Alan Austen, went up certain dark and creaky stairs in the neighborhood of Pell Street, and he pushed open the door, just as thirty years ago. And the full moon had already flied to the midnight, lightening most of the areas with little silver light, but there were always some places light could not reach.
“Do you know what have happened in the past thirty years?” said Alan quietly. The low but strong voice broke the silent darkness, which sounded much older, as far as his real age, fifty, was concerned. And there was nobody at all, if you did not search carefully, you would never find the lineament of the very old gentleman.
“Of course, I do,” said the old man. “She did exactly what I had promised to you thirty years ago.” said the old man. And all of it seemed had nothing to do with him.
“Yes, yes, yes she did all the things you guaranteed,” sputtered Alan. “She loves parties, she is so jealous about other girls that I even can not talk or work with them, she keeps asking what I have done this morning and she ...... she never gets herself stopped. ” Alan was so angry that he even could not get enough breathe.
“But that is what you want, and I have already told you that,” said the old man, sitting still in the darkness.
“what I want ? ! Absolutely it is not what I want,” spluttered Alan again. “ I want her to care about me deeply inside, not the daily affairs, or my schedule...... and not how many bread I have eaten for today ’ breakfast ” Alan calmed himself down since he had released all the emotions which had been piled up for thirty years. He sat down on the dirty floor, breathing freely, while the moon was covered by an uninvited cloud. It was getting darker and darker.
“Oh, that is really a tragedy,” said the old man peacefully. The fire in his heart is raging, and he thought it was so lucky to be in the darkness that his excited appearance would be noticed by Alan.
“ So I am here to get the glove-cleaner, for free, ” said Alan. “it is the antidote of the love potion, is it ? ”
“ Free ? Five thousand dollars, never a penny less, ” said the old man. He tried to hide his excitement with the help of the darkness, but there were also some little noises coming from his voice.
Yes, it did. And Alan noticed that.
It is so dark. The entire life passed before his eyes, which was supposed to be so happy and enjoyable, but it ended with the love potion he brought from the old man thirty years ago. And we could say that his life was done thirty years ago.
He avoided looking at the direction where the voice came from, standing up
and heading for the deep darker place, where the old man stayed. And then the lineament of the old man was gone forever. Nobody could notice that, even Alan. That’s why there was always clouds here to cover the moonlight. It could make it much easier to do those dirty things we dare not on the daytime.
As for Alan, it was also too dark to tell what exactly happened to him. It was just too dark.
The next day morning, when the first sunshine went though the narrow lane of Pell Street, people discovered two bodies lying on the floor. Obviously the old man was killed by Alan, but for Alan’s death, it was still a mystery.
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