You Are My One and Only

Patricia’s eyes lit up at the sound of this, and she thought the ring was the perfect weapon she needed. She wished she had had it last night to fend off Isaac’s untoward advances. If she could stab him in the neck with a needle soaked with anesthetic and rendered him completely limp, then she might not have been kissed by him.

“I’ll take it,” she declared. “Do I get to use it more than once?”

She hoped the ring would not be useless after just one use, seeing as she was stretching her budget just to accommodate its hefty price tag. However, the shop assistant reassured her, saying, “You can use it as often as you’d like until the anesthetic stored in the cavity under the gemstone runs out. Of course, you can refill it on your own, but I reckon there are about three hundred shots in there before you have to do that.”

Convinced, Patricia bought two of the rings at two hundred each. It was a small price to pay to save her life, she decided, especially since a young and single woman such as herself was more likely to end up as a victim of harassment.

“Here, you take the other one, just in case you run into trouble at the club,” she said to Darcie as she handed her one of the rings.

She had once stayed at the modern-day pandemonium that was Everbright, and she knew how rowdy it could get over there. So, it went without saying that she was worried about Darcie’s safety. She would return to her old job, but she couldn’t bring herself to leave her three children at home, and she kept thinking, What will happen to the kids if something terrible happens to me?

Darcie took the ring and said graciously, “Thank you!”

headed out of the shop, Patricia beamed and

of feral rage. Before the couple could react, she grabbed the man by his hair and snapped, “You son of b*tch! Do you know how sick our daughter is right now?

give the man a chance to speak before she slapped him hard across the

staggered, and he saw black spots in his vision as he tried to regain his bearings. Next to him, the woman he had been walking with started shrieking, “Help! There’s

back and grabbed Darcie by her hair, knotting his fist close to her scalp as he growled, “Oh, you’ll be sorry for hitting me, you

she saw Zeke and his lover hitting Darcie, she quickly

bashed Zeke and the other woman’s heads with it, drawing blood. When the bystanders saw this, they cried out

pinned to the ground. A woman sobbed hysterically next to

hair was a tangled mess. On the other hand, Darcie was sporting a swollen cheek as she straightened her clothes, then tried to lunge forward to land a few more kicks on

the man up even more. “Stop!”

head. Someone had torn his clothes, and there were countless cuts and scrapes on his face. He was gasping for air and crying as he pointed at the two madwomen, “Officer, they beat my girlfriend and me up for no

That said, they couldn’t go to the police station and risk getting locked up in a

shield her. “Officer, I was the one who started this. Leave her