Michele blinked a few times as the memory faded. Casting her hazel green eyes at the old bar. Gone was the music, lights, the chatter and laughter of people. Just a shell of the building remain. With windows and doors had been board up. Gang tags marred the walls. Slowly she removed her foot from Manny throat. It had been a reflex moved. Having taken defense classes and attending martial arts classes over the years. Keeping a vowed of never a being a victim again that she made herself ten years. It didn’t help that she had feeling that she was being followed the last couple of weeks.<br/><br/>"Sorry”As she lifted her foot off Manuel throat. Looking at the man that was under booted foot. “Manuel Sosa” She said nearly on a whisper,when she recognized him. God he was handsome as ever. Raven black hair, chocolate brown eyes. She had a huge crush on him in high school. Then again so did all the other girls in town. The reputation of being a bad boy only added to the attraction. It didn’t matter that Manny and his gang broke nearly law there was to break.<br/><br/>Michele would be lying if said she that his law breaking ways didn’t hold some attraction. There was another side to that made the attraction him stronger. A few days before she left town, she had gotten off work late. Tried not really paying attention to what was going on she was grab a gang and dragged off into a side alley. They push her to each of the member of the gang. As if she was no more the a play thing. They kissed her roughly coping a feel wherever they could. More the she fought them the more they laughed. She fought them as best as she could.<br/><br/>When Manuel came down the alley she thought the worst. Thinking that he would have a part of what was going on. She mistaken the gangs quite for them waiting for the leader to take over not knowing that they were a rival gang.Michele could not have been more surprised when he took her from one of the member of the gang. Punching him out and telling her to run. She did just that. Never looking back. Why had he saved  that night she wondered not for the time. It was shame he wasn’t around the night she killed a man.<br/><br/><br/>“You should know better than to sneak upon someone...It hazardous to your health" She chided him as if they were the best of friends. Stepping back so that he have room to get up.  Smiling a bit at the begging look he gave her. Damn he was too cute and handsome for his own damn good.