend.

"I see", the shortman continued with a nod. "Anyway, like i told you earlier, my friends here do agree with me that you are definitely the most beautiful chick in the bar. And they also agreed that....i should give it another try".

"Thanks for the compliments", Lisa said coolly. "But i have already given you my answer, which is, that i'm already taken". She looked at Eric. "He is here with me too. Though am quite flattered by your insistence to hook-up with me, but i am very happy with what i have". Lisa turned her eyes back to the short man. "So it's no use wasting all these time and efforts", she concluded and then turned to Eric to continue their conversations and hoping that the man would finally get the message and leave her alone.

The short man nodded with a smirked. He made a few glances at the other two men with him and made a cursory look around the bar. Lisa, pretending like they don't even exist, tried to carry on with her conversations with Eric who only nodded with his eyes on his beer but with his full attention at the men beside them.

"So is that it?", the short man then asked, interrupting Lisa in her conversation.

"Yes, that's it", Lisa gave an immediate reply without looking at him. "And also bear in mind that it will remain the same...if we happen to see each other again", she added.

"Okay then, but you should have atleast showed some....appreciation", the short man stated with a cold tone that signalled a change in his seemingly friendly attitude that he had been displaying. This prompted Lisa to furrow her brows at him. Eric who appeared to be unbothered already knew what he meant.

"Appreciation for what?", Lisa asked, looking confused.

"Well, even though you wanna pass on the offer from a guy that will really take good care of a girl like you, aleast you should have shown some appreciation for my little generosity", the short man coldly said.

Lisa then got the gist of what he was talking about. "Oh, so you want me to show some appreciation for the drink, a drink that i never asked from you and not even drinking in the first place?", Lisa sneered and pointed at her cocktail.

"Seems necessary to me", the man shrugged and slipped both hands inside his brown coat. "And my friends here kind of agree with me".

"And i guess it was also necessary to bring your friends with you just to tell me all these?". Then Lisa looked at the beer on their table. "Or was there some kind of a crowd-funding for this one beer?", she asked coolly and looked at the short man. Eric rubbed his nose bridge with a faint smile that came out from a suppressed sneer.

"It doesn't matter how the drink was bought", the short man said curtly and glanced at Eric, knowing what Lisa had said was funny to him. "What matters to me right now is my kind gesture being disrespected".

"Okay", Lisa began and folded her arms. "So which one is it? Here with your friends to hit on me infront of my boyfriend or just looking for trouble?", she asked indifferently.

"Well, i came here with the former in mind. But the later could happen if i am given a reason to be unhappy", the man replied, regarding Lisa with an expressionless look on his face.

"Well, me and my boyfriend might have considered giving you your fifteen seconds of fame if it was clearly just the former. But from what i have seen so far, it's like you are more into the later. And we really dont want to waste our energy on that", Lisa retorted, her patience for the short man now exhausted.