▬▬ "I'm sorry about that, Sir." Mrs. Gonzales said while wearing the same apologetic smile.

"My employee is new and all and she's too brash- so she spouts nonsense." The older lady added, then gave the male his remaining change. Polnareff didn't even notice that he gave her his money.

"It's alright, but can I ask for her name?" The silver-haired male innocently asked.

The male didn't even realize that he sounded like a creep. Luckily, Mrs. Gonzales saw this red flag and protected her employee. The older woman didn't know what his actual intention was, so she took extra precaution for Y/N.

"(Fake Name)." The older florist muttered.

The silver-haired male left the flower shop with the bouquet the odd girl made. He wanted to go back inside the flower shop and try to talk to the girl, but he didn't want to drive away the girl from her workplace and the potential lawsuit he might get for "stalking" her.

Polnareff just wanted to get to know her or try to satisfy his curiosity's hunger, not get a lawsuit.

The stand user headed to the cafe and gave the bouquet to Sherry. He was about to take his seat and mingle with his annoying sister, but from his peripheral vision, he saw a certain H/C-haired girl leave the flower shop. He immediately stood up and ran after the girl.

"HEY WAIT- Oh come back soon!" Sherry exclaimed while maintaining her gaze upon her brother and her childhood friend.

The curly-haired girl continued to sit down and drink her tea with a smile on her face. She was glad that everything was falling according to plan, again. The girl could only hope that this time Polnareff wouldn't fuck up like last time or else she would be out of reach again.

Y/N was about to take a turn towards the dormitory building when someone suddenly grabbed her arm. She was about to scream, but the person covered her mouth. Before anything got worse, she tried to elbow their stomach, but they drove her up the wall and their hands around her neck.

The H/C haired girl felt like her windpipe was getting crushed. Out of desperation, she tried to reach for the attacker to stop them, but her hands were running out of strength. She suddenly felt the urge to vomit as her vision darkened every second- or millisecond, she's not even sure what her sense of time is anymore. The only thing she knew was that she was going to die.

The girl's flame was vanishing. Her eyelids fluttered to its last, but someone saved her.

Polnareff was looking for Y/N, while keeping his distance. He didn't want to appear stalker-ish as he already is, so he kept his boundaries while he kept denying he was stalking her.

"Who the fuck am I lying to? Of course, I'm a stalker- just make this quick and learn or try to say sorry or something." He tried to reason with himself.

Suddenly, he realized that he lost the employee he was following. Fear made his back straighten along with awareness. The area he was in, it was oddly too quiet for his taste. It almost seemed like a ghost town. He took out his fencing stand and moved from one place to another with caution.

The stand user was about to transfer to another car when he heard someone scream. He sprinted towards the direction of the scream and he's met with a horrific sight. The H/C-haired girl being pressed against the wall and a stranger choking her to death. She looked like she was nearing her deathbed.

Silver Chariot struck the stranger's head with the butt of the rapier, and they fell to their knees while the girl harshly landed on the floor.

Polnareff glanced at the girl who fainted, then brought his attention to the stranger. Silver Chariot narrowed its gaze while wearing a determined look and in a fighting stance.

The attacker gathered their footing and began charging with their elbow hidden by the jacket they wore.

Polnareff sent out Silver Chariot, and he diced the jacket to pieces which revealed the dagger the stranger hid along with their identity.

Before the attacker could stab Polanreff's abdomen, Silver Chariot simply flicked the dagger.

The dagger flew with a loud "clunk" and the attacker's gaze was slowly being brought towards the stand user's gaze. The other person was still processing what was going on, they just knew that he minced their jacket to pieces and their dagger flew above their head.

"WHA-WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU!?" They screamed and staggered back.

The silver-haired male merely smirked, but the smirk looked villainous in the attacker's eyes. They even felt like they were going to piss their pants.

"Get outta here." He ordered, which made the attacker stammer, then ran for their life.

The male couldn't help but laugh at the attacker's reaction. Sometimes he forgets that some people can't see his stand. He got so used to the fact that he fights stand users with Silver Chariot, that he always assumes that most people he fights are stand users themselves. Plus, he rarely uses Silver Chariot on non-stand users.

Someone grunted, which grabbed the male's attention. He hurriedly approached the H/C haired girl who had just regained consciousness.

"Are you alright, (Fake Name)?" A voice asked, which Y/N assumes to be a fellow human who knows when to interfere.

"(Fake Name)? I'm sorry, but I'm not-" She brought their gaze, and she was met with the same horny bastard from the flower shop earlier. "-IT'S YOU!?"

"Uh... hi?" The male just remembered that she probably thought ill of him and maybe he should have ran away before she could pepper spray him or something.

"Stay back, I have the power of pepper spray and the Hermes on my side!" The H/C haired girl threatened while pulling out her pepper spray and keeping her distance from him.

"Look I-" The stalker tried to reason, but he was cut off with her pepper spray which was sprayed and pointed towards his direction. He narrowly dodged it, though. "-I didn't even approach you for fuck's sake!"

"Well, I was testing it just in case I ran out of pepper spray." Y/N reasoned, and she could even tell that he was planning to make her use up her pepper spray.

"Don't even think of taunting me just so I could waste my pepper spray on you, I have another can." She bluffed, she hoped he would take the bait though or else he might corner her, but he took the bait since he raised both of his arms in surrender.

"Where did you even get (Fake Name)!?" The university student asked and her voice reached a pitch she never knew she could reach while her hand that held the spray quivered.

"Your Boss..." He murmured.

"Well, she did a good job on exposing you." The florist snapped, which confused him.

"Exposing me for what!?" The silver haired male asked while slowly approaching her.

The girl noticed he was lowering his guard as he approached her. She was tempted to pepper spray him right now, but she wanted to wait until he was within her range wherein she couldn't miss his eyes. She just needed him to approach him, one last time.

"Exposing you for being a stalker!" The girl countered, and the male was finally within her range.

She pointed her pepper spray towards his eyes and the spray obscured his eyesight.

"ARGH!" The male staggered back and fell on his ass.

L/N took this chance and ran for her life, leaving behind her childhood lover, but they didn't know that. They just knew they were strangers to each other, strangers with nostalgia and feelings for one another. A curious man who wants to love again while a brash girl who runs away from it.

"Why are girls so difficult?" Polnareff muttered as he tried his best to recover his vision.

▬▬ 𝕱𝐢𝐧. 𝕮𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐
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