"What do you mean you saw someone following us?" Javier frowned. In an instant, Julie shushed him and tugged his arm till she stopped at a shop window, pretending to look inside.
"There's a tall man wearing hat and sunglasses and he has been following us ever since we alighted from the bus," Julie whispered harshly at her boyfriend, without averting her gaze from the shop.
When Javier was about to turn his body, Julie slapped his shoulder and he hissed in pain. Even though Javier was the quarterback in his school, Julie's slaps were more painful than a full frontal tackle.
"Ouch!" Once again, Julie shushed him. A sigh escaped Javier's lips. "Well, what are we going to do now? Are we going to just avoid this creepy guy or are we going to enjoy our date?"
"We're being followed and our lives could be danger and all you're worried about is some stupid date?" Julie snarled at her boyfriend, pinching his arm roughly.
"Okay! Okay! Stop physically tormenting me!" Javier retreated a little and felt his back hit a sturdy, wide chest. Turning around, he was shocked to find the man fitting Julie's description staring down at him. His heart was about to leap out of his mouth when he saw the man's mouth twisted into a sinister smile.
"Run!" Quickly seizing her boyfriend's arm, Julie propelled him forward into the street before breaking into a run. People around them were throwing them weird stares as they saw the pair's panic-stricken eyes and heavy breathing. It truly looked like they were running away from rabid dogs when it was none of the sort.
When they were certain that they had lost the stalker, they paused to catch their breath. However, they celebrated too soon when the same man suddenly appeared in front of them, as if he had teleported there.
At seeing their startled faces, the man raised his hands in surrender. "Calm down! I am not a suspicious character! I am only here to return you this!"
The pair's gaze traveled to an object in the man's arm and Javier instantly recognized it as his wallet.
"Hey, that's mine!" Javier pointed at it.
Afterwards, the man explained that he boarded the same bus as the duo and noticed Javier's wallet falling out of his unzipped bag. So, he alighted at a bus stop that was not even his stop and went out of his way to return the misplaced wallet. Feeling very apologetic, Julie offered to treat the man lunch to which the man laughed and nicely rejected because he did not want to be home late for his fifth anniversary with his wife.
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