[gremlin]

"You can leave me alone," she said and stepped backwards towards her apartment complexes back door. Her keys jingled as she raised them to the lock. "I'm not taking that off of you, there's nothing you can do but leave me alone." her eyes didn't leave his. Rachel wanted to be so sure with her decision, she wanted to leave him there. She wanted to go upstairs to her apartment, crawl in to bed and sleep. It felt like she was in a lucid dream, a nightmare.

She pressed her head against the door then let her hand drop to her side. "What do you want me to do?" she asked. "Other than taking that off."