On the way to work Wednesday she stopped of at the supermarket to buy some fruit and yoghurt for lunch. She walked up to the cash register which was manned by her over blonde and pierced friend.
"Hi!" the cashier greeted her. "The boys will disappointed today. No stockings and suspenders today?"
Noella was modestly dressed in slim white pants and red scoop necked shirt, a white jacket and tall strappy heels with high ankle straps.
"Apologise to them for me, but I've got more important things happening today. Tell them I'll make it worth their while next week." she told the cashier with a wink a smile, handing over her credit card.
"Sorry it's declined." the cashier told Noella apologetically after swiping the card.
"Can you try again?" Noella asked her.
The cashier tried another two times before Noella reluctantly handed over some of her fast dwindling cash before walking of the store swearing under her breath.
That's it! The credit cards are the last straw! I'm going to kill you Damien!
Shaking with anger, she walked to her car when she spotted 'Mr. Tall Dark and Handsome' standing by his car in the aisle three cars over.
Blood rushed to her face, anger surging through her body. She opened the car door a little and dropped her hand bag and groceries on the seat of the car before closing it and walking towards the tall and imposing man.
"Are stalking me she started?" she called, her voice laden with animosity.
He looked towards her, startled by her venom.
"That's right! I'm talking to you!" she hissed as she pointed her finger.
Regaining his composure he looked at her directly.
"No I'm not stalking you and I mean you no harm. Quite the contrary." he told her in a smooth confident voice. She was now only two metres away.
"Well it sure looks like stalking!" she retorted walking around to the front of the car.
"If I see you again I'm going to ring the cops! And I've got your number plate so don't fuck me around!"
She stole a glance at his number plate, hoping the six characters would stay in her memory long enough for her to punch them into her phone. He raised his hands in a gesture of surrender.
"I promise! I am no threat to you and I will stay away from you in the future."
"Good!" she told him as she walked back to her car, shivers of fury streaming through her body.
Still shaking, she opened the car door shifting her bag and groceries, before climbing in and quickly wheeled out of the supermarket with a squeal of tyres, wishing that 'Tall Dark and Handsome' would just go away. Arriving at work she sat in the car for a few minutes to calm down and get a handle on the fact that her credit cards had a stop on them and she was being stalked!
Finally she walked into the office and rang her Mum straight away.
"Hi dear," came the reassuring sound of her Mum, Julie, over the phone. "I hear you've had a rough morning."
"What?" stammered Noella.
"I hear you've had a rough morning,'" Julie repeated.
"Huh? How did you know?"
"Well I've been meaning to tell you," she started with a slight tremor in her voice. "But I've never seemed able to find the right time to tell you."
"Tell me what?"
