Black leather, white hair, gray eyes, 5'4, ruby lips. Blue crescent. That damn clue crescent. It had been on her chest right between her beautiful breasts. He had seen it, and it had been ethereal. Glowing brighter than the light or color should've allowed. He was having dreams about the damn thing. Damn it! Who, what and where was she?
Another night and he was doing what had become a ritual, turning around in his covers unable to find comfort. He had drawn that haunting blue symbol on so many sheets of paper, and yet it was unwilling to let go of his mind. He would go insane before that thing gave him any peace. He ran his hand across his chest trying to calm himself. For one reason or another, it gave him joy to feel the muscle under his hand. It had never been there before, but in the last few weeks he did everything he could think to make himself more attractive to his mystery woman.
For that's what she was nothing more than a haunting apparition that should've faded into the cellar of his memory already. Here she was, however, moving him under the sheets, not even being present but refusing to let him sleep none the less.
Throwing back the covers, he needed release, he needed to be free of his phantom. Pulling on his only pair of blue jeans and a brown sweater that had grown taut over his newly formed muscles, he headed towards the door. Grabbing the key ring and slipping on a pair of jogging shoes, he headed across the street to a place he had never visited before in his life. The liquor store.
This is what men do, right? When women refuse to give them any peace, they headed to the nearest liquor store or pub and had it out with a bottle of whiskey, rum or whatever they drink. He didn't know.
He'd tried getting drunk once in college, because he was tired of being the only one without anything to do on a Friday night. Ultimately, however he didn't remember much about that night except waking up in a dumpster outside of the West side Pizza Hut. It goes without saying that drinking never happened again. Up until now.