Thread: In The Hearts of Men [Torrid x Rekoj]

Up until a few days ago Alohanani Pi had been a typical nineteen year old girl. She was in college studying to be an art teacher, worked at a Java House and she had her family which was large, her friends of which there were many and a love for the small things like her cellphone, good make-up and of course kittens. But all of that was before she walked out the back door of the Java House she worked at which was somehow lovingly nestled into a residential neighboor, muffin in hand to take her break. At first nothing nothing seemed off to Nani, the alley wasn't her favorite place to take her lunch break but there were too many customers for her to take it inside so she'd had to make due, she'd been peeling away the wrapper of the muffin when the gun shots rang. They seemed to bounce off the buildings and head directly for her ears, her first instinct had been to hide behind a dumpster but what if she was able to help whomever had been shot? What if they weren't dead and she could get them help. She dropped her muffin and headed quietly out towards the street, which housed the back end and garages of a line of row-houses. Nani heard a car starting and she peeked her head from the side of the building and saw a white van with faded lettering from a dry cleaners that had closed when she was just a little girl. On the ground not to far from the van lay two bodies, a man and a woman. Aside from the blood the first thing she noticed was that the woman had a head full of blond hair that had been silky and beautiful but now it was caked in blood. The combined pool of blood was creeping over the side walk, dripping into grates and into sewer drains it was something she would not soon forget. But before she could dash out to check the pulses and be a savior, the driver of the van slammed on the breaks and two men got out of the vehicle. One was yelling at the other Jimmy, the boss said NO witnesses. She'd seen their faces, but she prayed they hadn't seen hers... they couldn't have seen hers. She moved her head back a little, she could still see and what she saw would haunt her for the rest of her life. The man called Jimmy pulled his gun on an elderly man standing near his garbage can, the man tried to plead with him for his life, claiming he'd never tell a soul. But a man who'd seen everything was a dangerous man and apparently Jimmy and the other goon couldn't take that risk Sorry man, gotta do it Jimmy said and fired his weapon. The man fell to the ground right in front of her eyes, he was bleeding from a bullet wound to the chest and Nani knew that he was dead. Lets get the fuck out of here... now man called the driver as they ran for the van. All of that had been three days ago, the murder was on the news now and reporters begged daily for any witness to come forward with what they knew about the senseless murders of a highly respected judge, his wife and their neighbor. Nani had gotten to the point where she couldn't live with the knowledge of what she'd seen by herself anymore, she had to come forward and hopefully with what she'd seen she could help bring the couple to justice. Even knowing that she could help the case she was having a hard time opening the door to the police station, if she did this then that meant everything was real. It wasn't just a nightmare she'd had, it had really happened. Nani glanced back to her car thinking she still had time to get in it and leave, she shook her head lightly knowing she couldn't do that and instead she gripped the handle on the door and stepped in to the police station.