Creative Writing: Lulissa's Journey

Lulissa had been running all day, sweat was dripping downwards from her normally clean and dry face. She had hid in a dank and dark alleyway for at least ten minutes now. She crouched low behind a nearby dumpster while holding her nose as she saw beams of light beaming out from the entrance to the alleyway.

“Oh, why won’t the knuckleheads just leave me alone?”

For the past several weeks Lulissa had been on the run. Ever her little ‘incident’ at her college football field she had been away from her family and was on the lam running away from the law. She was happy that she found a way to revert back to her normal self on her own, but she felt that she was branded for life as a criminal, or worse a monster.

She watched and waited for the flashlights

to go away and for the police car to continue on its search. She could hear the rain drops drizzle. On the police and their car as they looked around. This combined with the chatter in their walkie talkies made her more and more tense. Soon however the police gave up their search and moved on to a new location. The rainy sky hovering over Atlanta started to pick up and soon rain was pouring upon the tacky fedora she stole.

“Great, just great” Lulissa muttered.

She peaked her head out to see if there was anyone nearby starring into the alleyway, fortunately the path was all clear of onlookers and she felt it was safe to move out behind the rancid dumpster. She quietly crept out of the murky alleyway while covered in the ugly and smelly trench coat and fedora she had the displeasure of acquiring.

“At least I’ll look so bad nobody will want to deal with me.” She thought to herself as she casually walked out of the alleyway and onto the

sidewalk.

She calmly started to walk while putting her hands inside the coat’s damp sleeves to stay warm. It was abnormally cool that night and she always preferred nice and warm summer and spring weather over the chilling winter personally. Still she had but little choice but to deal with it.

As she walked she noticed that much to her luck others were wearing such attire, not including the fedora of course due to the weather. However they had the good fortune to own umbrellas whereas she did not.Lulissa tried not to think about it and calmly walked down the rain covered sidewalk in order to find a nice and warm place to seek shelter for the night. All the times she had complained to her parents about the thermostat or her bedroom she began to immediately regret.

However Lulissa knew she couldn’t go back now. She was now a wanted fugitive and to make matters worse she was more than an embarrassment to her mother and father, she was now dangerous to be around them whether she wanted to be or not.

“Man I gotta find someplace to crash tonight, I’m getting really tired” she said as she let out a slight yawn.

As she moved she could see less and less people walking down the streets. It was past midnight and she was moving in Dekalb County, one of the most dangerous parts of Atlanta. She began to feel lonely and worried about where she would sleep. As she walked she started to dose of until something caught her attentions someone had walked up behind her, someone a little bit too close.

“Hey their hun, where you goin this time of night?”

Lulissa started to get nervous. She tried to ignore her follower, but he grabbed the side of her shoulder. She thought fast and tried to conjure up what she could make as the best male voice she could muster.

“Why um, I’m just going home to be with my family mister.”

“Heh, you ain’t foolin nobody with that silly accent girl. I can see that pretty little blonde hair you got there.”

“Darn” she said in her normal voice.
“Now why don’t we just walk over there behind that store?” The man said while pointing a pistol to her back.

“Uhh-ok.”

“Good, now just keep walkin and don’t try any funny stuff.” The man said as he poked his gun into her back.

Lulissa complied and she slowly moved back into yet another alleyway, yet this time she was accompanied by this unsavory individual. As she moved she could feel the barrel of the gun continue to poke her in the back. She had but little choice as she wouldn’t be able to escape.

Soon she entered this alleyway. Above her the sky started to clear radiating moonlight above her. The man seemed to be able to see her clearly and was right behind her.

“Ok, now take off that coat of yours, rains gone.”

“But, I.”

“Take it off now!” He said taking of the safety of his pistol.

“Ugh, fine.” She said taking off her coat to revel her outfit she wore on the day before the indecent.

It was a simple pink shirt and grey sweatpants. Nothing flashy or major, however it did still catch the attention of her captor. She turned around and starred at the man who seemed to be observing her body with somewhat of a pleased expression.

“There, happy now?”

“You bet. Now move back over to corner over there.”

“Make me jerk!”

The man then aimed his weapon at her chest. However Lulissa had had enough, her entire day and night made her miserable and she was very cranky due to the lack of sleep she was not getting. She had enough and just couldn’t take this unsavory individual having his way with her.

“Don’t make me bust a cap in you hun.” The man said with a bit more exclamation.

“Go ahead punk, see what happens next.” She said

She moved closer to him as if she wanted to move past him, the man in agitation fired a shot straight at her chest. She closed her eyes and heard the whizzing of the bullet as it moved close to her right before it impacted her chest. She heard a clank and then opened her eyes.

The main was astonished as he witness what happened. The bullet had not only had little impact with her, but it was bent as if it hit a hard surface and ricochet unto the ground.

“What? You wearing some sort of armor or somethin under dat bra?”

“Pff you wish creep. Now’s the what happens next part!”

The man panicked and unloaded several more rounds at her.

He seemed to have horrible aim as most of his shots were aimed below her head. The bullets whizzed at her and impacted her belly, her lower torso, and her sides. All had the same effect as previously however.

“Y-you ain’t human!”

“Shut up! I’m no more of a monster than you are!” She said.

The man dropped the gun and pulled out a knife in fear in order to engage her in melee
combat and then make his example, however Lulissa merely grinned. She closed her eyes and before the man could blink she had grown larger than him! She was no less than seven feet tall!

“You freak!” The main said while swiping at her in a panicked and uncoordinated way.
Lulissa simply grabbed him by the arm and lifted him up. He started to groan in pain as his body was hoisted up by his arm. Soon he saw her as she became larger and grew another foot.

“L-let me go! Let me go!”

“Oh I’ll let you go.” Lulissa said as she grinned.

She then grabbed him by the shirt and before he could free himself she turned around and tossed him at several trashcans at the end of the alleyway. He was flung almost effortlessly at the cans before impacting them and causing a loud clang as both cans lids tossed over and spewed garbage all over him.

“Hmph..horrible little man, now it’s your turn to smell like junk.” She

said.

Lulissa shrunk back to normal and proceeded to pick up and put back on her trench coat, then her fedora. She then walked outside of the alleyway while she could hear the groaning of the man. She had to get out of there before she was discovered, she knew that he wouldn’t be getting up anytime soon but the gunshots would alert anyone around her. Soon she heard sirens and she started to run in the opposite direction.

“Just my luck” Lulissa said as she sighed.