Her Heart

       HER HEART 

  She crept as quietly as she could down the darkened sidewalk. Her target was a few feet in front of her walking at a brisk pace. 

  Shelly silently cursed herself when her high heels clicked loudly on the old concrete. The woman in front of her stopped and peered into the darkness behind her. Shelly stepped from the shadows into the light of the overhead street lamp. 

 The young woman instantly judged the lady behind her to be no threat and continued walking. Shelly breathed a deep sigh of relief and continued walking. 

  When the young woman took a right at the next block corner, turning to walk the last few feet to her apartment building, Shelly sped up and pounced from behind. 

 She could not allow this woman to reach that door. She wrapped her right arm around the woman's throat and pressed the sharp edge of a butcher knife to her slender throat. 

 Shelly outweighed her, stood 6 inches taller and could easily overpower her. 

 "Hello, Britt," Shelly said in a menacing tone. 

 Britney stiffened as soon as she felt the blade press into her skin. Her first instinct was to scream. 

 Shelly felt her tense and said with a threat, "Make one sound and I'll stab that little bastard you are carrying in your gut to death." 

 Britney began to weep. 

 "Who are you? What do you want? Please don't hurt my baby..," she said with desperation in her voice. 

 Her hands instantly covered the bump on her bully. She could feel her baby moving around inside of her. Britney knew she had to protect her unborn son. 

 Shelly laughed, "Begging me won't do shit! So shut the hell up. Jason loves you so much. He won't even speak to me now!! Since the moment he found out about that demon spawn, you are all he fucking cares about!!" 

 Shelly thought back to her first love, Jason. She worshipped the ground he walked on. She would've died for him. He said she was too clingy and needy. He left her. He found this slut and bred this little fucker she was knocked up with. 

 She had only found out about Britney a few months earlier. Jason had moved two years ago after they broke up and it had taken a long time to track him down.

 When she saw Britney walk in to Jason's condo on the second night of watching his place from the comfort of her car parked across the street, she was filled with rage. 

 It took everything she had to keep from walking right into that place and killing them both. 

 She patiently waited until Britney left and then approached the door. Jason had opened it right away, thinking it was Britney. 

 He was stunned to find Shelly standing there. 

 "How the fuck did you find me?!" he yelled. 

  

Shelly was hurt. After all they shared, how dare he treat her this 

way! 

 "Excuse me? Is that any way to greet me after not seeing me for nearly two years?" Shelly asked with a forced smile. 

 "Leave. Now. Get the fuck out of here. I mean it. GO," Jason said with pure anger in his voice. 

 She threw back her head and laughed. 

 "Oh my! Umm, Nope. I don't think so. I've came all this way to visit you. And visit you is what I'll do. Now let me in," she said as she tried to budge past him. 

 "I know what you're trying to do. It won't work. I don't want you. I haven't wanted you in years. My heart belongs to someone else. And her's belongs to me. We are starting a family. I won't allow your crazy ass to mess that up.  Now leave," Jason said forcibly as he shoved her back and slammed the door. 

 Shelly stood there fuming. She'd suspected the other woman was pregnant as soon as she saw her, and Jason had just confirmed it.  

 She knew she had to get rid of that whore and that bastard she was carrying. If it was the slut's heart Jason wanted, it was her heart he would get. 

 She watched for nearly two months, making sure to never be seen. She could see the woman coming and going from Jason's condo. She heard them laughing and chatting when they were outside. That's how she learned the bitch's name. 

 She waited until the perfect time to follow her. 

 And here she was now with the one thing that stood in her way. The one thing that would always make it impossible to get Jason back. 

 In a fit of pure rage, Shelly yanked the young woman into the ally behind them and tossed her to the ground. She gave a few hard kicks to her skull and knocked her unconscious.

 She stuffed Britney's mouth with a wad of tissues she had in her pocket in case she woke up. 

 

With one swift plunge of the knife, she stabbed it deep into Britney's chest and repeated the motion over and over.  

 She worked like a madman, not stopping until she had Britney's bleeding heart in the palm of her hand. 

 She smiled with glee as she held it in her hand. She used the leftover tissues to wrap it and dropped it into her purse. 

 She walked quickly back to Jason's. She banged loudly on his door and stood there with her heart racing, waiting for him to open it. 

 Jason opened the door enough to see Shelly and immediately began to slam it shut. Until he looked down at her hands. 

 He froze. Her blood soaked hands were held out in front of her, holding what looked to be a piece of meat. She had a smile on her face that gave him chills. 

 "Here you go, my love. I have brought you her heart. Just like you wanted. Now you can have me and her. We can be happy again.."