Mary kept checking her watch every five seconds. Her excitement was Suffocating and in more than one occasion, she had found herself jumping around, giddy with expectation.

"Mary Frank" she said " not the perfect of names, but in its imperfections lay a beautiful love story."

She almost went with the nude lipstick, but instead settled for the bloody, red, matte one.

"You only get engaged once, or at least I hope this will be the first and last time."

She would go all out.

To calm her nerves, she poured herself a glass of vintage red wine and put on Mariah Carey's songs on low volume, so she would hear the door bell.

Today would be the day.

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Frank drove up her apartment but stayed in the car for some minutes. He was nervous.

He had planned for this day in detail and did not want to mess it up.

Frank was a man in love.

More out of habit than necessity, he checked his teeth for chunks of food and once he was convinced his dentals were in check, he grabbed the white lilies, straightened his suit, walked up her doorstep and rang the door bell.

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Just as she was getting impatient, she heard the door bell ring. A quick check in the mirror assured her she was the fairest of them all.

Mary stopped at the door for a second to keep her facial features calm, and then with a bright smile opened the door.

"Hey Fran...oh" she couldn't help her disappointment when she found a delivery guy holding a medium sized box on her door step.

" where do I need to sign? "

"Right here ma'am"

It took her a while to register the gun that was being used to show her where to sign.

" if you as much as squeak, I will plaster your brains all over your door step. Get in to the house and do exactly as I say"

Her knees almost buckled beneath her and her eyes grew wide in shock.

Always listen to the guy with the gun.

With the cold, hard metal firmly pressed to her spine, she silently walked back to the house.

He ordered her to make some sleepy tea and made her drink it.

She could not imagine being raped on her engagement night.

When he was sure Mary wouldn't do much resisting, he took his eyes off her and slowly, with the gun within reach, began opening the box.

She should have been asleep by now but the adrenaline from too much shock wouldn't let her. Besides, she wanted to know what was in the box.

He finally managed to open it enough for Mary to see a snake begin to slither out.

"Frank sends his regards"

She felt her heart twist into a million knots.

" wha... What do you mean?"

"He specifically chose this snake so you wouldn't die immediately. You will feel its venom slowly make its way through your veins. It will be like hot lava burning inside you, and just when you think it can't get any worse, you will slowly bleed out from all body openings."

The snake was slowly approaching, as if daunting her of the impending death. She couldn't breath.

" He was kind enough to leave a goodbye note and seeing as you can't read it for yourself, I will do you the honours. Think of it of a bed time story, haha!"

The corny line reminded her of Frank.

The snake was now next to her feet and for a second it seemed to hesitate but then changed its mind. It sprang at her and dug its fangs deep into her flesh.

" Dear Mary,

My mind keeps going back to day we first met. I want to think of it as fate. I knew I had seen you somewhere before and the second date confirmed it..."

She could feel the fire burning inside her and yet her whole body was paralyzed.

"... You were Mary Parker, from Westward high.

You may not remember, but you and my sister Bethany went to school together.

She was always shy and quiet, till the day you became friends and then you were all she could talk about.

We were all so happy that she had made a friend.

Then one day I found her on the bathroom floor in a pool of her own blood, and a letter neatly folded next to her lifeless body.

You had told the whole school she was gay. She trusted you and you outted her to the whole school.

She couldn't take the bullying you subjected her and she chose to die.

You killed her.

An eye for an eye, blood for blood.

When they finally do find your body, they will find the snake too and they will rule it an accidental death.

Good riddance bitch!"

She barely had a moment to take it in, when droplets of blood slowly started to seep off her nose.

The man put the gun on his hip and walked towards the snake and seemed to say,

" you have been a good boy Kairo. I will come for you when the time is right. They won't kill an endangered species," then walked out.

Her last thoughts as her life drained off her were,

" I did chose the right occasion for a red dress."

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A gorgeous brunette opened the door and before she could speak,Frank interjected,

"Lilies for my Lily? Am so sorry I asked for a break. I know there is no excuse good enough but I needed to work out some things and it just made me realize just how much I love you."

Going down on his knees, he asked,

" Lily, make me a happy man and marry me."

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Holding his fiancée in their penthouse suite, he smiled.

They would be finding Mary's body right about then.

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THE END.

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