She had asked me out on the previous day. I was to meet her in the park but she wasn't there.....Maybe she changed her mind, after all her Dad was big and had recently gifted her a diamond necklace for her birthday. The necklace was over a millennium old and had been passed down by her ancestors. I could just give her a birthday card!
My stomach suddenly gave a jolt as I saw her walking towards me from a distance. I had intended to do it that day and I didn't have a plan! She walked towards me and said, "Happy Valentine's Day! I'm sorry I'm late, darned traffic."
I noticed her dad's Rolls Royce was parked nearby, but it had no chauffeur.
"Did you drive here all by yourself?"
"Oh yes...got my license the day before."
I turned to her and noticed the necklace on her slender neck. She thought I was gaping at her by the expression on my face so she smiled and said,"Let's go for some coffee. I know there's a good coffee-shop right around the corner."
I agreed even though I despise coffee, keeping her happy was essential to my plan.
The coffee-shop was almost full and decorated everywhere with pink confetti, hearts and baubles it was extremely claustrophobic to say the very least.
I summoned the waiter and ordered 2 cups of mocha.
She looked at me in the eyes and said,"Did you get me anything?"
"Yes I did...I hope you like dark chocolates, milk chocolates are too sweet in my opinion."
"I love dark chocolates! You naughty boy! Dark chocolate is a powerful aphrodisiac!"
Looking at the other couples who were thrashing around the place with their lips tightly locked around one another, I was just hoping she wasn't getting any ideas....
The coffee arrived but she didn't touch it but gazed at a golden cupid. Now was the time to put my plan into action.
I took out a packet similar to the sugar packets and stirred the contents into her cup. She was now looking behind her at the counter.
I squeezed her hands and she turned back. She noticed that the coffee had cooled and started to sip it slowly, gave a start and exclaimed, "Yuck! This stuff is so bitter! Let's finish this sewer water and go see a movie."
I merely nodded and said "Happy Valentine's Day!" raising a toast and gulping down my coffee in one go.
She swallowed the entire cup in one go as well........
Suddenly she went into a spasm, the lovers and the coffee-shop staff were too busy to notice. I made a feeble attempt at showing concern, it barely masked my excitement. Within 5 minutes the spasms were over, she was dead.
I put the packet back in my pocket and carried her outside(I gave the excuse that she fell asleep and was taking her home). I took a turn into the alley and placed her against the wall. I took off her necklace and extracted the car key from her handbag. Then I opened the lid of a dustbin(one of those large ones made of tin) and squeezed her in with some difficulty(she was tall, almost my height). I threw the packet into the bin, it lay on her forehead, the writing clearly visible on it.
I made my way to the Rolls-Royce and sat there for some time. I thought of the street-urchins who scrounge the bins and I laughed derisively when I thought of the beggar who would open the bin to see a decomposing body and a packet with KCN written on it........
