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Kind of an old story, but yeah. I felt like putting it in here.

"Dang it," I mumbled as my short-heeled boots sort of clanked on the concreet sidewalk nere the brick walls of buildings. "I knew I should have brought a jacket with me." Everyone thought the cold of winter would be gone by now but it still came back to haunt some of us here. The moon shown down on me and the screech of a stray cat was heard from an alleyway. This just might be a pleasant night to walk home in. Or is it...?
She rounded the corner and came to a silence. There was no movement, no sound. Just the lightpoll. She stopped to look around her an across the street then dismissed her thoughts and kept moving. Her home was a city or town away. She was never good at which was which but that didnt bother her. "Hmm, wonder what...," she looked at her left wrist to find only skin and no watch. "No! I forgot something else! There must be something serioulsy wrong with me tonight," she exclaimed with a sigh.
"Ouch," I heard from around me. The sound was just above a wisper an only ones with great hearing could have made it out. Somebody else is out here this late? 'Why is that....,' I thought and knowing a bit of my surroundings I found a latter to the roof of one of the buildings and hid in the shadows waiting for the stalker or person to appear. If everything seems in place than Ill leave, but if this person seems to be looking around alot then......I just might have to investigate......
What I found appeared to be a man, no weapons in view, not really anything suspecious. 'My luck Ill trip and he'll shoot me,' I thought with a silent laugh. Wouldnt be the first time. She had to run back to the club and get bandages to stop the bleeding for her home was farther away. Now she laughs at the not so distant memory.
'Well, time to go," she thought and went back the other way till she got to the spot she had originally stood then walked on; her boots annoying her from all the noise they made.
Before she had time to round the next corner something that seemed to glow and catch the eye could be seen from the other side of the street. She liked glowing things. Was attracked to them. 'Come here shiny shiny shiny,' she thought and slowly approached it. Unknown to her someone was holding the little shiny object and waiting for her to come closer....