There were days he felt like being locked into a room with no windows and no door, air running out, left with only two choices. Breathing very slowly or stop breathing.
‘Sometimes the only choices you have are bad ones.’
Gosh, he craved a cigarette so much that he stopped by a little shop, and dwelled for a minute or so to go in or not.
‘Fuck’, he turned around and watched absently into the night, when somewhere across the street he could hear a voice. A male voice, sounding drunk and annoying and the words he could catch up sounded unpleasant. Shoving his hands into the pockets of his coat he stepped forward to see what was going on.
In the dim light of the street lamps he could see a male figure following a smaller one, he guessed a woman. He frowned at them, assumed they were a couple having a little argument, but then the guy ran in front of the woman and she walked against him.
“Com’ on, darlin! Don’t be so prim, it’s just a kiss!” with that he leaned forward and tried to kiss her, tried to grab for her and make her obey.
“Leave me alone!” she tried to push him away, but the man was taller and had seemed to expect her moves. They found each other in a struggle.
Peter reacted.
“Hey!” he ran across the street as fast as he could, and directly approached the drunk without any hesitation.
His hands reached out and grabbed the man by his collar.
“I said, hey!” with a wild force he separated the man from the woman and they both stumble against the next wall behind them. The man’s back slammed with a smacking sound against the hard surface. His eyes betrayed, that he was for some seconds without a clue what just had happened to him.